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Market share: whole life eats into universal

Whole life insurance has been expanding its share of new sales year after year since 2007. Universal life insurance has …

HEALTH | September 22 2014 11:16AM
Manulife launches low-fee universal life

Manulife Financial has launched a series of four universal life insurance products with lower management fees. Costs wer…

HEALTH | September 22 2014 11:15AM
Ottawa may soon tighten up on use of universal life as a tax shelter

The federal Department of Finance is holding industry consultations about the changes it intends to make to the tax rule…

HEALTH | September 19 2013 07:52PM
Industrial Alliance launches adjustable premium universal life

Industrial Alliance has jumped onto the bandwagon of companies offering low interest rate fluctuation resistant products…

HEALTH | June 18 2013 06:58PM
Universal life market share crumbles

The latest price hikes are hitting universal life hard. The sales slide accelerated in the first quarter, and the produc…

HEALTH | June 18 2013 06:57PM
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Whole life continues to cushion universal life’s decline

As Universal life insurance sales continued to nosedive in Q3, dragged down by recent price hikes, strong whole life res…

HEALTH | January 23 2013 09:38PM
Universal life: third wave of price hikes in less than two years

Long-term interest rates continue to sink the profitability of level cost universal life insurance. Insurers are using a…

HEALTH | September 14 2012 01:58PM