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.
Boomers drive mental fitness market
By Staff WriterSonia Arrison, writing this week in TechNewsWorld, says we have boomers to thank for good mental fitness. As members of the baby boomer generation attempt...
May 28, 2008
Longer life means increased disability riskIt isn't rocket science, but for some reason boomers just aren't getting it. The longer you live, the higher the risk of incurring some sort...
May 28, 2008
Why it's wise to defy "conventional wisdom"More evidence of the folly of the follow-the-herd mentality. A fascinating read appears in a recent article from the Wall Street Journal about low profile...
May 28, 2008
Bet big on the health care economyFirst it was agriculture, then manufacturing and most recently service. What will be the backbone for our economy in the not-too-distant future? According to the...
May 28, 2008
Longevity annuitiesSome insurers are offering a twist on the traditional immediate annuity that should help retirees protect themselves from outliving their savings, according to Walter Updegrave...
May 28, 2008
Health care REITs: Investor booster shotHealth care REITs posted respectable returns in 2007, and, according to Kevin Fischbeck at Lehman Brothers, will probably continue to do well in 2008. He...
May 28, 2008
Health care industry unprepared for boomersScary news. As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers reach age 65 in 2011, they face a health care work force that...
May 28, 2008
Long-term care coverage: What, me worry?Advisors may finally be coming 'round to the benefits of long-term care insurance, but their boomer clients are still sorely in need of education. One...