President Obama and Nancy Pelosi are like the California man who called 911 and claimed that the gas pedal on his Toyota was stuck, requiring a police car ...  Read →  Read Story

Audra Szollosy, a VP at investment banking firm Hales & Co., wrote a good wrap up of insurance agency merger & acquisition activity in 2009 for Leader’s Edge magazine.  The ...  Read →  Read Story

Thomas Currey, president of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA), warns life insurance agents and financial service professionals that proposed legislation could change how they do business.

Specifically, ...  Read →  Read Story

An Atlanta lawyer who deals mostly with commercial liability claims believes that insurance companies are selling the promise of protection, but in fact never intend to pay.

Writing on an IT ...  Read →  Read Story

According to IFAwebnews, AIG will use part of the proceeds from the sale of its Asian life insurance business to repay the fed’s bailout funds, to the tune of at ...  Read →  Read Story

Bob Graham, IFA’s executive editor, is LIVE BLOGGING the health care summit in Washington, D.C.

In addition, all Twitter “tweets” associated with the summit appear alongside the blog.

Viewers can have real-time ...  Read →  Read Story

According to an article on IFAwebnews.com, many investors are opting for EFTs and bypassing the traditional financial advisor relationship.

Besides Charles Schwab mentioned in the article, Legg Mason filed an applicaion ...  Read →  Read Story

According to an article on the Financial Advisor magazine website, new rules proposed as part of President Obama’s proposed FY 2011 budget could force some registered representatives to be reclassified ...  Read →  Read Story

President Obama’s latest health care reform proposal addresses health insurance, according to an article on IFAwebnews.com, but ignores or dismisses major causes of rising health care costs.

It’s sort of like ...  Read →  Read Story

IFAwebnews.com reports that a Democratic senator is seeking to use the “nuclear” option to pass health care reform. This follows on the heels of two U.S. congressmen who also want ...  Read →  Read Story