Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
LIMRA: Individual Life Sales Continue Steady Growth
By Michael K. StanleyIndexed universal life products were the dominant driver behind premium growth in the second quarter according to LIMRA, Windsor, Conn.
August 29, 2012
GOP Backs Estate Tax Repeal, Shift to Defined Contribution Health ProgramsRepublicans promise to end implementation of PPACA and to try to turn Medicaid into a block grant program.
August 28, 2012
Asset Marketing Systems Names New CEOMike Botkin will succeed Les Durland as CEO effective immediately. Durland will continue as CEO of Madison Avenue Securities.
August 28, 2012
Insurers Working to Thwart Federal RegulationInsurance companies and trade groupsboth property and casualty and lifeare pulling out all the stops in an effort to thwart or delay the Federal Reserve Boards efforts to impose consolidated regulation of them through its new authority to oversee thrift holding companies.
August 28, 2012
TD Ameritrade: More Young People than Boomers Contribute Regularly to an IRASignificant majorities of young people, but only a minority of their boomer parents, contribute regularly to individual retirement accounts, according to new research.
August 28, 2012
Middle-Class Military Families Supplement Coverage with Commercial Life ProductsMilitary servicemembers are increasingly relying on commercial life insurance as a supplement to the group coverage that they receive with their government benefits package.
August 28, 2012
Middle-Class Military Families Supplement Coverage with Commercial Life ProductsMilitary servicemembers are increasingly relying on commercial life insurance as a supplement to the group coverage that they receive with their government benefits package.
August 28, 2012
What to tell the kids about your moneyDiscussing financial matters with adult children can be difficult, but it'll help avoid even tougher situations down the road.