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Happy New Year - Welcome 2018

2018 can be your year of financial serenity or continued financial horror. If your 2017 and previous years were full of financial despair...

Integrating Life Insurance Into Estate Planning

Help your clients use this tool strategically. Four in 10 Americans do not own a life insurance policy, according to LIMRA, even though...

Most Americans have not made retirement savings a priority

Financial planning experts recommend the amount of money you’ll need to have accumulated is equivalent to 70 percent of your annual...

FIVE STEPS TO CONSIDER DURING YOUR ANNUAL BUSINESS REVIEW

Once a year I go to the doctor for my annual physical. Once a year I bring my car to the local mechanic for a tune up. And similarly, at...

Americans’ Retirement Benefits Have Been Slashed by a Quarter

Retirement benefits—including employer contributions to pensions, 401(k)s and retiree health-care benefits—fell from 9.1 percent of...

The Many Roles of Annuities

Annuities initially were developed by insurance companies to help protect people from outliving their money in retirement. As annuities...

Life Insurance Policies Can Preserve Wealth

The estate tax cuts in the new Tax Reform Bill, which was passed in both the House and Senate last week, could help foster continuous...