Retirement Investing
Spotlighted here are the latest retirement investing tips, as well as in-depth reviews and analysis of retirement investing strategies.
MGO Supervision May Be In Index Annuity Future
By Danette L. KennedyThe year 2010 is poised to be the year of index annuity regulation. Market watchers are predicting suitability standards will pressure the industry into a ...
June 01, 2008
What Will Retirement Products Look Like?This article does not claim to see the future of retirement products in a clear crystal ball, nor will it reveal dark secrets. It seeks...
June 01, 2008
What's the Future of Financial Products?David Macchia: There's a lot at stake for people as they approach retirement, many with arguably insufficient assets, or certainly not the optimum amount of...
May 31, 2008
Annuity carries LTC benefitsPlanning for longevity and the costs associated with extended lives is of primary concern to financial advisors and their clients. Annuities that have built-in long term care benefits help advisors help seniors. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., a
May 31, 2008
Retirement confidence fallsFor 18 years, the Employee Benefit Research Institute has conducted its "Retirement Confidence Survey," and this year saw some of the biggest swings in the history of the survey. The numbers seem to indicate a drop in confidence about a
May 31, 2008
Tap into a willing workforce"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind... it doesn't matter." -- Mark Twain Much has been written, in this column and elsewhere, about how the failure to adequately plan and prepare for retirement
May 31, 2008
Index annuity returns and securities clich?sA tired clich? from securities salespeople is to dismiss index annuities by saying you cannot get a competitive return with an index annuity because you do not get the benefit of reinvested dividends and you don't share in 100 percent
May 31, 2008
Typical retirement scenario goneNo. That was the overwhelming answer given by financial advisors when asked if the concept of a "typical" retirement age is still relevant in the United States. "No" was also the simple answer of 86 percent of respondents to