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Securian Financial has launched an enhanced version of its flagship indexed universal life insurance product. Eclipse Accumulator II IUL, an accumulation-focused product issued by Minnesota Life Insurance Company, includes everything financial professionals and their clients valued about its predecessor product— low charges, simplicity and...
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AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A+ and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of“ aa-” of The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited, the wholly owned operating subsidiary of Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc.. The group’ s total reported capital increased by 46% year over year to JPY 3.9 trillion as of 31 March 2024, primarily driven by unrealised gains...
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 Form 40- F OR For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 Commission File Number 001-15014 Sun Life Financial Inc. Canada 52411 Not Applicable 1 York Street, 31 st Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 0 B6 979-9966 Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada- U.S. Operations Holdings, Inc. One Sun Life...
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A pharmaceutical company and life insurance firm will not receive any more North Carolina tax incentives for their promised expansions and job creations in the Charlotte region. BestCo in Mooresville and Equitable Financial Life Insurance Co. in Charlotte each failed to meet the requirements to receive Job Development Investment Grant payments,...
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For the Year Ended December 31, 2024. In this AIF, SLF Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries are collectively referred to as "Sun Life", the "Company", "we", "us" or "our" and also includes, where applicable, our joint ventures and associates. SLF Inc.' s MD&A for the year ended December 31, 2024, and SLF Inc.' s Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes for the...
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The information in this document is based on the unaudited interim financial results of Sun Life Financial Inc. for the period ended December 31, 2024. We manage our operations and report our financial results in five business segments: Asset Management, Canada, United States, Asia, and Corporate. Underlying net income of $965 million decreased $18 million or...
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Financial and Operating Results Supplementary Financial Information. Sun Life Financial Inc. For the period ended December 31, 2024. Sun Life Financial Inc. adopted IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments on January 1, 2023.
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The ratings also reflect the ratings lift the company receives from the ultimate parent, FMR LLC. The company receives support from FMR LLC in the form of capital contributions, operational support and investing expertise. Soteria provides strategic importance to FMR LLC and the U.S. operating insurance entities by providing reinsurance solutions, as well...
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Brighthouse Financial, Inc. announced today its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024. The company reported net income available to shareholders of $646 million in the fourth quarter of 2024, or $10.79 per diluted share, compared with a net loss available to shareholders of $942 million in the fourth quarter of 2023,...
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The Distribution Marketing team at Jackson National Life Distributors LLC, the marketing and distribution business of Jackson National Life Insurance Company ® 1, and Jackson’ s Corporate Communications and Responsibility team were honored with several awards in 2024 highlighting the impact and quality of the company’ s marketing and communications...
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A pharmaceutical company and life insurance firm will not receive North Carolina tax incentives for their promised expansions and job creations in the Charlotte region. BestCo in Mooresville and Equitable Financial Life Insurance Co. in Charlotte each failed to meet the requirements to receive Job Development Investment Grant payments, Economic...
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With National Cancer Prevention Month underway, Symetra Life Insurance Company unveiled a new consumer-facing web-based resource highlighting the unique combination of cancer care benefits and services of its groundbreaking Cancer Care Compass. Introduced in 2024, the industry-first optional rider package provides a suite of features and benefits...
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A 2021 study from the American Association of Retired People,“ Caregiving Out-Of-Pocket Costs,” found that there are 48 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S., and that family caregivers devote 26 percent of their income and about 24 hours per week to caregiving. “When employees buy our permanent life with long-term care policies, we know that in most cases it is to...
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While U.S. life and P&C insurers are willing to assume increased investment risk for the third consecutive year, their market optimism is tempered as inflation is replaced by concerns about the domestic political environment, portfolio yield, market volatility, geopolitical events, and the impact of artificial intelligence. Indeed, their investment plans...
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Sapiens Releases its Latest Underwriting Solution with Innovative Automation and. Rochelle Park, NJ, February 11, 2025- Sapiens International Corporation, a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, today announced the release of Sapiens UnderwritingPro v14, the most advanced version of its award-winning, automated...
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It’s the most difficult common objection for most life insurance agents to overcome.
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Growing and established markets around the world. U.S., Japan, Mexico, Chile, Korea. Includes all assets managed by MetLife Investment Management.
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To the list of buildings in downtown Minneapolis in need of a new purpose, add the one on 20 Washington Av. Initially built as a seven-story headquarters for the Northwestern National Life Insurance company, Minneapolis/ St. Paul Business Journal reports that it’ s currently empty and up for sale. It permanently sutured the connection between Hennepin and...
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AM Best has revised the outlooks of the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A and the Long-Term ICRs of“ a+” of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Lincoln Life& Annuity Company of New York. These companies are the key life and annuity insurance...
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Aflac Northern Ireland, located in Belfast, is a global IT and cybersecurity center that develops technology and innovative solutions to help support customers in their greatest time of need. Any child diagnosed with cancer or blood disorders in Northern Ireland will visit the CCUC during their treatment journeys, and to support the work that the CCUC does...
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AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B+ and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of“ bbb-” of Well Link Life Insurance Company Limited. Well Link Life has been operating a life insurance business in Hong Kong since April 2019, with endowments, participating savings and qualified deferred annuity products as its major offerings.
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Now is the time to reshape the insurance industry’s business model and technology foundation, according to a Majesco white paper on trends impacting the future of insurance in 2025.
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SecurityScorecard released research showing that 59% of breaches among the top 150 insurance companies involved third-party attack vectors, exposing critical vulnerabilities in the sector’s supply chain.
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Pacific Life announced today the promotion of Karen Neeley to senior vice president of the Institutional Retirement Solutions Group and Patricia Thompson to senior vice president and chief compliance and ethics officer. In her role as senior vice president of the Institutional Retirement Solutions Group, Ms. Neeley oversees the management and growth of...
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Lincoln Financial today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024. Fourth quarter net income available to common stockholders was $1.7 billion, or $9.63 per diluted share. Fourth quarter adjusted operating income available to common stockholders was $332 million, or $1.91 per diluted share. The primary...
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This Annual Information Form is intended to provide material information about Great-West Lifeco Inc. and its business. Unless otherwise indicated, all information in this AIF is presented as at December 31, 2024 and all amounts are expressed in Canadian dollars. Lifeco's 2024 Management's Discussion and Analysis dated February 5, 2025 is hereby...
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This MD&A provides an overall discussion, followed by analysis of the performance of Lifeco's four major reportable segments: Canada, United States, Europe, and Capital and Risk Solutions. Lifeco has operations in Canada, the U.S. and Europe through The Canada Life Assurance Company, Empower Annuity Insurance Company of America, and Irish Life Group Limited.
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Director of Investor Relations U-Haul Holding Company 263-6601 Sebastien_Reyes@uhaul.com. RENO, Nev.-- U-Haul Holding Company, parent of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company, today reported net earnings available to shareholders for its third quarter ended December 31, 2024, of...
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U-Haul Holding Company, parent of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company, today reported net earnings available to shareholders for its third quarter ended December 31, 2024, of $67.2 million compared with net earnings of $99.2 million for the same period last year.
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Globe Life revealed last week that a 2024 data breach might be far more widespread than it initially reported.
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Our traditional U.S. life insurance companies are Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company, Unum Life Insurance Company of America, First Unum Life Insurance Company, Colonial Life& Accident Insurance Company, The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, Unum Insurance Company, Provident Life and Casualty...
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Continuing to deliver a comprehensive workforce benefits product suite that meets the diverse needs of today’ s employers and their employees, Symetra Life Insurance Company today announced updates to its group accident coverage that include an expanded range of optional benefits designed to support parents, multigenerational households, first...
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Axcelus Financial has appointed Kimberly Gibson to the role of Senior Market Development Manager and Consultant for the company’ s Bermuda operations and Henry Komansky to the position of Group Compliance Officer for Axcelus’ U.S.- based parent company and Chief Risk Officer for the firm’ s Bermuda operations. She has more than twenty-five years of...
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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. Eagle Point Credit Company Inc.; Eagle Point Income Company Inc.; Eagle Point Institutional Income Fund; Eagle Point Enhanced Income Trust; Eagle Point Credit Company Sub II LLC; Eagle Point Credit Company Sub Ltd.; Eagle Point Credit Company Sub II Ltd.; Eagle Point Income Company Sub LLC; Eagle Point Income Company Sub II...
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After a pair of life insurers sued AM Best last year in response to a planned downgrade of their financial ratings, concerns quickly followed.
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Wellabe, an Iowa- based provider of health and wealth insurance solutions, expanded its popular Medicare Supplement insurance options to reach 28 states on Feb. 1, including the new states of California, Maryland, and New Jersey. Wellabe’ s Medicare Supplement plan with the optional dental rider is available to customers in Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia,...
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Recent technological advancements have spurred a major transformation in the modern insurance industry. The centuries-old sector has adopted technology at such a rapid rate that digital solutions now play a key role in everything from life insurance to casualty and property insurance, putting technology at the core of nearly every insurance business. The software has become a… […]
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Securian Financial has launched two supplemental health insurance products— accident insurance and critical illness insurance issued by Securian Life Insurance Company— tailored for distributors to market to customers of affinity organizations, including financial institutions and associations. Accident insurance provides a lump-sum cash...
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Colleen P. Donohoe Colleen Donohoe, P.C. PO Box 10879 Kalispell, Montana 59904 406-309-2470 Attorneys for Applicant MONTANA NINETEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CAROL ANN GIBBONS, Deceased. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee's Sale on May 19, 2025, at 02:00 PM outside the North entrance to the...
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S-3ASR Table of Contents As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 31, 2025. THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933. Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.
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Ten insurance company impairments were identified in the U.S. life/health industry for 2023, following none in 2022, according to a new AM Best report. The Best’ s Special Report, titled,“ 2023 US Life/Health Impairments Update,” states that during the 2000-2023 study period, 193 life/health insurers became impaired. Six of the 10 impairments identified for 2023...
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The Credit Rating action follows the announcement on 9 January 2025 that Solidarity Bahrain has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Bahrain National Holding Company B.S.C. in relation to the acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital of each of Bahrain National Insurance Company B.S.C. (c) and Bahrain National Life Assurance Company B.S.C. (c)...
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The Credit Rating action follows the announcement on 9 January 2025 that SFIC’ s sister company, Solidarity Bahrain B.S.C., has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Bahrain National Holding Company B.S.C. in relation to the acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital of each of Bahrain National Insurance Company B.S.C. (c) and Bahrain National Life...
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The Credit Rating action follows the announcement on 9 January 2025 that BNI’ s parent company, Bahrain National Holding Company B.S.C., has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Solidarity Bahrain B.S.C. in relation to the acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital of each of BNI and Bahrain National Life Assurance Company B.S.C. (c) for a total...
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A strong fourth quarter drove life insurance new premium to another record, LIMRA reports.
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New York Life, the largest 1 mutual life insurance company in the United States, today announced a planned leadership transition in New York Life Real Estate Investors, the $68 billion real estate investment arm of New York Life. He will report to New York Life Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer Tony Malloy and join Malloy’ s senior leadership...
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Equitable Life Insurance Co. breached no contract terms when it imposed cost-of-insurance charges on a universal life policy, the New York Court of Appeals recently ruled.
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AM Best has removed from under review with developing implications and upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B+ from B and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to“ bbb-” from“ bb+” of Mountain Life Insurance Company. Geographic exposure is expected to diversify over the next two years as the company applies for licenses in most U.S. states. Capital contributions...
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Midland National ® Life Insurance Company and North American Company for Life and Health Insurance ®, member companies of Sammons ® Financial Group, Inc., are proud to unveil their enhanced Indexed Universal Life products. Midland National announces Strategic Protector ® IUL 2, and North American announces Protection Builder IUL ® 2.
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MetLife, Inc. today announced it is among Fortune magazine’ s 2025 list of the“ World’ s Most Admired Companies.” The annual report card of the best-regarded companies included eight life insurers. MetLife, Inc., through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’ s leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits...
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