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Monthly Focus: Next Generation Annuities and Indexed Products
Indexed product sellers see ‘attractive’ markets after Fed rate hikes
While chaos is rarely good, one market that should benefit is the annuity marketplace, experts say. Specifically, indexed annuities, which thrive on offering stability when the financial landscape is most unstable.
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Painful remedy: Fed’s interest rate hikes look to slow workers' wage gains, cool real estate markets
Higher interest rates are slowing the housing market as the Federal Reserve focuses on stunting workers' wage gains in the battle against high inflation. Higher rates make mortgages more expensive and could propel a teetering U.S. economy into a recession after first quarter GDP growth was -1.4%. We are seeing a slowing, "said Fed Chairman Jerome Powell during a…
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Kings of the Hill
Indexed life insurance and annuity products are immensely popular. But some critics charge they are too complicated and immersed in fraud.
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Governments begin pushing back on investors snatching up homes
In Atlanta, investors last year bought 32.7% of all homes for sale–the highest share in any major city–followed by 32.1% in Charlotte, North Carolina, and 29.8% in Jacksonville, Florida. And investors purchased more than 27% of homes for sale in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Miami. Officials in the Atlanta suburb of College Park, where 75% of its approximately 14,000…
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Health/Employee Benefits News
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Life Insurance
Penn Mutual introduces new accumulation indexed universal life
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Property and Casualty News
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Regulation News
Miami man arrested in $230 million HIV-drug scheme, then gains release from fed lockup
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