Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
SEC Charges Former Credit Suisse Investment Bankers over Subprime Bond Pricing Scheme
By Staff WriterThe Securities and Exchange Commission today charged four former veteran investment bankers and traders at Credit Suisse Group for engaging in a complex scheme to fraudulently overstate the prices of $3 billion in subprime bonds during the height of the subprime credit crisis.
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...
January 31, 2012
The Hot (and Not) ListSales of LTCI, annuities and life insurance are good, but not great. Yet carriers are still devising new twists on their offerings.
January 31, 2012
FalloutBy August 2008, the American International Group was, as far as the general public knew, a titan of the financial services industry the worlds largest insurer and an icon of corporate strength. The truth, however, was far different, and barely a month later, the companys financial liabilities had been...