Private defined benefit plans could represent an expanding market opportunity for advisors…
Rohit Mathur, an expert in structuring capital and risk transfer, has joined Prudential Retirement’s pension risk transfer (PRT) team in the newly created role of senior vice president, global product and market solutions…
The creation of health care exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act is splintering into two distinct camps…
By Cyril Tuohy InsuranceNewsNet Fee- and commission-based financial advisors have a tenuous hold on workers and retirees when it comes…
Maintaining state insurance licenses across multiple jurisdictions is a regulatory obstacle, a burden to financial advisors and may impede the sale of retirement income products, according to new research findings…
Annuities are in a worse position than life insurance when it comes to consumer attitudes toward the products, according to a new study…
U.K. variable annuity sales rose to a record £1.42 billion ($2.30 billion) in premium in 2012, an increase of 30 percent over 2011…
Assets in Wells Fargo’s Health Savings Accounts program grew to more than $809 million in 2012, an increase of 31 percent,…
With state-based health insurance exchanges slated to go into effect next year, the big story for the health insurance distribution network is going to be the evolution of the retail, direct-to-consumer model as adapted to insurance plans, according to experts…
The financial crisis of 2008 and the explosion of social media as a way to tap into sources of investment advice have given rise to a new and very different kind of young investor, one with a fair amount of skepticism about financial advisors…
Aetna programs designed to reduce the use, abuse and waste of prescription drugs slashed usage among its 4.3 million members by 15 percent over a two-year period…
Variable annuity companies might become the apple of private equity eyes in 2013…
Middle-income baby boomers would be less likely to save for retirement if taxes are increased or if tax incentives for retirement savings are reduced or eliminated, a new study has found…
Morphing cultural diversity across the U.S., changing family structures, growing swaths of underinsured Americans and the delaying of what the industry calls “life events,” will influence the demand for life and retirement product buying patterns…
As many as 43 percent of adult women have no life insurance, according to the Insurance Information Institute, citing a nationwide poll by wholesaleinsurance.net, an industry news and information resource…
Information technology budgets of North American life and annuity insurers are expected to increase by an average of 2 percent in 2013 over last year, according to a recent survey…
Legislation to create a national agent and broker body for multi-state non-resident licensing was introduced in both houses of Congress early this week…
Settlers Life has promoted a former life insurance agent to the position of marketing services director…
A unit of State Farm Insurance has won an award for operational excellence from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University…
