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How advisors are failing their clients
By Staff Writer60%: Percentage of advisors surveyed who are not currently charging for financial plans. 70%: Percentage of advisors surveyed who say they spend 20 percent of each work week completing paperwork. 73%: Percentage of advisors surveyed w
January 21, 2008
Mphasis Partners To Expand CDHP OfferingsMphasiS Healthcare Solutions today announced a strategic partnership with WorldDoc Inc. to enhance its consumer directed health plan products.MphasiS, Phoenix, says the partnership will enable ...
January 21, 2008
New York Meets On Transforming Financial RegsA group working to modernize New York's financial regulatory system will follow a proposal for changes put forward by the state's insurance superintendent, officials said.Their ...
January 21, 2008
Manulife Expands In ChinaManulife-Sinochem Life Insurance Co. Ltd. will open a sales office in Qingdao, China.The company, a subsidiary of Manulife Financial, Toronto, is now licensed to operate ...
January 20, 2008
In 2008, International Accounting, Solvency Efforts To IntensifyIn 2008, efforts to participate in the creation of new international accounting and solvency standards will be the focus of U.S. regulators as well as ...
January 20, 2008
High Court Rules On Trust CostsThe U.S. Supreme Court last week handed down a unanimous decision limiting the ability of trusts to deduct investment expenses.The decision in the case, Knight, ...
January 18, 2008
Granite State To Shut Down Start-UpA Merrimack County, N.H., state court will be supervising the liquidation of a small New Hampshire health insurer, officials say.The New Hampshire Insurance Department placed ...
January 18, 2008
PrimeVest Teams With RecruiterPrimeVest Financial Services has agreed to help market recruiting services from Human Capital Resources Inc. to banks and other financial institutions.Paul Werlin, president of HCR, ...