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Reps are turning to index universal life insurance to bridge the risk gap between low-rate permanent life insurance and riskier variable universal life. With variable universal life policies, the cash value is invested, typically in mutual funds.
FINRA deemed that an advisor’s tweets about a public company were unbalanced and lacked the necessary disclosure about the “substantial positions” held in the stock by the advisor and her family.
The one constant about change is that people hate it. Trouble is, if your employees don’t embrace whatever change it is you want to introduce, you can forget about it: You won’t succeed.
MetLife has launched a new educational campaign for advisors who want to target affluent women, due to renewed interest in this market, the insurer said. AXA Equitable and John Hancock Funds have also recently added resources for financial...
Long-term care expenses pose one of the greatest risks your clients will face in retirement. And unless your clients are wealthy enough to self-insure against that risk, long-term care insurance (LTCI) is the best way to mitigate it. Trouble is...
In testimony before Congress Thursday, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro made a case for an increase in the agency’s funding to $1.407 billion for 2012—describing the progress the SEC has made on internal reforms since she took the job two...
Morgan Stanley (MS) will lay off a total of 200 to 300 trainees and lower-producing financial advisers during the first quarter, and most of those cuts have already taken place, a source knowledgeable about the situation told Registered Rep. Dow...
A couple of law students from Oxford, Miss., backed by vocal investor advocate Mercer Bullard, have ambitious plans to create an SRO (self-regulatory organization) for investment advisers. Their group would rival FINRA, the SRO for broker/dealers...
Talent development is finally getting its day in the sun within banks’ wealth management departments, a development that many industry experts believe is long overdue.
