Annuities
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Annuity update: Sales up by double digits
By staff WriterThe Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) reported last week that first quarter annuity sales gained a double digit increase over sales from the same time period last year.
June 07, 2011
Milliman: Pension Funds Look Healthier - But . . .The funded status of big U.S. defined benefit pension plans is still better than it was a year ago - but low interest rates are starting to hurt.
June 07, 2011
Milliman: Pension Funds Look Healthier - But . . .The funded status of big U.S. defined benefit pension plans is still better than it was a year ago - but low interest rates are starting to hurt.
June 07, 2011
You Can Work Till You're 80 and Still Run ShortEven if Social Security makes good on benefits promises, and even if low-income workers keep working till they're 80, about 38% of those low-income workers could go broke when they finally do retire.
June 06, 2011
Feeding the BeastThe Obama administration appears to be remaining steadfast in its desire to impose haircuts on two of the life industry's most profitable and highest-volume products, corporate-owned life insurance (COLI), and variable life and variable annuities.
June 06, 2011
Revisiting Non-Qualified Deferred Comp PlansMy feature article in this issue on advanced planning techniques for small businesses only fleetingly touches on a key tool for compensating corporate executives.
June 06, 2011
What Would You Think?IMAGINE THAT YOU and your spouse are fifty year-olds, and in the summer of 2010 hear about the following retirement product.
June 06, 2011
Staying the CourseThe economic crisis of 2008 was a stark reminder to many 401(k) participants that nothing is certain--especially a person's retirement savings.