2006 Tax Legislation Update

What You Need to Know About the Pension Protection Act of 2006
As you might expect from its name, the Pension Protection Act of 2006
(PPA) attempts to protect workers by imposing new regulations on
employer pension plans. It tightens minimum funding requirements and
places restrictions on employers that don’t, or can’t, comply with the
funding rules for defined benefit [...]

What Are Exchange-Traded Funds?

WHAT ARE EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS?
While you cannot invest directly in a market index such as the S&P 500 or the
Dow Jones Industrials, you can invest in a representative sample of the
securities that make up a market index. These investments, called exchange
traded funds, or ETFs, are passively managed portfolios designed to track the
performance of specific indexes or [...]