Video: Principal expert sheds light on retirement recovery
By Staff WriterDan Houston, president, Retirement & Investor Services at the Principal Financial Group, says it's time for Americans worried about retirement to focus on what they...
April 17, 2009
Stay in the VA frayRecent sales figures don't lie -- variable annuities are a tougher sell today than they were a year or two ago (for obvious reasons.) Here's...
April 16, 2009
In the moneyUnfortunately, it's not the euphoria of a win in Vegas. Rather, it refers to the number of contract holders that have pulled the utilization trigger...
April 16, 2009
Editor's Choice for April 16What matters more--the risk model itself or the decisions that result from findings of the risk modeling? ... Should short sales have been banned last fall?
April 16, 2009
Insurers, regulators back 151AIn a petition filed late last week, 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 16, 2009
A rumination on why we fightWell, not fight really, but why we continue to make the case that capitalism and the free markets are not broken, and certainly not dead...
April 16, 2009
At least they're not viaticalsCall it settling up before moving -- or passing -- on. Life settlements (or viatical settlements before the marketing makeover) are on the rise, and...
April 16, 2009
The ultimate in risk mitigationNot exactly a conventional insurance trend, but it's tough to deny their risk mitigation value. Wine was the un-conventional investment of choice in the last...
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