Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
LIMRA's Kerzner Weighs In on the State of the Industry
By Michael K. StanleyLIMRA president and CEO Robert Kerzner offers a state of the union for the life insurance industry, noting high levels of confidence among policyholders and huge opportunities to reach the uninsured.
April 24, 2012
Targeting Younger Baby Boomers: The Future of Retirement PlanningForget the three-legged stool of retirement: Younger boomer clients need a scaffold-like approach to retirement income.
April 24, 2012
Double Duty: Make Your Documents Work Twice as HardI want to show you how to make your required documentation work overtime--for you and your clients.
April 24, 2012
Free J.P. Morgan Retirement Guide Helps Advisors Talk to ClientsThe J.P. Morgan Funds Guide to Retirement provides talking points for advisors in chart or graph format as they discuss issues with clients
April 24, 2012
A Cure for Inflation? Fixed Indexed Annuities.The price of just about everything seems to keep creeping upand its hurting your clients investments. Fixed or fixed indexed annuities might be able to help.
April 24, 2012
Former Wal-Mart Exec Leaves MetLife BoardEduardo Castro-Wright, former head of Wal-Mart de Mexico, is stepping down for "personal reasons."
April 24, 2012
Scrounging for DollarsThe multi-state settlement with MetLife of its unclaimed property practices, coupled with an announcement that the settlement could include the return of perhaps $700 million either to policy beneficiaries or to the states, raises more questions than it answers.
April 24, 2012
MetLife’s Landmark Unclaimed Property Settlement Could Approach $700 MillionThe MetLife Insurance Cos. multi-agency agreement on unpaid life and annuity policies and the reporting of unclaimed property is a landmark agreement, according to NAIC President and Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty.