There's fear the golden years won't be so golden. | Ricardo Reitmeyer/iStock/Thinkstock A new Transamerica retirement survey reports that none of the baby boomer, Generation X or millennial generations feel secure about their retirement prospe...

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."

There’s nothing more basic to a retirement plan than your client’s career—income from work makes everything else possible...

Recently, the tide seems to have turned with regard to pooled income funds, with savvy practitioners establishing new funds to take advantage of current low applicable federal rates.

Why is there new interest in these vehicles?

(Bloomberg Gadfly) -- The Department of Labor rocked the brokerage world several months ago when it decreed that brokers must – horror of horrors – put their clients’ interests ahead of their own...

(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...