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Life Insurance Alternatives

Life insurance, in its simplest form, has been around for many generations.  When I say simplest form, I mean a tax-free death benefit.  I am quite certain that the majority of Americans believe that a tax-free death benefit is the sole purpose of life insurance.  In fact, I would be willing to bet that the [...]

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What is Grantor Trust Life Insurance?

With all of the talk about the “fiscal cliff” and potential huge change (negatively) for estate taxes, many people are beginning to look to ways to gift money legally before the end of the year.  Although we neither give tax nor investment advice, we did come across this great piece from our friends at DBS [...]

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Estate Tax Levels For Individuals in 2013

Unless you don’t own a television or smartphone, there is little chance that you haven’t heard all about the upcoming fiscal cliff.  Basically, the fiscal cliff (if not dealt with) will affect every American both rich and poor.  Many people believe that these tax issues only deal with the mega-rich and those that make over [...]

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Consumers Need Help Determining How Much Life Insurance To Buy

The great news is that a recent poll by Northwestern Mutual found that Americans who buy life insurance feel much more financially secure than those without it (probably not a big surprise).  However, the bad news is that respondents admitted they lacked clarity on exactly how much insurance they should have in place.  For insurance [...]

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Love Insurance

No, the title of this blog is not a typo. Many of you might be thinking that because we specialize in annuities, that we might not even know how to spell life insurance. Well as it turns out, I purposely wrote “Love Insurance”, because that is what…

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Event Organizers Unite!

I’m happy to announce the formation of a new official contributor group within the WordPress project for the organizers of in-person events that promote WordPress. Though there are hundreds of people around the globe organizing WordCamps, WordPress meetups, hackathons, free classes and the like, since their “projects” were all happening locally there was never a [...]

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WordPress 3.4.1 Maintenance and Security Release

WordPress 3.4.1 is now available for download. WordPress 3.4 has been a very smooth release, and copies are flying off the shelf — 3 million downloads in two weeks! This maintenance release addresses 18 bugs with version 3.4, including: Fixes an issue where a theme’s page templates were sometimes not detected. Addresses problems with some category permalink [...]

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WordPress 3.4 “Green”

WordPress 3.4 is here and out the door. We’ve dubbed this release “Green” in honor of guitarist Grant Green whose soulful simplicity has kept many of us company during this release. This release includes significant improvements to theme customization, custom headers, Twitter embeds, and image captions — here’s a short clip with the highlights: For [...]

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WordPress 3.4 Release Candidate 3

The third release candidate for WordPress 3.4 is now available. Since RC2, we’ve fixed a few lingering issues with the new live preview feature, as well as with custom headers and backgrounds. There are no remaining issues, and we plan to release 3.4 in the coming days. But if you think you’ve found a bug, [...]

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