Annuities sold through banks hit a rough patch in the last year, but 2011 looks brighter as interest rates start to rise and also the Dow Jones Industrial Average is constantly on the up and up. On Wednesday the Kehrer-Jackson Monthly Bank Annuity Sales Survey was released revealing the first half of 2010 and it [...]
Lincoln National (LNC) Stock Trades Below the 50-Day Moving Average
NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) — Today’s trading activity suggests that the shares of Lincoln National may continue to head lower in the foreseeable future on the assumption that the moving average will continue to decrease with the price of the equity. Savvy investors who focus on quality stocks while looking for the right opportunity to [...]
Chip Anderson Of Creative Marketing Joins NAFAs Board
Chip Anderson Selected to Join NAFA’s Board of Directors Chip Anderson of Creative Marketing Corporation has been selected to join the Board of Directors for The National Association for Fixed Annuities (NAFA). Anderson’s three-year term officially began at NAFA’s annual membership meeting on Oct. 28 in Houston, TX. Leawood, KS (PRWEB) December 20, 2010 Chip [...]
Depressions and Recessions Correlated to Income Inequality
The Washington Wizards theory of inequality and the financial crisis By Ezra Klein The graph atop this post is one I think a lot about: It charts pre-tax income inequality over the last 100-or-so years, and seems to suggest that income inequality is a potential indicator for massive financial crises. As you can see, the [...]
Great Depression vs Great Recession: Bruce Bartlett
This is Bruce Bartlett’s take on the Great Depression and Today’s Great Recession. For a comprehensive comparison go to my blog Ten Differences between the Great Recession and Today’s Great Recession. Eighty years ago this week, the stock market crashed. Although it was more a symptom of the economy’s underlying problems than a cause of [...]
The Great Depression and the Great Recession – Thinking Back to Franklin D Roosevelt
Image via Wikipedia This is a short primer on the Great Depression and Today’s Great Recession. For a comprehensive comparison go to my blog Ten Differences between the Great Recession and Today’s Great Recession. Great Recession is upon us, and while the situation seems to be slightly improving (fingers crossed), it’s the perfect time to take [...]
Ten Major Differences between the Great Depression and Today’s Great Recession
A person who was a child during the Great Depression of the 1930s would be in his or her nineties today. There is no shared national experience of the depths and devastating human impact of the Great Depression. We feel the recession of today as being extraordinary, but how does it compare to the singular [...]
A Far From Random Walk From The Stock Market
Image via Wikipedia This is at the heart of our conviction that American‘s will be pursuing a different investment mix in the coming years–as they are today. The next key indicator will be when the bond market fully turns and bond prices go south. Then, where will American’s go? They will go to guaranteed [...]
Annuities in the Investment Pyramid
The article below by Bill Broich not only speaks to how investors look at the world today, but also that the advisor community needs to ‘sync’ up… The idea of an investment pyramid is based on building the foundation (the bottom) the middle (some risk but higher reward) and the top (high risk and high [...]
Are Rising Commodity Prices An Inflationary Signal? Paul Krugman
November 6, 2010, 12:15 PM Are Rising Commodity Prices An Inflationary Signal? Right now everyone seems to believe that rising commodity prices are telling us to beware of inflation. I think that’s dead wrong. Partly that’s because the sticky prices are the ones to worry about. But it’s also worth having some perspective on commodity [...]
