Tag: Guaranteed income

Diversified Investment Advisors has a new in-plan investment option that guarantees income for life, while allowing retirement plan participants to participate in the stock and bond markets and...

Longer life spans, increased personal responsibility for retirement savings, and the recent market downturn can seriously impact a person’s retirement preparedness and most Americans in a recent study...

SunTrust Banks has added a guaranteed lifetime income investment option, ClearCourse, to its institutional 401(k) investment platform.

While many advisers are still not embracing annuities in retirement income planning, almost 30% said they have increased their use of guaranteed income streams amid the market crisis,...

BlackRock Inc. and the largest U.S. business lobby groups are fighting to strike a provision in the financial regulations overhaul legislation that they say could harm millions of...

Following the deadline for responses to the Department of Labor and Treasury Department’s request for information about lifetime income options in retirement plans, the Government Accountability Office (GAO)...

ING said it broadly supports investing in guaranteed lifetime income options within a retirement plan and strongly encourages employers to add this type of feature to their plans.

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc., has introduced 401KIncome, a public policy proposal that it said “provides incentives for the funding of guaranteed retirement income while strengthening the current employer-sponsored...

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) urged the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) against requiring sponsors to feature annuities as distribution options and toward providing a genuine safe harbor...

Financial advisers now have access to an online version of Nationwide’s The Retirement Income and Income Risk Workbook, which generates a suggested retirement income portfolio for clients.

Throughout the turbulent economic environment of the last several years, stable value has continued to offer a safe haven for defined contribution plan participants, according to the MetLife...

The overwhelming majority (91%) of surveyed financial advisers said they have made changes to their clients’ retirement portfolios, and many are looking toward guaranteed income products.

American United Life Insurance Company (AUL) has launched the AUL Stable Value Account for select AUL participants.

ING's U.S. operations, which merged its annuity and rollover businesses to form ING Financial Solutions last year, has added what it said is a simpler, lower-cost variable annuity...

Retirement plan advisers looking to help participants (and plan sponsors) find a retirement income solution have another option to consider.

CUNA Mutual Group has launched a fully guaranteed stable value account designed for 401(k) plans.

Great-West Retirement Services has introduced a new set of guaranteed income investment options.

Employers need to take steps to make defined contribution (DC) plans better primary savings vehicles, said Jamie Kalamarides, senior vice president of retirement solutions at Prudential Retirement.