Tag Archives: Whole Life Insurance

Strong Family Connections can Increase Life Expectancy

Posted on: June 28th, 2018 by Peter Choma

“The greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you” – Joyce Meyer

Over a century’s worth of research underscores the link between life expectancy, physical health and strong, healthy family connections. The researchers behind a new meta-analysis conclude family support can increase survival by up to 50 percent. Moreover, exercising or losing excess weight turns out to be less important to physical health than interpersonal social networks.

The researchers analyzed results of studies going back to the early 1900s with a total of 308,849 participants. Strong family connections were found to help improve health and extend life expectancy. This is done primarily by protecting individuals from stressful situations or establishing a standard of healthy living.


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Preserve your wealth

Posted on: May 14th, 2012 by Peter Choma

A strategy to protect the value of your legacy

The Preserve your wealth strategy is designed for individuals who:

  • Have built-up significant wealth in capital assets
  • Have a second property that has appreciated in value
  • Want to keep a vacation home in the family
  • Are worried about leaving their family with a large tax burden
  • Want to leave their full estate to heirs or favourite charity
  • Want to provide funding for final expenses, outstanding debts, legal fees and taxes

The situation

You have worked hard to achieve a degree of financial success. As each year passes and you become financially independent,


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Employment, what’s changed and what remains the same?

Posted on: June 21st, 2011 by Peter Choma

Employment, what’s changed and what remains the same?

Years ago, we could secure employment where you did your job and went home in the

evening to enjoy your family time. Now it’s a crazy life with a frantic pace, which we call progress in a 24/7 world.

Most employers are asking their employees to work longer hours, earning less money and with little assistance. We live in an age where we have instant access to emails, text messaging and abundance of information at the tips of our fingers. One would think with this we would have more time however it has been proven to have caused the opposite. Inundated with so much information, we sometimes find it more difficult to make a decision on the simplest tasks.


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