This report compiled by InsuranceNewsNet staff.
Preliminary results from LIMRA’s U.S. Retail Individual Life Insurance Sales surveys and estimates show increases in premium and policies sold in Q2.
In the first half of 2023, total annuity sales jumped 28% to $182.7 billion. This marks the highest sales ever recorded in the first six months of a year.
Following record-high sales in 2022, total first quarter annuity sales were $92.9 billion, a 47% increase from the prior year.
Consumers love indexed universal life, a love affair that remained strong in the fourth quarter 2022, according to Wink’s Sales & Market Report.
Total U.S. single premium buy-out sales were $48.3 billion in 2022, up 42% from 2021 results, according to LIMRA’s U.S….
American International Group today announced that it terminated Mark Lyons from his position as AIG’s interim chief financial officer and…
Annuity sales set a quarterly record for the third consecutive quarter, LIMRA reported today. Investors are flocking to the safety promised by fixed annuities.
Total U.S. individual life insurance new annualized premium fell 5% in the third quarter compared with prior year results, LIMRA found.
Indexed life insurance continues to drive growth, despite regulation pressures and other disruptions, according to the latest Wink’s Sales & Market Report.
Third-quarter sales of deferred annuities soared nearly 21% over the year-ago quarter, according to Wink’s Sales & Market Report.
LIBRA Insurance Partners and Insurance Designers of America, LLC (IDA) announce the merger of the two organizations, creating the largest…
A group of industry trade associations beseeched the House Finance Committee this week to bring stalled legislation to reduce market barriers for the sale of registered index linked annuities to the House floor for a vote.
Total U.S. life insurance new annualized premium increased 6% in the second quarter 2022, the sixth consecutive quarter of premium growth, according to LIMRA.
Indexed life insurance sales continued a strong pace during the second quarter, according to the Wink’s Sales & Market Report.
Fixed-rate deferred (FRD) and registered index-linked (RILA) sales reached an all-time record for the quarter, while fixed index annuity sales fell just short of a record quarter.
Authorities say Scott Kohn, 68, of Newport, California, caused $310 million in losses to more than 2,500 retirees and placed more than 13,000 veterans into exploitative loans.
A defiant Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said Friday that he will not resign despite losing Gov. Jay Inslee’s support after multiple scandals.
Indexed universal life new annualized premium jumped 39% in the first quarter, mostly gains made by the top 10 carriers, LIMRA reported.
Eduardo Suarez, 38, of Bakersfield, Calif., was arraigned last week on two felony counts of insurance fraud and arson after…
Sales of fixed and variable annuities were $233.1 billion in 2021, an increase of 12.3 percent over 2020 sales of $207.5 billion and the highest annual annuity sales since 2008.
