Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
What Would You Think?
By Brian FechtelIMAGINE THAT YOU and your spouse are fifty year-olds, and in the summer of 2010 hear about the following retirement product.
June 05, 2011
Feeding the BeastThe Obama administration appears to be remaining steadfast in its desire to impose haircuts on two of the life industry's most profitable and highest-volume products, corporate-owned life insurance (COLI), and variable life and variable annuities.
June 05, 2011
Into the BreachThe SVC is doing something that is largely contrary to what the life and health industry stands for. The SVC are willing to take a huge health risk.
June 05, 2011
Nasdaq Sends Firm Listing Rules Notice; SEC Sends Amended Wells Notice (Updated)The staff of the Nasdaq Stock Market has notified Life Partners Holdings Inc. that the company has 60 days to explain how it will regain compliance with Nasdaq listing rules, and the SEC has sent the company an amended Wells notice.
June 05, 2011
Escheat Probe Continues to WidenThe investigation by multiple states in the claims settlement practices of life insurers appears to be widening and deepening--with no end in sight.
June 05, 2011
Graduation DayAccording to a recent LIMRA study, the life insurance industry has focused most of its growth over the last decade on increasing productivity in an already trained, already employed sales force.
June 04, 2011
The Little Life Insurance ExerciseSome of you may be curious and apprehensive as to why I am giving this session in Chinese. My family and I spent five years in Taiwan when I was ten due to my father's business assignment.
June 04, 2011
Create an Economic Engine With Life Insurance and Immediate AnnuitiesIf you are in the life insurance business and you serve clients age 65 and older, annuity income maximization is a strategy that must be in your repertoire of capabilities.