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Hartford CEO to VAs: “Never Again”
Wed, Apr 07, 2010
The insurer won't focus on VAs as much as in the past. It expects total annuity sales of $5 billion in 2012, or less than half its individual annuity sales in 2008.
Industry Views
401(k)s: They’re Not (Necessarily) Just for Employees Any More
A growing number of 401(k) plan sponsors, retirees, record keepers and regulators want retirees to stay in their plans well into, or even straight through, retirement, PIMCO has found.
The Future Of Online Customer Feedback Has Arrived
TIAA-CREF’s TC Listens website is an innovative new medium for obtaining client feedback online.
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Company/Trade Group News
Eating the Competition’s Lunch
Tue, Mar 30, 2010
MetLife’s Retirewise program offers hundreds of brown-bag seminars, like the one depicted in this ad, for 401(k) participants at firms where MetLife isn’t the provider.
Spock-o-nomics at the RIIA Meeting
Wed, Mar 24, 2010
At the spring meeting of the Retirement Income Industry Association, held at Morningstar Inc. in Chicago, concepts like "stocks for the long run" and "safe withdrawal rate" were out of favor.
The Empire Strikes Back
Wed, Mar 17, 2010
Lest they be drowned out by 401(k) critics, major DC plan providers have formed a new trade group, the DCIIA, chaired by PIMCO's Stacy Schaus. The group supports target-date collective trusts, deemed IRAs and lifetime income options.
