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By Staff WriterBehind the Numbers, with Jeffrey Kleintop In his May 4 weekly commentary LPL Financial's chief market strategist noted that, "The prospects for recovery by year-end have...
June 01, 2009
Obama's Learning Curve: Will the President Absorb a Key Lesson of Market History?Whether you like or loathe him -- everyone can agree President Obama's term had a bumpy start -- at least for markets. His first few...
June 01, 2009
Japan's Stock Market History Offers U.S. a Cautionary TaleOn December 29, 1989, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index closed out a triumphant decade at 38,916. The Nikkei had begun the 1980s below 7,000 and...
June 01, 2009
Yale's Shiller Keeps an Eye on Bad BehaviorWho: Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Yale University Where: Gente, 153 West 45th Street, New York City; April 17, 2009 On the Menu: Minestrone,...
June 01, 2009
Demonizing the Financial Sector is FollyThe information technology revolution of the 1980s and 1990s is justly considered one of the highest American achievements in the 20th century. Its positive impacts...
May 31, 2009
Carpe diem!Are you guilty of blaming your lack of sales on the recession? Have you decreased your prospecting and networking efforts because of a pessimistic attitude? If so, you're not alone.
May 31, 2009
Navigating The New VA World With ClientsMany financial advisors are now seeing the insurers with which they do business raise prices, experience ratings downgrades, reduce wholesaling forces, decrease benefits and features, and, in some cases, eliminate optional benefits.
May 26, 2009
Ask the expert : How to explain the exclusion ratio?This article answers the question: Can you give me a simple way to explain the exclusion ratio in annuities?