Last Friday, the U.S. Treasury Department took another exceptionally important step to promote retirement income security “designed to expand the use of income annuities in 401 (k) plans.”

With the fourth quarter right around the corner, we begin to reflect on 2014. What will you be saying at the end of the year? Has your profitability gone up as compared to other years?

“National Tickling Month”, “Correct Posture Month”, “Revise Your Work Schedule Month”, “Impotency Awareness Month”. Not a month goes by that we aren’t encouraged to reflect on one important cause or another.

An advisor recently asked our in-house statistician, Dave Julian, a very common question that comes up when you start to have Social Security conversations with pre-retirees. The question was: I just turned 62 years old. My cross-over point is 82 or 83.

Paying for college is tough. And on July 1st, it didn't become any easier.

We have a real crisis on our hands. A crisis that involves the very backbone of the nation's private retirement-savings system, the 401(k).

This sense of urgency is real. As I write this post, there are literally a few seats (possibly even one seat!) remaining for our upcoming LifePro training event: Van Mueller Sales Secrets on Wednesday, May 28th.

You probably have built a substantial email database throughout the years and are wondering how to begin marketing your message to them. After all, over 84% of Baby Boomers are online; representing the Web's largest constituency (Jupiter Research).

When most of us buy life insurance, we're thinking about one thing: Making sure our families are taken care of after we're gone. But, you might also want to think about setting up a policy to take care of your favorite charity as well.

Chief Marketing Officer, Ben Nevejans, was recently interviewed by Perspectives Magazine in their March/April 2014 edition.