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The annuities association is starting a campaign to stop a proposal to classify annuities as securities.

The long-gestating proposal lessens collateral requirements for foreign reinsurers.

The GMS Group believes its new platform will improve relations with its existing fixed-income clients, and deliver many managed account solutions to its high-net-worth clients.

AIR’s new model includes three views of seismic risk in Japan.

IASA’s Executive Edge speakers offer divergent views on the state of the economy, its affect on insurance and what insurers can do about it.

After Standard & Poor's placed its ratings on five major U.S. mortgage insurers and their core and dependent foreign subsidiaries on CreditWatch with negative implications, it expects most mortgage insurers will ultimately be downgraded, and some of the downgrades will be more than one notch.

Credit card bills are the most popular bill paid online, followed by utilities, telephone, cable/satellite television, wireless and insurance, according to research from Billeo Inc.

The U.S. wealth management business now has four business units: retirement services, annuities, insurance and investments.

Companion Data Services (CDS) will use Finalist Address Quality Solution to Verify, Standardize and Correct Addresses on CMS Claims.

More than 3,000 members have joined WikonnecT, an Internet-based collaboration network, since the it was launched at the company's Fall Connect conference.

Former CEO of Allianz Life says regulators barked up the wrong tree: The objective of regulations should be aimed at “protecting the insurance companies from themselves.”

Seward says association will fight push for federal regulation of insurance.

The reinsurer will use AIR’s model to analyze catastrophe exposures.

A new report from Smallwood Maike and Associates warns that insurers must be diligent with all expenditures, especially IT, in the face of this economic downturn.

A report from Celent states insurers should turn to vendors for help with accessing and using data, but warns that insurers need to understand where each vendor’s solution fits in the context of a data initiative.

TowerGroup expects "four Rs"—risk, revenue, regulation and retirement—to shape the insurance industry in 2009.

More agencies are being formed than in past years, particularly in areas of the country suffering from difficulties in the availability of coverage, according to an IIABA survey.

Assets held in fixed annuities increased 1% during the third quarter, to $66.4 billion as of Sept. 30, 2008, according to LIMRA International Inc.

Rules passed in the wake of the financial services meltdown will likely require insurers to exhibit better control of their processes.

A new study finds that the mutual fund industry is a growing rival to insurers.