Tag: Life Insurance

October 14, 2021

The life insurance industry is at risk if there is a sharp rise in bond yields, with an extreme situation potentially causing insurers to liquidate investments reaching $1 trillion in the United States and Europe, the International Monetary Fund warned […]

October 8, 2021

Policygenius, the one-stop platform for comparing and buying insurance, announced today the October data release of the Policygenius Life Insurance Price Index, which displays average monthly life insurance rates using current data from leading life insurance carriers. New data from […]

March 1, 2021

Younger people, and especially those under age 45, are increasingly buying life insurance. In fact, applications for life-insurance policies jumped 4% in 2020 in the U.S., the highest annual year-over-year growth rate on record, according to the year-end MIB Life […]

December 14, 2020

AM Best has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to A+ (superior) from A (excellent) and the long-term issuer credit ratings (long-term ICR) to “aa-” from “a+” for the members of Concord Group Insurance Companies, which is led by Concord […]

October 15, 2020

Life insurance is enjoying something of a renaissance as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Consumers, especially younger adults, have been buying insurance in elevated numbers since the spring, when thousands of Americans began getting ill and dying from Covid-19. […]

June 9, 2020

Wink, Inc. released the first quarter, 2020 life sales results in its 91st edition of Wink’s Sales & Market Report. Wink’s Sales & Market Report is the insurance industry’s #1 resource for life insurance sales data, since 1997. Non-variable universal […]

August 28, 2019

Ethos, the Silicon Valley start-up taking on America’s life insurance industry, just snagged $60 million in funding. The San Francisco-based company announced on Wednesday that it raised the fresh funds in a Series C round led by GV, Alphabet’s venture […]

March 16, 2017

It’s easy to postpone making decisions on life insurance, because imagining your own death is so unpleasant. But try to put that aside, because if you have a family or a spouse or a partner or love someone, it’s important […]

February 20, 2017

Two new studies out show that younger Americans would much rather travel, engage in a fine dining experience or buy a cell phone, among other purchases, rather than buy life insurance. The data come from Vertafore, an insurance technology provider […]