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What is Return of Premium Term Life Insurance?

With a Return of Premium (ROP) Term Life insurance policy, the insurance company will pay your beneficiaries the death benefit should you die before the end of the term.  The benefit of this type of term policy is if you outlive the term of the policy, the insurance company will return to you 100% of [...]

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LIMRA: Americans Have Rudimentary Knowledge about Life Insurance

LIMRA Researchers Test Americans’ Life Insurance IQ – 70 Percent Fail Recently, LIMRA (Life Insurance and Market Research Association) provided a life insurance IQ test to 4,000 Americans to gauge their knowledge and understanding of life insurance. Less than a third (1,200) passed the 10-question exam and the majority (55 percent) answered fewer than five [...]

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3 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Buying Life Insurance

1.       You Don’t Buy Enough Coverage When you bought your first policy, it was to cover a specific asset or need that was in existence at that time. However, most times people forget about that first policy and never have another insurance review.  That $100,000 policy isn’t going to cover the kid’s college, pay off [...]

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How an Indexed Universal Life Insurance Policy can Help Protect Your Family and Provide for Your Retirement

One of the most talked about life insurance products available today is Indexed Universal Life (IUL). An IUL provides the value of a permanent life insurance with the cash value of the policy invested into an account that is “linked” to the performance of a market index like the S&P 500. The value to the [...]

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Life Insurance Is Not What It Used to Be

It’s Not Your Parent’s Kind of Life Insurance Permanent life Insurance, like medicine and technology, has evolved to the extent that it hardly resembles what it looked like just a decade ago. The basics have remained the same, a death benefit, premiums, and an inside cash value that accumulates over time. What has dramatically changed [...]

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Fixed Indexed Universal Life

Fixed indexed universal life has been on an incredible hot streak in terms of growth in sales over the past 5 years.  With the increasing inevitability that taxes will have to be increased to pay for our debt issues to the incredible income and death benefit features that these retirement products have, it should come [...]

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