Family & Income Protection

Learn how insurance, savings, death benefits, and risk-management decisions can protect income and the people who depend on it. These resources focus on resilience, continuity, and coordinating protection with the rest of your financial life.

Investments Don’t Hug, with Mark Bertrang

By Rachel Marshall / May 25, 2020 / Comments Off on Investments Don’t Hug, with Mark Bertrang

Have you wanted a way to share your greatest possible gift of love with your spouse, children, and loved ones, but weren’t exactly sure how? The best gift requires out-of-the-box thinking because it’s not something you can buy at Hallmark. Investments Don’t Hug, by Mark Bertrang, shows you how. It’s the most poignant, emotional, and…

The Death Benefit: Most Underrated Power of Life Insurance – Ryley Smith

By Rachel Marshall / April 27, 2020 / Comments Off on The Death Benefit: Most Underrated Power of Life Insurance – Ryley Smith

The death benefit sounds like the least attractive and most basic part of life insurance.  Wouldn’t the only people talking about it be either a doomsayer or Captain Obvious? Far to the contrary! Life insurance death benefit offers a tremendous advantage that enhances your life and makes it so much richer.   So we’re taking…

Key Man Insurance: Protecting Your Business, Profits, and Livelihood

By Rachel Marshall / June 24, 2019 / Comments Off on Key Man Insurance: Protecting Your Business, Profits, and Livelihood

If you’re wondering what key man insurance is and why it matters, it’s a powerful way to reduce your company’s exposure to key man risk, in short, the potential loss of revenue and stability if a critical employee can’t work. Key man insurance acts as a safety net when your business loses someone who’s essential…

How to Shop for Insurance Pt 3: Life, Health, and Disability Insurance

By Rachel Marshall / June 11, 2018 /

Life, health, and disability insurance protect you, your body, your wellness, and your livelihood.  This range of coverage includes some of the most essential protections. Too often, people ask the wrong questions.  This leads them to draw the wrong conclusions about life, health, and disability insurance.   As a result, many remain drastically underinsured or forgo the protection altogether.…

How to Shop For Insurance Part 2: Home and Auto Insurance

By Rachel Marshall / June 4, 2018 / Comments Off on How to Shop For Insurance Part 2: Home and Auto Insurance

Home and auto insurance are two pillars of insurance protection that are almost universally understood to be necessary. However, when it comes to choosing and paying for coverage, you have nearly infinite options.  The range of coverage details, exemptions, coverage amounts, and limitations add complexity.  This can make shopping for insurance seem like a maze…

How to Shop for Insurance Part 1: 7 Tips to Save on Insurance

By Rachel Marshall / May 28, 2018 /

When you shop around for insurance, it’s best to start with a game plan.  Then you know what to look for and how to save on insurance without sacrificing value. It’s just like shopping for groceries, a marketing strategist, or an investment property. First, you need to know what you want.  Next, you want to know…

Why You Want Insurance Part 3: It Costs More to Self-Insure

By Rachel Marshall / May 14, 2018 / Comments Off on Why You Want Insurance Part 3: It Costs More to Self-Insure

To navigate your insurance decisions, you must weigh the costs and opportunity costs of each option.  While some choose to self-insure as a solution to reduce insurance costs, there are additional costs hidden beneath the surface that you need to be aware of. Insurance is fairly polarizing.  Chances are, you either love it or you…

Why You Want Insurance Part 2: It Protects Your Human Life Value

By Rachel Marshall / April 30, 2018 /

Insurance is about more than protecting your stuff. It’s about protecting your human life value. Often, your life insurance needs rank pretty close on the motivation list with you need to change the oil in your car. Here’s the filtering mechanism your brain goes through when you hear it:  Not that pressing.  Things are going fine without it. …

Why You Want Insurance Part 1: Insurance Transfers Risk

By Rachel Marshall / April 16, 2018 / Comments Off on Why You Want Insurance Part 1: Insurance Transfers Risk

Throughout civilization, people have created tools to transfer risk, protecting themselves from negative circumstances.  This is the core function of insurance: to transfer risk.  It’s what makes insurance not only something you want but something to love. However, many people have a misguided and negative view of insurance, being inadequately insured or uninsured altogether.  As…

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