Life Insurance
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Health Care And Employee Hiring Top Small Business Worry List
By Staff WriterControlling medical costs and attracting and retaining employees are the top small business concerns, researchers report.The researchers, who commissioned and analyzed the results of a ...
May 01, 2007
Survey: Plans Help Worker Confidence At Big CompaniesEmployees at large employers feel better about retirement than employees at smaller employers, but they may have similar gaps in financial literacy.Researchers at the Transamerica ...
May 01, 2007
Team Tackles Manual Along With Valuation RulesRegulators are talking about the standards that ought to apply to the new valuation manual.The manual is supposed to come out sometime this year along ...
May 01, 2007
Bad press? No problem.Stories that portray someone being "wronged" always get people worked up. Make it a bully taking advantage of the weak and people really get emotionally involved. Such could have been the case with a March 26 article by Charles Duhigg in the New
May 01, 2007
Six Steps to LTCI Underwriting SuccessAs long term care insurance (LTCI) evolves to better meet consumer needs, so does our learning curve for underwriting it. And as the product becomes more sophisticated, so do the product features, pricing, and underwriting processes. Little did we
May 01, 2007
Trading on our life experiencesThe following is based on one of Norm Trainor's clients. All of the names and telling details have been changed. Simon's background and cultural experience gave him a great advantage in his chosen career as a financial advisor. Born and raised in
May 01, 2007
The American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance Introduces New LTC Insurance Marketing Tool KitWhen it comes to long-term care insurance, many business owners are still unaware of the significant tax-savings benefits available. "Business owners have exclusive tax benefits that individuals don't enjoy," explains Jesse Slome,
May 01, 2007
New "AIG Select-A-Term" Product Allows Policyholders to Customize Term Life Insurance PlanAmerican General Life Insurance Company (American GeneralLife), Houston, a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has announced AIG Select-a-Term, a new term life insurance policy that allows policyholders the choice tocustomize