Aviva PLC yesterday sold its Australian life insurance and wealth management businesses to National Australia Bank of Melbourne.
When Roth individual retirement accounts were created, it was inevitable that some taxpayers would attempt to exploit their advantageous provisions.
Some financial advisers are rethinking the idea of: Buy term insurance and invest the difference.
“I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation!” rock 'n' roll icon Joan Jett sang in 1981.
If you are a commercial banker, savings and loan operator, mortgage broker or hedge fund artist, there is a lot to concern you in the regulatory-reform proposal outlined by the Obama administration last week.
Lincoln National, which markets itself as Lincoln Financial Group, will raise about $600 million from the stock offer.
Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services today hit Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., New York Life Insurance Co. and TIAA-CREF with negative ratings actions.
Aquiline Capital Partners LLC has purchased Conning & Co., the research, consulting and asset management firm, from Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. yesterday adjusted its variable annuity suitability rule, releasing the final version of the much-debated Rule 2821. Originally, the rule had four major components.
Because the insurance industry has grown to $6.3 trillion in assets under management and $1.2 trillion in annual premiums, the regulations that govern the industry need to be modernized, according to House Capital Markets Subcommittee Chairman Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa.
The company, which markets itself under the name Lincoln Financial Group, said it will accept as much as $950 million in capital as part of the government's $700 billion TARP program.
Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its outlook on TARP recipients The Hartford (Conn.) Financial Services Group and Lincoln National Corp.
American International Group Inc. and its former chairman and chief executive, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, have a court date today related to a fight over a block of AIG shares that was sold for $4.3 billion.
The Internal Revenue Service could help taxpayers reduce errors by clarifying instructions and improving the layout of Form 1040, a Treasury Department report released today charged.
Sun Life Financial Inc. today said that it will buy Lincoln National Corp.’s business in the United Kingdom for about $318.6 million.
A sprawling case of alleged securities fraud involving an independent broker-dealer and two brokers may wind up costing an insurance company $10.3 million.
Two-thirds of affluent parents with children under 18 aren't using Section 529 college savings plans, according to a report by The Phoenix Cos. Inc.
