Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Facebook in Your Mutual Fund? It Could Be Soon
By Mark JewellFacebook stock is expected to begin trading publicly on May 18. The key question: Can Facebook parlay its vast legions of users into huge profits, as Google did following its 2004 initial public offering?
May 14, 2012
Sun Life: More than One-Third of Workers Decline DI Coverage from EmployersThe report reveals that more than one-third (38%) of workers whose employers offered them the option to pay for group long-term disability income insurance declined to buy it.
May 14, 2012
The Hartford: Guaranteed Income Options Pique Interest of Younger WorkersThe Hartford has found that American workers are increasingly valuing guaranteed income in retirement with younger workers markedly more attracted to such options than their older counterparts. The results were announced in The Hartfords Guaranteed Retirement Income study.
May 14, 2012
MetLife, Fed, Treasury Set to Testify on SIFI in Post-JPMorgan Loss ClimateThe Volcker Rule may be a subject not only for banks, in light of JPMorgan trading losses, but also for insurance representatives before the House subcommittee.
May 14, 2012
MetLife, Fed, Treasury Set to Testify on SIFI in Post-JPMorgan Loss ClimateThe Volcker Rule may be a subject not only for banks, in light of JPMorgan trading losses, but also for insurance representatives before the House subcommittee.
May 14, 2012
Q&A on Surprise $2B Trading Loss at JPMorganHeres a primer on what happened at the bank and the possible fallout.
May 11, 2012
Youth Will Be ServedKeep an eye out for two stories about highly motivated young people who are making a big impact in the life insurance industry right out of the gate.
May 11, 2012
FDIC Head Outlines Strategy for Seizing FirmsThe next time a big bank or financial firm fails, regulators hope to avoid a major blow to the economy by seizing the firm's parent company while allowing its healthy subsidiaries to continue operations, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says.