Annuities
Annuity news and analysis, including coverage of annuity market regulatory, compliance and legislative issues.
How Seniors Make Decisions
By Staff WriterIs there consensus among aging researchers that the decision-making capabilities of seniors decline as they age? The question has bearing on the current discussion about annuity sales to seniors...
May 16, 2008
Insurer Responds To Market Conduct ReportA major annuity manufacturer says it will be improving the way it handles advertising, new business processing and consumer complaints in Wisconsin.Allianz Life Insurance Company ...
May 15, 2008
Safety first: Fixed annuities provide conservative income - Part IIFixed annuities can offer an income stream guaranteed never to end or decrease for a customer's life. Client's can receive a predetermined income for the rest of their life or a selected time period with tax-deferred compounding. Fixed
May 15, 2008
Streamlining disclosure for investorsIn an effort to minimize increasing fulfillment costs, fund companies have been combining multiple fund prospectuses into a phone-book-sized "one-size-fits-all" document distributed in a single mass mailing. What began as a noble effort to inform
May 15, 2008
Cerulli: Annuity Assets Will Keep GrowingTotal U.S. annuity assets will grow to $2.9 trillion by 2012, expanding by about 7.9% per year, according to Cerulli Associates.Demographic trends and an interest ...
May 15, 2008
Cerulli: Annuity Assets Will Keep GrowingTotal U.S. annuity assets will grow to $2.9 trillion by 2012, expanding by about 7.9% per year, according to Cerulli Associates.Demographic trends and an interest ...
May 14, 2008
Safety first: Fixed annuities provide conservative income - Part IIFixed annuities can offer an income stream guaranteed never to end or decrease for a customer's life. Client's can receive a predetermined income for the rest of their life or a selected time period with tax-deferred compounding. Fixed
May 14, 2008
ING: Consumers Dread Savings TheftA stock market crash is not necessarily the most horrifying thing that could happen to a U.S. worker's finances.Researchers in a Windsor, Conn., office of ...