Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
How a Life/LTC Combo Could Save Your Client's Retirement
By Philip E. HarrimanWith a life insurance/long-term care insurance hybrid, your client will have LTC coverage should he need it and a death benefit if he doesn't.
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.
April 24, 2012
Cerulli: Emerging Markets, Commodities Top New ETF Product PlansAccording to the survey, U.S. equity, international (excluding emerging markets) equity account for the new product plans of, respectively, 53% and 47% of ETF sponsors. U.S. taxable bonds, currency and other alternatives (e.g., alternative allocation, managed futures) make up the new product plans of one-third ETS sponsors.
April 24, 2012
LIMRA: Three-Quarters of Americans Have Confidence in Life Insurance CompaniesAccording to the survey, 8 in 10 consumers who have had a positive experience with life insurance say the life insurance industry plays a critical role following the death of a loved one. The study also reveals that nearly two-thirds of Americans say that life insurance give people peace of...