{"id":19511,"date":"2020-09-09T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/?post_type=innarticle&amp;p=5812262"},"modified":"2020-09-09T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:54:50","slug":"life-insurance-applications-up-9-1-in-august-mib-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/life-insurance-applications-up-9-1-in-august-mib-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Insurance Applications Up 9.1% In August: MIB Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Life insurance application activity jumped shot up 9.1% in August in a year-over-year comparison by MIB Life Index.<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of a record-setting July, the August data represents the biggest gain on record for the month, MIB said in a news release. Strong July activity put August\u2019s activity -1.2% behind that of the prior month.<\/p>\n<p>At August\u2019s close, the MIB Life Index is up 3.9% year to date.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. age groups remained consistent as those of July with applicants under age 60 showing unprecedented year-over-year growth in August: ages 0-44 up 12.4%; ages 45-59 up 10.1%; and ages 60+ off slightly -0.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date, applicants ages 0-44 are up 6.3%; ages 45-59 are up 3.2%; and applicants ages 60+ are off -1.3%. Submissions for older age applicants 60+ continue to lag as they have in the previous six months of 2020, the release said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"insur-mobile-body-leaderboard\" id=\"insur-792685498\">\n<div class=\"insur-adlabel\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/linkout\/5761822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WSFinancialGroup-2020-09-728x90-1.gif\" alt width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WSFinancialGroup-2020-09-728x90-1.gif\" alt width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/innarticle\/life-insurance-applications-up-9-1-in-august-mib-index?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=life-insurance-applications-up-9-1-in-august-mib-index\">Read the original article at insurancenewsnet.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life insurance application activity jumped shot up 9.1% in August in a year-over-year comparison by MIB Life Index. On the heels of a record-setting July, the August data represents the biggest gain on record&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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\/19511"}],"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=19511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}