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Financial Product Sales: Actions Needed to Protect Military Members

GAO-06-245T Published: Nov 17, 2005. Publicly Released: Nov 17, 2005.
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In 2004, a series of media articles alleged that financial firms were marketing expensive and potentially unnecessary insurance or other financial products to members of the military. GAO's report for this committee examined (1) features and marketing of certain insurance and securities products being sold to military members and (2) how financial regulators and the Department of Defense (DOD) were overseeing the sales of insurance and securities products to military members. GAO also examined issues relating to DOD's oversight of insurance sales for a report issued in June 2005.

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InsuranceInsurance regulationInsurance companiesMilitary personnelMarketingSecurities regulationProduct evaluationSecuritiesLife insuranceFinancial regulators