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EBRI: Cap on tax-preferred 401(k)s would clip large and small earners
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 14, 2011
EBRI: Cap on tax-preferred 401(k)s would clip large and small earners

Some employees in top bracket could face 15% reduction in account balances; lower-paid likely down 10%

Neuberger Berman bulks up with three defined-contribution wholesalers
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 14, 2011
Neuberger Berman bulks up with three defined-contribution wholesalers

Neuberger Berman minds client relationships with newly hired trio of defined-contribution wholesalers; asset gathering to come.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUN 09, 2011
Jackson temporarily shuts off access to Stattman fund in VAs

Jackson National Life Insurance Co. has temporarily closed off access to the JNL/BlackRock Global Allocation fund option in the carrier's variable annuities.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUN 07, 2011
Jackson National to decelerate VA juggernaut

Jackson National has announced it will attempt to slow down sales of it sgenerous variable annuity contracts. How it plans on going about this is another proposition.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 07, 2011
Russian spy stripped of CFP credentials

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. finally has revoked Russian spy Cynthia A. Murphy of her planning credentials.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUN 05, 2011
Advisers are ahead of the game on DOL rule compliance

Instead of standing on the sidelines waiting for a number of long-awaited Labor Department rules to take effect, advisers are figuring out how things will change and are wasting no time as they gear up

76-year-old Texas insurance agent gets 15 years for fraud
RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 31, 2011
76-year-old Texas insurance agent gets 15 years for fraud

Stole $7M from elderly clients; will get out of prison when he's 91

Jackson's putting brakes on VA sales 'a whiplash'
RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 26, 2011
Jackson's putting brakes on VA sales 'a whiplash'

Corporate mandate to slow accelerating sales seen as prudent, but advisers express concerns

John Hancock to pony up $1 million to Louisiana in death benefit flap
RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 24, 2011
John Hancock to pony up $1 million to Louisiana in death benefit flap

Payment to the Bayou State marks third such settlement for the insurer in less than two months

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 23, 2011
Life carriers' risk controls under scrutiny