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RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 20, 2009
Florida Atlantic University strips Barry Kaye's name from business school

Florida Atlantic University's College of Business yesterday stripped life insurance guru Barry Kaye's name from the school, according to published reports.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 20, 2009
AIG names Jay Wintrob president and CEO of its new life and retirement services business

American International Group Inc. has named Jay S. Wintrob president and chief executive of its Domestic Life and Retirement Services business.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 18, 2009
Phoenix unveils 'first-to-die' insurance policy

A new life insurance product from The Phoenix Cos. Inc. covers two lives under one policy, providing a death benefit for a spouse or business partner.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 17, 2009
Index annuity sales surged in 2Q on demand for stable retirement income

Index annuity sales rose during the second quarter, hitting $8.3 billion, according to data from Advantage Group Associates Inc.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 17, 2009
Life insurers will be hurt by falling values of fixed-income securities, CFOs say in survey

Values on fixed-income securities will fall, hindering life insurers' financial performance over the next two years.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 17, 2009
Catastrophe bonds at their highest level of year

Catastrophe bonds climbed Friday to their highest level of the year amid reports of calmer hurricane outlooks ahead, Bloomberg reported.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 16, 2009
Life insurance lessons

Three college students whose parents died are vying for a $5,000 scholarship from the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 14, 2009
Hartford names Dan Guilbert chief actuary of its life insurance unit

The Hartford (Conn.) Financial Services Group Inc. has named Dan Guilbert chief actuary of Hartford Life Insurance Co.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES AUG 14, 2009
Report: Tremont to auction off remaining hedge fund assets to pay investors

Tremont Group Holdings Inc., which lost more than $3 billion in the Bernard Madoff scam, will auction off its remaining hedge fund assets in an attempt to pay its investors, The Wall Street Journal reported.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 14, 2009
James Wrynn to become N.Y. superintendent of insurance

New York Gov. David A. Paterson has named James J. Wrynn the state's superintendent of insurance.