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AXA Profits Fall Sharply Despite Increase In U.S. Variable Annuity Sales
By Staff WriterNU Online News Service, Aug. 13, 2003, 1:20 p.m. EDT -- AXA S.A., Paris, is reporting the equivalent of $231 million in net income ...
August 06, 2003
Schwab Advisors Say the Future is BrightIndependent investment advisors say the economy is improving, and expect that it will continue to do so over the next six months, according to a...
August 06, 2003
Pru Reports Higher Net Income, Lower Fixed Annuity SalesNU Online News Service, Aug. 6, 2003, 5:51 p.m. EDT -- Prudential Financial Inc., Newark, N.J., is reporting $196 million in net income for ...
August 05, 2003
Oxford Reports Higher 2nd Quarter Net IncomeNU Online News Service, Aug. 5, 2003, 1:55 p.m. EDT -- Oxford Health Plans Inc., Trumbull, Conn., is reporting $72 million in net income ...
August 05, 2003
Horace Mann Reports Higher Net Income, Higher Fixed Annuity SalesNU Online News Service, Aug. 5, 2003, 3:35 p.m. EDT -- Horace Mann Educators Corp., Springfield, Ill., is reporting $2.1 million in net income ...
August 04, 2003
Principal Reports Big Increase In Net IncomeNU Online News Service, Aug. 4, 2003, 7:33 p.m. EDT -- Principal Financial Group Inc., Des Moines, Iowa, is reporting $202 million in net ...
August 03, 2003
Marginal vs. Average Tax RatesAside from the fact that the newest tax rates have a less than six-year lifespan, the tax issue that continues to be missed by annuity ...
August 03, 2003
The Recession Is Over. Now What?Now we know. The recession ended in November 2001.That word comes to us courtesy of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Cambridge, Mass., nonprofit ...