life insurance

Should You Buy Life Insurance?

Conventional wisdom might be that everyone needs life insurance. Interestingly, the first form of life insurance was burial clubs back in ancient Rome. In fact, a more appropriate name for this product might be “death” insurance. As you can imagine that name wouldn’t sell well. We all hope it a policy that is never used! […]

Is Your Life Insurance Agent Biased?

Can You Trust Your Life Insurance Agent? Your life insurance agent is biased. How do I know? I used to be one. Not only is your agent biased, I can attest to the fact that it is unavoidable. There’s something called a “conflict of interest” that the Freakonomics guys wrote about in the section about […]