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RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 04, 2009
Bank holding companies had $3.03B in income from insurance brokerage fees in first quarter

Bank holding companies raked in $3.03 billion in insurance brokerage fee income during the first quarter, down from $3.21 billion a year earlier, according to a report.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 31, 2009
Genworth targets insurance and wealth management, not annuities

Annuities will continue to take a back seat to other insurance and wealth management products at Genworth Financial, according to the insurer's finance chief.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 31, 2009
MetLife suffers $1.4B net loss in second quarter

MetLife Inc. ended the second quarter in the red, reporting a net loss of $1.4 billion, or $1.74 per share.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 30, 2009
Client sues life settlement bigwig's company for fraud

An Ohio man has sued life settlements and insurance guru Barry Kaye's firm, alleging that the firm encouraged him to buy a $5 million life policy and left him hanging when it couldn't find a buyer on the secondary market.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 30, 2009
Hartford books $15M loss for second quarter; Lincoln losses $161M

The Hartford (Conn.) Financial Services Group Inc. booked a $15 million loss, or 6 cents per share, for the second quarter.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 29, 2009
Hancock snags Hartford exec for new chief risk role

Craig Raymond has joined John Hancock Financial Services Inc. as its new chief risk officer and chief actuary, effective immediately.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 27, 2009
Catastrophe bonds poised for comeback this year, Guy Carpenter & Co. says

Though fewer catastrophe bonds were issued during the first half of 2009, investors may see more of these issuances in the second half of the year as the financial markets stabilize, according to a report from Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC and GC Securities, both of New York.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 27, 2009
Banks slapped with $1.65M in fines for improper VA and mutual fund sales by B-Ds

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. has slapped Wells Fargo Investments LLC and four other investment firms with $1.65 million in fines for supervisory failures in mutual fund and variable annuity transactions.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 26, 2009
Big on life insurance

The Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education has chosen prime-time dreamboat Chris Noth as its national spokesman for Life Insurance Awareness Month in September.

NEWS RIAS JUL 26, 2009
Reborn NAVA will focus on advisers and consumers

In a dramatic re-branding, NAVA Inc., the trade group of variable annuity providers, last week changed its name to the Insured Retirement Institute and its focus to serving “the insured-retirement-strategies industry and consumers who rely on those guarantees.”