A pair of Sun Life Financial executives said they intend to closely track a new approach linking stop-loss coverage for employers to voluntary critical illness coverage for employees…
A new survey by MassMutual Retirement Services finds that when it comes to communicating with American workers, gender matters. Women prefer Facebook while men gravitate to LinkedIn…
Five years after the financial crisis, ad campaigns targeting registered investment advisors (RIAs) are stressing the importance of an institution’s trust and the ability of advisors to help investors make their own decisions, two marketing experts said…
Annuity professionals may not view health care reform as relevant to the work they typically do with clients — needs analysis, sales, service, income planning and the like. In fact, most annuity specialists don’t sell health insurance…
Members of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) provide answers to four questions on the minds of…
A survey by Allianz Life finds that most Americans say they prefer financial products that limit potential loss over products that offer unlimited potential growth but may also result in unlimited loss…
LPL Financial Retirement Partners has scored a “significant win” for advisors by offering the Worksite Financial Solutions (WFS) retirement platform to 401(k) plan customers of New York Life Retirement Plan Services, an LPL executive said…
Even though employers caught a break with the one-year postponement on the new “pay or play” tax under health care reform, employers still have oodles of Affordable Care Act (ACA) issues and possible strategies on their plates…
Question: Do you practice on a commission-only basis, fee-only basis, or commission and fee basis? Why? Answer: “I am a…
There is a possibility that taxing the inside buildup of life insurance products will not be included in the tax reform package being developed in Congress, according to Dana Kehoe, a member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) government relations team…
A move by New York’s top financial services regulator to pull out of principal-based reserving (PBR) regulations has life insurers irate at the prospect of having to increase their reserves by billions of dollars to pay claims on life insurance products…
Americans are falling short of their financial retirement goals. This by now has become a truism among financial planners, but what if Americans don’t have enough in retirement assets to make it worthwhile for financial planners to bother?…
Sun Life Financial has announced the launch of a stop-loss rider to protect U.S. self-insured employers against the cost of paying for catastrophically expensive cancer-related illness claims, the company has announced…
At town hall, members push for growth in association base rather than in dues…
By Linda Koco InsuranceNewsNet SAN ANTONIO – Many agents have long been vocal in their opposition to some or all…
“’Advisor 2020’could be a game changer,” said Robert O. Smith in opening remarks here at the annual meeting of National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors…
Colonial Life & Accident, seeking to capitalize on the growth in the voluntary market, has announced the launch of a new voluntary group short-term disability insurance plan to help employees protect their income…
The private sector by itself will never be able to fund long-term care services and supports (LTSS), but private health insurers will remain a small part of the eventual solution should lawmakers ever agree to one…
For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted a permanent “registration regime” for municipal advisors who operate in and around the lucrative $3.7 trillion municipal debt marketplace…
