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.
Immediate annuities sales rise on promise of lifetime income
By Staff Writer"Immediate" annuities are attracting more boomers drawn to lifetime income guaranteed by U.S. life insurance companies. Chris Blunt, executive vice president of retirement income security...
April 07, 2009
LTCI association examines benefits of planning earlyA study of over 250,000 individuals who purchased long-term care insurance last year shows there are benefits to starting the planning process in your 50s,...
April 02, 2009
You've gotta be kidding ...Sadly, no. We were hoping they have well-funded HSAs or high-deductible plans (say at about the $1 million level), but of course that's not the...
April 02, 2009
State, federal regulation heats upIt's an argument that's raged for 150 years; and here it comes again. Two members of the House of Representatives plan to introduce legislation today...
April 02, 2009
Disgusted with Greenberg's pasturesWill someone, anyone, just say sorry? I was disgusted by Elliot Spitzer's run at Hank Greenberg, but not because it wasn't warranted. It was the...
April 01, 2009
Insurance Update: Down, Down, DownRun a Google search these days for "insurance company ratings downgrade" and you'll come up with page after page of companies losing ground, from Aegon...
April 01, 2009
The Outlook: Negative, but SoundIn the second half of 2008, Fitch Ratings moved its ratings outlook for most insurance regions and sectors globally to negative. It now expects a...