This report compiled by InsuranceNewsNet staff.
This merger positions the firm as a leading provider of advisory services to its targeted niche of retirement advisors. The combined company will retain the Brookstone name, executives said in a news release, and will reflect the best that each firm has to offer, including exclusive and expansive state-of-the-art technologies.
Remote work has been a challenge for advisors trying to serve clients during the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent study revealed. More specifically, nine out of 10 advisors said that not being able to meet with clients in person has had the biggest impact to their business while social distancing measures are in effect.
A new LIMRA survey find companies have growing interest in modifying their benefits packages, enrollment strategies and their relationships with their carriers. About 25% of employers say COVID-19 has made them more interested in making changes to their insurance benefit programs within the next 18 months.
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The COVID-19 pandemic triggered ultra-low interest rates, extreme market volatility and record-high unemployment — conditions that generally are unfavorable for annuity sales. The good news is annuity sales should bounce back strong in 2021 and 2022, the Secure Retirement Institute reports.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, low- and middle-class Americans were less prepared to deal with the death of a main breadwinner, according to a survey taken in January.
Despite the economic craziness — or maybe because of it — Americans are trusting insurance agents and companies more than ever, according to LIMRA data.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is converting its Summer Meeting to a virtual format.
Already reeling from coronavirus pandemic losses, the property and casualty industry finds itself engulfed in another national calamity.
Three industry organizations are partnering on a joint mortality experience study that will compare individual life mortality involving COVID-19 now and into the near future. LIMRA, the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and TAI are working on an inaugural report to release later this summer.
The newly unemployed will be looking for health insurance — and not finding it in some states.
About three minutes into the speech, Trump said: “I met with the leaders of health insurance industry, who have agreed to waive all copayments for coronavirus treatments.” A health insurance lobbying group later clarified that the president was partially correct.
America’s Health Insurance Plans is the latest organization to cancel events due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic.
Total annuity sales of $241.7 billion in 2019 represented the best sales in 11 years as the industry continued to rebound from regulation and other pressures. Sales increased 3% over 2018 results, according to the Secure Retirement Institute Fourth Quarter U.S. Annuity Sales Survey.
Florida legislators moved closer Wednesday to banning life-insurance, long-term care insurance and disability-insurance companies from using customers’ genetic information in changing, denying or canceling policies. The House passed a bill, which now moves to the more difficult state Senate.
A bill introduced by State Sen. Annette Taddeo, D, would make Florida the 12th state to elect its insurance commissioner.
The Secure Retirement Institute surveyed consumers who save in a retirement savings account to find out how they preferred to get their retirement plan information.
New Jersey became the latest state to pass a law to better protect senior citizens from financial exploitation.
A survey by the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) finds that millennials’ expectations are not well aligned with the retirement planning steps they have taken thus far. Although nearly eight in ten millennials say that they have saved some money for retirement, nearly half – 46 percent – have saved less than $10,000.
The nine most-brazen insurance fraudsters of 2019 were chosen by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. The convicted extreme schemers were inducted into the Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame.
