{"id":9429,"date":"2018-05-14T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=f44d20ac35a1a62d7eb73a2b363e12c4"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:02:06","slug":"life-insurance-activity-off-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/life-insurance-activity-off-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Insurance Activity Off In April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braintree, MA.\u00a0 \u2014 U.S. life insurance application activity was off in April down \u2013 2.1% <sup>1<\/sup> year-over-year, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mibgroup.com\/riskanalytics\/life_index_pr.html\">MIB Life Index<\/a>. Just as March results were inflated by the inclusion of Good Friday (one less business day), April\u2019s results were artificially low by its exclusion (one more business day); April\u2019s composite was up 2.8% on an adjusted basis. April\u2019s application activity was down -9.5% (unadjusted) from activity in March (-4.9% adjusted).<\/p>\n<p>April\u2019s unadjusted percent changes saw declines in U.S. life insurance application activity across all age groups. Application activity ages 0-44 was off -2.3%, activity ages 45-59 was off -2.5%, and activity ages 60+ was off slightly at -0.6%. On an adjusted basis, application activity ages 0-44 was up 2.5%, activity ages 45-59 was up 2.4%, and activity ages 60+ was up a healthy 4.4%. Year-to-date, application activity ages 0-44 age group is off -0.2%, activity ages 45-59 is off -1.5%, and activity ages 60+ is flat at 0.0% (unadjusted basis). Year-to-date, application activity ages 0-44 age group is up 1.0%, activity ages 45-59 is off -0.3%, and activity ages 60+ is up 1.3% (adjusted basis).<\/p>\n<p>MIB&#8217;s CEO comments on the 2017 industry in our <a href=\"http:\/\/wi.st\/2CejeJq\"  rel=\"noopener\">MIB Life Index Year-in-Review video<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/wi.st\/2CejeJq\"  rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/wi.st\/2CejeJq<\/a>). Download the 2017 MIB Life Index Annual Report at no charge by registering at the Enhanced Life Index Portal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mibsolutions.com\/regLI\"  rel=\"noopener\">www.mibsolutions.com\/regLI<\/a> or login at: <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.mibsolutions.com\/welcome\">https:\/\/portal.mibsolutions.com\/lifeindex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/oarticle\/life-insurance-activity-off-in-april\">Life Insurance Activity Off In April<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/\">InsuranceNewsNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braintree, MA.&nbsp; &mdash; U.S. life insurance application activity was off in April down &ndash; 2.1% 1 year-over-year, according to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/oarticle\/life-insurance-activity-off-in-april\">Life Insurance Activity Off In April<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/\">InsuranceNewsNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/9429"}],"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=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9431,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions\/9431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}