Tue, Mar 24, 2009
Faced with capital shortages and ratings downgrades, the ranks of major publicly-held life insurers appears to be headed for consolidation. Historically low stock prices alone have made merger talk inevitable.
Speaking at LIMRA’s Retirement Industry Conference in Orlando on April 3, an attorney-lobbyist predicted that tax incentives for insurance and retirement products will undergo scrutiny by the White House and Congress.
“Guaranteed Retirement Income Beyond Annuities,” a new white paper from Annuity Insight, a unit of Strategic Insight, Inc., offers a 137-page, 50-exhibit analysis of Standalone Living Benefits (SALBs), which are lifetime withdrawal riders unbundled from annuities and applied to select mutual fund or ETF portfolios.
A new research paper, published in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of Pension Economic and Finance shows that retirees can work around that liquidity problem by transferring assets incrementally from non-annuity accounts to single premium income variable annuities (SPIVAs) in retirement and by adjusting the asset allocation of both types of accounts to suit personal risk tolerances.
In a new report, authors at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) attempt to calculate how much it might cost to give American workers guaranteed an attractive long-term return on retirement savings invested in the stock market over a lifetime.
The immediate annuity, aka income annuity, aka "SPIA," is due for a comeback, says Garth Bernard of Retirement Income Solutions Enterprise, Inc.
Mary Schapiro spent the past ten years as president of FINRA or its predecessor, NASD. During that time, FINRA dithered while two stock market bubbles and the Enron crime vaporized the savings of millions of Americans.
Wed, Apr 08, 2009
“The annuity industry is at a boiling point,” says NAFA executive vice president Kim O’Brien. She invited insurance producers to attend NAFA’s annual meeting and join in a “March to Capitol Hill" in Washington on May 6-8, 2009.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Individual annuity net premiums are expected to grow to $225.2 billion in 2010 from $188.5 billion in 2007.
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