Life Insurance
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Firm Expands IUL Scope
By staff WriterTwo National Life Group companies have started offering their complete indexed universal life portfolio to qualified plans.
July 29, 2009
Bankers Life RemembersDespite the recession, an insurer-organized team has raised $229,000 in contributions for the fight against Alzheimer's disease, up from $203,000 in 2008.
July 29, 2009
Priorities, Actions Clash: StudyHealth insurance is the top priority of owners of small- to medium-sized businesses, but 58% of owners do not currently offer this benefit, says a new study.
July 29, 2009
Life Panel Delays SVL VoteSeveral National Association of Insurance Commissioners panels have voted to advance a newly amended Standard Valuation Law, but the Life Insurance and Annuities Committee has not yet spoken.
July 29, 2009
Health Reform Creeps AlongSenate Finance Committee leaders have confirmed that 6 members are making progress toward drafting bipartisan health reform legislation that the insurance industry could support.
July 29, 2009
Health To Change SlowlyEven if Democrats succeed at passing and implementing the health system changes that most concern the insurance industry, many of those changes might not start taking effect until 2013.
July 29, 2009
Person of the WeekAdam M. Sachs, CLU, ChFC, CFP, CLTC, has been named President of the Massachusetts Chapter of NAIFA. Sachs is a Senior Financial Advisor with Centinel Financial Group, LLC.
July 29, 2009
Putnam to lower fees in pricing warPutnam Investments has announced proposals to reduce management fees on retail mutual funds and to introduce performance-based fees on other funds. The move is an...