Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Ameriprise Unit Adds Target Risk Options
By Staff WriterRiverSource Life Insurance Company Inc. has introduced a set of investment funds designed for variable annuity and variable universal life insurance customers.The new Disciplined Asset ...
May 02, 2008
IRS Seeks Council MembersThe Internal Revenue Service wants to fill 3 seats on the 30-member IRS Advisory Council.IRSAC gives the IRS recommendations about tax administration.Council members include enrolled ...
May 02, 2008
Garden State Governor Signs Paid Leave BillNew Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, D, has signed Assembly Bill 873, a measure that will provide 6 weeks of paid leave for workers who are ...
May 01, 2008
LTC coverage option added to UL policyThe reasons people buy life insurance policies are numerous and varied. Innovative life insurance carriers recognize that and work to make their policies fit the needs of a changing world. The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial has done that with
May 01, 2008
A permanent spin on term lifeStrip a permanent life insurance policy such as universal life of its ability to accumulate cash value and what's left is a product that offers the policyholder a guaranteed death benefit to age 100, yet costs only slightly more than a term
May 01, 2008
Prominent in the product mixEven with relatively modest advances in product development over the years, term life insurance has managed to hang onto a substantial share of the life insurance market. Term life sales grew 5 percent in 2007, during which overall U.S. individual
May 01, 2008
Healthy person, healthy practiceThe following is based on one of Norm Trainor's clients, Greg. All of the names and telling details have been changed. When Greg walked into our first workshop, I was struck by how unhealthy he looked. At least 30 pounds overweight, he seemed tired
May 01, 2008
Prominent in the product mixEven with relatively modest advances in product development over the years, term life insurance has managed to hang onto a substantial share of the life insurance market. Term life sales grew 5 percent in 2007, during which overall U.S. individual