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By Steve PiontekIf this was a sports event or some really stadium-packing group like the Rolling Stones or U2, it would have been sold out in minutes ...
June 11, 2009
Make me laugh, funnymanIf you caught The Daily Show a few nights back, you saw economist Peter Schiff make the same case we've been making since the election...
June 11, 2009
LIMRA survey: Older consumers don't know enough about retirement income productsThirty percent of older consumers have a negative attitude toward annuities, and twice that - 60 percent - say their knowledge about investments is "subpar."...
June 11, 2009
Term life has some new terms"Buy and hold" no longer applies to just stocks (and even that's questionable). Premiums for term life insurance are increasing by anywhere between 5 percent...
June 11, 2009
Boomers to blameWhen bad things happen, we look for someone -- anyone -- to blame. As Newsweek rightly notes (we don't say that very often), there is...
June 11, 2009
An offer they can't refuseWhy are insurance companies on board with Obamacare, but did all they could to defeat Hillarycare back in 1993? The obvious (yet incorrect) answer is...
June 11, 2009
Online brokerages likely to nudge out full-service firms for rollover assetsFour-in-10 high-net worth investors with money currently sitting in an employer retirement plan are ready to roll over those assets to an IRA within the...
June 11, 2009
When Opportunity Knocks: How Do You Know It's Time to Hire an Advisor?I've received a number of e-mails about my May column "Coming of Age" in which I pointed out that the recent economic downturn has flip-flopped...
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