Guggenheim Partners LLC is in talks about combining its former Claymore Group Inc. exchange-traded-fund business with its Rydex SGI business, according to people familiar with the situation
Investors flocking to Treasury inflation-protected securities may be in for a rude awakening when interest rates start to rise
Insurance brokers don't have to disclose incentive arrangements with insurers that were entered into before New York state's disclosure regulation took effect Jan. 1, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled
Advisers have mixed feelings about volatility dampener; 'really restrictive'
Western & Southern Financial Group Inc.'s decision to base its variable annuity investment options on exchange-traded funds is a positive for the insurer, allowing it to better manage market risk tied to the products, according to Moody's Investors Service
SEC claims that Provident Capital made false statements about its ability to cover its bond obligations
Real estate investment trusts finished 2010 with a gain of nearly 28%, matching the stellar returns of 2009 and nearly double the performance of the S&P 500 last year.
IRI report is pre-emptive strike against possible tax change
There is renewed life and strong momentum in the IPO market, but investors should not ignore some fundamental realities and patterns that newly public stocks tend to follow, according to Josef Schuster, manager of the Direxion Long/Short Global IPO Fund Ticker:(DXIIX).
When will Mark Zuckerberg be ringing the bell as investors clamor for his company's stock? <i>InvestmentNews'</i> Evan Cooper has an idea.
<i>The following is the weekly commentary of Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial, for the week of February 28, 2011. For more, <a href=http://lplfinancial.lpl.com/Documents/ResearchPublications/Weekly_Market_Commentary.pdf> click here.</a></i>
Higher interest rates are likely to result in insurers' sweetening their fixed-indexed-annuity offerings this year as they try to catch a wave of renewed investor interest
Scott Page, who has managed the top-performing bank loan fund over the past five years, said that the debt is still attractive, even after a two-year rally
Corporate-owned life insurance is on the chopping block as President Barack Obama releases his 2012 budget
Economic pressures are still negative, and sentiment is once again bullish enough to define an "overvalued, overbought, overbullish" condition.
Lawsuit claims insurer profited mightily off retained-asset accounts; lump-sum payment or not?
The three Transparent Value offerings based upon the Dow Jones RBP directional indexes include a U.S. large-cap aggressive index fund, a U.S. large-cap defensive index fund, and a U.S. large-cap market index fund
Guggenheim Partners LLC, an investment firm founded by the famous family for which it is named, announced today it is acquiring Security Benefit Corp. — and with it Rydex SGI.
Asset management boss warns that a 1994-style rout could happen -- if Fed changes monetary policy
There has been no better place in the U.S. government bond market since 2008 than in debt that protects against faster inflation
