Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Fixed Index Universal Life: Time for a Second Look
By Jason WellmanMore Americans than ever before need help from a financial professional to learn the ins and outs of today's life insurance options, yet fewer consumers are actually purchasing new life insurance policies.
August 22, 2011
Want to Retain More Clients? Provide a Different Kind of Retirement AdviceAdvisors who provide broader, values-based guidance in retirement planning are more likely to retain their now more cynical clients when the market takes a turn for the worse.
August 21, 2011
Wolters Kluwer: Market Conduct Danger ZonesNoncompliant forms lead the list of issues state market conduct examiners cite when dinging life and health insurers.
August 21, 2011
S&P: Consumers Paying BillsThe stock market may have been shaky in July, but consumer credit was solid.
August 21, 2011
Somebody Has to Say ItJust when you thoughT the debt ceiling crisis couldn't get any uglier, Standard & Poor's has downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit rating.
August 21, 2011
Grading ErrorWhen Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit rating on August 5, the move came as an unwelcome surprise for many--especially those federal legislators on whom the downgrade was largely blamed.
August 21, 2011
Brian Ashe on life insurance: "The premium is always less than the problem."Brian Ashe, CLU, a past president of the Million Dollar Round Table, talks about how to sell life insurance to seniors, the challenges the industry faces and why the middle market is so important.
August 21, 2011
A Babe in the WoodsOn a recent Wednesday afternoon, I found myself sitting in a tidy, angular room in a restaurant at the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan.