Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
PPACA: Business Groups Unite Against Health Insurance Tax
By Allison BellMajor U.S. employer groups are uniting to fight a new federal tax on health insurance that is supposed to generate $8 billion in revenue in 2014.
May 24, 2011
Start a networking groupI meet once a month for breakfast with a group of people representing a wide variety of businesses and industries. The sole purpose is to generate leads and business for each other.
May 24, 2011
MWA: BOLI Holdings Climb 5.8%U.S. bank-owned life insurance assets increased 5.8% in 2010, to about $142 billion.
May 24, 2011
Senior survey: Results on health, housing and the nest eggWe're in the research phase of our annual senior survey, but already we have more than 200 responses from seniors with their thoughts on advisors, their nest egg, housing and healthcare among other topics.
May 24, 2011
Survey: Seniors losing buying powerSeniors have lost almost one-third of their buying power since 2000, according to the Annual Survey of Senior Costs, released today by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL).
May 24, 2011
Get more bang for your seminar buck, part 1While the formula for seminar success differs from advisor to advisor, the bottom line is making every detail count, say the experts. Here are some tips for realizing a robust seminar ROI.
May 24, 2011
Add a few prospect hurdlesSteve Kaneski of Kaneski Associates Financial & Insurance Services in Roseville, Calif., was the top-selling agent at New York Life in 2008 -- out of 10,500 agents nationwide. Here, he shares his prospecting method
May 24, 2011
Moody's: Life Reinsurers Face Pressure to Branch OutU.S. life insurers are buying less reinsurance they were a decade ago, and that shift is putting pressure on life reinsurers, according to analysts at Moody's Investors Service.