Just when market conditions appear to be stabilizing, financial advisers now have something else to keep them awake at night: Both Social Security and Medicare are on a pace to disappear even sooner than expected.
Although carriers' acceptance into the TARP program has led to share price gains and cautious approval from ratings agencies, some financial advisers are still keeping the insurers' products and securities at arm's length.
Wealth managers and tax attorneys are advising wealthy clients who may need to minimize gift and estate tax payments to consider taking advantage of a popular tax-planning tool while they still can.
Keeping track of rogue brokers is a tricky business, particularly when they leave or are booted from the confines of the securities industry, but keep peddling financial products.
Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, D-Pa., today reintroduced the Insurance Information Act of 2009, which would establish a federal Office of Insurance Information.
A state senator wants Florida's insurance commissioner to resign, calling him "duplicitous and untrustworty" in a letter to Gov. Charlie Crist.
Legislation that would allow insurance agents to be registered by a single national licensing organization was introduced today in the House of Representatives.
John Grady has joined New York Life Insurance Co. as a senior vice president in charge of mergers and acquisitions in the company’s corporate finance department.
Merrill Lynch Life Agency Inc. will pay the Illinois Division of Insurance $18 million to settle a state investigation into the firm’s role in an imploded trust that was supposed to cover consumers’ funeral expenses.
A large number of people let the money in their 401(k) plans languish after they lose their jobs — or simply choose to cash out their retirement accounts once they're terminated — according to a new report released by The Charles Schwab Corp.
The Allstate Corp. of Northbrook, Ill., today declined the Department of the Treasury’s approval to participate in TARP.
Your clients are sitting on the edge of their seats, anxiously awaiting word of how the alternative minimum tax will affect them.
The Nebraska Supreme Court Friday ruled against a group of investors that tried to muscle a state guaranty association into paying about $1 million for the group’s failed viatical investments.
Chief executive Ramani Ayer today told employees in an internal memorandum that the insurance juggernaut, which has limped its way through dismal financial results and devastating investment losses, has decided to hold on to both units.
National Planning Holdings Inc., the Santa Monica, Calif. independent broker-dealer network, saw its revenue slip 15% during the first quarter, to $136 million from $159.9 million a year earlier.
First-quarter sales of index annuities hit $7 billion — down 2.1% from the fourth quarter but up 22.8% from a year earlier, according to research from AnnuitySpecs.com.
An industry association that represents the interests of retirement plan service providers this week will suggest modifications to proposed legislation that would require the industry to break out 401(k) fees on investors' statements.
Following the departure of a major annuities expert and the elimination of some variable annuity riders, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. is mulling the future of its role in the VA marketplace.
For decades, the U.S. retirement system was described as a three-legged stool.
President Obama wants as much as $1 billion to establish a federal organization to oversee his proposed automatic-IRA plan.
