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Aviva-Athene deal prompts hope, certainty for insurance agents
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 29, 2013
Aviva-Athene deal prompts hope, certainty for insurance agents

Fingers crossed for product enhancements, ratings upgrades.

By Darla Mercado
Another ratings cut for big seller of indexed annuities
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 29, 2013
Another ratings cut for big seller of indexed annuities

Moody's lowers financial strength grade for Aviva Life; third reduction in three months

By Darla Mercado
Guggenheim's Security Benefit Life climbs among top fixed-annuity players
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 29, 2013
Guggenheim's Security Benefit Life climbs among top fixed-annuity players

Hot third-quarter indexed-annuity sales help propel industry, PE-backed insurers show staying power

By Darla Mercado
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JAN 29, 2013
New SEC boss Walter may not be lame duck

Many observers think newly designated SEC chair Elisse Walter will be a lame-duck boss. They may be wrong. <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20121127/FREE/121129970>Dwyer: Krawcheck, please</a> &amp;raquo;

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Confirmed: Aviva seeks buyer for U.S. annuity and life ops
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 29, 2013
Confirmed: Aviva seeks buyer for U.S. annuity and life ops

By Darla Mercado
Advisers reject NBA retirement plan
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 29, 2013
Advisers reject NBA retirement plan

Say league is tossing up a brick with reliance on annuities; 'solution of last resort'

By Darla Mercado
Financial planner involved in NBA players' union probe: Report
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JAN 29, 2013
Financial planner involved in NBA players' union probe: Report

Union paid $4.8M to members of union chief's family for financial planning, legal services

By Doug Cubberley
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JAN 28, 2013
Live! OneVoice2013: Fiduciary rule tops FSI's 2013 priority list

Regulatory reform and protecting independent contractor reps also big.

By Bruce Kelly
Finra seeks to tighten arbitrator rule
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JAN 28, 2013
Finra seeks to tighten arbitrator rule

Finra wants to tighten up its arbitration procedure. For starters, the self-regulator aims to bar hedgies and mutal fund executives from panels.

By DJAMIESON
Employers hungry for returns when updating 401(k) menus
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 28, 2013
Employers hungry for returns when updating 401(k) menus

Good news &#8211; plan sponsors see big bounce in performance after adding new funds; bad news &#8211; it doesn't last.

By Darla Mercado
Will Washington kill the muni tax exemption?
FIXED INCOME JAN 28, 2013
Will Washington kill the muni tax exemption?

Politics trumps logic, basic math in Capitol Hill cat fight

By Jeff Benjamin
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JAN 28, 2013
Broker a part of 'phone tree of inside information,' SEC charges

Allegedly tipped girlfriend, business partner about M&amp;A deals

By Liz Skinner
OPINION JAN 27, 2013
On retirement policy, don't mess with success

To start scrapping savings incentives would undermine the foundation of our retirement system, risking wider damage

By Paul Schott Stevens
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 27, 2013
Cole gets big payoff in nontraded-REIT deal

By Bruce Kelly
OPINION JAN 27, 2013
Congress, Obama must learn to compromise

Congress and the president have time before they need to come to grips with the budget deficit, but they would be wise not to squander it on partisan bickering.

By MFXFeeder
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 27, 2013
Social Security goes fully paperless

By Mary Beth Franklin
FINTECH JAN 27, 2013
Data management helps brokers deliver better service

By Bill Kenealy
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 27, 2013
ICI criticizes risk council

By Bloomberg
IRS gives employers a break
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 27, 2013
IRS gives employers a break

Long-awaited proposed regulations from the Internal Revenue Service have resolved questions about a key health care reform law provision that would impose stiff penalties on employers not offering coverage.

By Jerry Geisel
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 27, 2013
MetLife's math tweaks VA sales

By Darla Mercado