Semi-retirement: helping clients balance flexibility with financial security
INSURANCENEWSNET MAGAZINE
In this issue...
- AI: Going beyond the chatbot
- The velocity of money — with Stefun Darts
- Adapt and fly — With Panos Leledakis
- Failing to plan for succession sends a troubling signal
- Demographics are destiny — and, for advisors, opportunity
- 4 ways to give workplace life insurance a higher profile
SPECIAL FEATURE
Start estate planning before the family needs it
Families who plan have options when it matters most. Read More
From The Field
A practical benefits strategy for cost-conscious employers
Gap insurance is designed to work alongside major medical coverage, not replace it.
Why voluntary benefits belong in the broader talent strategy
As employees face rising healthcare costs and greater financial pressure, these offerings deserve a more central role in workplace strategy.
Medicare is already reading your 2026 tax return
The year you’re finishing right now is the one Medicare will read.
ADVISOR NEWS
The 6X Formula for leveraging content marketing with AI
Every advisor is bombarded with advertising and marketing content, so how can you cut through the clutter?
- When a home becomes difficult to insure, the plan changes
- The inheritance gap: Helping clients plan for money that hasn’t arrived
- After the midterms: Addressing your clients’ tax concerns
- Berkeley arts tax heads toward passage while public bank measure looks likely to fail
- Americans’ sense of overall prosperity still ticks upward
NEWSWIRES
Viewpoint: We need Medicare for all
by Isabel Tamayo Chaidez| Special to the Courier. Their family, like many others in the U.S., had no insurance. The bill would create national health insurance coverage for all U.S. residents, allowing patients to seek comprehensive care without paying monthly insurance premiums, deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance.
- Senator West Files First Bills, Promotes Affordability, Consumer Protection Agenda for 90th Legislature
- America's affordability crisis is about supply, not inflation
- SPEECH BY VICE CHAIR JEFFERSON ON NEW TECHNOLOGY, OLD QUESTIONS: PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLES AND THE MACROECONOMY
- Retail sales and Fed minutes in focus next week
- State Farm policyholders may get new chance at payments on denied roof claims
Annuity News
DOL, trade groups, state AGs file briefs supporting Alcoa in PRT lawsuit
The retirees originally sued Alcoa after the company chose to offload its multi-billion dollar defined-benefit pension obligati... Read More
Life Insurance News
Start estate planning before the family needs it
Families who plan have options when it matters most. Read More
Health/Employee Benefits News
A 'critical service': Senior centers help local residents navigate complexities of Medicare coverage
Now, she volunteers as a Medicare navigator at Attleboro's Larson Senior Center. Pat Maguire also volunteers with Attlebor... Read More
Cost of employer-sponsored health insurance plans rises again, nonpartisan survey finds
The cost of individual health insurance plans rose to $9,804 on average, while family coverage reached $28,303. Employees paid ... Read More
Sen. Baldwin proposes lowering Medicare eligibility age to 50
Tammy Baldwin is introducing legislation that would allow Americans as young as 50 to buy into Medicare, giving people ages 50 ... Read More
Property and Casualty News
AAA decreases auto insurance rates for Florida policyholders
TAMPA, Fla.— Florida policyholders with AAA will see a rate decrease after the company announced it is lowering auto insurance ... Read More
AM Best Revises Outlooks to Stable for Hagerty Reinsurance Limited and Drivers Edge Insurance Company
AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from positive and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- and the Long-Term Iss... Read More
Weather disasters take a bigger bite out of nation’s economies
Weather disaster losses have risen relative to national income in many major economies. Read More
Insurtech News
Lead with AI or risk being left behind
Artificial intelligence can help advisors create a new client journey to make insurance “the new cool.” Read More
