RIIA Launches Designation for Retirement Advisors
Francois Gadenne and the Retirement Income Industry Association want to spread the doctrine of "build a floor, then create upside."
Inflation Cushion
PIMCO envisions a trillion-dollar retail and institutional market for its new TIPS-based ‘Real Income’ managed payout funds.
It’s Spee-Ahz, By a Nose!
Gaobo Pang and Mark Warshawsky's study supports a strategy of combining income annuities with mutual funds in retirement.
How Good Is This Ad? You Decide.
This ad drew a wide range of responses. Many reviewers said it “spoke to them.” Some said it left them cold.
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Larry Kotlikoff to Receive RIIA’s Academic Achievement Award
The Harvard-trained economist teaches, consults, writes scholarly and popular books, created ESPlanner, and is the champion of “consumption smoothing.”
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End the D.C.-Wall Street Revolving Door, Two Academics Say
The phenomenal growth of derivatives over the past 30 year has made all our big banks more interconnected, and hence systemically risky, said Peter Boone and Simon Johnson.
Participants Want Income Strategy Advice, TIAA-CREF Survey Shows
Two-thirds of those surveyed were concerned about outliving their savings and about choosing the best way to draw income to live on from their savings.
F.D.I.C. May Borrow Funds From Banks
Bankers say they'd rather loan money to the FDIC than make new contributions to the FDIC fund or see the FDIC tap a line of credit at the Treasury.
NewRiver Upgrades Compliance-Facilitating Solution for Variable Products
Variable Products Express Version 2.0 allows providers to take advantage of web-based delivery of summary prospectuses without sending contract owners to other websites for information.
Like Lambs to the Financial Slaughter
Part 1 of a two-part critical essay on how the American retiree became hostage to volatile markets.
Decumulation Beat
The Insured Retirement Institute held the first annual conference under its new name in Boston this week, and the difference between IRI and NAVA was striking.
