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Finra fines MetLife Securities and three affiliates $1.2M over supervision of broker email
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 07, 2009
Finra fines MetLife Securities and three affiliates $1.2M over supervision of broker email

A MetLife Inc. subsidiary and three other affiliates have been fined a total $1.2 million for alleged failures to ensure supervisors could review brokers' e-mails with the public.

By Bloomberg
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 07, 2009
SEC, Finra agree more clarity needed in regulation of life settlements

By Darla Mercado
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 07, 2009
ACLI elects MetLife CEO C. Robert Henrikson as its chairman

The American Council of Life Insurers has elected C. Robert Henrikson, chairman and chief executive of MetLife Inc., as its 2010 chairman.

By Bloomberg
NEWS RIAS DEC 07, 2009
As insurers gain in wealth management race, hurdles remain high

In the long battle to position themselves as wealth managers, life insurance companies still have to prove to financial advisers that they can do more than sell annuities.

By Darla Mercado
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 07, 2009
Retirement income winners and losers

You wouldn't know it from the way most mutual fund companies and insurers are marketing their products today, but retirement income in all its dimensions is going to be the key driver of the financial and investment business for the next two decades at least.

By Evan Cooper
NEWS RIAS DEC 07, 2009
Schwab's mea culpa and promises to advisers

The Charles Schwab Corp. ended its annual conference for independent advisers last week with a flourish and a confession.

By Jed Horowitz
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 07, 2009
Herb Allison expected to be named TARP czar

Fannie Mae CEO Herb Allison is expected to be named by the Obama administration to head the government's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, a published report said.

By Associated Press
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 07, 2009
TARP Czar: AIG bailout isn't start of larger program

The Treasury Department’s decision to increase its bailout package to AIG, doesn’t signal a larger effort to aid companies outside the banking sector.

By Bloomberg
NEWS FIXED INCOME DEC 06, 2009
MBIA asset manager to operate as separate unit

MBIA Inc. said on Monday that its asset management unit will function as a separate operating company, a move that sent shares of the bond insurer higher in midday trading.

By Bloomberg
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 06, 2009
CLASS Act still alive in Senate

The debate over health care reform may be getting even more rancorous, but the Senate still aims to keep a provision that would create a government program for long-term care.

By Darla Mercado
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 06, 2009
Many of the firm's clients made their fortune in the investment world

While high-net-worth clients often tend to be more sophisticated than the average investor, Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC claims that its clients are even more investment-savvy than the typical wealthy investor.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
NEWS RIAS DEC 06, 2009
Firm based in smaller market has eye on the wider world

In 1986, Thomas A. Muldowney was discouraged by what he was seeing in the financial services industry.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
NEWS RIAS DEC 06, 2009
New York asset manager a family firm in more ways than one

At 83, Robert B. Deans Jr. still comes into the office every day.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 06, 2009
Eliminating fear as a factor

In his 38 years in the business, I. Craig Hester has never seen clients as scared as they were during the market downturn.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING DEC 06, 2009
A deep bench: Each client is served by a team, typically of 3 advisers, and has access to partners

It's very rare that an investor gets the expertise of an entire financial planning team, but at Budros Ruhlin & Roe Inc., that's exactly what they get.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING DEC 06, 2009
Skewed IRA, 401(k) data present window for advisers

Government estimates about how much investors withdraw from their 401(k)s and IRAs are probably way off — maybe by hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a report published late last month by the Investment Company Institute.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 06, 2009
Avast, ye! Somali pirates create an exchange for stolen loot

Market forces work everywhere — even, it would seem, on the high seas.

By Darla Mercado
NEWS RIAS DEC 06, 2009
Firm's new leader has his sights set on new frontiers

Rolling out of the recession, Aspiriant LLC's newly chosen leader has set his sights on eastward expansion, turning the steering wheel away from sunny California and toward the Midwest.

By Darla Mercado
NEWS MUTUAL FUNDS DEC 06, 2009
Joel Hirsh: In equities, big and boring is best

The next wave of equity opportunities lie in big, “boring” companies that have been largely overlooked in the current rally, according to hedge fund manager Joel Hirsh.

By Bloomberg
NEWS BROKER DEALERS DEC 06, 2009
John Sykes quits Gunn-Allen board

The sudden resignation last week of John Sykes, chairman of GunnAllen Holdings Inc., has raised questions about the future of the company and its broker-dealer, GunnAllen Financial Inc.

By Bruce Kelly