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.
And Another Thing. . .
By Marlene Y. SatterGenworth Financial, in addition to launching Total Living Coverage Annuity, its hybrid annuity/LTC policy, has also brought out another annuity that acts more or less...
May 01, 2010
What It Will CostAs President Obama signed healthcare reform legislation on March 23, he probably would have wanted the director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, sitting...
May 01, 2010
Easy Rider ReduxLong-term care insurance is complicated. It's also a hard topic to address with clients who often don't want to think about the possibility that they...
May 01, 2010
Healthcare Reform and YouWith President Barack Obama's historic health reform legislation, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, H.R. 4872, signed into law March 23, advisors...
May 01, 2010
Tax ImplicationsTaxes are, for a change, probably the easiest area to consider when assessing the implications of healthcare reform for advisors and their clients. To be...
April 30, 2010
Fiduciary standard back in play in Dodd reform billA uniform fiduciary standard for all providers of advice is back on the table in the Senate. Supporters, including financial planners, said Friday, April 30, that...
April 29, 2010
Costs for in-home care rise slower than alternativesA study by Genworth Financial found that while the cost of in-home care is rising, it's doing so at a slower pace than care in...
April 29, 2010
Profit at Symetra Financial Surges in Q1Symetra Financial reported Thursday, April 29, first quarter profits of $46 million, or 35 cents a share, a huge jump compared to 2009's first quarter when net income was $5 million, or 5 cents a share.