Zachary Parker and Paul Lofties were the recipients of The Retirement Income Industry Association‘s first Practitioner Thought Leadership Award at the organization’s 2011 Spring Conference in Chicago.
Parker, a director of Annuities and Insurance, and Lofties, a vice president of wealth management and acquisitions for Securities America Inc., La Vista, Neb., were presented with the award by Bruce Wolfe, a managing director of Allianz Global Investors, Newport Beach, Calif. The company is a founding sponsor of the award program.
The two executives were recognized for their paper “Capturing the Income Distribution Opportunity: A Historical Analysis of Distribution Philosophies and a Solution for Today.” The article was featured in the inaugural issue of the Retirement Management Journal, a peer-reviewed journal focusing on retirement-income planning and management.