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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.
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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.
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By Staff Writer |
September 16, 2011
Annuities as insurance. Insurance as investments. How did we get this mixed up?
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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.
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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.
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By Staff Writer |
September 5, 2011
The last few weeks of August are usually pretty soporific.
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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.
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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. . .
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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.
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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.