With the numbers of people over age 100 growing rapidly, there is an equally growing need for advisors to consider an array of retirement income solutions.
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Wed, Feb 16, 2011
GuidedChoice is the latest 401(k) advice provider to announce a platform that helps participants turn their savings into income—with or without a rollover to an IRA. (Above: CEO Sherrie Grabot.)
Tue, Feb 08, 2011
The revelation of a novel share class of variable annuities--its working title is "O" shares--was perhaps the most interesting piece of news that emerged from the IRI Marketing conference in Washington, D.C., last week.
Wed, Feb 02, 2011
Income+, a process-driven, product-neutral income program for 401(k) managed account clients, could alter the competitive landscape of the retirement industry.
Tue, Jan 25, 2011
Forget "death panels." Loving, decisive words from a doctor helped this dying pianist decide to let go of her life. The conclusion of a two-part story.
A return to long-term interest rates of 5% to 6% will hurt Wall Street and McMansion owners in the short-run but help most Americans in the long run, says this columnist.
In an e-mail, GuidedChoice CEO Sherrie Grabot and CIO Ming Wang answered a few of RIJ’s questions about their income planning tool for plan participants.
Wed, Feb 16, 2011
“We now believe plans and plan service providers would benefit from an extension of the rules applicability date,” said assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis Borzi in a statement.
Wed, Feb 16, 2011
Britain’s National Employers Savings Trust Corporation is hiring the three asset managers to handle portions of the new state-sponsored, employer-based defined contribution plan.
Wed, Feb 16, 2011
In a new think tank report, a former JP Morgan banker and Towers Watson consultant suggested that unfunded DB pensions in the U.K. should be closed by 2020 and replaced with "nominal DC schemes."
Wed, Feb 16, 2011
An estimated $21 billion in net new cash went into US equity funds in January 2011, making it the first month of net inflows to those funds since last April.
Wed, Feb 16, 2011
“The movie will make it easier for advisors to broach the issue of planning for the costs of long-term care,” said Wealth2k CEO David Macchia.
Wed, Feb 16, 2011
Late-breaking items from Prudential, Warren Buffett, Aon Hewitt, SPARK Institute, Insured Retirement Institute, Milliman, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., Morningstar, Interactive Data Corp., and John Hancock Annuities.
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