The House of Representatives approved legislation yesterday that would relieve about 25 million middle-class taxpayers from paying the alternative minimum tax this year.
The Investment Company Institute and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association are launching a new research project to improve understanding of investors' use of individual retirement accounts.
Thirteen banking and insurance executives have been selected to join the Washington-based trade association’s board.
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin today called on Congress to temporarily suspend the 10% penalty tax on early withdrawals from 401(k)s.
Second-quarter variable annuity sales fell to $41.9 billion, down 11.2% from the comparable period last year, according to NAVA Inc.
Your clients, who are ordinary investors, still hold substantial positions in Lehman Brothers and Fannie Mae stock in their portfolio and are wondering what they should do to claim a tax loss for the year.
The bond ratings agency said it has “sufficient” cash and government securities to fund potential termination payments related to guaranteed insurance contracts even if the notes issued by its MBIA Insurance Corp. unit are downgraded.
Financial advisers could soon find themselves paying more for AIG's variable annuities.
Legislation that would set up the Office of Insurance Information within the Department of the Treasury has stalled in the House.
MetLife Inc. has some $800 million in exposure to the now-collapsed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the just-rescued American International Group Inc. and is assessing the recoverability of those investments.
An employer provided a worker with a lump-sum payment of approximately $35,000 during the first year of his disability, which he declared as income when he completed his tax return.
After a weekend of turmoil, shares of American International Group Inc. lost more than half their value in the first hour of trading.
Debit card loan programs recently have been the focus of criticism in Washington.
Wayne Christian figured the registered representatives of Center, a small town in eastern Texas, could use a business boost. He also thought its pension funds and endowments, which fund scholarships, needed some new investment options.
If employees knew how much cashing out their plan when getting laid off or changing jobs could affect their future, maybe they would leave the plans untouched.
Lehman Brothers is verging on collapse, even as Bank of America is reportedly in talks to purchase Merrill Lynch and AIG hammers out its own rescue strategy.
Former AIG chairman and chief executive Maurice Greenberg and other former executives at the insurer will have to cough up $115 million as part of a settlement in a derivatives lawsuit with the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana.
The Financial Planning Association and the National Association for Fixed Annuities have leapt into the fray, submitting comments on the SEC’s proposed index annuity rule.
Handful of firms peddled equity swaps, stock loans to clients; 'IRS pussyfooted on this.'
