Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Clements To Offer Scholarship
By staff WriterA broker that sells insurance to expatriates and international organizations is running a scholarship program for expatriate students.
February 04, 2010
Labor Weighs In On Schedule C Comp ReportingThe Employee Benefits Security Administration has issued a new batch of advice that will affect how insurers, benefit plan administrators and benefit plan sponsors go about calculating 2009 "reportable compensation."
February 04, 2010
Feds Explain How To Comply With Year-Old Law (CLARIFIED)About 12 months after the federal government imposed children's health program eligibility notice rules on employers, it is telling employers how to implement the rules they already were supposed to be implementing.
February 04, 2010
New association aims to transfer longevity risk to capital marketsOur fellows across the pond are making a move to shift longevity risk to capital markets. The Life and Longevity Markets Association is a group...
February 04, 2010
Under new management: Five good funds with a dark pastSometimes a new manager makes all the difference. Morningstar's Russel Kinnel dug up five promising funds that formerly suffered under old managers. Under new leadership, these funds have a lot of promise, but maintain a modest asset base.
February 04, 2010
Report Advises Shift In Life Settlement Sales PointsThe life settlement industry is losing major market opportunities by failing to explain the value of life settlements to consumers, according to a new report.
February 04, 2010
Obama Plan Could Boost Revenue From Life Insurers: UBS (Corrected)The budget proposal released Monday by the Obama administration could generate $15 billion in additional revenues for the U.S. government from the life insurance industry over 10 years if enacted, UBS Investment Research says.
February 04, 2010
Boomers will shape housing market over next decadeHousing trends are changing, and are being led by the boomers. A report by the Urban Land Institute found that over the next 10 years,...