By Editor Test
“The so-called backtests weren’t really backtests, and the strategy wasn’t proven as they claimed,” said the director of the SEC’s Los Angeles office.
By Editor Test
Vote for Obama and you’ll get more ‘government in your knickers,’ keynote speaker Haley Barbour told 300 or so IRI meeting attendees in San Diego this week.
By Kerry Pechter
An indexed universal life policy demands about as little maintenance as an eight-cylinder, 750-horsepower, 200-mph NASCAR stock car. And in the hands of an unskilled, or untrustworthy driver, or pit crew, such a policy can crash and burn.
By Editor Test
New York Life’s Lifetime Income Annuity was the best-selling product for the second consecutive quarter.
By Editor Test
Federal outlays through August totaled $3.4 trillion, up 2% from the same period last year. Receipts in the first 11 months totaled $2.2 trillion, up $126 billion from the same period last year. (Federal fiscal year ends Sept. 30, 2012.)
By Editor Test
After the completion of this offering and a $5 billion share purchase by AIG, Treasury will own about 15.9% percent of AIG’s common stock outstanding.
By Editor Test
The 'A' Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) ratings on AIG's core property/casualty and life insurance subsidiaries was affirmed.
By Editorial Staff
Brief or late-breaking items from New York Life, Phoenix Companies, Strategic Insight, BlackRock, DST Systems Inc., AXA Equitable Life, and Principal Financial.
By Editor Test
The Fed also acknowledged its limits. “Monetary policy, particularly in the current circumstances, cannot cure all economic ills,” the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said at a news conference.
