Annuities

Sammons is trying to solve the longtime question of how best to combine planning with certain products through technology.

Three provisions in the far-reaching law “make it likely that annuities will become more prevalent in company plans,” one expert says.

The investment plays on a trend, “which is the blurring of the distinction between traditional insurance products and wealth management products.”

Decisions we make during financial crises alter as retirement nears — and not always for the better.

The wealth manager whose parent firm also owns an insurer and asset manager settled its third case involving the same time period.

The low interest rates pushing down sales across most fixed and variable lines are also boosting certain products.

A recent study suggests sales of "expensive" VAs fell as a result of the vacated rule. But there are other factors at play, writes Raymond James' Scott Stolz.

“If insurance and annuities had always been commission free, RIAs would be power users,” says David Lau, CEO of DPL Financial which is partnering with SS&C Advent.

Expenses fell by 20 basis points and risk-adjusted returns climbed 92 bps, according to the study.

Could single premium immediate annuities be the answer to ultralow rates?