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Hartford (HIG) CEO Ramani Ayer will be stepping down from his position as the company’s Chief Executive. Ayer spent 10 years at the top of the struggling insurer and will be retiring at the end of the year amid record company losses and shareholder pressure.
In our 2009 forecast, we suggested that Hartford’s future looked the [...]

We’ve been warning about the insurance stocks and Hartford in particular for months.  See these posts:
The Coming Annuity Crisis
Forecast 2009 (We predict another major insurance company failure in 2009, with Hartford as the leading candidate)
Today the Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it cut the ratings of Hartford Financial Services Group’s counterparty credit rating [...]

2009 will be a year of complete destruction for the US economy. 5 Million will lose their jobs. The Dow Jones Industrial average will break below 6,000. Municipalities will fail. Insurers will fail. The unemployed and foreclosed American population will take to the streets and begin rioting. The Greatest Depression is upon us.
Sound far fetched? [...]

No  sign of a bottom! The S&P 500 Index has violated it’s 2002 lows. The financial sector remains in free fall. Hartford Insurance appears to be the next AIG, and Citigroup the next Lehman.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is coming close to it’s moment of truth, a test of it’s 2002 lows. A breach of [...]

Are you one of the millions of Americans that has a portion of their retirement assets in annuities? If so, you MUST read this.
Thanks to their hefty brokerage commissions, annuities have become one of the most widely sold and marketed financial products in the US today. Variable annuities have upfront sales costs which range from [...]