Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Merger Fever Strikes Life Insurance Associations
By James J. GreenThe presidents of LIMRA International and LOMA--two international associations that provide their insurance and financial services company members with research, marketing, distribution, and operational services--issued...
December 04, 2006
EBSA Asks About Investment Advice SystemsFederal officials are studying a new law that could let investment advisors collect different levels of compensation based on the products that retirement plan members ...
December 04, 2006
GAO: Consumer Ed Agency Needs Specific GoalsThe federal Financial Literacy and Education Commission has had trouble setting clear performance benchmarks or attracting many telephone hotline calls.Officials at the U.S. Government Accountability ...
December 04, 2006
IRS Publishes W-2 Donation Record RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has spelled out documentation requirements for workers who give to charities through payroll deduction programs.The IRS has spelled out the new ...
December 04, 2006
Survey: Many Women Work With Male AdvisorsAbout 80% of U.S. women who work with financial advisors have male advisors.Researchers at Securian Financial Group, a unit of Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, ...
December 04, 2006
IRS Publishes W-2 Donation Record RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has spelled out documentation requirements for workers who give to charities through payroll deduction programs.The IRS has spelled out the new ...
December 04, 2006
Study: State Incentives Fail To Boost LTC SalesState tax incentives and partnership programs for long term care insurance have not stimulated LTC insurance sales in the states that offer them, a researcher ...
December 03, 2006
Are Life Settlements Securities?A panel discussing the securities regulation of life settlements advised caution for broker-dealers with registered reps who work on these transactions.Panelists offered their views during ...