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Qualified Money Funding with Annuity Care
So, your advisor tells you that your “$1.5 million is enough to self-insure.” For over a month, I have challenged that premise using a scenario that represents an average duration situation 10 years in the future using today’s dollars as a cost benchmark. Needless to day, after a 3 year duration situation, the account value… Continue reading
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A million & a half made better
Last week’s post received a ton of feedback. Thank you for your opinions. Remember what I said? The scenario can be ripped apart in a bunch of different ways and it was a small amount of effort that I put in to demonstrate how an AVERAGE long-term care event can totally disrupt a plan. In… Continue reading
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$1.5 million and how I got there
Last week, I shared my concern about the fallacy of having $1.5 million in assets (excluding your home’s value) being enough to skip LTC insurance. Boy, did I get some feedback on that – some was supportive; some was not so kind. If you recall, I did say “you can rip this apart in a… Continue reading
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Planning Objections
In last week’s Fridays with Fisher, I shared with you a bit about conducting a planning conversation with your clients. I shared a few tips to help with the quality of your conversation as well as the OneAmerica Financial Plan for Care worksheet. One thing that I mentioned briefly in past posts about client plan… Continue reading
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Client Review – Planning Conversation
For the past 2 weeks, I’ve talked about diving into your existing client base to engage in an extended care planning conversation. This is a proactive way to solidify the future of your business by strengthening your relationship with your client with a low acquisition cost. In an article in Think Advisor from October of… Continue reading
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Review Your Clients
Last week, I shared with you 3 of my goals for the first quarter of the year. One of them is to collaborate with agents & advisors to identify opportunities within their existing book of business. Regardless of how you dissect your book of business, there is one thing that you need to do –… Continue reading
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Welcome to 2026
We are 1 day into the new year. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! One thing that we all do is make resolutions that we ultimately end up dismissing during the course of the year. I’m guilty – I do that and did that in 2025. This year, I took it up to do some thinking and research… Continue reading
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Just for the kicks – AI says …
Just for the kick of it, I asked ChatGPT to “WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT LONG-TERM CARE PLANNING” and this is what it spilled out. Long-Term Care Planning: Why It’s Essential for Your Future When most people think about their future, they envision retirement, travel, and spending time with family. However, there’s another important aspect that… Continue reading
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Time to Get Personal
Last week, I talked about reviewing your book of business and combing for opportunities within your client base. This week, I will talk about reviewing someone’s long-term care plan. “You talk about that all the time,” you say. That is true. Today, however, I am making it personal. I want YOU to review YOUR plan… Continue reading
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Post Thanksgiving
We only have a couple weeks before the next major holidays. Here are 3 ideas that you can quickly implement over the next few weeks to jumpstart 2026. These are just 3 ways that you can get a jump on 2026. Finally, I want to thank you for making time for me. My intent is… Continue reading
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LTC Awareness Month – The Gateway
We are a couple weeks into long-term care awareness month which means that the holiday season is right around the corner. Why do I mention the holidays in a conversation about long-term care? It’s because the holidays are when families come together. Children who do not see their parents on a regular basis are often… Continue reading
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LTC Month Resources
November is long-term care awareness month. Here are some resources that you might find helpful. Continue reading
Fridays with Fisher 