Economy & Markets
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ING Makes VA Guarantee Feature More Flexible
By Staff WriterAn insurer is letting purchasers of a variable annuity income rider put more of their contract value in stock funds.ING U.S. Financial Services, West Chester, ...
June 01, 2007
Utilities Plugging AwayOver the past few years, the dull utilities sector has been turning heads with stock market performance that's been anything but boring. Through the first quarter...
June 01, 2007
Behind the Numbers, with Mark Balasa"As a group, we always feel that the money our clients give us is to be invested," says the Alpha Group's Mark Balasa, as he...
June 01, 2007
Among IBDs, a Blue Chip ChoiceBreaking with an already established tradition, I meet Larry Roth not at the restaurant where we were going to have lunch, but at Royal Alliance's...
June 01, 2007
Test Your CPI-QNot long ago, telling someone they looked like a million dollars was a compliment. Say it now and they might rush to schedule an emergency...
June 01, 2007
Why and How to Educate Your Next ClientFrom 1995 to 2004, the Securities Industry Association conducted an annual survey of investor attitudes. According to the 2004 report on the survey: "84 percent think...
May 01, 2007
Tech True Believers Hard to FindTech stocks have been in a three-year funk, having come out of the late 1990s dot-com bubble with little more than a thready heart beat. With a slew of important product updates this year, including the Microsoft Vista operating system, I figured that this was the time to commit to...
May 01, 2007
Mortgage ETF Comes to MarketDespite a quiet 2006, the bond-based ETF category has picked up this year with the addition of another new fund to the fixed-income universe. Barclays Global...