Restricted application for spousal benefits is still key for married couples.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bond market selloff has sparked fears that the Fed might not hike rates today.
Insurers have debuted products that allow for change in payout rate, rider fees and roll-up rates under certain conditions.
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Stocks retreated with government bonds, as investors looked past an unprecedented boost to European stimulus to focus on rising anxiety that central banks have lost the ability to boost global growth.
Investor was sold aggressive investment strategies despite stating low tolerance for risk.
Investors continue to migrate to fixed indexed annuities and shy away more from variable annuities amid low interest rates and market volatility.
The initiative, signed into law in January, can't get off the ground until the president nominates members to the registry's board.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Just when the Fed felt it was safe to move off a zero-rate policy, all kinds of heck is busting loose in the high-yield bond market.
Most analysts and advisers expect a gradual climb tempered by economic performance.
Clients from the black community face barriers to financial advice, according to a group of African-American advisers who participated in an <i>InvestmentNews</i> roundtable.
Since 2011, their sales growth has eclipsed variable annuities. What's behind their meteoric rise?
Plus: JPMorgan's David Kelly second-guesses the Fed, MLP investors hang on for dear life, and Joe Montana gets his VC groove on
Due diligence considerations that plan advisers should make when a fund has adopted swing pricing.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The price of oil dropped to levels not seen in more than six years amid fears the global glut will be with us for a while. But there is an upside for some.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: More than a third of the outstanding U.S. high yield and leveraged loan universe is at risk in a rising-rate cycle.
Ex-Morgan Stanley broker now only has to pay about half of $2.9 million he was originally ordered to pay by Finra arbitrators.
Despite having less experience than women, men in the service adviser role, for example, were nearly twice as likely to have been promoted in the past year.
As part of her claim, ex-broker alleges the wirehouse's recent move toward mandatory arbitration is an attempt to prohibit employees from publicly challenging unfair practices.
