Genworth sees opportunity in CMHC's limit
As Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. nears its insurance ceiling, competitors say they have room to grow

Life insurance: Is term life always enough?
Most families are better off buying cheap, straightforward term insurance, but there are situations where universal or whole life policies make sense.

Term life insurance
Term life insurance provides life insurance coverage for a specific time period (the term). It is often referred to as pure insurance. The face amount of the policy is paid if you die during the te

Radian Senior Account Manager Lynn Koscher Elected President of the Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association
Radian Guaranty Inc., the mortgage insurance subsidiary of Radian Group Inc. , announced today that Senior Account Manager Lynn Koscher has been named President of the Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association , the state MBA association with the longest history in the country.

Fannie Mae and a Zillion Small Mortgage Abuses
The real problem with the mortage crisis wasn't its enormity, but how routine the whole thing was, an accumulation of small abuses in a system designed to overlook them, or at least totally unequipped to catch them. This piece by the New York Times's Gretchen Morgenson shines a light on this problem, which is one reason - maybe the main one - why the mortgage mess persists, and resists all ...