Individual annuity sales increased 6% in the second quarter to a record of $66.5 billion over the same period in 2006.
Financial advisers shouldn’t focus on the big picture of 78 million baby boomers charging toward retirement, but as a gradual evolution, said Oppenheimer Funds economist Brian Levitt.
Richard M. Reilly, Michael Gilotti and Mathew Greenwald were honored and six new board members were added.
This week, after a long battle with the SEC, former American Stock Exchange chairman and chief executive Salvatore F. Sodano consented to SEC findings that he failed to supervise the exchange's oversight of its order-handling and record-keeping rules from 1999 through June 2004.
The SEC has approved a FINRA rule intended to improve B-D sales practices for purchases and exchanges of deferred VAs.
Life insurance brokerage agencies could save up to $377 million annually in agent licensing costs if Congress were to adopt legislation.
Seniors may want to sell their homes and move in with relatives as a way to reduce overhead expenses.
For young financial advisers looking to earn their stripes, a lack of gray hair and wrinkles could have some clients concerned about taking advice from someone as young as their child — or even grandchild.
Many young advisers have taken it upon themselves to pave their own path into the financial advice industry.
One day last month, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was sinking over subprime-mortgage concerns, financial adviser Frank McGovern was relaxed, and the phones of his McLean, Va., office were quiet.
Two insurers, hoping to attract baby boomers heading into retirement, have introduced variable annuity products that guarantee a hefty 7% return on the holder’s investment in each of the first 10 years of the contract.
Schwab Institutional will provide free portfolio re-balancing software to financial advisers who use its custody services.
As floor traders clad in jackets and ties vanish from the New York Stock Exchange, they are being replaced by people like Sam Johnson, a technology whiz kid who goes about his business wearing jeans and cowboy boots.
China’s involvement with Africa has skyrocketed in recent years, and it is forcing U.S. investors to re-examine their views on the continent as an investment destination.
Jerry Castellini is quick to acknowledge that his investment firm’s specialty, large-cap-growth stocks, has been “the single worst-performing asset class” since he co-founded CastleArk Management LLC in 1999.
The college savings plan industry once again has unveiled a wide array of marketing campaigns for the back-to-school season, with many plans emphasizing the benefits of 529 plans in light of upcoming changes in the “kiddie tax.”
Diane Mix Birnberg, president of Chicago-based Horizon Cash Management LLC, didn’t plan it this way.
Market strategists and advisers are closely watching the equity markets for what may be a fundamental shift in favor of large-cap and growth stocks.
Despite widespread incredulity from the public about the weird details of hotel empress Leona Helmsley’s will, some advisers know that bizarre bequests are not uncommon, having watched their own clients seek to rule their families from beyond the grave.
The sudden burst of stock market volatility this summer has sparked a finger-pointing exercise that assigns much of the blame to an obscure rule change that makes it easier for traders to sell stocks short.
