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Recommended by 55 people 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.”
Recommended by 100 people 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.
Recommended by 71 people 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.
Recommended by 69 people Retirement Guarantees Could Stem Rollovers
Selling retirement income guarantees after a recession is like selling flood insurance after a flood. Timing is everything, and currently the timing could not be better.
Recommended by 82 people Weatherford steers the revamped Insured Retirement Institute
Talk about a rebranding initiative. In just under a year, the former National Association of Variable Annuities changed its mission, moved its headquarters, ramped up its lobbying effort, introduced a robust Web site and — no surprise here — hired a new CEO.
Recommended by 87 people Retirement Readiness Falls on Housing, Insurer Says
Fewer U.S. households are prepared for retirement after the value of their homes and investment portfolios declined in the recession, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. said.
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