Regulator highlights reps engaging in unsuitable product sales and firms not conducting appropriate due diligence.
Taking a deduction for out-of-pocket medical expenses will face a higher bar in 2019.
IUL's market share is two-and-a-half-times larger than it was at the beginning of the decade.
Columnist is one of the owners of a VA contract that insurer is cutting fees on.
Medicare doesn't cover medical costs outside the U.S.
Insurance groups facing off against retirement industry stakeholders over issue of lifetime income illustrations.
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is upping the ante on his prior effort to pass a package of tax and retirement measures.
Rising interest rates and slowing stock market drive assets to insurance products, Limra report says.
Interest group chapter argues the state's Department of Financial Services exceeded its authority with the rule.
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New top tier added for ultra-high-income retirees next year.
Finra said the firm failed to mandate and enforce its own written supervisory procedures, resulting in the unsuitable sale of L-share variable annuities tied to long-term riders.
Six Cetera broker-dealers allege the insurer will be breaching its contractual obligations by withholding millions of dollars in trail commissions from their brokers.
The personnel changes come weeks after the insurer's controversial decision to stop paying trail commissions on some annuities.
And none of them have anything to do with the death of the DOL rule
