Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
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
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
About the ManagerCo-portfolio manager E. Tucker Scott, executive VP of Templeton Investment Counsel, the sub-advisor to the fund, is based in Geneva. Scott is responsible for the...
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
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
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
Submerging MarketsEmerging stock markets suddenly swooned in late February and early March, in a worldwide bout of selling triggered by a sharp decline in Chinese stocks....