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.
Dems push for health bill changes
By John SullivanHouse Democrats have said that they will insist on changes to the Senate healthcare legislation, but it is unknown how much influence they will have...
January 04, 2010
Redesigned annuities hit marketplaceA string of redesigned variable annuities are hitting the market, after life insurers last year yanked the products that proved too generous to customers and...
January 01, 2010
Insurance Update: Dead to RightsIf clients want to get a settlement for their life insurance policies, or invest in securitization of life insurance settlements, what should you tell them? Jeff...
January 01, 2010
Too Good to Be TrueStuart Egrin, director of regulatory affairs at Invescor, which provides life settlement back office and brokerage services to B/Ds and insurance companies, says that advisors...
December 31, 2009
The baby with the bathwaterThe biggest travesty in this "historic" health care debacle is that it never had to come to this. Simple fixes (an anathema on Capitol Hill)...
December 29, 2009
Run over by Reid's ReindeerDisgusting, deceitful, sleazy, shameful ...use any adjective you like. Unfortunately, the most accurate is usual, as in "politics as usual." Seems Sen. Ben Nelson's principled...
December 24, 2009
Advisors: Look at annuities in 2010After the last 12 months, security is on everyone's mind as we roll into 2010. Dow Jones Newswires recently talked to six financial advisors to...
December 24, 2009
Boomers stress most, but not for longThe youngest boomers appear to worry more than any other age group, according to a recent Gallup poll. Over 37 percent of Americans between 46...