November 1, 2018 – The 2018 edition of “Understanding the Insurance Industry,” a supplement to the November issue of Best Review, identifies the Top 10 U.S. Life/Health Companies ranked by 2017 Capital and Surplus, along with other rankings. Best Review is a publication of the A.M. Best Company, “the only global credit rating agency with…
September 24, 2018 – If you still believe that guy on the radio castigating you to hate annuities, it might be worth seeing what the top industry research association’s statistics reveal about 2018 YTD fixed indexed annuities (FIAs). Hint: They’re HOT! Through the first half of 2018, $32.1 billion worth of fixed indexed annuity purchases…
September 17, 2018 – The Los Angeles Angels have been officially eliminated from the 2018 postseason. Drat! The year started with such promise, too. Not only do we have a perennial MVP candidate in Mike Trout, but this year brought some new excitement when the Angels signed Japanese phenom Shohei Ohtani, a young player who…
August 25, 2018 – With college football upon us and the NFL’s 2018 season right around the corner, this is the perfect time to discuss fixed indexed annuities. Hunh? OK, so maybe I’m stretching a bit but as this year’s first kick-off approaches, it occurs to me there’s a perfect parallel between something that happens…
August 23, 2018 – As the current stock market is busy toasting itself for the longest bull run in history, at least one chief investment officer is keeping his bubbly on ice while cautioning investors about a market he believes is on a “collision course with disaster.” Guggenheim chief investment officer Scott Minerd sounded two…
August 13, 2018 – The “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” presumably did not factor into a San Francisco jury’s decision last week to award Dewayne Johnson $289.2 million in his lawsuit against Monsanto Company, et al. His case is potentially affected by it nonetheless. In addition to $39.2 million in compensatory damages awarded to the…
August 6, 2018 – When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as it’s known, went into effect earlier this year, many hailed the legislation for simplifying things and saving the average taxpayer money. Others protested the legislation disproportionately benefits the ultra-wealthy who didn’t need and weren’t asking to have their taxes reduced. Whichever side of…
May 18, 2018 – Have you caught wind of this Yanny/Laurel thing yet? There are few things that can cause you to question your own sanity more than being positively convinced of something that others are equally convinced is untrue. I listen to this clip and hear Yanny. Absolutely, 100%, no doubt about it. But…
May 2, 2018 – Stored lovingly in the back of a closet in my house rests a box filled with vinyl record albums of (mostly) rock ‘n’ roll artists whose music I listened to growing up. From The Allman Brothers Band to The Zombies, these Long Player, or LP, discs, once turntable-revolving staples of my…
April 11, 2018 – Courtesy of our friends at Pacific Life, we’re happy share with you today a new educational video designed to help plaintiffs answer a few very basic questions they’re likely to ask themselves when in the process of resolving their personal injury claim: At two minutes nineteen seconds, the video is an…