Securian Financial Group

• Top Portfolio Products: Invesco Announces ‘Age of Income’ Focus

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 3, 2013

  New products introduced over the last week include two new leveraged ETFs from Direxion.

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  New Hire Roundup: Collins Named as TDAI’s Head of Advisor Transitions

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 20, 2013

  Also this week in new hires, John Mastal joined Convergent Wealth, and E. Thomas Johnson Jr. went to Retirement Clearinghouse.

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  New Tool for Advisors to Slice and Dice Small-Business Market

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  June 4, 2012

  A Securian Financial Group microsite helps advisors discern which entrepreneurs could use their help.

• Life Insurers Cancel Policies After Death

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 21, 2010

  An article in the Sunday Los Angeles Times is taking a look at the practice of rescission--canceling insurance coverage after a policy has been issued--as it's playing out in the cases of some beneficiaries who were denied benefits when the policy owners died.

• Survey: Boomers only generation still racking up debt

  By Staff Writer  |  May 21, 2009

  Of all the generations (Generations Y, X, and the Silent Generation) boomers were the only ones to add debt since 2007, according to a Securian...

• B/D Briefings News & Products

  By Kara P. Stapleton  |  January 1, 2009

  On December 1, 2008, Securian Financial Group's acquisition of Capital Financial Group, Inc. and its broker/dealer affiliate, H. Beck, Inc., closed. The acquisition, announced in...

• Is Consolidation Finally Here?

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  October 1, 2008

  In what could be further evidence of consolidation in the independent broker/dealer space--or of the enhanced value that winning Investment Advisor's Broker/Dealer of the Year...

• Securian to Acquire Capital Financial Group/H. Beck

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  September 11, 2008

  In what could be further evidence of consolidation in the independent broker/dealer space--or of the enhanced value that winning Investment Advisor's Broker/Dealer of the Year brings to honorees--another mid-sized independent B/D has been acquired by one of its larger brethren.

• Cherchez les Femmes

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  April 1, 2008

  About 150 investment advisors from the greater metropolitan area were gathered for a presentation and cocktails in midtown Manhattan at the invitation of Charles Schwab...

• Boomers' love-hate relationship with debt

  By Staff Writer  |  March 1, 2008

  Securian Financial Group recently released a survey that provides useful insights on a growing national issue -- debt. Household debt as a percentage of household...