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Million Dollar Annuity Care Resources
Two weeks ago, I shared with you a little about the Million Dollar Annuity Care plan. It explained some important facts about the opportunity to help clients’ reposition their nonqualified deferred annuity money into a tax-efficient delivery vehicle for long term care. This link will take you to that information. And, last week, I shared… Continue reading
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Maximizing Your Annuity Concept
Last week , I set the table for this part of the conversation about maximizing your annuity. Please, take a minute to refresh your memory of the opportunity. This is not a MYGA or rate chasing strategy, but a strategy where we are able to transform taxable gain into tax free income if it is… Continue reading
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Maximizing Your Annuity
I’ve been riding this topic hard for the last few months and for a good reason! One of the best funding sources for long term care comes from nonqualified deferred annuities! And, with the unofficial start of summer a few days ago, we all know that now is not the time to take the foot… Continue reading
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Benefit of a Cap to Self-funding
Last week’s Fridays with Fisher was about a strategy to cap the risk that a self-funding strategy presents. A lot of people reached out to me and told me that they did not like it. I hear what you say and understand why. One thing that I believe that many people did not pick up… Continue reading
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Self-funding Cap
Last week, I started a conversation about self-funding a long term care and I shared a few examples of potential future costs. As a reminder, OneAmerica offers an Interactive Cost of Care Map that can help you find the cost of care anywhere in the country. It’s a great tool to have on your mobile… Continue reading
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Self-funding Consider the Costs
There are lots of perspectives about long term care and how to pay for it. An insurance-based strategy is the most cost efficient method regardless of what someone’s net worth. Unfortunately, many people make the decision to self-fund their long term care. This week, let’s use some numbers to compare the scenarios. I am going… Continue reading
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Why? Annuities for LTC … Why Not?
I came across some interesting data a short time ago about annuity based long term care plans. Inside an article discussing “long term care annuities”, the following data from LIMRA was shared. According to the most recent sales data from LIMRA, stand-alone long-term care insurance sales declined 60% between 2012 and 2016, while sales of… Continue reading
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Annuity Care Underwriting & Prescreening
Earlier this month on Coffee Break, Niki Johnson shared the underwriting requirements for the Annuity Care products. If you have not taken time to watch the episode, please do. As Niki shared, we do underwrite our products. With Annuity Care products, the underwriting is never more than a phone interview, an MIB check, and a… Continue reading
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Claims – Make Sure You Know
Last week on Coffee Break, we shared a few pieces of information with you. Elaine Marvin discussed the history and timeline of Care Solutions. Niki Johnson shared the underwriting requirements for the Annuity Care products. And, Jen Wagoner examined claims being paid daily versus monthly. If you have not taken time to watch the episode,… Continue reading
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Don’t Accept the Default Plan
Let me ask you a quick question. What’s a better … executing a plan or relying on the luck? You know the answer – executing a plan. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case for most people. If you recall from the OneAmerica Consumer Sentiment Survey that we released last November, one revelation was that consumers doubt… Continue reading
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On the road again
This week’s FWF will be brief. Why is that? I’m on the road and time is limited. Speaking of on the road, once again, OneAmerica is blanketing the country with regional meetings. As we did last year, the whole objective is to provide agents and advisors with enough information about OneAmerica and the Care Solutions… Continue reading
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