Independent broker-dealers owned by insurance companies, once the dominant players of the industry, will continue to dwindle in size and importance over the coming decade, unable to keep pace with more nimble competitors that invest in, and increase, investment advisory services for reps.
Conglomerate acquires $7.5B in accounts from insurer; sale includes online banking platform
Caramadre faces indictment over alleged scheme that purportedly sought out those with less than six months to live; lawyer says 'insurance industry upset it got beat at its own game'
As insurers find new ways to provide workers with a steady stream of income through their retirement plans, financial advisers are grappling with how best to benchmark these products against one another
Moody's: Bank sale eliminates Fed oversight but gives Met competitive chops
Low interest rates seen as manageable; stock prices 'beaten down to ridiculous levels'
Walter White takes helm of U.S. ops, arrives with brokerage expertise
An economic slowdown remains the No. 1 risk facing businesses, according to Aon Corp.'s biennial Global Risk Management Survey of global risk managers and chief financial officers
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Carrier being sued for allegedly retaining life insurance payouts, pocketing the float
A continuing three-year, 35-state investigation into the practices by which life insurers pay death benefits may spawn more-stringent requirements for locating beneficiaries
A hefty charge that ING Groep NV will take on its American variable annuity business appears to be a mixed blessing for investors hoping to snap up shares of the company's insurance unit once it makes its public debut.
A new Allianz Life distribution program -- one that rewards top indexed-annuity sellers with exclusive products -- is ruffling feathers among agents and marketing groups
Market gyrations, low interest rates forces company to scale back; life insurance also nixed here
Sun Life Financial Inc.'s hybrid whole-life and long-term-care product came out just last month, but the insurer is champing at the bit to build market share in a space currently dominated by just a select few.
Falling investment returns, rising costs of necessities has pre-retirees cutting back on prescriptions, skipping doctors' appointments, study finds
