Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Seniors warned about life settlements
By Staff WriterNASD's recent life settlement investor alert is both bad news and good news for advisors who do these transactions. The bad news: The alert may discourage seniors from considering the benefits of selling their life policy. The good: It may lead to
April 19, 2008
MDRT reveals production requirementsA seat at the table. That's what professionals in the insurance industry seek every year. It's an indication of top performance, of serving the public well, of being in the upper echelon among peers. The Million Dollar Round Table establishes
April 18, 2008
Kanjorski Calls for Federal Insurance AgencyRep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pennsylvania), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee's Capital Markets Subcommittee, said at a hearing on financial services reform April 16 that he plans to introduce legislation today that will create an interim federal oversight agency, the Office of Insurance Information, within the U.S. Treasury Department.
April 18, 2008
Insurance companies rank poorly on privacyAs children, we're told not to talk to strangers or accept rides from anyone we don't know - to protect us from being taken. As adults today, we're told not to give out our computer passwords to strangers, we're told we should tear up or shred
April 18, 2008
Five blunders to avoidLife insurance is an essential but difficult-to-talk-about part of adult life. Whether it's the prospect of one's own mortality or something else to pay for that keeps people from considering it, a life insurance policy is something that most people
April 18, 2008
Top index annuity carriers rankedIndex annuity sales were down in the first quarter of 2007, according to the Advantage Index Sales Market Report, issued by Advantage Compendium. The $5.73 billion in sales marked a 9 percent drop from the same period last year and a 4 percent drop
April 18, 2008
LTC relationships announcedIn an effort to get more people interested in purchasing long term care insurance, AARP has formed a relationship with Genworth Financial. The partnership is aimed at developing long term care solutions that meet the needs and demands of AARP's
April 18, 2008
Industry vet takes awardSuccessful. Giving. Caring. Giving. Those are the words that come to the fore when reading the biography of Phillip C. Richards, CLU, CFP, RHU. Now we'll get to see if patient is on the list. Richards, chairman and CEO of the North Star Resource