What a Stupid Question!

Dec 17, 2017 Posted by Mark Buhrke In Gen X & Y Financial Advice Tagged Another Stupid Question, Best Gen X Financial Advisors, Breathe Easier About Life™, Estate Planning, financial advice to the X and Y Generation, improperly structured life insurance, indexed universal life insurance, private CFO, variable universal life insurance, whole life insurance and term life insurance, your smart money moves Comments 0

So, how many times have you asked someone in the financial world a question and they make you feel stupid? Not only stupid for asking the question, but just plain stupid? That’s what often happens when working with people. There used to be stocks, bonds and cash. There used to be whole life insurance and term life insurance. There used to be disability insurance. There used to be health insurance. Now we have BDC’s and REIT’s and PPL’s and variable life insurance and variable universal life insurance and indexed life insurance and indexed universal life insurance and ETF’s and UIT’s and PPO’s and HMO’s and 401k’s and Roth 401k’s and IRA’s and Roth IRA’s and long term care insurance and then long term care riders and hybrids and properly structured life insurance and improperly structured life insurance . . . You get the point. The financial world of our parents and grandparents doesn’t exist today. It’s become much more complicated ...

Five Biggest Mistakes Families Make with Life Insurance

sponsored by Midland National The month of September is Life Insurance Awareness Month. While it’s still a few months away, it’s not too early to start protecting yourself today. Most families are getting tons of information thrown at them around the topic of investing, far too often I see families make major mistakes when it comes to life insurance. I had a widow come to see me just a few months ago when her husband had a tragic accident. He left her with three young children and a $500,000 insurance policy. With hardly any other saved money, she was left bewildered on how she would be able to make her bills, pay for her kids’ college education, and then also take care of her retirement. While $500,000 seemed like a lot money at the time they applied for the insurance, in reality it was barely enough to get by given all of the family goals. Here are the five biggest ...

What Does It Mean To Have “Conditional Receipt” When You Apply For Life Insurance?

sponsored by Midland National It’s never fun having a discussion as a family or with a financial professional to figure out how much life insurance you need. Most people dread this conversation as much as going to buy a new car because you are going to always feel like the insurance agents are ready to pounce on making a sale. As long as I’ve been doing this, I have still yet to hear a surviving spouse tell me that they bought too much life insurance. In many married couples, it is still usually one spouse who drives the conversation about how much life insurance the family needs. Usually it is the major breadwinner of the family. Recently, I heard yet again another sad story from a surviving spouse whose husband passed away way before his time. When I learned a little more about the situation, she revealed that he had been approved for a large sum of life insurance a ...