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Rocky start, but AIG boss Benmosche outlasts predecessors
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 06, 2010
Rocky start, but AIG boss Benmosche outlasts predecessors

The controversial CEO is set to become the insurer's longest-serving chief executive officer since the company's near-collapse in 2008

Retail investors bail while money managers binge on stocks
RIA NEWS AUG 05, 2010
Retail investors bail while money managers binge on stocks

Individual investors are bailing out of the market. Meanwhile, mutual funds and other institutional investors are buying stock like crazy. What gives?

Investors yanking assets from Legg Mason funds
MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 05, 2010
Investors yanking assets from Legg Mason funds

Legg Mason Inc. fell as much as 3.6 percent in New York trading after reporting that fund withdrawals more than doubled from the prior quarter.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 05, 2010
Banks' Q1 income from annuities dropped

Bank holding companies' income from annuity sales plummeted in the first quarter, as the annuities lost their appeal during the stock market recovery.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 05, 2010
Organization forms group to examine new annuity rules

Worried that new suitability rules for annuities will lead to conflicts between insurers and broker-dealers, an annuity advocacy organization has formed a working group of both parties to work out a solution.

Goldman slashes S&P 500 forecast
RIA NEWS AUG 04, 2010
Goldman slashes S&P 500 forecast

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lowered its year-end forecast for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to 1,200 from 1,250 and reduced its 2011 earnings projection, citing weakening economic forecasts.

RIA NEWS AUG 04, 2010
Lean and green: Why the bacon market is booming

Bacon lovers in the U.S. are paying record prices during the seasonal summer peak for consumption, and costs may keep rising through August because smaller hog herds led to an unprecedented plunge in meat inventories.

RIA NEWS AUG 04, 2010
NFP offers to buy $230M in notes

Financial advisory firm National Financial Partners Corp. said Wednesday it began a tender offer for $230 million in senior notes.

RIA NEWS AUG 03, 2010
Lousy at football, but Columbia's great at investing

Ivy League school's endowment tops Wilshire's ranking for second straight year; roar, Lion, roar

Incite: Government tyranny to blame for market madness?
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE AUG 03, 2010
Incite: Government tyranny to blame for market madness?

Capitalism, the free market no longer at work; making sense of the 'new normal' nearly impossible