Archives: December 2012

Long-Term Care Insurance May Be a Dying Breed

A report earlier this fall by Moody‰Ûªs Investors Services – ‰ÛÏLong-Term Care Insurance: Sector Profile‰Û – says that despite the need for long-term care insurance, the product‰Ûªs future is in question because of persistent losses and a challenging operating environment. The benefits under early policies were often too generous relative...

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Hold Back on Those Christmas Gifts. You’ll Need the $ for Retirement

Aon Hewitt‰Ûªs Real Deal studied the retirement resources and needs for 2.2 million employees of 78 large US employers. The study projects employees‰Ûª retirement resources and needs assuming their current behaviors continue. The study focuses on full-career contributing employees as the baseline. For this purpose, ‰ÛÏfull career‰Û was defined as...

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