Boomer Market Advisor June 2010
Cover Story
Don't Call it a Comeback: The New Face of 401(k)s
The marketing rap from Nick Della Vedova's press person caught our eye. "Generation X is often under appreciated in our boomer-conscious culture. Yet 51 million Xers--those...
Features
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Annuitize Your Long Term Care Business
We recently looked into the burgeoning market for "combination" life insurance products that come with a long term care component. That was only half...
Columns
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More Boomer Fun With 401(k)s
The oldest of the boomer generation are now reaching that traditional mid-60 retirement age. The recent stock market woes have decimated retirement plan nest eggs....
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An Issue of Retirement Product Compensation
An executive at a major distribution company recently told me he doesn't think fee-only financial advisors who recommend immediate annuities should be compensated for the...
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Forget Stocks, Buy and Hold Annuities Instead
At the Retirement Income Industry Association's spring conference, you could almost see Jeremy Siegel standing on his head. Almost... Siegel, author of "Stocks for the Long...
Departments
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401 reasons not to panic
The single greatest lesson of the past two years? Buy and hold is not, in fact, dead. Not even on life support. Despite worries...
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Wealthy Americans are worried about retirement
Over half of survey respondents said more needed to be done to help people save for retirement. Half said all retirees should have health care...
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Vanity, thy name is boomer
The recession may have made thrift fashionable, but for boomer women, there's no trading down when it comes to skin care. A new report from...
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Costs for in-home care rise slower than alternatives
A Genworth Financial study found that while the cost of in-home care is rising, it's doing so at a slower pace than care in...
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Women more concerned than men about retirement security
More than half of the middle-income women surveyed felt unsatisfied with their current financial situation and uncertain about their future financial needs. Almost one-third...
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Reinventing Boomer Retirement
The boomer generation has long been known as agents of change, and retirement is no exception. As boomers redefine what it means to retire, financial...
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RIAs Cold to Guaranteed Income Products
We don't always report on LIMRA studies in the Broker/Dealer Playbook section of the magazine, but this one has legs. A new study from the...
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Let's Hope it's That Short
Today's pre-retirees say they will need to postpone their retirement 4.2 years on average, which would be the first time in history that retirement age...
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Retire With Bernanke? Don't Bet On It
Even conservative investors need to take some risks with their investments in an effort to protect the purchasing power of their savings against inflation. At...
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