Economy & Markets
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Earnings: RGA, StanCorp, Others
By Staff WriterMost of the insurers and reinsurers that have announced their earnings this week have reported positive net income.
April 22, 2009
What's Next for Gold?Unexpectedly, though, the dream of $1,500-per-ounce gold has been unfulfilled.
April 21, 2009
The Political/Economic Blame GameI recently received an e-mail from an advisor who took issue with part of my April column for Investment Advisor, "Timing Is Everything" (http://www.investmentadvisor.com/Issues/2009/April/Pages/Timing-Is-Everything.aspx). He...
April 20, 2009
Which GLWB Is "Best?"Today's annuities have many types of guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit features. This raises the question: which is the best GLWB? The answer depends.
April 19, 2009
Which GLWB Is "Best?"Today's annuities have many types of guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit features. This raises the question: which is the best GLWB? The answer depends.
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 15, 2009
Mutual fund taxes slam fixed-income investors"Taxes are going to rear their ugly head in mutual funds," Duncan Richardson of Eaton Vance Corp. told Bloomberg back in November. Surprise, surprise...