Income Planning
Learn what experts and top advisors say about the best ways to work with clients to determine and build successful retirement income plans.
August 01, 2008
What Has Your Wholesaler Done for You Lately?As financial advisors abandon their traditional transactional-based business model for something more holistic, one key player has largely failed to keep up: the wholesaler. As Ray...
August 01, 2008
Insuring 401(k) Success Via AnnuitiesMichael Salley is one of those ever-growing group of advisors who have become independent and taken their Wall Street knowledge to Main Street, bringing along...
July 30, 2008
Retirement asset accumulation$17.6 trillion - Total U.S. retirement asset accumulation at the end of 2007. 52% - Percentage of retirement assets held in defined-contribution plans and...
July 30, 2008
A pleasant surpriseADP estimates of July payrolls indicated a surprise 9,000-job increase in private-sector jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal. Market participants are hoping the report...
July 30, 2008
More boomer retirement optionsThe International Herald Tribune reports on a study released Wednesday by Hewitt Associates that found 61 percent of U.S. companies have or will develop programs...
July 30, 2008
Warren Buffett's hypocrisyTruth be told, Warren Buffett's politics and policies scare the crap out of me. Every one of his public pronouncements about what we should do...
July 28, 2008
$41 trillion wealth transfer not enoughThe looming $41 trillion wealth transfer is often cited as a windfall for boomers and heirs. Not so, writes Kathleen Connell of ABC News. Wake up,...
July 28, 2008
No more naked (sigh)I've gone on about this for far too long now, so barring something spectacular, it will be my last post on naked short selling. But...
July 24, 2008
Pump and dump, distort and shortI like Chris Cox (try saying it like Sir Mix-A-lot). I liked him as a congressman, and I like him (mostly) as SEC chairman. Even...
July 24, 2008
Hanging On to RetireesIf employers want to hold onto their employees, they have a narrow window of up to two years in which they may be able to change retiring workers' decisions by offering them a "toolkit" of incentives to remain with the company, according to results of a recent survey of the...