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Kitson to Leave Post as Marketing Director for Aviva'a U.K. Nonlife Business

John Kitson, sales and marketing director for Aviva's U.K. nonlife business, will leave the company in March 2010. Kitson, who has been with Aviva for 14 years, has dealt with broker-generated and direct business and with partnerships. Kits...

Bank of China Cleared to Acquire Majority Stake in Heng An Standard Life

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Ace Life Vietnam Ties Up With HDBank for Bancassurance

Ace Life Vietnam [78414] said it has formed a partnership with HDBank to develop bancassurance products and provide value-added services to the bank's customers. According to Ace Life Vietnam, the cooperation program is in line with its str...

Littlefield Named CEO of Aviva USA

Christopher J. Littlefield has been named chief executive officer of Aviva USA effective immediately. Littlefield was the chief operating officer of the company, a provider of fixed-indexed annuity and life insurance products. Littlefield w...

Column: Wall Street securitization will ruin life insurance

The U.S. state of Texas continued to have the nation's highest rate of people without health insurance last year, with more than one of every four Texans being uninsured, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Nation...

Allianz Life Grants Provide Transportation to Local Families

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America: WHAT: Dedication and Photo Opp: Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America and its employees have contributed more than $21,000 to PRISM for the purchase of vans. PRISM, the Golden-Valle...

Bank of Communications Acquires 51% Stake in China Life-CMG Life Assurance

Bank of Communications (BOCOM) said it has been approved by Chinese banking and insurance regulators to purchase a 51% stake in China Life-CMG Life Assurance Company Ltd., a joint venture between China Life Insurance (Group) Co. [52446] and...

BestDay Audio for Thursday, Sept. 10: LIFE Foundation's Marvin Feldman on Life Insurance Awareness Month

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Merge Healthcare Signs Expanded Partnership with Rosslyn Medical for Russian Market

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John Hancock Tianan Life Becomes a Chinese Insurer

China Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 601628 and SEHK: 2628) will attach more importance to adjusting business structure in the future, Yang Chao, chairman of the biggest Chinese life insurer, said on September 9. It will not launch investm...

China Life to Continue Business Structure Adjustment

CLE Credits Offered at Life Insurance Settlement Association Compliance Conference

A recent article in Investment News warned companies of the dangers of not investing resources into their respective compliance departments. Failure to heed that warning could cost companies more in resulting fines than the cost of any imme...

BANK OF CHINA TO BECOME MAJORITY S'HOLDER IN HENG AN STANDARD LIFE

The Bank of China (BoC) (SEHK:3988;SSE:601988) has received approval from Chinese regulators to invest in Heng An Standard Life Co., a joint venture between UK-based Standard Life plc and TEDA International Holding (Group) Co. The investmen...

ACE Life Vietnam to be strategic customer of HDBank

The ACE lIFE vIETNAM insurer will become a strategic customer of the Ho Chi Minh City Housing Development Joint Stock Bank - HDBANK under an agreement signed between the two sides on September 9. ACE Life Vietnam and HDBank will cooperate o...

Americans cutting spending, but consider life insurance a Must

WASHINGTON_Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as divisions among Democrats undercut President Barack Obama's effort to regain traction on his health...

Leaving More Than a Legacy

DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- For most, life insurance offers a way to provide financial protection and possibly a legacy for heirs, but often beneficiaries are left with emotional and financial challenges after the loss of a loved on...

Simultaneous general, Islamic banking won?t be allowed after this fiscal: Muhith; Insurance amendment bill unlikely to be placed in current JS session

Finance Minister AMA Muhith Tuesday said commercial banks and insurance companies wouldn?t be allowed to do a dual banking and insuring business simultaneously on general and Islamic lines. From this standpoint, he turned down a proposal fo...