Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
The Estate Plan: IRA Rollovers
By Calvin GoetzSidestep tax traps. If a 401(k) rollover is not done properly, your client could be in for a big surprise.
March 31, 2012
A simple way to explain a life insurance legacyAny senior can pass along a gift to their heirs with proper planning.
March 31, 2012
Lawsky Hopes to Make Retained Asset Accounts a National IssueNew York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky said he hopes that his departments focus on retained asset accounts (RAAs) will become a national standard, even though he said it will take some time for the industry to assimilate what New York has recently required.
March 31, 2012
Hartford to Exit Life BusinessThe Hartford Insurance Group is exiting its life business in order to concentrate on its stronger property and casualty and casualty operations, it said in a March 21 announcement.
March 31, 2012
Hispanics in InsuranceLatinos will make up a third of the U.S. population by 2050. Carriers are recruiting agents now to serve that market.
March 31, 2012
Life Settlement’s PR SaviorLast month, I visited the vaunted Harvard Club to attend the Life Insurance Settlement Associations (LISA) 2nd Annual Institutional Investor Conference. It struck me as mildly incongruous that a conference based on such a relatively new financial instrument would be held in such a historic building, but that was just...
March 31, 2012
Q&A with Henry VazquezIf advisors want to reach this growing demographic, they have to gain their confidence first says Henry Vazquez.
March 31, 2012
Marketing to the Hispanic CommunityReaching Latino prospects requires an insight into their lives that can only be gotten by person-to-person meetings.