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  Insurance stocks rally as bond yields climb

  By AP Staff Writer  |  March 8, 2013

  Shares of insurance companies rallied to 52-week highs on Friday.

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  U.S. mutual fund assets set to pass $15T

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  February 13, 2013

  Net new flows of mutual funds totaled $90 billion in January compared to December, which experienced outflows of $18 billion.

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  ETF assets up $191B in 2012

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 15, 2013

  Exchange-traded equities, both domestic and international, ended the year at $1.1 trillion.

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  Insurers will likely have to up RBC for their MBS holdings

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  October 26, 2012

  The NAIC proposal relates to pessimistic scenarios for the housing market in the modeling of RMBS and also CMBS.

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  Strategic Insight: Flows into U.S. Stock and Bond Mutual Funds Decline in April

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  May 11, 2012

  Net inflows into long-term U.S. stock and bond mutual funds in April totaled $26.5 billion. This compares with net inflows of $32 billion in March.

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  John Hancock Reports Rise in Investor Confidence

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  April 4, 2012

  Investor sentiment improved to +21 in the first quarter of this year, compared with a score of +15 in the fourth quarter of 2011, the most substantial increase since the Index was started in early 2011, the report says.

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  Prudential Experts Forecast Equities Gains in 2012, but Continuing Market Volatility Stemming from Global Risks

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 5, 2012

  Equities should outperform bonds in 2012, but markets remain vulnerable to continuing global risks, including the European sovereign debt crisis and a potential bursting of the real bubble in China.