Learn what annuities are, how fixed, variable, indexed, immediate, and deferred annuities work, and how they can help provide steady retirement income.

If you want to update a cash-value life insurance policy or annuity, you may have heard of the 1035 exchange. This IRS provision, based on Section 1035(a)(3) of the IRS code, allows you to exchange ...

Life insurance annuity, a hybrid financial product, seamlessly marries the risk protection of life insurance with the income ...

Converting life insurance to annuities is a financial strategy that involves transforming the death benefit of a life insurance policy into a stream of income through an annuity contract. This ...

There are many financial tools that seniors can leverage. Some build wealth or provide income, while others offer protection for heirs or ensure that end-of-life costs are covered. "Both are valuable ...

When it comes to insurance products, here’s one piece of advice: The key isn’t what the product is — it’s what the client wants to do with it. We’ve been trained to think each product has one specific ...

Hang Seng Insurance announced the launch of the enhanced version of the FortuneLife Deferred Annuity Life Insurance Plan1 ('FortuneLife'), a Qualifying Deferred Annuity Policy ('QDAP'). This updated ...

Discover how state guaranty funds protect you if your insurance company fails and what steps you can take for additional ...

Private equity firms are buying up insurers — and the policies they hold — at a feverish pace. Some groups, namely financial advisors, fear the trend may be bad for consumers who own annuity and life ...

If your clients own life insurance or annuities they may soon be at risk for losing all the money they’ve put in. That dire warning comes from Larry Rybka, chairman and CEO of Valmark Financial Group ...

The collaboration provides advisors and agents with the first, fully integrated annuity, life and long-term care sales experience, from advisor-centric quoting to interactive “Sales Stories” and ...