By Chuck DiVencenzo | June 3, 2020 | NAFA NAFA supports the fight against systemic racial injustice Our nation is currently witnessing the culmination of fundamental disparities and long [...]
By Warren S. Hersch | May 18, 2020 | Life Annuity Specialist Low interest rates are spurring creativity among issuers of fixed-indexed annuities. They have to adjust to long-term rates [...]
Joint Trades Letter to Congress WASHINGTON (May 5, 2020) -- Support is growing for an Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) initiative to help retirement savers who have lost jobs, access to participate in [...]
Today, NAFA submitted a comment letter regarding the Iowa Insurance Division’s proposed rulemaking (ARC 4998C) related to establishing a best interest standard for insurance and securities professionals. A copy [...]
A summary of the phase 3.5 COVID-19 relief package President Trump has signed into law a fourth piece of legislation in a series of coronavirus relief funding, providing roughly [...]
Re: COVID-19History will record March 11, 2020, as a day that changed the world’s trajectory. On that day, COVID-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic, and life as we knew it was [...]
On April 2, 2020, NAFA hosted Extraordinary Times Call for Extraordinary Measures, presented by Maureen James and Roger Hayashi of Summit Compliance. Market downturns can create annuity sales opportunities, [...]
CARES Act — Small Business Provisions: Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loans On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (H.R. 746, CARES) [...]
Last week, NAFA members received an update on the NAIC’s approval of significant revisions to its Suitability in Annuity Transactions Model Regulation. This is the culmination of a process [...]
Wealthmanagement.com details the potential impacts of the proposed H.R. 2474, Protecting the Right to Organize Act, and why groups like NAFA are weighing in to protect independent distribution from adverse [...]