Advisor Sales Strategies

Defined-benefit pension plan sponsors may find that current annuity rates make shedding unwanted pension obligations possible but not especially appealing.

According to the TIAA-CREF Institute, there's some consensus on various design elements for a primary defined contribution plan

The stock market stabilized Monday as investors looked for cheap stocks after a four-week losing streak.

The stock market is starting to feed economic fear, not just reflect it.

Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.

FINRA Regulatory Notice 10-06, issued in January 2010, addressed Guidance on Blogs and Social Networking Web Sites, and it opened the floodgates for creative financial firms to use sites such as Facebook and Twitter in financial marketing.