Co-publishing with London Business School faculty, the Credit Suisse Research Institute recently released its 2018 edition of the Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook, providing data for nearly two dozen nationwide stock and bond markets.

Credit Suisse Asset Management recently reported that despite a difficult winter sparking changes in the commodities sector, the Bloomberg Commodity Index Total Return performance marked a positive result for January 2018.

Retirement savings advisory firm Security Benefit Life Insurance Co. of Topeka, Kansas recently unveiled its RateTrack Plus, a floating rate annuity with benefits engineered to buffer clients in a variable interest rate market.

Advising small business owners not to let a false sense of immunity compromise cyber security, Cornerstone Bank is preparing for seminars to enhance entrepreneurial protection at multiple locations in North and South Dakota on March 21.

After full regulatory approval, Principal Financial Group recently culminated its acquisition of MetLife Afore, a pension fund management enterprise based in Mexico City, poising Principal as Mexico’s fifth-largest Afore entity.

Prudential Financial Inc. recently called for American employers to embrace benefits inclusive of financial wellness in recognition of two specially designated time periods over the past month.

Baird, a global wealth management firm with offices in three continents, recently brought on Richard Bingaman as SVP and financial advisor to its Elgin, Illinois office, along with client assistant Barbara Marshall.

The free financial education program is in over 200 locations, including an online financial wellness platform.

James Parke, Genworth Financial's longest-serving director, passed away on Feb. 21 following a long illness.

Sammons Financial Group (SFG) has announced the passing of the company's former chairman and CEO John "Jack" Watson.

One lucky winner will win $1,000 to use for home improvement projects, courtesy of Midland National, which is accepting entries for its 2018 Spring Home Sweepstakes contest through March 20.

Midland National has introduced a faster and less invasive way to obtain a life insurance policy.

Principal Financial Group has tapped 17-year company veteran Jerry Patterson as its new senior vice president of full service retirement and individual investor businesses for Retirement and Income Solutions.

U.S. stocks are set to climb over 8 percent this year as they continue to recover from the recent selloff, according to Caroline Valetkevitch from Reuters.

Principal Financial Group has launched a new initiative in an effort to encourage low succession planning among business owners in the U.S.

Baird has recently committed to an investment of over $5 million for its employees and community projects that will come in the form of cash bonuses for associates and charitable donations, a move the financial services firm says is a result of recent tax reforms.

Raymond James Financial has appointed Anne Gates to the board of directors and named her to the Audit and Risk Committee.

Those top advisers were Jonathan Beukelman, Sandra Dalton, Rick Frayard, Michael Jeffries, Tony Smith and Gary Tantleff.

Neuberger Berman names new head for its global marketing efforts

Following its 19th-century beginnings — when sickness could claim lives easily and industrial activity had yet to evolve to its full potential in America’s heartland — Midland National began to come of age from 1910 through 1929.