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The ETF’s management fee is 50 basis points, but when you factor in the expense ratios of the underlying funds, the ETF’s total expense ratio rockets to 181 basis points.

While variable annuity sales eke out a 3% gain, all other areas suffer significant declines.

A booming time for exciting variable annuity riders must give way to a new era of stabilization and rationalization.

Bank-based advisors produced an average $16,728 in December, up from just $14,712 in November.

Bank brokerage revenue fell 14% in 2009 in relative terms across banks of all sizes, according to new data from Kehrer-LIMRA.

Barnaby Grist will join the newly minted Cetera Financial Group as executive vice president of wealth management.

Financial Network, Primevest and Multi-Financial score key technology and compliance funding in Marron deal.

Advisors would rather seek investment opportunities than revenge.

Their clients are fed up with Washington as a general rule.

What’s hot and what’s not in proposed financial services reform legislation.