Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Misunderstanding IRAs
By Staff Writer$4.6 trillion: Approximate amount Americans have saved in IRAs. 44%: Percentage of Americans who don't understand how IRAs work. 36%: Percentage of Americans who aren't sure if they are eligible to contribute to IRAs. 1
April 14, 2008
Views of retirement waverThe ideal retirement age in the United States is 58. But, the most-often anticipated age for retirement is 64, a full six years later than most would like to call it quits. That is even though the average age Americans begin saving for retirement is
April 14, 2008
Life sales off in AugustApplications for individually underwritten life insurance were down by 3.7 percent in North America for the month of August, according to the MIB Life Index, a monthly measure of such activity. U.S. activity declined 4.8 percent yearover- year;
April 14, 2008
Updated activity guidelines for seniorsIn a joint effort to update 12-year-old activity recommendations for older adults, the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine issued revised guidelines.The full report can be downloaded as a PDF from www.acsm.org or
April 14, 2008
Term ROP introduced in NYING, through ReliaStar Life Insurance Co. of New York, has introduced ING Return of Premium Term NY, a policy that gives individuals death benefit protection and the ability to get their premiums back at the end of the term. Policyholders get level
April 14, 2008
Savings behavior, confidence not alignedMassMutual wanted to know if the amount people save toward retirement equate to an appropriate level of confidence? To find out, the company conducted a study that included responses from 17,000 people at 2,300 MassMutual-administered
April 14, 2008
Analysts: Tech Risks May Outweigh Regulatory RisksSecurities analysts who follow insurance stocks say life insurers could face as much of a challenge from aging technology over the next 3 years as ...
April 14, 2008
Analysts: Tech Risks May Outweigh Regulatory RisksSecurities analysts who follow insurance stocks say life insurers could face as much of a challenge from aging technology over the next 3 years as ...