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The world braces for a slower Chinese economy
Breakfast with Benjamin: A weakening China will show the world how much it is really hooked on the Chinese economy.
MetLife files suit to fight ‘too big to fail’ status
Breakfast with Benjamin: The firm files suit against the Financial Stability Oversight Council, charging them with acting as 'judge, jury and executioner.'
Latest Obamacare ruling could spark a sell-off in health care sector stocks
Sudden volatility could create short-term buying opportunity.
Big change coming soon for high income Medicare beneficiaries
Buried in the new “Doc Fix” law are provisions that will adversely affect some folks on Medicare
Senate passes national insurance registry
Bill that would help agents practice in multiple states moves to president's desk.
The real reason the Federal Reserve isn’t raising interest rates
Breakfast with Benjamin: The real reason the Fed is sitting on its hands boils down to a lousy employment market.
Raymond James bolsters indexed annuities and life wholesaling with acquisition
Deal with insurance marketer Producers Choice is expected to give the broker-dealer greater control over the way annuities are wholesaled to its advisers.
From elder planning to implementation
Advisers' jobs include not only helping clients reach a secure retirement but also helping them live through that retirement
Medicare becoming a bigger piece of retirement planning for advisers
With regulatory and marketplace changes, more clients nedd help navigating Medicare maze.
How will Medicare coverage travel with clients this summer?
Help your clients prepare for that bon voyage by letting them know how they can travel and use Medicare.
Nationwide to pay $8M to settle with SEC over variable annuity mail snafu
Insurer charged after agency found it deliberately delayed receipt of variable annuities and life insurance orders, resulting in a failure to price them in a timely manner.
Elder care needs will transform advice industry
Demand will shift from retirement income to housing and care issues.
SEC slaps charges against "retirement planners" for fraudulent life settlement sales
Pair sold $4.3 million of Investments fraudulently marketed as "safe as CDs" and "federally insured," regulator says in suit.
COBRA considerations when Medicare-eligible
Clients may not realize the need to combine them
Hybrid life-LTC policies are a hit among advisers
Insurance products that combine life insurance and long-term care benefits are getting their time in the sun among advisers as traditional LTC options shrink.
New York Life raises the living benefit stakes — on a fixed annuity
Can the new product compete against its variable and indexed annuity cousins?
Mutual of Omaha jumps into hot indexed universal life insurance market
IUL now makes up the majority of all universal life insurance sales, and more insurers are looking to take advantage of the rising popularity.
Allianz refreshes fixed-index universal life insurance lineup
Insurer will update an index and add a bonus in the eleventh year.
Carlyle Group misses the mark with liquid alts
Breakfast with Benjamin: The Carlyle Group is shutting down two liquid alternative mutual funds it launched last year.
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman rakes in the big bucks
Breakfast with Benjamin: A 25% pay raise to $22.5 million means it's good to be Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman.
