Industry Asks For Role In Updating Disability Program
By Allison BellThe Social Security Administration is in the middle of a mammoth battle to streamline the notoriously slow, frustrating Social Security Disability Insurance claim determination ...
October 31, 2005
Agencies Release 2006 To%2DDo ListsThe Internal Revenue Service wants to publish a final regulation in June 2006 that could affect recomputation of certain life insurance company reserves, and ...
October 31, 2005
Big Broker Scoops Up Illinois Health BusinessHub International Ltd. has purchased the retail health insurance brokerage division of Flexible Benefit Service Corp.[@@]Hub, Chicago, is a large insurance brokerage.FSBC, Rosemont, Ill., ...
October 31, 2005
Banks Lead In Brokerage Deals: StudySince the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was passed in 1999, banks have been a major force in acquiring insurance brokers, says a new study.[@@]Consultants Patrick T. ...
October 31, 2005
Group Benefits Portal Gets Income Planning SectionMetLife Inc. is trying to use the Web to persuade workers to think about longevity.[@@]MetLife, New York, has set up Lifelong Income from MetLife, ...
October 31, 2005
CalPERS' Investment Chief to Join London Pension ManagerSACRAMENTO, Calif. (HedgeWorld.com)--The man behind the largest U.S. pension fund's adoption of "absolute return" strategies is leaving the California Public Employees' Retirement System to make his mark at a leading U.K. pension fund manager. Mark J. P. Anson will succeed Tony Watson as chief executive at Hermes Pensions Management Ltd....
October 31, 2005
Ta Reform Panel Takes Aim At InsurersThe President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform has come up with proposals that could do everything from creating new annuity purchasing vehicles to ...
October 31, 2005
Managers, Markets Mull New Choice for Fed ChairWASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--As interest rates keep moving up, Alan Greenspan's term is all but wound down. President Bush's choice for Mr. Greenspan's successor, Ben Bernanke, was announced today and is likely to be confirmed as keeper of the interest rates. Mr. Bernanke has a good reason to expect a nod from...