Tag: Annuities

Annuity Think Tank, a website dedicated to annuities, has acquired Private Pension Plan, an educational resource company specializing in private pension plans.

Genworth Financial has launched two index annuities, which allow consumers to allocate across five different crediting strategies based on individual needs and risk tolerances.

Eighty-two percent of small business owners believe that employees should have a pension benefit for life. 

The Hartford has introduced two fixed index annuities. 

If critics of the financial services industry or the retirement industry in particular say product offerings are too complicated, Prudential contends that’s where advisers come into play.  

Conversations about annuities are becoming more focused on lifetime income, with more than one-third of investors (34%) reporting that the main reason for purchasing an annuity is to provide guaranteed...

USAA Life Insurance Cos. has announced a new immediate income annuity, the Guaranteed Retirement Income Plan.

The Retirement Income Solutions division of Sun Life Financial has launched the Sun Life Solutions Variable Annuity and the Sun Income Vision Living Benefit. 

Security Benefit Corporation, a Guggenheim Partners Company, has launched the Total Interest Annuity, built specifically for the 403(b) market.

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America has launched a three-part animated series to help investors better understand annuities.

Vanguard has added an optional Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (GLWB) rider to its Vanguard Variable Annuity.

The Hartford is rolling out The Hartford Lifetime Income solution that can be delivered through 401(k) plans to provide participants with a guaranteed paycheck for life.

A joint report from the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) and Cerulli Associates concludes that variable annuities can provide advisers flexibility in creating a retirement income strategy for clients....

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company has updated its variable annuity, the Accumulator, first introduced in 1995.

Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston is introducing its Freedom Series Builder Annuity.

Life insurance coverage is at its lowest point in more than five decades, according to a research project undertaken by Genworth Financial and the University of Virginia.  

A Prudential survey of near and recent retirees found guaranteed products will help persuade wary investors to stay in the stock market, even during times of volatility.  

According to a recent LIMRA study, 35% of all retirees receive income from an annuity.

John Hancock Annuities has launched “Inflation Guard,” an annuity that combines a principal guarantee with the ability to help protect the purchasing power of retirement assets from the...

Allianz Life Insurance Company has launched Allianz 360, a fixed index annuity (FIA) exclusively to Field Marketing Organizations and agents associated with the Allianz Preferred distribution model.