Life Insurance
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LTCI Sellers: We're Still Here
By Allison BellLTC Financial Partners and EM-Power Services have no time to mope. They're too busy marketing.
March 08, 2012
Planning Tips: Financial Considerations for Family Caregivers (MetLife)Dropping out of the workforce to care for aging parents can be rewarding, but may also spell financial disaster if all the factors are not properly considered.
March 08, 2012
Life Insurance Asks Court If Family Should Get Money After Powell Kills Self, Kids (Washington Post)New York Life asks court to decide who, if anyone, is entitled to collect on Josh Powell's policy after he killed himself and his two sons in a house fire last month.
March 08, 2012
Hold the Applause: Fund Managers Look a Lot Smarter This Year, but… (Wall Street Journal)Stock-fund managers are off to a great start this year, but it's not necessarily because of anything they're doing.
March 08, 2012
Discount Channel for Managed Account Assets Pegged at $169 Billion at Year-End 2011The report disclosed that the discount channel, also known as the direct channel, accounted for 7.1% of the overall managed accounts industry, or $169 billion in assets, in the fourth quarter of 2011.
March 08, 2012
Pru: Pool Multiple Employer Small Plans to Cover GapPrudential Retirements Jamie Kalamarides feels that multiple small employer plans could help close the gap for more than 78 million employees in the U.S. that do not have a retirement plan.
March 08, 2012
Week in Pictures | March 9, 2012Mitt Romney inches closer to becoming the Republican Presidential Nominee after close races on Super Tuesday, AIG sells its stake in AIA while it attempts to buy stock back from the Treasury and has the contraception saga finally come to an end? This and more in this week's Week in...
March 07, 2012
Stretch IRAs Under Fire...BrieflyRetirement industry officials have removed a provision in Senate legislation (S.1813, the Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act) that would reduce the value of inherited IRAs. And they have done so as quietly as the provision was introduced.