Annuities
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Debt Market Lures Billions as Verizon, GM Pursue Pension Trade
By Katherine Chiglinsky, Claire BostonFunding loans could ease the process of transferring the plan obligations to an insurer.
April 02, 2017
How Humans Can Manage Their Algorithmic OverlordsWhat if that automated system shaping consumers' finances is crooked or biased?
April 02, 2017
U.K. Raises $14.7 Billion in Blackstone-Prudential Mortgage DealThe sale involves mortgages from lenders that failed during the 2008 financial crisis.
March 31, 2017
Madoff Deals Locked in Safe at Center of U.K. Hedge-Fund LawsuitPrincipal Financial says it discovered the investments in late June 2015.
March 30, 2017
Q4 Annuity Sales Fell 18.4%: IRISales of fixed annuities dropped for the quarter but increased 11.1% for the year.
March 30, 2017
Out-of-Pocket Health Costs May Shock RetireesOnly 2% expect to use annuities or life insurance as the main funding source, Voya found.
March 30, 2017
Senate Panel Approves DOL Nominee by Narrow VoteMembers voted along party lines to approve R. Alexander Acosta as Labor secretary during a private session.
March 29, 2017
Manulife Names Gori PresidentOne of Gori's direct reports will be Craig Bromley, head of the US division