Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Lies, Damned Lies And Offshore Outsourcing
By Ara C. TremblyThe redoubtable Mark Twain is said to have written that, "Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which ...
September 21, 2008
151A: Why Is No One Asking Hard Questions?On June 25, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed Rule 151A, which would reclassify equity indexed annuities as securities rather than simply insurance products. It ...
September 21, 2008
Calculating The FutureBoomer clients may have a vague sense that retirement will bring a mountain of medical and health insurance bills, but just how high is high?Software ...
September 21, 2008
Calculating The FutureBoomer clients may have a vague sense that retirement will bring a mountain of medical and health insurance bills, but just how high is high?Software ...
September 21, 2008
Fixed Annuities On Track For A Record-Setting 2008Estimated fixed annuity sales of $24.6 billion set a 5-year record in the second quarter of 2008. The third quarter results should be strong as ...
September 21, 2008
The SEC Has Not Gone Far EnoughThe United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority refers to investment-related life policies and pure protection (i.e., term) policies rather than the terminology of term and permanent ...
September 21, 2008
Nurturing Clients In Turbulent TimesTimes of financial downturns and tottering financial titans are times when advisors need to maintain a reassuring manner without seeming blas?, experts advise.The principle was ...
September 21, 2008
Analysts Weigh In On AIGAn insurance analyst called the meltdown of American International Group, New York, a "staggering development, noting that the Federal Reserve Board statement that AIG will ...