Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Hybrid Securities Command Industry's Attention
By Jim ConnollyRegulators say that they will take comments aired by insurers during a public hearing on hybrid securities July 13 and review their risk-based capital treatment ...
July 23, 2006
Final Touches On Pension Reform Bill Under WayCongressional negotiators were moving rapidly at press time to finalize pension benefit reform legislation language which would allow the insurance industry to offer a host ...
July 23, 2006
Securitization: Buzz Or Real Solution?With growth prospects and return-on-equity ratios below most of their peer group, what can the life (re)insurance industry do to improve its standing with investors? ...
July 23, 2006
Do You Feel It?One of the scarier phrases in today's vocabulary is "outliving income."The term is popping up with increasing frequency in surveys, marketing materials and advertising campaigns ...
July 23, 2006
'Boomerisms' That Drive Advisors WildCertain things that baby boomers say drive some financial advisors wild--because the statements make no financial sense at all.Some of these statements--call them boomerisms--are shown ...
July 23, 2006
Hybrid Securities Command Industry's AttentionRegulators say that they will take comments aired by insurers during a public hearing on hybrid securities July 13 and review their risk-based capital treatment ...
July 23, 2006
Final Touches On Pension Reform Bill Under WayCongressional negotiators were moving rapidly at press time to finalize pension benefit reform legislation language which would allow the insurance industry to offer a host ...
July 21, 2006
Bill Might Tie Estate Tax Reform To Minimum Wage HikeSome Democrats want to link cuts in estate taxes with an increase in the income of the country's poorest workers.Leaders of the Association for Advanced ...