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.
The Cost Issue
By Marlene Y. SatterAny healthcare reform has to take into account costs and insurance company profits. Sandy Praeger, Kansas insurance commissioner and chair of the Health Insurance and...
March 31, 2010
NAIC to host stranger-originated annuities hearingThe next major battle between regulators and insurers could come in the form of stranger-originated annuities. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners will host a public...
March 18, 2010
Why empty nesters need term lifeWhen boomers' babies grow up and move out, it may be tempting for some couples to not renew term life insurance policies. This is...
March 18, 2010
Study highlights dementia burden on caregiversIf you needed another argument for long-term care, here it is. A report released earlier this month by the Alzheimer's Association found over 5 million...
March 18, 2010
Poor economy highlights the value of LTCIBoomers are seeing the value of long-term care insurance. Nearly three-quarters of LTCI buyers were 55 or older last year, compared with 69 percent...
March 18, 2010
Obama's return to WaterlooRuth Bader Ginsburg, by far the most liberal of the current crop of Supremes, said the reason we're still arguing 37 years later over abortion...
March 09, 2010
Study highlights boomers' health cost burdenA recent survey from the Urban Institute pins some numbers to just how much health care costs will affect boomers' retirements. Assuming future costs grow...
March 04, 2010
Whole life's new leaseBoring old whole life insurance is making a comeback, thanks to positive returns during the worst global financial crisis the world has ever seen....