Brian Laubacker has joined The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Mr. Laubacker will serve as a regional vice president of sales in the western U.S. for The Hartford's individual life insurance division.
The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has begun recruiting independent insurance agents to sell fixed life insurance products while retaining their own autonomy.
Bob MacDonald, the former chief executive of Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America, has upbraided The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. for selecting Liam McGee as its new chief executive, calling the decision “outsourcing taken to a new and more dangerous level.”
Five millions shares allotted to workers, including officers and sales force leaders
Industry group for insurance and financial advisers gives acting CEO the job on a permanent basis
While the national average cost of home health care increased last year, expenses vary from city to city.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners plans to look into legitimacy of third-party originated annuity transactions
Fixed-annuity sales slid in the fourth quarter and dropped off slightly for the full year of 2009.
Fixed annuity sales slid in the fourth quarter of 2009 — and dropped off slightly for the full year.
The hearing will concentrate on the practice of baiting seniors and terminally ill people to act as insured lives on an annuity purchase, with the death benefit going toward a third-party investor or an intermediary.
Insurance companies are scoping out new distribution channels for variable annuities. Managed-money programs and 401(k) plans top the list of targets.
Genworth's Total Living Coverage Annuity can also be covered through a tax-free 1035 exchange out of an old annuity or life insurance product.
Monthly sales of bank annuities have been declining steadily since climbing to a 2009 high last March.
A number of financial advisers are using the health care reform legislation passed last week as an opportunity to reach out to clients and review their investment portfolios.
President Barack Obama signed a major health care overhaul bill Today. Here are some of its features, along with details on a package of changes to the legislation under consideration by the Senate this week.
For a look at the retirement products advisers can expect in 2010, the insights of some literary greats — Charles Dickens, Voltaire, Lord Byron and Jane Austen — may be more illuminating than you would imagine.
High-income families would be hit with a tax increase on wages and a new levy on investments under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill.
President Barack Obama's health plan proposal would extend Medicare taxes to the investment income of higher-earning households.
