John Hancock Funds recently launched a new retirement portfolio calculator on its Web site, www.jhfunds.com. Visitors to the Web site will locate the calculator by clicking on the retirement planning

Hurricane Katrina, the huge influx of liquidity into financial markets, the investigations into bid-rigging and the precipitous decline in national multiline P&C carriers will significantly affect the way independent agencies operate in coming years.

When surveying the workers' compensation landscape, one is struck by how eerily quiet the atmosphere surrounding the industry has become. Five years past the heated debates that resulted in the 2003

Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has named Vicki Cutcliffe as the new director of the Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud. Cutlcliffe, a 30-year law enforcement veteran,