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December 13, 2011
WSJ.com
Canada'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
WSJ.com
Overlooking 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, 2011
WSJ.com
NEW 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, 2011
WSJ.com
Given 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
SmartMoney.com
With 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, 2011
Barrons.com
For 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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July 31, 2011
WSJ.com
Sales of insurance policies that combine long-term-care with other forms of insurance are booming. But before buying, it's important to understand the possible drawbacks.
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May 28, 2011
WSJ.com
Insurance agents have a story they can sell even harder than usual. But that doesn't mean you should buy it. The recent market meltdown breathed new life into a much-maligned financial product: permanent life insurance. Part insurance ...
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May 20, 2011
WSJ.com
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—State regulators on Thursday took MetLife Inc. to task, saying the insurer used a database that tracked deaths when doing so proved beneficial for one side of the company, but for years didn't use the same database ...
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May 19, 2011
WSJ.com
Florida officials announced an agreement Wednesday with Manulife Financial Corp.'s John Hancock unit to set up a process for aggressively identifying deceased life-insurance policyholders and get death payouts to their beneficiaries.
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March 12, 2011
WSJ.com
It is getting easier to buy term life insurance without undergoing extensive medical tests. But if you are relatively healthy, you may well have to pay extra for the convenience.
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February 5, 2011
WSJ.com
As long-term-care insurance grows increasingly expensive and harder to get, insurers are stepping into the breach with new life policies and annuities that pay out long-term-care benefits during one's lifetime. But the new products may ...
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January 27, 2011
WSJ.com
A company that arranges for individual investors to buy pieces of strangers' life-insurance policies is altering the way it sells to those investors, amid growing scrutiny of the firm's practices.
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January 6, 2011
WSJ.com
NEW YORK—Genworth Financial Inc. is pulling out of the business of selling variable annuities to consumers, a retirement-income product that caused losses to many insurers during the 2008-09 stock-market meltdown and whose profitability now ...
December 21, 2010
SmartMoney.com
In the summer of 2005, a firm called Life Partners Holdings Inc. said Marvin Aslett, an Idaho rancher 79 years old, had two to four years to live.
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