AIG is in need of a federal government guaranty to meet counterparty collateral requirements, its former CEO Maurice Greenberg, said today.
Genstar Capital LLC, a San Francisco-based private-equity firm, yesterday agreed to buy Long Term Care Group Inc., an outsourced services administrator.
The challenge: Creating a workable and measurable plan when you’re not sure how to start or where you’ll find the time to do the necessary work.
Fixed annuity sales in the United States hit $27.1 billion in the third quarter, up by 54% from the third quarter of 2007, according to data from Beacon Research of Evanston, Ill.
The manufacturing sector headed downward in November as the economy continued to weaken under the weight of the financial crisis, according to a report by the Institute for Supply Management in Tempe, Ariz.
While variable annuity performance has plunged this fall, the hedging programs designed to protect the products have helped carriers save $40 billion during September and October, according to a study from Milliman Inc.
Envestnet Asset Management today announced enhancements to its sustainability platform in response to a growing interest in socially conscious investing, which accounts for one in every nine dollars under portfolio management in the United States.
Common-wisdom definitions of what constitutes a recession notwithstanding, the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. today confirmed what most Americans have been feeling for many months: The United States economy has been in a recession for a year.
Two recent surveys lend credence to suggestions that the Wall Street meltdown may drive more financial advisers to independent firms from wirehouses.
