Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Lehman Says Neuberger Not Part Of Bankruptcy
By Trevor ThomasLehman Brothers Holdings Inc. says its broker-dealer division is not part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy it filed Sept. 15. That division, along with its ...
September 21, 2008
GMIBs In Life Contracts? Worth A LookThe annuity industry's embrace of guaranteed living benefits has been singularly responsible for the sales growth that annuities have had in recent years.Now, attention is ...
September 21, 2008
AIG Removed From DowThe change was prompted by the government decision to acquire 79.9% of AIG in return for a 2-year, $85 billion loan.The composition of the Dow ...
September 21, 2008
Why The Market Is GrowingWhy would anyone want to lose a sizable portion of their inheritance to "unwanted heirs?" Such heirs can include federal estate taxes, state inheritance taxes, ...
September 21, 2008
Why The Market Is GrowingWhy would anyone want to lose a sizable portion of their inheritance to "unwanted heirs?" Such heirs can include federal estate taxes, state inheritance taxes, ...
September 21, 2008
House Pulls OII Bill But Passes NARAB LegislationThe House Democratic leadership pulled from the floor late on Sept. 17 legislation that would create an Office of Insurance Information within Treasury.Ironically, action was ...
September 21, 2008
Lehman Says Neuberger Not Part Of BankruptcyLehman Brothers Holdings Inc. says its broker-dealer division is not part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy it filed Sept. 15. That division, along with its ...
September 21, 2008
Lies, Damned Lies And Offshore OutsourcingThe redoubtable Mark Twain is said to have written that, "Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which ...