Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Unum Reports Mixed Disability Results
By Allison BellDisability sales, revenue and earnings are all over the map at other carriers.
August 01, 2012
DIAs: Planting Their Roots in Fertile Soil for GrowthAt a time when many life insurers are scaling back or eliminating product guarantees because their balance sheets are strained, many advisors will be heartened to learn that one product boasting an attractive combination of guaranteed income, high rate of return and tax advantages is becoming more widely available: the...
August 01, 2012
Concerned Fed Wavers on New StimulusWednesdays Federal Reserve meeting ended with no significant developments.
August 01, 2012
Fed Says U.S. Economy Has Slowed, but Takes No New ActionThe Federal Reserve said Wednesday that the U.S. economy is losing strength and repeated a pledge to take further steps to stimulate growth, but it took no new action.
August 01, 2012
Jeremy Grantham: Today a Food Crisis, Tomorrow ‘Dystopia’Hedge fund manager Jeremy Grantham is known for his doom-and-gloom outlook, but his latest shareholder letter updates merely terrifying U.S. and European financial woes with worldwide instability and social collapse.
August 01, 2012
5 Summer Investment Tips From T. Rowe PriceT. Rowe Price offers advice to investors in this summer of strangely moody market conditions.
August 01, 2012
PMIs Down Across Europe, AsiaThe financial crisis continued to exact a toll on countries from Europe to Asia, forcing manufacturing lower as consumers and businesses alike tightened belts.
August 01, 2012
America’s strange attitudes toward food (Fast Company)Americas rampant rate of obesity could be more a problem of food quality than food quantity.