The 56th Annual Profit Sharing and 401(k) Survey reveals that companies are contributing more to their sponsored retirement plans and adding more features, and that participants are saving at higher rates compared to the previous year...
With many of the nation's largest life insurers preparing to announce third quarter results over the next two to three weeks, analysts are looking for the industry to deliver earnings growth in the "low single-digit range," according to Moody's Investors Services...
Assets in alternative or "alt" mutual fund investments could double in the next five years to $490 billion by 2018, particularly if advisors and investors become more comfortable with such funds, according to an analysis by a mutual fund analytics firm...
A new report finds that specialist advisors manage twice as many assets per advisor compared to their generalist peers. The study also finds that while specialization narrows an advisor's market, it improves that advisor's success in developing business by articulating a tailored service...
Financial and benefits advisors in the midst of the fall renewal reason for self-funded health plans beginning Jan. 1, 2014, take note: Stop-loss insurance has entered a new era, courtesy of the Affordable Care Act...
LIMRA and LOMA president and chief executive officer Robert A. Kerzner announced the establishment of the LIMRA LOMA Secure Retirement Institute during his remarks at the 2013 LIMRA Annual Conference...
The Affordable Care Act Marketplace website could not be accessed online due to a failure in a private contractor's server, U.S. health officials said...
The Obama administration has set a rough timetable of the end of November for completing a long list of fixes to the new, trouble-plagued government website for uninsured Americans to get health insurance coverage...
Outlays for Medicare are projected to increase rapidly in coming decades because of the retirement of the baby-boom generation and because growth in per capita spending for health care is expected to continue to exceed growth in per capita gross domestic product...
People buying health insurance through the new U.S. online marketplaces will have six more weeks to comply before getting fined, the Obama administration said...
Peter L. Gualtieri listened carefully as President Obama defended the Affordable Care Act against its critics. He was troubled by what he did not hear...
The National Insurance Crime Bureau released a report based on a review of personal property questionable claims submitted from Jan. 1, 2010, through Dec. 31, 2012...
A new survey of small business owners in the Metro-New York City area finds that nearly 30 percent of respondents affected by Superstorm Sandy would be forced to make staffing cuts in the event of another storm...
The Chubb Corporation's board of directors announced that John D. Finnegan, Chubb's chairman, president and chief executive officer, will remain in his current roles until the end of 2016...
The insurance industry is ramping up its lobbying and campaign donation efforts, several industry experts said, now that the recent federal budget fight is no longer making it difficult to push for progress on key legislative initiatives...
Patrick B. Kelleher, chief executive officer of Genworth Financial Inc.'s U.S. life insurance division and an executive vice president, is leaving the company effective Dec. 31...
ING Group NV plans to offer 30 million of its shares in ING U.S., making it the second time the Netherlands-based parent has reduced its stake in the company as part of a plan to spin it off...
The insurer demonstrating the fastest growth was Homeowners Choice, which increased Q2 direct written premiums to $131 million from $85 million in the second quarter of 2012...
Insurance Industry Boosts Lobbying Efforts Post-Shutdown Battle
