BACK TO SCHOOL
By Ed McCarthy, CFP, RICPLTCI is a complicated product to master, especially if you sell it only occasionally.
April 30, 2009
Maybe now we'll find Jimmy HoffaCall it the return of big labor. I read with interest a post by John Kay in the Financial Times about how labour's (Brit spelling)...
April 30, 2009
Wealth survey reveals advisor gaps"The continuing economic turmoil has stripped America's millionaires of their confidence and sense of security; they are feeling far worse off than they did during the last economic downturn in 2003," said Walter H. Zultowski, the survey's creator.
April 30, 2009
Is 151A gaining momentum?In a petition filed in mid-April, MetLife Inc., the North American Securities Administrators Association and AARP argued index annuities should be regulated as securities rather than insurance products, DowJones reports.
April 30, 2009
How low can they go?A state of Washington advisor is going to prison for six years for embezzling $300,000 from disabled clients'retirement funds.
April 30, 2009
Regulation bluesAs if the industry didn't already have enough on its plate with SEC 151A looming, word leaked recently that a bill is making its way through the House that would give the biggest insurance companies an option to choose who would regulate them -- state governments or the Fed.
April 30, 2009
Regulation bluesAs if the industry didn't already have enough on its plate with SEC 151A looming, word leaked recently that a bill is making its way through the House that would give the biggest insurance companies an option to choose who would regulate them -- state governments or the Fed.
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