Linda Koco, MBA, is a contributing editor to InsuranceNewsNet, specializing in life insurance, annuities and income planning. Linda can be reached at [email protected].
The proposed rule aims to reduce opportunities for identity theft while providing access to life insurers…
The year 2014 closes with a return to a discussion of whether younger adults, in their early-50s and or late-40s, are candidates for annuity ownership…
The year 2014 closes with a number of federal-level retirement-income actions in the bag. Following are four that may hold particular interest for advisors as implementation gets under way next year…
Agents looking for new business in the small-business owners marketplace should check out opportunities in disability buyout insurance…
A look at a “somewhat surprising” trend in annuity ownership…
Called pension risk transfer, or PRT, agreements, pension buyouts are typically sought by companies that have underfunded defined benefit pension plans…
Clifford Jack is stepping down as executive vice president and head of retail at top-selling variable annuity carrier Jackson National. He is leaving to pursue other opportunities, according to a statement from the company…
This particular third quarter had the highest fixed index annuity (FIA) market share of any of the previous third quarters, going back to 2010. Only third quarter 2012 came close; in that year, FIAs took a 52.7 percent share of market…
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) decided to make its recently updated Annuity Buyer’s Guide available to consumers and the industry, via download any time — without quantity restrictions or fees…
What policyholders are doing with their living benefits riders…
In what some observers are describing as an abrupt departure, Philip Falcone will resign as chairman and CEO of Harbinger Group Inc. (HGI), effective Dec. 1…
Third quarter sales of fixed index annuities may have dropped by nearly 8.6 percent from the previous quarter, but annuity producers are hardly singing the blues…
What is the top threat to the independent life brokerage distribution in the next year or two and why?
Carriers are competing for market share when they should be concerned about consumers who don’t own life insurance and have no plan to buy it…
What’s looking good for independent agents?
Some brokerage general agents are reaching out to property/casualty firms, banks, wealth manage and independent advisors in their quest to serve find new customers…
Today’s customers demand a great deal of control and choice, and they want the purchasing process to be easy…
An open window for networking has been set aside for members to meet with company representatives…
Soon after the feds allowed longevity annuities into retirement plans, AIG’s American General has one to offer…
A discussion on contingent deferred annuities leads to speculation on whether the “walls” between fixed and variable annuities could be coming down…
