<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>InsuranceNewsNet.com - Today's Financial Picks</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/news.aspx?type=financial</link><description>InsuranceNewsNet.com Financial recent articles.</description><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>BNY Mellon To Increase Wealth Management Sales Force By 50%</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=382340&amp;type=financial</link><description>BNY Mellon is rolling out a major two-year recruiting campaign to increase BNY Mellon Wealth Management's sales force by 50 percent... </description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:40:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>DBs Outperformed 401(K)S  By Largest Margin Since Mid-1990S</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=382339&amp;type=financial</link><description>Investment returns in defined benefit (DB) pension plans outperformed those in defined contribution (DC) plans – predominantly 401(k) plans – in 2011 by the widest margin since the mid-1990s, according to new analysis...</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:37:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The New Retirement: No Retirement?</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=382338&amp;type=financial</link><description>For growing numbers of Americans, the new retirement may really mean no retirement. That's the conclusion of an article in the current issue of the ISR Sampler, the annual magazine of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research...</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:34:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Changes In Roth 401(k) Rules Enable Greater Diversification</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=382199&amp;type=financial</link><description>Employers can now offer participants the option of converting pre-tax contributions to Roth contributions... </description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:30:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>LIMRA: DC Assets Total $2.2B In 2012</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=382070&amp;type=financial</link><description>As of December 2012, defined contribution (DC) in-plan guarantee assets totaled $2.2 billion, according to a new LIMRA sales survey measuring market growth of in-plan guarantees...
</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial Planning Coalition Urges Improvement To Advisor Oversight</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=382009&amp;type=financial</link><description>The Financial Planning Coalition - comprised of Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, the Financial Planning Association and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors - expressed concern regarding H.R. 1062.. </description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 06:36:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Insurer ACA's Suit Against Goldman Dismissed</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=381505&amp;type=financial</link><description>A New York state appeals court dismissed a lawsuit brought by insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. against Goldman Sachs over an investment that went bad... </description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:06:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>R.I. Estate Lawyer Says He's Innocent In Death Fraud</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=381445&amp;type=financial</link><description>An estate planning lawyer who pleaded guilty to using the identities of terminally ill people to obtain tens of millions of dollars has told a federal judge he is innocent and entitled to his day in court.. </description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:37:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Digital Assets': The New Frontier For Estate Planning</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=381314&amp;type=financial</link><description>So much of our lives are spent online -- banking, shopping, social networking -- that a new category of personal property has emerged, known to estate planners as "digital assets."...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:10:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Retirement Gap Is Blue- And White-Collar </title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=381257&amp;type=financial</link><description /><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 09:13:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Growth In 403(b)s Makes Them More Attractive </title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380787&amp;type=financial</link><description>A new LIMRA research report, Exploring 403(b) Plan Practices and Trends: Healthcare and Higher Education, examines the two largest ERISA 403(b) market segments — healthcare and higher education — to understand the similarities and differences between the segments...  </description><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:46:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Americans Prepared To Work Longer, But Not Live Longer</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380638&amp;type=financial</link><description>Just over half of Americans say they're financially prepared to live to the age of 75, yet 10 percent expect to work into their 80's, according to new research... </description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 09:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Moms Lead Way In Discussing Family Finance</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380635&amp;type=financial</link><description>Who's better at getting a family to talk about money matters, mom or dad?...  </description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 08:21:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Attracting More Women To Financial Advising Field</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380538&amp;type=financial</link><description>The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) released new research findings identifying strategies to recruit women to the financial advising field – a career projected to grow 32 percent from 2010 to 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 14:31:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Genworth CEO Focusing On Turnaround Efforts </title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380477&amp;type=financial</link><description>After years of efforts to recover from the U.S. housing market crash, Genworth reached a milestone. The company's U.S. mortgage insurance business showed its first quarterly operating profit since 2007...</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 02:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial Lessons From The NFL Draft</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380322&amp;type=financial</link><description>Last week a number of new millionaires-in-waiting were minted as happens each year with the NFL draft... </description><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 08:39:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Moody's 1Q Profit Rises, Boosts 2013 Outlook</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380321&amp;type=financial</link><description>Moody's first-quarter net income rose 9 percent, led by strong revenue growth in the U.S... </description><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 08:37:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ING US Prices IPO At $19.50 Per Share</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380193&amp;type=financial</link><description>ING U.S. says 65.2 million shares of the company will be sold for $19.50 each, raising about $1.3 billion in one of the year's biggest initial public offerings... </description><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:22:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>High Net Worth Investors Expect More From Their Advisors</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380088&amp;type=financial</link><description>In the wake of the financial crisis, advisors to either institutional investors or high net worth investors need a drastically different set of skills and personal qualities to succeed... </description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:03:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Americans Think Economy Won't Change</title><link>http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=380046&amp;type=financial</link><description>While the S&amp;P may have hit new highs and housing prices are on the rebound, there is still a great deal of caution in the minds of Americans regarding the economy... </description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 08:26:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>