A provision to study whether a fiduciary standard should be required in the sale of investment products...

Signs are emerging that comprehensive healthcare reform legislation could be enacted by the end of April....

Indexed annuity sales hit a new sales record in 2009, reaching over $30.1 billion, according to AnnuitySpecs.com....

Variable life insurance sales with single premiums included at 10% for the 35 companies reporting in the VALUE survey for the fourth quarter of 2009 were $366.1 million. ...

The editors of Full Disclosure periodically survey life insurers active in upper markets across a wide range of product specifications, illustrations, guaranteed minimum premiums, and more. ...

Dental insurers have been careful in recent years about giving dental care and dental coverage too much credit for improving patients’ overall health....

In an era of global competition and Internet commerce, salespeople are in danger of becoming irrelevant. ...

It’s obvious from the fight that’s going on in Congress over whether to even form a Consumer Protection Agency and where to put it that American consumers have a major problem....

Steve Piontek accuses the American Council of Life Insurers (“Dirty Little Secrets,” Feb. 15, 2010) of making unfounded allegations against the life settlement industry in our policy statement opposing securitization of life settlements....

For two weeks in February I spent most of my evenings watching the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. ...