Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Guardian research finds voluntary benefits valuable to employees
By Michael K. StanleyEmployees feel that their workplace plays a larger and more important role in their personal finances compared with five years ago, according to a new Guardian study.
November 27, 2012
Obama to appeal to public on fiscal cliffPresident Barack Obama will meet with small business owners and middle-class families this week, as he makes a case for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff.
November 27, 2012
When Larry Hagman met the financial services industryThe late actor who played J.R. Ewing on Dallas has a lesser-known role: aggrieved broker-dealer client.
November 27, 2012
An annuity good for consumers…and carriersFeatures available on todays fixed indexed annuities can give consumers the growth and safety they crave while allowing insurers to survive a low interest rate environment.
November 26, 2012
3 more social-media ailments (and their cures)Trouble in cyberspace? Heres your prescription for overcoming it.
November 26, 2012
Underinsurance a problem in Canada, tooMost parents have life insurance, but more than half don't think they have an adequate amount, recent poll says.
November 26, 2012
AIG explores $500 million joint venture with Chinese insurersAs AIG re-establishes itself, it returns to its roots with a hefty investment in Asian markets.
November 26, 2012
Forget the cliff, 3.8% PPACA tax is comingWith all the buzz around the Bush tax cuts that are set to expire in 2013, what tends to get overlooked is a tax that will definitely take effect in the new year: the 3.8 percent tax on investment income.