Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
ACLI: OFC Effort Is Making Progress, But Work Remains
By Matt BradyThe insurance industry has made significant progress towards the enactment of optional federal charter legislation in 2006, but there is still a long way to ...
October 29, 2006
Why Stranger-Initiated Life InsuranceThe life insurance industry is at crossroads. One path continues the industry on its historically important mission of providing financial protection to families and businesses. ...
October 29, 2006
Principles-based Reserving Actuarial Opinion DiscussedEfforts continue to narrow what regulators feel will work and what won't as the principles-based reserving project continues toward completion.State insurance regulators at the National ...
October 29, 2006
Hartford: Grandparents Big Part Of 529 MarketFinancial advisors' older clients may want to hear about college savings.Researchers at a unit of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, have presented figures supporting ...
October 29, 2006
The Future Looks Big ForThe life settlements market is growing at a significant rate, but it is difficult at present for anyone to say much beyond that.Because the market ...
October 29, 2006
Envisioning Retirement Helps In Planning, Expert SaysFinancial advisors can help boomers plan their retirement successfully if they start by making it easier for the client to imagine life after their working ...
October 29, 2006
Study Finds Good Advisors Are Often Tempting AcquisitionsThere were 228 mergers and acquisitions among U.S. registered investment advisor firms from 2000 to July 2006, with an estimated deal value totaling $1.5 billion, ...
October 29, 2006
Hartford: Grandparents Big Part Of 529 MarketFinancial advisors' older clients may want to hear about college savings.Researchers at a unit of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, have presented figures supporting ...