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.
Indexed annuities could see record year
By Staff WriterFourth-quarter 2008 indexed annuity sales were up 12.7 percent from the same period in the prior year, according to AnnuitySpecs.com, whose 46th edition of the...
February 10, 2009
Life insurers cope with fourth-quarter lossesU.S. life insurers are being hit by charges to boost reserves for variable annuity equity market guarantees, according to Reuters news service. Principal Financial, Lincoln National...
February 09, 2009
Life insurers face "challenging" accounting and regulatory changesThe life insurance industry will face "challenging" accounting and regulatory changes, according to a new study by Conning Research and Consulting, which indicates these changes...
February 01, 2009
HSA primerHealth Savings Accounts were established as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act in 2003. They are designed to help individuals save...
February 01, 2009
Presidential DirectionsThe Oval Office isn't the only place with a new occupant. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is under the command of a new...
January 30, 2009
Regulators deny life insurance industry's request to lower capital, surplus standardsInsurance regulators have denied a request from the life insurance industry to relax capital and surplus requirements. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners reached the...
January 27, 2009
A head-smacking momentThe simple wisdom contained in a letter to the editor in today's Wall Street Journal is probably the clearest argument against the use of stimulus...
January 23, 2009
Benefits increase for Social Security disability recipients - good news for boomers this year, but what happens in 2010?The largest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 25 years for Social Security recipients this year means boomers with disabilities are also reaping the benefits. However, projections...