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.
Job losses lead rising disability claims
By Danielle AndrusAccording to the Social Security Administration, disability claims rose almost 17 percent in fiscal year 2009 and are expected to rise another 10 percent in...
December 10, 2009
Boomers who want to age in place need LTCIMore evidence of the importance of long-term care insurance in your clients' portfolios: According to a recent study by the American Association for Long-Term Care...
December 10, 2009
Boomers instill their own values in technologyTypical of boomers, they insist on applying their own values to technology, a recent report by AARP and Microsoft found. "Boomer ideals were forged in an...
December 01, 2009
Insurance Update: Kiss of Death?Everybody seems to agree that life settlements themselves have a valid function. After all, if you've got a sizeable policy but no longer need the...
December 01, 2009
On the Other HandDoug Head, executive director of the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA), flatly denies that STOLI is a problem, and if it is, he says, it's...
December 01, 2009
Numerology: LTC Costs SpikeWhile inflation might be tamed in the overall economy, price cuts have yet to hit long-term care. The 2009 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home,...
November 26, 2009
Boomers persistent in job huntWhile unemployment rates rise, boomers appear to be the only ones doing anything about it. Never mind that the jobless rate for boomers has doubled...
November 26, 2009
Boomers won't have to work foreverThat's the conclusion from a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper found that early boomers have only slightly more than...