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WEB SITES
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www.nationalunderwriter.com
www.aicpa.org
American Institute Of Certified
Public Accountants. Includes the online version of the Journal of
Accountancy with archives dating
back to January 1997 (omits some sections of the printed version for
reasons relating to copyrights
or timeliness).
www.benefitslink.com
Internet links to information
and services for benefit plans. Check out Q&A Columns, Search Engine, and
Source Documents. A lot of “good
stuff.”
www.insweb.com/learningcenter/glossary
Need to look up an insurance or
other term? This site offers eight different glossaries, including life
insurance terms, health
insurance terms, and legal terms (provided by BISYS Education Services, Inc.).
www.fidelity.com
A well designed and
easy-to-navigate site, containing concise and helpful information. Check out the
Retirement & Guidance tab,
it has something for everyone, surviving spouses, inheritors and executors.
Lots of helpful calculators
everywhere.
www.iii.org
A very attractive site
maintained by the Insurance Information Institute. Not only does it look good, it is
also highly functional and
loaded with useful information.
www.leadfusion.com/products/tools/toolmenu.asp
These public use calculators
cover a wide range of subjects, to include life insurance, retirement planning,
IRAs, savings, and budgeting. In
particular, note the newly added Spanish language calculators.
Take the time to register, its
worth it.
www.investorguide.com
There is a lot here. Much of it
relates to investment quotes, charts etc. Go to the University tab and you
will find material on both
investing and personal finance. Well done!
www.life-line.org
The Life and Health Insurance
Foundation for Education (LIFE). Offers a wide range of well-developed
insurance topics. Recommend for
both advisors and their clients.
www.pgdc.com
Contains sales, marketing and
technical resource materials for planned giving. First, go to How To Explore.
www.smartmoney.com
A very enriched web site. Click
on the Tools tab or the Personal Finance tab for easy-to-understand
explanations of income tax and
retirement planning concepts. Many screens contain quickie “what if”
calculators. Click on SmartMoney
Magazine tab for access to Archive dating back to 2000.
www.taxanalysts.com
Tax Analysts is a nonprofit
organization. First click on Tax History Project. Then explore the Tax History
Museum, the Image Gallery, or
the Presidential Tax Return Gallery. For fun and profit this remains a
“very cool”
site.
www.taxsites.com
Continues to be an absolutely
first class job of how a “link site” should work. No frills, just plain efficiency,
well organized, current and
incredibly enriched. If you go here, plan to spend more than a little
time exploring all the
links.
www.ultimateinsurancelinks.com
This site is essentially a data
base with a vast array of links. Although heavy with property and casualty
links, you will find many others. There is even a link to
163½ Actuarial Jokes (find it by searching
for
“actuarial jokes,” or just go to
http://users.aol.com/fcas/jokes.html )!
Note: These sites were last accessed on January 29, 2006. Have
you discovered a web site that should be
included in the next edition of Field Guide To Estate Planning,
Business Planning, & Employee
Benefits?
If so, please e-mail your nominations
to DonCady@efieldguide.com.
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