Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Term Series Adds 40-Year Plan
By staff WriterA life insurer has expanded its level term life insurance portfolio to include 25- and 40-year term policies.
December 06, 2009
Agents Seek Delay On Moves To Create Single Suitability StandardLife insurance agents are stepping up their efforts to push down the road legislative action on proposals that would harmonize the suitability standards investment advisors and broker-dealers have to meet in regard to their customers.
December 06, 2009
Staying On MessageIt's hard to believe that not only are we drawing close to the end of another year, but also closing in on the end of the first decade of the Third Millennium.
December 06, 2009
Life Policy Appraisals Create Opportunities For AdvisorsAppraisals of life policies are hot right now.
December 06, 2009
Term Life Deserves A MakeoverPerhaps it is to be expected that the most economical form of life insurance--term life--would enjoy sales success in today's tough times.
December 06, 2009
Insights Of An Advanced Sales AttorneyAs an advanced sales attorney, one of my primary responsibilities is estate analysis. In a nutshell, estate analysis is the process of reviewing a client's existing estate plan, performing a hypothetical probate and projecting tax exposure.
December 06, 2009
Potpourri 2009In the course of a year, a number of subjects of interest come to mind but would not fill an entire column. So, as usual, I save them and at year's end bundle several that are still germane into a single article.
December 06, 2009
Get Ready To Be A FiduciaryVarious legislative bodies and not a few regulators are moving at warp speed to impose "fiduciary duties" on salespeople in all segments of the financial services industry.