Month: May 2021

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#275 | Permanent Insurance Goes Direct(ish)

If you were to just read the industry headlines, you’d think that the only revolution happening right now in the life insurance space is the explosion in growth and investment in online insurance marketing firms. That’s why I wrote last…

#274 | The Online Life Insurance Gamble

Last week, the insurance world was rocked by news that Ethos Life had secured an additional $200 million in funding at a whopping $2 billion valuation, placing the firm at roughly half the size of Brighthouse Financial, two-thirds the size…

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#273 | The New IUL Illustration War

Indexed UL is besieged by falling caps that imperil the core story of the product and the ways that it has traditionally been sold. What's the solution? In the same way that life insurers previously changed the identity of the…

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