Life insurance: pandemic causes sales decline

[SPECIAL REPORT] As expected, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a downturn in life insurance sales in Canada in Q2 2020.

LIFE INSURANCE | September 29 2020 09:19AM
COVID-19 and low interest rates push changes in insurance industry

Ongoing low or negative interest rates are causing great concern among insurance companies in the United States, a LIMRA…

LIFE INSURANCE | May 27 2020 03:10PM
Defined contribution pension plan sales soar in Q3 2019

New deposits to defined contribution (DC) plans rose by 26% in Q3 2019 compared with the same quarter in 2018.

INVESTMENT | January 17 2020 10:15AM
Nearly Half of Americans More Likely to Buy Simplified Underwritten Life Insurance

Almost half of Americans (47 per cent) say they are more likely to buy life insurance using simplified underwriting, ver…

LIFE INSURANCE | April 03 2019 09:30AM
New channels needed as traditional distribution declines, states LIMRA’s CEO

Speaking at the 2018 LIMRA Conference, Robert A. Kerzner, president and CEO of the organization, observed that “traditio…

HEALTH | October 29 2018 01:30PM
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Strong social media presence is now a key success factor for life insurance advisors

A new joint study by LIMRA and Life Happens has found that social media is a critical marketing tool for life insurance …

HEALTH | April 12 2018 01:30PM
Permanent product sales drop in 2017

Term insurance policies sales have been outpacing universal life and whole life sales by a significant margin in recent …

HEALTH | March 26 2018 07:00AM