Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Are you working because you want to or because you have to?
By Staff WriterBecause I want to. I feel like I've got a pretty good nest egg and have always been a saver.
January 01, 2010
Insurance Update: Dead to RightsIf clients want to get a settlement for their life insurance policies, or invest in securitization of life insurance settlements, what should you tell them? Jeff...
January 01, 2010
Too Good to Be TrueStuart Egrin, director of regulatory affairs at Invescor, which provides life settlement back office and brokerage services to B/Ds and insurance companies, says that advisors...
January 01, 2010
Who Owns Whom?Eric Park, an advisor with Steamboat Financial Group in Washington, Missouri, reminded me in a recent e-mail that as we go through life, we accumulate...
January 01, 2010
The Psychology of Advice: The Gift to Be SimpleRemember the early days of your career when you didn't earn as much, own as much, or spend as much as you do now? Were...
January 01, 2010
Total Return Leaders: Persistently PositiveInvestment strategies that focus on investing in dividend-paying stocks have a long-term record of outperforming the S&P 500 index with less volatility, fund managers and...
December 31, 2009
The baby with the bathwaterThe biggest travesty in this "historic" health care debacle is that it never had to come to this. Simple fixes (an anathema on Capitol Hill)...