Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
The long and short of it
By David PortAdvisors who work with seniors long enough are bound to encounter a certain unique species of client: the kind who at some point in his 60s finally comes to the realization he should start planning for retirement, only to discover that with
February 01, 2006
Golden Rule Moves Into GeorgiaA health insurance unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. will be using its parent's clout to offer individual and family policies with solid provider networks in ...
February 01, 2006
Firm Offers Partial Life SettlementsMaple Life Financial has set up a program designed to buy a portion of the rights to large life insurance policy death benefits.Maple Life, Bethesda, ...
February 01, 2006
Ameriprise Develops Roth 401(k) ToolsA financial services company is trying to help advisors and investors handle a new retirement planning concept.The retirement services arm of Ameriprise Financial Inc. has ...
February 01, 2006
Advisor Groups Warn About Tax Reform, Praise Bush Health IdeasOrganizations that represent insurance agents and other financial professionals say they are happy with what President Bush left out of his State of the Union ...
February 01, 2006
Bush Repeats Support For HSAs, AHPsPresident Bush referred briefly to health coverage Tuesday during his State of the Union address.In a speech dominated by talk about national security, the president ...
February 01, 2006
Primed for GrowthAfter rebounding slightly in 2004, sales of variable universal life (VUL) insurance policies dropped 11% in the first three quarters of 2005, according to LIMRA...
February 01, 2006
When Talk Isn't CheapIn the early 1990s, I met a superstar insurance agent who I'll call Percy (not his real name). Percy looked a little like Bob Denver...