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#443 | Busch v Pacific Life

Image: AP It’s been a very long time since anything related to life insurance has broken into mainstream media. Larry King famously claimed to be scammed by a STOLI transaction that had been executed with his approval and paid him $1.4 million in 2007. The case was settled in 2008,…

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#440 | The Curious Case of the 4.5% Whole Life

In the immediate aftermath of the changes to Section 7702 that were enacted in early 2021, the story was –…

#437 | Making the Case for Juvenile Policies

When I graduated from college, I was given a participating Principal Whole Life policy. Entirely unbeknownst to me, my grandfather…

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#434 | The Other Kind of Disability Insurance

The very first article in The Life Product Review was, ironically, not about life insurance at all. It was entitled…

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#433 | The Best Indexed UL

Introduction Ever since I started speaking consistently about Indexed UL back in 2008, I’ve been asked the same question at…

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#442 | A New Era for Blending at Pacific Life

10/29/2025 Update - Last night, two-time NASCAR Cup Champion Kyle Busch and his wife Samantha Busch announced that they were…

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#439 | The VA-ization of Prudential VUL Protector

One of the mysterious things about the persistent rise of the Guaranteed VUL market has been the simultaneous decline in…

#432 | North American Secure Horizon IUL

Over the past few years, there has been a pronounced convergence of the Fixed Indexed Annuity (FIA) and Indexed UL…

#429 | Lincoln WealthBuilder IUL

Aside from some modest recent revisions to AssetEdge VUL/SVUL and lowering prices on Term, the recent introduction of WealthBuilder IUL…

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#438 | News Digest – 9/8/25

Guardian SafeGuard 360 Goes Mainstream When Guardian released SafeGuard 360 back in 2022, the storyline was – understandably – a…

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#436 | News Digest – 8/6/2025

This is a new format for TLPR, as discussed in the very last section. Here's what we're covering this week:…

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#399 | The Simple Case for Permanent Life Insurance

I’ve noticed that some things have changed since I’ve gotten older. A few rogue gray hairs are sprouting up over…

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#388 | 2023 in Review

Looking back over a year’s worth of articles is always fun and gratifying. There were 44 articles published on The…

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#443 | Busch v Pacific Life

Image: AP It’s been a very long time since anything related to life insurance has broken into mainstream media. Larry…

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#441 | F&G and The Insurance Origination Model

What’s a life insurance company? We’ve asked this question a few times in The Life Product Review because the answer…

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#435 | The Securitization Frontier

A Primer on Securitization Securitization is one of those words that means nothing to the vast majority of humans and…

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#425 | Waking the Japanese Giants

Earlier this month, Legal and General announced that it was selling its US entity, Banner Life, to Japanese mutual company…

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