As his company begins celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding, Guardian Life’s CEO Dennis Manning likes the view from where he sits atop one of the industry’s largest mutual life insurers. ...

You may have heard by now that 2010 may be a great year to die–at least from a federal estate tax standpoint, anyway. ...

Life insurance is an essential element of personal financial planning, but consumers are remarkably indifferent about who they buy their life insurance from....

Question: Would you agree that most of your clients are (a) intensely loyal to you; (b) moderately loyal; (c) neither loyal nor disloyal; (d) moderately disloyal; or (e) would happily bolt to another advisor at the first opportunity....

The Obama administration will promote the use of annuities to generate retirement income when it releases proposals for helping stressed middle-income families. ...

Funny how one election has thrown everything up in the air....

How do new widows and widowers feel about the services and products of financial professionals who assisted them during the early months following the death of a spouse? ...

Be prepared. The tsunami set off by the election of a Republican senator from Massachusetts is likely to generate far stronger federal oversight of the insurance industry than would have otherwise been the case....

While reading the January issue of Advisor Today, the official publication of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, I came across an apparent conflict of objectives between a feature article and an advertisement....