Let’s Concentrate on Recordkeeping

What's driving the flurry of consolidation in the defined contributon plan recordkeeping industry? RIJ asks the experts: Fred Reish, Mark Fortier, Peter Littlejohn, James Holland, Jeff Feld, Tom Clark and Nevin Adams.

Illinois Mandates Workplace Retirement Plans

Private-sector employers in Illinois with 25 or more full-time employees have to offer access to a retirement plan by June 1, 2017 or face penalties. Illinois state senator Daniel Biss, above, co-sponsored the Secure Choice Savings Program Act.

2014 in Retrospect: The Best of RIJ

Before 2015 arrives, bringing its own urgent demands for our attention, here’s a look back at a dozen of RIJ’s best articles of 2014.

QLAC Status for VAs and FIAs: Yea or Nay?

“Trying to make a deferred annuity with a GLWB into a QLAC amounts to contorting it into something it isn't and shouldn't be,” said John Olsen, co-author with Michael Kitces of The Advisor’s Guide to Annuities.
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What Are We Betting On?

'Central banks do not have the tools to deliver rapid, sustainable, and inclusive growth on their own. The best they can do is extend the bridge; it is up to other economic policymakers to provide an anchoring destination,' writes the former PIMCO executive.

NAFA Throws a Hail Mary on QLACs

"There is only one opportunity to make a good first impression and they may have blown it," one observer said about a letter from the National Association of Fixed Annuities to the Treasury Dept., requesting Qualified Longevity Annuity Contract status for indexed annuities.
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MetLife sues FSOC over “SIFI” designation

MetLife has long argued that the SIFI restrictions are designed for banks, and not insurance companies, because their risks are fundamentally different from banks, and because insurers are already tightly regulated by the individual states.

Illinois Mandates Workplace Retirement Plans

Private-sector employers in Illinois with 25 or more full-time employees have to offer access to a retirement plan by June 1, 2017 or face penalties. Illinois state senator Daniel Biss, above, co-sponsored the Secure Choice Savings Program Act.