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Articles by Author: Kerry Pechter

Editor and Publisher of Retirement Income Journal, Kerry Pechter is author of Annuities for Dummies (Wiley, 2008) and former editor of the SourceMedia publication, Annuity Market News/Retirement Income Reporter. He has been an annuity columnist for Senior Market Advisor, and his feature articles have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health and many other national publications. From 1997 to 2006, he was a writer and editor supporting the Retirement Resource Center at The Vanguard Group. In 2009, he traveled to Taiwan and reported on the retirement industry there as a fellow of the National Press Foundation. A graduate of Kenyon College and recipient of a fellowship in creative writing at Indiana University, Pechter resides in Emmaus, PA, with his wife Lisa, the director of marketing and publicity for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at DeSales University.

American General launches ‘Power Index Plus’ FIA

By Kerry Pechter Fri, Nov 1, 2013

The new fixed indexed annuity offers three interest-crediting strategies, a one-year fixed interest account and two that are pegged to the S&P500 (excluding dividends): an annual point-to-point index interest...

Published November 1, 2013

Low COLA: The pause that doesn’t refresh

By Kerry Pechter

Since 2000, Social Security benefits have lost 31% of their buying power, according to The Senior Citizen League's 2013 Survey of Senior Costs. During that period, benefits rose 38%...

Published November 1, 2013

Second issue of new scholarly journal on retirement published

By Kerry Pechter

There are nine new articles in the fall edition of The Journal of Retirement, edited by George A. (Sandy) Mackenzie.

Published November 1, 2013

Annuity cash flows perk up in 3Q 2013: DTCC

By Kerry Pechter

Net flows into annuity products nearly doubled in the third quarter, to $4.4 billion from $2.3 billion in the second quarter. Outflows fell to 20.6 billion from $21.1 billion,...

Published November 1, 2013

Quote of the Week

By Kerry Pechter

“Never let the perfume of the premium distract you from the stench of the risk”—a maxim expressed by a reinsurance company executive at the American Council of Life Insurers’...

Published November 1, 2013

How the Economic Machine Works

By Kerry Pechter

In this informative and entertaining video, hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio explains the U.S. economy as he sees it, in terms that anyone can understand, if not agree with....

Published November 1, 2013

Retirement Savings in a Co-Ed Dorm?

By Kerry Pechter

The investment industry wants to benefit from the tax-deferral subsidy and charge whatever it likes on the subsidized money in rollover IRAs. That’s asking for a lot. More important,...

Published November 1, 2013

A Case of Low Book Yields

By Kerry Pechter

“Even if rates were to slowly rise, they would still be historically low. There would be less pressure on companies, but the overall portfolio rate of return could continue...

Published November 1, 2013

Quote of the Week

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Oct 24, 2013

“The story of book yields on investable assets, as with invested assets, has been one of decline. Gross book yields for the life insurance industry decreased 18 bps in...

Published October 24, 2013

The Bucket

By Kerry Pechter Wed, Oct 23, 2013

Brief or late-breaking items from Financial Engines, Prudential, Guardian Insurance and BNY Mellon.

Published October 24, 2013

As DB wanes in the UK, Brits continue to mull retirement reform

By Kerry Pechter

“We do not want to set down a law that says ‘there are three ways you can do pension, and here’s what they are,’” said Steve Webb, Britain's pensions...

Published October 24, 2013

Dept. of ‘Say It Ain’t So’

By Kerry Pechter

Forbes reporter Ted Siedle alleges that asset managers are using the financial crisis to gain greater control over the billions in troubled public pensions—in this case, Rhode Island’s.

Published October 24, 2013

Jackson National to block 1035 transfers to VAs with optional guarantees

By Kerry Pechter Tue, Oct 22, 2013

“The company is approaching the upper range for calendar year 2013 for total premium from variable annuities (VAs) that offer optional guaranteed benefits,” said a Jackson National release.

Published October 24, 2013

FRA DCIO 2014 ad

By Kerry Pechter

Published October 24, 2013

The Four-Sided Chess Game

By Kerry Pechter

Today, insurers are invoking fiduciary duty to justify the offering of lifetime income products in 401(k) plans. If the fiduciary standard were applied to the management of money in...

Published October 24, 2013

The ‘Floor-Leverage’ Model

By Kerry Pechter

An easy income recipe from Financial Engines: Put 15% of your savings in a triple- leveraged stock ETF and the rest in something safe, like a TIPS ladder.

Published October 24, 2013

Russian government to freeze DC plan assets in 2014

By Kerry Pechter Fri, Oct 18, 2013

"The money will be retained by the state pension fund, and... is supposed to become a sort of an air bag that will be activated in case an emergency...

Published October 18, 2013

Meet AllianceBernstein’s Z-class retirement shares for DC plans

By Kerry Pechter

AllianceBernstein's new Z shares will be offered without 12b-1 fees or sub transfer agency fees and there is no minimum initial investment requirement.

Published October 18, 2013

Dynamic Withdrawal Strategies Made Easy

By Kerry Pechter

Research from Morningstar's David M. Blanchett introduces two equations for implementing an efficient dynamic withdrawal strategy based on different expected time periods, portfolio equity allocations, the likelihood of achieving...

Published October 18, 2013

Allianz Life Launches FIA for Broker-Dealer Channel

By Kerry Pechter

The Core Income 7's Core Income Benefit rider is automatically included at an additional cost of 1.05% of the contract’s accumulation value, the company said in a release.

Published October 18, 2013

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