Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Principal survey: workers foresee improving economy
By Warren S. HerschThe report reveals that more than four in 10 workers (43 percent) think the economy will take a turn for the better in 2013, up from 32 percent during the last quarter.
January 30, 2013
New study questions the usefulness of tax preferences in retirement plansThe study results indicate that a tax incentive had little or no effect on total savings of Danish workers, though the incentive did shift how those impacted by the changes in tax incentives chose to save.
January 30, 2013
Genworth to suspend multi-life LTCI salesThe company will continue to sell individual and large group LTCI products.
January 30, 2013
StanCorp sees low rates continuingThe disability insurer anticipates "low single-digit" drop in group insurance premiums.
January 30, 2013
Genworth to suspend multi-life LTCI salesThe company will continue to sell individual and large group LTCI products.
January 30, 2013
StanCorp sees low rates continuingThe disability insurer anticipates "low single-digit" drop in group insurance premiums.
January 30, 2013
Back to basics for variable annuitiesJefferson Nationals Mitch Caplan says it may be time for variable annuities to revert back to their original purpose as tax-deferred saving vehicles.
January 30, 2013
Moody's 2013 global outlook for insurers a negativeMoody's warns life insurers' insulation from the effects of historically low interest rates is short-lived.