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A National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ working group has accelerated efforts to complete its long-delayed “policy overview” summary to accompany life insurance sales. The policy overview will accompany the Life Insurance Buyer’s Guide and regulators are considering moving up delivery of both.
Read moreNew IUL products featuring “multipliers” or “bonuses” prompted the IUL Illustration Subgroup to consider changes to Actuarial Guideline 49. During a Monday conference call, one regulator called for “a total rework of AG 49 from the ground up.”
LIMRA and LOMA are offering a comprehensive training program to help sales professionals and home office employees understand and comply with New York Regulation 187.
The United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services and the House Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets held a hearing Thursday morning examining the Securities and Exchange Commissions proposed Regulation Best Interest rule.
The Annuity Suitability Working Group aims to tentatively finalize a standard for annuity sales by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Fall Meeting in November. Debate over whether to add “prudence” to the model law dominated another 90-minute conference call Monday.
The Annuity Suitability Working Group is working through five questions in a bid to finalize an annuity sales model law that regulators have been working on for more than a year. Members are focusing on insurers in a bid to rein in annuity sales incentives.
The Annuity Disclosure Working Group is studying a proposal to increase the time indexes must be in existence to be used in annuity illustrations from 10 to 15 years. But regulators are having difficulty getting past a couple of key issues.
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s office said the state may push for a best-interest annuity sales rule similar to New York’s if the NAIC doesn’t tighten up its annuity sales proposal. An NAIC working group has two conference calls and an in-person meeting to discuss the rule over the next two weeks.
New IUL products featuring “multipliers” or “bonuses” prompted the IUL Illustration Subgroup to consider changes to Actuarial Guideline 49. During a Monday conference call, one regulator called for “a total rework of AG 49 from the ground up.”
A magistrate judge denied a motion by Ohio National to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed in March by Stephen Cook, a Dallas-based advisor affiliated with Triad Advisors. Judge Stephanie Bowman also recommended that the case be consolidated with a similar one brought by LPL Financial broker Lance Browning.
The rule proposed by the New Jersey Bureau of Securities would require all financial advisors registered in the state to act as fiduciaries, making New Jersey one of the first states to propose a uniform fiduciary standard for all financial services professionals.
Commissioner Doug Ommen hopes to retain suitability ideas even as the word is scrubbed from his annuity sales proposal. The driving force is to harmonize state insurance regulations with the new Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation Best Interest, Ommen explained.
LIMRA and LOMA are offering a comprehensive training program to help sales professionals and home office employees understand and comply with New York Regulation 187.
Just one year after the Department of Labor fiduciary rule was vacated, the financial services industry is again reeling and rejoicing (depending on where you are in the industry) after the Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of Regulation Best Interest and its subsequent rulings.
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta testified recently before the House Education and Labor Committee and discussed the late fiduciary rule, which was thrown out by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Acosta was not very clear, one industry expert said, but is likely overseeing efforts to replace the fiduciary rule with a fairer rule.
