Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Advisor tip: Freedom and flexibility = satisfied clients
By Curtis L. DeyoungThe ability to offer your clients freedom and flexibility to manage their personal financial needs while successfully preparing them for retirement is more important than ever before.
April 22, 2011
Survey: Americans Prefer Long-Term Growth and Guarantees to AlternativesAmericans 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
Personnel Changes: Nationwide, MassMutual, Towers Watson, OthersNationwide Financial Services Inc., Columbus, Ohio, has named Doug Allen, Bob Eviston, Tim Stephens, Christine Travis, and Jennifer M. Turkos to be new wholesalers in the life insurance, annuities and retirement plans businesses.
April 22, 2011
DOL Effort to Rewrite Retirement Plan Fiduciary Definition Faces Bipartisan OppositionSenior members of Congress have signed letters calling for a delay or end to the Labor Department's effort to rewrite the 5-part retirement plan fiduciary definition.
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.