Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Annuity Insurers' Response To Current Stress: Lemons To Lemonade
By Noel AbkemeierIn the last 10 months, many external forces have imposed stress on the annuity world. The responses taken by insurers may suggest a direction for ...
September 03, 2006
New York Life And MassMutual Again Lead Dalbar Web RatingsNew York Life remained the best-rated corporate life insurance and annuity Web site for consumers in the second quarter, while Massachusetts Mutual once again topped ...
September 03, 2006
Spend Now, Pay Later, Planners CautionFinancial advisors assail the 'spend now, pay later' habits of workers who take cash rather than roll over 401(k) money when they change jobs, according ...
September 03, 2006
New York Life, MassMutual Named Best Websites By DalbarNew York Life Insurance Company held its position at the top of Dalbar Inc.'s ranking of best life insurance and annuity company websites for consumers ...
September 03, 2006
GAIT Means What?One term used in the investment advice section (Section 601) of the new Pension Protection Act of 2006 is worth some consideration.It is "generally accepted ...
September 03, 2006
More Comfort With An Advisor?Having a financial advisor does not correlate with how comfortable older people feel about financial preparedness for retirement, according to a new survey."That's a surprising ...
September 03, 2006
Industry Execs On COLIRe: "New COLI Rules: Good Intentions, 'Disastrous' Reporting Requirements," (National Underwriter, Aug. 21, 2006.)The new reporting requirements for corporate-owned life insurance should come as no ...
September 03, 2006
New Products Target Emerging Retirement Income NeedsAn increasing number of researchers are concluding that the only way to capture the wave of baby boomers focused on retirement income will be to ...