Fixed Income
News and analysis of fixed income markets including the key factors affecting performance such as interest rates, Federal Reserve policy and the state of the economy.
Lincoln: Fixed Annuity Option Links Payouts To CPI
By staff WriterLincoln National Corp. is rolling out an option for fixed deferred annuities that guarantees the annuity's income payouts will track with inflation.
May 14, 2010
How Many Taxpayers Earn A High Income?There were more high-income taxpayers in 2007 than the year before, according to a new report from the Internal Revenue Service.
May 14, 2010
Mutual Fund Wrap-Up: Fund Flows Have Strong Q1, AprilMorningstar data says inflows through April 2010 stand at $165 billion; financial funds are doing well; Fidelity launches a corporate-bond fund, and SteelPath rolls out MLP products.
May 01, 2010
Risky Funds DominateFund strategies of all types in the taxable-fixed income arena posted positive gains for the first quarter in 2010 and were led by the riskiest...
May 01, 2010
Annuity Analytics: Penn Mutual's PPP Living BenefitPRODUCT REVIEW The great debate of our time -- or at least within the halls of economics departments around the country -- is whether the U.S....
April 30, 2010
Markets Down for the Week; Fund Flows Keep Rolling Inajor U.S. stock markets ended the week of April 26 down slightly. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined about 2 percent and ended the week...
April 30, 2010
Earnings: MetLife, Hartford, OthersThe life and health insurers that came out with first-quarter results this week reported solid increases in net income.
April 30, 2010
Earnings: MetLife, Hartford, OthersThe life and health insurers that came out with first-quarter results this week reported solid increases in net income.