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The average long-term government bond fund has soared 10.1% this year, according to Morningstar.
The firm hopes to make it easier for clients and advisers to understand sales charge reductions and waivers.
MetLife is the second major insurer to exit the brokerage business, in the sale of its adviser unit to MassMutual. Mergers may be on the rise due to the Labor Department's proposed fiduciary rule.
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The move would allow insurers to sidestep additional risk in distributing through independent agents.
New offerings for the younger market have made the life insurance industry ripe for disruption.
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As of May, the exchange-traded fund industry has created 4,602 ETFs with 9,764 listings and assets of $2.996 billion from 247 providers on 63 exchanges.
The departures include top managers and the closure of some funds.
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The Fed has been the biggest variable in driving ETF flows. But for now investors are looking to stock-proof, not Fed-proof, their portfolios.
The move comes just a day after MSCI decided not to add China's domestic equities to benchmark indexes.
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Today's complaints against the Labor Department regulation raising retirement advice standards, bringing the total to five, say it will make it harder for Americans to purchase fixed annuities.
