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RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAR 18, 2010
Goldman's longevity index has short life

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 17, 2010
Only 16% of workers confident about retirement income

Workers are feeling confident about being able to pay for their basic expenses in retirement. But they're far from secure as more of them say they have hardly anything in savings and investments.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 15, 2010
Handful of distributors winning IRA rollover wars

A handful of distributors are seeing a rising tide of wealthy-client assets going into individual retirement accounts.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 15, 2010
Retirees facing minimum $200K bill for lifetime care

And there's a 5% chance the tab could top $570K, according to a sobering study published this week by Boston College.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAR 15, 2010
Annuities can limit longevity risk, expert says

By integrating annuities into financial plans, advisers can take precautions against their clients' outliving their assets, according to a retirement income planning expert.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 12, 2010
Seniors on investment info: Keep it short

Apparently, seniors set aren't big readers — at least when it comes to information about their investments.

Life insurers sue B-Ds over third-party VA sales
NEWS RIAS MAR 12, 2010
Life insurers sue B-Ds over third-party VA sales

Two life insurers are suing a trio of broker-dealers, accusing them of fraudulently selling to third parties variable annuities with lucrative death benefits on terminally ill individuals.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAR 11, 2010
American Equity fined $275K for unapproved annuity sales

The Minnesota Commerce Department claims that the insurer sold 541 contracts worth $28 million that weren't OK'd by state

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAR 11, 2010
Will regulators kill off fledgling secondary market for death benefits?

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAR 11, 2010
LTC premium hikes are coming

Steep rate hikes are coming for long-term-care policies written a decade ago.