BeamaLife Blog

I was listening to a personal finance podcast the other day, and the question was raised again about what kind of life insurance someone should buy.  The host went on for the next couple of minutes talking about how everyone should “buy term and invest the difference.”  Now I’m a fair person, and I admit [...]

Last month the White House decided to get into the business of giving financial advice.  The White House’s “Middle Class Task Force” recommended that Americans, many of whom are in a terrible financial bind, begin investing in immediate annuities. 
With the volatility of the stock market, the crash of the real estate market, and the staggering [...]

The economics of life insurance relate to human life value, which in turn pertains to human capital. Human capital is a person’s income potential over their lifetime as well as additional factors such as fringe benefits, monthly expenses, and savings growth rate. The human life value concept is the primary reason for insurance and the [...]

If you’re like many Americans, your plans for retirement include not retiring – at least not for a few more years.  Sun Life Financial recently released what it calls its “Unretirement Index,” which found that 65% of working Americans not expect to be working at least one year longer than they had previously planned.  That [...]

It’s a new year, and that’s the time when many people make resolutions to change their lives for the better in the coming months.  Many of the changes you might be considering can also be ways to save money on your life insurance.  Of course, there are the usual ways that most people would think [...]

In the December issue of Employee Benefits Advisor magazine, a survey of 4,500 employers found that 2010 will be a good year for your employee benefits in lots of ways.  Most employers remain committed to keeping their benefits plans robust, offering medical and dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability insurance.
Here are the [...]

According to the MIB Life Index, life insurance applications in the U. S. are on the rise, with November showing some of the biggest increases in the last two years.  That’s a good thing for the life insurance business, of course, but it points to some very good things that are happening in the economy [...]

There’s no question that for many people, money is tight these days.  And when you’re low on options for increasing your income, your thoughts may turn to that life insurance policy that you’ve been paying on for so many years.  You could sell it in what’s called a “life settlement,” but is that the right [...]

With tuition costs rising dramatically over the past 20 years, it’s no wonder that financially savvy parents have started saving more money more quickly, just to make sure there’s enough to put the kids through college when the time comes.  And 529 college savings plans have been promoted as the number one way to set [...]

There’s an old saying that goes, “there are two kinds of people in the world: those that divide the world into two types of people, and those that don’t.”  You have to love the logic of Aristotle, even when it sounds funny, like that old saying does.  But a recent Gallup poll did divide people [...]