Life Planning Strategies
Life planning strategies, with ideas about how to use life insurance and related products to help people and businesses get things done.
House subcommittee approves retirement advice bill
By Staff WriterThe Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Pensions and Labor of the House Education and Labor Committee today approved legislation by a 13 to 8 vote to...
June 12, 2009
Video: Middle-class have greater retirement risk than previously thoughtA new report from retirement coalition Americans for Secure Retirement finds the events in just the last six months of 2008 have dramatically worsened the...
June 11, 2009
Term life has some new terms"Buy and hold" no longer applies to just stocks (and even that's questionable). Premiums for term life insurance are increasing by anywhere between 5 percent...
June 11, 2009
An offer they can't refuseWhy are insurance companies on board with Obamacare, but did all they could to defeat Hillarycare back in 1993? The obvious (yet incorrect) answer is...
June 11, 2009
Make me laugh, funnymanIf you caught The Daily Show a few nights back, you saw economist Peter Schiff make the same case we've been making since the election...
June 11, 2009
LIMRA survey: Older consumers don't know enough about retirement income productsThirty percent of older consumers have a negative attitude toward annuities, and twice that - 60 percent - say their knowledge about investments is "subpar."...
June 11, 2009
Boomers to blameWhen bad things happen, we look for someone -- anyone -- to blame. As Newsweek rightly notes (we don't say that very often), there is...
June 08, 2009
One in 10 LTCI claims begin before age 70Nearly one in 10 (8.9 percent) of new individual long-term care insurance claims initiated during 2008 were made prior to age 70, according to a...