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Boehner: Agent Investment Advice Will Get The Go-Ahead
By Arthur D. PostalHouse Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on April 27 that progress is being made in crafting compromise defined benefit pension reform legislation and vowed ...
April 23, 2006
Regulators Seek Evaluation Of Split Mortality Tables PlanRegulators are asking actuaries to evaluate a plan to split the 2001 Commissioners' Standard Ordinary mortality tables to incorporate preferred and non-preferred mortality rates.Insurers use ...
April 23, 2006
Interstate Compact Close To Becoming A RealityWhen legislation enabling an optional federal charter for insurance companies was introduced in the Senate a few weeks ago, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ...
April 19, 2006
AHIP, Pharmacies Cut Part D Red TapeAmerica's Health Insurance Plans and pharmacy groups are trying to show that they will work quickly to solve Medicare prescription drug program startup problems.AHIP, Washington, ...
April 19, 2006
Planning Groups Form Think TankOrganizations for legal, accounting and financial services professionals are starting a financial services policy coalition.Organizers say the new think tank, the Synergy Summit, Chattanooga, Tenn., ...
April 18, 2006
Study Covers FPA MembersResearchers at Financial Research Corp. have published a report based on a survey of 821 independent advisory firms that belong to the Financial Planning Association, ...
April 18, 2006
NAILBA Heads To New OrleansThe National Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies plans to start a 3-day Focus 2006 convention June 6 in New Orleans.The convention, at the Sheraton ...
April 17, 2006
Broker Proposes Preferred Fund Restitution PlanEdward D. Jones & Company L.P. wants to use electronic fund transfers to pay out most of a $75 million client compensation fund.Edward Jones, St. ...