Women tend to sacrifice their long-term financial needs for more pressing family and household concerns, according to a new Penn Mutual study.

House Speaker John Boehner says that when Congress raises the nation's borrowing cap he will again insist on spending cuts and budget reforms to offset the increase.

Insurers doing business in New York are now required to regularly search a government list of recent deaths to identify policyholders, then find and pay beneficiaries even when no claims are made.

Allianz Life cites increased interest in annuities and life insurance as part of its 72 percent jump in first-quarter profit from the same period in 2011.