If your practice includes people in their 20s or 30s, you know that cash-value life insurance products can be a tough sell. This type of insurance can be difficult to explain, and many younger clients don’t see a need for life insurance in...
David Swenson is an icon in the investment world. His Yale “endowment model” is widely considered to be the gold standard by which all others are measured. While effective for tax-exempt entities like endowments and charitable...
The ranks of Certified Financial Planners just crossed 75,000, the CFP Board announced Tuesday. The CFP designation dates back to 1973, when the first group completed a course at the College for Financial Planning. In 1985, the College create...
State insurance regulators in a court brief on Monday said a powerful U.S. council made up of the heads of all the federal financial regulatory agencies disregarded their work when it designated of MetLife Inc. as "too big to fail."
(Bloomberg) -- It won’t take another Hurricane Katrina for reinsurers to face losses from covering the cost of storms and earthquakes. Competitors such as hedge funds have eroded prices so much that a typical year of claims could move...
