For a look at the retirement products advisers can expect in 2010, the insights of some literary greats — Charles Dickens, Voltaire, Lord Byron and Jane Austen — may be more illuminating than you would imagine.
High-income families would be hit with a tax increase on wages and a new levy on investments under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill.
President Barack Obama's health plan proposal would extend Medicare taxes to the investment income of higher-earning households.
American International Group Inc. recently made several high-level appointments and agreed to sell some assets, but recruiting talent and repaying government debt will remain challenges, according to experts.
The American Council of Life Insurers today blasted a newly floated tax proposal on unearned income — part of a series of suggested changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009.
State insurance regulators Monday voted in favor of a proposal that would allow carriers to terminate an annuity living or death benefit if a client sold the contract over the secondary market.
Annual volume from life settlements transactions is expected to reach $13 billion in face value over the next three years, according to research from Aite Group LLC.
The pension and actuary group sends a mea culpa to members after a financial advisory firm got hold of the association's mailing list for an upcoming conference.
And there's a 5% chance the tab could top $570K, according to a sobering study published this week by Boston College.
By integrating annuities into financial plans, advisers can take precautions against their clients' outliving their assets, according to a retirement income planning expert.
Standard & Poor's Equity Research recently upgraded its outlook for the biotechnology industry to positive from neutral.
Two life insurers are suing a trio of broker-dealers, accusing them of fraudulently selling to third parties variable annuities with lucrative death benefits on terminally ill individuals.
With the life insurance industry recovering from a year of falling revenue, as sales of variable annuities, universal- and variable-universal life insurance all off, carriers are gearing up to make some changes.
The Minnesota Commerce Department claims that the insurer sold 541 contracts worth $28 million that weren't OK'd by state
Steep rate hikes are coming for long-term-care policies written a decade ago.
Even as long-term care costs skyrocket, many Americans have unrealistic plans for how they expect to pay for those services, according to a new survey from the Life Foundation.
New data finds that more than 2 million individual life insurance policies were sold via the Internet, direct mail and telephone.
The nascent secondary market for annuities and their guaranteed benefits could be stunted as the result of a vote last week by state insurance regulators to allow carriers to terminate the annuity benefits if a client sells the contract.
