Affluent clients of two large financial services companies converted billions of dollars held in conventional IRAs to Roth IRAs in 2010, particularly at the end of the year
Western & Southern Financial Group Inc.'s decision to base its variable annuity investment options on exchange-traded funds is a positive for the insurer, allowing it to better manage market risk tied to the products, according to Moody's Investors Service.
To make their variable annuities more attractive, insurers revved up living-benefit features last year. This year, some top VA sellers are hitting the brakes and trimming benefits.
The recession that stripped many Americans of their financial security may also have saved a few marriages
Here is a way for financial advisers to keep abreast of ways to engage the next generation: an entertaining website to share with parents or grandparents, who can in turn share it with their young ones
Does anyone want to write long-term-care insurance policies anymore?
To make their variable annuities more attractive, insurers revved up living-benefit features last year
Summary prospectuses for variable annuities are supposed to help consumers make informed decisions about buying these complicated investments
Egypt's political future may be uncertain, but U.S. financial advisers are sure of one thing — it's best to observe Middle Eastern developments carefully but to avoid the region for now
Like other brokerage firms, The Charles Schwab Corp. is known to be self-protective about its discount brokerage customers. And like other firms, it has sued former brokers whom it suspects of violating prohibitions against soliciting clients.
The Charles Schwab Corp. has come out against the idea of creating a self-regulatory organization for advisers.
Providing scalable high-tech, high-touch financial advice to the mass affluent has been a goal of adviser entrepreneurs since the days of MS-DOS. While the technology and knowledge certainly exist to make it happen, doing so successfully and profitably thus far has been elusive.
National Financial Services Corp., Fidelity Investments' clearing arm, today announced some substantial enhancements to its Streetscape web-based brokerage workstation.
These off-the-radar stocks remain relatively immune to Wall Street's 'wall of worry'
Investors are finally getting back into the stock market, funneling billions into large-cap mutual funds. But this week's worrisome slide in equities, fueled by the unrest in the Middle East, raises the question: is the clock ticking down on the bull market?
Confidence hits highest level in a decade, Merrill study reveals; 67% now overweighting equities
Whitehead bashes proposed acquisition of New York Stock Exchange by Deutsche Boerse; 'holy institution'
Turner Titan's Baggini says both industries will keep rising
TD Ameritrade Institutional continues to leverage one factor that distinguishes it from its larger competitors for the assets of advisers: its advocacy efforts
While last week's rumors of an OPEC production hike trimmed crude oil by a few dollars, energy prices are likely to keep climbing for quite a while
