Allen Wastler

Allen Wastler

Allen Wastler is a former financial journalist with over 30-years of experience, including time at CNBC, CNN, and Knight-Ridder Newspapers.

VUL insurance policies can offer flexibility, but it's important to understand the risks and commitments.
Having a paid-up policy on hand can offer some advantages, particularly for long-term care.
With financial planning, you have to crawl before you walk. Here are steps you can take today, this week, and this month to get started.
With features like guaranteed lifetime income, annuities can be useful tools for retirement. But it’s important to understand their limitations.
A number of decisions go into activating a guaranteed stream of income in retirement.
Most life insurance policies have provisions for reducing or eliminating payouts when fraud is detected.
Aiding flood victims, getting coal in winter, fighting scams ... MassMutual moments stretch through decades.
Do you know these fun facts from the history of life insurance?
Whole life insurance offers an income tax-free death benefit as well as deferred cash value growth.
Permanent life insurance comes in many different forms. Learn which kind may be right for your needs.
Physical and mental demands can make some professions, like dentistry, ripe for disabling afflictions.
These differences help insulate a mutual from the more volatile influences that affect publicly traded peers.
Here are three ways to move forward on your path to a secure financial future.
Relationships can grow and evolve over time. So can the finances that surround them.
Life insurance salesmen are often depicted in a negative light in films. But is that the reality these days?
When to purchase an annuity depends on your risk tolerance and long-term financial goals.
Go Green Bay? Well, perhaps ... since MassMutual has a connection to a football legend there.
How MassMutual lived up to its mutual promises and helped people during the bitter cold of the Great Depression.