Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Older Investors Think They're Ready to Retire. Advisors Disagree.
By Michael S. FischerThe disparity was especially acute around specific topics, such as Social Security and Medicare planning, Allspring found.
February 13, 2024
Educate Clients About Intergenerational Wealth TransferUncertainty about lifespans has changed how it works.
February 09, 2024
Birny Birnbaum Gives Up NAIC Consumer Rep RoleAfter serving the association for 25 years, he hopes to find another way to improve insurance regulation.
February 09, 2024
SEC Hits 16 Firms With $81M in Texting FinesThe firms agreed to pay the SEC combined civil penalties of more than $81 million.
February 08, 2024
Consumers Went Shopping for Life Insurance in JanuaryInsurers fed 4.7% more individual coverage applications into MIB systems than a year earlier.
February 08, 2024
How to Opt Out of Inheriting an IRABeneficiaries seeking to avoid gift and income tax consequences can execute a "qualified disclaimer" to decline the inheritance.
February 08, 2024
More Pain Coming For U.S. Office Market: PrudentialRobert Falzon, an executive vice president, expects the trough values to drop another 10% to 15%.
February 07, 2024
Equitable Faces Wall Street Annuity Love GapDespite benefiting from a strong selling environment, the insurer is "getting a pretty low valuation," one analyst argues.