WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, CHIP HILTON?
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Personal Estate Planning
Broker-dealers selling annuity products in New York will soon need to comply with new best interest requirements imposed by New York’s amended Insurance Regulation 187. These requirements, which will take effect for annuities...more
Effective August 1, 2019, the New York Department of Financial Services has amended and renamed New York Insurance Regulation 187, which will now be called “Suitability and Best Interests in Life Insurance and Annuity...more
On April 27, New York's Department of Financial Services (NY DFS) issued its updated proposed First Amendment (Updated First Amendment) to New York's Suitability in Annuity Transactions, 11 NYCR 224 (the Annuity Suitability...more
On August 7, 2017, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk Alert providing a summary of the staff’s observations from sweep exams of broker-dealers, investment advisers and funds...more
The so-called Harkin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act was intended to keep fixed-index annuities outside the SEC’s jurisdiction. But the issue remains unsettled on the state level. For example, an Illinois state court recently...more