Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Industry Watchers Laud Final 409A Regulations
By Warren S. HerschThe release by the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury Department on April 10 of final regulations respecting the treatment of non-qualified deferred compensation plans ...
April 15, 2007
NAIC Ponders Data AgentInsurance regulators are talking about the nuts and bolts of setting up a statistical data agent to handle data for preferred mortality tables.Members of the ...
April 15, 2007
Dramatic Changes Ahead For Life Product Reserving RulesThe rules for setting reserves and the capital requirements for life insurance products sold in the U.S. are about to undergo a dramatic overhaul.The new ...
April 15, 2007
Balance The Emotional Scale For Career ProfessionalsThe worksite disability income insurance sale can bring together 2 highly charged (and sometimes emotional) issues: personal finances and the potential of losing the ability ...
April 15, 2007
Transparency Tools Can Help Clients See Brokers' ValueWhen President Bush issued an executive order in August calling for health care providers to do a better job of reporting on cost and quality, ...
April 15, 2007
Top LTC Execs Speak Out On Industry ConcernsIn an often candid panel discussion during the Intercompany Long Term Care Insurance conference here, top executives of 5 major LTC carriers sounded off on ...
April 15, 2007
$41 Trillion In Wealth Transfer: Where Will It All Go?A few years back, researchers at Boston College got a lot of press with a study predicting that the "largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history" ...
April 15, 2007
Meeting Retirement Needs Of Mid-Market BoomersStriking the right balance between living well in retirement and not outliving one's assets is complicated.Wealthy consumers can afford financial advisors to help with the ...