Balances in health savings accounts increased slightly in the first quarter from fourth-quarter-2008 levels, according to data from Canopy Financial Inc.
The former chief financial officer for Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy, admitting to helping Madoff carry out a massive fraud that cost thousands of people billions of dollars by lying to investors and testifying falsely when it seemed the fraud might be discovered.
Insurance carriers and producer groups are balking at a regulatory proposal that would curb commissions for agents and increase the suitability duties of insurance companies.
A former top executive of Securities America feared “a panicked run on the bank” from clients who invested in private securities of Medical Capital Holdings Inc., which was sued last month by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud.
A former member of the National Economic Council under President Bush has launched a boutique investment advisory firm, according to published reports.
The Labor Department says productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, rose at an annual rate of 6.4 percent in the April-June quarter.
Top earners are being given a major reason to look elsewhere
Total represents a 5% drop from yearend 2008 and is 26% below 2007 peak.
Mutual life insurance companies fared better than their stockholder-owned counterparts in the recent economic tumult, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service.
Aggressive stimulus spending by governments helped the world avoid a second Great Depression but full economic recovery will take two years or more, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said today.
