Lincoln National Corp.

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  Life insurance stocks rally on investment gains

  By AP Staff Writer  |  April 10, 2013

  Expectations for solid first-quarter results pushed life insurance stocks up on Wednesday, but low interest rates have analysts staying cautious.

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  Insurance stocks rally as bond yields climb

  By AP Staff Writer  |  March 8, 2013

  Shares of insurance companies rallied to 52-week highs on Friday.

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  Disability Insurance Observer: Woodshed

  By Allison Bell  |  February 12, 2013

  At some companies, it's disability units' turn to be the earnings bad guy.

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  JPMorgan sees weak returns from life insurers

  By AP Staff Writer  |  January 3, 2013

  Low interest rates are to blame, analyst says.

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  Morningstar: VA product changes in 3Q outpace activity from year-ago period

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  November 6, 2012

  Product changes that variable annuity providers unveiled during the third quarter were more than double that of the year-ago period, but down from the second quarter.

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  Disability sales rise at Lincoln, fall at Hartford

  By Allison Bell  |  November 1, 2012

  The companies' group disability sales moved in the same direction as their group life sales.

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  Unum Reports Mixed Disability Results

  By Allison Bell  |  August 2, 2012

  Disability sales, revenue and earnings are all over the map at other carriers.

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  Hybrids' Time in the Sun

  By Allison Bell  |  August 1, 2012

  The number of advisors offering Lincoln's UL policy long-term care benefits feature has increased 61%.

• Nonbank SIFI “Dragnet” for Fed Supervision Targeted at Hill Hearing

  By Arthur D. Postal, Elizabeth Festa  |  June 1, 2012

  Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Americas, President William “Bill” Wheeler told a House panel in no uncertain terms that he does not believe insurers should be regulated like banks and warned against marketplace distortion should the final federal capital enhancement rules not be crafted well--or even if they are and insurers...

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  Nonbank SIFI "Dragnet" for Fed Supervision Targeted at Hill Hearing

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  May 16, 2012

  MetLife does not know if the FSOC will feel compelled to name MetLife and a few other large insurers as SIFIs, and officials won't say, but lawmakers and MetLife wonder about the wisdom and the possible harmful effects of applying bank-centric regulations to an insurance company.