The Obama administration’s consideration of a safety commission for financial products needs to be approached with great care, Richard Ketchum, chief executive of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., said today at NAVA’s annual legislative and regulatory conference.
Advisers are struggling to get clients — especially baby boomers — to think about funding long term care in the face of depleted investment portfolios.
Mindful of past disasters with long term care insurers, financial advisers have found ways to balance financial viability with quality benefits.
A New York Congressman has introduced a bill that will try to preserve state authority over indexed annuities, pushing back against a recent rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ramani Ayer, chairman and chief executive of the Hartford (Conn.) Financial Services Group Inc., said today that he will step down by the end of the year.
Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, questioned regulators and representatives of the long term care insurance industry at a committee hearing yesterday and focused on the financial viability of LTC insurers.
As some insurers recently made stock and debt offerings in lieu of participating in the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, Moody’s Investors Service said that it will review the way these recapitalization options affect carriers’ ratings.
John Hancock Financial Services today released a variable annuity called the John Hancock AnnuityNote.
As retirement looms for baby boomers, financial advisers are finding additional uses for their clients' health savings accounts, including covering the cost of long term care insurance.
Fixed annuities continued to outsell their variable counterparts in the first quarter, according to data from LIMRA International Inc. of Windsor, Conn.
