John Ryan

• Funding Retirement in Disability

  By Staff Writer  |  November 1, 2007

  The newest product on the market is one that allows clients to fund their retirement even though they may be disabled and not working at...

• In the Meantime

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2007

  If you've been keeping up with the long-term care insurance controversy, you've read The New York Times article that started the brouhaha earlier this year--about...

• Physician, Insure Thyself

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  December 1, 2006

  Disability insurance is undergoing some interesting changes. According to John Ryan of Ryan Insurance Strategy Consultants in Greenwood Village, Colorado, one of those changes is...

• Less is More

  By Staff Writer  |  December 1, 2006

  One change now surfacing within the disability market, according to John Ryan, a Greenwood, Colorado insurance consultant to financial advisors, is John Hancock's approach to...

• Still Kicking

  By Liana Roberts  |  March 1, 2006

  Survivorship, or second-to-die, insurance serves a multiplicity of purposes in planning--everything from funding trusts to wealth accumulation--but one of its most popular selling points has...

• Squeeze Play

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2004

  While it was never easy to figure out the long-term-care insurance equation, it's gotten even harder lately. Should you need any illustrations for these difficulties,...

• Struggle for Survivorship

  By Staff Writer  |  March 1, 2004

  Lately, trying to sell survivorship life insurance has been like trying to sell a rain poncho on a cloudless day--sure, people may need it someday,...

• The Plight of a Trough

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 1, 2002

  Variable universal life insurance, or VUL, has a dual nature: it consists of life insurance with an investment component. It has a dual image in...

• The Long View

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2002

  Advisors generally have specialties. Their practices cater to a gamut of niches, from attorneys and physicians to movie stars, business owners, and nonprofits. But there's...

• Fallout Shelter

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  August 27, 2002

  Considering Conseco's current troubles, are policy