Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Want to Reach Young People? Embrace Social Media
By Marvin Feldman, CLU, ChFC, RFCBirths are up, with the United States expected to welcome 4 million babies this year. If you want to do business with those kiddos, or their parents, you need to be online.
May 17, 2012
Facebook: "Dislike"Is Facebook the next Apple or Google? Warren Buffett doesn't think so.
May 17, 2012
Deloitte Survey: Only About Half of Life Policyholders Satisfied with Agent AdviceIn learning about life insurance benefits, coverage needs, options and costs among current buyers, the report finds that respondents were most satisfied reviewing their employee benefits package (67%), followed by speaking with an insurance agent (59%) and reviewing information packages from an insurance agent.
May 17, 2012
Deloitte Survey: Only About Half of Life Policyholders Satisfied with Agent AdviceIn learning about life insurance benefits, coverage needs, options and costs among current buyers, the report finds that respondents were most satisfied reviewing their employee benefits package (67%), followed by speaking with an insurance agent (59%) and reviewing information packages from an insurance agent.
May 17, 2012
Aviva Survey Links Women’s Stress Level to Their Financial Situation and HealthA strong relationship exists between womens level of stress, how they feel about their financial situation and their health, according to new research.
May 17, 2012
FIO, Congress Urged to Take Greater Roles to Boost Industry's Trade GloballyLawmakers, industry and government officials pushed for supervisory harmony and a fuller role by the Federal Insurance Office to bring about better international competitiveness for the U.S. insurance industry in a hearing May 17 before a House Financial Services Committee panel.
May 17, 2012
The Curse of the Rogue French Trader (The Daily Beast)The French put a strong emphasis on mathematics, which makes them very good at understanding derivatives.
May 17, 2012
What Did JPMorgan Execs Know and When Did They Know It? (ProPublica)Timeline of losses could indicate if any existing laws were broken, but no one seems to be looking into it.