Bank Insurance Income Up in First Half
By Staff WriterTotal insurance revenues of bank holding companies in the first half rose 1.6% to $21.2 billion from $20.9 billion in the same period in ...
November 01, 2005
Jackson National Unit Wins Indiana Bank ContractOld National Bancorp. has picked Invest Financial Corp. to run its broker-dealer affiliate.[@@]Old National, Evansville, Ind., is a midsize bank holding company with $8.9 ...
November 01, 2005
Study%3A EIAs Beat CDsNo one knows for certain how equity index annuities will perform in a bad bear market, but EIAs have a much better record than ...
November 01, 2005
Ta Reform Panel Takes Aim At InsurersThe President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform has come up with proposals that could do everything from creating new annuity purchasing vehicles to ...
November 01, 2005
Rebalancing Gets More Attractive as Stocks-Bonds Correlation LowersStock and bond price co-movements appeared to decouple a few years ago, which exacerbated an already decades-old trend. Although the two asset classes don't move in perfect lockstep--one falls while the other rises, and vice versa--it seems that correlations are much lower than they have been.
November 01, 2005
Bachus%2C Baker And Pryce Vie To Succeed OleyU.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, says he plans to retire when his current term ends in January 2007.[@@]"From President Reagan ...
November 01, 2005
Medicaid Asset Transfer Provision Lands In Senate FootnotesIt's hard to know what will really happen on the floor of the Senate the rest of this week, but the Senate says on ...
November 01, 2005
Behind the Numbers, with Liz Ann SondersAt Schwab's Impact conference in september, the company's chief investment strategist was rather upbeat on equities, noting that "It's a good sign that people are...