You’ve insured your home and personal property, your vehicles and your life, but are you overlooking your most substantial asset – your ability to earn income? Using the Council for Disability Awareness’ Earnable Income Quotient tool, a 40 year old who nets $75,000 annual income will earn $1.875 million over the next 25 years until [...]
Slower Growth Ahead?
Markets ended positive last week despite a disappointing GDP report, erasing losses endured the previous week. As of Friday’s close, the S&P 500 gained 1.74%, the Dow climbed 1.13%, and the Nasdaq increased 2.28%.[i] Earnings data and a handful of economic reports drove most of the market action last week. According to our first peek [...]
Long Term Care Insurance Offers More Options
In-home services rising. A 2012 report from the American Association for Long Term Care Insurance found that the majority (56 percent) of new claims under long term care policies are for home care – not nursing home care (31 percent) as many consumers believe. While nursing home care definitely ranks at the high end of [...]
A Difficult Week
Even as we share this update with you, the events that unfolded last week in Massachusetts and Texas are still fresh in our minds. Our hearts will remain with the victims and their families, as well as the residents of Boston and West Texas, as they rebuild their lives from these tragedies. In times like [...]
How is the Economy Really Doing?
by Jordan Dechtman
U.S. markets closed out last week with a bang, after a better-than-expected jobs report eased concerns about a stalled economic recovery. The S&P 500 and Dow both surged to new highs on the news, with the S&P 500 closing out the week above 1,600 and the Dow briefly topping 15,000. For the week, the S&P [...]