Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Income Distribution Future: Bundling Products, Riders
By Michael PinkansWhat will be the cutting edge product of 2007? Rather than a particular product or rider, the real excitement will be bundling different products and ...
November 01, 2006
REITs Keep Plowing AheadReal estate investment trusts (REITs) continue their gravity-defying run. After exceeding the return of the S&P 500 index for each of the last six years, REITs have built up a tremendous lead in 2006, and with only two months left to go, are poised to extend their yearly winning streak.
November 01, 2006
Blending In NicelyLarge-cap blend funds seek to combine the best of both worlds--growth-oriented stocks which provide high earnings growth, tempered by value-oriented issues which offer the stability...
November 01, 2006
Dow 15,000In the late 1990s, as the stock market boom turned into a bubble and drifted into the stratosphere, investment books began to appear with titles...
November 01, 2006
A Higher Level of CompetenceRuss Morton is a big man, which is what you'd expect of a University of Oklahoma graduate who spent the first decade of his career...
October 27, 2006
Earnings RoundupStrong results overseas helped profits at Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. during the third quarter.Hartford Financial, Hartford, is reporting $758 million in net income for ...
October 26, 2006
Insurance Costs Increase in the New YearThe Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 mandates that beginning in 2007, an individual with modified AGI of more than $80,000 per year or a married couple exceeding $160,000 per year will pay a higher percentage of the Medicare Part B premium.
October 03, 2006
AAA: Secondhand Smoke Costs BillionsTobacco smoke caused about $6 billion in harm to U.S. nonsmokers in 2004.A researcher at the American Academy of Actuaries, Washington, came up with that ...