Principal Research Shows Annuities Improve Retirement Outcomes

The simulations have been run and the numbers have been crunched: annuities help improve retirement outcomes compared to investments alone. ...

AIG Exec Talks About Longevity And Retirement

Kevin Hogan is chief executive of insurer AIG's Life & Retirement division, where he oversees the firm's individual retirement, ...

MassMutual Enhances Web Portal To Serve Pension Annuitants

As the growth of its pension risk transfer (PRT) business accelerates, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) has enhanced...

Great American Life Introduces New Three-Year Fixed-Indexed Annuities

CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 18 -- The Great American Insurance Group, a property and casualty insurance company, issued the following news relea...

Stress Testing Your Clients’ Retirement Plans

Commentary If you have clients planning to retire sometime in the next several years, then you should stress test their plans — living arra...

CDs And Deferred Annuities Address Different Financial Needs

Saving for future goals is not easy. Hopefully, I can help explain the differences between two commonly used tools: certificates of deposit ...

Americans Give Themselves A ‘C’ For Understanding Finances

More than half of Americans say they’d earn a “C” or lower when it comes to financial literacy, according to a new survey conducted by Harri...

Judge: Ohio National Decision To End Trails Eligible For Arbitration

A Massachusetts' federal judge has ruled that Finra arbitration is appropriate to settle one of several legal challenges to Ohio Nationa...

Blueprint Income And Pacific Life Say Digital Effort Will Modernize Annuity Market

Pacific Life and InsurTech firm Blueprint Income, today announced a collaboration to modernize the purchase of annuities. The first produc...

2018 Annuity Sales Up 10%, Beacon, Morningstar Find

From Staff and Wire Reports Overall annuity sales rose 9.7 percent in 2018, with the combined sales of fixed and variable annuities reachin...

Baby Boomers Face Growing Retirement Anxiety

Retirement anxiety is growing among baby boomers, many of whom have little to no retirement savings, forcing more Boomers to postpone retire...

Distributors Foresee Annuity Boom Through Advisory Channels

BALTIMORE -- Raymond James Insurance Group executives spend a lot of time in meetings sorting through issues related to commission-based sal...

It’s A Fixed Annuity World And Distributors Just Live In It

BALTIMORE -- The annuity sales landscape changed in a major way in 2018. Sales rebounded strongly in virtually every product line, in some ...

FIA Sales Will Continue To Surge Into 2023, LIMRA Predicts

Windsor, Conn., April 4, 2019 – New LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute (LIMRA SRI) announces its annuity sales forecast for the next five yea...

New Allianz Life FIA Helps Clients Address RMD Challenges, Leave Financial Legacy

Legacy by Design Offers Systematic and Efficient Way to Manage Unneeded Required Minimum Distributions While Helping Protect and Enhance Fin...

$768M Powerball Winner Bought Ticket In Milwaukee Suburb

NEW BERLIN, Wis. (AP) — A single ticket that matched all six Powerball numbers to win the estimated $768.4 million jackpot — the third-large...

Powerball: Winning $768.4M Ticket Sold In Wisconsin, Includes Annuity Option

A winning Powerball ticket has been sold in Wisconsin. A single ticket sold in Wisconsin matched all six numbers in the Wednesday night Pow...

Survey: Middle-Class Americans ‘Not Optimistic’ About Financial Future

Primerica, a leading provider of financial services to middle-income families, today released its 2019 Primerica Financial Security Monitor...

Litigation Group Files Claim In Excess Of $500,000 Against Cuso Financial Services

Vernon Litigation Group recently filed a significant FINRA arbitration claim against Cuso Financial Services. In this most recent case, the...

Transamerica And Annexus Launch Enhanced Suite Of Fixed Index Annuities

Transamerica announced enhancements to its current fixed index annuities and the launch of a new product suite in an alliance with Annexus ...