The Sacrificial Payroll Tax
Idle talk about suspending the payroll tax is making 'blue' Senators blue. We get answers from Social Security expert Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute.
Guest Column
Reasons (Not) to Be Cheerful
'Voltaire observed, “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” The U.S. stock market appears to be absurd,' writes the member of the asset allocation team at GMO LLC.
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Honorable Mention
Retirement Income Journal takes a break; Explaining the stock market/real economy disconnect; MetLife Investment Management originates $6.2 billion in private placements; Jackson National creates insurance portal for ‘iRIAs’; DPL platform adds Principal disability and term life products; Dialog needed as kids return to nest: New York Life.
Pandeconomics
Imagining the Post-Pandemic Economy
The federal government’s deficit will eventually need to be brought down, but it will nonetheless be appropriate for the government to spend more than it would have spent in a pre-pandemic world, writes the founding editor of the Journal of Retirement.
Annuity sales hurt by low interest rate policy: Wink Inc.
'MYGA sales increased double-digits, while indexed annuity sales declined by double digits. This is a new trend,' said Sheryl Moore, CEO of Wink Inc., the annuity sales and market research firm.
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August 20, 2020
An Income-Generating ‘Collar’
Using a 'protective net-credit collar,' the Nationwide Risk-Managed Income ETF has distributed monthly income at an annual rate of 7.88% in 2020, while appreciating 10%. Is there a catch?
August 13, 2020
Life Insurers’ Bermuda Triangle, Part II
The humble fixed indexed annuity is at the center of the restructuring hurricane that has swept through the life insurance industry in recent years. We bring you the second article in a series on...
August 6, 2020
Why Life Insurers Fly into the ‘Bermuda Triangle’
Private equity firms have steadily acquired U.S. life insurers and blocks of fixed annuity business and moved the blocks offshore to free up capital. This worries some people.
