Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
ASPPA Joins Fight Against Red Tape
By Arthur D. PostalThe American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries says federal agencies could ease burdens on retirement plan administrators by taking a more uniform approach to regulating plans' electronic communications with participants.
May 02, 2011
AMS adds three new employeesSan Diego-based Asset Marketing Systems (AMS) has added three new employees to its team (pictured from left to right): James Stewart, CFP, as national recruiting director; Robert Pascual as marketing consultant; and Eji Maxilom as life product specialist. For more, click the headline.
May 02, 2011
Scottish Re Schedules Merger VoteScottish Re Group Ltd. plans to hold a shareholder vote June 8 on a proposal that calls for the controlling shareholders to pay about $21 million to buy out the company's remaining ordinary shareholders.
May 02, 2011
Towers Watson: Pension Funding Levels Creep UpLarge U.S. pension plans were a little closer to being fully funded at the end of 2010 than they were a year earlier, according to consultants at Towers Watson & Company.
May 02, 2011
AALU Speaker: Save the Breaks You HaveThis is a year for life insurance industry representatives to try to preserve the existing tax treatment of life insurance rather than to promote new tax incentives, a speaker told Association for Advanced Life Underwriting members today.
May 02, 2011
Richardson at AALU: Succession Planning Woes to Hurt Al QaedaU.S. forces in Pakistan dealt a "significant blow" to Al Qaeda by killing its leader, Osama bin Laden - and he may have slowed the terrorist group's efforts to recover by failing to groom a successor.
May 02, 2011
PPACA: Exchange Defunding Bill Steams AheadThe House Rules Committee plans to discuss the rules governing House floor debate on H.R. 1213 - a bill that would repeal federal health insurance exchange funding requirements - at 5 p.m. today.
May 02, 2011
AALU Speaker: Save the Breaks You HaveThis is a year for life insurance industry representatives to try to preserve the existing tax treatment of life insurance rather than to promote new tax incentives, a speaker told Association for Advanced Life Underwriting members today.