The all-in-one rider provides an income step-up to 200% of the initial guaranteed amount 10 years into the policy.
The Charlotte, N.C.-based bank collected $483 million in annuity fees, or 0.06% of $782.8 billion in assets.
The <a href=/assets/docs/CI39631220.PDF>assessment</a> details areas where reciprocity and uniformity initiatives must improve in U.S. states.
Warren Buffett faced is facing criticism after Moody’s Investors Service — in which he is the largest stakeholder —told bond insurers to accept a bailout.
Academics pin the mortgage crisis on lenient lending criteria.
Leadership change reflects problems at the company due to subprime mortgages.
Cincinnati-based Gateway will retain its name and portfolio managers.
Analysts become portfolio managers as part of broad promotion and job changes.
First-quarter results will suffer from subprime-related trading losses.
Signature Resources Capital Management has teamed up with Fundquest Inc. to launch a wealth management platform.
A platform will be launched next month offering what is being touted as the first socially conscious and sustainable-investing account in the financial services industry.
The Mutual Fund Directors Forum is hoping to rally the troops in an effort to stave off what it thinks is an attempt by the Investment Company Institute to eliminate the watchdog role played by mutual fund directors.
When Claymore Securities Inc. of Lisle, Ill., this month announced that it was liquidating 11 exchange traded funds — the first large-scale liquidation of ETFs since the funds were created — some industry experts said investors should view it as a warning.
The SEC shouldn't allow mutual fund directors to dump some of their responsibilities onto others.
Registered investment advisers seem to be winning the race to capture the retiring-baby-boomer market, according to Charles "Chip" Roame, managing principal of Tiburon (Calif.) Strategic Advisors LLC, who spoke at the TD Ameritrade Partnership 2008 Conference in Orlando, Fla. this month.
Iowa will be the first state to join an initiative to provide customers with plain-English disclosure on fixed and indexed annuities.
Brokers, not mutual fund companies, should set their own 12(b)-1 distribution fees.
An organization advocating divestment from companies that support the economies in countries perpetrating genocide won an initial victory in bringing their cause to the fund boards of more than two dozen Fidelity funds.
Despite economic concerns, the central bank keeps interest rates unchanged.
Investors are prohibited from withdrawing funds from CSO Partners.