The Missing Piece of Your Retirement Planning Puzzle?

Fixed Annuities: The Missing Piece of Your Retirement Planning Puzzle? By Doug Lockwood U.S. News MONEY Increasingly, the responsibility for funding a comfortable retirement is shifting from the employer and

National Association for Fixed Annuities

Article By: Kim O’Brien, Executive Director, NAFA The investment community has historically used fixed annuities as a stable value component of an integrated investment strategy. Now, two recent innovations within

Fixed Index Annuities (FIA) – What, When, and Why?

By: Tom Morrow Fixed Index Annuities were introduced to provide the same principal protection from market losses enjoyed by all fixed annuity owners. But, here is the kicker…FIAs also gave

Reaching Retirement Goals

Posted by IALC Indexed annuities have helped Frank and his wife Mary Lou achieve their targets for retirement. They have always been diligent about saving money, and wanted the peace

Study Reveals 401(k) Disclosure Rules Not Helping Investors

In an effort to add transparency to 401(k) administration, the Department of Labor created a new rule in 2012 that required all 401(k) plan providers to disclose “all fees associated

Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why

Despite the 6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, a handful of billionaires are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast. Warren Buffett, who has

What do your favorite celebrity finance experts think about indexed annuities?

In a recent article in the New York Times, Jean Chatzky, the financial editor for NBC’s Today Show, offered some insight into how deferred annuity products like indexed annuities are