EssentialsThe basic purpose of life insurance is to provide financial support to people who depend on you financially—such as your spouse, partner, children or other loved ones—in the event of your death.Many types of life insurance are available. Key features to consider include the length of coverage, whether you pay fixed or variable premiums, how benefits are determined and costs of coverage.
Exchange-traded products (ETPs) are a popular way to invest, with thousands of different products available to target almost every imaginable investment objective, but it’s important to remember that not all ETPs are the same. Leveraged and inverse ETPs are complex investments that come with a unique set of risks.
Similar to other fixed-income securities with a specified maturity rate and a schedule of interest payments, baby bonds are available for a much lower investment than most other types of corporate bonds. While this can make them more accessible to individual investors, a lower investment minimum doesn’t mean lower risks.
When investing in your 401(k) or other retirement savings account, target-date funds, also known as life-cycle funds, are one popular option. You pick a fund that is dated around when you plan to retire, and that fund promises to rebalance as you approach that date.
When it comes to retirement savings, even the most adventurous seniors may consider something routinely described as "plain vanilla": a fixed immediate annuity. With an immediate annuity, the investor pays an insurance company a lump sum in exchange for regular income payments. Both fixed and variable immediate annuities deliver income quickly, but there are differences.
Asset allocation means deciding what portion of your portfolio to invest in different asset classes, like stocks, bonds and cash. Diversification is the spreading of your investments both among and within different asset classes. And rebalancing means making regular adjustments to ensure you are hitting your target allocation. All are important tools in managing investment risk.
As Senior Vice President – Strategic Regulatory Engagement, Alex Ellenberg is responsible for providing guidance, counsel and analysis to the leadership team and various Market Regulation and Transparency Services (MRTS) groups regarding a wide variety of strategic, operational, regulatory, risk and compliance functions and activities. He also supports and provides strategic risk analysis to the
On June 25, 2024, Progress Software released the MOVEit Transfer Critical Security Alert Bulletin (the Alert Bulletin) for CVE-2024-5806, a newly identified Critical Vulnerability, which was described as an Improper Authentication vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer, Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) module and could lead to Authentication Bypass.
ONNX Store, a Phishing-as-a-service platform (PhaaS), is targeting Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts at FINRA member firms with an advanced social engineering attack known as quishing: a business email compromise (BEC) attack that uses QR codes in embedded PDF documents to redirect victims to phishing URLs.
This notification is to warn member firms of an ongoing phishing campaign that involves fraudulent emails purporting to be from FINRA and using the e-mail addresses “[email protected]” and “[email protected]”. The e-mail addresses and domain “data-finra.org” are not connected to FINRA, and firms should delete all emails originating from these domains. Member firms should be aware that they may receive similar phishing emails from other domain names in addition to those identified in this Alert.
