Ernst & Young

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  Idaho PPACA exchange to hire Dowd as director

  By The Associated Press  |  April 24, 2013

  The health care consultant has been a vendor relations director at Excellus.

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  Investors remain on lookout for distressed loans

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  April 15, 2013

  Investors remain as active or more active as they were in 2012 seeking opportunities to acquire distressed loans that have been securitized.

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  Complex PPACA tax could benefit life insurance industry

  By Liz Festa  |  March 5, 2013

  The Net Investment Income mechanism could mean big things for whole life, annuities and retirement planning.

• The advanced markets bandwagon

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  February 5, 2013

  To judge by the opinions of experts, life insurance professionals can look forward to improved advanced markets sales in 2013.

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  Ernst & Young solidifies its market share

  By Michael K. Stanley  |  January 25, 2013

  A report puts Ernst & Young with a 7 percent market share and a 20 percent growth rate.

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  Ernst & Young's Doug French prognosticates on advanced sales in 2013

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 21, 2013

  NUL Senior Editor Warren S. Hersch recently chatted with Doug French, a managing principal of the insurance services practice at New York-based Ernst & Young. The interview explored, among issues, prospects for advanced markets sales in 2013, the evolution of agent compensation and challenges that advisors will face in the...

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  Study: Prolonged low interest rates have major impact on retirement income

  By Maria Wood  |  December 26, 2012

  A sustained period of low interest rates can deplete a retirement portfolio almost as severely as market volatility.

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  Life insurance: 5 things to expect in 2013

  By Michael K. Stanley  |  December 19, 2012

  It will be a transition year for the life insurance industry, which faces possible changes to the tax-favored status of life products, as well as challenges in remaining relevant to younger consumers.

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  Ernst & Young: Life insurers should transform strategies to remain relevant

  By Michael K. Stanley  |  December 12, 2012

  Life insurers need to respond to a transforming marketplace by transforming themselves, their products, their services and their strategies.

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  Do Dems have the upper hand in fiscal cliff negotiations?

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  December 7, 2012

  In the wake of President Obama's election victory, Democrats are likely to get much of what they seek.