Category: Index Life Universal Life

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Understanding Risks and Downsides Insurance carriers and agents and financial advisors push life insurance in any form: term life insurance, whole life insurance, and universal life insurance. Whole life insurance and universal life insurance pay higher commissions than term life insurance (the premiums are higher too) so pay […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Plan Retirement Investments With Care Avoid Deferred Annuities With Steep Surrender Charges and Certain Types of Life Insurance The closer you get to retiring the more you try and save for the future. While saving as much as you can is important, where you put those savings is […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Genworth Life Insurance Company and American General Life Insurance Company/AIG Whole Life Insurance If you are over age 60, live in California, and have cancelled (or surrendered) a whole or universal life insurance policy issued by Genworth Life Insurance Company or American General Life Insurance Company (an AIG […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Beware the Sales Push on Indexed Universal Life Insurance Life Insurance and Retirement Savings Indexed universal life insurance policies (IULs) have been around for years. The sales pitch is always better, tax-deferred, returns on investment.  Some insurance carriers are shifting focus entirely from indexed annuities to IULs as […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whole Life Insurance… And Why You Might Be Getting Ripped Off Whole Life Insurance Some kind of life insurance is a standard part of nearly every working American’s portfolio. You may have coverage at work or a term policy that you took out when you got married, a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Brokers Move from Variable to Indexed Annuities Why the Variable Annuity is in Decline 2016 has been a rough year for many people, not least for sellers of variable annuities. Regulatory oversight, the new Department of Labor fiduciary rule, and market factors have led to a year that […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How to Prepare for Changing Rates Planning Ahead Many people see life insurance as a solid way of planning for the future. If you purchase a whole life insurance policy while you’re young, and start making payment early, you can keep your monthly payment down while accruing cash […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Potentially Pitfalls of the Annuity There’s a lot of contention surrounding the annuity, an increasingly common financial product as the population ages. Opinions range from embracing the product to utterly disavowing it. There’s one thing that both sides of the argument can agree on: the wrong annuity […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Why do Annuities Have a Bad Reputation? If you’ve been looking into an annuity, it’s almost certain you’ve come across a lot of sources warning you away. Why is that? On the surface, an annuity can make sense: purchasing an annuity now can save money on taxes, provide […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Indexed Universal Life Insurance policy is a recent invention, only coming into existence in the last decade or so. Traditional life insurance can be traced back for centuries, and is among the most regulated and carefully monitored financial product in existence. Considering that, what’s the advantage of […]