Life Protection & Savings
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Library: Pacific Life Re – The long tail of critical illness claims
Executive summary : When customers make a claim on their critical illness (CI) policy it will often follow an unexpected and traumatic diagnosis or treatment for a serious ...
Library: Accenture – Wealth management: The new state of advice
Executive summary: A lot can change in a short time. The events over the last year accelerated an industry-wide shift in consumers’ need for financial advice like never before. ...
EY – NextWave Insurance: life insurance and retirement
Executive summary : A complex mix of economic, technological, competitive and societal trends have the global life insurance and retirement industry facing an inflection point. ...
KPMG – A COVID-19 call to action for the Australian insurance and wealth sector
Executive summary : The insurance, super and financial advice consumers are showing early signs of refusing to return to their pre-COVID-19 ways of interacting with their financial...
McKinsey : Implications of coronavirus for North American life and annuities writers
Executive summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are rightly focused on securing their employees’ and customers’ safety, as well as keeping their doors open with ...
IBM: Why aren’t millennials buying life insurance?
Executive summary : Confusing and complicated policies stymie young consumers There’s a popular expression these days: “Millennials killed [fill in the blank].” Mortgages, ...
TDI Point of View: The Future of Personal Lines Insurance
Article Synopsis : Our featured report this week comes from TDI Academy. It is the first white paper from a series that will be known as Point of View. It focuses on personal ...
Mobile payments as a springboard for life and health insurance
One of the biggest surprises within digital insurance has been the arrival of mobile payments as a springboard for life and health insurance across developing markets – and ...
中国深度：数字生活解决方案（技术支持的死亡率解决方案）
人寿保险在全球范围内下降了几年。许多经济体在2008年后长期陷入衰退，这使它成为一种奢侈，有些人认为他们可以做不到。 ...
China In-Depth: Digital life solutions (tech enabled solutions for mortality)
Life insurance has been in global decline for some years. The protracted recession post-2008 in many economies has made it a luxury that some have decided they can do without. This...
IFC: How Insurtech Can Close the Protection Gap in Emerging Markets
Article Synopsis : Life insurance has low penetration in the emerging market, but insurtech will be particularly significant in closing the ‘protection gap’. Insurance ...
BCG: Reinventing Life Insurance Agency Distribution Globally
Article Synopsis : This report from Boston Consulting Group and Morgan Stanley Research examines the future of life insurance distribution and the role of agencies – and ...
McKinsey: Life insurance in China – Four priorities
Article Synopsis : The agency channel in China is seen by some [Reinventing Life Insurance Agency Distribution Globally] as being an exemplar of digitalisation. It has embraced ...
China In-Depth: Ageing Asia
Annuities and retiree care for an ageing Asia Longer lifespans are generally seen as a positive outcome of economic growth. Yet, the Chinese face the double challenge of rising ...
Earthquake detection, mitigation and insurance
Asia is no stranger to natural catastrophes. Of all those that affect the continent, earthquakes are the most destructive and the deadliest. An infamous earthquake in 2008 in ...
Accenture: Life insurance is a dying business. Can technology revive it?
Article Synopsis : This blog looks at what needs to be done to get European consumers buying life insurance. People are not buying it, and this is particularly true for ...
TDI TALKS! WITH ABHISHEK SHAH AND PRAYAT SHAH FROM WELLTHY THERAPEUTICS
15 minutes live with Abhishek Shah and Prayat Shah from Wellthy Therapeutics who share their views on how digital therapeutics like Wellthy are helping to prevent and reduce the ...
TDI Talks! With Dustin Yoder, CEO @ Sureify
15 minutes live with Dustin Yoder who talks about the digital transformation of life insurance.
Meerkat Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 African Insurance Innovation Awards
Watch David O’Brien, Founder & Managing Director, Meerkat talk about how Meerkat is helping clients to regain control via Debt Counselling and reducing cost through the ...
Dustin Yoder from Sureify speaks @ Digital Transformation – Urgent or Too Late? panel session – North America LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Dustin Yoder from Sureify share his thoughts and insights @ Digital Transformation – Urgent or Too Late? panel session – North America LIVEFEST 2018 on the ...
TDI Talks! With Dustin Yoder, CEO @ Sureify
15 minutes live with Dustin Yoder who talks about the digital transformation of life insurance.
Great Eastern launches three-generation critical illness term plan
Great Eastern Singapore has launched GREAT Family Care, a critical illness term plan that protects three generations in a family within a single policy. The solution comes at...
Union Life focuses on retirement communities in China
Insurance Innovator: Breeze Wins Real Simple’s 2022 Smart...
Breeze, the company simplifying how disability insurance is bought and sold, has won Real Simple’s 2022 Smart Money Award in the insurance category.
Integrity Marketing Group acquires Annexus
Annexus develops financial and insurance products including fixed indexed annuities and indexed universal life insurance policies for insurance companies.
Annexus and Integrity Join Forces to Transform Annuity an...
Historic partnership between innovative market leaders will empower agents and advisors to deliver expanded holistic life, health and wealth solutions to American consumers DAL...
Progressive enters Ohio life insurance market
This has been a long time coming.
Breeze Adds Short-Term Disability Insurance to Growing On...
The short-term product is unique to the market and complements multiple long-term products already available on Breeze.
Investment Strategies for Today’s Volatility | Insu...
Chubb Life launches New Product – ‘Premier Golden A...
Jakarta, 28 June, 2022 – As people get older, they are more susceptible to illness and health problems. The Indonesia Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) noted the life expectanc...
New York Life Names Todd Taylor Head of Retail Annuities
Having joined the company in 2008 and taken roles of increasing responsibility in life,annuities and corporate, Taylor most recently led strategy and analytics for Retail Annuit...
MoneyLion to join Russell 3000® Index
MoneyLion has at least two car insurance partners, making it one of several alternative distributors to emerge in the last year.
Verisk and LIMRA Partner to Fight Fraud, Financial Crimes...
FraudShare helps financial services firms combat the growing prevalence of account takeover fraud in life insurance, annuity and retirement plan accounts.
Breeze Partners With Principal Financial Group® to Expand...
Breeze, the insurtech simplifying how disability and critical illness insurance are distributed, announced today the addition of the individual disability insurance product from...
Haven Life partners with fintech Kinly
The startup helped develop life insurance products for Black Americans.
Penn Mutual’s Vantis continues partnership with Everdays
Vantis Life Insurance Company announced a new marketing and distribution partnership with the insurtech platform.
Verisk appoints new president of claims solutions
Exec to take over from company veteran, who is retiring after 27 years with the firm
Haven Life partners with Kinly
Kinly members can apply and, if approved, get coverage instantly.
Lumera acquires Ai-London | Insurtech Insights
Strategic acquisition will be instrumental for expansion to the UK and Ireland markets, while investing in Ai-London’s vision to create...
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Insurtech Traffk launches digital life insurance platform
US-based insurance underwriting and distribution platform Traffk has announced the launch of Hero Life Insurance. Hero Life offers digital life insurance offerings and is design...
The Misunderstood Cash Power Of Deferred Annuities
In addition to full surrender and annuitization, today’s deferred annuity products offer a number of options for limited, penalty-free liquidity.
Category: InsuranceNewsNet Magazine
Why a “throw it all against the wall and see what sticks” mentality won’t work when using social media to reach prospects.
Category: Life Insurance
WINDSOR, Conn. and Washington, D.C., May 11, 2022 — New research from LIMRA and the Finseca Foundation reveals five secrets to...
Category: Advisor News
If you reach retirement with a significant amount of assets, you've done a great job of saving and investing. But now comes another challenge— making that money last. You m...
How Life Insurance Sales Defied Expectations
The U.S. life insurance industry has been known for its recent slow growth compared to other financial sectors such as banking and investments. But now, the signs are finally po...
Commentary: Why We Must Join Together To Launch A Bold Ne...
We are about to enter a new era in personal finance that will be characterized by a sharp focus on risk mitigation.
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What Advisors Need To Know About Long-Term DI Costs
May is Disability Insurance Awareness Month. It’s the perfect time to highlight disability insurance to agents, brokers and advisors who may be interested in adding this relativ...
Not All Life Insurance Policies Cover COVID-19 Deaths
Applicants and policyholders must be made aware of what exceptions exist.
Category: Annuity News
With the increased popularity of fixed indexed annuities, insurers have become more creative in some design of FIA features and benefits.
3 Reasons To Rethink The ‘Buy Term And Invest The Differe...
Why are some people either for or against whole life insurance? It’s not a religion. It’s not something you believe in or don’t.
The Goldilocks Plan Is A Fairy Tale: How World Events Imp...
Retirees and preretirees often hope for a Goldilocks financial world where investment returns increase year after year, nest eggs are more than adequate to support a long retire...
Amedex is now Ole
Amedex, an international insurer that operated for more than 40 years in the industry.
Blink by Chubb adds a second product to its lineup
Blink moves beyond P&C to L&H.
Pacific Life changes LTC product outlook
Pacific Life has seen sales of hybrid LTC products decline as the current environment has made it difficult to be both competitive and profitable.
Policygenius and Foresters Financial launch insurance pro...
5 hours ago ... The product, Foresters Your Term, provides consumers with a new way to access life insurance affordably, quickly, and conveniently, enabling an underwriting ...
Protective Life to acquire AUL
AUL offers a variety of finance and insurance products.
J.P. Morgan enhances SmartRetirement
The new enhancements will complement the firm's SmartRetirement Plus solution announced in 2021.
DeadHappy raises $15 million
DeadHappy sold over 24,000 life insurance policies to date.
Micruity raises $5.1 million
Micruity is an income connectivity platform.
Digital-first life insurance policies see increase in dem...
The demand for no-medical exam life insurance has grown in the last year, likely related to the COVID-19 pandemic. From October to December 2021, about 56% of applications submi...
IPO-bound LIC gets embedded value of $66.82bn
Government-backed LIC's embedded value has been placed at over $66.82bn, Reuters reported citing an official overseeing the insurer’s IPO.
USAA Life Insurance expands availability of new digital l...
The product is now available in 47 states.
Lincoln Financial launches new retirement plan participan...
The new mobile-friendly design offers participants a clear picture of where they are on their paths to retirement.
Chubb Life launches whole life coverage plan ‘Life Protec...
Angela Hunter, Country President of Chubb Life in Thailand, said, ‘Our new product is designed to support the customers who need a long-term safeguard for the future of their lo...
DeadHappy secures £5.3 million via crowdfunding campaign
The startup was crowdfunding at a £35 million pre-money valuation.
Insurtech Goosehead expanding into life following ETHOS deal
Goosehead, a technology independent carrier, has announced its entrance into the life insurance space through a strategic alliance with Ethos Life.
Haven Life and Lantern launch partnership
Lantern is a platform for documenting end-of-life wishes.
Principal expands retirement plan access to Hispanic workers
In 2019, over 21% of participants used the retirement app via a mobile device.
Chubb Reports Third Quarter Per Share Net Income and Core...
Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB) today reported net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 of $1.83 billion, or $4.18 per share, and core operating income of $1.16 billion, or ...
Progressive and Fidelity Life launch short-term life insu...
Policies start at $7/mo.
Vitech’s V3locity Solution Selected by Pacific Life for I...
Vitech Systems Group announced today that Pacific Life, a leading U.S. life insurance and retirement solutions company headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., has selected V3loc...
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