Income-seeking investors should take solace in a trend toward rising dividend payouts in 2012, according to Alex Crooke, manager of the $1.2 billion Henderson Global Equity Income Fund.
Insurer mulling raising fees and cutting benefits on popular product; low interest rates to blame
Strength despite Greek woes might indicate that the worst is over
Extension of cheap money policy seen boosting annuity costs, reducing benefits and commissions
Goldman Sachs Asset Management got its Christmas shopping done early this year.
In the third-quarter, variable annuity sales surged, thanks in large part to MetLife Inc. But the jury is out on how the major insurers' decision to pare back offerings might affect overall VA sales.
Morningstar issues warning about 'staggering' inflows into taxable debt funds
'The rules have been changed here,' says Pimco debt guru
In case you missed <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20120212/REG/302129979>my last column</a> in the print edition of InvestmentNews on February 13, 2012, I wrote about one of the latest buzz words in retirement income planning: longevity insurance.
Actively managed mutual funds recorded $8.6 billion in outflows last year; investors pulled whopping $33 billion from Growth Fund of America
When the average investor looks at the biggest alternatives mutual funds, the fund world's most familiar names probably won't show up.
Putnam Investments ceo Bob Reynolds today called for the establishment of a regulatory body to approve lifetime-income products.
Oklahoma State University's athletic fund and Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. are embroiled in a legal flap over a failed charitable-insurance-funding plan.
Famed Texas oil investor T. Boone Pickens, who has recently called for greater energy independence by investing in alternative sources, has seen his energy-related hedge funds lose nearly $1 billion this year, The Wall Street Journal reported today.
Named head of fund firm's Investment Product Management and Development
These exchange-traded funds have generated impressive returns to kick off 2012
