Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Survey: Americans Prefer Long-Term Growth and Guarantees to Alternatives
By Staff WriterAmericans overwhelmingly prefer choices that deliver high-quality, long-term growth and guarantees to options that are cheaper and faster in the short term, but may be higher risk or deliver less return over the long term, according to a new poll.
April 22, 2011
Business Groups Oppose New Authority for PBGC under 2012 BudgetBusiness groups are voicing alarm about a proposal in the Obama administration's budget for 2012 that they project could result in a doubling of annual pension guaranty agency premiums.
April 22, 2011
New Tax Laws Open the Door for Business Insurance DiscussionRecommending that clients review the new tax laws is a great way to connect with them and demonstrate the value of incorporating life insurance into their larger business strategy.
April 22, 2011
Picking an "Orchard Loan" without Giving Away the FarmEven in normal financial times, many clients balk when faced with estate planning that involves the transfer of their assets "now." Control, finality and lack of access can dampen planning activity.
April 22, 2011
AIG Tries to Sell ‘Collateralized Death Obligations’Securitization of life settlements raises ethics, fraud concerns among critics.
April 22, 2011
Merrill’s David Tyrie on Retirement Healthcare Costs: Weekend InterviewMerrill Lynch's head of personal retirement, David Tyrie, speaks about how and why Merrill is educating clients—and its FAs—on healthcare costs in retirement.
April 21, 2011
PPACA: IRS Eyes Nonprofit HospitalsThe Internal Revenue Service is starting to look to see whether tax-exempt hospitals are conducting enough community benefit activities to justify their exemptions.
April 21, 2011
Nonprofit Teams Up with NAHUThe Foundation for Health Coverage Education has agreed to refer many of the consumers who turn to it for help to a volunteer broker network operated by the National Association of Health Underwriters.