Re: [MBZ] OT: How to get screwed out of the cash value in your Whole Life insurance policy

2016-08-14 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
I'm maintaining my portfolio at 70% stocks, the rest in short term bonds and cash. Every year or so I have to rebalance (sell high, buy low) to keep that ratio. If the crash comes, I'll go 100% stocks when they ring the bell at market bottom, ride it all the way back up. -- Max Dillon

Re: [MBZ] OT: How to get screwed out of the cash value in your Whole Life insurance policy

2016-08-14 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
This is largely a consequence of FED (read Administration) policy to try to stimulate the economy through artificially low (like zero) interest rates. But this is small potatoes compared to the many seniors who saved responsibly all their lives but now can't live on the (near zero) revenue from

Re: [MBZ] OT: How to get screwed out of the cash value in your Whole Life insurance policy

2016-08-14 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Max wrote: > I certainly hope none of us nor our families are in this boat. I rowed away from that boat 40 years ago. Life insurance is pah! mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

Re: [MBZ] OT: How to get screwed out of the cash value in your Whole Life insurance policy

2016-08-14 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
I certainly hope none of us nor our families are in this boat. Yet another reason to avoid whole life insurance. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

[MBZ] OT: How to get screwed out of the cash value in your Whole Life insurance policy

2016-08-14 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/business/why-some-life-insurance-premiums-are-skyrocketing.html The NY Times describes the latest scam by insurance companies to drain policies of built up cash values and then raising rates on all such policies claiming there are insufficient funds to pay