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
The CEO of besieged B-D CapWest today confirmed that the firm has filed withdrawal papers with Finra. The Colorado-based brokerage is the latest in a series of B-Ds that have gone bust after selling questionable private placements.
Truth-in-labeling law comes to medical insurance biz; 'plain English'
A new federal law aimed at curbing cozy relationships between advisers and government officials is spooking advisory firms. In fact, some firms are telling all their reps – and not just those who work with state and municipal officials – to shun political activity.
Growing frustration over prospective hires' professionalism, honesty — and comp demands; 'deficient passion for the industry'
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.
El-Erian responding to what he terms U.S. government's 'financial repression'
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
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.
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.
The Investment Management Consultants Association got a thumbs-up last week from the American National Standards Institute for its CIMA designation
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.
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.
Going where the growth is high and the debt is low; buying a ton of won
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.
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.
