Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Only 'Loose Ends' Remain In Pension Bill Talks: Grassley
By Arthur D. PostalCongressional negotiators are making progress in combining conflicting House-Senate pension benefit reform bills, according to members of Congress and industry lobbyists, raising hopes that work ...
July 16, 2006
Get Back To Basics To Fill VoidEvery industry is subject to trends. Fashion, music, politics, and even life insurance experience trends that capture the popular imagination and then fall out of ...
July 16, 2006
Be Careful Before Giving Advice You Know May Be ChallengedAn agent recently asked me whether a new wrinkle would distinguish a tax transaction from those "listed transactions" that the Internal Revenue Service specifically has ...
July 16, 2006
Life Insurance Ownership Across Four High-Net-Worth GenerationsDeclining ownership of life insurance in middle-income America often is attributed in part to the belief that agents are neglecting this market to pursue wealthier ...
July 16, 2006
SEC's Withdrawal Of 'No-Action' Letter Confuses IndustryIn the early days of variable annuities (the late 1970s and early 1980s), nontraditional salespeople began selling products previously thought to be in the exclusive ...
July 16, 2006
Bipartisan Support Emerging For Federal Role In Insurance RegulationAs it was preparing to hear the views of the Bush administration on the issue July 18, the Senate Banking Committee last week signaled a ...
July 16, 2006
1Q Surplus Growth Strong For 100 CompaniesOne hundred companies, comprising 84% of life industry assets, reported a strong 2.2% gain in total surplus funds in the first quarter of 2006, as ...
July 16, 2006
Bipartisan Support Emerging For Federal Role In Insurance RegulationAs it was preparing to hear the views of the Bush administration on the issue July 18, the Senate Banking Committee last week signaled a ...