Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
If You Plan to Make It to 100, Plan Very Well (Wall Street Journal)
By Staff WriterTo prepare for just four additional years of life span over current projections, someone who's 50 years old now would need an additional $160,000 in retirement savings to maintain a modest lifestyle, experts say.
February 16, 2012
Birth Control Hearing Witness: Can They Make Us Eat Pork?A priest asks how far mandates can go; a rabbi says religion is not just for the synagogue. With video.
February 16, 2012
AARP to Market Genworth LTC Support PackageAARP members can get some services with their membership fee and pay extra for others.
February 16, 2012
Stretch IRAs Under FireRetirement industry officials are gearing up to remove a provision in Senate legislation that would reduce the value of inherited IRAs.
February 16, 2012
PIMCO’s Gross Ponders Life, Death and Recent Fed ActionBond king alerts readers to the costs for a marketplace that still believes cheap and abundant credit is always good.
February 16, 2012
Lowering the FlagNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie is taking flak for lowering the flag to half-mast to mark the death of singer Whitney Houston. At one time, you had to be an assassinated President to merit such an honor. No longer.
February 15, 2012
White House Wants Closer Scrutiny of Investment Advisers (InvestmentNews)While President Barack Obama's $3.8 trillion budget proposal for 2013 goes hard on the wealthy, it could also be tough on those who advise them.
February 15, 2012
The Gadfly's BiteThere was never a more stark example of the influence shareholders play in the decision-making of stock insurers than what John Paulson is doing to the Hartford right now.