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When Shopping for Life Insurance The Best Strategy Is to…
When Shopping for Life Insurance The Best Strategy Is to…

When shopping for life insurance, the best strategy is first to understand your objective in buying life insurance and then focus on the products best suited to meet that goal. This statement might sound a bit underwhelming or generic, but it has con...

Posted: May 23, 2019

Paid-Up Universal Life Insurance?
Paid-Up Universal Life Insurance?

One of the niftiest features of whole life insurance is the option to make it paid-up at any point in your lifetime.  The reduce paid-up feature for whole life allows you to electively stop paying premiums and guarantee the policy will never lapse so...

Posted: May 14, 2019

How We Evaluate Life Insurance Companies
How We Evaluate Life Insurance Companies

How to evaluate life insurance companies is a question that plagues both consumers and industry professionals.  Many companies love to market on ratings or a single financial metric at which they excel. But highly rated life insurance companies are a...

Posted: May 09, 2019

The Life Insurance Retirement Plan
The Life Insurance Retirement Plan

The life insurance retirement plan isn't necessarily a specific “plan” that accomplishes a specific goal related to retirement planning. Instead, it's a “tip of the hat” to the fact that life insurance will accommodate strategies that focus on retire...

Posted: May 02, 2019

Should You Cancel Your Bad Whole Life Insurance?
Should You Cancel Your Bad Whole Life Insurance?

The decision to cancel whole life insurance is not always an easy one.  We understand this.  We've discussed this subject with numerous people.  The biggest concern is still the money already paid to a whole life insurance policy.  The gist of the co...

Posted: Apr 25, 2019

Life Insurance Illustration: Basic vs. Supplemental Ledger
Life Insurance Illustration: Basic vs. Supplemental Ledger

A life insurance illustration is a tool that agents use to detail the various features of a proposed life insurance policy.  These rather lengthy documents contain a lot of information and sometimes delineate information with multiple ledgers that di...

Posted: Apr 18, 2019

Should I Buy Whole Life Insurance?
Should I Buy Whole Life Insurance?

Should I buy whole life insurance if I'm young and have no dependents?  This is a question that we field more often than you might think, so today we want to address this question for those who might be thinking the same thing. It'll come as little s...

Posted: Apr 10, 2019

Whole Life Insurance as an Investment
Whole Life Insurance as an Investment

If you spend any time looking around this site, you'll find plenty of content detailing the various features of whole life insurance.  We've detailed at length the use of whole life insurance specifically for its ability to accumulate cash value that...

Posted: Apr 04, 2019

Annuity Buyers Can Do Better But Should They?
Annuity Buyers Can Do Better But Should They?

What drives annuity buyers?  I mean with all the negative press about the evils of annuities, what on earth possesses these people to actually pull the trigger and purchase an annuity? Let's not forget all of the other options available to Americans....

Posted: Mar 28, 2019

The Definitive Discussion on Whole Life Insurance Dividend Recognition
The Definitive Discussion on Whole Life Insurance Dividend Recognition

Whole life insurance dividends are a fun subject we discuss quite regularly.  But a more obscure and advanced topic on this subject is the way life insurer adjust dividends (if at all) whenever a policyholder takes a loan out against a whole life ins...

Posted: Mar 21, 2019