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Advisers feel confidence and caution, survey shows

By Editorial Staff Thu, Apr 30, 2020

While most advisers say that social-distancing hasn't hampered their ability to serve clients, 'they acknowledge a negative impact on revenues and profitability,' according to a new report from Practical...

Published April 30, 2020

Protect Your Nest Egg with Options

By Louis Harvey Thu, Apr 2, 2020

Advisors can help protect their clients from market drawdowns by purchasing puts on the S&P500 Index, writes our guest columnist, the founder and CEO of DALBAR, which rates the...

Published April 2, 2020

Interpreting SEC’s new ‘principles-based’ advertising rule: Wagner Law Group

By Wagner Law Group Thu, Feb 27, 2020

This interpretation of the SEC rule was written by attorneys Stephen Wilkes and Livia Quan Aber of the Wagner Law Group and published this week.

Published February 27, 2020

Applying Actuarial Science to Income Planning

By Kerry Pechter Fri, Jan 17, 2020

Adviser Mark Shemtob uses actuarial science to analyze and compare retirement income strategies that employ both annuities and investments.

Published January 16, 2020

TD Ameritrade offers two Pacific Life annuities for RIAs

By Editorial Staff Thu, Jan 9, 2020

It keeps getting easier for registered investment advisers (RIAs) to buy no-commission annuities through online platforms. But will RIAs recommend annuities to clients? The jury is still out.

Published January 9, 2020

Five Questions to Ask about an Annuity Issuer

By Editorial Staff Thu, Nov 7, 2019

'I recommend that an adviser develop his or her own criteria and put together a template, similar to an RFP, with questions to have answered when considering an annuity...

Published November 7, 2019

Making Income Rise as Health Declines

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Oct 3, 2019

A fee-only adviser in Philadelphia used 'medically underwritten' or impaired annuities from Mutual of Omaha to increase the retirement incomes of older, single men in declining health.

Published October 3, 2019

At the RIA Dance, Annuities Look for Partners

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Sep 19, 2019

Nationwide Advisory Services and Great American announced moves this week aimed at making their fee-based annuities attractive and accessible to Registered Investment Advisors.

Published September 19, 2019

Subscription-based planners sue SEC over Reg BI

By Editorial Staff Thu, Sep 12, 2019

Like eight state attorney generals, the subscription-based XY Planning Network has filed a federal lawsuit against the SEC in New York. XYPN was co-founded by celebrity adviser Michael Kitces...

Published September 12, 2019

Kitces’ XY Planning Network adds its 1000th adviser

By Editorial Staff Thu, Aug 22, 2019

Members of the network, whose median age is only 39, comprise more than 5% of all state-registered RIAs delivering financial planning services across the country, the organization said.

Published August 22, 2019

High-end advisors shifting to holistic planning: Cerulli and IWI

By Editorial Staff Thu, Aug 15, 2019

Investments & Wealth Institute members are nearly twice as likely to report operating in a primarily fee-based practice relative to the industry average (62% vs. 38%, respectively). By 2020,...

Published August 15, 2019

Storm Warning? Let an Annuity By Your Umbrella

By Kerry Pechter

For advisors who sell annuities, market tremors are known to stimulate business. After a bit of volatility, older investors in particular show more interest in taking profits out of...

Published August 15, 2019

Financial Engines keeps growing

By Editorial Staff Thu, Apr 25, 2019

The 401k investment advice firm added hundreds of plans. Phyllis C. Borzi, who led the Obama administration's fiduciary rule effort, has joined the Edelman Financial Engines board of directors....

Published April 25, 2019

Tell Us What You Really Think

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Apr 11, 2019

At the LIMRA-Society of Actuaries Retirement Industry Conference in Baltimore last week, Scott Stolz from Raymond James, Greg Jaeck from Edward Jones and Jarrod Fisher from Simplicity Financial Distributors...

Published April 11, 2019

A Chronicle of ‘NARIA,’ Nationwide’s Income-Generating VA for RIAs

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Mar 21, 2019

The 'Nationwide Advisory Retirement Income Annuity' has no commission or surrender schedule and offers RIA clients a choice of 130 investment options. The income rider costs 80 basis points...

Published March 21, 2019

Assets are concentrated among ‘mega’ advisors

By Editorial Staff Thu, Feb 28, 2019

“As advisors think more holistically about the nonfinancial, intangible impact they can have on their clients, mega teams well positioned to compete in this experience-centric model,” said...

Published February 28, 2019

Envestnet Insurance Exchange aims for June 2019 launch

By Editorial Staff

The Exchange will give advisors access to variable, structured, fixed, and indexed annuities from Allianz Life, Brighthouse Financial, Global Atlantic Financial Group, Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Nationwide, and...

Published February 28, 2019

Annuities, RIAs and ‘Cargo Cult’ Thinking

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Jan 17, 2019

Brighthouse Financial's Shield structured annuity joins products from Allianz Life, Jackson National and Global Atlantic on the Envestnet Insurance Exchange, where annuity issuers hope to engage registered investment advisors....

Published January 17, 2019

Survey shows how advisors generate income for clients

By Editorial Staff Thu, Dec 13, 2018

A survey by bond dealer Incapital LLC showed that 51% of financial advisors generate income for clients from dividend-paying stocks, 43% from equity income mutual funds, and 43% from...

Published December 13, 2018

Greetings from the First ‘Retirement Management Forum’

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Dec 6, 2018

Some 200 members of the Investments & Wealth Institute (IWI) came to Amelia Island, Florida, this week to learn about the principles underlying the Retirement Management Advisor designation, which...

Published December 6, 2018

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