GFD Insights

The life insurance sales train continues to chug along, as application volume notched higher in June, according to newly released figures.
Continue

The Government Accountability Office says the Labor Department should urge employers to include lifetime income options in 401(k) products.  
Continue

In what may be best described as a summer swoon, life insurance sales fell for the first time in 2016 during the month of August, according to newly released data.
Continue

Professionals have to be careful not to let technology – fully automated or otherwise – be used in lieu of in-person interaction. It’s not good for business and it’s not desired by those who seek financial guidance, according to the results of a newly released report.
Continue

A new analysis reinforces the message that there is no such thing as retirement inevitability, especially if something isn’t done by worldwide governments to more adequately inform citizens who aren’t seeing the forest through the trees.
Continue

In August, Illinois became the latest state in the U.S. mandating life insurers reach out to beneficiaries when policy proceeds go unclaimed.
Continue

For insurance agents, buying life insurance is a fairly straightforward affair. Talk to average consumers, though, and they very well may beg to differ.
Continue

The newly septuagenarian songstress Cher once crooned about what she would do if she could turn back time. If Americans could do the same thing, they’d start saving for retirement earlier in life, a new poll reveals.
Continue

There’s good news and bad news to report on the retirement readiness front, at least according to a recent survey. The good news is that many Americans are about as confident as they were last year that they’ll be able to live comfortably once they decide to leave the workforce. The bad news? Those that are optimistic are fairly few and far between.
Continue

A majority of Americans point to memorabilia as what they most want to leave behind, a newly released survey suggests.
Continue