–Roughly half of U.S. employees want more help from their employers to save for retirement, balance their work and life issues, and get the most value from their employee benefits, according to research from the Global Benefits Attitudes Survey by Willis Towers Watson.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Charles Schwab has introduced two new variable annuities that are among the lowest cost in the industry….
New York– January 19, 2021: A trio of Covid-19 related risks heads up the 10th Allianz Risk Barometer 2021, reflecting…
NEW YORK, January 19, 2021 – New York Life announced today that it has expanded its comprehensive suite of retirement…
CARMEL, Ind., Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Washington National Insurance Company, a national provider of supplemental health and life insurance products for middle-income…
DES MOINES, Iowa–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The prolonged economic impacts of COVID-19 are wearing on small and medium-sized businesses as owners report…
—U.S. stocks are drifting Wednesday as Wall Street continues a pause from its big recent rally, and even Treasury yields are stalling following their rapid rise. Markets around the world have rushed higher recently on building optimism that a healthier economy is on the way because of the rollout of coronavirus vaccines and the prospect for more stimulus from a…
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 11, 2021 – Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) reported strong increases in the…
COLUMBUS, Ga., Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Aflac, a leading provider of supplemental insurance products in the U.S., today announced the national…
PORTLAND, Ore. — Jan. 12, 2021 — Today, The Standard announces its first of several new annuity products launching this…
DENVER (January 5, 2021) – Skip Schweiss, CFP®, AIF® officially assumed the role of 2021 President of the Financial Planning…
Three of the nation’s biggest names in business – Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan – banded together with the goal of reinventing health care. Three years later, Haven is closing.
ARLINGTON, VA, January 4, 2021 — The funded status of the nation’s largest corporate pension plans started and finished 2020…
NEW YORK – New York Life, America’s largest mutual life insurer, announced the completion of the company’s acquisition of Cigna’s…
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2020 — Homeless New Yorkers are targeted in a $31.7 million slip-and-fall ring … A crime ring…
Looking back on 2020, eHealth attempted to answer the question: What did we learn in 2020 about U.S. health insurance…
MILWAUKEE — The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the retirement timeline for 30% of Americans, according to…
COLUMBUS, Ga. /PRNewswire/ — Despite pandemic economic hardships, National Retail Federation forecasting shows consumers will spend just under $1,000 this holiday season —…
With interest rates at historically low levels and economic uncertainty remaining high, Moody’s Investors Service found its portfolio of U.S….
Falls Church, VA (December 15, 2020) – The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) announced Terry Headley, LUTCF,…
MINNEAPOLIS – Dec. 15, 2020 – As Americans continue to endure the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
MINNEAPOLIS – Dec. 14, 2020 – Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America has announced new enhancements to its Allianz…
(Toronto, ON, December 14, 2020) – Foresters Financial today announces the US launch of its refreshed Prepared II Accidental Death…
MetLife announced that it will sell Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance Co. and certain wholly owned subsidiaries to Farmers Group, a subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group, for $3.94 billion in cash
FAIRHOPE, Ala.– A 14- month investigation by the Alabama Department of Insurance resulted in the arrest of Patrick Reily Murphy, Jr. of Fairhope. Investigators discovered he mishandled about $750,000 between 2018 and 2019.. This allegedly happened while Murphy worked for Point Clear Insurance Services- a company that does not appear to exist any longer.
Washington, D.C. – December 10, 2020 – A new study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) finds elderly spending…
ARLINGTON, VA, December 7, 2020 – U.S. commercial insurance prices again grew significantly in the third quarter of 2020, according…
MINNEAPOLIS – Driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, health and wellness is taking top priority for the majority of Americans in…
Fifty-four percent of consumers who reported having anxiety when it comes to their financial situation say the pandemic is the cause of at least half of their stress. However, Americans are still taking action to better their financial futures, with 60% of respondents saying they are actively working to improve their financial situation.
NEW YORK, N.Y., December 3, 2020 — Guardian’s Care Conversion Option Rider (CCOR) is the first term insurance rider in…
Fitch Ratings-Chicago-03 December 2020: The ongoing concern regarding the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could cause deterioration in key…
PARK RIDGE, Ill. (Dec. 2, 2020) — Building on its culture of excellence and providing financial professionals exceptional opportunities for…
The U.S. single premium buy-out sales totaled $4.6 billion in the third quarter, down 41% from third quarter 2019 but double the $2.3 billion sold in the second quarter, according to the Secure Retirement Institute.
—Wall Street busted through its latest milestone Tuesday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 30,000 for the first time. It’ s an attention-grabbing psychological threshold, and it’ s an encouraging signal that the market’ s rally is broadening beyond the handful of stocks that carried Wall Street through the pandemic.
Donna Skemp of Bend, Oregon, struggled to save before she signed up for an automatic savings plan offered by her employer’s payroll services company. “It's painless, and it's so easy,” says Skemp, accounting and office manager for the nonprofit Every Kid Sports, which pays sports registration fees for children from low-income families. People are much more likely…
After a pandemic-driven pullback in mergers and acquisitions activity in the first half of 2020, acquisitions and dispositions have come…
RADNOR, PA, November 16, 2020 – In a time when nearly half of consumers surveyed say they would be more…
Most Americans fail a financial fluency quiz of key investment selection terms, and confusion over a term like “passive investing” can translate into saving less and lower use of investment products, according to a new report.
OMAHA, Neb. – Today insurance and financial services giant Mutual of Omaha unveiled a new corporate logo, featuring the image…
(Toronto, ON, November 12, 2020) – Fraternal life insurer Foresters Financial today announces the launch of a diabetes management benefit…
DENVER (November 12, 2020) – Financial services firms are reportedly hit by security incidents 300 times more frequently than other…
More than two-thirds (70%) of 2019 long-term care insurance policy claimants received initial benefit payments for care at home according…
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced a new COVID-19 advisory task force, drawn exclusively from the ranks of public health experts and scientists, to get a handle on the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Biden's transition team revealed the 13- member task force will be co-chaired by former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and…
In the Philadelphia region and nationally, the coronavirus pandemic has sharply reduced the number of nursing home residents, both because so many elderly have died and because families are warier than ever of placing loved ones in the facilities. Demand for beds will bounce back from COVID-19 lows, given the aging of the U.S. population, said Bill Kauffman,…
“These findings are consistent with the idea that the ACA regulations on health plans may have addressed income-related disparities in contraception use and unintended births,” said Dalton, director of the University of Michigan's Program on Women's Health Care Effectiveness Research. Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States, and unintended…
Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIGI) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020, with net…
Des Moines, Iowa – October 27, 2020 –  A new study from F&G, a leading provider of fixed indexed annuities…
SAN FRANCISCO and WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Midland National Life Insurance Company (Midland National) and RetireOne …
OMAHA, Neb. – Mutual of Omaha has introduced a new disability income insurance product featuring a fully digital experience and…
JERSEY CITY, N.J., October 27, 2020 — Net income for the private U.S. property/casualty insurance industry dropped 26% in the…
MINNEAPOLIS – Oct. 26, 2020 – With increased longevity resulting in retirements that can last 25-30 years or longer, Americans…
