What Is a Life Insurance Annuity? A life insurance annuity is a unique product that combines life insurance and an annuity. It is essentially a contract between an individual and an insurance company ...

Ibexis Life & Annuity Insurance Company ("Ibexis") today announced the launch of its WealthDefender™ Series in the independent marketing organization ("IMO") sales channel. The WealthDefender™ Series ...

When it comes to insurance products, here’s one piece of advice: The key isn’t what the product is — it’s what the client wants to do with it. We’ve been trained to think each product has one specific ...

There are signs that private equity’s destabilizing role in the insurance industry is growing. In 2020 and 2021 (as we wrote at the time), large private equity (PE) firms were buying up life insurance ...

As the craze of earnings season draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the most exciting (and some less so) results ...

Private equity firms are buying up insurers — and the policies they hold — at a feverish pace. Some groups, namely financial advisors, fear the trend may be bad for consumers who own annuity and life ...

If your clients own life insurance or annuities they may soon be at risk for losing all the money they’ve put in. That dire warning comes from Larry Rybka, chairman and CEO of Valmark Financial Group ...

When interest rates are higher, you can get a better deal. Which is where we’ve been heading for the past few weeks. Since ...

Discover how annuities are taxed and what income you might owe. Understand the impact on your retirement plan and learn key ...