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SEC Files Administrative Complaint Against Annuities Firm Prime Capital Services, Inc

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an administrative complaint against the New York based annuities firm Prime Capital Services, Inc and its parent company Gilman Ciocia. The SEC claims that Prime Capital Services lured-in elderly investors in Florida with free lunch seminars. The firm allegedly sold unsuitable variable annuities to the elderly investors: The sales pitches, the SEC claims, concealed high costs, lock-in costs and made "material misrepresentations and...

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A.M. Best Report Suggests Light at the End of the Tunnel for Life and Annuity Companies

Insurance Company rating agency A.M. Best released a report on the state of the industry for life and annuity insurance companies. The report is somewhat optimistic given the carnage the industry has experienced over the past year or so. The industry as a whole managed to eke out a small amount of net income --$91.5 million--for 2008. However, capital losses for 2008 reached $19.6 billion. Companies such as Allstate Corporation and The Hartford Financial Services have been hit hardest. However...
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