With significant losses to their savings and investments, and economists warning of a prolonged recession, many Americans are feeling uncertain about their retirement security and their ability to pay for long-term care services. According to a new survey by the nonprofit LIFE Foundation, 64 percent of Americans age 45 and older say that the recent [...]

Radian Group Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Tax Benefit Preservation Plan designed to protect stockholder value by preserving important tax assets. The Tax Benefit Plan was adopted to reduce the likelihood that Radian’s use of its net operating losses, loss carryforwards and other tax assets (NOLs) would be substantially limited [...]

Avant Capital Partners (AVANT), a leading New York City based commercial mortgage bank that specializes in multifamily financing, closed a bridge loan of $2,853,301 for the acquisition and renovation of a 304-unit apartment complex in Dallas, TX. The loan was based upon 70% loan-to-cost and included the acquisition and renovation costs, as well as an [...]

HealthEdge, provider of the only modern, enterprise-class software platform for healthcare payors, announced that Tacoma-based BenefitMD has selected the HealthRules product suite as their next-generation claims and benefit administration, business intelligence, and portal platform. The HealthRules software will be used to power the next phase of BenefitMD’s rapid business growth.
What makes HealthRules different from any [...]

enkins Insurance Group, a Leavitt Group affiliated agency, is pleased to announce the hiring of Scott W. Reynolds as a Vice President. Scott will lead Jenkins’ new Energy Practice with a focus on the Renewable Energy industry.
Reynolds has been in the insurance industry for 28 years with extensive experience in the Energy field. He was [...]

The list of Ward’s 50 top performing insurance companies was released by Ward Group, an operational consulting firm and leading provider of benchmarking and best practices services to the insurance industry.
Annually, Ward Group analyzes the financial performance of over 3,100 property-casualty insurance companies and over 800 life-health insurance companies domiciled in the United States and [...]

PRNewswire For the third straight year, ProAssurance Corporation has been recognized by The Ward Group as one of the 50 top performing property/casualty insurance companies in America.
The Ward Group identified the best performing property-casualty insurance companies in America by analyzing the financial performance of more than 3,000 insurance companies during the years 2004 to [...]

Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc, a vertically integrated insurance holding company, announced that it has been named to the Fortune Small Business magazine 2009 ‘FSB 100′ list of ‘America’s fastest-growing small public companies.’ Universal Insurance Holdings ranked #2 on the list, which can be found at the following Web address: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb100/2009/full_list
According to Fortune Small Business, the [...]

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announced that Jonathan Madrigano, Director of Wealth Management, has achieved the company’s prestigious Family Wealth Director title.
Jonathan Madrigano will continue educating principals of private companies that are pre-IPO, private business owners who face near term appreciation events or business succession issues and clients whose wealth has the potential to change the [...]

Canada needs to close the gap in pension coverage, and the private sector has the tools to do it, remarked Dean Connor, President, Sun Life Financial Canada. Connor was speaking today at a meeting at the Vancouver Board of Trade.
Connor noted that “The main pension gap is with a subset of Canadians who are not [...]