A decision of the Securities and Exchange Commission to concede in court documents that it will provide a full two-year implementation period for federal regulation of indexed annuities under Rule 151A....

There is an increasing likelihood that the estate tax will expire at the end of this year because of congressional inaction....

Senate Democrats appear on the verge of dropping a scaled-backed public plan that would make people 55 to 64 without healthcare coverage eligible for Medicare....

New sales of variable annuities declined in the third quarter, dropping 2% to $30.6 billion from $31.2 billion in the second quarter of 2009 and down 17.3% from third quarter 2008 sales of $37 billion....

Variable life insurance sales with single premiums included at 10% for the 35 companies reporting in the VALUE survey for the third quarter of 2009 were $292.1 million....

Imposing a 40% excise tax on relatively high-cost, “Cadillac” health plans might be fairly effective at holding down health care spending, a government forecaster says....

The American Council of Life Insurers is pointing to a new study by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as confirming its view that a long term care entitlement program contained in the latest Senate health care reform package won’t work....

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup--did not show up at the White House for a meeting with President Obama that was to deal with getting these institutions to make more loans to small businesses and consumers. ...

One year ends, another begins. The wheel of history turns and a new opportunity presents itself. I have never been a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, for I prefer specific plans over wishful expectations. ...