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Stay Away From These Investments The complexity of index annuities completely outweighs any protection they offer. |
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Structured Products on the Rise These investment vehicles could help improve clients' risk/return outcomes. |
Financial Advisor
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A Hybrid Approach Structured products can round out a portfolio, but they are complicated and potentially risky. Just what are structured products and how do they work? What role, if any, could they play in your clients' portfolios? |
Registered Rep.
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Reps Turn To Equity Index Universal Life Insurance Reps are turning to index universal life insurance to bridge the risk gap between low-rate permanent life insurance and riskier variable universal life. |
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June 1, 2007
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High Net Worth: The Next Big Thing Structured products may be difficult to define, explain and track -- yet they're touted as the next 12-figure asset class. Here's what financial advisors need to know. |
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How Skittish Investors Can Protect Their Money You can lock in a sure thing with just two investments. |
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Sizing Up Annuities In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, the income guarantees offered by annuities have become quite attractive. The payouts are appealing, but do your homework. |
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Another Way To Income Structured products can provide diversification for clients. They have their own risks, however. |
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October 2010
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Annuities: A Better Answer Than Social Security The biggest fear of all retirees is running out of money before they run out of life. |
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December 23, 2009
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The Do-It-Yourself Way to Save Your Retirement If you want to protect yourself from stock market losses, doing it yourself can help you save a bundle. |
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The Hedging Game Structured products are among the most difficult product areas for new clients to understand. |
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November 2011
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Finding A Floor Annuities gain traction in a world of low returns. |
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September 24, 2007
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January 13, 2007
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Beating the S&P 500 If your portfolio gained less than 15.8% last year, perhaps it's time to think outside the box. |
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August 20, 2008
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If You Can't Beat the Indexes, Join Them As easy as it is to have an all-index portfolio, you may be curious: Is it a good idea? |
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April 28, 2009
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May 1, 2011
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Nice Niche Two product lines in the fixed annuity category set sales records in 2010. Index annuities (up 6%) and immediate annuities (up 2%) both recorded modest increases over 2009, but they did reach the highest levels on record, according to Beacon Research in Evanston, Ill. |
The Motley Fool
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Beat the S&P 500 -- Guaranteed! Put a too-often-neglected investing tool, reinvesting index fund dividends, to work for you. |
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5 Questions Tom Ricketts, founder and CEO of Incapital, an investment bank that underwrites corporate bonds for individual investors that are sold by broker-dealers, talks about his corporate bond program and what makes them attractive to advisors. |
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Index Funds Win Again Index funds are cheap, easy, and they reliably outperform many other funds. |
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The Retirement Ripoff You Can't Afford Insurance companies are making changes to annuities that will make them an even worse deal for investors. |
AskMen.com
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Guy's Guide To Index Funds Index funds are a good way to diversify your portfolio with modest growth. Learn here how to pick a good one. |
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Can You Beat Index Funds in 2009? Get the right mix in your investments. |
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The S&P 500 Breaks a Record What should you do if you're afraid of a major market meltdown happening soon after you buy in? Staying out of the market forever isn't the best option. Instead, given a long time horizon, you might just jump in, prepared to wait it out if you need to. |
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It's Time to Reinvent the Index Fund The flawed "bigger is better" reasoning that underlies index investing has exposed American investors to needless amounts of risk over the past few years and ultimately cost them billions of dollars of their hard-earned money. |
Financial Planning
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Multiply Returns by Dividing Gaining exposure to U.S. stocks by using three equally weighted index funds produced better performance than a single mega-market index fund during the Lost Decade of 2001 to 2010. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2006
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May 1, 2011
Temma Ehrenfeld |
Indexing Works Even fans of index funds often believe they do worse than funds with active managers during bear markets. |
The Motley Fool
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Index Options Over ETFs? If you're a short-term trader, then options are the lower-tax bet. |
