The Protected Lifetime Income Index study, a recent survey of 3,119 adults by the Alliance for Lifetime Income, shows that a mere 28% of non-retired Americans have made an effort to determine their likely monthly income needs in retirement —perhaps the single most important thing people should be planning for.

Part of the difficulty with selling insurance to millennials has to do with this generation’s very real feelings of financial insecurity.

We are in an age when we can get dinner delivered by drone with a click of the thumb, so why is the life insurance and annuity industry’s tech seemingly stuck?

Despite the demand for socially responsible investing, many firms and advisors have yet to adopt the approach, dismissing it as a “fad.”

Every few years, tech investors and startups will label a new industry “hot,” and insurtech is steaming.

Consumers still want to have the option to explore coverage online, but they also want to be able to talk to a professional, the survey revealed. More than two-thirds of those surveyed (68%) said they would buy life insurance through an agent, while 38% said they would likely buy coverage online.

An NAIC working group tentatively approved a new annuity sales model Tuesday. But the rule remains a long ways from the finish line. Next, the parent Life Insurance and Annuities (A) Committee will take up the rule during the fall meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Industry executives are stepping up lobbying efforts to persuade Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to take action on the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act.

Divorce is emotionally draining, and on top of that, the challenges divorce brings to estate planning can be an added stress. In many cases, one often overlooked tactic can provide tangible solutions for divorcees and blended families: life insurance.

Insurance commissioners tabled a proposal today to create a Life Insurance and Annuity Illustration Working Group to complete a comprehensive and coordinated review of annuity and life insurance illustrations. The proposed working group would coordinate illustration issues, particularly with indexed products, across annuity and life insurance.

State insurance regulators are trying to rein in indexed universal life insurance illustrations via an amendment to Actuarial Guideline 49. The tentative change — which still needs final approval — would bar IUL illustrations with bonuses and/or multipliers from illustrating higher than IUL products without these features.

Who will pay for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to provide “Medicare for All”?

David ‘Birny’ Birnbaum is a formidable foe in advocating for insurance consumers.

H.H. Holmes was an American serial killer known for a slew of murders committed during the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. But it was Holmes’ later attempt to defraud Fidelity Mutual Insurance Company that doomed him to a trip to the gallows.

The Annuity Suitability Working Group will hold a two-hour conference call Tuesday that could run longer if that’s what it takes to finish, the group said. According to a call invite, the working group “wants to finish its work and forward the draft to the Life Insurance Committee for its consideration at the end of this call,” which would require a vote.

Federal Reserve cuts rates for 3rd time this year but signals it will pause its rate reductions.The Federal Open Market Committee lowered its benchmark funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 1.5% to 1.75% as expected.