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TAKEN CAPTIVE is sure to become the industry s leading resource for providing basic education and expert guidance on using captive insurance companies in alternative-risk-financing strategies. TAKEN CAPTIVE answers the following questions: What is a captive? Why form a captive? What are the different types and structures of captives? Which domiciles are best? What are the tax implications? What are the risks associated with forming and operating a captive? What are the steps involved with forming a captive? Is a feasibility study necessary?

Medicare For Dummies, 3rd Edition will help you navigate the complicated, often confusing maze of the Medicare system. In simple language, with clear step-by-step instructions, the book helps you determine how and when to enroll, avoid costly mistakes, and find a plan that is right for you and your family.

Creating a captive insurance company may sound daunting, but with Mr. Strauss's guidance you can navigate the legal maze and utilize this valuable strategy with ease. Don’t miss out on crucial out-of-pocket savings and create more liquidity in a more tax-efficient manner. Take steps today and reap the benefits of captive insurance!

Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of today's US health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it.

In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. This brand new audio edition of Bernstein's classic work is masterfully narrated by Mike Fraser.

From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the 2007-08 financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis - that of AIG - has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly bring down the entire economic system.

All projects are inherently risky, and complex ones can potentially be the downfall for even the most experienced project manager. From technical challenges and resource issues to unrealistic deadlines and problems with your subcontractors, any number of things can go wrong. Fully updated, consistent with PMI® standards, and addressing “VUCA” (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity), this book remains the definitive resource for project managers seeking to be proactive in their efforts to guard against failure and minimize unwanted surprises.

Yet what training has prepared you to run a business? E-Myth Real Insurance Store fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful business from scratch or maximizing an existing business’ performance. Loaded with practical, powerful advice you can easily use, this one-stop guide helps you realize all the benefits that come with a thriving insurance business. 

In this landmark book, author Tony Caldwell takes you step-by-step through the thinking, mindset, skill sets, and checklists you need to launch and successfully operate an independent insurance agency. Utilizing his proven method, he not only challenges you to dream your vision so well you can articulate it, but he also provides the practical tools and expertise to help you grow while avoiding common pitfalls. Done the right way, your business will grow into a noble endeavor to benefit your community.

Created for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for measuring and transferring credit risk, increasing risk-management transparency, and implementing an organization-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) approach.

Discover the secret to financial security that empowers you to invest, grow, and protect your money like the wealthy with the simplicity of one three-letter word! In her book, I.U.L. ASAP!, retirement expert Shirley Luu educates her listeners on what she believes to be the single most powerful financial security vehicle available for Americans today—the IUL. In this book, you will learn how to position your money so that it can grow, be saved for practically anything (including your kids' college education), protect your family, and leave a legacy.

More than half of the American population (56 percent) lives “paycheck to paycheck”. According to American Journal of Public Health 66.5 percent of all bankruptcies were driven by medical problems. The findings indicate each year 530,000 families suffer bankruptcies are linked to illness or medical bills. With the medical breakthrough in 2020, people are living much longer now. According to data from the Insured Retirement Institute in 2019, 45 percent of baby boomers are surveyed had no savings.

For over 100 years, Insurers have stood by customers at some of the toughest moments in their lives, and helped allow people to go about their lives and pursue their business ideas without having to worry about the risks involved. Today, those customers have different expectations for how they want to do business and be served. And those expectations are changing faster than ever before. The industry has faced many headwinds, making it difficult to keep up with change - regulation, bureaucracy, system constraints, past technology project pain, thin margins, etc.

Concepts explained in this audiobook include: what constitutes a compensable injury, who are general contractors responsible for insuring, second injury funds, the borrowed servant doctrine, employers' liability coverage, when additional states must be added to the policy, audits, and a detailed description of how to interpret experience modification factors. The appendices combine to provide a synopsis of specific work comp laws and injury reporting requirements for every state.

In Zero Trust and Third-Party Risk, veteran cybersecurity leader Gregory Rasner delivers an accessible and authoritative walkthrough of the fundamentals and finer points of the zero trust philosophy and its application to the mitigation of third-party cyber risk. In this book, you'll explore how to build a zero trust program and nurture it to maturity. You will also learn how and why zero trust is so effective in reducing third-party cybersecurity risk.

After years as a consultant to some of the world's biggest brands and having owned 10 companies himself, Troy Hazard has learned crucial lessons on predicting potential business issues before you experience them. Now Troy offers you the skills to prepare your business for a better future. Along with his stories of what works, he also shares his experiences of what doesn't work.

In this incisive and relatable book, sales author, speaker, and coach J. Sheldon Snodgrass delivers a pithy yet profound resource to wrest control from the noisy chatter of your inner critic—its siren songs of rationalizations, justifications, or flagellations—and replace it with the uplifting dialogue of a championship coach who meets you where you are and fires you up to win the day.

In this second edition to How to Sell Indexed Universal Life Insurance, you'll find additional content, new systems, and easy explanations to help you understand how to potentially increase your IUL sales. If you're interested in learning more about indexed universal life insurance, give it a listen.

Radical uncertainty changes the way we should think about decision-making. For over half a century economics has assumed that people behave rationally by optimizing among well-defined choices. Behavioral economics questioned how far people are rational, pointing to the cognitive biases that seem to describe actual behavior.

I want to tell you my story of financial discovery through family, entrepreneurism, product development, and an array of experiences. This is not a traditional story of an investment strategy secret or 401(k) success, but a story of true pursuit of knowledge, breaking down the whole system of financial planning, and discovering the inefficiencies and underwhelming results of the 401(k), IRA, Roth IRA and other traditional financial plans.