Life insurance producer advocacy groups celebrated the House Financial Services Committee's approval yesterday of the proposed Investor Protection Act, but stressed the bill still doesn't go far enough in protecting commissioned-based insurance sales agents.
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America is pulling its stand-alone long-term-care insurance product off the shelves, effective Nov. 13.
Exchange-traded-fund providers in the coming year will have to focus on making sure financial advisers understand their products — and how to use them in client portfolios — as they anticipate increased scrutiny from regulators and the media, according to participants in today's ETF round table at InvestmentNews' New York offices.
The federal courts should resolve the question of whether mutual funds are charging too much in fees, the Supreme Court says.
The Phoenix Cos. Inc., following a series of ratings downgrades earlier this year that halted sales of its life insurance and annuity products by major outside distributors, today announced the creation of a distribution company, Saybrus Partners Inc., and a consulting agreement with Edward Jones & Co. LP.
BrightScope, a San Diego, Calif.-based 401(k) data and analytics firm, announced on Monday a partnership with Target Date Analytics LLC to launch the BrightScope On Target Index. Effective today, plan sponsors and advisers who sign up to use BrightScope's online tools to compare their plans' performance to others will now also be able to benchmark the target date funds within their plans.
On the day before it is set to roll out its first set of exchange-traded funds, The Charles Schwab Corp. announced a bold move today: the funds will be made available commission-free for clients with Schwab accounts.
A panel of life insurance company chief executives last week assessed how the industry has dealt with the financial crisis, debating the merits of mutual companies versus stock companies.
The Securities and Exchange Commission would be instructed to study whether pre-sale disclosures should be required for all products sold to retail investors under a provision of financial services regulatory-reform legislation likely to be approved this week by the House Financial Services Committee.
Just weeks after launching its first commodities exchange-traded fund, a unit of Jefferies & Co. Inc. last week launched two similar ETFs: one focused on agriculture and another on industrial metals.
Touchstone Investments is looking to adopt funds to fill out its product lineup.
Economist, lawyer and deadpan comedian Ben Stein doesn't find much humor in the way the federal government is handling the economic crisis.
There's plenty of money-making opportunities right here in the USA, despite the sluggish economy, according to some industry observers.
The love affair financial advisers have enjoyed with American Funds has cooled.
In whatever way Congress and the Obama administration eventually change the national health care system, there is one segment of the health care market where reform has already begun and is gaining momentum.
A California life insurance agent will face a preliminary hearing Friday as he contends with grand-theft and identity theft charges.
There have already been more than three times the number of target date fund liquidations so far this year than there were in all of 2008. Moreover, experts predict that trend to increase as smaller fund managers are finding it nearly impossible to gain traction in the market.
With the economy in recovery mode, Tim Palmer, a senior portfolio manager with First American Funds, has zeroed in on the financial sector's high-grade bonds.
A German man who founded the hedge fund group K1 was arrested by police amid an investigation into possible fraud that may total some euro200 million ($295.7 million), prosecutors said Thursday.
