Linda Koco, MBA, is a contributing editor to InsuranceNewsNet, specializing in life insurance, annuities and income planning. Linda can be reached at [email protected].
Living benefit features in fixed index annuities are helping fuel their growth in sales, according to researchers.
As fixed index annuity (FIA) sales continue their meteoric rise, their risk profile has been increasing as well. The guaranteed income rider is a key factor in this trend, according to a report.
Department of Labor staffers might move fixed index annuities out of a key exemption when its final “conflict of interest” rule is released, an insurance executive said.
Recommending funds or annuity products to place into an individual retirement account or 401(k) is one way that an advisor could fall into a “fiduciary trap,” according to an analyst.
Retired women are more generous than retired men in giving funds to worthy causes as well as to family members, a study showed. This has implications for retirement planners.
Consumers are failing to plan for long-term care expenses, even though they’re “scared” of the risk, according to a Lincoln Financial study.
Financial professionals are still pushing accumulation strategies when older clients are most worried about outliving their funds, survey says.
Our longer lifespans have numerous implications for the variable annuity industry.
But if they do, they might not go solo, according to a report.
New data shows longevity continues to increase, putting more pressure on Americans to save for retirement.
Fed is monitoring several factors, including the global economy, in its quest to find the best timing for an interest rate hike, Stanley Fischer said.
Cannex third-quarter numbers show a 138 percent increase in searches for QLAC products. High-net-worth clients are the main customers.
Carriers have escalated their efforts to bring increasingly complex products into the market.
The Coalition to Protect Retirement Security and Choice formed to fight the Department of Labor’s fiduciary only proposal.
Survey: potential caregiving expenses can chip away at retirement nest eggs and should be emphasized by advisors during planning stages.
At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
It seems as if the life and annuity business is moving along one set of tracks, and the health insurance business is moving along another set. Here is a look at how this is playing out.
When it comes to obtaining financial advice, most millennials say that a financial advisor “must” be willing to meet with them — in person.
An affiliate of Aegon’s Transamerica unit — Transamerica Retirement Solutions — will acquire Mercer’s defined contribution administration book of business
Longevity annuities could be entering a period where they will see broader use in the U.S. than has already been made possible by the qualifying longevity annuity contract (QLAC).
