Your Money We define immediate annuities, fixed annuities, variable annuities and index annuities, plus give you questions to ask salespeople.
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There are two broad categories of annuities: immediate annuities and deferred annuities.
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Paycheck annuities are the simplest annuities, and they are kind of like a pension.
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More complex annuities, like so-called indexed annuities and variable annuities, are less common in corporate 401(k) plans but could become more mainstream if the bills become law.
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Fees charged on fixed and indexed annuities aren't explicit, the way they are with variable annuities.
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One of the largest and most controversial segments of the annuities world is the variable-annuities market.
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Australia used to offer retiring workers incentives to purchase annuities; when it stopped these in 2007, the annuities market shrivelled away.
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While annuities have a reputation for being expensive, not all of them — such as immediate annuities — are costly, according to Benz.
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On the list of financial products that fiduciary advisors love to bash, annuities — particularly variable annuities — are somewhere near the top.
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In 2019, as of November, there were 93 annuities cases sent to arbitration, according to FINRA, and 303 involving variable annuities.
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That can include immediate annuities, deferred income annuities or even more complex products with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits or tax deferred approaches.
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The legislation's provisions regarding annuities would relieve employers of the obligation to assess the financial health of the insurance companies that would provide the annuities while, importantly, leaving with the employer the responsibility for evaluating and negotiating the cost and other terms of the specific annuities being offered.
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The first, "Fixed Index Annuities: Consider the Alternative," by a Yale professor, Roger G. Ibbotson, explains how some index annuities could help people in a rising interest rate environment.
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Adjusted operating income from the company's individual annuities business rose 28 percent to $541 million, driven in part by higher policy fees that were triggered by higher account values in variable annuities.
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Whether the Secure Act will boost the number of 401(k) plans with annuities remains to be seen, as well as whether there will be limits on the types of annuities offered.
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" Source: Paladin Research & Registry "Annuities can be an investment scam when financial advisors replace your current annuities with inferior products so they can generate a new round of commissions from your assets.
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Whether the Secure Act will boost the number of 401(k) plans with annuities remains to be seen, as well as whether there will be limits on the types of annuities offered.
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According to Forner, fixed annuities — followed by indexed annuities — are considered the safest because there's a small likelihood you'll lose money due to the way your money is held by the insurance company.
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The other two come from academics I've spoken to who do think certain annuities are worth considering, and both have other jobs that could earn them more money if more people buy annuities.
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Prudential UK & Europe will review annuities sold without advice after July 1, 2008, the insurer said in a statement on its website, to see whether they were given enough information about enhanced annuities.
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Series 6 means they're limited to mutual funds and annuities.
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Another way to stretch out your income is through annuities.
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Immediate fixed annuities, in particular, offer steady pay, she said.
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Essentially, annuities allow workers to create their own personal pension.
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It's not just investment analyst Ken Fisher who hates annuities.
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If it's an insurance company, your plan may include annuities.
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Current and future workers would benefit from annuities as well.
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Many structured settlement annuities in catastrophic cases cost multiple millions.
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Annuities from insurers could provide some stable income, Pfau said.
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That will protect consumers' ability to purchase annuities, he said.
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Then there are variable annuities, which may promise guaranteed income.
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The same goes for insurance policies, home equity and annuities.
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The bulk of the entity's reserve volume remains concentrated in annuities reserves (51.1% of technical reserves as of March 21), managing an annuities run-off generated prior to the 2212 private pension system reform.
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For fixed annuities, the numbers have fallen to 23%, from 2.93%.
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The alliance advocates that consumers consider annuities to access guaranteed income.
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Behavioral scholars have come up with reasons annuities aren't highly regarded.
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The return on variable annuities is, as their moniker implies, variable.
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Some variable annuities levy annual fees as high as 2.5 percent.
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SHANGHAI - U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life (FGL) FGL.
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More complex investments like variable annuities may fall off in sales.
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Q: Your research delves into the centuries-old history of annuities.
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Just Group specialises in annuities for people with reduced life expectancy.
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The annuities industry — like every industry — faces rare, unacceptable sales practices.
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Fixed annuities start the same way: You hand over some money.
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These annuities tend to run longer than standard certificates of deposit.
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Meanwhile, some financial advisors say annuities are unnecessarily complex and expensive.
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The bill would also allow more annuities in 401(k) plans.
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The alliance advocates that consumers consider annuities to generate guaranteed income.
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Some employers, including United Technologies, have already experimented with complex annuities.
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Prudential, which also disclosed the sale of a 12 billion-pound UK annuities book to Rothesay Life, is not planning to sell more of the around 20 billion pounds in annuities it still has, Foley said.
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However, the number of firms offering annuities has also fallen, Fitch said.
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Annuities can be immediate, which involves starting the income stream right away.
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Teachers in these 183(b) annuities can't just bail from the products.
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Much of Simpson's wealth -- pensions and annuities -- is protected under Florida law.
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"With that exception, I never advise clients to purchase annuities," he said.
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N), and annuities and life insurance providers, such as FGL Holdings (FG.
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But things do get tricky quickly with certain investments — and especially annuities.
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"Annuities are set to create a cash flow in retirement," Hall said.
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The insurance companies that create annuities often make them seem like investments.
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Yet most people do not consider annuities until they are nearing retirement.
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Sales of bulk annuities - insurance of company defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes - dropped 90 percent to 26 million pounds, Just Group, which specialises in annuities for people with a reduced life expectancy, said in a statement.
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SFG maintains a solid competitive position in its primary products as a top 10 writer of individual life insurance in 2016, a top 10 writer of individual fixed annuities and a top 15 writer of individual annuities overall.
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In contrast, the private market pushes variable annuities as a "guaranteed" investment alternative.
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Many, in better times, sold annuities with guaranteed annual returns of 3-4%.
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Annuities are by definition complicated, emotional instruments that require an intermediary to help.
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Investors should review variable annuities and indexed universal life policies carefully before buying.
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Like all investment product offerings, annuities have positive and negative aspects to them.
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Last year, the industry's nine remaining insurers issued only $5.8 billion in annuities.
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Deferred annuities — the most common type — have a set payout amount on maturity.
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But indexed annuities have to make sense for at least some investors, right?
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Sales of fixed indexed annuities have since grown by more than 40 percent.
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Strategies So it's come to this: surgery, deferred annuities and rock 'n' roll.
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To them, annuities are pension replacements to help people sleep better at night.
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One group of readers just wanted a basic explainer on how annuities work.
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Word is out about how annuities are sometimes sold, and it's not good.
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But variable annuities come with what are known as sub-accounts that can.
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My colleague Tara Siegel Bernard explained variable annuities in more detail in 2015.
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Some financial advisors are also starting to consider annuities more in financial planning.
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The biggest player in variable annuities is Jackson National, part of Prudential Plc.
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Annuities are designed to help prevent the worst-case scenario: outliving your savings.
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The extent to which this will motivate employers to add annuities to their 401(k) plans remains uncertain; further legislative pressure may be necessary, particularly to ensure that fixed (as opposed to variable) annuities become the insurance product of choice.
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As in the case with indexed annuities, your money isn't invested in the market.
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Industry specialists now expect enhanced annuities to make up a larger proportion of sales.
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It also would make it easier for annuities to be offered in retirement plans.
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On the most basic level, annuities come in three forms: fixed, indexed or variable.
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Indeed, one of the principal offerings of Jackson, Prudential's business in America, is annuities.
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L), 30.8 million pounds ($38 million) for failures related to the sale of annuities.
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"The old saying goes that annuities tend to be sold, not bought," he said.
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Of course, securities-based loans, annuities and illiquid investments are right for certain clients.
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The shooter's finances Cruz has one or two annuities, his defense told the court.
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There's also some debate over whether variable annuities should be used inside an IRA.
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Yet annuities are popular because they provide retirement security in a volatile financial world.
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The use of fixed annuities would help address another problem, that of predicting longevity.
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Ric Edelman runs a traditional investment advisory firm and is no fan of annuities.
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The annuities I described above don't give their owners access to the stock market.
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Annuities should be off the table until you do all of that, Boneparth said.
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His company is trying to get registered investment advisors to sell commission-free annuities.
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It had run into other similar actions related to variable annuities in the past.
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In April this year, U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life (FGL) FGL.
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Bulk annuities have also attracted over 10 reinsurers to help insurers share the risk.
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Employers could offer annuities as part of their 401(k) offerings and negotiate for a group rate that would lower fees, but in practice few employers do this — in part due to employers' belief that offering annuities exposes them to considerable risk.
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The use of variable annuities has dropped to 26% this year, from 32% in 2017.
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Several U.S. insurers reported surging annuities sales when outlining third-quarter results in recent weeks.
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And annuities, another source of lifetime income, may come with high fees and complicated terms.
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Fees for complicated annuities can be 4-9 percent of the principal, industry sources said.
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Once there, she was pitched several financial products — including annuities — by the branch's wealth manager.
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Another $20143,000 would go into annuities for Simcakoski&aposs widow, Heather, and their daughter, Anaya.
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The first camp includes Legal & General and Phoenix, which still offer annuities and guaranteed products.
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The firm stopped selling annuities in 2016, blaming Solvency 2 for making them too expensive.
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The winner could also opt to receive the entire jackpot in annuities over 244 years.
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As baby boomers enter retirement, Hegna is also observing a shift toward income annuities vs.
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That warning also applies to annuities, another potential way to pay for long-term care.
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"Variable annuities are a perfect machine for converting capital gains to ordinary income," he said.
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Its planned $13 billion takeover of U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life FGL.
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S) for 650 million pounds ($13 million) to help fund areas of growth including annuities.
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A fiduciary standard would eliminate commission-based sales, which is how annuities generally are sold.
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Variable annuities exist for people who want to have their cake and eat it, too.
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Annuities can be reasonable investments as long as they're used and structured appropriately, Gorman said.
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Investment-only variable annuities could let you defer taxes until you take withdrawals, he said.
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Some general insurers such as Aegon are looking to reduce their exposure to UK annuities - financial products which provide a guaranteed income for retirement - after recent reforms have given Britons more freedom on how they can use their pensions savings, hitting demand for annuities.
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Still, because I'm a Stones fan right in the center of the target demographic, active on Twitter and also interested in annuities (if only for journalistic reasons), I started to see a stream of promotional messages from the alliance about the Stones, and annuities, online.
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Is he or she paid a commission for the sale of mutual funds, annuities and insurance?
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Pensioners can wait months before their annuities start, because the government is behind on its contributions.
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Privately owned Anbang agreed in November to buy the annuities and life insurer for $1.57 billion.
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Sales for annuities with LTC riders, likewise, have grown, as well, rising 15% in 2017 vs.
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In light of that fact, the decision on annuities may not be that complicated, after all.
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Don't do the latter and be careful buying annuities, which can cost a lot of money.
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JRP specializes in providing annuities for pensioners with medical conditions that can affect their life expectancy.
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Allstate (ALL) is mulling the sale of its fixed annuities business, according to a Bloomberg report.
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With immediate annuities, buyers typically hand over a lump sum and begin receiving payments right away.
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Although annuities have been getting terrible press of late, the products themselves are not inherently evil.
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Sales of annuities to individuals have suffered following UK pension changes in the past few years.
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It discourages under-performing, high-cost products such as actively managed mutual funds and variable annuities.
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It also announced the sale of a 12 billion-pound UK annuities book to Rothesay Life.
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Annuities are long term investments an individual makes with an insurance company specifically for retirement purposes.
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However, bulk annuities are expensive, explaining the relatively low take-up so far, industry specialists say.
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Pension Insurance Corporation wrote the largest volume of bulk annuities, at 3.3 billion pounds, LCP added.
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Sold by insurance companies, annuities are often bought as retirement investments, with taxes deferred until withdrawal.
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PART 2 A look inside the high-pressure job of selling workplace annuities to public schoolteachers.
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Some variable annuities are immediate and you begin getting payments right after you purchase the annuity.
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The fun — broadly speaking — in annuities is beating the odds and collecting checks until you're 105.
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They don't like annuities very much over there, and make money managing other kinds of investments.
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Such annuities may be suitable for some risk-averse retirees who are tired of owning stocks.
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These charges came on top of the often hefty costs associated with TIAA funds or annuities.
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"If you want to spend more, the options are to use stocks or annuities," he said.
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Genworth Financial products and services include life and long-term care insurance, mortgage insurance and annuities.
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As a result of the October 2013 acquisition of the U.S. annuity and life operations of Aviva PLC (Aviva USA), Athene is now among the top-five largest issuers of fixed annuities in the U.S. and was the third largest writer of fixed-indexed annuities in 13.
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Fees for complicated annuities can be 4 percent to 9 percent of the principal, industry sources said.
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Aviva and Prudential, two other major providers of annuities, did not respond to a request for comment.
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Anbang's $1.6 billion offer for U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life fell through in April.
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Despite all the support for annuities among economists, there are good reasons for consumers to be wary.
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Thus, insurance companies that sell fixed annuities will be subject to heightened costs associated with fiduciary registration.
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Here is a brief annuity primer that covers the good, the bad and the ugly of annuities.
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The National Association of Fixed Annuities lost a similar case against the Department of Labor on Nov.
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A hundred billion dollars in annuities is nothing compared to the trillion dollars in the retirement system.
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Earning a steady 5 percent annual return from variable annuities may not work out for many investors.
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Even if a 5 percent expected return is reasonable, Levine underestimates the average cost of variable annuities.
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Products affected include mutual funds, annuities, structured products, fixed income and private offerings, impacting 27.3 million accounts.
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But most of her money is still tied up in four annuities that she does not understand.
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But by then, Mr. Halaby, who has an active license to sell insurance, including annuities, was gone.
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The portability of the new 503(k) annuities that Congress will now permit is not clear yet.
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That's because annuities are often with mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts, preventing wronged consumers from suing.
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Advisers may recommend new or different types of mutual funds or annuities that are better for investors.
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Otherwise, the full $1.537 billion jackpot -- again, minus taxes -- would be paid in annuities over 29 years.
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But many other annuities may cost 3.5 percent annually when you add up all of the fees.
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With these annuities, the amount you have invested will grow based on the gains of a market index.
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Depending on the client's circumstances, advisors have opted to avoid living benefits altogether on fixed and indexed annuities.
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That person may earn commissions for placing your investments in certain mutual funds and for products like annuities.
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They would act somewhat like annuities, though without protecting against the risk of living much longer than expected.
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And within life insurance, it specialises in asset protection and asset management rather than death benefits or annuities.
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Annuities also offer a sense of comfort, knowing that you're getting a set payment every month for life.
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Allstate – The insurance company is mulling the sale of its fixed annuities business, according to a Bloomberg report.
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And for everyone, these annuities provide protection against outliving your savings — a growing consideration as life expectancies increase.
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In 2009-2012, Prudential experienced particularly rapid growth in sales of variable annuities (VAs) through its US subsidiary.
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Bulk annuities typically involve the transfer to an insurer of company defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes.
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That's the reason Hall put variable annuities on the top of his list of money mistakes before retirement.
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When it comes to variable annuities, many financial pros offer a few words of advice: Use with caution.
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In simple terms, these annuities are a type of investment that offers some income-stream guarantees in retirement.
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But even if you are beyond the age minimum, many variable annuities come with an initial surrender period.
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Bulk annuities accounted for GBP6.6 billion of the GBP8.5 billion annuity premiums written by the group in 2016.
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The cost of his 403(b) holdings — three different CREF variable annuities — ballooned by nearly half in 2015.
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"We see significant potential for further value creation in the Bulk Purchase Annuities market," Chairman Nicholas Lyons said.
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Sales of annuities are also growing for other important reasons, including rising market volatility and higher interest rates.
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Deferred income annuities, also known as longevity insurance, work similarly, but the checks don't start coming right away.
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Also on the menu: a lesson on equity indexed annuities, a complicated insurance product that he's skeptical about.
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"That's huge potential lost revenue, which is why they have fought annuities vociferously for so long," Lau said.
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However, annuities have gotten a bad reputation among many investors, due partly to purported high costs and complexity.
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Pensions, like annuities, provide a guaranteed income stream to retirees, but 401(k) plans don't give such certainty.
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Variable annuities, which make up about 45 percent of Lincoln's earnings, can offer protection against stock market gyrations.
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Sales of variable annuities fell by about 41 percent to $91 billion last year from 2011, Barron's reported.
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Bulk annuities typically involve the transfer to an insurer of company-defined benefit or final salary pension schemes.
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In other words, a bank may offer only certificates of deposit; an insurance agent may offer only annuities.
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Rothesay's main focus is on bulk annuities, which involve insuring company defined benefit, or final salary pension schemes.
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Rothesay's main focus is on bulk annuities, which involve insuring company defined benefit, or final salary pension schemes.
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Should fewer Americans buy life insurance and annuities, there would be consequences for state and federal welfare program.
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If it goes into effect, employers will be able to add annuities to their menu of retirement benefits.
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The income stream from deferred annuities — which are relatively new and haven't gained much traction among consumers — tends to be notably higher than the income stream from immediate annuities, according to Anthony Webb, research director for the Retirement Equity Lab at the New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
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But specialist firms can use technology and economies of scale to generate cash from existing annuities, industry specialists say.
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In simple terms, annuities can provide a way for retirees to ensure they receive lifetime income from their savings.
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That explains why annuities are unpopular, and why the British government stopped the requirement for people to buy them.
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To get a good score, you'll need to know something about annuities, Social Security and different types of insurance.
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Those checks, which the company sends to you directly, augment the income you receive from Social Security and annuities.
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Economic and demographic shifts are making life insurance and annuities more attractive options for fixed income, financial advisors say.
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Huang joined New York Life in 2001 and he spent the last eight years in the company's annuities business.
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Pension Insurance Corporation wrote the largest volume of bulk annuities, at 3.3 billion pounds, LCP said in a statement.
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The charges for such complex annuities are intended to provide plenty of incentive for sales representatives and their managers.
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De-risked pension annuities also leave retiree assets vulnerable to bankruptcy, litigation and creditor claims, whereas pensions are protected.
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The solar fields themselves are dependable cash flows, like annuities, but the multiples are at the holding company level.
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Annuities are insurance or investment contracts that give investors regular payments in exchange for a lump sum paid upfront.
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Commissions on many annuities tend to drive up prices, cause poor sales incentives and create bad products, Lau said.
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Just 10% of 401(k) plans currently offer annuities to workers, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America.
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And there are still other roadblocks that could dissuade employers from offering 401(k) annuities, including certain administrative issues.
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Similarly, annuities, which can provide a guaranteed life time income stream, provide assurance that you won't outlive your savings.
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Privately owned Anbang agreed to buy U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity in November last year for $1.57 billion.
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Although annuities offer a guaranteed lifetime income, they are relatively expensive because their issuers must hold a large capital buffer.
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Though both indexed annuities and indexed universal life insurance are attractive amid low rates, they can be difficult to understand.
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From there, it gets complicated: There are different flavors of annuities, with some offering market exposure and others crediting interest.
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Then, figure out how much of your spending will be covered by guaranteed income from Social Security, pensions or annuities.
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Mike Huckabee uses his own production company's list to blast out links to heart-disease fixes and can't-miss annuities.
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A slump in income from its individual annuities business also hurt Prudential, the No. 1 U.S. life insurer by assets.
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Currently the safe percentage can vary, depending on whether a retiree expects other income from pension or annuities, MacKenzie says.
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The rule allows investment advisors to sell certain types of annuities, provided they are in a client's best interest. Wrong.
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It would also be easier for employers to offer workplace retirement plans with annuities that guarantee an income for life.
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He earned $156,441 in wages, salaries and tips, with another $4,900 in business income and $4,982 in pensions and annuities.
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In Britain, Prudential earlier this year announced the sale of a 12 billion-pound UK annuities book to Rothesay Life.
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"Some people like them, but we look at variable annuities as a simple and specific core income solution," he said.
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Certain types of annuities can serve as a useful retirement tool for some savers seeking a stream of guaranteed income.
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So why were these teachers in low-rate annuities in the first place, instead of simple and cheap index funds?
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The House recently passed a bipartisan retirement bill that could open the door to a new retirement option: complex annuities.
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It also looks at other ways to increase the money you take in through Social Security, annuities or retirement savings.
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These deferred income annuities take money from an IRA or other retirement plan and turn it into regular monthly payments.
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Although retirement income funds come with no guarantees like annuities do, they could serve as an alternative for other reasons.
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Legal & General is one of the biggest players in annuities in Britain which offer pensioners a fixed income for life.
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Britain's markets watchdog has previously flagged concern about mis-selling of annuities, particularly to people with a reduced life expectancy.
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In that bill, one proposal aims to make it easier for 20063(k) plans to offer annuities in their lineup.
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The recent U.S. district court decision in Texas on challenges to the rule is clearly a significant setback for organizations that had hoped to have it blocked or rescinded, particularly those most impacted, such as brokers, anyone in the IRA rollover business, and anyone that offers or sells fixed indexed annuities or variable annuities.
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But variable annuities are typically loaded with fees, don't offer true inflation protection and are not backed by the federal government.
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American International Group's individual retirement business posted $3.6 billion in annuities sales, a 65 percent jump from the year-ago period.
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New York Life is one of the top producers of whole life insurance and a leading writer of guaranteed income annuities.
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In April it sold 6 billion pounds ($8 billion) of annuities in Britain, the bulk of its portfolio, to Rothesay Life.
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Brokers are allowed to buy and sell stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities and other investment products on behalf of their clients.
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For instance, broker-dealer LPL Financial announced this summer that it would standardize advisors' commissions on mutual funds and variable annuities.
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Under her new arrangement, which uses mutual funds instead of annuities, she paid a one-time fee of about 5 percent.
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The metaphor of a three-legged stool was first used in 1949 by an insurance executive whose company sold supplemental annuities.
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Don't be afraid to ask whether he or she collects a commission for the sale of mutual funds, annuities and insurance.
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Another thing to consider with regard to annuities is the fact that they aren't guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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Instead, focus on pairing all of your income from retirement plans, Social Security, rental properties and annuities with your living expenses.
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Williams had set up three annuities for his mother and he needed to make payments throughout 1942 to avoid losing them.
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MetLife announced last year that it planned to spin off its Brighthouse business, which sells life insurance and annuities to individuals.
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A: For 50 years, economists have been puzzling on why don't more people buy annuities if they make so much sense.
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Prior to joining State Street Global Advisors in 2016, Cyrus led Fidelity Investments' Retail Managed Accounts and Life Insurance & Annuities businesses.
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N, a U.S. annuities and life insurer, said it has terminated its agreement to be acquired by China's Anbang Insurance group.
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The enhanced annuities typically offer people in poor health higher payouts than standard versions because they have a shorter life expectancy.
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The practice involves selling off retirees' pension assets to third parties, most often insurance companies, thus converting them to group annuities.
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Another 25 percent were in variable annuities that invest in mutual funds, according to Investment Company Institute data as of March.
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Indeed, as complex investments that are tricky to understand, variable annuities come with risks that sometimes can outweigh the expected rewards.
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You don't need someone to sell you complicated variable annuities, actively managed mutual funds, or "heard on the street" stock tips.
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It is more of an omnibus piece about the mean things people often say about annuities and whether they are true.
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It also means resisting sales pitches to plow insurance proceeds into annuities or other investments that tie up funds perhaps forever.
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The Alliance, a non-profit organization which draws support from the biggest annuities firms, hopes to change those opaque sales practices.
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Additional strengths include the company's strong competitive position in the group medical stop-loss market and fixed annuities sold through banks.
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Abbey Life, which closed to new business in 2000, is composed mainly of unit-linked life and pensions policies and annuities.
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For instance, the beneficiaries listed on retirement accounts, insurance policies and annuities receive the money directly without it going through probate.
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Older investors with a combination of pension income, Social Security benefits and income annuities have a measure of safety in retirement.
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Insurers have sold more than $73 billion of indexed annuities in the first two quarters of 2016, according to data from LIMRA.
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Generally, annuities are insurance contracts that provide investors with a stream of income in exchange for a cash lump sum up front.
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If you steer clear of contracts with overly high fees, annuities can be one way to guarantee some income in later life.
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For the most part, this type of investor is fond of cash value life insurance products and variable annuities with guaranteed riders.
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It has stopped writing annuities — pensions that pay a fixed income for life, though it has a large business managing workplace pensions.
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In the EU, annuities are not allowed to discriminate on gender grounds and so are a better deal for women than men.
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While companies already can offer annuities in their 753(k) lineups, just 275% do, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America.
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One of the knocks against variable annuities is that the advisors, brokers and insurance agents who sell them often pocket fat commissions.
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Just Group specialises in providing annuities - which pay a fixed income for life - to people whose ill health reduces their life expectancy.
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Pension Insurance Corp is a specialist in bulk annuities - taking on the risk of defined benefit, or final salary, company pension schemes.
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But those with large annuities businesses could bear the brunt of the $17 billion in fees the DoL estimates may be lost.
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These annuities are tax deferred, which means you don't pay taxes on the income and investment gains until you make a withdrawal.
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He said complicated annuities, which he often sees sold to older clients, can be overly expensive for the guaranteed income they provide.
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Then from April next year, people who have already bought annuities will be able to sell them on a new "secondary market".
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For instance, many teachers are encouraged to invest in high-cost variable annuities, typically explained in thick instruction manuals filled with jargon.
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First, some perspective: Fifteen years ago, 22 U.S. life insurance companies issued $6.1 billion in structured settlement annuities to fund future payments.
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Key income sources that are counted for this purpose include wages, Social Security benefits, pensions, annuities, alimony, rental income and workers' compensation.
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The usual costs of warfare were added to a huge bill for annuities—lifelong interest payments made in settlement of old loans.
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There are a rising number of fixed-index annuities available through registered investment advisers, which some experts said offer a better value.
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Mr. Frailich found employees in their 20s with fixed-rate annuities earning just 3 percent, hardly enough to secure a comfortable retirement.
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Instead, it's the Alliance for Lifetime Income, a trade association that promotes the sale of annuities, Jeff Sommer of the NYT reports.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The days of guaranteed pensions from work are long gone, but can annuities make up the difference for millennials?
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For many Americans looking for a new strategy that accounts for these changes, protected lifetime income from annuities is the smart choice.
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For people interested in ensuring they receive lifetime income from their savings, the provision relating to annuities may be of particular interest.
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While companies already can offer annuities in their 23(k) lineups, just 210% do, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America.
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According to the S.E.C., about 200 people ended up with roughly 200 variable annuities with a face value of over $40 million.
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Another provision would relieve employers of potential liability if they add annuities to their plan menus — a proposal that worries consumer advocates.
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To solve that dilemma, some financial experts suggest annuities, financial products that provide regular payments in return for one upfront lump sum.
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But the problem is that many annuities are so complex that it is difficult for individual investors to understand how they work.
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Prior to joining State Street Global Advisors in 2016, Taraporevala led Fidelity Investments' retail managed accounts and life insurance and annuities businesses.
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Kindur is a platform that aims to help users choose annuities, as well as optimize their other investments and Social Security options.
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While companies already can offer annuities in their 2200(k) lineups, just 238% do, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America.
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While companies already can offer annuities in their 401(k) lineups, just 9% do, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America.
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Furthermore, RESA makes it easier for employers to offer annuities—the only product that can guarantee a lifetime stream of retirement income.
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Purchases of variable annuities hit a three-year high last quarter, according to new sales figures released by the Secure Retirement Institute.
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New York has rolled out a regulation that will uphold advisors to a "best interest" standard when recommending life insurance and annuities.
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The professional version takes more details of an individual's financial picture into account, such as portfolio allocations and different kinds of annuities.
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That search for yield is highlighting two insurance products that tout attractive returns and principal protection: indexed annuities and indexed universal life insurance.
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Financial advisors have been using indexed annuities as a way to counter equity exposure, said Scott Stolz, president of Raymond James Insurance Group.
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N, a U.S. annuities and life insurer, said on Tuesday it has terminated its agreement to be acquired by China's Anbang Insurance group.
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The professional version will take more nuances of an individual's financial picture into account, such as portfolio allocations and different kinds of annuities.
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Adjusted earnings for MetLife's Asia business were down 1%, driven partly by a 12% decline in Japan of annuities tied to foreign currency.
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Lifetime income — such as money from Social Security retirement benefits, pensions or annuities — can serve as guaranteed income to cover your recurring needs.
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For baby boomers who find themselves planning for unexpectedly longer lives or unpredictable careers, the alliance is promoting annuities as a potential umbrella.
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One of her prime candidates for potential danger is buying complex or expensive financial products like variable annuities, precious metals and reverse mortgages.
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LONDON - Bank of England Insurance Supervision Executive Director David Rule will speak at 2129 Bulk Annuities Conference Westminster and City Programmes 212018 GMT.
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" Chief financial officer Jeff Davies told a media call that the firm has "a good outlook for 2019 across annuities and asset management.
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LONDON - Bank of England Insurance Supervision Executive Director David Rule will speak at 2019 Bulk Annuities Conference Westminster and City Programmes 0815 GMT.
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Genworth, the biggest provider, just announced that it is not going to sell traditional individual policies and hybrid ones with annuities through brokers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A UK High Court judge has blocked the transfer of 12 billion pounds ($15 billion) in annuities from insurer Prudential (PRU.
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In the US, under the banner of Jackson National Life (JNL), Prudential is one of the main sellers of variable and fixed annuities.
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They're not what they used to be, but variable annuities are still a major retirement-planning tool for hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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The spouse receiving the sum is then tasked with creating a long-term income stream, which can be done through investments or annuities.
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Voya would not answer that question, but one of the original independent sales representatives, Delinda Duncan, who no longer sells Voya's annuities, did.
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To the Editor: Re "The Way to Stop Predatory Lending" (editorial, May 23): We take issue with your criticism of fixed indexed annuities.
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Although annuities tend to be more expensive than other investment options, they also can appeal to savers who want guaranteed income in retirement.
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The problem, in this case, is that Ms. Schrager doesn't make a recommendation to buy annuities, nor does she come out against them.
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Some experts envision a scenario where companies that have never before sold lifetime income annuities will enter the market, but price them inappropriately.
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Pensions and annuities both help retirees by providing a guaranteed lifetime income stream, reducing the risk that they will run out of money.
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Britain's consumer body "Which?" said around 20 percent of all annuities sold were enhanced, while 60 percent could qualify for some level of enhancement.
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Fixed-rate annuities credit a stated rate of interest to the amount of money invested in the contract for a specified period of time.
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Some insurance companies restrict the types of funds customers can select in their variable annuities, which can affect the growth of an investor's account.
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Since then, advisors have continued to service those annuities, noting that these benefits are now an integral part of the client's retirement income plan.
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"The products that Lincoln would pivot toward, however, may not provide the same flexibility and opportunity for growing income as variable annuities," he said.
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NEW YORK, June 2401 (Reuters) - The days of guaranteed pensions from work are long gone, but can annuities make up the difference for millennials?
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He does recommend considering annuities if you have at least $500,000 set aside first, half for medical expenses and half to tap when needed.
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Some experts point to so-called longevity annuities as an option for making sure you have income that lasts as long as you do.
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They make up a fraction of annuities sold yearly — just $9.7 billion of $233.7 billion last year, according to the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute.
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For some, that could mean saving more, purchasing insurance or annuities, downsizing their home or altering the asset mix in their personal investment portfolio.
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Due to compliance uncertainty under ERISA, products that offer guaranteed streams of income, such as annuities, are rarely an option within employee benefits packages.
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Prudential inched 1% lower after a UK High Court blocked the transfer of 12 billion pounds in annuities from the insurer to Rothesay Life.
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AIG's profit fell 21 percent due to higher catastrophe claims and weaker investment income, while Prudential got a profit boost from its annuities business.
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"The use of variable annuities has been declining for years, and that's probably representative of the fiduciary side of the advisory world," said Yeske.
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While many insurers now offer contract terms that will allow for early withdrawals from annuities without surrender penalties, it will cost you up front.
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Together, join us in the clarion call for the transparency of both federal pension annuities and the actual checkbook expenses of the retirement funds.
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Investors' contributions to the annuities had been allocated to 12 mutual funds, including from Allianz's Pimco unit and T. Rowe Price, the judge wrote.
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My professional and personal experience, in the context of today's retirement savings realities, underscores the integral role annuities can play in prudent retirement planning.
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To qualify for Axa's health insurance plan and retirement benefits, moreover, brokers must sell a certain amount of proprietary insurance-related products, including annuities.
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"Be very goal-focused with your side hustle, instead of spending-focused," said Christine Russell, senior manager of retirement and annuities at TD Ameritrade.
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Workers rolling assets out of annuities may end up paying surrender fees if they transfer the whole balance out of the plan at once.
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Other workers, however, are squirreling their hard-earned savings into 403(b) plans that are largely stocked with more expensive funds and variable annuities.
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One of TIAA's most popular fixed annuities — the TIAA Traditional — attracts workers with the promise of paying a competitive guaranteed interest rate on contributions.
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TIAA typically acts as record-keeper to these institutions, administering accounts that allow beneficiaries to choose among an array of mutual funds and annuities.
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These players do not have access to the 401(k) retirement accounts, annuities, severance pay or health care available to retirees who followed them.
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Issues with annuities have prompted some financial advisors, such as Ric Edelman, founder of Edelman Financial Engines, to refuse to sell them to clients.
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"The problem for me is, annuities are complicated, and I don't think people understand what they're giving up for that guaranteed income," she said.
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You should also know how your advisor is paid: Does his/her combination include commissions from the sale of insurance, annuities and mutual funds?
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Those who participate in Medicaid planning work with attorneys, accountants and advisors to shift their wealth to trusts or annuities in order to qualify.
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The individual solutions unit, led by Lori Fouché, the current head of Prudential's annuity business, will include the annuities and individual life insurance businesses.
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And as more states and employers struggle under the weight of their pension obligations and look for alternatives, they may increasingly look to annuities.
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"More and more young adults are looking to save money in some way," said Christine Russell, senior manager of retirement and annuities at TD Ameritrade.
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Given a choice, people will assemble their own kitties rather than buy annuities that provide an agreed lifetime income in exchange for a lump sum.
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Sales of annuities, which pay pensioners a fixed income for life, have dropped sharply since the introduction of new pension rules in Britain in 2015.
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Pensions reforms last year have halved the sale of annuities, as over-55s are no longer required to use their pension pots to buy them.
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While industry representatives were unwilling to discuss the matter publicly, insurers could argue markets were less sophisticated in 2008 and fewer enhanced annuities were available.
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Mr. Tomlinson is skeptical about deferred-income annuities, arguing that they expose buyers to excessive stock market risk while waiting for the payments to begin.
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Advisers were paid more if their clients moved their money from VALIC variable annuities into VALIC fee-based advisory accounts or VALIC's fixed-index annuity.
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Prudential is shifting its focus away from traditional life insurance products with hefty capital charges such as annuities, which pay a fixed income for life.
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The RESA and SECURE acts try to get more annuities into workplace plans by making it easier for employers to protect themselves from future liability.
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Under the BIC Exemption, variable and fixed indexed annuities dealers will have to comply with significantly higher standards in order to continue receiving variable compensation.
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Morgan Stanley — Morgan Stanley is cutting commissions on trades involving stocks, exchange-traded funds, and annuities, capping them at 2.5 percent of the trade's value.
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Americans would be wise to take action and make contingency plans for the unexpected, said Matt Sadowsky, director of retirement and annuities at TD Ameritrade.
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The big losers will be life insurance companies peddling expensive variable annuity and fixed-index annuities, and money management firms specializing in actively-managed accounts.
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Last year, Axa sold roughly $0.260 billion worth of Equi-Vest annuities within retirement plans, according to Morningstar, which include different versions of the product.
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One downside: Since interest rates are low, the amount that annuities pay out right now are also low, or roughly 5 percent of your investment.
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Shane Morrow, a certified financial adviser based in Austin, Texas, uses annuities with some clients in their 30s as a portion of their asset allocation.
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Neely says that among the many key regulatory changes are measures that will make it easier for employers to include annuities in their retirement offerings.
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Most of the money it generates in its businesses is reinvested in the company or paid out to holders of TIAA annuities, the company says.
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TIAA typically acts as record keeper to these institutions, administering accounts that allow plan participants to choose among an array of mutual funds and annuities.
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The push to place clients in more costly asset-management accounts, annuities or in-house mutual funds escalated after the firm began losing institutional accounts.
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A new retirement law could soon put annuities in front of more 401(k) investors — and some financial experts question whether that's a good thing.
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Some of their client reports, according to the complaint, never even mentioned that they were putting people in variable annuities, which are complex insurance products.
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Media Nets aren't growthy, but they're cash annuities, and we apply an academically consistent 6x EV/EBITDA multiple on ESPN, given our bearish sports view.
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Now, one industry organization, the Alliance for Lifetime Income, is releasing new resources to help individuals better evaluate annuities before they sign up for one.
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The retail annuities and life businesses have provided revenue and earnings diversity and consistency to the institutional block reinsurance business, where flows can be lumpy.
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L&G is also a big player in bulk annuities, which involve taking on the risk of company defined benefit, or final salary pension schemes.
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Of course, the actual amount you'll win is considerably less than a billion dollars, not just because of taxes and annuities and fine print things.
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Mr. Tomlinson is skeptical about deferred-income annuities, arguing that they expose buyers to excessive stock market risk while waiting for the payments to begin.
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People who worked there were not sure how they had ended up with their incumbent providers, some of whom had sold them high-cost annuities.
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Tontines are simple to understand and could be much less costly than annuities because the risks are not taken onto the balance-sheet of an insurer.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts' top financial regulator on Thursday charged a Boston-based investment adviser and his employer, LPL Financial LLC, with fraudulently selling annuities to retirees.
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Consumers can benefit from that kind of steady income during retirement, but problems often arise with complex products, like fixed-indexed or variable annuities, Roper said.
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When investors, particularly the elderly, would come to him in need of financial advice, he would sell them high-commissioned indexed annuities with huge surrender penalties.
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When it comes to retirement accounts — 401(k) plans, individual retirement accounts, annuities and health savings accounts — super savers are more likely to have them all.
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It protects hundreds of millions against the risk of dying early, through death benefits, or the risk of living longer than expected, for example through annuities.
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But that's actually a good deal for an ultrasafe investment in today's ultralow interest rate environment, said Allison Schrager, a financial economist with expertise in annuities.
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PTE 84-24 allows insurance agents and insurance companies who qualify as fiduciaries to sell variable and fixed indexed annuities and receive variable compensation, like commission.
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This tends to lead to a sales process in which the positive aspects of annuities are stressed while the downside is, for the most part, ignored.
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Insurance businesses will likely face losses due to the complexity of their business model, licensing requirements for advisors, and new classifications and requirements for variable annuities.
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When it comes to retirement accounts — 401(k) plans, individual retirement accounts, annuities and health savings accounts — super savers are more likely to own them all.
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The importance of disclosure also applies to other assets or sources of income, including life insurance policies, real estate, variable annuities, pensions, alimony and the like.
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Another selling point of annuities is that buyers pay no taxes on the income and/or investment gains on their contributions until they begin receiving payouts.
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Soon after RLG was formed in September, the company reinsured $5.7 billion in annuities from U.S. company Symetra Life, owned by Japan's Sumitomo Life Insurance Company.
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But when considering other fixed-income vehicles such as annuities or real estate, which both generate taxable portfolio interest, individual municipal bonds make a good alternative.
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They may also look to annuities because, like 401(k)s, the money invested in them is often tax-deferred and can be automated, she said.
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Most 401(k) plans offer between eight and 12 investment options, which can be a mix of mutual funds, stock funds, bond funds, and even annuities.
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Although Prudential's annuities sales declined dramatically, the insurer still generated more fees from the business because market performance drove overall account values to a record high.
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S2 capital requirements for annuities have increased due to the risk margin for longevity risk, which has increased significantly as a result of low interest rates.
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Retirement savings includes IRAs, annuities, 401(k)s, and other workplace retirement plans — that is, money invested for growth and to be spent later in life.
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Many of these practices are plainly stated on Axa's website, including the fact that brokers are paid more to sell annuities than to sell mutual funds.
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Key rating concerns include the impact of ongoing low interest rates on the company's spread-based annuities and higher financial leverage resulting from acquisition related debt.
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In contrast, about 60 percent of 401(k) assets, which totaled $4.75 trillion, were invested in mutual funds, with only a small share in variable annuities.
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There are "not huge investors with really a lot of money; they are the middle class," said Jean Statler, the executive director of the annuities group.
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Indeed, much of my reader mail in the past week revolved around whether we should trust the stability of insurance companies that so frequently sell annuities.
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Neither of those is true: Next week, I'll introduce you to some reasonable people who are trying to use certain annuities in new and improved ways.
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The company earns a record-keeping fee from these institutions, but it can also receive far more revenues when investors buy its mutual funds and annuities.
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"It makes it more likely" that employers will offer annuities in their 401(k)s, said David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar Investment Management.
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Demand for variable annuities, a form of insurance giving policyholders a steady income stream, may bounce back as stock market volatility returns, the financial publication reported.
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Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America, said that the move to expensive annuities would have violated a "best interest" standard.
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The same follows for annuities and the cash value in your life insurance policy, said David E. Hultstrom, co-founder of Financial Architects in Woodstock, Georgia.
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The market for individual annuities has been in decline since the British government gave pensioners more choice about how to use their pension pots in 2015.
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Why it matters, per Axios Business Managing Editor Jennifer Kingson: Variable annuities, meant to generate income in retirement, fluctuate depending on the performance of various markets.
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Perhaps the biggest problem with indexed annuities is how they are marketed: Investors can get the impression that their returns are supposed to be similar to equities.
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Insurers are also likely to increase sales of bulk annuities, which involve taking on the risk of company defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes, Fitch said.
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This includes cases filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
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A hat tip to Axa, a provider of often-expensive annuities, which you can read more about in one of Tara's 213(b) articles from last year.
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Sharp declines in equities in 2008 left clients with low account balances in their annuities, while insurers remained on the hook for paying out those living benefits.
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On the 403(b) side, public employees individually sign up for a contract for either mutual funds or annuities offered to them by a group of vendors.
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The Sweeneys paid the surrender fees to get out of their annuities and transferred their money to different 403(b) vendors that offer low-cost mutual funds.
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Correction (March 15th 2018): This article has been amended to reflect the fact that Prudential's annuities were sold to a life-insurance company, not an investment vehicle.
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The Chamber wants various changes in the new version, including how and when advisers and clients sign contracts, and clarity on how variable-rate annuities are treated.
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Phoenix bought SLA's ongoing Irish and German insurance businesses, as well as closed books of annuities, in a 21 billion pound ($20.7174 billion) deal announced last month.
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Variable annuities allow buyers to allocate their contributions among different investment options, such as mutual funds, stocks and/or accounts with a guaranteed minimum rate of return.
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At the same time, just 38 percent of households can count on pensions or annuities for a steady stream of cash, the Alliance's October 2018 survey found.
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These annuities, which you buy at a discount to their face value, start paying out years later and will continue paying for the rest of your life.
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The third quarter is the first indication of how MetLife may perform without Brighthouse, whose assets include variable annuities, which led to swings in MetLife's overall performance.
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Recently approved Department of Labor (DOL) rules that create a best interest fiduciary standard for investment advice provided for retirement accounts and annuities could also be reviewed.
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When Congress introduced them in 1958, they were viewed as supplemental pensions for teachers, and the only permissible investments were annuities, according to tax experts and consultants.
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But it turns out that the band chose, as its sole tour sponsor, the Alliance for Lifetime Income — a trade association that promotes the sale of annuities.
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The company earns a record-keeping fee from the institutions whose accounts it oversees, but can generate far more revenue when investors buy its annuities and funds.
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And a third reason is math, said Michael Finke, professor of wealth management at The American College of Financial Services, at a recent press event about annuities.
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The Secure Act will make it easier to add annuities along with other distribution methods into 85033(k)s by providing regulatory clarity to the company sponsors.
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Qualifying generally involves proving that you are impoverished or close to it, though there are countless quirks and exceptions around assets, real estate, spouses, trusts and annuities.
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Rothesay is also mulling an appeal against a court ruling stopping the transfer of 12 billion pounds in annuities from Prudential Plc, with a decision expected imminently.
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But some stockbrokers and many people who sell life insurance, annuities and other more esoteric investment products merely have to follow what's known as the "suitability" standard.
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BOSTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Massachusetts' top financial regulator on Thursday charged an investment adviser and his employer, LPL Financial LLC, with having fraudulently sold annuities to retirees.
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A hat tip to Axa, a provider of often expensive annuities, which you can read more about in one of Tara's 213(b) articles from last year.
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In short, Thaler thinks annuities and defined-benefit retirement plans are declining in popularity precisely at a time when they should be a professional&aposs top choice.
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Those products may include, for example, long-term annuities, a type of insurance product that offers investors steady income payments, typically in exchange for a lump-sum investment.
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JRP, formed in April 3.53 through a tie-up between Just Retirement and Partnership Assurance and trading as Just, specialises in annuities for people with reduced life expectancy.
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In 2018, so-called B-share variable annuities charged an average all-in of 2.366%, plus 0.991% for a cost of a living benefit rider, according to Morningstar.
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PIC Group has become one of the world's biggest investors in bulk annuities, which cover the pension obligations of defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes for staff.
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However, annuities tend to come with higher ongoing fees than other investments, and it's another instance where you need a lump sum of money to make the purchase.
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Under "IFRS 17" insurers will have to calculate income from policies like motor insurance to annuities using interest rates and other market information updated for each reporting period.
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Though death benefits and annuities are still the core business, life insurers are branching out into savings products and insurance against disability or needing long-term social care.
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The plans involved creating a market into which pensioners could sell their annuities, but consumer groups warned that retirees risked squandering their savings, or falling prey to scams.
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Annuities, financial products that let individuals pay a lump sum in return for a lifetime stream of income, are seen as one way to help solve that problem.
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Financial and insurance companies have warned the proposal could drive up costs and stop them from offering retirement services such as annuities to middle- and lower-income people.
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For one thing, annuities — which come in multiple varieties — can be complex, and similar products may vary greatly in terms of what they offer and what they cost.
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Various companies offer longevity annuities, which start paying out at age 80 or 85, and can provide income to help cover the cost of care in later life.
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The winner can pick between a one-time cash option of $878 million, before taxes, or the full $1.5 billion, before taxes, paid in annuities over 29 years.
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However, annuities can often come with higher ongoing fees than other investments, and it's another instance where you need a lump sum of money to make the purchase.
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Variable annuities and indexed universal life policies are complicated products that can carry high fees and surrender charges if investors want to back out of their contracts early.
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Pension plans borrowing from PRA would be required to set aside money in separate safe investments such as annuities or bonds that match the pension payments for retirees.
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Indeed, the sale of high-commission annuities has been flagged as one of the more egregious ways that financial advisors fail to act in their clients' best interests.
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For his part, Yeske is not categorically against fixed or immediate annuities that guarantee income streams for investors, but he has never used them for his own clients.
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LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - A UK High Court judge on Friday blocked the transfer of 12 billion pounds ($14.59 billion) in annuities from insurer Prudential to Rothesay Life.
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He has served on UK government advisory committees on aviation and oil and gas, and is currently chairman of UK annuities provider Partnership Assurance, which he will retain.
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Two former Valic employees told the Wall Street Journal that Valic employees earn higher commission for high-cost products, like annuities, than low-cost products, like mutual funds.
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In May, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority sanctioned the firm for supervisory failures related to its sales of certain exchange-traded funds, real estate investment trusts and annuities.
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L&G sold 829 million pounds in individual annuities, which pay pensioners a fixed income for life, in the year to Oct 13, up 34% year-on-year.
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Some companies offer basic variable annuities with yearly fees that are more reasonable — say, 1.5 percent of assets managed — but investors often purchase additional benefits with their annuity.
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There could be a tug of war brewing over which standard financial professionals should follow when they provide advice or sell products such as annuities to individual investors.
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Mr. Mazzini, also 28, is the vice president for credit and portfolio risk management at the Global Atlantic Financial Group, an insurance and annuities provider in New York.
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Other times, in the case of multiyear guaranteed annuities, it works more like a certificate of deposit — you will know exactly how much money you'll accumulate over time.
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If you think that Republicans and Democrats can't see eye to eye these days, try sitting in a room with financial professionals who are for and against annuities.
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More than 60% of businesses cited this risk as a reason they're not offering annuities, according to a survey conducted this year by consulting firm Willis Towers Watson.
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Some annuities have been cleaned up, the group said, offering lower fees and shorter surrender periods — the amount of time before the funds can be withdrawn without penalties.
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Equally problematic are many customary market gambits such as annuities and short-selling, which can be viewed as gambling, and thus are prohibited under Islamic law, or Shariah.
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Individual sales of annuities, pensions which pay a fixed income for life, fell 23% to 145 million pounds and lifetime mortgage sales dropped 47% to 79 million pounds.
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The company has been selling more variable annuities for the past three quarters, according to Barron's, and Lincoln is anticipated to gain market share as the industry lifts.
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Could this have been because the brokers knew good and well that variable annuities are dirty words to many investors who have benefited from low-fee retirement accounts?
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Sometimes, companies end up buying annuities for workers who decide to remain in the plan, which means an insurance company takes over the payments (and the financial risk).
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Additionally, the measure aims to allow more annuities in 240(k) plans by eliminating companies' fear of legal liability if the annuity provider fails or otherwise doesn't deliver.
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Additionally, the measure aims to allow more annuities in 401(k) plans by eliminating companies' fear of legal liability if the annuity provider fails or otherwise doesn't deliver.
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Lower rates and yields could further reduce demand for annuities, but could modestly help demand for unit-linked or with-profits products given the low rates on bank savings.
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"Indexed annuities fit really well for customers who don't want to take a lot of risk: They aren't subject to principal loss, but they want some upside," she said.
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Yet women are not letting that stop them from seeing this as a time of empowerment, according to Christine Russell, senior manager of retirement and annuities at TD Ameritrade.
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U.S. annuities sales are booming months after the demise of a regulation that targeted the product, which had required that brokers put customers' interests ahead of their own compensation.
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The lucky ticket holder or holders can collect the winnings in annual annuities over 29 years or as a lump sum estimated at $477 million before taxes, officials said.
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Annuities — fixed, variable or indexed — have been long a part of advisors' toolkits, offering clients the opportunity to obtain tax-deferred growth and income in retirement for a cost.
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That's because pension income, Social Security benefits and income annuities all provide retirees with a measure of safety, said Michael Finke, professor of wealth management at The American College.
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While the regulation applies in New York, advisors said that it establishes best practices for advisors who are recommending life insurance and annuities, regardless of where they are based.
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Though that is similar to commissions in onshore jurisdictions—around 6% in Ireland, for instance—onshore life insurance is mainly about death benefits, annuities and to an extent savings.
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Now it plans to sell £12bn of its old annuities to another life-insurance company, about a third of the total, and use the proceeds to finance the demerger.
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The report said while brokerage firms and insurance companies call their professionals "financial advisors," these individuals often are actually sales representatives who pitch mutual funds, annuities and insurance products.
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With deferred annuities, investors contribute to their accounts over time or through lump-sum payments and begin receiving income at some future date, such as when they turn 85.
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However, since the announcement of the pension reforms, annuity providers have found new business in the sale of bulk annuities, taking on companies' final salary or defined-benefit schemes.
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For starters, you do not have to count longevity annuities when you calculate minimum required distributions from retirement accounts, thus leaving more of your money to grow tax deferred.
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Hartford decided to offload annuities in 2012 after the business took a massive hit during the financial crisis, a major reason for the company's $3.4 billion government bailout. reut.
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The reform reduces the demand for annuities—by 50-75% according to some estimates—and so firms looking to issue sterling-denominated bonds are faced with a smaller market.
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The two most promising strategies Levine outlined in her research were to invest Social Security benefits claimed at full retirement age into variable annuities and indexed universal life policies.
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At the time, about 5% of his and his wife's nest egg was in cash, 35% in fixed-income products (bonds and annuities), and 60% in equities (dividend ETFs).
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However, a bill recently approved by congress allows withdrawing savings at the age of retirement, and this will likely constrain the annuities business in the short and medium term.
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The company, which specialises in annuities for people with reduced life expectancy, had adjusted operating profit of 22016 million pounds ($21 million) in the six months ending June 20.7527.
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The first would clarify and streamline the safe-harbor rules for employers to follow when evaluating the financial strength of insurers that provide protected lifetime income solutions through annuities.
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Prudential, the second largest U.S. life insurer, said adjusted operating income at its individual annuities unit fell 17 percent to $507 million in the second quarter ended June 30.
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He thinks the adverse tax treatment of variable annuities — the gains in all distributions from the contracts are taxed as ordinary income — makes them a bad idea for savers.
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However, current regulations do not provide enough clarity to employers to satisfy their fiduciary responsibilities if they want to make lifetime income products like annuities available to their employees.
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When Congress introduced 403(b) plans in 1958, they were viewed as supplemental pensions for teachers, and the only permissible investments were annuities, according to tax experts and consultants.
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After speaking to several others about this issue, here's a quick list of things to be aware of when it comes to annuity illustrations and buying annuities in general.
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Separately Britain's Financial Conduct Authority issued a public consultation on three sets of new rules on buying annuities, buying back annuity incomes, and on acting as a market intermediary.
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In particular, it has a market-leading bulk-purchase annuity business and the capability to take on more bulk annuities to fill the gap from reduced individual annuity sales.
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Stan Haithcock, an agent who calls himself "Stan The Annuity Man," said he's been selling plain vanilla annuities that offer guaranteed income, but even these come in different varieties.
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It turned out we were there to learn about equity indexed annuities, a complicated insurance product that I wrote about with a fair bit of skepticism back in 2008.
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He does not stray into any of the more risky and fee-laden variable annuities, because if they can deal with risk, he steers them into stocks and bonds.
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Corporate America's gradual shift away from pension plans toward 401(k)-type plans has led some policymakers to advocate for the inclusion of annuities in more workplace savings programs.
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These products, and indeed all annuities, can provide a guaranteed monthly income for the rest of a policyholder's life, acting much like a personal pension plan or Social Security In an era when just 4 percent of private-sector workers have defined benefit pension plans and when Social Security will cover just 40 percent of most people's pre-retirement income, a guaranteed source of retirement income, like annuities, is a vital safety net.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES AEL's ability to achieve a higher rating is somewhat constrained by the company's limited diversity of earnings and cash flow given its heavy concentration in fixed indexed annuities.
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With a new field comes new financial products, of course, and insurers like New York Life and others have rolled out different kinds of annuities in the past few years.
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The transfer includes about $600 million in lump-sum payments to about 7,000 current and former U.S. employees of Accenture and $1 billion in purchases of annuities from insurance companies.
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In public, financial and insurance companies have warned the proposal could drive up costs and stop them from offering retirement services such as annuities to middle- and lower-income people.
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In the last 3 months of 2018, sales of fixed-indexed annuities rose 40% from a year before to $19.5 billion, according to the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association.
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The solution for some investors facing the prospect of running short of money during retirement might lie in an often misunderstood and somewhat maligned class of insurance products called annuities.
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Immediate annuities can provide periodic lifetime payments or payments for a fixed period of time or for you (and your spouse if you wish), depending on which options you choose.
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The sales of bulk annuities, which involve the insurer taking on the risk of a company defined benefit, or final salary, pension scheme, leapt 191 percent to 125 million pounds.
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Prudential's annuity segment reported an 18 percent drop in its individual annuities business to $445 million, driven by lower policy fees because of a decrease in variable annuity account values.
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Annuities are sold by insurers and also offered through brokerage firms, banks, low-fee mutual fund companies and online comparison-shopping sites, such as Hueler Investment Services' Income Solutions platform.
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The London-based insurer bought a 1.2 billion pounds annuity book from Zurich last year, while in January it agreed to take on another tranche of the Swiss group's annuities.
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Insurance companies, especially life insurers, and pension funds have substantial long-term liabilities with fixed payouts, such as whole-life and long-term-care policies, annuities and defined-benefit pensions.
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The process has been slow, though, due to the need for a court process to complete a transfer of 12 billion pounds ($14.5 billion) in annuities to insurer Rothesay Life.
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The National Association of Fixed Annuities (NAFA), an insurance industry group, is suing the Labor Department over the rule that forces investment advisers to act solely in their clients' interest.
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The key for investors is to understand what you're buying, said Benz, who has had to inform some unaware individuals that they actually own annuities after reviewing their balance sheets.
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Prudential Annuities and LPL Financial Holdings, where Wetzel was registered, jointly reimbursed the client the full amount of $1.28 million in 2013, and FINRA barred Wetzel from the securities industry.
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The clean bill of health for advisers contrasts with other areas of the financial services industry such as the sale of annuities, where the FCA has found evidence of misselling.
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Bulk annuities, which involve the transfer to an insurer of company defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes, have become more popular in Britain as many schemes are in deficit.
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Under the current rule, money made from investments, as well as pensions, annuities and interest, are not considered income, and only the first $118,500 wages are subject to the tax.
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The Stones' audience is perfect for the Alliance for Lifetime Income, said Jean Statler, the executive director of the annuities group, a nonprofit with 24 financial service companies as members.
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This is a column, however, about more sober-minded individuals who mostly want you to consider annuities as an asset class, something you have in addition to stocks and bonds.
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Another group of readers worried that those hearing of my experience might assume that all annuities are bad, and that all people who sell them use subterfuge to do so.
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The mid-cap company, which specialises in annuities for people with reduced life expectancy, said underlying operating profit dropped to 266.4 million pounds ($341.31 million) in the year ended Dec.
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Retirement income sales fell to 184 million pounds ($236.40 million) as bulk annuities - insurance of company defined benefit, or final salary pension schemes - dropped 90 percent to 26 million pounds.
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LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Insurer Prudential said on Friday it had agreed with regulator the Financial Conduct Authority to review how it sold annuities and would compensate customers where appropriate.
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While annuities are already permitted in 401(k) plans, there's been concern among sponsors that they could open themselves up to lawsuits if they choose an annuity whose underwriter (i.e.
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Beginning in the mid-216th century, treaties stipulating annuities were an important tool in British and then Canadian efforts to acquire valuable territory to expand white settlement and economic development.
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That off-loading of risk has drawn criticism from consumer advocates - but there also are questions about how much appeal in-plan annuities will have for plan sponsors and participants.
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They may have retirement savings accounts, equity in a home, other investments, a steady cash flow of "mailbox money" from Social Security, annuities, pension income or, sometimes, all of the above.
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Pensions reforms in Britain have halved the sales of annuities, which give a fixed income for life, as over-55s no longer need to use their pension pots to buy them.
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He notes that annuities are backed by insurance companies and some even come with little to no fees, yet he warns that shoppers should take into account extra risks and expenses.
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When the time comes to roll out of the 403(b), either because of retirement or a career change, participants who are holding annuities potentially will have to pay more fees.
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Lee said that, without an insurance agent serving as the middle man who gets a commission, the cost of annuities inside a 401(k) might be lower than outside of it.
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It also would expand the inclusion of annuities in 401(k) plans and put a 10-year time limit on how long non-spouse beneficiaries can stretch out an inherited IRA.
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The National Association of Fixed Annuities (NAFA) brought its lawsuit against the Department of Labor's (DOL) fiduciary rule on multiple grounds, but Judge Randolph Moss ruled in favor of the administration.
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French insurer AXA recently sold its life business and Dutch group Aegon has sold a 12 billion pound ($17.3 billion) book of annuities, which pay policyholders a fixed income for life.
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Morgan Stanley's wealth management business said on Monday it is lowering the commissions that brokers earn on stock trades, exchange-traded funds and annuities amid pressure to lower costs for clients.
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The acquisition of Aegon's annuities, the value of which was not disclosed, could pave the way for an initial public offering (IPO) of Rothesay in about 12 months, the source said.
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Retirees ultimately may cope effectively with lackluster market returns by tapping home equity, downsizing and wisely using long-term care insurance and annuities, suggests Sass at the Center for Retirement Research.
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The new standard applies to all financial products that can potentially land inside a tax-advantaged retirement account — including I.R.A.s and 401(k)-type plans — from mutual funds to variable annuities.
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Its not just immediate annuities anymore, where you hand over a lump sum of money all at once, said Melissa Kahn, managing director of retirement policy at State Street Global Advisors.
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"There is really no quantifiable added value in these CREF variable annuities during accumulation stage compared to lower cost mutual funds," said John Hare, a retirement plan consultant in Brentwood, Tenn.
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We've seen that access to information on which financial products provide lifetime income, balance a portfolio and offer principal protection from market volatility, like fixed indexed annuities, correlates to retirement readiness.
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While it is rare for millennials to be interested in annuities, certified financial planner Ashley Folkes, who is based in Phoenix, Arizona, does have some clients who ask about lifetime income.
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By then he had already received a fortune in cash, art by Picasso, Matisse and Fernand Léger, life insurance annuities and D'Arros, a 29-acre Indian Ocean island in the Seychelles.
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Yet others, including academics, champion annuities as a solution to help solve a dilemma that many retirees face: how to transform a pool of money into a steady stream of income.
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Lee said that without an insurance agent serving as the middle man who gets a commission, the cost of annuities inside a 401(k) might be lower than outside of it.
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Phoenix bought SLA's ongoing Irish and German insurance businesses, as well as closed books of annuities, and the enlarged company is expected to have 240 billion pounds of assets under management.
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Perhaps the most significant change was the easing of rules regarding retirement plans and annuities, which, in their simplest form, enable workers to convert their savings into a guaranteed income stream.
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Bulk annuities have proved a revenue-earner for FTSE 100 insurers such as Legal & General and Aviva, with unlisted firms Pension Insurance Corporation and Rothesay Life also among the eight providers.
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Filed on Tuesday in Boston federal court, the proposed class action said AIG has reaped millions of dollars of improper profits through an alleged scheme involving so-called structured settlement annuities.
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The security provided by Rothesay to potential customers was at the heart of a surprise court decision to block the transfer of 12 billion pounds in annuities from Prudential in August.
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L&G on Wednesday said it had written 1.6 billion pounds ($20163 billion) in so-called 'bulk annuities' in the first half of 2017, up from 685 million a year earlier.
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Some experts worry that companies — particularly smaller employers — will be more likely to choose problematic products, in large part because they often rely on brokers to educate them about complex annuities.
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"It's not just immediate annuities anymore, where you hand over a lump sum of money all at once," said Melissa Kahn, managing director of retirement policy at State Street Global Advisors.
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L) sold 12 billion pounds ($123 billion) of closed annuities books this year to Rothesay Life and market sources estimate there are about 100 billion pounds of such portfolios available in Britain.
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Don't let a financial adviser or insurance broker talk you into wasting your money on variable annuities, an overly complex, high-fee product with mutual-fundlike accounts wrapped in a tax shelter.
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Further, AEL's high concentration in fixed annuities results in above-average exposure to interest rate risk, particularly in the current low rate environment which has led to spread compression over recent years.
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The FCA also said SLAL offered its front-line staff large financial incentives to sell the annuities, which encouraged them to place their own financial interests ahead of those of their customers.
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As part of the sales process for non-advised annuities, firms are required to explain to customers that they may get a better rate if they shop around on the open market.
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The fine follows the launch of an FCA review into the sale of some annuities in 2016, after which its enforcement division began investigating firms to see if further action was needed.
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JRP, formed through the combination of two rival firms last year, specialises in annuities - the payment of a fixed income for life - for pensioners with medical conditions that cut their life expectancy.
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Life insurers make money by investing premiums they receive for coverage, hoping to earn more than what they pay in claims, and also investing lump sums consumers hand over when buying annuities.
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For instance, strong sales of fixed annuities, for which consumers give a cash lump sum to an insurance company, guaranteeing they will not lose their principal while paying a fixed interest rate.
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Britain's third-largest insurer Legal & General posted a 10 percent rise in operating profit to 1.9 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) in 2018, helped by record sales of annuities, it said on Wednesday.
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The Radnor, Pennsylvania-based company buys future payments that consumers expect to receive from various sources including state lotteries, insurance companies and annuities, and in turn pays its customers a lump sum.
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In response, insurance companies may adopt lower pricing, according to an industry report by the research firm Cerulli Associates, while emphasizing products that generate predictable income, including immediate and deferred-income annuities.
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No. If a salesperson sells only annuities that its own firm manufactures, he or she is not obligated to tell you about competing products on the market that they do not offer.
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The contributions are pulled from your pre-tax salary and put into an investment account where you can choose from a selection of mutual funds, stock funds, bond funds, and even annuities.
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"It sounds totally backwards from what many advisors in the industry do, but I like to start young people off with safe investments like indexed annuities or modified endowment contracts," he said.
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But fixed-index annuities are often pushed as a panacea to plunging markets, a safer alternative that allows investors to capture at least some of the gains, with none of the downside.
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Also unclear in the bills moving through Congress is what type of annuities will be offered, what fees will be charged, how taxes will be assessed and what the limits will be.
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The in-plan annuity plank could get a boost from recent changes in the industry, which has moved to introduce more flexible products and also less expensive offerings, such as deferred annuities.
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LONDON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Ratings agency Fitch raised its outlook for UK life insurers to stable on Thursday, from negative, citing a steady market for annuities and demand for savings and fund products.
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The deal, known as a pension risk transfer, is the most recent example of a growing trend among U.S. companies buying group annuities from insurers in order to unload their corporate pension plans.
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L) plans to break up its 10 billion pound ($13 billion) British pensions annuities book into four parts, in a move that could see the insurer leave its domestic market, Sky News said.
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The ratings also consider the competitive and regulatory challenges tied to the company's strategic focus selling fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) through independent marketing organizations (IMOs), and macroeconomic challenges associated with low interest rates.
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The New York-based company, which provides life insurance, annuities and employee benefits, detailed anticipated benefits from higher U.S. interest rates in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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In response to Solvency II, Aegon has been shifting its business away from annuities and defined-benefit pensions, which require it to hold more capital, and toward defined-contribution and pension management activities.
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MetLife would move 75 percent of its book of variable annuities with living benefit guarantees to the new company, one of the businesses that would be hardest hit by the higher capital requirements.
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The U.K. government has abandoned plans to create a secondary annuities market after deciding it would be unable to balance the functioning of a competitive market with the provision of sufficient consumer protections.
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The Chinese insurer abruptly pulled out of a $14 billion bid for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc last year, and its attempt to buy U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life FGL.
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And the total amount is even more modest: In 2000, sales of individual fixed immediate annuities were just $245 billion, but households transferred $2000 billion to individual retirement accounts from employer-sponsored plans.
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"Certainly, there is the dynamic that people who can afford a significant allocation to annuities don't need to," says Michael Kitces, a certified financial planner and director of research at Pinnacle Advisory Group.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES The ability of AEL to achieve a higher IFS rating is somewhat constrained by the company's limited diversity of earnings and cash flow given a heavy focus on fixed indexed annuities.
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L&G sold 10 billion pounds of annuities, most of them through the bulk annuity market, in which companies offload the risk to insurers of their defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes.
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David Yeske, managing director of registered investment advisory firm Yeske Buie, said that variable annuities have fallen out of favor with the fee-based advisors he regularly surveys for the Financial Planning Association.
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"Even if you move forward, you have someone other than the Ford dealership telling you to get the Ford," said Mark Cortazzo, a financial planner in Parsippany, N.J., who reviews annuities for clients.
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Annuities can be hard to fully grasp even in their simplest configuration, where you hand a pile of money to an insurance company, then receive a guaranteed stream of annual income for life.
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Annuities come in a variety of flavors, but some of them can be incredibly complex, expensive and even deceptive — and they're often sold by brokers who aren't necessarily acting in your best interest.
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To do that, however, those colleagues needed entirely new accounts — on top of the annuities in their original accounts, which came with penalties if you sold them before several years had gone by.
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So with annuities, as with investments and life itself, we all just have to figure out how much risk we're comfortable with — and just how much we ought to spread that risk around.
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Bettencourt, ranked as the richest woman in the world, had been bamboozled by a society photographer 25 years her junior for cash, annuities, fine art and, it seemed, an island in the Seychelles.
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Even if more 401(k) savers had annuities available, many would likely misuse or be confused by them, said Susan Shoemaker, a partner at Plante Moran Financial Advisors who's based in Southfield, Michigan.
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Generally, they then go from one main of source of income (ie, a paycheck) to multiple sources such as withdrawing from savings, collecting Social Security, pensions, annuities and fixed-income payments from bonds.
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LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - British insurer Legal & General will offer annuities to Prudential pension savers in a deal it expects will increase its 2020 annuity sales by 15%, L&G said on Friday.
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In an interview with Pimco CEO Emmanuel Roman, Thaler explained why the so-called decumulation problem made a case for annuities and defined-benefit retirement plans — both of which are becoming less popular.
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The successful completion of two large deals comes as Rothesay mulls an appeal against a court ruling stopping the transfer of 12 billion pounds in annuities from Prudential , with a decision expected imminently.
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Mr. Dunston of Denver once sold annuities before he came upon what he describes as a better way to help clients (and his blog post on the journey is well worth a read).
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Equity-indexed annuities, for example, guarantee you won't lose money — and if a certain index, like the S&P 500, rises, the insurer will credit a portion of any return to your account.
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Annuities, one of Challenger's main products, have become less attractive after a recent cut in the benchmark rate, and the company is finding it harder to provide previously committed fixed returns to customers.
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Announced during the Obama administration, the rule required brokers to act in clients' "best interest" when offering retirement advice, and inform them about commissions and other incentives they received for selling products like annuities.
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If you're someone with substantial investment income — including capital gains passive income, certain annuities, dividends, interest, rents, and royalties — you may have to pay an additional tax that goes toward supporting America's healthcare program.
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"Their perception is that they are not there [financially] and they don't have the confidence that they're going to be OK in retirement," said Matt Sadowsky, director of retirement and annuities at TD Ameritrade.
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In America, hardly anyone buys conventional annuities and in Britain, there were so many complaints about low rates that the government abolished the need to buy them (a reform cunningly described as pension freedom).
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With annuities, retirees purchase their own pensions from an annuity provider, and receive that money back as regular payments for as long as they live — ensuring a steady stream of income throughout their retirement.
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In fact, insurance companies profit from annuities by spreading risk among many buyers, some of whom will live a very long life and some of whom will die shortly after they buy an annuity.
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"There are some providers that offer lower-cost versions of variable annuities, but in general the marketplace has a lot of high-expense products that aren't in people's best interest to use," Kizer said.
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Individuals approaching retirement age may choose these types of annuities because they allow seniors to supplement Social Security income and pension plans that might not provide enough income to cover basic retirement-living expenses.
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If your medical bills are more than 7.5% of your adjusted gross income, you do not have to pay that 10% penalty, said Molly Passantino, senior specialist of retirement and annuities at TD Ameritrade.
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On top of all those fees, variable annuities have onerous surrender charges that range from 7 percent to 9 percent and decrease each year that the contract is in force until they reach zero.
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The lines that grew the most were annuities (86% September 05212-September 2015) and disabilities pensions (192 times (x)), the latter driven by 50% participation as a reinsurer of the group operations in Peru.
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For his part, Ruiz at Oak Partners favors contracts that focus on a simple income guarantee (a living benefit) rather than market hedging or structured product annuities with loss buffers and complicated performance triggers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley's wealth management business said on Monday it is lowering the commissions that brokers earn on stock trades, exchange-traded funds and annuities amid pressure to lower costs for clients.
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For starters, variable annuities operate under withdrawal rules similar to individual retirement accounts and 22008(k) plans: In most cases a 210 percent federal tax penalty is slapped on withdrawals made before age 59½.
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The insurer said it would use a managed blockchain system launched by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to handle bulk annuities, which involve Legal & General taking over companies' defined benefit or final salary pension schemes.
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So he went back home, where he became a licensed banker, and he now works at a Citizens Bank in Concordville, Pa. He helps people invest their money in conservative annuities and mutual funds.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. insurer Lincoln National Corp could deliver shareholder returns of 20 percent or more in the coming year, as the market for the company's main product, variable annuities, recovers, Barron's reported.
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Some annuities can be useful (especially the simple fixed, immediate ones and similar products known as longevity insurance), and in some other cases you may get what you pay for in peace of mind.
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And, because of the importance of pensions, the yold are transforming insurance companies from passive distributors of fixed annuities to financial-service providers for customers who want to manage their pension pots more actively.
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It allows investors to contribute to traditional IRAs after turning 70.5 years old and makes it easier for administrators to offer annuities, which under some circumstances may be an attractive way to reduce risk.
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While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators are working on their own versions, consumer advocates say they do not expect investors to be as protected, particularly when high-fee annuities are involved.
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The insurer said sales at its retirement business for 2017 to date stood at 6.2 billion pounds ($8.29 billion) supported by strong UK and U.S. institutional pension risk transfer markets, individual annuities and lifetime mortgages.
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So far the numbers are small, with just 2175 general complaints about annuities in 22008-20163 to Britain's Financial Ombudsman Service which said many people were unhappy at being offered a smaller annuity than expected.
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High capital charges have cut the returns annuities can offer, making them less attractive for customers, and have reduced choice as some insurers are retreating from the annuity market in favour of deploying capital elsewhere.
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Standard Life fell 5.1 percent after Barclays cut the stock to "underweight" while insurer Aegon fell 5.9 percent after Societe Generale cut it to a "hold" on worries over variable annuities in the United States.
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LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - British life insurer Legal & General posted a 10 percent rise in operating profit to 1.9 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) in 2018, helped by record sales of annuities, it said on Wednesday.
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QUESTIONS, NO ANSWERS Also unclear in the bills moving through Congress is what type of annuities will be offered, what fees will be charged, how taxes will be assessed and what the limits will be.
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The finance ministry agreed on Tuesday that making a secondary market for annuities would pose risks to pensioners, and added that it was clear there would not be enough purchasers to create a competitive market.
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This way, instead of teachers purchasing their own individual annuities or mutual fund arrangements, the collective group of districts works with one vendor and uses its asset base of $150 million to bring down costs.
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The Chinese insurer abruptly pulled out of a $14 billion bid for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide last year, and its attempt to buy U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life is facing regulatory hurdles.
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Just Group, which specialises in annuities for people with a reduced life expectancy, faces new rules from Britain's Prudential Regulation Authority requiring more capital to be put behind lifetime mortgages, one of its key products.
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Warren says that financial and insurance companies have warned in public that the proposed rule could drive up costs and stop them from offering retirement services such as annuities to middle- and lower-income people.
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Right now, if a retiree's home is foreclosed upon, declares bankruptcy or is sued, those group annuities they were forced to accept as a pension replacement can be seized in 48 states, leaving them destitute.
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She also wanted to ensure her client's lifetime annuity payments would never decrease, which is how it generally works with so-called immediate annuities, which retirees buy when they want a guaranteed stream of income.
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Advisers, for example, often earn large bonuses by persuading clients to buy fixed indexed annuities, which eliminate the risk of investing in the stock market at the expense of a significant chunk of the upside.
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And so we return to annuities, which at their simplest (as they should be) are a way to exchange some of your hard-earned money for regular checks that will keep coming until you die.
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Unlike the draft proposal, the final rule does not restrict brokers from pushing proprietary products, splitting revenue with creators of funds they promote, or recommending risky, high-fee investments in alternative assets and certain annuities.
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"The insurance companies won't sell budget, simple immediate annuities — the kind most of us want," said Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research and an expert in retirement policy.
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Roger Zullo defrauded his clients, lied to his supervisors and fabricated client financial suitability profiles to enrich himself and his employer by selling identical, illiquid, and high-commission variable annuities, the state said in its complaint.
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It also allows continued sales of investment products that are inappropriate for most IRAs - such as nontraded REITs and variable annuities - as long as advisers guarantee they are putting their clients' interests ahead of their own.
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"There are plenty of examples of variable annuities that aren't a good deal, but that does not mean that they as a class are not useful or good," said Cortazzo, who is a certified financial planner.
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Frias joined the company in 20183 and has held a number of executive positions, including CFO of Prudential Annuities, VP of finance (individual life insurance), and managing director and asset treasurer, capital markets, and corporate finance.
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"We believe that the trend of multi-line insurers looking to reduce their exposure to annuities will continue and provide further opportunities for us to accumulate assets and grow the business," Chief Executive Addy Loudiadis said.
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Regulatory changes and guidance could promote access to lifetime-income products like annuities, as well as spread awareness of the benefits of claiming Social Security later, both of which are effective ways to sustain retirement income.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined Prudential Annuities Distributors $950,000 on Tuesday for failing to prevent the fraudulent withdrawal of nearly $1.3 million from an elderly annuity holder's account by her financial officer.
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Bulk annuities, which involve the transfer to an insurer of UK company defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes, have become more popular as many schemes are in deficit and companies are looking to offload risk.
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Harold Evensky, head of Evensky & Katz and a trailblazer in the RIA industry, believes that low-cost immediate annuities offered by companies such as Vanguard will be crucial for retirees at risk of outliving their assets.
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While he has steered very few of his clients toward annuities recently, because of low interest rates and higher prices since the financial crisis, he thinks advisors who ignore all annuity offerings are failing their clients.
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If you want a financial professional who is qualified, experienced and abides by a code of ethics, you should search for a certified financial planner who does not sell products such as annuities, investments or insurance.
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Slightly more than half of all 403(b) assets, approaching $900 billion, have been invested in fixed annuities — which promise either a minimum rate of annual growth or interest based on changes in a market index.
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LONDON, Nov 1003 (Reuters) - Legal & General expects to transact 2100 billion pounds ($21 billion) in bulk annuities this year, and plans to issue sterling-denominated debt, the British insurer said in a business update on Tuesday.
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After the Obama administration issued its rule in 2016, sales plunged as advisers became more cautious about marketing the annuities, perhaps adopting the view of independent experts that the products can be a waste of money.
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Through its primary products — life insurance, annuities, and non-medical health products such as disability income insurance and long-term care insurance (LTCI) — the life insurance industry functions as a private provider of personal financial protection.
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The ratings also consider the company's above-average equity market exposure as well as the regulatory uncertainty around the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule, which could negatively impact the sale of variable annuities in qualified accounts.
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WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - China's Anbang Insurance Group, which is looking to buy U.S. hotel operator Starwood , has won approval from a U.S. national security panel to buy U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life .
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"Permitting plans — for their own financial benefit — to replace joint and survivor or other annuities with lump-sum payments will reduce the retirement security of both workers and their spouses," AARP Legislative Counsel David Certner said.
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Those in favor of annuities cite a need for a new source of guaranteed income now that traditional pensions have largely disappeared and Social Security benefits represent a smaller fraction of a retiree's total financial needs.
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A required minimum distribution, or RMD, is the amount of money that individuals who are 70½ or over must take out of their retirement accounts, or other tax-deferred accounts such as certain annuities, each year.
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"I want to know that people have done their due diligence on the company, and that they have a passion for wanting to work at our company," said Lori Dickerson Fouché, president of annuities at Prudential Financial.
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Income annuities are also a type of fixed annuity: They offer customers a stream of income payments in the present (what's known as an immediate annuity) or in the future (what's known as a deferred income annuity).
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Standard Life fell 4.6 percent after Barclays cut the stock to "underweight" while insurer Aegon fell more than 5 percent after Societe Generale cut it to a "hold" on worries over variable annuities in the United States.
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Along with other nontraditional products, the variable annuities have been singled out by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors and Daniel K. Tarullo, a Federal Reserve governor and regulation specialist, as particularly deserving of higher capital cushions.
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While it's probably unrealistic to expect a return to widespread pension coverage, this new legislation fosters better retirement security by encouraging employers to include annuities as an option their employees can buy with their payroll retirement contributions.
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Life insurers have been hurt by a prolonged period of low interest rates, prompting them to move towards investment-like products that leave more risk with policyholders, and away from products with guaranteed returns, such as annuities.
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Sales for annuities with LTC riders, likewise, have grown, as well, rising to $575 million in 2018, 7% more than in 2017 and more than double the sales from five years earlier, the latest available data show.
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The news comes one day after sources said China's Anbang Insurance Group will let a plan to acquire U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life for $1.6 billion lapse, after failing to secure necessary regulatory approvals.
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Most importantly, the legislation would facilitate the ability of holders of 53(k)'s and I.R.A.s to use the balances in their accounts to purchase annuities that would provide a steady, predictable income from retirement until death.
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But be careful with annuities: There are many types, and they can be complex — and not necessarily sold to you by someone who is legally required to put your financial interests ahead of his or her own.
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Barbara Roper, director of consumer protection at the Consumer Federation of America, thinks that standard is too flimsy and could create a "hell-scape" of poor, high-cost annuities and financially weaker insurers in 401(k) plans.
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Kramer Wealth Managers has taken steps to improve this by maintaining a sign language library on a variety of topics, including annuities, bear and bull markets and wills, and a vlog with market commentary in sign language.
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It came as Prudential announced the sale of a 12 billion-pound UK annuities book to Rothesay Life and posted annual results for 2017, which showed a 6 percent rise in operating profits to 4.7 billion pounds.
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Still, despite the legal hurdles facing Hernandez's family, they might still receive money from the N.F.L. Lockhart said the league had a range of benefits available to the families of deceased players, including survivor's benefits and annuities.
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Employers have long been reluctant to include annuities among their retirement offerings because they feared being sued if an insurer could not make the guaranteed payments — something that could happen decades after affected employees left the company.
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It also would raise the age when required minimum distributions, or RMDs, from certain retirement accounts must start to age 72, from 70½, along with making changes to allow more annuities to be offered in 401(k) plans.
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Prior to joining the Insurance Technologies board, Lunman was the Executive Vice President for Retail Life and Disability lines of business for MetLife, one of the largest global providers of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management.
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Lastly, don't allow the time and money you invest in your estate documents to become invalidated by failing to ensure that your beneficiary designations — on life insurance policies, retirement accounts and annuities — are in alignment with your will.
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"The (bulk annuities) market has grown steadily in recent years and there is projected demand of 350 billion pounds over the next ten years, as pension trustees look to de-risk current pensioner and deferred liabilities," Phoenix said.
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It also would make it easier for 401(k) plans to offer annuities by creating a regulatory "safe harbor" and, as long as plan administrators meet certain requirements when choosing an annuity provider, they'd get some legal protection.
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It said it was interested in further closed books of annuities, which pay a fixed income for life, after buying a 3 billion pound book of UK policies closed to new customers last year from Dutch insurer Aegon.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Legal & General said it had made record sales of annuities in 2018, although some analysts questioned whether Britain's third-largest insurer could continue to raise its dividend at the same time, knocking its shares on Wednesday.
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The insurer said it had sold 10 billion pounds ($1.93 billion) of annuities, most of them through the bulk annuity market, in which companies offload the risk to insurers of their defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes.
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But annuities are capital-intensive, leading some insurers, such as Prudential, to exit the market in recent years and Barclays analysts asked if L&G "can fund this level of annuity volumes and continue to grow the dividend".
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LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - Specialist pension provider Just Group recorded a 59% fall in retirement income sales to 184 million pounds ($236.40 million) in the first quarter, hurt by lower sales of bulk annuities, it said on Thursday.
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"By imposing a fiduciary duty standard, this will cause the brokerage firms to self-police," he said, protecting most people from often unsuitable investments like "nontraded REITs, variable annuities in I.R.A.s and active trading of stocks and options."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's Anbang Insurance Group, which is looking to buy U.S. hotel operator Starwood, has won approval from a U.S. national security panel to buy U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life, Fidelity said on Tuesday.
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Separately, Rothesay said it had agreed to buy 6 billion pounds ($8 billion) of annuities from the UK arm of Dutch insurer Aegon for an undisclosed sum, and said it expected to do more deals in the future.
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The N.E.A.'s Member Benefits group, a subsidiary, exclusively endorses a set of products from Security Benefit, a financial services company with nearly $32 billion in total assets that creates fixed and variable annuities and offers mutual funds.
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Legal & General said in statement it would use the cash from the sale to invest in other areas of the business, including annuities, where it is increasingly looking to insure corporate pension risk, investment management and general insurance.
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Some have aimed to rein in conflicts of interest among brokers, whom they claim recommend certain financial products, like mutual funds and annuities, based on which pays the highest commission and not which is best for a client.
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More than 80 percent of women between the ages of 60 and 75 failed the quiz, which featured questions on annuities, company retirement plans, paying for long-term expenses, Medicare planning and ways to manage income in retirement.
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The S.E.C. accused four brokers in Georgia and a firm they represented of fraud after they allegedly persuaded about 8.53 people to move money out of the plans and put the funds in expensive annuities, earning hefty commissions.
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Specifically, the insurance industry must simplify the products and language of retirement planning to clarify the role that products like annuities can and should play in helping to create protected, predictable income in retirement for millions of Americans.
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"With indexed annuities and indexed universal life insurance, the marketing pitch is always that you get all of the upside of equities and have guarantees," said Larry J. Rybka, CEO of Valmark Securities, an Akron, Ohio-based broker-dealer.
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Yes, Amazon will make serious bank if it sells millions of items on its special day, but nothing is more valuable to a business than annuities, fixed, recurring payments that can be relied on a monthly or yearly basis.
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More stringent capital requirements in the European Union for insurers from the beginning of 2016, under a set of rules called Solvency 2, mean that life insurers must now hold much more capital against annuities than against investment products.
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Fitch believes that clarification around the implementation of new Department of Labor rules governing the sale of fixed-indexed annuities could have a positive impact on Athene's credit profile if the final rules are less restrictive to FIA writers.
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Risks associated with AEL's lack of diversification were brought into focus in April 2016 when the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced new rules that include AEL's primary product, fixed indexed annuities, in the Best Interest Contract Exemption (BICE).
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Ogles said Guggenheim deceived investors into buying a type of annuity from its Security Benefit Life unit, for which he paid $145,000 in 2012, by lulling them into thinking they could enjoy "uncapped" returns that rival annuities could not.
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Bulk annuities, which involve the transfer to an insurer of company defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes, have become more popular in Britain as many schemes are in deficit and companies are seeking ways to offload the risk.
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Many employers have long been reluctant to include annuities in their offerings because they feared being sued if an insurance provider could not make the guaranteed payments — something that could happen decades after an employee has left an organization.
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GAFG has had a relatively short operating history under the larger organization but the company has been able to build a strong retail operation with strong direct sales of annuities and life in addition to its block reinsurance business.
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Fidelity National Financial Inc tapped counsel from Willkie Farr & Gallagher for its approximately $2.7 billion acquisition of U.S. annuities and life insurance firm FGL Holdings Inc, a deal aimed at helping it expand beyond its core title insurance business.
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Variable annuities are also often packaged with marketing gimmicks, including exaggerated claims about tax benefits (you are often better off with a simple taxable brokerage account) and counting the repayment of your principal investment as a "return" on your investment.
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Chief Executive Rodney Cook said the pipeline was stronger than it had ever been in bulk annuities, which involve taking on the risk of some or all of the members of a company's defined benefit, or final salary, pension scheme.
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In theory, if a financial professional is fee-only, it means that their advice is not conflicted because they're not receiving compensation from outside sources that could sway their recommendations, such as mutual fund companies and insurance firms that offer annuities.
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In some cases, like unemployment and health insurance for the aged, markets simply do not provide insurance; in other cases, like retirement, they provide annuities only at high costs, and even then, without important provisions—such as adjustments for inflation.
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The government claimed that many firms had demonstrated a willingness to allow customers to sell their annuities for cash lump sums,although newspapers including the Financial Times had reported instances in recent months of some key pension funds refusing to participate.
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In an announcement on Thursday, the Rolling Stones said they will begin a 17-date U.S. tour next month in Chicago, and the bulk of the expected audience is evident in its sponsor — an association of firms that sell annuities.
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Other UK life market themes Fitch expects in 2017 include an ongoing shift of the annuity market away from individual annuities towards bulk annuity deals, and increasing investment in alternative assets such as infrastructure, as insurers search for higher returns.
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While the value of underlying subaccounts of variable annuities fell through the floor like everything else in the market in 2008, the guaranteed income withdrawal rate (not to be confused with the rate of return of the investment portfolio) did not.
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But higher variable risk-related PBGC premiums for single-employer plans are widely blamed for causing hundreds of corporate sponsors to freeze their plans or shutter them completely and buy annuities from insurance companies to pay the promised pension benefits.
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L&G has flagged selling so-called 'bulk annuities' to companies as a key plank of its growth strategy, tapping into a growing desire on the part of most company finance directors to shift pension liabilities off their balance sheet.
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Mr. Edelman is wary of even the most basic annuities, since he worries that some scientific breakthrough could extend the average human life span by so many years that it would blow up the models that insurance company actuaries use.
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Just Group, which specializes in annuities for people with a reduced life expectancy, has been suffering from the prospect of new rules from Britain's Prudential Regulation Authority requiring more capital to be put behind lifetime mortgages, one of its key products.
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"We're not big fans of annuities, but they're a way to set the surviving spouse up for a stream of income and qualify for Medicaid," said Stein Olavsrud, executive vice president and portfolio manager with FBB Capital Partners in Bethesda, Maryland.
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IRI advocated for the exclusion of those professionals — who sell everything from annuities to life insurance — because they would potentially face a conflict of answering to a best interest standard on a federal level and a fiduciary standard in the state.
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But consumer advocates and other financial experts said they were concerned that undesirable annuities — often costly and complex ones — could end up among savers' options, particularly at smaller employers that get less sophisticated advice or don't look beyond a sales pitch.
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The agency found that MetLife had violated the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the federal securities laws relating to two errors in its accounting for reserves associated with its annuities businesses, the SEC said in a statement.
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The agency found that MetLife had violated the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the federal securities laws relating to two errors in its accounting for reserves associated with its annuities businesses, the SEC said in a statement.
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Broadly, those could include: reducing costs for small businesses to offer such accounts, making it less risky for employers to offer guaranteed income annuities and requiring plans to annually tell workers how long their nest egg is projected to last.
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It would eliminate some of the liability for employers who add annuities to the menu of options for their 401(k) plans — including expensive and complex products that purport to offer the peace of mind of a guaranteed income stream.
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Variable annuities allow you to choose how to invest your savings and are often sold with so-called guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits, meaning you can receive regular checks and still have the option to take back some of your money.
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"We know that there are people in this industry who have annuities in their bag, and if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail," said Skip Schweiss, managing director of retirement plan solutions and advisor advocacy at TD Ameritrade Institutional.
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Those who favor annuities usually cite the guaranteed income they generate, which can act like a pension, while those against them will point to high costs and a relatively poor ability to generate higher rates of return, compared to other available financial products.
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Prudential may also sell part of its UK annuities book which is closed to new customers and was considering "external and internal options" for the 45 billion pound book, Wells said, although it was not planning to get rid of the whole book.
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"In a typical 60/40 portfolio, because bond returns are at a 50-year low, I'm seeing people moving funds from bonds to either life insurance or income annuities as a substitute," said Tom Hegna, an insurance industry consultant in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
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"We have a good outlook for 2019 across annuities and asset management," Davies told a media call after L&G said that full-year operating profit rose 10 percent to 1.9 billion pounds, in line with consensus forecasts supplied by the insurer.
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It resolves claims against Aegon USA Investment Management LLC, Transamerica Asset Management Inc, Transamerica Capital Inc and Transamerica Financial Advisors Inc over 15 mutual funds, variable life investments, variable annuities and separately managed account strategies sold from July 2011 to June 2015.
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The government has also announced plans to protect consumers by capping early exit fees and giving millions more people the ability to trade expected income from their annuities on the open market from April 2017, subject to agreement from their annuity provider.
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Ms. Massion, now 22015 and living outside Chicago, said she couldn't remember a time when she didn't paint or draw — including her young adult years, which she spent on a dairy farm, and her time selling annuities for a savings and loan.
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LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Prudential's UK unit M&G will appeal a recent judgement blocking a transfer of 12 billion pounds ($14.75 billion) in annuities from Britain's largest insurer to rival Rothesay Life, M&G's Chief Financial Officer Clare Bousfield said on Friday.
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L&G, which has flagged pension risk deals - or bulk annuities - as one of its areas of focus, said it had agreed 6.2 billion pounds of deals so far in 2019, up from 700 million pounds in the same period a year ago.
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has told the firm to review its sales of annuities sold since July 2008 to see if customers eligible for higher payouts because of a shorter life expectancy were properly informed about their entitlement, Standard Life said in a statement.
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Mitchell has researched and written extensively on annuities, both independently and through collaborations with the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School, which is supported, in part, by the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company and through member contributions from financial firms and insurance companies.
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While tax-free annuities would likely be appealing to wealthier individuals looking to reduce their federal tax liability during retirement, this solution didn't get a lot of attention because it would only have had a minimal impact on the long-term budget shortfall. 22.66.
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Mark Cortazzo, a senior partner at Macro Consulting Group, says many of the variable annuities sold before the financial crisis were actually a pretty good deal for consumers because insurers had to "throw in the kitchen sink" to overcome the stigma surrounding these products.
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NEW YORK(Reuters) - With the U.S. Congress poised to pass a bill allowing annuities to be offered in mainstream 401(k) plans, Americans soon will be asking a lot of questions about these financial products that provide guaranteed lifetime income for an upfront investment.
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And while a 401(k) plan might offer a small collection of plain-vanilla mutual funds that, say, track a major stock index or invest in bonds, the investments in many 403(b) plans are typically held inside annuities, which can be much more confusing.
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Ms. Jennings of the National Life Group — who also serves on the National Tax-Deferred Savings Association's government affairs committee — said that less expensive alternatives recommended by many financial planners did not meet the needs of risk-averse investors as well as annuities did.
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Along the way, he had set aside his own money in a succession of 23(b) plans that were mediocre or worse, sometimes at the behest of sales representatives bearing candy and dispensing hugs who put other young adults into annuities paying low fixed rates.
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According to internal and S.E.C. documents, TIAA advisers receive more money if they put clients into what the company calls complexity products — in-house offerings like annuities and life insurance as well as costlier private asset management accounts and fee-based Portfolio Advisor accounts.
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While many of today's investment offerings — such as target date funds, mutual funds and exchange traded funds — are often used to generate retirement income, the fact is that annuities are the only financial product that was designed for and specifically provide protected lifetime income.
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Phoenix Marketing International defines millionaire households as those with $23.77 million or more in investible assets, which include education/custodial accounts, individually-owned retirement accounts, stocks, options, bonds, mutual funds, managed accounts, hedge funds, structured products, ETFs, cash accounts, annuities, and cash value life insurance policies.
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The previous FCA review of eight unnamed pension providers who together made up about 70 percent of the UK annuity market raised initial concerns about how annuities were sold and the regulator has since found evidence of failures in insurers' systems, two insurance advisory sources said.
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We believe insurers are likely to highlight the impact on annuities because S35300 capital requirements for these products are particularly onerous in the current market and because they have historically been a more important product for UK insurers than for those in most other European countries.
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Like old-fashioned defined-benefit pension plans, some annuities guarantee buyers lifetime income — which might not only help retirees sleep better at night but also keep them from drawing down their portfolios too quickly or during a market rout, as well as allocating too little to stocks.
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Blockchain suits "the long-term nature of annuities business as it allows data and transactions to be signed, recorded and maintained in a permanent and secure nature over the lifetime of these contracts, which can span over 50 years," Thomas Olunloyo, CEO of Legal & General Reinsurance said.
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Interest in annuities among 401(k) participants appears to run high: About 75% say they are interested — either very or somewhat — in putting some or all of their workplace savings in a guaranteed-income option, according to a recent report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
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Removes reference to Columbia, South Carolina.) Sept 24 (Reuters) - Six U.S. life insurers have agreed to pay a total of $1.83 million for improperly causing customers to switch their existing annuities to a different type that generated less income, New York State's financial regulator said on Tuesday.
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"There will come a time where we will point back to this as the start of a trend toward high-cost annuities being offered in 401(k) plans to the detriment of retirement savers," said Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America.
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Interest in annuities among 401(k) participants appears to run high: About 75% of them say they are interested — either very or somewhat — in putting some or all of their workplace savings in a guaranteed-income option, according to a recent report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
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Late work from Davis, Holiday lifts Pelicans past Suns NEW ORLEANS — During their recent 0-3 road trip, the New Orleans Pelicans played so atrociously on offense in the fourth quarter that coach Alvin Gentry would have been well-advised to check the status of his long-term annuities.
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The bulk annuity market, which involves insuring all, through a buy-out, or part, through a buy-in, of a company's defined benefit, or final salary, pension scheme, has become more competitive after British pensions reform slashed demand for individual annuities, which pay a fixed income for life.
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The terms and prices of variable annuities were much better before the financial crisis, but the rationale for a contract that guarantees an income stream while allowing for some participation in potential growth in the investment markets remains intact, according to Mark Cortazzo, senior partner at Macro Consulting Group.
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The suit, filed in Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, singles out several investments, including the TIAA Traditional Annuity, which it said has severe restrictions and penalties for withdrawal, as well as variable annuities that have several layers of fees and have historically underperformed.
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Professor Pauly said he assessed the benefits of long-term insurance and self-insuring and decided that he preferred to put money into annuities and other funds to ensure an annual income of at least $100,000 during his retirement years to cover his long-term health care needs.
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A switch flipped in Matt Carey's head after wrestling with an underfunded pension plan while working as a banker on the General Motors bankruptcy, and then for the Treasury Department alongside Mark Iwry, a longtime proponent of making it easier for employers to offer annuities in retirement plans.
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Then, suddenly, you hit your late 50s or early 653s and you realize, almost without being aware of it, that you've begun paying closer attention to those commercials about annuities, reverse mortgages and Medicare Part B, and you're no longer reflexively tossing those AARP mailings straight into the trash.
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The legislation clears the way for employers to add annuities to their menu of options within their 401(k) retirement plans, allows workers to contribute to an individual retirement account even after the age of 70½, and would enable more part-time workers to participate in retirement plans.
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"It's possible that the safe harbor will be marketed in a way that makes plan sponsors, and particularly small plan sponsors, believe that they don't need to review the annuities at all," said Fred Reish, a lawyer with Drinker, Biddle & Reath and an expert on 401(k) fiduciary issues.
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Insurers could help, not least by offering more hybrid products such as life insurance with the option of an advance on the payout if customers need care, or annuities that pay a lower-than-usual income but convert to a higher-than-usual rate if pre-agreed care levels become necessary.
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A January survey from benefits consultant Aon Hewitt, which was cited by the plaintiffs in the university lawsuits, found that 403(b) plans' mutual funds had an asset-weighted average fee of 0.97 percent while fees on variable and fixed annuities were an average of 2.25 percent and 1.15 percent, respectively.
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It seems to have originated in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, when he notes that people, "to provide for a remote futurity," rarely "buy into" long-term investments, especially in times of political uncertainty, even though these investments appear to be of equal or greater worth than short-term annuities.
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Accessing pension pots early has become the norm, it said, with most choosing to take their savings as a lump sum rather than a regular income, and with twice as many pots moving into so-called 'drawdown' funds, which allow a saver to take a regular income, than into annuities.
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A financial advisor can help you decide how to do this using a number of different savings vehicles that might include a pension, a traditional or Roth individual retirement account, a 401(k) plan, a Health Savings Account, cash-value life insurance, annuities, stocks, bank accounts or sources of income.
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While Britons will still be able to use their bank cards to withdraw money in EU countries, over a million UK citizens living abroad may not be able to use their British accounts for borrowing and deposit services, or insurance contracts such as annuities that pay pensions, the document said.
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Removes reference to Columbia, South Carolina.) By Suzanne Barlyn Sept 24 (Reuters) - Six U.S. life insurers have agreed to pay a total of $1.83 million for improperly causing customers to switch their existing annuities to a different type that generated less income, New York State's financial regulator said on Tuesday.
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Although these products have been criticized by many experts for their high fees and opaque sales practices, Mitchell says she prefers deferred annuities because they are one of the few products available that take some of the uncertainty out of the equation and provide some protection to those who are living longer.
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Key changes include allowing small employers to band together to offer 2529(k) plans, giving part-time workers access to retirement plans, repealing the 2529½ age limit for individual retirement account contributions, boosting the age for required minimum distributions to 218 from 70½ and expanding access to annuities in 401(k) plans.
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Prudential is exposed to significant credit risk through the credit portfolios backing its non-profit business, including annuities in the US and the UK. A worsening in actual or expected credit defaults or rating downgrades on these portfolios, which had a combined market value of GBP78bn at end-2015, is an inherent risk.
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"In the interest of getting into the market, some insurers who are not viable for the long term could price their annuities in a way to try to enter the space," said Jerome Schlichter, a lawyer known as a pioneer in suing employers over retirement plans workers thought were mismanaged and too expensive.
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Neal's proposal could be enhanced by other bipartisan proposals like the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act (RESA), which would make it easier and financially viable for small employers to join together to offer workers 85033(k)s or similar plans, and to offer annuities, products that guarantee an income for life, in their retirement plans.
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Patients in nursing homes and hospice care were gulled into providing personal information in order to receive a box of candy or a $250 gift; that information was used by the brokers to purchase long-term variable annuities that paid benefits to investors like BDL when the patient died soon after, according to the SEC.
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These include things like life insurance annuities, more general "risk management services" (a term, of course, that embraces derivatives purchases), "investment advisory" services, and similar financial products that used to be offered not by banks or bank-affiliated entities, but by other, more high-end financial firms that Glass-Steagall expressly segregated from depository institutions.
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For about one-third of that or even less in some cases, you can find a fiduciary adviser who will give you all-you-can-eat advice on every aspect of your financial life and put you in solid (if boring, and simple) investments that cost a tiny fraction of what many annuities do.
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" Morin's simple lifestyle allowed him to stash most of his income in a checking account and certificates of deposit, and his advisor helped him contribute to mutual funds and annuities, the Boston Globe reported: "Morin also bought several life-insurance policies over the years, all intended to benefit the university from which he earned a bachelor's degree in 1961.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Key rating sensitivities that could result in a rating upgrade include: --Further improvement in business profile driven by continued progress on diversification and clarity around implementation of new Department of Labor rules governing the sale of fixed-indexed annuities; --Maintenance of current capitalization metrics, including a Prism score of 'Very Strong'; --Maintain current level of operating performance.
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