Purchasing life insurance from a financial professional remains the preferred way to buy, but even so nearly one in five consumers (17 percent) would be willing to purchase life insurance coverage directly from a retail outlet…
Whole life insurance policyholders will be able to access the death benefit of their policies during life to help cover the costs of chronic or terminal illness, American United Life (AUL) said…
LIMRA researchers have been noodling around with the question of how customers feel when beneficiaries undergo the experience of filing a death claim, so they decided to do a study. What they found out is not what they expected…
Seeking to deepen its relationship with agents, brokers and employers while helping them to navigate the rapidly-evolving employee benefits landscape, Guardian Life has launched a new absence management program…
Carriers are using five ways to reach the mid-market for life insurance, according to new research from LIMRA and the LIFE Foundation…
When it comes to keeping defined contribution assets from rolling over to another plan provider, a simple phone call at the right time might just be worth $1,000, or $10,000 or even $100,000…
Add another professional designation to the long list issued by the life and health insurance industry: Retirement Income Certified Professional (RICP)…
Pacific Life finished 2012 as the number one seller of indexed universal life insurance (IUL) and the number three seller for variable universal life insurance (VUL)…
In the wake of studies showing Americans worried about their ability to finance retirement, the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) and the National Retirement Planning Coalition have launched a campaign to increase consumer understanding of important retirement planning…
Health benefit brokers have their job cut out for them as they help employers navigate through a myriad of private health exchanges popping up around the country, according to experts in the area of health care distribution…
There are bad apples everywhere, and the world of financial advisors is no exception. It, too, has its fair share of worms occasionally spreading rot from the inside out…
Lincoln Financial Group Distribution, the wholesale and retail distribution subsidiary of Lincoln Financial Group, has hired former AXA Equitable marketing vice president Kathy Kavanaugh as vice president of strategic solutions and partner marketing…
Nearly 100 percent of baby boomers who work with an advisor do have savings for retirement, according to new research from the Insured Retirement Institute…
About 1,000 members of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) traveled to Capitol Hill to lobby congressional leaders not to change the favorable tax treatment of many life insurance products…
Echo Robinson, a MassMutual veteran with more than 13 years of experience in the retirement plans industry, has joined MassMutual Retirement Services’ third-party administrator (TPA) sales team…
Knowledge of Social Security benefits and other offerings of the nation’s most important retirement program varies widely among middle-income Americans who are nearing retirement, according to a recent survey…
Even though Americans are living longer, the risks and financial responsibilities associated with longevity are not frequent topics of discussion for many middle-income Americans…
A Portland-based law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit in a federal court in Oregon against Bankers Life, alleging that the insurer has a habit of denying long-term care benefits to the elderly…
Retired Verizon Communications employees whose pension benefit payments were transferred to Prudential through an innovative group annuity contract have won the right to proceed with a class-action lawsuit…
