Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
MetLife Goes Global With ALICO Deal
By Trevor Thomas, Warren S. HerschMetLife Inc. moved ahead last week with its long-rumored plans to acquire American Life Insurance Company from American International Group Inc., for a price of about $15.5 billion.
March 14, 2010
ACLI Responds To Piontek ColumnSteve Piontek accuses the American Council of Life Insurers ("Dirty Little Secrets," Feb. 15, 2010) of making unfounded allegations against the life settlement industry in our policy statement opposing securitization of life settlements.
March 14, 2010
4Q Variable Life Sales Rose 28% Over 3Q ResultsVariable life insurance sales with single premiums included at 10% for the 35 companies reporting in the VALUE survey for the fourth quarter of 2009 were $366.1 million.
March 14, 2010
Go For The GoldFor two weeks in February I spent most of my evenings watching the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
March 14, 2010
The Five Disciplines That Make You Invaluable To CustomersIn an era of global competition and Internet commerce, salespeople are in danger of becoming irrelevant.
March 14, 2010
Dodd Bill Likely To Propose Study Of Fiduciary StandardA provision to study whether a fiduciary standard should be required in the sale of investment products
March 14, 2010
Favorable Access Is Core To Success With Voluntary LTCThe workplace continues to be an important channel for long term care insurance sales.
March 14, 2010
Full Disclosure Universal Life ReportThe editors of Full Disclosure periodically survey life insurers active in upper markets across a wide range of product specifications, illustrations, guaranteed minimum premiums, and more.