Start your week with <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>, featuring serious speculation about how bad oil prices might get. Plus: Russian equities take a direct hit, gold prices tank on a Swiss no-vote, and using Cyber Monday to satisfy your inner foodie.
Insurance giant AIG tweaks existing deferred-income product to meet Treasury's guidelines. But will it satisfy the market? <i>(Don't miss: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/gallery/20141121/FREE/112109999/PH" target="_blank">Top sellers of individual annuities</a>)</i>
Consultancy says fund houses must pivot to independent advisers and new products to drive growth.
With Congress adjourned, rejected bills, such as one facilitating insurance agents' ability to practice in multiple states that was blocked by Sen. Tom Coburn, will need to be reintroduced next year.
For advisers who want to expand their firms by reaching out to the next generation of investors – those in their 20s, 30s or 40s – long-term and cross-generational financial vehicles such as fee-only life insurance and no-load annuities offered to clients of RIAs through Ameritas Advisor Services should be considered as a central part of the effort.
Legendary Vanguard founder invests only in U.S. and, of course, in index funds.
Falling oil prices, accelerating economic growth to provide fuel for further gains.
Advisers willing to wait to get into the carrier's VAs and if history is any guide, first quarter sales will jump.
Berthel Fisher among firms that have lifted suspension, but others housing 29,000 advisers confirm they haven't.
Salesforce, Keurig knocked lower by weak forecasts; secondary offering sinks GoPro.
MainStay Marketfield, the blockbuster long/short equity liquid alt fund, was a darling at the wirehouses, but when its performance dragged, the outflows came quick and heavy.
Senate OKs legislation to make it easier for insurance agents to become licensed to sell insurance in multiple states.
Nontraded energy BDC provides funds for exploration and drilling.
Schorsch and ARC will push back celebration until mid-2015.
Can Goldman Sachs put ETF investors on a liquid diet?
Untested approach compared to adding cyanide to cupcakes
Paul Krugman is skeptical of the consensus for a rate hike. <i>Plus:</i> The risky downside of oil's slide, passive investing all the rage, Congress actually does something, Americans turn bullish.
Though the energy sector has dropped 14.6% in the past three months versus a 3.5% gain for the S&P, investing experts say the innovation potential in the sector should not be ignored.
A world where big performance disparities are the norm
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