Tools, Resources and Useful Links
Online Tools
Term Life Insurance Analyzer
This tool, available online at Kanetix.ca, is designed to help you find out which term life product is best for you. The Term Life Insurance Analyzer will assess your needs and let you know the product that is most commonly recommended for people in your same situation.
Life Insurance Needs Calculator
Also available online at Kanetix.ca, this tool is designed to help you calculate how much term life insurance you'll need in order to ensure your family is covered in the event of your death.
Life and Health Insurance Information
What is critical illness insurance?
What's considered a critical illness?
Why is critical illness insurance so popular?
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Consumer information from Manulife Financial about mortgage insurance and term insurance.
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Insurance companies KTX Financial brokers represent
BMO Life Assurance Company
AXA Assurances
Canada Life
Desjardins Financial
Equitable Life Insurance of Canada
IA Pacific
Manulife Financial
Maritime Life Insurance Company
RBC Insurance
Transamerica Life Insurance
Unity Life
Insurance industry links
A.M. Best
A.M. Best is a worldwide insurance rating and information agency with a variety of services and resources available to you online including tips, guides and glossaries.
Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Inc.
The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) site includes an online consumer assistance centre and informative industry and product information.
Centre for the Financial Services OmbudsNetwork
Provides access to high-quality complaint resolution services for financial consumers in Canada
Assuris
Assuris protects Canadian life insurance policyholders against loss of benefits due to the financial failure of a Member Company.
Insurance-Journal.ca
An online journal covering current insurance industry topics with archives of past publications.
KTX Financial Client Updates
Fall 2006 KTX Financial Client Update
Spring 2006 KTX Financial Client Update
Winter 2005 KTX Financial Client Update
Summer 2005 KTX Financial Client Update
Spring 2005 KTX Financial Client Update
Newsletters
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Insight Into Financial Planning - Summer 2007
Inside this issue:
- When to review your life insurance
- Insuring your retirement
- Tax Tip
Insight Into Financial Planning - Spring 2007
Inside this issue:
- Thinking "Buy Term and Invest the Difference"...Think Again!
- How to emphasize the "Success" in Business Succession"
- Tax Tip
Insight Into Financial Planning - Winter 2006/2007
Inside this issue:
- Create a Will and appoint a willing executor
- Critical Illness Insurance...An Introduction
- Tax Tip
Insight Into Financial Planning - Fall 2006
Inside this issue:
- Providing for your beneficiaries
- Protecting the Key Employee
- Tax Tip
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