Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
IRAs: The Forgotten Retirement Account (Huffington Post)
By Staff WriterContributions to IRAs have dropped off recently thanks to the recession and savers choosing other options.
March 08, 2012
Hold the Applause: Fund Managers Look a Lot Smarter This Year, but… (Wall Street Journal)Stock-fund managers are off to a great start this year, but it's not necessarily because of anything they're doing.
March 08, 2012
Discount Channel for Managed Account Assets Pegged at $169 Billion at Year-End 2011The report disclosed that the discount channel, also known as the direct channel, accounted for 7.1% of the overall managed accounts industry, or $169 billion in assets, in the fourth quarter of 2011.
March 08, 2012
Pru: Pool Multiple Employer Small Plans to Cover GapPrudential Retirements Jamie Kalamarides feels that multiple small employer plans could help close the gap for more than 78 million employees in the U.S. that do not have a retirement plan.
March 08, 2012
Week in Pictures | March 9, 2012Mitt Romney inches closer to becoming the Republican Presidential Nominee after close races on Super Tuesday, AIG sells its stake in AIA while it attempts to buy stock back from the Treasury and has the contraception saga finally come to an end? This and more in this week's Week in...
March 07, 2012
Stretch IRAs Under Fire...BrieflyRetirement industry officials have removed a provision in Senate legislation (S.1813, the Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act) that would reduce the value of inherited IRAs. And they have done so as quietly as the provision was introduced.
March 07, 2012
Put 'Em Up: Why All the Discord and Confusion over the MLR at the NAIC?After a series of unusual decisions and signs of infighting, some some are left to wonder if the NAIC is showing the stress fractures that are bound to result when a group dedicated to state insurance regulation finds itself in an era of relentlessly encroaching federal oversight.
March 07, 2012
Praeger Goes to Bat for Elderly Patients over LTC CoverageAfter a Kansas City, Mo., NBC affiliate highlighted the struggle of a patients family and regulators to battle for long-term care insurance coverage after buying a policy, the head of the health committee at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has vowed stronger regulation for those LTC insurers that deny...