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.
A Long-Term Problem?
By Marlene Y. SatterLast month we looked at the public outcry over long-term care insurance and the resulting repercussions throughout the industry, as companies strove to overcome a...
June 01, 2007
ACLI Responds To New York Times On Long-Term Care InsuranceAmerican Council of Life Insurers President and CEO Frank Keating made the following statement in response to the March 26 New York Times article "Aged,...
June 01, 2007
Long-Term Damage?These days you know there's trouble when the blogosphere takes up a subject, and blogging was hot and heavy after a recent spate of negative...
May 24, 2007
Lincoln Annuity Rider for DC PlansLincoln Employer Markets recently launched a new program for defined contribution plans called i4LIFE Advantage, an annuity rider on DC plans that gives participants the ability to convert their retirement plan savings into lifetime income with an opportunity for growth.
May 01, 2007
What McCarran-Ferguson DoesThe McCarran-Ferguson Act, passed in 1945, offers a number of benefits to the insurance industry that it would otherwise not possess due to federal antitrust...
May 01, 2007
Swept Away?The repercussions from Hurricane Katrina have not yet died down, and the effects may reach much farther than the need to rebuild. Insurance companies are on...
April 01, 2007
Keep Them SatisfiedYou know that clients' feelings about money can have a dramatic effect on the financial plans you craft so carefully for them. Their attitudes on...
April 01, 2007
An Area of Concern?We asked Bruce Temkin, a VP at Forrester Research, his thoughts on why Forrester's survey revealed such a high proportion (72%) of Gen X males...