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.
Life insurance lags at start of '09
By Staff WriterLife insurance sales plummeted in the first quarter of 2009, the steepest quarterly drop since 1943, according to newly released data from LIMRA International. Premium from...
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...
June 03, 2009
FINRA sanctioned far less in 2008, law firm reportsIt was a "slow year" for FINRA in 2008, according to one law firm's assessment. Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP released analysis Wednesday revealing FINRA -...
June 01, 2009
What's In A NameThere are several different classifications of insurance you should be aware of. The classification determines the type of regulation that governs it; knowing a policy's...