Annuities
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Pension Risk Transfer Volume Blows Past Forecasts
By Allison BellA MetLife executive predicted in June that employers could shift $20 billion in risk.
March 15, 2019
Genworth Has Canada ProblemsOne concern about the China Oceanwide-Genworth deal in Ottawa is customer data security.
March 14, 2019
State Legislators May Write a Short-Term Health ModelThe sales standards fight is also on the agenda for NCOIL's meeting in Nashville.
March 14, 2019
Academics Wary of FSOC's New Systemic Risk PlanFinancial services companies want regulators to focus on problem activities. Jeremy Kress says that won't work.
March 14, 2019
What Reinsurers Are Talking About NowThe life insurers' insurers worked to land whales at the ReFocus 2019 conference.
March 13, 2019
Here's How CLOs Are Really Surprising Investors: KBRAThe rating agency says worries about what could happen have distracted some observers from what is happening.
March 13, 2019
Nippon Life Uses Derivatives to Fight Low YieldsA major Principal Financial investor now hedges about 60% of its investments.
March 13, 2019
Regulators May Build Methuselah Risk into RBC RatiosActuary is looking at how to indicate what longevity risk is doing to an insurer's finances.