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With rates as low and competitive as they have ever been, it’s as close to a “buyers” market in life insurance as you’ll see.  Still, in these cash-strapped times, curbing all costs and expenses is a priority for most people, and buying life insurance is no different.

Over the past few years, municipal bonds may have fallen out of favor due to the fact that, until recently, the returns in the stock and bond markets were generating steady returns.

The Kolam: a unique prayer for prosperity

“Though the picture of a perfect retirement is always in front of you, it is not always easily seen.”

As a child in Southern India, I saw the tradition of drawing Kolams played out every morning. Each

As investments, annuities have several unique properties that make them very versatile in addressing a number of financial and investment planning needs. Where an annuity might never have been a consideration by a particular investor, it may, in fact, provide the only real solution once his needs, objectives, priorities and risk tolerance are established.

Chances are good that if you turn on the prime time news on any given day or pull up your favorite newspaper on your iPad one of the top stories will relate to emerging risks around the world.

For anyone trying to protect a lifetime of savings while providing for an uncertain future these are probably familiar terms. The notion of needing protection from the impact of a car accident or a fire at home is something most of us learn with the purchase of our first vehicle and house.

If you are like many working age adults chances are good that you own some kind of life insurance policy, but the real question isn’t whether or not you are insured; the real question is whether you simply own a life insurance policy versus having a real plan for your family’s life insurance needs.

As we age, the odds of incurring an injury or major illness that will prevent us from performing simple daily functions increase substantially. Today, one in three people over the age of 65 will require assisted care of some sort. Past age 75 the odds increase to where one in two will need nursing care.