A LIMRA survey released Tuesday found that 32% of 616 producers picked an aspect of training as the most valued service offered by insurers.
Though Latinos know they ought to have life insurance to protect their families, fewer of them buy it, compared with other demographic groups
If you want to reach out to an untapped audience for life insurance, try people under 45
Pessimistic mass-affluent, millionaire investors are putting more money in play
Survey finds mass-affluent investors still gloomy as heck about their finances; 'not matching the reality of their situation'
This year's survey of advisers shows why some firms are flying high again - and also reveals where some advisers are holding back. | <b>Extra</b> <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=CI&Date=20111018&Category=FREE&ArtNo=101809999&Ref=PH>Most common reasons employees leave advisory firms</a>
The political winds have shifted and “millionaires” now are expected to shoulder much of the burden of balancing the budget
IRS warns of “noticeable degradation” of taxpayer services and enforcement if Congress follows through on a plan to cut about $500 million from the agency's budget for fiscal 2012.
The following is an edited version of testimony given July 26 by Phyllis C. Borzi, assistant secretary of labor in charge of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, before the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions
A U.S. Treasury Department watchdog said 2.1 million taxpayers may have received “erroneous” education-related tax credits totaling about $3.2 billion.
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch is urging the Obama administration to back away from a proposal to cap itemized deductions at 28%.
Occupy Wall Street protesters are lashing out against what they see as a financial industry luxuriating in wealth created at the expense of the middle class. Wall Street, however, has its own grievances against Washington, which were on display last week.
Aging baby boomers represent a historic opportunity to boost the sales of income-generating investment products, according to industry leaders who kicked off the Insured Retirement Institute conference in Boston last Monday
Bob Reynolds, chief executive of Putnam Investments, last week called for the establishment of a regulatory body to approve lifetime-income products
Protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement are giving financial advisers something else to worry about: a generation of leery, cynical investors
Levy would fund jobs bill; given GOP opposition, 5% rate also likely probability of passage
