Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Fidelity: Steady Hands Boost Returns
By Staff WriterInvestors who have stuck to their long-term asset-allocation strategies during the financial crisis have been getting better investment results than investors who changed course.
August 30, 2011
FATCA Withholding Rules Heading Straight Toward Life, Annuity IssuersLife insurance and annuity sellers may soon find themselves helping the Internal Revenue Service identify U.S. persons who have invested in non-U.S. financial accounts.
August 30, 2011
Consultants: Principles-Based Reserving Could Have Mixed EffectsShifting toward a principles-based reserving approach could lead to a modest increase in reserve requirements for universal life policies with secondary guarantees and big decreases in reserve requirements for term life policies.
August 30, 2011
Advisors: Look to middle-market boomersAdvisors may be ignoring a goldmine of prospects if they disregard the needs of middle-income baby boomers.
August 30, 2011
LISA: We Too Hate Crooked Life Settlement Securitization SchemesThe Life Insurance Settlement Association says its members agree with state securities regulators about the need to root out fraudulent life settlement securitization programs.
August 30, 2011
The tweeting of SMAXThis year's Senior Market Advisor Expo showed the power of social media to connect attendees and readers to the happenings at the event.
August 30, 2011
EBRI: Target Date Fund Ride Scared Some Out of StocksAbout 80% of the workers who had all 401(k) plan assets in target-date funds during the 2008 stock market crash have kept the assets in the funds, but some have gone to cash.
August 29, 2011
Lockton: SBC Rules Likely to ChangeThe current draft of the proposed summary of benefits and coverage could change greatly over the next few months.