life insurance market

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  LTCI Watch: Archives

  By Allison Bell  |  May 9, 2013

  Sometimes it's good to get out the facial tissue and page through dusty old print publications.

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  Strong growth of life product sales expected

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  April 29, 2013

  Katharine Wolchik, a managing economist and head of global economics at AIG, expects strong life sales through 2014.

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  Producers and technology: Overcoming adoption hurdles

  By Brian Anderson  |  March 28, 2013

  More producers are using iPads and electronic life insurance applications, but the new technologies are not without their challenges.

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  PVI Sun Life gets the OK to operate in Vietnam

  By Michael K. Stanley  |  January 31, 2013

  Canada’s Sun Life got the go-ahead to operate in Vietnam late last week.

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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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  Genworth to realign corporate structure

  By Allison Bell  |  January 16, 2013

  The insurance operations would get some distance from the mortgage insurance business.

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  Selling life insurance far from home: Ravikumar Kodumudi of India

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 3, 2013

  NUL Senior Editor Warren S. Hersch talks with Ravikumar Kodumudi, a director and independent financial and insurance advisor based in India, as part of the “Far from home” series.

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  Selling life insurance far from home: Dinesh Tater of India

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 3, 2013

  As part of the “Far from home” series, NUL Senior Editor Warren S. Hersch talked with Dinesh Tater, the chief financial planning advisor at Aviva Life Insurance Company India Ltd., based in India.

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  Selling life insurance far from home: Leonardo Lerer of Brazil

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 3, 2013

  NUL Senior Editor Warren S. Hersch speaks with Leonardo Lerer, a partner at a life brokerage based in Brazil.

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  Taxing life insurance benefits would be bad—up to a point

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  November 27, 2012

  The growing chorus among the nation’s political elite for closing so-called “tax expenditures” or loopholes as part of a bipartisan tax-reform package have placed the tax-favored status of life insurance squarely within Congress’ cross-hairs.