Hedge funds' recent poor performance, along with a sluggish economy, has finally given investors the upper hand in negotiating fees on these historically high-priced alternative investments.
Craig Raymond has joined John Hancock Financial Services Inc. as its new chief risk officer and chief actuary, effective immediately.
Insurer Conseco said expects to post a profit in the second quarter because of a much smaller investment loss.
Insurer American International Group Inc. said on today that it closed the sale of its life insurance premium finance business for $679.5 million in cash.
Jitters about the U.S. economy are putting the stock market rally on hold again.
Members of Congress are being urged to create — at a minimum — a new regulatory body within the federal government to focus on the insurance industry.
The current pace of growth in the defined contribution arena could tilt the majority of mutual fund ownership to institutional investors by 2012, according to a report released late yesterday by Cerulli Associates Inc.
Adults 55 to 64 were most likely to have health care coverage in 2007, according to a study from the Employee Benefits Research Institute.
Kermitt J. Brooks, acting insurance superintendent for New York, today was named the chairman of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' life and annuities committee.
Prices of government bonds fell today ahead of another round of Treasury auctions as traders worried that the latest issues might be met with weak demand.
Though fewer catastrophe bonds were issued during the first half of 2009, investors may see more of these issuances in the second half of the year as the financial markets stabilize, according to a report from Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC and GC Securities, both of New York.
New U.S. home sales rose by the largest amount in more than eight years last month, in another sign the housing market is finally bouncing back from the worst downturn in decades.
Health insurer Aetna Inc. said Monday its profit skidded 28 percent in the second quarter due to higher medical expenses in its commercial business, which it expects to continue for the rest of the year.
The Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education has chosen prime-time dreamboat Chris Noth as its national spokesman for Life Insurance Awareness Month in September.
Given last year's investment results, especially in 2010 target date funds, there are many who question whether the target date fund concept itself is fatally flawed.
The recently issued SEC proposal to expand issuer disclosure in the $2.7 trillion municipal-securities market doesn't go far enough, say muni-bond analysts and the mutual fund industry.
The American Council of Life Insurers is worried about efforts to establish a voluntary disability in-surance program.
In a dramatic re-branding, NAVA Inc., the trade group of variable annuity providers, last week changed its name to the Insured Retirement Institute and its focus to serving “the insured-retirement-strategies industry and consumers who rely on those guarantees.”
The Securities and Exchange Commission will likely reissue a rule that classifies equity index annuities as securities and subjects them to federal oversight.
Consumer cyclical stocks, junk bonds, financial stocks and emerging-markets stocks were among the biggest losers last year, but during the first six months of this year, they propelled a handful of mutual funds to the top of the performance charts.
