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.
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By John Sullivan"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
(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...
May 13, 2009
Social Security's underfunding - what does it mean for boomers?Social Security trust fund reserves are supposed to be dry by 2037, according to a report released Tuesday by The Social Security Board of Trustees....
May 07, 2009
SEC to defend indexed-annuities ruleAttorneys representing the Securities and Exchange Commission will appear in a federal appeals court Friday to defend the agency's new rules which classify indexed annuities...
May 05, 2009
Bernanke forecasts slow recoveryIn testimony before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said it is expected that economic activity will bottom out...
May 04, 2009
Schapiro: SEC reviewing target-date fund disclosuresSEC Chairman Mary Schapiro continued her promises to aid investors in a speech at the Mutual Fund Directors Forum conference in Washington. Among other issues,...
May 01, 2009
Insurance Update: Out in the OpenOn March 17, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) approved a compromise version of the climate change survey sent out for comments in 2008....
May 01, 2009
Changing ClimateJoel Ario, Pennsylvania insurance commissioner and chairman of the NAIC Climate Change and Global Warming Task Force, says that how NAIC addresses climate change in...