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June 28 th is National Insurance Awareness Day. As the day draws near, consider the ways a new category of fee-based insurance—expressly re-engineered to fit the way RIAs and fee-based advisors ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate accounting with ...

Regulators have pushed insurers to develop fee-based annuities, but financial advisors and brokers who sell them say these types of annuities remain clunky and aren’t as “clean” as commission-based ...

Learn about the pros and cons of life insurance riders.

For a long time, buying and selling a home in the U.S. generally went like this: The seller would pay a commission that would be split by the buyer's and seller's agents, often totaling 5% to 6% of ...

Kayla Missman specializes in making complicated topics more approachable. She has eight years of experience in journalism, editing and marketing, allowing her to dive into interesting topics and ...