by Ed Hinerman | Sep 21, 2018 | cash value, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, universal life
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article titled, “Universal Life Insurance, a 1980s Sensation, Has Backfired”. Now I have become keenly aware over the years that very few people really take my blog to heart unless the run into a post that is an...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 4, 2018 | approval, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, Hep C Cure, HIV business life insurance, HIV life insurance, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance
2017 was a fantastic year for progress in life insurance underwriting. Business boomed for those companies bold enough to acknowledge and embrace major medical breakthroughs and the life insurance agents that represented those companies could finally announce fair...
by Ed Hinerman | May 24, 2017 | cash value, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance
Although indexed universal life insurance sales seem to be losing some momentum, the fact that they are still the highest sold life insurance product on the market today is a testament to both the greed of Americans and, more importantly, the disingenuous direction...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 12, 2017 | indexed universal life, life insurance, life insurance non taxable, lifetime guaranteed UL, over 50 life insurance, retirement life insurance, universal life
I don’t think there is a topic I have ranted and raved about more than the universal life insurance products with non guaranteed cash value features that are collapsing left and right due to the low interest environment imposed by the Fed over the last 15 years....
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 6, 2016 | business life insurance, CEO life insurance, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance
I spoke with the CEO and owner of a company yesterday who was uncomfortable with the idea being pitched by Nationwide insurance of using Indexed Universal Life Insurance as a way to insure him as a key man and amass a fortune in cash value as an executive bonus for...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 15, 2016 | indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, universal life, variable universal life
In a press release today Voya Life Insurance announced that they will no longer be offering term life or any product with a life time guarantee, essentially gutting the company of the most cost effective and useful products in their portfolio. Voya, aka Reliastar, aka...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 31, 2016 | assumptions, guarantee, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, universal life
The Motley Fool recently added more fuel to the fire that will, a lot of us believe, leave indexed universal life insurance in the same historical pile of ashes and rubble that variable universal life and traditional universal life started. I’ve asked over and...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 17, 2016 | indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
Term life insurance vs whole life? Term life insurance vs universal life? Term life insurance vs indexed or variable universal life? Term life insurance vs other term life? The life insurance industry has made much of these questions over the years and two things are...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 3, 2016 | application process, guarantee, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, rate increase, retirement life insurance, term insurance, universal life
This is the 2015 version of the age old question, why term versus whole life? Some of the answers are the same and some are vastly different, I would say even dangerously different for those who are serious about their needs and just looking for the right product to...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 29, 2016 | assumptions, guarantee, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, universal life, variable universal life
I watched a Bear Bryll show recently. Yes, I’m a fan because I truly don’t know where my wife might choose to get rid of me and I might have some Bear nugget that will prevent my life insurance being used before it’s time. Anyway, many of you may...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 23, 2016 | appropriate life insurance recommendation, assumptions, guarantee, illustration, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, second to die insurance
I get email advertising all the time from life insurance companies wanting to catch me in a weak moment and get me to jump on board with some breed of indexed universal life. Any breed really. Whether it is simple life insurance, or a bolder approach to wealth...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 13, 2016 | budget, Independent agent, indexed universal life, insurance, lapse, life insurance, life insurance lapse
Over the years the most common reason I’ve seen for life insurance lapsing is that 1. The life insurance agent didn’t ask or didn’t care what your budget was or 2. You didn’t know or didn’t care what your budget was. I know it seems kind...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 31, 2015 | assumptions, bait and switch, cash value, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, universal life, variable universal life
Not that long I dropped the Trans bomb that, well gosh, they were going to have to the raise the rates on a bunch of their old universal life policies and my reaction was one of those “Don’t tell me I haven’t been telling you for years” things....
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 24, 2015 | illustration, indexed universal life, insurance, lapse, life insurance
A life insurance agent is mad at me. ): or is it :(? Mad enough to hire a lawyer because a blog post I wrote offering my opinion of his unsolicited email telling me how to rob from the poor (policemen, firemen and teachers) and give to the rich (himself and other...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 8, 2015 | bad customer service, bait and switch, budget, cash value, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, honesty, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, life insurance lapse, lifetime guaranteed UL, loyal customers, rate increase, universal life
Transamerica Life Insurance, formerly Transamerica/Occidental Life may have just taken over the coveted position in the life insurance industry that Protective Life has held for years, the Turd In The Punchbowl Award. They sent out the this email today announcing that...
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