Annuity firms introduced enhanced online security measures in 2009, but they remain laggards in the financial service industry.
Industry Views are special reports that are sponsored and independent from RIJ's editorial content.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
"Liability-driven investing for individuals" is how J. Brent Burns, MBA, (left), and Stephen J. Huxley, Ph.D., describe Asset Dedication, which is the name of their bond-laddering methodology, their book and their company.
Wed, Dec 09, 2009
In this second installment of our series on retirement risks, we examine sequence-of-returns risk: what it is, what it can cost, and how best to deal with it.
Wed, Dec 02, 2009
Forget doom-and-gloom. Recent research suggests that the Crash of 2008 will not prevent most Boomers from retiring as planned.
Wed, Nov 25, 2009
The International Foundation for Retirement Education, directed by Kevin S. Seibert, CFP, has been certifying retirement advisors since 1997. Now the certifier itself is certified.
This fly-fisherman, financial advisor and former insurance company executive surveys the retirement income product landscape from his lake house in central Maine.
There is no actuarial roadmap through what could be a completely restructured health insurance marketplace. "It's terra incognita," says this consultant and author.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
The Federal Reserve "is the financial fire department... to which financial institutions and markets naturally turn in time of crisis," say the leaders of MetLife, Goldman Sachs and other large financial services companies.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
The bill consolidates several existing federal agencies into a single Consumer Financial Protection Agency that would set rules on credit cards, mortgages and loans.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
About 80% of wirehouse assets, or $3 trillion, is managed by advisor teams that manage over $200 million each, Cerulli Associates reported.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
Expected returns for both domestic and international large-cap stocks were lowered to 7.5% a year for the S&P 500 and to 7.75% for MSCI EAFE.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
The 30 members of the firm's management committee will receive all of their discretionary compensation in shares whose sales are restricted for five years.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
Less than a quarter (24%) of 300 companies surveyed by Hewitt Associates are offering holiday bonuses this year, down from 42% in 2008.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
Gary F. Baker, vice president in the retirement income business division of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., has left the company.
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