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.
Allstate second insurer to turn down bailout
By Staff WriterAllstate Corp. has become the second insurer to turn down a Treasury bailout. The company refused funding based on its reported strong capital and liquidity...
May 15, 2009
Shares rise for insurance co.'s following TARP approvalSix major insurance companies reportedly received preliminary approval Thursday from the Department of the Treasury to participate in the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Both Hartford Financial...
May 15, 2009
More government meddling?The SEC has proposed rule amendments that, if adopted, would include a yearly "surprise exam" by an independent public accountant for investment advisors who have...
May 14, 2009
Easier said than doneAs we reported recently, clients are understandably concerned that low insurance company market valuations will translate to claims-paying trouble. Not so, says Thomas Hampton, commissioner...
May 14, 2009
Tell us how you really feel"As a group, we have been self-centered, self-absorbed, self-indulgent and all too often just plain selfish." Ouch. So says Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels at a recent...
May 14, 2009
SEC votes to consider surprise examination rulesIn a unanimous agreement Thursday, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to consider proposals that investment advisors who manage or have access to client assets...
May 14, 2009
It's all about timingTook NAVA all of about three seconds to get a press release out about the need for insured retirement solutions (pretty way of saying annuities)...
May 14, 2009
(In)sure to failSeems now most agree the Bush Administration did -- or at least tried to do -- something right. Their attempt in 2005 to reform "the...