by Ed Hinerman | Jun 21, 2011 | life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
The debate will probably continue well past me and all of those joined in the discussion at this time. Is term life insurance an appropriate financial planning tool? The debate used to be term insurance versus whole life insurance. Then came universal life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 16, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, universal life
What is your definition of permanent! First thing that comes to mind for me is something that never goes away. OK. I know the earth could blow up and then all bets are off when it comes to anything attached to the earth, but let’s assume that it doesn’t...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, universal life
The life insurance industry made a big deal of the year 2000 and the impending monster changes in the term life insurance pricing that were just waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square. They even came up with a special name for the event, Triple X. The whole...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 1, 2011 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, Protective Life, rate increase, second to die insurance, universal life
I wrote an estate life insurance case 6 or so years ago that if you put a pencil to the numbers you would swear that the company had made a huge mistake. There was simply no feasible way for them to make a profit. The case was with Protective Life who, for a while,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 29, 2011 | estate taxes, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, universal life
In a post yesterday I insinuated that we may be entering the greatest two years in history for estate wealth building, estate wealth protection and wealth transfer. That statement still stands, but…. I asked Kevin Cox with Lincoln Financial to review the post in...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 4, 2011 | guarantee, insurance, life insurance, universal life
How many blog posts and articles have I written about the catastrophic meltdown of traditional universal life insurance policies? I have sought industry assistance in nailing down approximately what percentage of the total number of UL’s are in danger of...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 16, 2010 | guarantee, insurance, life insurance, universal life
I received an email today from a person that says he was deceived by his life insurance agent about the length of the guarantee on a UL. I have no way to authenticate the email since my reply came back undeliverable and there was no phone number given. So, while the...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 9, 2010 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
When all of the sub prime mortgages started going south life as we knew it changed, big time. The American dream became the good old days in just a matter of months. I wonder if someone had shouted loud enough or provided disclaimers scary enough before the loans if...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 8, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance, universal life, variable universal life, whole life
I feel a little like the boy that cried wolf and pretty soon no one is listening, but if you have a universal life, variable universal life, indexed universal life or whole life policy, the wolf is real and if you ignore it long enough it’s going to mess up your...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 26, 2010 | guarantee, insurance, life insurance, universal life
I had to change the top of my drum today. I’ve worn it out over the past two years beat it about all of the absolute crap (forgive me) that insurance companies are trying to pass off to consumers in the form of non guaranteed universal life and whole life...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 24, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
I know over the past few years thanks in part to Dave Ramsey and also in part to a reality check in the economy, I’ve had to take a new look at my budget several times. The days of paying more than we need to really are over. The same thought process...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 13, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
A few years back I passed on some interesting statistics from a LIMRA study about all of the uninsured and under insured Americans. I offered my thought that the reason these people didn’t buy life insurance was that they couldn’t find someone they trusted...
by Ed Hinerman | May 21, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, universal life
I was discussing indexed universal life insurance products with another agent today and our combined conclusion is that most of the companies that are offering it seem to have forgotten that bad things can happen in our country’s economy. But just for the sake...
by Ed Hinerman | May 19, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
Genworth Life and Annuity recently unveiled its’ new “Term/UL” product, a term life insurance policy in a lot of ways that seems to have some advantages and disadvantages for consumers and for Genworth. How is it the same as a traditional term...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 1, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, universal life, whole life
“If you need life insurance for more than 20 years, choose whole life; for 10 or fewer years, choose term life. For the time in between, ask a licensed professional to review your situation.” This patently ridiculous advice came from an article titled Term...
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