Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Editorial Comment: A 50% penalty is a lot
By Linda KocoThe report by NU Senior Editor Jim Connolly in this month's Feature article points out a startling fact...
September 01, 2008
Important factsConsumer knowledge of 529 plans' rules and regulations is spotty at best. They rely on advisors to help them make good decisions. Advisors rely on...
September 01, 2008
The life coachSenior Market Advisor is proud to announce that Rosemary Caligiuri is the 2008 SMA Advisor of the Year. Caligiuri took an interesting road to success as an advisor. She spent her first decade out of college as a nurse. Attending a financial seminar
September 01, 2008
Estate planning is a winning ticket to referralsEstate planning is an add-on service and a necessary offering for financial planners or advisors who wish to be received by the community as comprehensive service providers. Many advisors want to represent themselves as an estate planner, but do not
September 01, 2008
Putting Required Minimum Distributions On The Advisor's ChecklistFinancial advisors say is extremely important to add the following item to their client checklists for the Fall season: "make sure that clients take their required minimum distributions from qualified retirement accounts and IRAs."
September 01, 2008
Feature: Settlements of small face policies start to emergeAre the small face life policies going through the settlement pipeline?
September 01, 2008
Special Section: What's hot in life insurance?The life insurance industry has unquestionably been redefining itself over time. For many years, it had been a field solely known to deliver agreed upon sums of money in the event of the insured individual's passing. However, it has grown to
September 01, 2008
Settlements of Small Face Policies Start to EmergeAre the small face life policies going through the settlement pipeline?