When markets are volatile, people may look for stability. When markets are hot, people may seek growth potential. Annuities may help answer both strategies.

During 2002, people poured about $168 billion into individual annuities — an increase of 19 percent over the prior year.1

An annuity is basically a contract with an insurance company. In exchange for your payments — made over time or in a lump sum — the insurance company...

Now that the deregulation of the financial industries has spawned the mortgage meltdown and left us globally devastated, where does the typical investor turn? Without a clear understanding of how we arrived at this crash scene, it might just as easily be repeated.

Primarily, banking and big business greed was the motivating factor, initiated by a series of previous deregulations. But, don’t expect to determine partisan blame, considering the good cop, bad cop semantics that...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Justice Department announced today the largest monetary payment ever obtained by the department in the settlement of a case alleging housing discrimination in the rental of apartments. Los Angeles apartment owner Donald T. Sterling has agreed to pay $2.725 million to settle allegations that he discriminated against African-Americans, Hispanics and families with children at apartment buildings he controls in Los Angeles. The settlement...