Variable insurance products, including both variable annuity and variable life insurance products, have proven to be attractive trading vehicles for market timers and late traders. This is because of these products' tax deferral ...

The ratings also recognize Hartford Life’s significant market position in several life insurance and retirement savings businesses (most notably variable annuities), its diversified sources of revenues and earnings and its broad ...

With roots dating to 1851, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. (NYSE:PNX - News) helps its customers find straightforward solutions to often highly complex personal financial and business planning needs through life insurance and annuities. ...

All three plans offer annuities. Several large insurers — Prudential Financial Inc., Newark, N.J.; Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York; The Hartford Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn. — have been hit by the crippling effects of ...

In 1999The Hartford produced some point of sales pieces for appointed structured settlement annuity brokers to use to compete with alternatives to structured annuities such as bank trusts, CDs, variable annuities and US Treasuries.

The changes are part of a general examination of products and features in Hartford’s annuity business. “The current environment requires us to make changes,” said John Walters, president and chief operating officer of life operations at ...

However, one should be careful not to get too excited over the reported growth in annuity sales, because there is a dirty little secret behind these sales numbers that insurance company managements do not like to acknowledge, ...

Liddy said then that he hopes to sell off AIG's U.S. life insurance, annuity, and pension businesses to a single buyer, while divesting part of its non-U.S. life insurance operations. No deals have been announced yet. ...

Mr. Chapple brings great experience in the online insurance industry to the company. Previously, he held positions as director of Internet marketing at The Hartford Insurance Company and National Sales Manager and later chief marketing ...

The Hartford, a Fortune 100 company, is one of the nation's largest financial services companies, with 2007 revenues of $25.9 billion. The Hartford is a leading provider of investment products, life insurance and group benefits; ...