Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Policy Loan Proposal Piques Industry Interest
By Jim ConnollyInterest expressed by an unidentified company in initiating a policy loan program that it maintains could offer an alternative to life settlements is drawing curiosity ...
September 09, 2007
Road To Income Paved With Good Withdrawal StrategiesThe road to regular retirement income must be paved with good withdrawal strategies, not just good intentions, say many financial planners.In fact, during a recent ...
September 09, 2007
Settlement Firms Disclose PayoutsA sampling of 11 life settlement companies showed they paid a total of more than $854 million above cash surrender value to owners of life ...
September 09, 2007
Stochastic Modeling Part Of VA Reserving DebateA discussion among regulators of how a new guideline for reserving for variable annuities should be crafted included talk about how reliable stochastic scenarios are ...
September 09, 2007
Settlement Firms Disclose PayoutsA sampling of 11 life settlement companies showed they paid a total of more than $854 million above cash surrender value to owners of life ...
September 09, 2007
How Much Do Agents Make On Settlements? It Depends.Just as life insurance policies brought to the secondary market may attract any number of varying offers, the agents who bring those policies to life ...
September 09, 2007
Policy Loan Proposal Piques Industry InterestInterest expressed by an unidentified company in initiating a policy loan program that it maintains could offer an alternative to life settlements is drawing curiosity ...
September 07, 2007
The Legacy Trust: Grandparents' Gift to GrandchildrenAlmost 20 years ago, one of my wealthy clients welcomed his first grandchild. My client's son, the father of the grandchild, was age 34. The grandfather, age 59, wanted to make regular gifts to the grandchild