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EIA Trade Group To March Against Rule 151A

by Editorial Staff

Wed, Apr 08, 2009

“The annuity industry is at a boiling point,” says NAFA executive vice president Kim O’Brien. She invited insurance producers to attend NAFA’s annual meeting and join in a “March to Capitol Hill" in Washington on May 6-8, 2009.

Democrats Expected to Tweak, Not Scuttle, IRAs and 401ks

by Kerry Pechter

Wed, Apr 08, 2009

Speaking at LIMRA’s Retirement Industry Conference in Orlando on April 3, an attorney-lobbyist predicted that tax incentives for insurance and retirement products will undergo scrutiny by the White House and Congress.

Heck Of A Job, FINRA!

Heck Of A Job, FINRA!

by Kerry Pechter

Fri, Mar 27, 2009

Mary Schapiro spent the past ten years as president of FINRA or its predecessor, NASD. During that time, FINRA dithered while two stock market bubbles and the Enron crime vaporized the savings of millions of Americans.