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RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 16, 2008
Cuomo to AIG: Give back the bucks

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has demanded that AIG recover the money it spent on lavish outings, bonuses and golden parachutes — and threatened sanctions if the insurer didn’t heed the order.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 16, 2008
Hedge funds clipped by manic market

If preliminary data on hedge fund redemptions for September are any indication, the $1.9 trillion industry could be scrambling to honor a flood of withdrawal requests at the end of the year.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 16, 2008
Analyst decries REITs sell-off

Raymond James & Associates Inc. analyst Paul Puryear upgraded eight real estate investment trusts today in the belief that the recent sell-off in the sector has been overdone.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 16, 2008
Merrill, Citi, State Street, PNC and BNY Mellon

Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and Citigroup Inc. were walloped by third-quarter losses, while State Street Corp., The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. posted profits.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 15, 2008
Yellen prophesies rough road ahead

The U.S. economy appears to be in a recession, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank president Janet Yellen said yesterday, according to published reports.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 15, 2008
JPMorgan, Schwab, Wells Fargo and Piper

New York-based JPMorgan Chase reported a third-quarter profit of $527 million, or 11 cents a share, down 84% from the $3.4 billion, or 97 cents a share, recorded in the year-ago period.

RETIREMENT TAX OCT 15, 2008
Survey: Tax policies will sway investor strategy

Investors are more likely to change their investments strategies if government raises the capital gains tax, according to a survey released today by Eaton Vance Corp. of Boston.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 15, 2008
Rule changes could open up 403(b) field

Advisers have a huge opportunity to win business in the 403(b) arena, but they must act quickly, a retirement expert said at a panel on the subject at the Center for Due Diligence’sconference in Scottsdale, Ariz.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS OCT 15, 2008
Receiver sought for Reserve International fund

Shareholders have filed court papers asking the New York State Supreme Court to name a receiver for Reserve Management Co. Inc.’s International Liquidity Fund, in order to organize its liquidation.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 15, 2008
Time to rethink financial planning

Let’s say you were a financial planner in 1926. Of course, there was no such discipline as financial planning in the Roaring ’20s.