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The Canadian life and health insurance industry is witnessing some dramatic developments. Barely a day after Standard Life's announcement that it would discontinue its individual life insurance and critical illness products, there is word that Sun Life Financial has dismantled its long term care insurance (LTCI) specialist model.
Standard Life today announced it will stop selling its individual life insurance and critical illness products effective January 1, 2012. The company will continue to service its in-force block of life insurance business.
TD Asset Management has launched a handful of new funds, including the TD Target Return Conservative Fund, the TD Target Return Balanced Fund, and the TD Global Low Volatility Fund.
The European bond market is bracing for a rough week during which Belgium, Italy, Spain and France will be auctioning their debts. The timing couldn't of worse. Just last week, in it's worse-ever auction Germany failed to find buyers for about 40% of its €6 billion offering of 10-year bunds.
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As media speculation mounts about the possibility of gold becoming collateral for eurobonds, bullion experts in Canada say it's highly unlikely that such a move will ever see the light of day.
The advice industry's response to the newly introduced Pooled Retirement Pension Plan (PRPP) continues to be, at best, mixed.
The newly re-introduced Pooled Retirement Pension Plan (PRPP) may be touted as the cure-all for all Canada's flailing retirement savings system, but a rather unimpressed advice industry regards it as just another tool.
While growth in developed economies currently ranges between slow and stalled, emerging economies have seen tremendous growth powered largely by the BRIC nations consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China.