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RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 17, 2011
Insurers getting plenty of mileage out of LTC hybrids

Combination life and long-term care polices are gaining serious traction in the marketplace. One for-instance: Sales for Lincoln National's MoneyGuard are up 62 percent over the past year.

By John Goff
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 17, 2011
Notes from NAPFA

By John Goff
Pimco to rely on 'constructive paranoia' to manage its assets
INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 17, 2011
Pimco to rely on 'constructive paranoia' to manage its assets

El-Erian responding to what he terms U.S. government's 'financial repression'

By John Goff
INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 17, 2011
Money manager 1Q AUM, profits, inflows strong

Most major publicly traded money managers saw a boost in their assets under management and their profits in the first quarter, driven by a robust equities market as well as positive inflows

By Randy Diamond
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 17, 2011
End of the road: Tax breaks for affluent likely to be snipped

As Congress attempts to trim the nation's deficit, advisers and their clients should brace for a less generous tax code in 2013, said James Delaplane (pictured), at the <i>InvestmentNews</i> Retirement Income Summit.

By Darla Mercado
INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 17, 2011
BofA's cross-selling plan costs Merrill a veteran team

Bank of America wants its advisers and reps to market banking products and to assist clients with banking services. That strategy may not be sitting so well with some advisers. This week, a $250M team jumped to Ameriprise. The reason? Partly, to focus on financial planning, not banking.

By Andrew Osterland
INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 17, 2011
CIMA mark from IMCA is approved

The Investment Management Consultants Association got a thumbs-up last week from the American National Standards Institute for its CIMA designation

By Andrew Osterland
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAY 17, 2011
'Belgian royal' money manager gets stiff sentence for fraud

Guy de Chimay, who pleaded guilty to running what prosecutors called a $7 million Ponzi scheme that he promoted by claiming his company was linked to Belgian royalty, was sentenced to three to nine years in prison.

By Doug Cubberley
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 17, 2011
No more regs needed for STATs: B-D exec

Unlike its life insurance counterpart, STATs also have the assumed liability of the broker-dealer writing such business

By Darla Mercado
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 17, 2011
STOLI on the rocks

Trade associations representing the life insurance industry and agents today applauded New York's passage of life settlement legislation.

By Darla Mercado
Friend of Rahm: PFM Group buys rival from new Chicago finance chief
RIAS MAY 16, 2011
Friend of Rahm: PFM Group buys rival from new Chicago finance chief

PFM Group, owner of the largest investment adviser in the U.S. municipal bond market, bought a smaller competitor co-owned by Lois Scott, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's new chief financial officer.

By Bloomberg
Pimco betting on these currencies
INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 16, 2011
Pimco betting on these currencies

Going where the growth is high and the debt is low; buying a ton of won

By John Goff
The class of asset classes? It's not even close these days
RIAS MAY 16, 2011
The class of asset classes? It's not even close these days

Commodities remain one of the hottest asset-classes going. For the fifth straight month, investments in real stuff -- natural resources, minerals and food -- handily beat stocks, bonds and greenbacks.

By John Goff
Texas woman's investment strategy? Hit the state lottery -- four times
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 16, 2011
Texas woman's investment strategy? Hit the state lottery -- four times

Small-town resident has raked in $21M in four separate jackpots. Mathematicians put the odds of this happening at 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1. That's a lot of zeros.

By Bloomberg
Farmers make a killing buying back land from struggling banks
INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 16, 2011
Farmers make a killing buying back land from struggling banks

Banks come a cropper, as farmers buy back acreage at a fraction of the price they sold it for.

By Steve Daniels
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 15, 2011
Special report: The top-performing SMAs

Here, you'll find the top ten SMAs across six different categories, with data provided to InvestmentNews exclusively by Prima Capital.

By Mark Bruno
EQUITIES MAY 15, 2011
Prima Capital's Nathan Behan: First-quarter commentary

Nathan Behan, a senior investment analyst at Prima Capital Holdings, outlines some key recent and long-term trends in the markets in an economic report and analysis on the first quarter

By MFXFeeder
INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 15, 2011
Wells Fargo shakes up wealth management

Wells Fargo &amp; Co. has cut the number of regional managers &#8212; and operating regions &#8212; in its wealth management division to better integrate the investment advisory business it inherited from Wachovia Corp.

By Andrew Osterland
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAY 15, 2011
Finra: Make broker-dealers disclose 'shelf space'

Finra wants broker-dealers to disclose the revenue-sharing deals they have with mutual funds

By Dan Jamieson
ALTERNATIVES MAY 15, 2011
Pay-for-performance change by SEC could cost advisers

An SEC rule proposal that would raise the net-worth thresholds at which advisers would be allowed to charge performance-based fees would likely cut into the bottom lines of smaller hedge funds, private-equity firms and some registered investment advisers

By Liz Skinner