Monthly Archive: January 2019

According to a new LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute (LIMRA SRI) study, 79 percent of American consumers are concerned about financial fraud with 36 percent saying they were very concerned. The study found one quarter...

A couple of recent studies have thrown up some interesting findings regarding the life insurance situations of many Canadians. One such study, carried out by the Life Insurance and Market Research Association, found that...

New SMA Blog by Karen Pauli, Principal, Strategy Meets Action Boston, MA (Jan. 24, 2019) – Given that this blog is coming out in January, a baseball reference in the title might seem a...

Much like how you wouldn’t share your toothbrush with someone else, the same sentiment should be applied to sensitive information like online passwords, personal identification numbers (PIN), or credit card details. And as there...

Last week, Canada’s biggest bank, RBC, cut its five-year fixed rate by 15 basis points. This gave customers the option to lock in their mortgage rate at 3.74 per cent, for a five-year term....

Protective Life Insurance Co. and Protective Life & Annuity Insurance Co., will acquire via reinsurance substantially all of Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company’s individual life insurance and annuity business. The companies are under...

Pacific Life today announced the addition of PL Promise GUL1, a new, no lapse guarantee universal life insurance (GUL) product to its PL Promise line. Designed to help address the life insurance needs of...

Jan. 23–Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera’s off-field fiasco has finally come to an end as a Florida judge has ordered him to pay $20,000 a month in child support to an ex-mistress he...

Nurse tells LHP about cause of region’s high infection rate and new initiatives that hope to address problem