An insurance industry effort to make summary prospectuses permissible for variable annuities is being received warmly by broker-dealers, despite doubts that the complex products can be described adequately in abbreviated form.
The insurer's sales and deposits rose 8% to a record $15.2 billion last year. The firm also reported record net income of $670 million, compared with a $1 billion net loss in 2008.
The affluent are feeling as confident now about the economy and their investments as they did in December 2007
Despite a deafening silence from advisers on long-term-care planning, most consumers say they want input from a financial professional on LTC
Further complicating matters, the LTC business requires large amounts of capital, which puts added pressure on carriers that issue the policies
Clients may not be knocking down the doors to participate in the long-term-care-insurance program created last week by the passage of health care reform, but advisers are optimistic the program's existence will spur more discussion around the benefits of LTC planning.
Rush “Rusty” Benton, who founded WealthTrust LLC in 1997 to buy majority stakes in independent wealth management firms, is stepping down as chief executive officer of the company and will assume the new role of chairman, he said Thursday.
State Street Global Advisors tabs former Goldman and Barclays executive to head its defined contribution business
The carrier announced, however, that it will add 400 employees to an operation in Franklin, Tenn., just outside of Nashville.
When he was mayor of New York, Ed Koch often would ask constituents, “How am I doing?”
Natalie Choate, a retirement planning expert with Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, talks with Morningstar's Christine Benz at the InvestmentNews Retirement Income Summit about the new rules that apply to an annuity when it's purchased inside an IRA.
Most financial services companies invest heavily in new field agents, only to see one out of every two leave within two years. What's their gameplan?
The Financial Research Corp. is recommending that target-date funds sharply curtail riskier investments well before they approach maturity — based on the assumption that investors will roll over their assets.
Living longer has its price, study finds
The Employee Benefits Security Administration is planning to publish a compliance checklist for target date fund selection this spring
The percentage of survey respondents who said they are concerned about whether their assets will last throughout their lifetime rose to 61% last quarter, from 53% in the fourth quarter.
President Barack Obama's success as an author continued to add to his wealth last year as he and first lady Michelle Obama reported having assets of between $2.3 million and $7.7 million.
Many financial planners are in the dark about ways to help clients boost their monthly government checks. That needs to change, says one expert.
Putnam Investments is planning to launch a mutual fund with a guarantee in the first quarter of next year.
