Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Pru Capital Backs Solar Energy Project
By Michael K. StanleyPrudential Capital Group has partnered with Banco Santander S.A. and institutional investors to provide financing to Arlington Valley Solar Energy II, a solar power project by LS Power.
March 05, 2012
Top 7 Tips for Advisors to Create Best Retirement Plans (AdvisorOne)An average defined contribution plan isnt good enough, says Russell Investments Ben Jones.
March 05, 2012
AG 38 Set to Pass First Phase Toward New Framework for Setting ReservesAnd so begins Phase 1 of the process of making sense of AG 38 until principal-based reserving is in place.
March 05, 2012
Lawsky Hopes to Make Retained Asset Accounts a National NAIC 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.
March 05, 2012
Producer Roundtable: 2012 Annuity Opportunities, Part 2What makes indexed annuities a good product for some clients? Why are guarantees so hot now? Three top producers weigh in.
March 05, 2012
Life Insurance Scam Uncovered (The Spoof)The Spoof (tagline: "Always there with the funniest spoof headlines") reports findings that one of the UK's leading life insurance providers have been fleecing their customers.
March 05, 2012
Collecting Unpaid Insurance (Wall Street Journal)A 2000 agreement between the U.S. and Germany was supposed to resolve all Holocaust-era claims with European insurers through an international insurance commission, yet tens of thousands of people with claims have gotten nothing, survivors' groups and advocates say.
March 05, 2012
The Cost of Living Longer – Much Longer (SmartMoney)Ever so quietly, insurance-industry number crunchers are tossing aside the old statistical models and life tables.