life insurance products

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  Unum appoints new head of Internal Audit

  By Noah Guillaume  |  January 23, 2013

  J. Matthew Royal succeeds Nicholas Desiderio, who is retiring after more than 22 years with the firm.

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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...

• Top ten taxes

  By Staff Writer  |  January 18, 2013

  A financial blogger names 10 taxes to increase; life insurance products didn't make the list.

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  Defending your life: Tax reform and the inside buildup

  By Robert Lehmert  |  January 16, 2013

  Without the deferral of taxation on the inside build-up of life insurance, the product would be unaffordable and unavailable.

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  Answers to the top IUL questions

  By Katherine Vessenes  |  January 9, 2013

  Such a complicated product can—and, perhaps, should—require multiple meetings with clients.

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  Life insurance among top tax breaks

  By AP Staff Writer  |  January 9, 2013

  Taxpayers will save $23 billion this year, thanks to life insurance.

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  Meaningful philanthropy, indeed

  By Brian Anderson  |  January 7, 2013

  Non-famous people can create lasting legacies with the help of life insurance — if they only knew.

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  Selling life insurance far from home: Mikhail Petrov of Russia

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 3, 2013

  In conjunction with the “Far from home” feature, NUL Senior Editor Warren S. Hersch interviews Mikhail Petrov, a financial advisor with Allianz ROSNO Life, based in Russia.

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  Industry girds for next tax battle

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  January 2, 2013

  Instructions and a process for tax reform could be in the next legislative session, said NAIFA President Rob Smith.

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  5 million reasons why I admire this industry

  By Bill Coffin  |  January 2, 2013

  It took 4,000 New York Life employees and agents just eight weeks to raise more than $5 million in its annual giving campaign, including $250,000 in Hurricane Sandy aid. It took Congress way longer than that to deliver no Hurricane Sandy aid, at all.