Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Insurer Adds VA Income And Death Benefit Guarantees
By Staff WriterA unit of Ohio National Mutual Holdings Inc. has introduced 3 variable annuity riders.Ohio National Financial Services, Cincinnati, is selling the Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefit ...
November 15, 2006
Pension Law Helps PBGC ResultsA change in federal treatment of airline pension plans boosted the performance of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. in fiscal year 2006.The PBGC, the federal ...
November 12, 2006
Income Distribution Future: Bundling Products, RidersWhat will be the cutting edge product of 2007? Rather than a particular product or rider, the real excitement will be bundling different products and ...
November 12, 2006
Income Distribution Future: Bundling Products, RidersWhat will be the cutting edge product of 2007? Rather than a particular product or rider, the real excitement will be bundling different products and ...
November 05, 2006
Bumpy NightWhere is Ms. Bette Davis when you need her?Even if she had done nothing else, the big-eyed actress would have achieved immortality for the way ...
November 01, 2006
REITs Keep Plowing AheadReal estate investment trusts (REITs) continue their gravity-defying run. After exceeding the return of the S&P 500 index for each of the last six years, REITs have built up a tremendous lead in 2006, and with only two months left to go, are poised to extend their yearly winning streak.
November 01, 2006
Dow 15,000In the late 1990s, as the stock market boom turned into a bubble and drifted into the stratosphere, investment books began to appear with titles...
November 01, 2006
A Higher Level of CompetenceRuss Morton is a big man, which is what you'd expect of a University of Oklahoma graduate who spent the first decade of his career...