Truth-in-labeling law comes to medical insurance biz; 'plain English'
Combination life and long-term care polices are gaining serious traction in the marketplace. One for-instance: Sales for Lincoln National's MoneyGuard are up 62 percent over the past year.
Home bias 'alive and well' nonetheless, says Accuvest's Garff; game plan flawed
Pimco and other investors are boosting holdings of yuan-denominated assets as debt crises worsen in the U.S., Europe and Japan
Janus Capital Group Inc. has issued a statement clarifying that it isn't a target in the current insider trading probe, despite having <a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20101124/FREE/101129976>received a subpoena last week as part of the investigation</a>.
More than one-third of financial advisers surveyed are holding off on investing in any funds managed by Wellington Capital Management and Janus Capital Group Inc. until they are cleared of any wrongdoing in a recent insider-trading probe, according to an online survey conducted this week by InvestmentNews.
Mutual funds' ties to so-called expert networks that have been probed as part of an insider trading investigation may undermine efforts by the industry to stem three years of client withdrawals from stock funds.
Unlike its life insurance counterpart, STATs also have the assumed liability of the broker-dealer writing such business
Trade associations representing the life insurance industry and agents today applauded New York's passage of life settlement legislation.
PFM Group, owner of the largest investment adviser in the U.S. municipal bond market, bought a smaller competitor co-owned by Lois Scott, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's new chief financial officer.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair considers money market mutual funds “destabilizing” to the financial system and thinks investors would be served just as well if share prices floated
Nathan Behan, a senior investment analyst at Prima Capital Holdings, outlines some key recent and long-term trends in the markets in an economic report and analysis on the first quarter
Because past performance is no guarantee — or even an indication — of future results, it would make sense to pick a fund on criteria other than past performance
An SEC rule proposal that would raise the net-worth thresholds at which advisers would be allowed to charge performance-based fees would likely cut into the bottom lines of smaller hedge funds, private-equity firms and some registered investment advisers
A Massachusetts federal court judge has quashed a motion by Prudential Insurance Co. of America to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the insurer had wrongfully held on to veterans' death benefits instead of paying them out in a lump sum
The search for new sources of retirement income and exposure to investments that don't correlate with traditional asset classes has brought about new product innovations — many of them sparked by individual investors' wanting to invest like institutions
Boss of Wintergreen, along with First Eagle's McLennnan, stuffing portfolios with overseas holdings; 'amazing opportunity'
Retirees need some equities exposure, but they also must hedge their bets
The Fed Reserve's quantitative easing is finally about to end. S&P analyst Michael Souers says this could be a real a boost for Treasuries with less lengthy maturities. Retirees, take note.
