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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 26, 2009
Obama seeks to jack taxes on hedgers

All carried-interest distributions from private-equity funds and hedge funds would be taxed as ordinary income instead of capital gains under Obama's proposed budget.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS FEB 26, 2009
Fidelity to expand in muni bonds, capital markets

Fidelity Investments plans to increase its presence in the municipal-bond market, firm executives said in an interview.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 25, 2009
Bernanke backs optional fed charter for insurance

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today backed the idea of creating an optional federal charter for insurance.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS FEB 25, 2009
Congress attacks retirement security, target date funds

Congress today commenced an effort to determine whether legislation needs to be enacted to protect the retirement security of the country's aging population.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 25, 2009
Advisers want more-understanding wholesalers

Financial advisers, already overwhelmed with frazzled clients, want more understanding from their wholesalers.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 25, 2009
More boomers buying long term care insurance

The age of long term care insurance purchasers continues to skew downward as more baby boomers buy policies.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS FEB 25, 2009
E-Trade closes its index funds

E*Trade Financial Corp. has closed its line of four index funds with liquidations to take place no later than March 27.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS FEB 25, 2009
Eaton Vance 1Q profit down 57%

Eaton Vance Corp. said Wednesday its fiscal first-quarter profit shrank by more than half.

By Bloomberg
ADVISOR NEWS FINTECH FEB 25, 2009
Navy Federal partners with FundQuest

Navy Federal Asset Management LLC today announced the launch of a new managed account platform in partnership with FundQuest Inc. of Boston.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS FEB 25, 2009
Musical chairs at Columbia Funds

Columbia Management Group LLC recently changed portfolio managers at 20 teams that manage more than 55 mutual funds.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 25, 2009
Managed-futures funds cool down

Managed-futures funds, which finished 2008 as one of the best-performing alternative strategies, hit a bump in January.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 25, 2009
Chubb settles Mass. kickback case

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 24, 2009
Paying off a mortgage

A client wants to pay off his mortgage with a retirement account distribution and is wondering about the short- and long-term financial ramifications.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 24, 2009
Commercial real estate dove 14.9% in December

Commercial real estate prices plunged 14.9% on average in December from the same month a year ago.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 24, 2009
Regulators anticipate new rules for insurers

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS FEB 24, 2009
Fidelity’s income dropped 18% in 2008

Fidelity Investments, the world’s biggest mutual fund company, reported today that its operating income dropped 18% last year.

By Bloomberg
ADVISOR NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 24, 2009
Today’s worst funds will be tomorrow’s best, analyst says

When combing through new investment ideas, advisers would be wise not to ignore mutual funds and separate-account strategies at the bottom of the heap.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 24, 2009
OppenheimerFunds shutters Tremont fund

OppenheimerFunds Inc. has elected to shutter its OFI Tremont Core Strategies Hedge Fund and start returning the fund's roughly $100 million in assets to clients.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 24, 2009
Ratings downgrades coming for insurers: Fitch

Hard times are on the horizon for insurers as commercial mortgage exposure haunts carriers and capital levels shrink, according to Fitch.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 24, 2009
MetLife, Axa bid for AIG’s life unit

Insurers have begun bidding for American Life Insurance Co., the life insurance unit of American International Group Inc.

By Bloomberg