Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Standing on Zanzibar
By Bill CoffinNow that the world has more than seven billion people in it, what does our future hold? Nothing good, according to the sci-fi author who predicted all this.
November 01, 2011
Sun Life, John Hancock and Principal Financial Debut New ProductsSun Lifes new living benefit rider lets advisors customize the asset mix of the Sun Life Solutions VA according to each investors risk/reward profile, says Sun Life Financial Distributors President Mike Shunney.
November 01, 2011
Key NAIC Task Force Pondering Life Insurers' Reserve MethodologySome regulators are alarmed by a universal life product's design and worry it could cause reserving issues using actuarial guidelines, even as they weigh a move to principles-based reporting. WIll the NAIC move forward in examining insurers' reserve methodologies?
November 01, 2011
Key NAIC Task Force Pondering Life Insurers' Reserve MethodologySome regulators are alarmed by a universal life product's design and worry it could cause reserving issues using actuarial guidelines, even as they weigh a move to principles-based reporting. WIll the NAIC move forward in examining insurers' reserve methodologies?
November 01, 2011
Greek turmoil sends US and world markets lowerA wave of selling swept Wall Street and stock markets around the world Tuesday after Greece said it would let the people vote on an unpopular European plan to rescue the Greek economy.
November 01, 2011
Retired GE Exec Pressman Joins New York Life BoardNew York Life Insurance Company announced today that its Board of Directors has elected veteran General Electric Company executive Ronald Pressman to the companys Board.
November 01, 2011
Retired GE Exec Pressman Joins New York Life BoardNew York Life Insurance Company announced today that its Board of Directors has elected veteran General Electric Company executive Ronald Pressman to the companys Board.
November 01, 2011
Affluent U.S. Pre-Retirees Report Greater Resilience to Market TurmoilA study shows that affluent pre-retirees now report greater stability with their investment situation than was measured just two years ago.