Opinion

• Unhealthy Skepticism

  By Bill Coffin  |  September 19, 2011

  It was less than 48 hours after the 9/11 attacks when a friend of mine suggested to me that the U.S. government was really behind it all.

• FEEDBACK

  By Submitted  |  September 19, 2011

  Bill, that is what I have been hoping to see sooner than later: these kinds of Life ads in movie theaters.

• Editor's Blog: Double Standard

  By Staff Writer  |  September 16, 2011

  Annuities as insurance. Insurance as investments. How did we get this mixed up?

• Beyond Buy-and-Hold

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  September 5, 2011

  In my feature article for the August 22nd issue on the S&P downgrade of U.S. debt, I quoted market-watchers who warned that advisors' investment recommendations can no longer be guided by traditional "buy-and-hold" asset allocation strategies.

• Hit 'Em Where It Hurts

  By Bill Coffin  |  September 5, 2011

  Over the last year, I have read ample articles, white papers and studies chronicling the difficulty in selling individual life in the U.S. marketplace.

• Short-Term Memory

  By Staff Writer  |  September 5, 2011

  The last few weeks of August are usually pretty soporific.

• A Babe in the Woods

  By Staff Writer  |  August 22, 2011

  On a recent Wednesday afternoon, I found myself sitting in a tidy, angular room in a restaurant at the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan.

• A New-Fangled Solution

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  August 22, 2011

  The stock market's roller-coaster of a ride following S&P's downgrading of the U.S.' credit rating on August 5 lent welcome exposure to a segment of the investment world. . .

• Somebody Has to Say It

  By Bill Coffin  |  August 22, 2011

  Just when you thoughT the debt ceiling crisis couldn't get any uglier, Standard & Poor's has downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit rating.

• Editor's Blog: Somebody Has to Say It -UPDATE

  By Staff Writer  |  August 10, 2011

  At the request of the A.M. Best legal department, certain details from yesterday's Gamut have been eliminated. This only deepens the skepticism we should have of ratings agencies in general.