Annuities
Annuity news and analysis, including coverage of annuity market regulatory, compliance and legislative issues.
FA Database Firm Adds Customers
By Staff WriterBeacon Research Inc. has signed 3 customers.The new customers will be using the Beach AnnuityNexus Sales Support System, a Web-based system that provides access to ...
January 05, 2007
AIG Unit Adds FA OptionAn insurer is expanding access to annuity lifetime withdrawal benefit options.AIG Annuity Insurance Company, Houston, a unit of American International Group Inc., New York, has ...
January 04, 2007
SEC Issues No-Action LettersOfficials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have given their blessing to 2 sets of proposed transactions.Mark Cowan, a senior counsel in the SEC's ...
January 01, 2007
Under the radarThe buzz in the life insurance market is about all the hot new permanent insurance products and the new bells and whistles available to policyholders, from extended death benefit guarantees and return-of-premium features to long term care riders and
January 01, 2007
Built for the futureGreg Hammond and Scott Iles are in for the long haul. They are relatively young for senior advisors - both are 38 years old - but the age factor has not at all hindered their clients' confidence in their abilities. Rather, it has tended to give
January 01, 2007
What determines renewal rates?Regulatory financial requirements mean most of the money in a carrier's investment portfolio is in bonds with very little stuck in stocks, real estate or other investments. But a carrier can alter the quality and average maturity of its bond
January 01, 2007
Lead generatorsLeads. Advisors must have them to survive. They are the lifeblood of any successful business. Without them, advisors have a couple of choices: Spend more time on the golf course or milk their existing book of business for all it's worth - which
January 01, 2007
A new open, a new closeThis is where the greatest similarity exists between my former and current positions. SMA has a very strong sales and marketing focus, bringing readers the best content that advisors can use immediately in sales development. And 2007 looks stronger