Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Hot Tax-Avoidance Plan Joins Millionaires, Hedge Funds, Insurers
By Sonali Basak, Tom MetcalfInvestors may have put $15 billion into insurance-dedicated funds inside life insurance policies and annuity contracts.
June 27, 2017
What the Senate Health Care Fight Means for AdvisorsWhether you sell health insurance, annuities or pork belly futures, this could hit you, too.
June 27, 2017
Reinsurance Tax Could Raise Life and Annuity Costs 3.3%: AnalystsA border adjustment tax system, which has been floated to help fund the construction of a wall along the Mexican border, could hit international reinsurance.
June 26, 2017
How to Fill the Disability Coverage Gap for Doctors With High IncomeMany doctors are finding a serious gap between the benefits of traditional disability and the replacement of their true income.
June 26, 2017
Freitag to Oversee Lincoln Life Unit: Insurance PeopleLincoln's move will put an executive with roots in risk management over life operations.
June 26, 2017
Insurers Make Two Major Pension Risk Transfer DealsHartford and Accenture used annuities to cut defined-benefit plan obligations by $2.6 billion.
June 23, 2017
SEC Candidate Favors New Life Regulatory StrategyHester Peirce has suggested that a single-state approach might beat the current multi-state strategy.
June 21, 2017
Pension Crisis Won't Be Reversed by High Returns, Moody's SaysNew Jersey, Kentucky and Illinois are the states with the biggest funding gaps.