California today announced a settlement with John Hancock Financial Services Inc. after an investigation revealed that the carrier failed to deliver deceased clients' death benefits promptly to the tune or $20 million. Similar cases are ongoing in Florida, too.
After a surge in variable annuity sales last year, financial advisers are curious about just how much more business the largest sellers can handle without biting off more than they can hedge
BofA, JPMorgan and Wells looking to horn in on retirement plan biz; could be good news for employees
Soaring premiums on long-term-care insurance have seniors and advisers up in arms. Some believe new hybrid products may provide better protection and more flexibility.
A Colorado college savings plan gets top mark for 2010; rated No.1 for the past five quarters
Unintended consequence of applying fiduciary standard could whack self-directed retirement accounts; DOL went 'a little bit too far'
Selling into a depressed market is not the brightest move ever, but that's what many clients are doing by cashing out their muni bond funds. The better play? Stay patient -- and buy individual bonds
Survey shows few pre-pensioners have set aside money for LTC or even raise the topic with advisers or loved ones
Truth-in-labeling law comes to medical insurance biz; 'plain English'
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.
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.
The president is putting his money where his mouth is on his IRS Form 1040, maxing out education and retirement savings, and reporting healthy charitable donations, according to an expert who reviewed the tax returns the country's chief executive made public after paying his family's annual bill
Unlike its life insurance counterpart, STATs also have the assumed liability of the broker-dealer writing such business
Trade associations representing the life insurance industry and agents today applauded New York's passage of life settlement legislation.
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.
Here, you'll find the top ten SMAs across six different categories, with data provided to InvestmentNews exclusively by Prima Capital.
The average 401(k) retirement plan balance has reached the highest level since Fidelity Investments began tracking account values in 1998
A Massachusetts federal court judge has quashed a motion by Prudential Insurance Co. of America to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the insurer had wrongfully held on to veterans' death benefits instead of paying them out in a lump sum
