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Getting Life Insurance
Your health greatly affects the rates you'll pay for life insurance -- or if a particular insurer will cover you at all. But you may be able to find coverage even if you've battled cancer or heart disease.
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Which Life Insurance Is Best?
Before you head to an insurance broker's office, you should be familiar with the pros and cons of each policy type.
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March 2, 2013Hartford's 2012 Results Now a Loss After Third-Quarter Restatement
WSJ.comHartford Financial Services Group Inc. restated its third-quarter 2012 results, resulting in a loss for the year instead of a profit, due to an accounting error related to a sale of its life-insurance operations.
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February 3, 2013
Retirement Income; New Annuity Guarantees Raise Questions; The latest products from insurers are less expensive. But regulators—and consumers—remain wary.
WSJ.comWith millions of baby boomers headed to retirement without old-fashioned pension plans as safety nets, here is a product that would seem to have big appeal: a guarantee of lifetime income from a portfolio of ordinary mutual funds—however ...
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December 21, 2012Aviva Sells U.S. Business
WSJ.comLONDON—Aviva PLC said Friday it agreed to a cut-price sale of its U.S. life and annuities arm as the U.K.'s second-biggest insurer by market value restructures its business ahead of new capital requirements for European insurers.
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November 30, 2012By Ellen E. Schultz; Insurance Can Cut Your Taxes
WSJ.comBad investments have an upside: You often can use your losses to offset other gains. Unfortunately, you don't get the same tax break when you cash out a life-insurance policy at a loss.
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November 10, 2012ING U.S. Files for Long-Awaited Initial Public Offering
WSJ.comING U.S., the U.S.-based financial-services arm of ING Groep NV, filed plans for a long-awaited initial public offering as its Dutch parent continues to divest overseas operations as required by a 2008 government bailout.
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October 25, 2012Stronger Dollar Hurts Aflac, Boosts Hartford
Barrons.comSterne, Agee & LeachSeveral external data points in the life-insurance sector have changed enough in recent weeks since our third-quarter earnings preview that we wanted to bring it to the attention of investors in the sector. We also ...
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August 16, 2012Texas Seeks Seizure of Life Partners
WSJ.comTexas regulators asked a court to appoint a receiver to take charge of Life Partners Holdings Inc., a leading company in the business of selling life-insurance investments, saying it had fraudulently sold unregistered securities and could ...
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August 13, 2012Life Insurers Pressed on Lost Policies
WSJ.comMary Lou Sowa scoured her father's records after his death, told a life insurer about two policies she found and received the proceeds. But when she asked about indications that he held other policies as well, she says the insurer told her ...
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July 31, 2012
Retirement costs confuse soon-to-be retirees
MarketWatchNEW YORK (MarketWatch)—One third of people close to retirement said they don’t know how much money they will need to cover basic expenses in retirement, according to a new study.
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March 21, 2012
Hartford Says Goodbye to Annuities
WSJ.comHartford Financial Services Group Inc. on Wednesday unveiled plans for a radical overhaul of its business in an effort to revive its share price and satisfy demands by the hedge-fund manager John Paulson for "drastic" change at ...
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March 21, 2012
Hartford bows to Paulson on annuity business
MarketWatchNEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Bowing to pressure from hedge-fund titan John Paulson, Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. said Wednesday it would exit its annuity business and weigh a sale of a large portion of its life-insurance operation.
- February 20, 2012
The Cost of Living Longer -- Much Longer; SmartMoney Magazine: Number crunchers are dead set on figuring out how long you will live. For those saving for retirement, it's the $27 trillion question.
SmartMoney.comIf actuaries were the sorts of people to tell bar jokes, this might be one of them. But in truth, the 78-year-old woman happens to be flesh and blood. (We'll call her Martha.) And equally real, for that matter, is her $20 million, ...
- January 7, 2012
Quit Smoking, Save Cash; Deal of the Day: Smokers are burning plenty of cash – and not just on that pack a day.
SmartMoney.comThose who give up cigarettes may see some of their financial obligations go up in smoke. Some of the benefits are immediate: with higher taxes and fees on cigarettes pushing the cost per pack upwards of $10 in some states, a pack-a-day ...
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December 31, 2011
Are You Owed Life Insurance?
WSJ.comOne billion dollars. That is the amount of money state regulators estimate is sitting on life insurers' books and owed as death benefits, some of it languishing there for decades.
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December 13, 2011Sun Life Revamps Its U.S. Strategy
WSJ.comCanada's third-biggest insurer, Sun Life Financial Inc., will stop selling life insurance and retirement-income products directly to U.S. consumers, a big reversal for a company whose recent marketing push included buying naming rights ...
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December 6, 2011
Shaken by Market, Investors Look for Whole Solution Through Insurance
WSJ.comOverlooking adviser warnings that it can be an investment no-no, a growing number of investors are saying yes to whole-life insurance. The reason: The promise of guaranteed returns.
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September 26, 2011India Official: Three Companies Interested in Infrastructure Debt Funds
WSJ.comNEW DELHI -- India's top two banks and its largest insurer have shown interest in setting up infrastructure debt funds, a senior finance ministry official said Monday, as the South Asian nation moves closer to establishing a cash pool ...
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August 16, 2011Annuities Provide Safety, at a Price
WSJ.comGiven the market mayhem of the last couple of weeks, you would expect that financial planners have been juggling calls at all hours from worried clients. But Matthew Edelstein says his phone has hardly rung. The reason: The vast majority of ...
- August 10, 2011
Make This Estate Planning Move Now; Failure to take this action can have dire consequences.
SmartMoney.comWith the current $5 million federal estate tax exemption, you may not be thinking much about estate planning. After all, there's no way your estate would owe the tax if you happen to die between now and 2013. So no worries, right? ...
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August 4, 2011The Life in MetLife Shares
Barrons.comFor life insurance giant MetLife, it's as if mascot Snoopy keeps snatching the stock just before its kickoff. With a big chunk of its assets in fixed-income securities, the shares have traded as a proxy for the decline in the 10-year ...
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How to Buy a Life Insurance Policy
Many people are so confused about buying life insurance that they never buy it at all.
