The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has extended by nearly three months a program for bond issuers and underwriters to self-report violations…
A look at a strategy that is expected to take hold in the world of health benefits…
“I see us really just at the beginning of the growth of the individual life business,” the company’s president said…
Market volatility leaped to the No. 1 concern among financial advisors in the second quarter, up two spots from the previous quarter…
How a group of advisors from the Pittsburgh area have helped each other for nearly a half-century…
In the space of three months, from June through August 2013, some of the most powerful lawmakers trained their attention on the issue of long-term care as more than 30 experts testified about the state of the industry…
He now supports more frequent advisor exams conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and paid for by advisors themselves…
In short, the rules are designed to maintain the integrity of money funds…
An appointment-setting program can be a valuable part of your sales process, although you may not see results immediately.
How a young advisor has adapted to change and built relationships, leading to his success…
A worker who contributes the maximum allowable amounts for 40 years without any withdrawals into a health savings account (HSA) could accumulate as much as $360,000 at a rate of return of 2.5 percent…
Index universal life (IUL) sales made up 31 percent of all universal life (UL) sales in the first nine months of 2013, compared to only 14 percent of UL sales for all of 2010, according to a new study published by the actuarial firm Milliman…
The Colorado Insurance Division has expanded the list of terms that it said should not be used in life insurance and annuity advertisements, due to the potential for misleading consumers. These terms are “certificate of deposit” or CD, “safe” and “secure.”…
The Supreme Court rules that nonspousal inherited individual retirement accounts are not exempt from bankruptcy creditors…
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill requiring new disclosure language for immediate annuities commonly sold to seniors, language that is already required in the sale of deferred annuities…
Barclays Capital Inc. and Barclays PLC is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit by the New York attorney general, alleging that the British bank had deceived customers in its “dark pool,” which is essentially a private securities exchange…
Why these groups are the most likely to pass up “free” money for retirement…
What the Securities and Exchange Commission says about its concerns…
The average contribution to an individual retirement account (IRA) reached a record $4,150 in the 2013 tax year, an increase of 5.7 percent from the previous year, according to an analysis of over 7 million IRAs by Fidelity Investments…
