Annuities
Annuity news and analysis, including coverage of annuity market regulatory, compliance and legislative issues.
Bank Annuity Sales Climb
By Staff WriterAnnuity sales through banks and savings institutions rose to $3.1 billion in January, up from $2.8 billion in January 2005.January's fixed annuity sales in banks ...
April 02, 2006
Partial Annuitization: Benefits And BarriersIt is widely known that a very small proportion of nonqualified deferred annuity contract owners--variable and fixed--ever choose to "annuitize" in order to receive a ...
April 02, 2006
10 Ideas For Reshaping VAs1. Provide caregiver benefits. Principal already offers a "caregiver income benefit" on the fixed annuity in its Principal Income IRA, says Drew A. Denning, second ...
April 02, 2006
Fraud Hearing Witnesses Talk About AnnuitiesAnnuities played a prominent role in the written testimony for a recent hearing on protecting seniors from investment fraud.The hearing as a whole, organized by ...
April 02, 2006
10 Ideas For Reshaping VAs1. Provide caregiver benefits. Principal already offers a "caregiver income benefit" on the fixed annuity in its Principal Income IRA, says Drew A. Denning, second ...
April 02, 2006
Fraud Hearing Witnesses Talk About AnnuitiesAnnuities played a prominent role in the written testimony for a recent hearing on protecting seniors from investment fraud.The hearing as a whole, organized by ...
April 02, 2006
Partial Annuitization: Benefits And BarriersIt is widely known that a very small proportion of nonqualified deferred annuity contract owners--variable and fixed--ever choose to "annuitize" in order to receive a ...
April 02, 2006
The Simplicity ExplosionI'm starting to get concerned that insurance companies are so intent on making variable annuities simple and transparent that soon the products will be all ...