Boomer Market Advisor April 2010
Cover Story
The great annuity debate
Bill Bowman opens with a joke. "Muhammad Ali was on an airplane and the flight attendant walked up and said, 'Sir, would you please buckle your...
Features
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It's all about the (retirement) income
There was a time, not too long ago in fact, when ensuring investors an adequate income through retirement was an issue the mutual fund industry...
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10 Questions for: Scott Stolz
Raymond James's Scott Stolz on living benefit innovation in the wake of the downturn. Boomer Market Advisor: There was significant concern about the overextension of the...
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Is a simple annuity a better annuity?
The market decline impacted virtually every area of the financial services industry, and variable annuities are no exception. In fact, due to the complex liabilities...
Columns
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Finding 'lost' retirement income
Was it really the lost decade? If we look at the S&P 500 as an example, it really was a losing proposition over those...
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The power and perversity of reduced retirement expectations
Most economists believe that the U.S. economy is recovering from the Great Recession. But it's clear that investors maintain a low expectation for our economy....
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Simplicity, Growth and the Smog-Free Immediate Variable Annuity
Like the all-electric automobile, the immediate variable annuity is a technology development that always lies just beyond the marketplace horizon. Ever popular with purists for...
Departments
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Crawling out from "in the money"
It took all of three seconds for the phone to start ringing, and it didn't stop for three days. In the run-up to his State of...
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Are annuities overhyped as a retirement cure-all?
An important question asked by our friends in the consumer press. Anne Tergesen and Leslie Scism write in the Wall Street Journal that many retirees...
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Middle boomers as the middle child
If you take an old snapshot of Woodstock and apply it to 78 million people...we'll, it might not be the most accurate picture. We've said...
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Annuity production--How'd we do?
Innovation in the annuity space took off in the last decade, but did it translate to sales? LIMRA took a look at the fixed, variable...


















