Life settlements are becoming an increasingly appealing option for investors who fear the recent volatility of the stock market combined with the globalization of financial markets, according to a Dallas-based company that trains life settlement brokers.

Investors should stop “chasing returns” and remember to be careful when dealing with riskier, complex products that promise higher returns than traditional investments, a financial authority warns.

Five employees of a life-settlement company, including two executives, who admitted to conspiring to bilk more than 800 investors were sentenced to prison for their roles in the $100 million, life-settlement fraud scheme.

Investors in FPIC Insurance Group, a medical professional liability insurer, are questioning whether the share price for the company’s sale to The Doctors Co. is good enough.

The likely actions of financial service professionals’ clients as gasoline prices continue to rise are far from clear, according to the latest IFAwebnews.com poll.

American International Group (AIG) investors, who were barred from suing companies that conspired with AIG executives in an alleged bid-rigging scheme, should be able to sue those companies, lawyers for the investors told the U.S. Supreme Court recently.

Securities regulators in Pennsylvania and other states are warning investors to keep an eye out for “mutations of old schemes and themes” as con artists seek to profit from new federal financial reform legislation.

A group of investors in a Louisiana-based in-home Medicare health service provider are investigating whether the company’s leadership allowed it to unfairly take advantage of the Medicare reimbursement system.

Two executives of an Iowa life insurance company will pay a combined $1 million in penalties as part of civil settlements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding misleading proxy disclosures to investors.

Five years after investors filed suit over loses they say were linked to the company failure to disclose illegal practices, Marsh & McLennan Co. has reached a settlement.