(Interest) rate increase: The life insurance life saver
January 27, 2014 by Arthur D. Postal
Signs that a period of ultra-low interest rates may be coming to an end has stirred optimism that revenues, profitability, employment and stock prices of insurers will skyrocket, with agents – as well as mutual insurance companies – benefitting. In its outlook for the life insurance industry for 2014, released in early January, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service said that low interest rates “remain the primary impediment” to life insurers’ earnings and “appear poised to increase.” The reality, however, is far more nuanced.
Originally Posted at LifeHealthPro on January 23, 2014 by Arthur D. Postal.
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