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Glenn Cooke

Founder

The Term Guy aka Glenn Cooke has been providing online life insurance services for over 20 years. As a life insurance advocate, he has been featured in numerous national newspapers, radio & TV stations. Independent Canadian financial blogs and industry periodicals thanked him in books written by Canadian financial celebrities such as Gail Vax-Oxlade and Preet Banerjee.

December 2018: Popular financial industry podcaster interviews Glenn Cooke on a variety of life insurance subjects.

August 2016: This industry magazine shines a spotlight on Glenn Cooke and his challenges as he breaks new ground with the life insurance companies.

February 2016: Glenn is invited to do two poplar AMA’s (Ask Me Anything) in the sales section discussing online sales, and in the personal finance Canada section on life insurance for consumers.

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January 2016: The Globe and Mail quotes Glenn on the subject of critical illness insurance.

November 2015: In the November edition of the magazine, Glenn Cooke is referenced on how much life insurance consumers should have.

September 2015: The U.S.’s premium insurance news magazine quotes Glenn Cooke in their annual article on technology and insurance.

September 2015: CBC Radio interviews Glenn Cooke on the subject of Critical Illness insurance and recent marketing efforts by some life insurance companies.

August 2014: Alberta PrimeTime TV interviews Glenn Cooke on critical illness insurance.

August 17, 2014: Glenn Cooke is quoted extensively on some of the pitfalls of critical illness insurance.

September 2014: Canadian Money Saver magazine publishes Glenn’s article on pitfalls of no medical exam life insurance. Glenn even made the cover of the magazine!

Insurance industry journal publishes an article by Glenn Cooke on how to sell life insurance online.

April 2014: Toronto Star journalist Sheryl Smolkin’s article on the pitfalls of critical illness insurance quotes Glenn Cooke.

March 11, 2014: Rob Carrick of the Globe and Mail mentions an article on critical illness insurance written by Glenn Cooke.

January 14, 2014: Preet Banerjee, Globe and Mail columnist and star of TV show Million Dollar Neighbourhood quotes Glenn Cooke numerous times in his new book “Stop Over Thinking Your Money!”.

Glenn Cooke answers the question “how much life insurance?”.

July 2, 2013: James Daw points to a life expectancy calculator developed by Glenn Cooke. An excellent article, James points out that a life expectancy calculator doesn’t just show you your ‘average’ life expectancy, but also notes that 50% of people will live past that average.

March 18, 2013: Glenn was interviewed by Gail Vaz-Oxlade on the controversial subject of life insurance on children.

December 2012: This article quotes Glen Cooke extensively as it discusses the pricing of the much-maligned whole life, showing that recent changes have made it more competitive.

July 2012: Gail Vax Oxlade interviews Glenn Cooke live about life insurance on her radio show.

September 1, 2012: Larry MacDonald interviews Glenn Cooke about his investing approach based on research rather than sales hype.

Selltermlife.com, a resource for American insurance brokers, interviews Glenn Cooke on how he offers life insurance to consumers through his website and over the internet.

October 2011: CBC News publishes an article on Disability Insurance, quoting Glenn Cooke on alternative options to group employee benefits.

May 2011: YourMoney.ca (Sympatico Finance) quotes Glenn in an article title “Six things you need to know about life insurance, and references our calculators.

Spring 2011: Canadian Finance Blog publishes an article by Glenn Cooke with tips on how to save money on life insurance.

December 2010: MoneySense magazine publishes “Run for your Life” that quotes Glenn extensively. The article discusses the domino effect where one company raises their rates and others follow shortly, and how this is expected to impact permanent insurance premiums in late 2010 into 2011.

December 2010: 1310 News Radio Ottawa interview Glenn Cooke for his comments on Canadians not buying enough life insurance.

Fall 2010: Today’s Parent magazine quotes Glenn Cooke on an article on financial review for Canadian families.

September 8, 2011: Popular online financial journal publishes an article by Glenn Cooke titled “Is your life insurance policy about to implode?”. The article discusses how the recent stock market crash has caused problems with many Canadian’s life insurance policies.

September 8, 2010: Gail Vaz Oxlade (star of TV shows ‘Til Debt do Us Part and Prince$) publishes a three part series on life insurance authored by Glenn Cooke. The articles provided an easy to understand primer on life insurance needs for Canadian families with dependants.

February 23, 2010: CBC.ca references a mortality calculator created by Glenn Cooke in an article on Canadian life expectancy. Our life expectancy calculator contains historical data going back to 1801 and was developed with the assistance of an actuary.