Spending in Retirement
Learn how to best work with clients to determine their optimal retirement spending plan.
A Lifecycle Fund Product Offers Income for Life
By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani, Savita Iyer-AhrestaniPlan sponsors and advisors concerned with generating retirement income for their clients will soon have another product to consider: The newly minted Prudential IncomeFlex from...
January 01, 2007
NEWS & PRODUCTSThe Internal Revenue Service is mulling a new Enrolled Retirement Plan Agent (ERPA) designation to allow retirement plan professionals who are not approved to represent...
January 01, 2007
DC Advisor-Sponsor MatchmakerFor Fred Barstein, founder and CEO of Palm Beach County, Florida-based 401kExchange, one of the most important issues in the retirement finance space today is...
January 01, 2007
Raising the Savings Rate"The Potential effects of Retirement Proposals on Private and National Saving: Exploratory Calculations," a paper released by The Retirement Security Project estimates that savings incentives...
January 01, 2007
A Healthy New YearGrowth of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and pricing pressure on brand name pharmaceutical manufacturers are among the top seven healthcare industry issues identified in The...
January 01, 2007
The ABCs Of RetireesAs the population ages and the markets become increasingly challenging, two trends have become top of mind for advisors: the dominance of retiring baby boomer...
January 01, 2007
Confessions of a VA CriticIn the mid 1990s, I published a widely cited research study, jointly with Dr. Steven Posner, on M&E fees in variable annuities.
December 28, 2006
Matching Assets and Retirement NeedsThe Retirement Income Industry Association (RIIA) has just launched the first in a series of in-depth reports providing cutting-edge research that gets to the heart of the retirement income challenges facing millions of baby boomers across America.