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Boston Financial Adviser Sentenced After Defrauding Older Victims of Annuity Funds

A financial adviser who stole about $1.2 million from the retirement accounts of his mostly older victims, one of whom had dementia and another of whom had a traumatic brain injury, has been sentenced to more than four years in …

Florida Insurance Agent Convicted in $6M Ponzi Scheme That Defrauded Investors

A federal jury has found a Sarasota insurance agent and financial consultant guilty of defrauding elderly Floridians out of $6 million, money that the victims believed was going to fund a life insurance startup known as FastLife. Phillip Roy Wasserman, …

New York’s Financial Watchdog Proposes ‘Best Interest’ Rules

New York State’s top financial watchdog proposed regulations that would require sellers of life insurance and annuities to act in the best interest of clients, raising standards even as the U.S. government delays its fiduciary rule. Products that best fit …

Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Urges Better Understanding of Annuities

Speaking at Foxdale Village Retirement Community in State College, Penn., Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller urged consumers, particularly seniors, to take time to understand annuities in order to protect their retirement income. “Annuities are designed as long term investments to provide …

Aegon, Transamerica Owner, Sells $4.4B UK Annuity Portfolio to Legal & General

Aegon NV, the Dutch owner of U.S. insurer Transamerica Corp., divested the final 3 billion pounds ($4.4 billion) of annuities from its U.K. portfolio to Legal & General Group Plc. The transaction, which covers 27,000 policyholders, will release another 275 …

Aegon to Sell $8.5B of U.K. Annuity Portfolio to Rothesay Life, to Free Up Capital

Aegon NV, the Dutch owner of U.S. insurer Transamerica Corp., agreed to sell two-thirds of its U.K. annuity portfolio to Rothesay Life Ltd., helping to boost capital buffers under new regulations. Aegon will initially reinsure 6 billion pounds ($8.5 billion) …

Apollo’s Life Insurance Unit Athene Holding Said to Be Examined for Caesars Link

Apollo Global Management LLC’s dual stakes in an insurer and the largest operator of U.S. casinos are drawing scrutiny by New York’s top financial regulator, who doesn’t want policyholders exposed to the gambling firm’s debt, a person briefed on the …

ING Sees Quick Sales in Asian Insurance Break-up

Dutch banking and insurance group ING now expects a quick sale of parts of its $7 billion Asian insurance business as it seeks to repay state aid and meet European requirements for its 2008 state bail-out, its chief executive said …

How Federal Reserve’s Move Hurts Life Insurers

The Federal Reserve’s latest move to stimulate credit for consumers and businesses, known as Operation Twist, is likely to threaten the earnings of some of the country’s largest insurers for years to come. Wall Street in the past week has …

SCOR Finalizes Sale of U.S. Fixed Annuity Business

French reinsurer SCOR announced that it has finalized the sale of its subsidiary Investors Insurance Corporation (IIC) to Athene Holding Ltd., as initially announced on February 16, 2011. SCOR said the sale, for $55 million, “is in line with the …