Posts Tagged “Personal Finance”

Getting Married? Here’s What You Need To Know…

By | May 12, 2012

Thinking of getting married? Here’s what you need to know about your future partner, and his or her financial situation. They say love is blind, but if you walk into marriage blindly, you can end up in a financial mess not of your own doing. It is advisable to discuss potential financial concerns like bad [...]

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The New Risk You Need Protection From: Living Longer Than Expected

By | April 21, 2012

The number-one new risk consumers need to protect themselves against is longevity, or living longer than expected. To illustrate, if you take a husband and wife who are both 65, there is a 50/50 chance that one of them will live to age 92. There is a 25 percent chance that one of them will [...]

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Five steps to help avoid a potential income drop in retirement

By | April 21, 2012

Here are five steps you can take to help avoid a potential income drop in retirement. Research indicates many retirees may experience a potential income drop of up to twenty-eight percent in retirement. Many more indicate they may not have sufficient income to cover their monthly expenses. These retirement income gaps could force significant sacrifices [...]

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The New Retirement Plan: What to Consider As You Plan For Retirement

By | April 20, 2012

The new retirement plan requires careful thinking and consideration of today’s financial reality and circumstances. Today’s pre-retirees and retirees have a unique set of concerns and circumstances that their parents never had to deal with, such as a stock market crash that devastated their retirement savings and the disappearance of private pension plans. Today’s retirees [...]

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Long term care insurance offers benefits & protection for smart consumers

By | April 18, 2012

Many of us have a hard time picturing the benefits of long term care insurance. Long term care insurance offers many benefits & protection for smart consumers who plan ahead. Long term care insurance has many uses, and offers many benefits, but by its very nature, it is for the long term, many people have [...]

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Looming Retirement? Make a Retirement Income Plan To Guarantee Income For Life

By | April 13, 2012

If you are contemplating retirement or are planning to retire soon, you’ll need to plan in order to make sure your retirement years are as comfortable as possible for you. One thing you need to do is to make a retirement income plan with your insurance advisor to make sure you don’t run out of [...]

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New IRS Guidelines Help Consumers Buy Deferred Annuity Within IRA-401k

By | April 11, 2012

There are many reasons why someone would prefer to use a deferred annuity within an IRA or 401(k) plan. For those clients who prefer deferred annuities within their retirement plans, the IRS reporting requirements have historically been so convoluted that they’ve served as a deterrent to such purchases even thought these purchases would benefit these [...]

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What’s Good About Annuities? A closer look at the Fixed Index Annuity

By | March 30, 2012

When I started in the insurance business, I started out as a fixed index annuity advisor for local school districts. Back then, these types of products were also called equity indexed products. My mentor taught me about annuities, and the value they provided. Once I learned that a fixed index annuity was just a retirement [...]

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Funding For Retirement Income Poll Results from Generations X & Y

By | March 10, 2012

A recent poll by Harris Interactive released the results of a study among investors between the ages of 21 and 50, and found that only a little more than one-third of investors are confident they will have enough retirement income or money for retirement. The study indicates that even though they understand how important planning [...]

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Life Insurance: A Legacy of Love and Caring

By | March 7, 2012

Most of us want to make sure that we leave some type of legacy for our children and grandchildren, and other family members that we love. Unfortunately, the current economy makes this worthy goal a hard one to attain. Many seniors wishing to leave some type of legacy for their loved ones, nevertheless want to [...]

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