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Life insurance can be a valuable asset for seniors battling inflation
Selling life insurance policies can help retirees meet expenses, but such transactions, known as life settlements, are overlooked by the financial planning world.
Life settlements seen increasing as population ages
Selling unneeded insurance policies to a third party can provide retirees with needed income.
Resurgence ahead for life settlements industry?
Underfunded universal life policies' loss may be a gain for secondary insurance market.
Lincoln National: Variable annuity sales are up, and there’s still room to grow
Lincoln National's variable annuity deposits hit $3.4 billion at the life insurer during the third quarter, reflecting a 56% increase from the year-ago period, but execs want to shift more to contracts without living benefits.
What new scrutiny of life insurance captives means for advisers
Regulatory attention means advisers may want to rethink which companies they work with.
Life settlements on regulators’ radar as states push their use
Texas latest to encourage holders to sell life insurance, use proceeds for long-term care.
No surrender: Advisers have ‘obligation’ to talk life settlements with clients
A policy buyer says such transactions make plenty of sense for certain groups of people
Bizarre life settlement drama in Texas nearing an end
Investors to get their money back — in ten years or so
Retired couple withdraws claim against B-D, former rep
Clients claimed rep told them to put their IRA into life settlements
Stillwater runs dry as OSU, Pickens come up empty in insurance battle
Judge rejects bid to recoup $33 million in soured funding scheme for school's athletic department; life insurance policies taken on 27 donors
MetLife to pay $500M to settle death benefit probe
Multistate settlement follows review on whether companies were holding funds that should go to beneficiaries.
Ruling is Stoli setback for Principal Life
A federal court decision in Pennsylvania has notched a win for life settlement investors.
SEC fraud case could give new life to life settlements controversy
Life Partners accused of misleading shareholders about mortality estimates; securities or not?
Life settlement products turn out to be killer for Tex. reps
Texas securities regulators last week fined a pair of Corpus Christi-based brokers for their alleged sale of notes…
Elderly couple: Rep told us to put our IRA into life settlements
But ex-broker refutes claim, says clients performed their own due diligence
Campaign has Betty White pitching ‘hot’ life settlements
Actress Betty White is the celebrity pitchwoman for life settlements provider The Lifeline Program and also stars in the firm's viral YouTube video, “I'm Still Hot.”
Life settlement notes turn out to be killer for Tex reps
Pair of brokers in Lone Star state suspended for selling bogus promissory notes from now-defunct National Life Settlements; 'We were fooled'
Insurers’ death benefit payout practices targeted
State regulators continue to investigate claims that life insurance carriers may be failing to pay out death benefits or submit the money to the state in a timely fashion. Not surprisingly, this has attracted the attention of tort lawyers.
Life settlements scammers get longer jail sentences than Enron’s Skilling
Two Houston men have been sentenced to spend more than 45 years in prison for their role in a massive life settlements fraud scheme.
MetLife to take charge of up to $135M to pay death benefits
MetLife Inc. will take a charge of up to $135 million for unpaid death benefits based on Social Security Administration records.
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