Insurance giant stung by cost of elder care, longer life spans of retirees and persistently low interest rates.
Financial advisers can help clients take early steps to plan for the progressive disease.
The insurer will be the first non-bank to argue that its failure would not pose a threat to the financial system.
Look for automatic reallocation, inflation hedges and other features.
As industry turns to smart beta to capture growth, product developers may need to step up stress testing.
Rock star portfolio manager's new addition is the 26th exchange-traded fund launched this year but is possibly the most important as test of active management.
Judges said the firm must face a class-action lawsuit on mortgage debt in bond funds.
Federal Vice Chairman Fischer says the central bank is most likely to raise interest rates in June or September, although economic developments might warrant different timing for liftoff.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bond market and the Fed are suddenly marching in lockstep, with inflation clarity coming soon.
Exchange-traded funds are exceptional tools for allocating client portfolios, but they can lose their effectiveness if implemented incorrectly.
The dominance of algorithms in trading means advisers need to re-evaluate their processes
Lisa McAlister, the company's former chief accounting officer, pulls her defamation suit, in which she claimed she was a scapegoat for a $23 million accounting error.
Top-rated fund manager, with better record in bonds than stocks, fond of bold pronouncements.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The Fed continues to hem and haw on raising interest rates. Plus: Options-based funds get it done, hedge funder spills the beans on 2015, and the outlook for oil prices is all over the map.
<b>Breakfast with Benjamin:</b> Where the price of oil is likely to settle. Plus: On the responsibility of retirement plan sponsors and mutual fund directors; don't get blown away by the new jobs report and banks pass stress tests with flying colors.
Largest ETF firm wins victory in case questioning its lucrative securities-lending business.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: OPEC might be rethinking their strategy of flooding the market with oil to crush the fracking industry.
As new annuities gain in popularity, broker-dealers are getting reps up to speed on using them as part of a comprehensive retirement income plan.
Four new funds not for the faint of heart or buy-and-hold investors.
Boston mutual fund and brokerage giant increased its earnings by 29% last year despite surging investor redemptions of its mutual funds.
