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AIG Looking to Buy Hartford Advisory Group

By Arthur D. Postal | August 1, 2012

American International Group’s SunAmerica unit is seen within the securities distribution industry as the strongest amongst four suitors for Hartford Financial Groups’ broker-dealer arm, Woodbury Financial Services, Inc.

AIG Looking to Buy Hartford Advisory Group

By Arthur D. Postal | July 23, 2012

If AIG picks up Woodbury Financial Services from the Hartford, what might it sell off next?

SunAmerica Reorganizes

By Arthur D. Postal | April 12, 2012

American International Group’s SunAmerica Financial Group unit is reorganizing to consolidate and expand its distribution channels.

In It To Win It

By Arthur D. Postal | February 14, 2012

In AIG’s lower Manhattan headquarters, SunAmerica Financial Group’s CEO Jay Wintrob rattles off a series of encouraging statistics about SunAmerica. The company is currently the fourth-largest seller of annuities in the United States; the largest seller of fixed annuities in the United States; the sixth-largest seller of variable annuities in...

IN IT TO WIN IT

By Arthur D. Postal | February 1, 2012

In AIG’s lower Manhattan headquarters, SunAmerica Financial Group’s CEO Jay Wintrob rattles off a series of encouraging statistics about SunAmerica. The company is currently the fourth-largest seller of annuities in the United States; the largest seller of fixed annuities in the United States; the sixth-largest seller of variable annuities in...

Life Insurance: At the crossroads of death and taxes

By Charles K. Hirsch, CLU | February 1, 2012

Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” This statement, in its shortened version of course, has now achieved a familiar spot in our cultural lexicon.