John Hancock announced it has signed off on electronic signatures for life insurance customers, as another major life insurer moves to meet the demand of advisors and customers to automate core products and services…
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Marking its 20th anniversary year, the LIFE Foundation announced a revamped brand and website to speak more directly to the millions of Americans who are inadequately insured, through a message they can intuitively understand…
High-net-worth clients getting married might consider a life insurance policy along with their prenuptial agreements. Death benefit proceeds can provide future money to a spouse who gets alimony due to a divorce…
The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and the College for Financial Planning have formed a partnership to create an enhanced, dynamic and interactive curriculum for NAIFA’s Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF) designation…
Insurance industry executives are in store to receive what could be their largest annual bonuses since the economic crisis, according to a recent survey…
WINDSOR, Conn., Feb. 18, 2014 — A new LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute (LIMRA SRI) study found that 27 percent of…
Allstate is launching a recruitment campaign to appoint 120 new agency owners in Texas this year…
MetLife announced the launch of Simplified Issue Term Life insurance…
State Farm plans to further expand previously announced hub developments in Georgia and Texas, but employment at its Bloomington, Ill., headquarters is expected to remain steady…
Great-West Financial president and chief executive officer Mitchell T.G. Graye announced that he plans to retire May 8 following parent company Great-West Lifeco’s annual meeting…
Transamerica Life Insurance Co. is cutting 70 jobs in St. Petersburg, Fla., the national insurance provider disclosed in a layoff notice filed with the state this week…
According to new research, asset managers are shifting away from salesforce channelization. More than 50 percent of asset managers have reported moving away from organizing their salesforce by channel…
Bucking an industry-wide trend of flat growth, Securian Financial Group broke its own record for individual life insurance sales…
Sara Rowbotham Cornell named her Boston- based digital media company in honor of her parents’ longtime vacation house, Blue Blinds, which she inherited…
New research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates finds that on average, nearly half of an financial advisor’s book of business is comprised of retail individual retirement accounts…
Derl Knarr of Herndon, Pa., is charged in a one-count felony, information with stealing insurance funds, while he worked for Allstate Financial Services. The thefts are alleged to have occurred between 2006 and 2012, and total more than $630,000…
For ING U.S, it’s a new year and a new brand. Now, a bevy of new faces and young managers step into senior positions to guide the company as a stand-alone insurance carrier freed of its Dutch parent in the wake of last year’s initial public offering…
A vast majority of insurance customers, 67 percent, are open to the idea of purchasing insurance products from companies other than insurers, according to a multinational survey…
Millions of Americans lack even the most basic life insurance to protect their families. In fact, 41 percent of American adults have no life insurance whatsoever, and 50 percent of American households report they do not have enough life insurance…
Fidelity & Guaranty Life, a leading provider of fixed annuity and fixed universal life products, announced its results for the first quarter of fiscal 2014 ended on December 31, 2013..
