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.
Advisors: Look at annuities in 2010
By Danielle AndrusAfter 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 17, 2009
Planes, trains and heart surgeryDamn Canadians ... comin' over the border and stealing all our good health care. A co-worker's parents were connecting through Minneapolis when his father suffered...
December 10, 2009
The rank (and file) smell of desperationTalk about a head scratcher. The plan now is to expand Medicare while at the same time gutting it (if such a thing is possible)....
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,...