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Beware of Brokers Bearing Annuities Annuities may sound good, but their costs overwhelm their benefits. Stockbrokers and financial advisors love to sell annuities because of the high commissions they reap. My ex-broker sold one to me, and it has proven to be the most restrictive, highest-cost, least-liquid, and poorest-performing investment in my portfolio. |
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Insurance Strategies to Build Wealth When it comes to life insurance, rarely does one size fit all. So why not tailor a policy to fit your client's investment and estate plans? |
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No-Load Annuities Gain Momentum As more wirehouse registered reps join RIAs or start their own, as income tax rates rise, and as Baby Boomers continue their march into retirement, expect investments in no-load variable annuities to grow. |
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Getting The Most From No-Lapse Coverage No-lapse universal life keeps growing, but few understand these policies. |
Financial Advisor
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Sudden Impact How can advisors minimize the effect of large losses in a retirement portfolio just when clients want to begin withdrawals? |
Financial Advisor
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Aiming For Advisors New annuity products and platforms are being designed to appeal to fee-only advisors. |
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Look Closer Optimistic projections and underwhelming returns have shown that variable universal life insurance must be recommended--and monitored--with caution. |
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Income For Life? Well, We Hope So. A look at new products that are supposed to create "personal pensions" for your clients: Dividends Galore With ETFs... Mutual Funds Aim For Payouts... Advisors Warm To Immediate Annuities... etc. |
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Reps Turn To Equity Index Universal Life Insurance Reps are turning to index universal life insurance to bridge the risk gap between low-rate permanent life insurance and riskier variable universal life. |
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February 2005
Tracey Longo |
Guarantees Spur Income Variable Annuities Sales Burgeoning investor interest in guaranteeing some part of their retirement income, especially in this era of diminishing pensions, is spurring more companies to develop a host of new variable products and features. |
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March 2007
Raymond Fazzi |
Annuities Anew No-load variable annuities begin to attract interest among fee-based advisors. |
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August 2007
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A New Life For Insurance More and better opportunities are becoming available for independent advisors who want to structure their businesses in various ways. Viable products and services are now available in the insurance industry. |
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March 2004
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Making The Grade With Variable Annuity Exchanges With the creation of one-shot wrinkle reducers like Botox, battery-operated automobiles and cloned humans, can a world where there is no need to replace variable annuities be far off? |
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Alan Lavine |
A Good Fit Immediate annuities fit well in retirement income plans. |
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October 1, 2002
Pamela J. Black |
The Pros and Cons of Annuities With retirement accounts battered by the bear market, guaranteed income from a fixed annuity now has more appeal, especially for clients who may be too close to retirement to count on a rebound from equity markets alone. This article surveys types of annuities, tax implications, and fees. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
The Best of Both Worlds Is the line between funds and annuities disappearing? Not yet; regulators and corporate bureaucracies insist on separating the two investments. But in the next decade, the distinctions could blur. |
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The Price Of Old Age Longevity insurance may appeal to some clients who want guaranteed income late in life. |
Registered Rep.
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Uh, Sorry...Can We Have That Back? Several insurance companies are following in the footsteps of The Hartford and offering to buyback variable annuities with guaranteed lifetime income. Should your clients take the cash? |
The Motley Fool
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Foolish Advice on Life Insurance Life insurance seems simple. And it should be. But more and more agents are selling complex, commission-boosting products that do little for consumers. Be cautious and buy only the minimum. |
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VUL Sales Rebound After Prolonged Slowdown Companies hope that new features of variable universal life insurance will overcome buyers' concerns. |
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May 2010
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Sizing Up Annuities In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, the income guarantees offered by annuities have become quite attractive. The payouts are appealing, but do your homework. |
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Are Variable Annuities Right for You? Variable annuity sales are way up, but are they a smart move? |
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Alan Lavine |
Variable Annuity Providers Cozy Up To RIAs "In the fee-only community, it's historically been that you literally have the `Scarlet A' if you use annuities." |
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June 2007
Thomas Scott |
What An Airline Crash Taught Me About Retirement Planning It doesn't take a catastrophic crash to cause significant injuries, in an airliner or in a retirement plan. As advisors, how can we best assure our clients will have an adequate income stream for their lifetimes? |
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Patrick Ferrer |
Annuities Special: Fee Factor When your clients buy annuities, do you really know what they're paying for? |
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Tough Business Major players exit variable annuities, but VA sales are up overall. |
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A Fitting Problem Having found the securities industry severely wanting in its policing of research conflicts, market-timing and fee disclosures, the regulators are looking to see if similar abuses exist in the insurance industry. |
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Post-Boom It is no secret that as investors continue their flight to safety, the variable annuity boom has at least deflated, if not entirely gone bust. More conservative retirement products are now in favor. |
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The Case for Insurance-Based Investments Insurance-based investments have a lot of untapped potential. Tax laws favor them, and if you need life insurance anyway, attaching investments to a policy can have some real benefits. Read on for more information. |
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Save Money by Dumping Dud Deals How to get out of pricey contracts without losing your shirt. |
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Focus! There's plenty to think about when doing retirement planning for clients; read on for the priorities that you should be doing something about, right now. |
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September 1, 2012
Frank O'Connor |
Variable Annuity Issuers Go Back to Basics After the Financial Crisis After the economic crisis, VA issuers go back to the basics, designing new products intended to avoid volatility and basis risk. |
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Tracey Longo |
A Push For Lifetime Income Variable annuity providers hope to jump-start their business by selling security to worried baby boomers. |
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The Annuity In Winter Can variable annuities gain some luster after a horrible year in the fund world? |
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New Products Alternatives... 1031 exchange educational Web site... ETF futures contracts on the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock, S&P 500 Depositary Receipts, and iShares Russell 2000... etc. |
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June 2004
Raymond Fazzi |
When VUL Lapses One of the problems the bear market left in its wake is a rash of variable universal life policies that are underfunded. |
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Ilana Polyak |
Annuities, Revisited Financial advisors who once sneered at annuities are now realizing that they could be a magic bullet. |
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Bob Clark |
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Registered Rep.
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Alan Lavine |
Should You Buy a Critical Care Rider? More than 10 insurers, including American General, Prudential and Nationwide Guardian, have added chronic illness riders to their life insurance policies, according to published reports. |
The Motley Fool
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Dan Otter |
Annuities in a 403(b) or 457(b)? Before you invest in an annuity, make sure there aren't better options available. It won't take long to find them. |
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September 1, 2008
Stacy Schultz |
Are the Times Changing? A new study shows that 75% of advisors say they provide a written plan for their clients' retirement planning. Read on to see more specifically what they are doing. |
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Upgrades News: Neuberger Berman Group is again majority-owned by its employees... Raymond James Financial is implementing Interactive Data Corp's Market-Q... Charles Schwab lowers fund fees... Sales of variable annuities fell 15% in 2008... more... |
The Motley Fool
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Term vs. Cash-Value Insurance: Which Is for You? Be a careful shopper when it comes to cash-value insurance. |
