Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
The Phantom Stock Plan: How To Keep Key People On The Job
By Kenneth M. CymbalA common challenge faced by owners of family-run businesses is how best to reward and retain key executives while maintaining control of the company until ...
March 16, 2008
Underwriting For Settlements Has ChallengesEvaluating an insured for a life settlement involves distinct challenges, forcing an underwriter to look at the policyholder in a distinctly different, and sometimes opposite ...
March 16, 2008
STOLI Poses Danger To Industry, Reinsurers WarnedStranger-originated life insurance poses a danger to the insurance industry and to Congress' perception of life insurance, several speakers contended at an annual reinsurance conference ...
March 16, 2008
The Dynamics Of Market DemandThe notion that people do not buy things, but rather buy what things will do, is best illustrated by the old bromide, "each year millions ...
March 16, 2008
Senate Estate Tax Consensus EmergingA consensus appears to be emerging in the Senate to reform rather than repeal the estate tax going forward--and to act before 2010, when the ...
March 16, 2008
Budget Bonus: An Easier Way To Place Executive Bonus CasesBudget bonus is truly a simpler way to place an executive bonus case. The following scenario gives an idea of how this might work for ...
March 16, 2008
A Tale Of Two IRA BeneficiariesThis is a tale of two beneficiaries who relied on their professional advisors for recommendations on the distribution options available regarding the IRAs they inherited. ...
March 14, 2008
New York Life Launches New Web Section Focused on Women and FinanceNew York Life Insurance Company, New York, N.Y., has announced it has launched a site for women consumers, www.newyorklife.com/womenandfinance that provides easy access to detailed information and organizational tools for helping meet financial