Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
The "Whole" Truth on Estate Planning
By Barbara TreadwellNothing beats whole life insurance for providing security and flexibility in estate planning. Perhaps that sounds like an overly broad and bold statement. But I ...
July 01, 2007
For More Information . . .Barry Duncan's What's Right With You: Debunking Dysfunction and Changing Your Life (HCI, 2005) shows readers how to tap into their inner resilience and...
July 01, 2007
Really, a Life PlannerBill Topkis talks about making the transition from a career in the insurance business to one as a fee-based financial advisor: "In '94, when I walked...
July 01, 2007
XTF Strikes Variable Universal Life DealExchange-traded funds are showing up in new places. Life insurance companies are now incorporating ETF solutions as sub-account investment options in both variable life and...
July 01, 2007
Lesson 6: Longevity RiskOne often reads that at the end of the 20th century, life expectancy in the U.S. hit a record high of approximately 73.6 years for...
July 01, 2007
Like Father, Like DaughterThere are almost as many different types of financial planning firms as there are individual financial planners. There are firms consisting of multiple generations of...
July 01, 2007
Is the Pension Plan Dead?Traditional pension plans may be underfunded, but while employees of large corporations may eventually face a crisis if their pension payments dry up, many financial...
June 30, 2007
The trust factor: Transform your business and your lifeHas the concept of "trust" been overdone? Trust me ... it has. (Sorry for using the industry's most discredited phrase.) Amazon lists 354,902 books with "trust" in the title, and the mother of all Internet search engines,