{"id":12557,"date":"2018-10-09T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=1c71513a7236c8a2e6421ccb2ba8d10d"},"modified":"2018-10-09T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T19:55:21","slug":"life-insurance-activity-down-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/10\/09\/life-insurance-activity-down-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Insurance Activity Down In September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braintree, MA. (October 9, 2018) \u2014 U.S. life insurance application activity was off slightly in September, down -0.4% year-over-year, according to the MIB Life Index. Once again application activity ages 60+ outshined all other age groups\u2014positive for the past five consecutive months. September&#8217;s results left the composite index YTD unchanged at -0.2%. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mibgroup.com\/riskanalytics\/images\/life_index_graph.jpg\" alt=\"Life Index Graphic\" align=\"right\" \/> September&#8217;s application activity was up 3.4% from that of August showing typical growth for the fall season. At the close of the third calendar quarter, Q3 2018 lost ground compared to Q2 2018, off -3.3%; same quarter, year-over-year shows Q3 2018 \/ Q3 2017 flat at 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Ages 60+ U.S. life insurance application activity led all others, up 3.3% in September year-over-year\u2015ages 45-59 were flat at 0.2%, and ages 0-44 lost -2.0%, year-over-year. Year-to-date, ages 0-44 are off -0.7%, ages 45-59 are off -0.5%, and ages 60+ are up 1.6% YTD Y\/Y. For the third quarter, ages 0-44 were off -1.7%, ages 45-59 were up 1.0%, and ages 60+ increased 4.2%.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/oarticle\/life-insurance-activity-down-in-september\">Life Insurance Activity Down In September<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\">InsuranceNewsNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braintree, MA. (October 9, 2018) &mdash; U.S. life insurance application activity was off slightly in September, down -0.4% year-over-year, according&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/oarticle\/life-insurance-activity-down-in-september\">Life Insurance Activity Down In September<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/\">InsuranceNewsNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12559,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions\/12559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}