Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Security Mutual Life Insurance Enters Agreement with Collegiate Funding Solutions
By Michael K. StanleySecurity Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York hopes that a new marketing agreement will allow agents to play a more hands-on role in the college planning process for their clients.
December 15, 2011
Disagreement Over Payroll Tax Cut’s Impact on Social Security (New York Times)President Obama's call to extend a temporary payroll tax cut is the one issue that transcends party lines.
December 15, 2011
The Worst Seat on Wall Street (Wall Street Journal)Banks and brokers are cutting expenses and staff as financial-market upheaval continues under new Basel III rules.
December 15, 2011
Pipeline Planning Ideas to End the Year with MomentumAt the beginning of each year, you tell yourself that this year will be different. This will be the year to hit your goals. You start off on track, but then something happens that causes a slowdown in business activity ... the holidays!
December 15, 2011
IRI Tells Feds to Shed Light on Retirement Savings Needs, Encourage VA UseStreamlining agent licensing and creating more efficiencies among states is not a bad idea either, IRI says as part of its comment letter to the FIO on modernizing insurance regulation in the U.S.
December 15, 2011
PIA Survey: Customers Value Agent Service More than Product ChoiceThe report asks insurance customers to rate their agents in respect to expert advice and counseling, personalized attention and interaction, the ability to offer comprehensive protection to meet individual needs and relationship-based" customer service.
December 15, 2011
Fitch: U.S. Life Insurance Industry Will be Stable in 2012The outlook, Fitch states, reflects the industrys strong balance sheet, which helps to somewhat mitigate ongoing concerns over challenging macroeconomic conditions that continue to pressure industry operating fundamentals.
December 15, 2011
Principles-Based Reserving Valuation Manual on Target for March Adoption by NAICThe NAIC's Life Actuarial Task Force decides that it will nail down four remaining issues for the VM-20 portion of the principles-based reserving model during lengthy conference calls so there will be adoption, then something to present to legislatures in the on-year of 2013 for some states.