Core and Group Health

The $165 million deal means a 60 percent expansion of MassMutual's financial professional network and an almost 45 percent increase in number of sales and advisory offices.

Ive attended several recent industry conferences here in Colorado. And as you might expect if youve been following the news, one topic dominated the conversation: universal health care.

Ameritas, TIAA and NFP are continuing a retirement investing industry trend as they acquire other companies.

With careful consideration of these four factors, a new generation of healthy consumers is within reach.

Last month in our first of a three-part series, we reviewed the voluntary industry's overall sales for 2015, which were $7.138 billion, up 3.6 percent over 2014.

At the top of my wish list would be addressing the cost of health CARE rather than focusing on the cost of health INSURANCE.