A New Film, ‘The Baby Boomer Dilemma,’ Praises Annuities
By the end of this cautionary tale, you might want to run out and, like Tom Hegna, buy a dozen annuities. (In photo: The film's fictional couple, under financial stress.)
Higher Rates Won’t Quell This Kind of Inflation: BlackRock
'Central banks should live with supply-driven inflation, rather than destroy demand and economic activity – provided inflation expectations remain anchored,' write Elga Bartsch and Nicholas Fawcett of BlackRock's Macro Research team.
Breaking News
Voya to keep records for new pooled employer plan (PEP); MetLife announces 'significant' pension risk transfer deal in UK; SEC bolsters oversight of private funds; Public pensions are 85.5% funded: Milliman.
New buffered product
Target Practice: AIG and Milliman’s New Annuity
AIG combines elements of a variable annuity, a registered index-linked annuity, and of Milliman's Defined Outcome ETFs into a series of Advanced Outcomes Annuities.
Annuity sales in 2021 were highest since 2008: LIMRA SRI
'We see growing interest in accumulation-focused FIA products, as investors seek principal protection with greater investment growth,” said Todd Giesing of the Secure Retirement Institute.
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January 20, 2022
A 5-Year Cushion against Market Risk
'Prudent Asset Allocation' gives you the confidence of knowing that over the next five years, you don’t have to worry about market conditions,” says Louis S. Harvey of Dalbar, the financial services research firm....
January 14, 2022
‘Smart,’ from UK, Enters the US PEP Market
'Smart' is the recently-launched American branch of a British fintech with expertise in a kind of retirement savings plan that's called a 'master trust' in the UK and a 'pooled employer plan' or PEP...
January 6, 2022
Research Roundup
Almost every controversial subject in the US today--from Fed policy to machine learning to immigration--contains an element or theme related to retirement policy. The articles reviewed in this month's Research Roundup are proof of that.
