Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
AnnuityNexus To Cover More Products
By Staff WriterA company that sells fixed annuity data is adding 3 major issuers to its database.Beacon Research Inc., Evanston, Ill., says it will be including information ...
August 13, 2006
About Full Disclosure And Blease ResearchFull Disclosure is a policy comparison and evaluation software series designed for brokers, agents, financial planners and advisors active in upper market life insurance sales. ...
August 13, 2006
NAIC Postpones Mortality Table SplitInsurance regulators want to hear from actuaries before deciding whether to split the existing mortality table into preferred and non-preferred mortality categories.Members of the Life ...
August 13, 2006
Seniors Need Personal ActuariesSeniors need and trust their personal physicians. In the same way, seniors should need and trust their personal actuaries. Both professionals are on the senior's ...
August 13, 2006
Suitability Standards For Annuities-Reality Or Myth?Recent years have seen an increase in litigation against insurers and distributors involving sales of various types of annuities. There has also been an increase ...
August 13, 2006
VA Reserving Draft Is Not PBA-Friendly, Insurers ContendLife insurers and actuaries are raising concerns that a current version of a draft guideline establishing reserves for variable annuities with guarantees can no longer ...
August 13, 2006
At The Older Ages, A Sinister TrioWe have come to appreciate many risk factors for excess mortality at ages 65 and over. Some are the same as those in younger people, ...
August 13, 2006
NAIC Postpones Mortality Table SplitInsurance regulators want to hear from actuaries before deciding whether to split the existing mortality table into preferred and non-preferred mortality categories.Members of the Life ...