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Obama takes tax whack at insurers
RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 17, 2011
Obama takes tax whack at insurers

President's budget would end break on corporate-owned insurance; dividends-received reduction also targeted

NEWS RIAS FEB 17, 2011
Prudential's pared-down VA has some advisers grumbling

Prudential once again has pulled back on the living benefits in one of its most popular variable annuities

NEWS RIAS FEB 17, 2011
Other VA players may follow Genworth out door

Genworth Financial Inc.'s decision to leave the variable annuities business could herald more departures by other peripheral players this year.

Fidelity VA slow to catch on with fee-based advisers
RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 17, 2011
Fidelity VA slow to catch on with fee-based advisers

Group still 'kicking the tires' on MetLife annuity; offering is popular with firm's reps, however

NEWS RIAS FEB 17, 2011
LPL expanding menu of fee-based VAs

LPL Financial soon will unveil to its representatives an expanded menu of fee-based VAs — a product that has proved unpopular among brokers so far.

NEWS RIAS FEB 14, 2011
The GMWB and why it's so popular

In the world of variable annuities, 2010 may have been the year of the guaranteed-minimum-withdrawal benefit

Skimpier living benefits could kill interest in VAs, advisers warn
RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 14, 2011
Skimpier living benefits could kill interest in VAs, advisers warn

Lack of investment choices also slammed; fee-based variable annuities the next step?

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 14, 2011
Investors staged last-minute rush to Roth IRAs

Affluent clients of two large financial services companies converted billions of dollars held in conventional IRAs to Roth IRAs in 2010, particularly at the end of the year

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES FEB 13, 2011
Another insurer bows out of LTC insurance sales

Does anyone want to write long-term-care insurance policies anymore?

NEWS RIAS FEB 13, 2011
Taking off the glitz

To make their variable annuities more attractive, insurers revved up living-benefit features last year