Life Insurance Strategies arranges premium financing of large policies for high-net-worth clients.
A hedge fund manager testified that a Hollywood private detective once offered to have a movie producer killed for him.
Equity REITs posted total returns, including dividends, of 1.4%, while all REITs were down slightly at 0.42%.
The firm announced its foray into the life settlements industry as the first insurance carrier to buy unwanted policies.
A 25-year veteran of the retirement and investment management industry, John Y. Kim comes to NYLIM from Prudential Retirement.
Last month, there were 791 new bond issues valued at $39 billion, according to Thompson Financial.
The Charles Schwab Corp.'s largest bond fund has lost more than 80% of its assets over the past 10 months as investors have fled the mortgage-backed securities in which it invested heavily.
NAIC has revised its rules to keep life insurers from refusing coverage based on customers’ future travel.
The hedge fund has agreed to buy a 50% stake in the New York-based credit specialist fund manager Ore Hill Partners.
In a break with the previous 10 months, investors poured $3.3 billion more into domestic stock funds in February than they took out.
Vanguard announced several reassignments of portfolio managers in its fixed income and money market funds.
MetLife is bringing in its deferred income annuity as an asset allocation option in a defined contribution plan.
AIG has filed suit against ex-chief executive Maurice Greenberg and six other former directors and executives, accusing them of breaching fiduciary duty,
The firm reported that its operating earnings jumped 17% to a record level of $1.28 billion for 2007.
The London hedge fund manager projects net management fee income to grow 15% from the year-ago period.
PowerShares Global Nuclear Energy Portfolio is designed to track the overall performance of companies in the nuclear energy industry.
Roving reporter Aaron Siegel quizzed conference attendees on their views on finance ... and the NCAA tournament.
Annuities are from Principal Financial Group, Symetra Life Insurance and firms affiliated with MetLife Investors.
SSgA launched a new ETF that tracks Deutsche Bank’s DB Global Government ex-U.S. Inflation-Linked Bond Capped index.
