Advisors/Planners/Reps Archives - Retirement Income Journal

Test-drive annuities at CANNEX/Luma ‘Marketplace’

By Editorial Staff Sun, Jun 2, 2024

The Annuity Marketplace will provide income, rate, yield, and product information on annuities from more than 60 issuers, a CANNEX release said. Advisers can illustrate the outcomes of market...

Published June 2024

The age-old question: How long will your clients live?

By Editorial Staff

For financial advisers trying to estimate how long their high-net-worth clients will live, a new white paper from HealthView suggests that only the very healthiest people need expect to...

Published June 2024

Envestnet and Kestra co-launch platform for plan advisers

By Editorial Staff Thu, May 12, 2022

Envestnet's cloud-based platform supports more than 108,000 advisors and 6,000 companies. Kestra Financial, based in Austin, Texas, is part of Kestra Holdings.

Published May 12, 2022

How to Interpret the Proposed RMD Regs: Wagner Law

By Wagner Law Group Thu, Apr 14, 2022

Without special 'see-through' trust provisions, a retirement asset with a trust as beneficiary may need to be distributed by the end of the 5th year following the year the participant...

Published April 14, 2022

Advice is still a luxury item

By Editorial Staff Tue, Apr 5, 2022

Either because they avoid advisers or advisers avoid them, about 80% of investors with less than $100,000 saved do not have a financial adviser, according to Cerulli. Fees are...

Published April 7, 2022

How RIAs can stay ahead of the competition: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Thu, Mar 3, 2022

Broker-dealers 'are impinging on what has historically been viewed as largely unique to the RIA channels—an independent, fee-based business centered on financial planning,' a new Cerulli Associates report says.

Published March 3, 2022

Share of ‘advisor-reliant’ investors grew since 2015: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Thu, Nov 25, 2021

The proportion of affluent investors who consider themselves predominantly 'advisor-reliant' rose to 42% in 2021 from 37% in 2015, according to the Cerulli Edge-US Retail Investor edition.

Published November 25, 2021

Northwestern Mutual Life rolls out PX (Planning Experience) Adviser Interface

By Editorial Staff Wed, Sep 8, 2021

In this blogpost from McKinsey, chief distribution officer Tim Gerend and chief customer officer Christian Mitchell explain the process of rolling out a new adviser/client interface that facilitates the...

Published September 10, 2021

Boomers will bequeath $51 trillion over next two decades: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Thu, Sep 2, 2021

Cerulli said advisors should be aware that the Biden administration's tax proposals would greatly hike the top-line capital gains tax rate on earnings exceeding $1 million, affecting almost one...

Published September 2, 2021

If the DOL Investigates You…

By Kerry Pechter Thu, May 20, 2021

Here are five FAQs about Department of Labor investigations of retirement plan advisers, and answers from attorneys at the prominent ERISA law firm Faegre Drinker. (Photo: Labor Secretary Marty...

Published May 20, 2021

Advisors underestimate interest in ESG investing: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Thu, Apr 15, 2021

'Asset managers and advisors are discounting the interest from a broad swath of the investing public,' Cerulli's Matt Belnap said. 'Both asset and wealth managers should seek to make...

Published April 15, 2021

DOL releases guidance on fiduciary investment advice

By Editorial Staff

The Biden Department of Labor evidently wants retirement plan participants to be ready with questions to ask advisers who invite them to roll their plan assets to a brokerage...

Published April 15, 2021

Hardwired COLA vs. Performance-Based COLA: What’s Best?

By Craig L. Israelsen, Ph.D. Tue, Mar 30, 2021

For retirees who don’t mind slight to moderate reductions in their annual income roughly one-third of the time, we recommend withdrawing a fixed percentage of their portfolio’s ending account...

Published April 1, 2021

Reaching HNW clients in the pandemic era: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Wed, Mar 10, 2021

'Many asset managers have shifted to a channel-agnostic approach distribution model from a channel-specific model,' said Cerulli analyst Asher Cheses.

Published March 11, 2021

As B/Ds merge, technology and culture are keys to success

By Editorial Staff Thu, Feb 4, 2021

In a recent survey by Cerulli Associates, technology was tied for the top spot among the factors most frequently cited by advisors as influencing their decision to join a...

Published February 4, 2021

In line with SEC, DOL issues broker-friendly ‘best interest’ rule

By Editorial Staff Thu, Dec 17, 2020

This version of the best interest rule reflects the spirit of the Trump administration. It is much more de-regulatory and less consumer-protective than the Obama administration’s 2016 best interest...

Published December 17, 2020

Pace of portfolio construction outsourcing will slow: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Sat, Oct 10, 2020

In times of uncertainty, more advisers prefer to retain control over investment decisions rather than follow outsourced or company-mandated portfolio adjustments, the research firm said in a new report....

Published October 15, 2020

Markets ‘unnervingly detached from economics’: CFAs

By Editorial Staff Thu, Aug 6, 2020

'CFAs “are particularly interested in full transparency on whether any affiliate of Congress or executive branch received funding,' said a CFA Institute release.

Published August 6, 2020

Why Is Income Planning So Hard?

By Kerry Pechter Tue, Jun 30, 2020

Everyone says retirement income planning is harder than 'accumulation' planning--for advisers as well as their clients. If so, what makes it that way?

Published July 2, 2020

A New Kind of Income Annuity

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Jun 18, 2020

Achaean Financial and Ash Brokerage, a large Fort Wayne, Ind., BGA, are partnering on a potential retirement game-changer: Achaean's immediate indexed income annuity, couched in Ash's JourneyGuide planning software....

Published June 18, 2020

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