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.
LTCI association examines benefits of planning early
By Staff WriterA 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
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...
March 31, 2009
Guarantees dominate variable annuities amid sharp sales declineAlmost all variable annuities offered include some form of Guaranteed Living Benefit (GLB) according to a survey by Milliman released Tuesday. The firm's new survey of...
March 18, 2009
Variable annuity sales tumble 30 percentFourth-quarter variable annuity sales totaled $33.3 billion, a 30 percent decrease from fourth quarter 2007, according to data released today from NAVA, the Association for...
March 12, 2009
Individual LTCI premium falls 23 percent in fourth quarter"Historically, individual products have emerged relatively unscathed from the effects of a recession," says Karen Fisherkeller, LIMRA associate analyst, Group and LTC Product Research. Now,...