Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Road To Income Paved With Good Withdrawal Strategies
By Jim ConnollyThe road to regular retirement income must be paved with good withdrawal strategies, not just good intentions, say many financial planners.In fact, during a recent ...
September 09, 2007
Settlement Firms Disclose PayoutsA sampling of 11 life settlement companies showed they paid a total of more than $854 million above cash surrender value to owners of life ...
September 09, 2007
How Much Do Agents Make On Settlements? It Depends.Just as life insurance policies brought to the secondary market may attract any number of varying offers, the agents who bring those policies to life ...
September 09, 2007
Policy Loan Proposal Piques Industry InterestInterest expressed by an unidentified company in initiating a policy loan program that it maintains could offer an alternative to life settlements is drawing curiosity ...
September 07, 2007
The Legacy Trust: Grandparents' Gift to GrandchildrenAlmost 20 years ago, one of my wealthy clients welcomed his first grandchild. My client's son, the father of the grandchild, was age 34. The grandfather, age 59, wanted to make regular gifts to the grandchild
September 07, 2007
GAO Finds Support For Basic Health Benefits EffortHealth policy experts disagree about how to expand access to health coverage, but many agree that the federal government should ensure that all Americans have ...
September 07, 2007
Personnel Changes: Missouri, MassMutual, OthersThe Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration has named Frederick Heese to be the chief financial examiner for the insurance solvency and ...
September 07, 2007
Groups Eye Insurer Proposal For Taking On Settlement FirmsTrade groups say they want to hear more about a life insurer's efforts to use a new policy loan program to create an option for ...