Life Insurance

MetLife has trimmed a third of its adviser force amid a push to save $150 million a year by 2014. Question is, are the job cuts over?

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Wealthy get biggest bang from retirement savings deal, lower investment taxes.

Tax-advantaged investing gaining traction among advisers, helps push product.

But critics question whether younger workers should even be buying annuities

Company to change name to Voya Financial upon IPO, focus on retirement, investment, insurance.

Private-equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners LLC has agreed to buy National Financial Partners Corp. (NFP) for $1.3 billion, the companies said today.The deal, which includes debt that can be converted into stock, works out to $25.35 a share, which is below the 2003 initial-public-offering price

Deal includes acquisition of Axa's MONY Life Insurance, reinsuring a block of life policies.

Insurer close to being spun off in an initial public offering; business to remain the same.

Cetera Financial Group is continuing its aggressive expansion, announcing last Friday that it had agreed to acquire two independent broker-dealers from MetLife Inc. for an undisclosed sum.