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- Very Useful for the Insurance Professional Newbie
- Not worth the money; filled with non-insurance-related terms
- Very Helpful!
- Thick Junk
- Slightly incomplete
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Dictionary of Insurance Terms (Barron's Business Dictionaries)
Harvey W. Rubin Ph.D. CLU CPCU
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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ASIN: 0764112627 |
Book Description
Books in Barron's pocket-sized Business Dictionaries series list thousands of specialized terms alphabetically and present concise definitions. The authors of all books in this series are recognized authorities in their special fields. Newly updated editions reflect new technologies and recent business trends. This volume defines more than 4,200 insurance terms that should be understood by agents, brokers, actuaries, underwriters, personnel professionals dealing with employee-benefit programs, and consumers who need to understand the insurance policies they plan to buy. Terminology covers life, health, property, and casualty insurance, as well as retirement plans. This new and heavily updated Fourth Edition has been expanded with approximately 200 new terms, and updatings of many other terms to reflect the current state of the insurance industry.
Customer Reviews:
Very Useful for the Insurance Professional Newbie .......2007-06-02
I find this a pretty complete reference book for someone new to the insurance side such as a young or new risk manager. The definitions are fairly indepth but still short and to the point. To critique the book severly, as some other reviewers have, I suggest reccommending another reference source, within your review, that is considered better. I would be most anxious to take a look at it since it would allow a fair comparison.
Not worth the money; filled with non-insurance-related terms.......2007-05-23
A better name for this product would be the Long-Winded Financial Terms Dictionary. Its pages are filled with non-insurance-related definitions for accounting, legal, and other financial-service terms. Worse yet, several key insurance-related terms that have come into existence in, say, the past century are not included. The only thing I have ever used this book for is to cite the author's claim that U.S. citizens spend more money on insurance than any other type of expenditure - but that occurs in the preface. The terms themselves are unhelpful and incomplete, and the book's pages are stuffed with filler.
Very Helpful!.......2006-01-30
The insurance industry has its own language. I have yet to come across a term that is not in this dictionary!
Thick Junk.......2001-10-24
I have been in the insurance industry 15 years and just decided to buy this as an addition for my work desk. I rarely open the book, however, anytime I go to look up a coverage definition it is not listed. This book is of NO use to me. Not really sure who would use this.............a person who hands out maps at the Auto Club who may need to look up a word or two?
Slightly incomplete.......2001-08-15
For general knowledge of insurance terms I guess this is an adequate dictionary and nevertheless needed for understanding insurance terms. I find however that being IN the insurance business as a newcomer and needing to have all my insurance words defined, this dictionary lacks many terms used, at least on the Life insurance side of it, so leaves me grasping for other sources and references to find these words which should be defined in this dictionary in the first place.
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- Good Book
- Pocket Idiot's Guide to health savings Accounts
- New HSA Owner
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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Health Savings Accounts (The Pocket Idiot's Guide)
CFP, CLU, AFC, Edie Milligan Driskill
Manufacturer: Alpha
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ASIN: 1592574963 |
Book Description
<B>Simplifying and understanding health care in America.</B>
In 2004, Congress created Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) with the intention of putting the brakes on runaway health care costs. The concept was simple: Get people to start thinking about health care expenses the same way they think about other goods and services they buy. But what started as simple idea has proven to be difficult for many to understand and implement. This book simplifies HSAs and their corresponding HDHPs for business owners and managers alike. <BR><BR> Covers how HSAs and HDHPs work, the pros and cons of them, how to install them, strategies for getting the most out of them, and how paychecks and taxes are affected<BR> U.S. health care costs were nearly $1.7 trillion in 2003.<BR> According to a national survey, 81% of large and 78% of small companies are considering implementing HSAs by 2006<BR>
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Good Book.......2006-09-28
This book really makes sense of what can be a very confusing topic. We have a client that sells High Deductible Health Plans (www.HSASale.com) and I was reading this to get a better idea of his business. It helped!
Pocket Idiot's Guide to health savings Accounts.......2006-06-03
What a breath of fresh Air! A book written in English that we can all understand.Concise and well laid out with easy to follow subjects throughout the book as well as informative examples. Highly reccomend! You will not be sorry you purchased and will know more than 99% of the people you talk to about HSA accounts and their relevance to our health care system.
New HSA Owner.......2006-05-09
This is a must read for anybody contemplating an HSA! I found the author made this complicated and sometimes confusing insurance product easy to understand.
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You Buy, You Die, It Pays!
Dr. Barry Kaye; CLU
Manufacturer: FHA Press
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ASIN: 1930286015
Release Date: 2006-12-01 |
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In this book, Barry Kaye presents his 45 years of experience in the life insurance industry in a straight-forward, easy to read approach. Over this time, he has observed that there are certain right and wrong approaches to purchasing the correct coverage to optimize your estate at death. He points out how mistakes are made by some professionals that insist on holding fast to certain antiquated biases and misconceptions toward life insurance. The 30 concepts presented in this book are broken down into six major approaches and 24 secondary ideas that should make a major difference to the bottom line. Many of the concepts include a right and wrong approach that compares conventional wisdom against Barry Kaye s innovative approaches to creating, preserving and optimizing wealth. You will see for yourself how the leverage and flexibility of life insurance might be used to enhance what you leave to your favorite charities and heirs. Barry Kaye has authored eight books including: Save A Fortune On Your Life Insurance, Save A Fortune On Your Estate Taxes, Die Rich and Tax Free, Live Rich, The Investment Alternative and Die Rich 2. He is a nationally sought after speaker and has conducted thousands of public seminars, sharing information that has helped some of America s wealthiest families save millions on estate taxes and optimize what they leave to their heirs and favorite charities.
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- Lots of guts and glory for little pay
- First Of A Kind
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The Glory Game
Hunter Davies
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
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ASIN: 0809293323 |
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The classic inside view of soccer
Hailed as probably the best book about soccer ever written, The Glory Game gives a unique insight into the inner workings of a major-league soccer club. Author Hunter Davies was allowed unparalleled access to the inner sanctum of a top professional soccer team, the Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs), and his pen spared nothing and no one. This 30th-anniversary edition will appeal to new and enthusiastic audiences.
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Lots of guts and glory for little pay.......2003-05-21
For the football fan, this is a classic work. Perhaps most compelling is the time capsule it represents, back to a simpler age for football, before advertising, television, marketing and crass commercialism took hold. The book is now thirty years old. Updated in the late 1990s Davies adds information on the team members, twenty-five years after they won their national cup. The reader can only marvel at how much things have changed in world football since this book emerged. Back then, an apprentice might earn [very]little...Even though that amount went a lot further back then, it was a pittance. Players were recruited at about age 13 from local teams. The glory, not the cash, earned their attention. Training consisted of some jogging, minimal weight training and drills in the basics. It was a pretty simple, and certainly unglamorous routine, ten months of the year. Medical care seemed primitive, some based more on superstition than science. Veterans would decry the lack of guts from some of the players, and the absence of grounding in the key, basic skills, e.g., ball trapping. But what a life it was! From the players' bios, it is clear that the alternative would have been to work the mines, unload ships, or collect garbage. Football was a joy! And even then, the players from the middle of the century would probably think those of the 1970s had it pretty soft.
Chapters cover several players, the manager, the early version of English hooligans, key games, a doting, almost sinister fan, and the club directors, in relatively brief, insightful and not-too-critical prose. The appendices include a study of the team's set plays and shows with statistics for the year how critical these 'dead ball' moves were to the success of the team. Brief surveys of player attitudes, life history, family, and hobbies offer a superficial profile of the club. We catch a glimpse of lives, from dads changing nappies to a manager's busy schedule, yet I felt more empty at the end than moved.
Tim Parks and Joe McGuinness have made more recent, intensive attempts to cover this same ground: a year with an Italian football team, up close and personal. A modern version of 'Glory game', featuring Man United (see, for instance, "Manchester Unlimited"), would offer stark contrasts, like Michael Lewis' recent book on American baseball.
First Of A Kind.......2003-04-16
The Glory Game was published in 1972. It has, as the author notes in his introduction to the 1999 edition, been in print every since. The book tells the story of the 1971-72 season of the English football team the Tottenham Hot Spur Football Club. This is the prototype of many such team stories that have followed. The book succeeds because it tells the story of not only a team in the collective sense but of the individuals that made it.It also presents to the present day fan of the cash saturated Premier League a study of almost sociological precision of an era in English football which, although only thirty years in the past, is now "your father and granfather's football."The players are fairly and insightfully treated. The book is in sum their stories and the stories of their competitions. The book is complete with appendices of team plays,player's attitudes, qualities and what the players did upon retirement.The treatment of the players and coaches is far from dull or superficial.In fact the revealing nature of the book created quite a contrversy when it was published. Its insights are enjoyable reading and tell a true team story.
Average customer rating:
- Surprisingly Poor
- Nobody explains money like Edie Milligan
- Wow! Solid Information, presented very well.
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Pocket Idiot's Guide to Mortgages (The Pocket Idiot's Guide)
CFP, CLU, AFC, Edie Milligan Driskill , and Jamie Sutton
Manufacturer: Alpha
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ASIN: 1592571255
Release Date: 2003-09-02 |
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Quick facts on everything from a first loan to a strategic refinance.
This helpful guide reveals everything home owners and soon-to-be homeowners need to know in order to get the best deal. Coverage includes:
Determining how much to spend
The application process and overcoming qualification hurdles
Finding the right type of loan and choosing a lender
Closing day considerations
When and how to refinance to save money
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Surprisingly Poor.......2005-03-27
I generally like the Idiot's Guide series, but this book is suprisingly poorly written. My first objection is just a pet peeve. The authors have that strange affectation you hear sometimes from people tryin' to fancy up their vocabulary: they use the word "monies" all the time when they mean "money". Granted, that's just me, but the repeated use of a gimmicky word made the whole book feel sort of cheesy.
My other complaints are substantive. The book is really designed for folks with bad credit or other "qualification hurdles". There's a whole chapter on "If You Don't Fit the Mold", i.e., if you don't qualify for ordinary mortgages and have to be a bit more creative. Plus this same material is repeated in most of the other chapters as well. Fair enough, I'm sure lots of folks out there have credit "hurdles" and need some good advice. But by reaching for this niche market, the authors have made a choice to include 20 or 30 pages that aren't useful to the majority of home-buyers who do Fit the Mold. I riffed through all this extraneous material but was disappointed to find there simply wasn't much of use to me.
When I was looking for real, concrete tips, I found little more than bland generalizations. With the complicated and articulated mortgage market these days, it would be great to get some advice on how to identify, solicit, and sift through all the dozens or hundreds of mortgage lenders out there. Instead, Chapter 2 merely tells me that there are several types of lenders out there (um, yes, I could tell that by the several types of spam that hit my e-mail account every day), and that I should interview lenders before selecting one. Well, that's not real helpful.
The book feels hastily-written. The authors seem competent. They eagerly explain all about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and try, in their haphazard way, to describe some of the details of the loan process. But at the end of the book, I still have dozens of unanswered questions about my own case.
My recommendation: take a pass on this book. A better and more informative buy is Ilyce Glink's "100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask". Glink provides more comprehensive, more recent, and more useful information, as well as websites and other background materials.
Nobody explains money like Edie Milligan.......2003-10-10
Absolutely noone explains money issues like Edie Milligan. This book explains everything you ever wanted to know, plus a lot of things you never knew you didn't know.
Wow! Solid Information, presented very well........2003-09-14
Anyone new to the mortgage field must have this book. I'm not new, but I would categorize myself as in the early stage of my mortgage career and this book explained a lot that I didn't know. I especially like the sections that explain the Truth-In-Lending Statement, the Good Faith Estimate and the HUD-1.
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- Excellent introduction to credit repair but outdated
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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Repairing your Credit (The Pocket Idiot's Guide)
CFP, CLU, AFC, Edie Milligan Driskill
Manufacturer: Alpha
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ASIN: 1592573045
Release Date: 2004-12-07 |
Book Description
<B>When bad credit happens to good people.</B>
Once someone's personal financial credit goes bad, it can be a difficult process to bring it back into good standing. This guide shows consumers how to repair their credit, increase their credit score, and avoid falling victim to the instant credit repair industry and its fraudulent claims and scams. <BR><BR> Research by the Federal Reserve indicates that household debt and personal bankruptcy filings are at record high levels<BR> Only book on the shelves to include coverage of the The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act, which goes into effect 12/1/2004<BR> Author has been featured in Money, Family Circle, and Women's Day, and has appeared on CNBC and CNN<BR>
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Excellent introduction to credit repair but outdated.......2006-12-15
This is an excellent introduction to credit repair but the information is highly condensed. The website recommendation for secured credit cards is out of date, as the website cited does not list any such cards. A great book if you have little time to study the subject in depth. It covers most of the basics of credit and getting out of debt.
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- Not for the average IRA owner
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Ultimate IRA Resource
J.D., LL.M., CLU William J. Wagner
Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company
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ASIN: 0872186989 |
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Not for the average IRA owner.......2007-02-15
If you are new to IRAs, this book is not the one for you. A rather dry read and I wish I had a nickel for every "generally" or "in general" used. If you are trying to learn about IRAs, seek another book. If you already know IRAs and want a peek at the lengthy loopholes and twists in using them, this might be the book. Many references to IRS rules.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mortgages, 2nd Edition (Complete Idiot's Guide to)
Jamie Sutton , and CFP, CLU, AFC, Edie Milligan Driskill
Manufacturer: Alpha
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ASIN: 1592575412 |
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<B>It pays to be in the know about mortgages.</B>
An expanded and revised version of The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Mortgages, this essential volume covers everything homebuyers and re-financers need to know. Coverage includes an overview of the application process, overcoming qualification hurdles, finding the right type of loan, when and how to refinance to save money, and much more.<BR> Contains the forms readers need as they move through the mortgage process, including a sample application, pre-qualification forms, re-finance worksheets, and mortgage payment and amortization tables<BR> Expanded, larger-format edition<BR> Features all the new, creative mortgage programs that have become popular
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With people living and working longer, adequate long-term care coverage is increasingly essential for young and old alike. Now, discover the latest strategies for structuring - and selling - long-term care policies from noted industry veteran, Nancy P. Morith. Drawing on more than a decade of experience selling long-term care insurance, Morith's comprehensive 2-hour workshop delivers proven, down-to-earth strategies that are also easy to implement. Her thorough review includes: Persuasive arguments to convince clients of the need for long-term care coverage; Goals & financing methods for long-term care; Types, benefits, and options of long-term care coverage, plus elimination periods, inflation protection, and much more! Morith covers an array of issues to keep in mind when assessing client needs -- and researching policies to meet those needs. Equally important, she shows how long-term care coverage is evolving and the new policy trends anticipated in the future. Her handy tips, based on years of selling experience, make this presentation a must for all financial professionals and long-term care specialists.
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The 1,2,3 to Landing A Job!: The 3 Steps to Getting Job Offers!
Griff Stevens BS MBA CLU FLMI ARA
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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ASIN: 0595414613 |
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If you're starting a job search, or would like to have the best book at your finger tips should you find yourself unemployed-this is the book you want to read and own! From how to build your resume', to building confidence in interviewing, to how to make things happen in the market, this book concisely tells you how to get it done! How to land the job you want!</p>
Griff's simple 3-step method of developing the resume', preparing for interviewing, and approaching the market, will not only lead you easily through the process, but will leave you more confident in job-hunting than you would have ever imagined you'd become.</p>
In the epilogue, Griff shares a very personal story that inspired him to confidence and success he never realized was within him.</p>
Griff's confident his book will not only help you develop the skills necessary to become a very effective job-hunter, but he also sincerely believes these new skills will ignite in you the ability and drive to achieve success in whatever endeavor you take on.</p>
"The 1,2,3 To Landing a Job" is a must read for anyone wishing to start and keep a successful career on track!</p>
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