by csgadmin | May 15, 2025 | Insurance Industry, news
Some retirement savers will still tie their annuity returns to the performance of investment funds, if the market looks good and insurers will sell them variable annuities. New annuity sales figures from Wink showed that sales of traditional variable annuities were...
by csgadmin | May 15, 2025 | Insurance Industry, Senior Hospital Indemnity
From Telos Actuarial: The table below shows aggregated experience for six key Hospital Indemnity carriers from 2018 through 2023. The key takeaway: rising premiums paired with consistent loss ratios. Notably, loss ratio experience exhibited a decline in 2020, likely...
by csgadmin | May 13, 2025 | Insurance Industry, news
Integrity, LLC, a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, announced it has partnered with Carolina Insurance Advisors, an independent marketing organization based in Raleigh, North...
by csgadmin | May 12, 2025 | Insurance Industry, Medicare, Medicare Supplement, news
CNO Financial Group (parent company of Bankers Life & Casualty, Washington National, and Colonial Penn) reported 1st quarter 2025 Medicare Supplement sales of $12.0 million, 24% higher than sales in 1st quarter 2024. For the past 12 months CNO Financial Group...
by csgadmin | May 8, 2025 | Insurance Industry, news
The post-COVID annuity sales surge is waning, but “economic anxiety” may be sparking a second wave. Total Q1 annuity sales were $105.4 billion, down 1% from the record set in first quarter 2024, according to preliminary results from LIMRA’s U.S. Individual...
by csgadmin | May 6, 2025 | CSG Actuarial News, Insurance Industry, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, NAIC Data
CSG Actuarial has compiled the new business rate increases implemented on Medicare Supplement blocks of business since 2011. As discussed on previous CSG Actuarial blog posts, recent increases continue to trend higher as carriers continue to attempt to catch up...