Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Personnel Changes: Hancock, AIG, Others
By Staff WriterJohn Hancock Financial Services has promoted Marc Costantini to president of the variable annuities business.Costantini will succeed Hugh McHaffie, who now is president of the ...
February 22, 2007
NAIFA Skeptical About FTC Regulation Of InsuranceA provision in the new insurance industry antitrust exemption bill could expand the authority of the Federal Trade Commission.One federal law, the McCarran-Ferguson Act, now ...
February 22, 2007
AHIP: Private Medicare Plans Help Low-Income SeniorsMedicare Advantage and Medicare supplement plans can help low-income seniors.Researchers at America's Health Insurance Plans, Washington, presented data supporting that conclusion today during a press ...
February 22, 2007
Treasury Advisors Decide Not To Crack Down On Hedge FundsThe President's Working Group on Financial Markets has released a set of voluntary guidelines for hedge funds and other "private pools of capital."The working group, ...
February 22, 2007
NASD Arm To Offer Anti-Fraud GrantsA foundation affiliated with the National Association of Securities Dealers is setting up a grant program for research and education projects that might help protect ...
February 22, 2007
Treasury Advisors Decide Not To Crack Down On Hedge FundsThe President's Working Group on Financial Markets has released a set of voluntary guidelines for hedge funds and other "private pools of capital."The working group, ...
February 22, 2007
NASD Arm To Offer Anti-Fraud GrantsA foundation affiliated with the National Association of Securities Dealers is setting up a grant program for research and education projects that might help protect ...
February 22, 2007
Symetra Unveils VL ProductA West Coast insurer has introduced a variable life insurance policy designed for wealthy clients.Symetra Life Insurance Company, Bellevue, Wash., says it developed the new ...