Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Life Settlement Growth Has Reinsurers Reassessing Risk
By Jim ConnollyReinsurers need to better manage risk to reflect the growth of the life settlement market, according to life reinsurance experts, who say part of this ...
January 19, 2007
Vanguard Traces Retirement PathsMost Americans aged 40-69 expect work to play an important role in their early years of retirement, the Vanguard Group reports.Nearly 2 in 3 respondents ...
January 19, 2007
Under Half Of Americans Have IRAs: StudyOnly 46% of Americans have an individual retirement account, even though 70% fear not having enough money to live on in retirement.A study by Fidelity ...
January 19, 2007
Banks Boosted Life Revenue In 2006Banks increased new life insurance sales by around 15% last year, according to estimates by research firm Kehrer-LIMRA.That is similar to the sales increase seen ...
January 18, 2007
Few Open HSAs or HRAs, EBRI FindsAbout 1% of privately insured Americans are enrolled in a consumer-driven health plan, while another 7% have high deductible health plans, a new study shows.The ...
January 18, 2007
Symetra Eases Annuity Lump-Sum PayoutsA life insurer is offering income annuity holders easier access to the assets inside contracts.Symetra Life Insurance Company, Bellevue, Wash., says its new Advance Access ...
January 18, 2007
Symetra Eases Annuity Lump-Sum PayoutsA life insurer is offering income annuity holders easier access to the assets inside contracts.Symetra Life Insurance Company, Bellevue, Wash., says its new Advance Access ...
January 18, 2007
Health Insurers Endorse Effort To Build Policy ConsensusAmerica's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association joined today with 14 other consumer groups and provider groups to unveil a ...