Annuities
Annuity news and analysis, including coverage of annuity market regulatory, compliance and legislative issues.
Optimizing Annuity Values In The Secondary Market
By Michael VaughanAn emerging secondary market for annuities is providing investors as well as the brokers and agents who advise them with flexibility and new opportunities to ...
February 05, 2006
L05marrionHas the decision-making capability of senior citizens declined to such an extent that they need to be protected as a separate class?The question comes up ...
February 05, 2006
Bad Apples, Annuities And The NAICAs the saying goes, a few bad apples can spoil the whole barrel.Texas is one of 14 states that have adopted the National Association of ...
February 05, 2006
NQ Annuity Owners Are Concerned About RetirementThere is a great deal of continuity in the demographics and attitudes of nonqualified annuity owners.That is one finding of the "2005 Survey of Owners ...
February 05, 2006
A Big New Annuity OpportunityIt is beginning to look like the Pension Protection Act will become law, in one form or another. It also is beginning to look like ...
February 05, 2006
Final DOL Regulations Critical To Annuities' Future In TQ PlansThe Department of Labor is currently working on final regulations regarding default investment options in tax qualified plans subject to the Employment Retirement Income Security ...
February 05, 2006
Annuity/LTC Combos: Greater Than Sum Of PartsIf H.R. 2830 is enacted, it could further the development of combination annuity/long term care insurance products in several ways. This article reviews the current ...