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Wedding Bells for TIPS and ALDA
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
Together, PIMCO's TIPS-based managed payout funds and MetLife's longevity insurance mitigate two big retirement risks: inflation risk and the risk of outliving one’s savings.
Industry Views
New Income Solutions for Long Retirements
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.
Industry Views are special reports that are sponsored and independent from RIJ's editorial content.
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Cover Stories
LPL Taps Five Insurers for New VA Platform
Tue, Feb 22, 2011
Advisors who use LPL Financial’s new Fee-Based Variable Annuity platform can manage VA subaccounts just like mutual funds. (Photo at LPL’s San Diego office.)
A Guide for the Perplexed Participant
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.)
The New 'Big O'?
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.
Featured Stories
Government-Sponsored Annuity Proposed
Investing in Treasury bonds to fund a retirement annuity would make individual Americans and the nation more financially secure, claim academics Terrance Odean (above) and Henry T.C. Hu.
Pension Debate Roils Japan
In January, the ruling party suggested that the public pension should be funded with payroll deductions, and that there should be a taxpayer-funded guaranteed minimum benefit of ¥70,000 ($860) per month for the poor.
News
Sun Life Financial unveils VA for new LPL platform
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
Sun Life is one of only five VA issuers with products on the new Fee-Based Variable Annuity (FBVA) Platform set up by broker-dealer LPL Financial.
Public pension funding crisis widespread: Cogent
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
A majority (54%) of public pensions report their current funding status to be below 80%, including 16% that are below 60%.
Phoenix in FIA sales pact with eight IMOs
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
The wholesaling unit of Phoenix is developing a retirement planning program that provides formats for group and individual discussions between producers and clients.
AXA Equitable releases latest “Retirement Reality Show”
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
"In Doubt We Trust?" extends the company's video series exploring the attitudes of Americans as they prepare for and live through retirement.
Lincoln Financial expands DC wholesale effort
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
Douglas Harding and Troy Jackson have joined Lincoln Financial Distributors as regional sales directors.
Origins of ‘Obamacare’ Revealed
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
The concept of the individual health insurance mandate originated in 1989 at the conservative Heritage Foundation, according to the website Procon.org.
