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IRI's mission is to provide financial advisors and other interested parties with information and resources to assist in a better understanding of annuities and the role of these products in financial retirement planning. One very important resource are the articles in the financial and consumer press.

 

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Companies Slow to Resume 401(k) Match

Many companies have reduced or suspended their 401(k) match since September 2008. Among the 18 percent of firms that slimmed their 401(k) match, slightly less than half have restored company contributions ...

What You Need to Know About Annuities

Be honest. When you see the word "annuity," does your brain quickly look for an escape route to a more enjoyable topic? That's OK. I won't take it personally.

IRI To Administration: Provide Incentives For Lifetime Income

President Obama Task Force to Help Promote Annuities

Today, President Obama outlined a plan to promote: “… the availability of annuities and other forms of guaranteed lifetime income, which transform savings into guaranteed future income, reducing the risks that retirees will outlive their savings or that their retirees’ living standards will be eroded by investment losses or inflation.”

A.M. Best Profile of the IRI

With the U.S. life insurance industry revamping its stock market-linked variable annuity offerings,the chief of the Insured Retirement Institute says she hopes state regulators will move quickly on speed-to-market for this new wave of retirement-savings and income products.

SEC’s Donohue Eyes Variable Annuity Disclosure

The timing is right to consider introducing summary prospectuses for variable insurance products, according to Andrew Donohue, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management.


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