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Retirement Pyramid: Annuities in 2 Levels

The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI), the non-profit organization promoting insured products like annuities, has introduced a retirement pyramid.  The pyramid aims to provide a secure retirement for its users by putting the largest amount of money into the largest or bottom tier and gradually decreasing …

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Immediate Fixed Annuity Promoted by President Obama

The Obama administration is a big fan of annuities, according to “The unloved annuity gets a big hug from the president,” by Ron Leiber of The Boston Globe.  While President Obama did not end up discussing annuities in his State of the Union address last …

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Despite a Fixed Annuity Decline, Annuity Sales Boomed in 2009

Investment News‘ Darla Mercado summarizes the variable and fixed annuity sales of 2009 in her article “Banks’ annuity fee income rose, FA sales fell in ’09 3Q.”  Through the first three quarters of last year, bank holding companies saw the fee income from their annuity …

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Immediate Annuities on the Rise in 2010

According to “Immediate annuities, whole life are likely to gain favor,” Darla Mercado of Investment News says that as baby boomers age they are looking for insurance products that offer them income.  As these baby boomers approach retirement, they want reliable streams of income that …

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