Annuities
Annuity news and analysis, including coverage of annuity market regulatory, compliance and legislative issues.
Partial Annuitization: Benefits And Barriers
By Joseph F. Mckeever IiiIt 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 ...
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
VA Buyer Profiles Show Where The Sales AreTremendous variation exists among variable annuity buyers today. This analysis profiles that and also points to where the sales are.The average retail VA buyer, based ...
April 02, 2006
VA Buyer Profiles Show Where The Sales AreTremendous variation exists among variable annuity buyers today. This analysis profiles that and also points to where the sales are.The average retail VA buyer, based ...
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 01, 2006
If the shoe fits...You have to hand it to insurance companies. Given investor skittishness that lingers from the equity market turmoil of five years ago, they have mastered the art of developing products with guarantees that mitigate downside risk. Nowhere are these