DTCC has trimmed fees for mutual fund and insurance transactions.
Insurer settles with California over allegedly inappropriate fixed annuity sales.
Goldman Sachs has created an index for investors seeking opportunity in longevity and mortality risk.
Despite initial concerns about portability, cost and complexity, annuities in defined contribution plans are slowly gaining momentum, according to a new report.
Of all the firms targeted by Eliot Spitzer when he was cleaning up abuses on Wall Street, none suffered more than Marsh & McLennan Cos.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House may rekindle momentum behind a bill she co-sponsored last year that would offer a tax break on some annuities, according to a retirement trade group.
The value of its super-senior-credit-default swap portfolio declined $5.9 billion and not $1.6 billion, AIG reported to the SEC.
Company wants to be a high-net-worth 'pure-play', reports a 90% drop in fourth-quarter income.
Fourth quarter profits down 50% at Nationwide, off 29% at Protective Life.
John Hancock Financial's team will act as a resource for financial planners and advisers on tax and estate planning issues.
Prudential's fourth-quarter net income fell to $792 million, or $1.75 per share, from $893 million.
Iowa will be the first state to join an initiative to provide customers with plain-English disclosures on fixed and indexed annuities.
Sun Life Financial's U.S. division announced the creation of a new group and a change in leadership.
Variable annuities with guaranteed-minimum-withdrawal benefits allow investors to reduce risk and increase retirement income, according to a recent study.
The forces that drove the retirement marketplace in 2007 — the automatic enrollment and default option provisions of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the aging baby boomers and a focus on the rollover market — will continue to shape product launches this year.
Strong earnings and sound investment portfolios will keep the life insurance industry stable this year, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
The American Council of Life Insurers has added James Szostek as the director of pensions in the taxes and retirement security department.
A total of 222,184 consumer complaints were reported to the NAIC last year, a 3.6% fall from 2006.
Brian Duperreault replaces Michael Cherkasky, who left the New York-based insurance broker in December.
A possible collapse of teetering bond insurers could cost financial firms, including Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, up to $75 billion.
