The term "bailout" has taken on new meaning for financial advisers as they devise ways to free clients from underperforming variable annuities, but the path to freedom is paved with possible tax complications and worries about account churning.
A little more than a week after they were first issued, sales of Build America Bonds have reached nearly $10 billion and are climbing.
American International Group Inc. of New York has appointed Matthew E. Winter vice chairman, transition planning and administration, replacing Richard H. Booth, who retired.
Investment adviser Hennessee Group LLC and its principal, Charles Gradante, have been charged with securities law violations by the SEC for failing to perform an advertised review and analysis before recommending Bayou Management LLC hedge funds that were later discovered to be a fraud.
The Hartford (Conn.) Financial Services Group Inc. has approached its rivals in recent weeks searching for a buyer for its property/casualty unit, Bloomberg reported.
Government support of a green economy and the likelihood of rising oil prices are creating opportunities in alternative energy, according to Calvert Asset Management.
A critique of state regulatory missteps from The Allstate Corp.’s Tom Wilson, did not sit well with Michael T. McRaith, director of the Illinois Division of Insurance.
The Phoenix Cos. walked away from TARP assistance after a bank it was hoping to acquire failed and was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Hedge funds posted small gains last month following the rally in the equity market, according to a Morningstar report released today.
Global hedge fund assets are expected to fall to $1 trillion by midyear, down from $1.4 trillion at the end of 2008 and a peak of $1.868 trillion in 2007.
Mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. insurance industry lost value last year, while non-U.S. transactions plummeted, according to data from Conning Research and Consulting.
Passively managed funds outperformed actively managed funds across all categories during the past five years according to Standard & Poor’s Index Services, which was released today.
After getting beaten to a pulp last year, convertible bonds are making a comeback.
A little more than one-third of private-equity investors without exposure to emerging-markets funds plan to invest in such funds within the next two years, according to a new survey conducted by Coller Capital and the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association.
Insurance stocks have outperformed the overall market during the past four weeks, but financial advisers are reluctant to jump in.
Last week's layoffs and consolidation of key areas of operation at the three broker-dealers of the AIG Advisor Group only add to the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the network's future and the fate of its more than 6,000 representatives and financial advisers, sources said.
Financial stocks have made a remarkable comeback in the past month, leaving advisers to make a hard call: Are banks regaining their health after the yearlong shellacking that they have endured?
The Charles Schwab Corp. has scheduled a webcast Thursday to brief registered investment advisers on its revised plans to wind down custody of alternative investments.
The mutual fund industry is poised to do away with Class C mutual fund shares, even though the Securities and Exchange Commission gave them a reprieve by moving to table reforms.
Insurance companies that have been eliminated from the TARP pool are running up against a new obstacle: financial advisers who are reconsidering whether they want to do business with them.
