Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
MetLife to challenge SIFI designation
By Arthur D. PostalThe FSOC should make the final affirmation of the decision to designate MetLife as SIFI in approximately 90 days.
October 03, 2014
Are life settlements bad for insurance companies?Insurers should embrace life settlements by endorsing education and training on the products for their producers.
October 03, 2014
Assets under management of ETFs surpass $2.5 trillionAUM of global exchange-traded funds has been on an upward trajectory over the past four years.
October 03, 2014
6 celebrity estate planning lessons from 2014Take a look at these six celebrities estate plans from 2014 and see who prepared well and who could have planned better.
October 03, 2014
10 least tax-friendly states for retireesIf your clients are looking for ways to cut expenses in retirement, stay away from these 10 states, where taxes are especially unkind to retirees.
October 03, 2014
Most private sector workers have access to a retirement planAmong all private-sector wage and salary workers, 53 percent work for an employer that sponsors a retirement plan.
October 03, 2014
Dealing with client vs. advisor power playsPower plays erupt in client versus advisor clashes or, more typically, subtle but strong undertows, which can drown a meeting process.
October 03, 2014
The insanity in indexed annuity sales growthThe conservation of principal and the potential for increasing lifetime income means that indexed annuities still make sense.