Advisor Sales Strategies

Another retirement rescue ensues in Washington this week. This time, Congress hopes to not only help the appalling savings deficit, but relieve part of the nations debt crisis in the process. Kind of a two-for-one deal.

As big finance lobbies hard for its own interests, who will defend the IRA investor?

Due to recent market volatility, many are claiming that we are in a bear market. Although frightening, it isnt the end of the world. In this climate, a financial advisors duty is to educate their clients about these turbulent periods and to prevent panicked investors from making poor choices.

Republicans seem to be trying to starve the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the resources it needs to police the sale of investment products, Rep. Gary Peters said today at the fiduciary standard hearing.

Fidelity Investments on Tuesday said it is replacing the manager of its struggling Magellan fund, once the largest mutual fund in the world.

EBSA, an arm of the U.S. Labor Department, has described the interim policy in Technical Release 2011-03, which creates a safe harbor for employers that want to use e-mail or other electronic media to meet the new disclosure requirements.

Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee teamed with insurance agent groups Tuesday to attack U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) efforts to apply a uniform fiduciary standard to investment product sales.

The ranks of the nation's poor swelled to nearly 1 in 6 people last year, reaching a new high as long-term unemployment woes left millions of Americans struggling and out of work. The number of uninsured edged up to 49.9 million, the biggest in over two decades.