Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Advisors Doubt Robustness Of Clients' Retirement Assets
By Jim ConnollyIn interviews with Income Planning, financial planners offered insight into tools that they feel work for clients.
August 01, 2008
Careful What You Wish ForLast month we talked with Sandy Praeger, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) about changes suggested for the insurance industry within the...
August 01, 2008
Boomers Need LTCI ASAPBoomers have a lot to think about when it comes to their futures: estate planning, retirement planning, funding their children's or grandkids' education. Another decision...
August 01, 2008
Insuring 401(k) Success Via AnnuitiesMichael Salley is one of those ever-growing group of advisors who have become independent and taken their Wall Street knowledge to Main Street, bringing along...
August 01, 2008
The Donut-EatersBack in the early 1800s, when I started my financial career as an advisor, we prospected for clients the old-fashioned way -- by knocking on...
August 01, 2008
A Rich InheritanceEthical wills, first popularized in the Middle Ages, are making a modern-day comeback -- linking the "soft" and "hard" sides of estate and financial planning. Leading...
July 31, 2008
Clients get choice of inflation protectionChoice is something Americans have come to expect, whether it's at the ice cream shop or at their financial advisor's office. New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corp. has an annuity feature that will give advisors the chance to let
July 31, 2008
A paradigm shift for final expenseThe only thing constant is change, as witnessed through our changing clients, their changing needs, and an industry full of product and policy change. The baby boomer generation has been the driving force behind insurance companies creating new