Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Industry Hopeful IOLI Provision Will Be Removed From Tax Bill
By Arthur D. PostalThe life insurance industry is cautiously optimistic that its efforts to point out serious flaws in a provision in the Senate version of tax cut ...
April 16, 2006
Connecting With Client Emotions Seen As Key To Life Sales"Why don't more people feel good about selling life insurance?" wondered Joseph Jordan in an address here.The senior vice president of individual business marketing for ...
April 16, 2006
Extending Tax Breaks Among Mutual Fund Industry's GoalsThe mutual fund industry has established a broad federal legislative agenda for this year, with key priorities being extending tax breaks and winning support for ...
April 16, 2006
Moody's Offers Favorable Take On Stable IndustryIn spite of both some old and a few new challenges, the life insurance industry turned in a solid financial performance in 2005, according to ...
April 16, 2006
Extending Tax Breaks Among Mutual Fund Industry's GoalsThe mutual fund industry has established a broad federal legislative agenda for this year, with key priorities being extending tax breaks and winning support for ...
April 16, 2006
Pitfalls Of Probate AvoidanceFor years, financial planners and advisors have preached the creed of "avoiding probate." In their efforts to avoid probate at all costs, planners sometimes overlook ...
April 16, 2006
How Principles-Based Reserves Will Help VAs, Other ProductsUnderlying the feasibility and price of any insurance product are the concepts of statutory reserve and the additional capital insurers need to back the product ...
April 14, 2006
Private Equity Powers Change At Health InsurerThe specialty health insurer formerly known as UICI has taken the name of its best-known subsidiary, HealthMarkets Inc.Managers, company agents and others recently used private ...