Nippon Life Insurance Plans to Invest $12 Billion, Mainly in Japan Bonds
Nippon Life Insurance Co. , Japan s biggest life insurer, plans to invest about 1 trillion yen ($12 billion) this financial year, with as much as 80 percent of the money to buy yen-denominated bonds for stable returns.

Life insurance that comes to a dead end
Philip Mendel has been paying $25 a month for 23 years for a $100,000 policy but recently learned it will soon be worthless unless he bumps up his payments to $510. It's a case of not knowing what he was buying, one that has an important lesson for others. Philip Mendel prides himself on being the sort of a guy who plans ahead. So he purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy in 1988 to cover ...

Former Atcon CEO loses bid to keep $1.3M life insurance policy
The receiver for bankrupt Atcon Group Inc. has been given the green light to liquidate a $1.3-million life insurance policy that the parent company took out on former CEO Robbie Tozer.

How to Avoid Taxes on Life Insurance (The Tax Guy)
With some advance planning, you and your heirs can be better off.