Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
10 sales resolutions for 2013
By Dan HudsonCommit to these sales-model improvements to make this year your best ever.
January 18, 2013
GOP leader: House to vote on debt limit increaseFull details arent settled yet, but the measure would give the government about three more months of borrowing authority.
January 18, 2013
Self-directed IRAs & real estate, part 1Agent M. D. Anderson sits down with editor Daniel Williams to talk about funding IRAs with real estate. Read on to see if youre missing the boat.
January 18, 2013
Society of Actuaries examines middle marketLife insurance ownership in general is at an all-time low, and among the highly underserved and underinsured middle market, it is even lower.
January 18, 2013
LIMRA: 70% of Americans fail life insurance IQ testLack of understanding about why protection is needed and how the products work is pervasive.
January 18, 2013
RIAs, MFOs rated most appealing in high net marketsSurvey respondents ranked the nine distribution channels most appealing for asset managers to address the needs of high net worth investors.
January 18, 2013
Tiburon forecast: fee-based advisors' AUM to rocket to $5.2 trillion by 2017The study projects that the number of fee-based financial advisors will reach 19,009 by 2016, up 20% since 2011; and that the number of partners at fee-based financial advisors will reach 51,878 by 2016, up 20% since 2011
January 18, 2013
CDC: More deaths may be flu deathsFlu activity was widespread in all jurisdictions reporting but Hawaii, Tennessee, the District of Columbia and Guam.