TIPS can preserve purchasing power, provide systematic income and offer the assurance of a government guarantee for retirees depending on income from their investments.
With variable annuity sales down, firms are intensifying online product marketing campaigns to reach more prospective investors.
Industry Views are special reports that are sponsored and independent from RIJ's editorial content.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Annuity manufacturers and distributors went eyeball-to-eyeball at the Insured Retirement Institute's marketing conference in New York this week, where medical economist J.D. Kleinke (pictured here) was a featured speaker. Photo by IRI.
Wed, Feb 17, 2010
Lawsuits filed in Rhode Island, New York and Illinois shed light on the sinister, multi-million-dollar strategy of using the dying as fronts to exploit variable annuity loopholes.
Wed, Feb 10, 2010
What's the best way for a 62-year-old man to say “I love you” to his wife? By waiting to claim Social Security benefits until he reaches full retirement age or later. Here's our third article in a series on retirement risks.
Wed, Feb 03, 2010
“We have a crisis of confidence regarding retirement,” said assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis C. Borzi at the NIRS conference in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.
Since current Wall Street risk management methods are in the interest of those who work on Wall Street, they will not be changed except by regulatory means.
"I'll-work-till-I-drop" is often the first, but rarely the most sensible, response to a setback in retirement savings.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
FINRA and other SROs have “an incestuous relationship with the industry they are tasked with regulating," according to the Project on Government Oversight.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
It's counter-productive to finance Medicare at our customers' expense, life insurance lobby tells Obama.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
“The last time VA sales were at this level was in 2003, at the end of the last financial crisis,” said LIMRA's research director.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Obama wants to close the Medicare prescription drug 'donut hole' and regulate 'unreasonable' health insurance premium hikes.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Individual annuity gross sales for the fourth quarter were $4.8 billion, up from $2.2 billion a year ago.
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Total fixed annuity sales were $105.1 billion in 2009, just 2% less than the record high in 2008.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
“What's at stake here is consumer and investor confidence,” the commissioners wrote to Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey Jr.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Allianz Life was the top-selling carrier in the quarter and for 2009, and its MasterDex X was the top-selling IA for the third quarter in a row.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
A combination of S&P 500 growth and new contributions helped raise average Fidelity 401(k) balances 28% in 2009.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
The BMW pension plan adds to the still-new use of longevity swaps to control risk.
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