Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
SOA Simplifies Data Access, While Boosting IT Efficiency
By Bob PetersonInsurance professionals repeatedly hear from media, conference presenters and their own IT colleagues that they need to act now to take advantage of the great ...
March 01, 2008
Earnings Grow At Life Settlement Support FirmLife-Exchange Inc. says growth helped profits during the second half of 2007.Life-Exchange, Miami, a company that runs a life settlement trading system, is reporting $263,139 ...
March 01, 2008
Personnel Changes: Hartford, AXA, OthersHartford Financial Services Group Inc. has named Lizabeth Zlatkus executive vice president and chief financial officer.Zlatkus previously was co-chief operating officer at the life operations ...
March 01, 2008
Is your ethics edge getting dull?You're ethical, right? You do thorough fact-finding with clients. You recommend only suitable products. You believe in full disclosure. And since you do these things, your clients believe you are ethical. So what's the problem? The problem is
March 01, 2008
Teach your children well"Hindsight is always 20-20."~ Billy Wilder The idea of time travel has fascinated man for centuries. No doubt, the invention and use of such a machine would significantly alter the course of history. But imagine the potential personal
March 01, 2008
Life Settlements: Not Just for Permanent Policies AnymoreBy its very nature, term life insurance is extremely affordable, mostly because the possibility of a death benefit payout is more limited than with other policies. Many consumers still view term life coverage as more or less disposable -- that is,
March 01, 2008
Editorial Comment: The last big change in 401(k)? No wayIf you think that automatic enrollment available inside of defined contribution plans is the last big change you'll see in these plans for the foreseeable future, think again.
March 01, 2008
GLWBs avoid the full market monteHistorically, withdrawing 5 percent or 6 percent each year from your retirement nest egg would have worked most of the time. Unfortunately, when this failed it often failed badly leaving folks with remaining years and no remaining cash. The