Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
The Growing Challenge of Funding Retirement (U.S. News & World Report)
By Staff WriterThe rules for retirement have changed over the past generation, and individuals are now required to make much more responsibility for their finances later in life.
February 01, 2012
Current Laws Would Slash Federal Deficit, Analysts Say (L.A. Times)Keeping Congress gridlocked on budget issues would cut the projected annual federal deficit in half by the next fiscal year and set the trend on a downward path -- but for how long?
February 01, 2012
Treasury Exploring New Types of Debt SecuritiesThe Treasury Department is exploring the idea of issuing two new types of securities as a way of expanding the government's means of financing operations.
January 31, 2012
Let’s Not Be SearsWhat the life insurance business can learn from the once-great retailer's downfall.
January 31, 2012
Return Mail: A Growing Liability for the Long-Term Care Insurance IndustryDirect costs from mail that comes back average $3 apiece; the total impact could be as high as $50 each.
January 31, 2012
Industry Trends 2012New product innovations, new marketing strategies, and new regulations: What to look for in 2012.
January 31, 2012
Defy popular perception: Overcome the life insurance tabooThough it has fallen out of favor, life insurance remains an important financial planning tool.
January 31, 2012
IN IT TO WIN ITIn AIGs lower Manhattan headquarters, SunAmerica Financial Groups CEO Jay Wintrob rattles off a series of encouraging statistics about SunAmerica. The company is currently the fourth-largest seller of annuities in the United States; the largest seller of fixed annuities in the United States; the sixth-largest seller of variable annuities in...