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RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 03, 2009
Agents oppose government-sponsored health care

As Congress starts to take up health care reform, a group representing health insurance agents is voicing its dissent over President Obama's call for universal health insurance.

By Sara Hansard
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 03, 2009
Planning groups look to cut health insurance deals

The two largest organizations of financial planners are looking at ways to give members discounts on several kinds of insurance.

By Lisa Shidler
ETFS MAY 03, 2009
Wall Street's world turned upside down

The day of reckoning has come for the financial services industry.

By Jeff Benjamin 
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 01, 2009
Report: AIG mulls folding some of its mortgage insurance units

American International Group Inc. is considering closing down parts of its mortgage insurance unit following a failure to offload it, Bloomberg reported.

By Darla Mercado
RIA NEWS MAY 01, 2009
RIAs least likely to use annuities for rollovers

By Jeff Benjamin
ETFS MAY 01, 2009
Invesco PowerShares to close 19 small ETFs

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC said today that it plans to close 19 of its current 135 exchange traded funds.

By Bloomberg
MUTUAL FUNDS APR 30, 2009
Mutual fund assets grow despite outflows, ICI says

Mutual fund assets grew by 2.3% in March, according to a report released by the Investment Company Institute.

By Sue Asci
ETFS APR 29, 2009
AdvisorShares selects BNY Mellon unit for custody of planned actively managed ETFs

AdvisorShares Investments LLC appears to have moved a step closer to launching its first actively managed exchange traded fund.

By David Hoffman
ALTERNATIVES APR 29, 2009
Indictment brought against Fla. hedge fund manager

A grand jury has indicted a Florida hedge fund manager who disappeared for two weeks before surrendering to face criminal charges.

By Associated Press
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 29, 2009
Aetna reports slight 1Q profit increase

Managed-care company Aetna Inc. said today its first-quarter profit rose slightly due to membership gains and premium increases, even though the company saw higher-than-expected medical costs.

By D Hampton
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 29, 2009
Impaired intangible assets stress insurance earnings, Moody's says

Impaired intangible assets will continue to pressure insurance companies as earnings continue to erode, according to a report from Moody’s Investors Service in New York.

By Darla Mercado
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 29, 2009
Variable annuity market needs help to grow, report says

In order to keep the individual annuity market alive amid economic turmoil, insurance companies will need to readjust their product risk, distribution and cost structures for the product, according to a report from Conning Research & Consulting.

By Darla Mercado
FIXED INCOME APR 29, 2009
Treasury will auction long bonds monthly

The monthly auctions of 30-year bonds follows Treasury's decision just three months ago to double the frequency of the auctions from four times annually to eight.

By Bloomberg
MUTUAL FUNDS APR 28, 2009
Fidelity funds land on Lemon List

Four out of the top 10 largest mutual funds on Doug Fabian&#8217;s <a href=http://www.mutualfundlemonlist.com>Lemon List</a> for the first quarter were from Fidelity Investments.

By Sue Asci
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 28, 2009
Federal insurance regulation is coming, warns a House leader

Delivering a message that his audience probably didn&#8217;t want to hear, Paul Kanjorski, D-Penn, chairman of the House Capital Markets Subcommittee, said that federal insurance regulation is inevitable.

By Sara Hansard
ALTERNATIVES APR 28, 2009
Home prices plummet 18.6% in February

Home prices dropped sharply in February, but for the first time in 25 months the decline was not a record, another sign the housing crisis could be bottoming.

By D Hampton
ALTERNATIVES APR 28, 2009
SEC freezes assets of Connecticut hedge fund manager

The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained a court order freezing the assets of a Connecticut hedge fund manager who allegedly bilked investors of $30 million by inflating the size of two of his funds.

By Sue Asci
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 27, 2009
Ex-Allianz executive: Only a buyout can save Hartford

Only a buyout &#8212; preferably one by Allianz SE of Munich, Germany &#8212; will rescue The Hartford (Conn.) Financial Services Group Inc., wrote Bob MacDonald, former chief executive of Allianz Life of North America and Allianz Income Management Services, both in Minneapolis.

By Darla Mercado
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 27, 2009
Aviva sales increased 5% during first quarter

Worldwide sales for Aviva PLC rose to 10.3 billion British pounds ($15.1 billion) in the first quarter, up 5% from a year earlier, buoyed by sales of life insurance and pensions.

By Bloomberg
ALTERNATIVES APR 26, 2009
Financial advisers help clients cope with plummeting house prices

Dealing with the declining value of their clients' homes, financial advisers are adjusting retirement plans and coming up with new ways to compensate for the wealth loss.

By Lisa Shidler