Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
The Market is a Squirrel, And I Like That
By Richard HoeLike a squirrel, it's almost psychotic, and quite manic. The market is up one day and down the next, and sometimes up and down in the same day
December 13, 2011
China to Become World's Second Largest Life Insurance Market by 2020: Report (IBR)Currently the world's sixth largest life insurance market, China is expected to weigh in at No. 2 by 2020, according to a report from U.K.-based data firm BRICdata.
December 13, 2011
New MassMutual Pension Funding Scorecard Helps Sponsors Track Investment PerformanceThe scorecard provides a quarter-by-quarter performance comparison for a liability-driven investing portfolio vs. a traditional equity/fixed income portfolio.
December 13, 2011
How to Plan for the True Cost of CollegeProviding a college degree for our children is becoming more of a dream than a reality for many families and taking out loans in this economy is like Russian roulette.
December 12, 2011
Whole Life Carrying the Load in 2011While whole life sales are up 10% through the first nine months of 2011, term life sales are floundering.
December 12, 2011
Occupy Retirement Planning (Huffington Post)Your retirement savings are not safe, argues Jack Ucciferri -- in fact, so long as they're invested with one of the big banks, they're downright dangerous.
December 12, 2011
Prudential Wins Ruling over $10 Million Life-Settlement Case (Wall Street Journal)In the latest setback to investors who buy existing life insurance policies to collect the death benefit, a recent court ruling in Florida gave Prudential Financial the right to void an existing $10 million life insurance policy that had been sold to a woman in her 70s before being resold...
December 12, 2011
Prudential Wins Ruling over $10 Million Life-Settlement Case (Wall Street Journal)In the latest setback to investors who buy existing life insurance policies to collect the death benefit, a recent court ruling in Florida gave Prudential Financial the right to void an existing $10 million life insurance policy that had been sold to a woman in her 70s before being resold...