Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Actuarial Firm Soups Up Forecasting Tool
By Staff WriterMilliman Inc. says it has added a feature to its MG-ALFA software that can help users put many different computers to work processing complicated tasks.The ...
October 16, 2007
Insurer Adds Target-Date Funds To VUL MenuPacific Life Insurance Company has added 5 Fidelity VIP lifecycle funds to the list of investment options available with its variable universal life insurance products.Pacific ...
October 16, 2007
Life Settlement Broker Starts Up In CaliforniaPolicyOptions L.L.C., a life settlement firm, is now arranging life settlement transactions.Industry veterans have formed PolicyOptions, Irvine, Calif., and plan to take active steps to ...
October 15, 2007
DemographicsBetween 2005 and 2050, life expectancies in the U.S. are expected to jump from 77 to 82.* By 2026, the population of Americans ages 65 and older will double to 71.5 million.** Between 2007 and 2015, the number of Americans ages 85 and
October 15, 2007
The power of choiceIn aviation, the word "attitude" is a term that refers to the angle that the plane meets the wind, if the wings are level with the horizon and whether the aircraft is climbing or descending. The pilot who fails to take responsibility for the
October 15, 2007
The rise, fall and rise of universal lifeUniversal life insurance has made its mark as a flexible-premium, adjustable benefit policy with tax-deferred, account-accumulation features. While its flexibility allows policyholders to change the amount of insurance as their coverage needs
October 15, 2007
FRC: Income Planning Interest May Have PeakedResearchers at Financial Research Corp. have found that investment firm managers want to get back to basics.In 2005, when FRC, Boston, studied the retirement income ...
October 15, 2007
Allstate Arm Rolls Out IUL PolicyLincoln Benefit Life Company has introduced the Ultra Index indexed universal life insurance product.The policy comes with an index account that protects the holder against ...