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AskMen.com Nick Kennedy	Unnecessary Life Insurance Policies How much of a death benefit do you need? The answer just might be none.
Registered Rep. July 18, 2011 Alan Lavine	Considering Life Insurance for Single Clients More than half -- 54 percent of single men and 58 percent of single women -- lack life insurance coverage.
BusinessWeek May 2, 2005 Carol Marie Cropper	A Combo Policy For Long-Term Care Life insurance with an accelerated benefits rider can be used to cover the cost of nursing homes if the policyholder needs it for long term care.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 Janet Arrowood	In Search Of Guarantees Consumers are taking a different approach to life insurance lately. While they may invest in stocks as they always have, even as they grow older, they increasingly look to eliminate risk and uncertainty from the life insurance products they buy.
Financial Advisor March 2012 Karen DeMasters	Long-Term Scares As premiums for long-term care insurance go up and more large providers pull out of the market all together, the landscape for long-term care insurance is changing dramatically.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Melanie Waddell	The Care Calculation Sales are down and premiums are up for long-term care insurance, but the cost of long-term care continues its steep increase. Advisors need to learn more about this product and discuss it with clients.
Investment Advisor August 2006 Marlene Y. Satter	Insurance Update: Insurance Multitasking Long-term care insurance is frequently a hard sell, until people are older and often ineligible for coverage. Planners thus may be interested in a multifaceted strategy that answers several needs at once.
Registered Rep. May 20, 2014 Alan Lavine	Should You Buy a Critical Care Rider? More than 10 insurers, including American General, Prudential and Nationwide Guardian, have added chronic illness riders to their life insurance policies, according to published reports.
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 Donald Jay Korn	You Bet Your Life Financial planning clients that no longer want to pay premiums for life insurance traditionally stopping premium payments or surrendered the policy to receive any cash value. Recently, yet another path to liquidity has opened: life settlements.
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The Motley Fool November 4, 2011 Robert Brokamp	Give Your Life Insurance a Checkup Are you getting the right amount of life insurance?
Registered Rep. June 1, 2006 Kevin McKinley	Premium Option When financial advisors start offering life insurance to their clients, they soon learn how wide the divergence is between term and permanent policies. Permanent policies are much more lucrative for advisors and provide some cash for clients during their lifetime.
The Motley Fool October 26, 2007 Buz Livingston	Buy Term, Young Man Don't fall for insurance hype. By taking up so much of a young family's budget, whole life doesn't give most families the balanced financial plan they need.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Keep Life Insurance Simple Why make a useful tool more complicated than it needs to be? Life insurance is a helpful tool to have.
Registered Rep. September 21, 2010 Alan Lavine	Empty Nesters May Still Need To Purchase Life Should your empty nester clients get life insurance? Perhaps -- if they have a lot of personal and/or business liabilities or concerns about estate taxes.
Registered Rep. November 15, 2011 Alan Lavine	A Good Marriage: Life Insurance and Annuities What do you get when you splice together a life insurance policy and an immediate annuity? A reversionary annuity. Yes, that's a mouthful, but it carries some of the advantages of each and is ideal for certain kinds of clients.
Registered Rep. November 16, 2011 Diana Britton	How Much Cash Are Your Clients Really Holding? The Sum May Surprise You Investors say they're holding 27 percent of their investable assets in cash, according to an MFS Investment Management survey of 929 investors.
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BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Peter Coy	Scared To Death Of Life Insurance Choosing the amount of coverage is hard. The trick is to think like an economist.
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Registered Rep. April 17, 2012 Alan Lavine	Baby Boom Good for Life Insurance More babies means greater demand for good old-fashioned cash-value life insurance. Young couples tend to buy life insurance to protect their families and babies are making a comeback.
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Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Kristen French	The State of Estate Planning Tax planning for estates took a hit in 2001 when the White House decided to repeal the estate tax in 2010. As the debate drags on over whether to make that repeal permanent, advisors and investors are deciding it's better to do something rather than nothing.
Registered Rep. November 20, 2012 Alan Lavine	Lock into Long-Term Care with Hybrid Policies Combining life insurance and annuities with long-term care policies can protect against premium hikes or the risk of never making a claim. Here's how to make sure they are right for your clients.
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Inc. October 2007 Elaine Appleton Grant	Passing It On Using life insurance as an estate planning tool.
Registered Rep. February 15, 2011 Alan Lavine	Getting Life Insurance For Clients With Medical Conditions It's getting easier for clients with pre-existing medical conditions to get life insurance coverage today.
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Investment Advisor February 2010 Marlene Y. Satter	Insurance Update: Along for the Rider If your clients are looking for limited disability coverage without taking on a whole new policy, they could look at life insurance.
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Entrepreneur December 2004 Jacquelyn Lynn	Live Long and Prosper One of the hottest life insurance products on the market right now is Return of Premium. If you insure your key employees or buy-sell agreements, you might want to consider this option.
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Registered Rep. January 18, 2011 Alan Lavine	Insurers Raising Premiums, Changing Terms on Long-term Care Policies If you're selling long-term care insurance to clients, it's best to stay away from carriers with a history of raising premiums or discontinuing other types of insurance coverage.
Investment Advisor August 2009 Marlene Y. Satter	Side Effects Advisors might want to take a look at clients' term life insurance coverage.
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Registered Rep. August 1, 2005 Janet Arrowood	When a Partner Leaves What many partners should do -- and what any rep with an insurance license can help with -- is to fund a buy/sell agreement with life insurance. Before you can come up with the appropriate insurance solution, it is important to understand the thinking that went into the structuring of the buy/sell agreement.