Brantley Whitley 
Why is that life insurance companies seem too ashamed to just tell people the truth? Do they honestly think that launching a new marketing campaign filled with platitudes will accomplish anything?
I’m completely frustrated with how our industry seems to assume that people are stupid.
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We Dive Deep into the U.S. Economic Mess
Student Loans–There's some good news! (not)
Remember when we all had a Blackberry
2012 Life Insurance Sales Data–the Year of Cash Value Life Insurance?
I know it seems like a question that Fast Eddie would ask you as soon as walked onto the used car lot. You know the drill, “So how much are you looking for your monthly payments to be?”
Yeah we’ve all heard that classic line. And no that’s not exactly what I’m talking about but I discovered just a couple of weeks ago that I can sort of sound that way at times.
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Americans are prematurely breaking into their 401k's to the tune of $70 billion in annual outflows
Are your job prospects dashed after 50?
Millionaires aren't nearly as rosey about the market as their advisors
The 7 most common lies Americans tell themselves about retirement.
It’s our practice to compare all the companies that may have a chance of providing the best solution for our clients. Some people have a preferred bias toward using participating whole life insurance as their choice for cash value life insurance while others lean more toward using some type of universal life insurance.
Quite honestly, we don’t feel there’s a right or wrong answer here. Both types of policies will work well with a cash accumulation strategy so long as the policies are structured properly.
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Jamie Dimon takes a 50% pay cut
Are actuaries turning on income annuities?
Calculating your assets under management is tough…apparently
But nothing is tougher than understanding life insurance
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Daily NAV's for Your Money Market Funds
Someone at AIG chooses prudence over greed
What's that new squiggly loop on the dollar bill?
Northwestern Mutual plans to hire a bunch of new agents. But does the world really need them?
A couple of days ago this headline appeared on my google alerts that are automatically shuffled to my inbox. I thought sure this is a mistake.
But no, it’s not…here’s a link to the story so you can read all about Quiet Company’s grand plan.
The official word from Mother Mutual is that they had a banner year for recruiting in 2012, hiring over 5,000 new agents or as they call them “financial professionals”. So, naturally they gotta raise the bar…right?
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U.S. savings accounts are paying less than a quarter of a percent
A new book claims that Americans may have lost their financial minds
Selling life insurance just got harder?
Whose face should be on the trillion dollar coin?
Well it seems we narrowly averted the fiscal cliff as we rang in the New year. I’m sure that we’re all breathing much easier now. At least we’ll get a momentary reprieve from the political circus that’s dominated the national conversation over the past few weeks.
Can you detect a bit of sarcasm in my writing?
