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  Video, social media popular educational tools: Corporate Insight

  By Danielle Andrus  |  May 8, 2013

  The burden for educating investors falls mainly on financial services firms and firms are responding in innovative ways.

• ING first quarter earnings rise on asset sales

  By The Associated Press  |  May 8, 2013

  Dutch financial company ING Groep NV reported Wednesday that its first-quarter earnings rose as it sold businesses and improved profit margins at its banking arm. Its insurance arm reported a loss.

• One-third of Americans worry about finances daily

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  April 3, 2013

  More than one-third of Americans spend between two hours and half a day handling or worrying about personal finance matters each day.

• Do tax increases kill jobs?

  By Patrick Condon  |  February 13, 2013

  Dik Bolger is a lifelong Minnesota Democrat, a gray-bearded baby boomer with a braid down his back whose Minneapolis printing company's plant displays work by local artists and sculptors. He backed Mark Dayton for governor, but his take on the Democratic chief executive's plan for new business taxes could be...

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  Practically human

  By Bernard Condon, Jonathan Fahey, Paul Wiseman  |  January 24, 2013

  Second in a three-part series on the loss of middle-class jobs in the wake of the Great Recession, and the role of technology.

• BofA-Merrill’s new comp plan a mixed bag for advisors

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  December 17, 2012

  Bonuses on net new assets in 2013 are tied to fee-based flows, loans and other products, though benefits for retiring advisors can be generous.

• Benefit costs top consideration for reward decisions

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  November 15, 2012

  When it comes to affecting total reward decisions, 58 percent of respondents say employee benefits are the top consideration, according to the 2012/2013 Verisight and McGladrey Compensation, Retirement and Benefits Trends Survey.

• Nuns, union pension plan seek Citigroup breakup

  By The Associated Press  |  November 14, 2012

  A proposed shareholder resolution filed on behalf of a group of Benedictine nuns and a union pension fund asks Citigroup's board to consider separating one or more of the bank's business units from the parent company.

• Incentive awards on Wall Street expected to improve

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  November 6, 2012

  Year-end incentive payouts for Wall Street professionals are estimated to either remain flat or experience moderate increases from last year when they tanked throughout the industry, according to an annual compensation analysis released today by Johnson Associates Inc., a New York-based compensation consulting firm.

• Baby Boomers need to do more to protect their digital identities

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  October 1, 2012

  Baby Boomers are behind the curve when it comes to safeguarding against identity theft, financial fraud and loss of personal data.