In this video sponsored by Vanguard, Burton Malkiel, Princeton professor and author of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," talks with RIJ editor Kerry Pechter about what "efficient market" means to him. The 10th edition of "A Random Walk" has just been published.
Industry Views are special reports that are sponsored and independent from RIJ's editorial content.
Wed, Oct 12, 2011
John Hancock Financial Network will offer its advisors the Retirement Sustainability Quotient, an income planning tool that Moshe Milevsky (pictured) developed for ManuLife Financial, JHFN's Canadian parent.
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
Guest speakers Fareed Zakaria (pictured) urged more fiscal stimulus for the economy while Andrew Friedman warned of looming tax hikes at the Insured Retirement Institute's conference in Boston. "Boom Time" was the conference theme this year.
Tue, Sep 27, 2011
Internet start-up Personal Capital is out to prove that mutual funds and face-to-face financial advice are obsolete. (At center, CEO Bill Harris, with Jim Del Favero, VP, product management (seated) and Ehsan Lavassani, engineering director.
Tue, Sep 20, 2011
The Dept. of Labor's bid to strengthen the fiduciary standard for advisers to retirement plans and IRAs became a political football. Now the DoL has agreed to revise and "re-propose" its proposal. Was the football fumbled... or stripped?
The associate director of the Center for Retirement Research wants financial services companies to fund a revival of the delivery of Social Security statements to working Americans. Cost: $55 million. Benefit: Priceless.
When buying a secondary-market annuity that offers a 7% or 8% effective rate of return, make sure you deal with honest brokers.
Wed, Oct 12, 2011
Income for Life Model, a time-segmentation retirement income planning tool from Wealth2k, will be integrated into the NetX360 advisor web platform offered by Pershing, the clearing firm owned by BNY Mellon.
Tue, Oct 11, 2011
Would gradual annuitization from age 65 to 75 be better for DC plan participants in the UK than gradually switching from equities to government bonds from age 55 to 65?
Wed, Oct 12, 2011
As the Boomers retire and leave a smaller 40 to 64-year-old cohort behind them, bond yields should rise 60 basis points above the increase warranted by GDP growth and inflation prospects, according to Mirko Cardinale, a researcher at Aviva Investors.
Wed, Oct 12, 2011
The Accumulator Series, introduced in 1995, now has a higher deferral bonus roll-up.
Wed, Oct 12, 2011
Brief or late-breaking items from Nationwide Financial, MetLIfe, Edward Jones, LPL Financial, and Vanguard.
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