In the summer of 2007, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago convened four focus groups to explore the connections between insurance, the process of wealth building and preservation, and financial access for low- and moderate-income consumers. This article examines the findings from those focus...

Providing financial services to immigrants is a growing business for bankers, and a growing area of study for policymakers and researchers. While still an emerging field, most of the attention to financial access thus far has tended to focus on core banking products such as bank account...

This study explores the connections between insurance, wealth building/wealth preservation, and access to financial services (hereafter financial access) for low- and moderate-income consumers. It examines the needs, attitudes, and practices that these consumers have regarding insurance, and...