Science, Business, or Something In-Between?
In the retirement income field, research ranges from almost “pure” science to borderline business promotion. It's not always easy to identify the boundary between the two.
The Best Retirement Research of 2011
What were the most significant decumulation research papers published last year? These ten articles can certainly claim to be among them.
Halfway Back to Prosperity?
Carmen Reinhart, co-author with Kenneth Rogoff of the best-selling "This Time Is Different," spoke at the IMCA conference in New York this week. We're five years into a 10-year recovery from the credit binge, she said.
Sounds Like a Plan
A directory of 27 software tools accompanies this overview of the rapidly evolving financial planning technology industry.
News
Derivatives lift MetLife in Q4 2011
MetLife reported derivative net gains of $351 million, after tax, which were largely due to declines in interest rates and gains in the company’s variable annuity hedging program.
Would Europe’s pension cure be worse than the disease?
DB plan providers and plan sponsors in Europe say that higher capital requirements wouldn't make their plans safer, but would force them closer to insolvency.
Up to $4.7 trillion may be “in motion”: Cerulli
There are some 26 million households led by people ages 55 to 69, with an average of $181,000 in retirement assets per household.
To pay for highways, legislator eyes inherited IRA taxes
EBRI suggests that retirement savings-related tax breaks are tempting targets for an administration in search of stimulus money.
The Bucket
Brief or late-breaking items from Capital One, ING Direct, New York Life, Guardian Life, LPL Financial, AXA Advisors, Envestnet, T. Rowe Price and Towers Watson.
It’s Conference Season
The approach of spring brings Grapefruit League baseball, income tax forms and a new parade of retirement industry-related conferences. We've updated our Events calendar just in time for the new season.
Markets Yet to Discount the Discounts
The author of "The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds" and blogger at moslereconomics.com brainstorms about how the showdown over Greek debt might play out.
