Posts Tagged Independent Insurance
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Goodbye to an Awful Ten Years
By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Thank goodness the first 10 years of this 21st century is in the past. Lots to be thankful for assuming we are enjoying good health and family good health. However, our retirement nest eggs have not enjoye...
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Re-engineering Retirement for Income
By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Most of us used our income-earning years focused on “accumulation” of assets to be used later in life for retirement. During this accumulation phase, we always sought the best selection of investments ...
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Health Care Reform – Fact vs. Fiction
By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor There are several e-mail campaigns making their way around right now claiming that, beginning in 2011, taxable income on Forms W-2 will be increased to reflect the value of employer-provided health insurance...
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Where Did Those Credits Go?
By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor We are all concerned with government spending especially “deficit” spending and the potential for tax increases. The Government Accounting Office has once again reported another month in which the treasury ...
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Discount Prescription Card & Health Care Reform for Medicare Beneficiaries
By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Working with Medicare and all the issues involved with choices and costs, we came across another very important resource for Medicare and Pre-Medicare folks - free discount prescription cards. These cards are a...
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Take Control by Taking Action
By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Employee Benefit Research Institute reports 47% of Americans between the ages of 56-62 would run out of the funds necessary to pay for basic retirement expenditures if they retire at age 65. 47% - that’s a bi...
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Protection. Without all the drama.
By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Our financial practice focuses on the use of fixed and fixed-index annuities due to their safety from stock and mutual fund market downturns. What a roller coaster ride with the stock and mutual fund mar...
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The Tax Man Cometh
By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Here are some ways that state governments are considering generating additional fees and revenues… A CNN article that came across my screen recently really caught my attention. You may go on- line and repl...
