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Posted on 11/22/2025

Supplemental Life Insurance Retirement Plans (SLIRP)

Watch this 2-minute video to learn how a supplemental life insurance retirement plan – or SLIRP – can allow you to get money when you Read More

Posted on 11/13/2025

Is it time to review your estate and succession plans?

Estate planning has taken some major turns due to recent tax law shifts.  If you thought it’s all about tax exemptions, think again.  Even with Read More

Posted on 06/25/2025

Vines View Farms was no more

“Vines View Farms was no more.” Growing up on a farm in a place called Paradise Hill sounds like heaven for anyone, but at 6 Read More

Posted on 06/25/2025

Helping Clients Protect Their Assets Through Trust Planning

Learn how using trusts in business planning can provide clients with informed solutions and help them achieve peace of mind and financial security in this Read More

Posted on 06/20/2025

Life insurance 101: An overview of term life policies versus whole life policies

Most people think of insurance as a basic protection tool – pay a premium, and if the worst happens, the carrier pays out a benefit. Read More

Posted on 04/05/2024

How Life Insurance Made a Difference in Nautilus Member Gib Surles’s Family

“The first life insurance death claim I delivered was to my mom, for a policy I wrote on my dad’s life.” Listen to Nautilus Member Read More

Posted on 10/11/2022

Fiduciary Responsibility Checklist

As a fiduciary, your role may include periodically reviewing your clients’ life insurance policies to make sure the coverage meets the need. This useful tool Read More

Posted on 09/13/2022

Life insurance is a valuable generational wealth-transfer tool.

The first generation builds it, the second manages it, and the third squanders it. This common rags-to-riches-to-rags phenomenon motivates many families to develop a generational Read More

Posted on 03/23/2019

Nautilus Member Braden Draggoo shares how life insurance made a difference for him

“My brothers and I always felt that we had the perfect childhood, until an oncoming vehicle crossed the center line and changed everything.” As a Read More

Posted on 02/19/2019

Tim FitzGerald shares how he impacted his client’s financial security

Year after year, Nautilus Member Agent Tim FitzGerald tried to get his client John covered by life insurance, but John kept putting off writing the Read More

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