Annuities
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MIB, Hooper Holmes Add Mortality Risk Tool
By staff WriterTwo underwriting services organizations have developed a program that life insurers can use to detect excess mortality risk in blocks of what appear to be low-risk life policies.
June 02, 2010
Variable Annuity Buyers Opting For Living Benefits: IRIA large majority of United States variable annuity buyers are electing to have living benefit guarantees on their policies.
June 02, 2010
Annuity Facts: Income Riders? Living Benefits? GLWB? GLIB? What's the Difference?Income riders have become one of the most popular benefits ever to be added to fixed deferred annuities.
June 01, 2010
Guaranteed benefits still popular in variable annuities87% - Percentage of consumers who elected guaranteed living benefits in the first quarter of 2010.
June 01, 2010
Never use the "fixed-rate bucket" unlessWhen you put the premium in the fixed bucket it defeats the purpose of the index annuity.
June 01, 2010
Never use the "fixed-rate bucket" unless ...Index annuity buyers from a year ago are seeing 7 percent, 8 percent and even double-digit yields credited to their index annuity
June 01, 2010
Medicare scams multiplyWow, Medicare, it seems, has really become a poster child for bad business practices.
June 01, 2010
School's in: The case for lifelong learningJune always reminds me of Alice Cooper's hit song, "School's Out."