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- Roll-Ups Grow to 7%.(SPOTLIGHT)(ING U.S. Financial Services)(Nationwide Financial Services Inc.)(Brief article)
- Nationwide Financial Services and ING U.S. Financial Services each recently introduced minimum 7% annual roll-ups on their variable annuity income benefit bases. Benefit bases are shadow accounts used only to determine future guaranteed income. Most Nationwide Financial Services and ING U.S. Financial Services each ...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- A fair deal.(sponsors of defined benefit plan at the Urban Institute )(Editorial)
- A senior fellow at the Urban Institute wants to give defined benefit plan sponsors another worry - and added cost. C. Eugene Steuerle in a public policy commentary recently published by the institute contends pension plans "perhaps inadverten A senior fellow at the...
- Research articles 2007-05-14
- John Hancock Annuities Enhances Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit, Investment Lineup
- Flagship 'Income Plus for Life' Optional Rider now Offers Quarterly Step Ups
- Research articles 2008-06-16
- 412(i) Plan
- The 412I plan is a type of defined benefit pension plan that is funded exclusively by life insurance, annuity contracts, or a combination of the two. The contribution to the plan is determined on the basis of the benefits to be paid at retirement. The 412I plan is a powerful...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Integrating Payouts: Annuity Design and Public Pension Benefits
- This chapter focuses on the design of annuities and similar retirement income instruments. It is especially concerned with interactions between annuity preference and underlying publicly-provided safety net support. Because DC-type plans expose individuals to investment and inflation risk, governments often provide guarantees on pension fund benefits, as well as non-...
- White papers 2002-10-08
- The problem with lump sum distributions and what to do about it
- A few years back I was involved in an acquisition, and the acquired company allowed lump sum distributions from its defined benefit plan. Our management tried to remove the lump sum option. The union understood our concerns, but given that over 99% of ret A few years back I was...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- MetLIfe Launches GMAB For Variable Annuities; New living benefit in MetLife's suite of optional benefits
- NEW YORK -- MetLife, the second largest provider of variable annuities, today introduced a new living benefit rider to its suite of optional benefits for its variable annuities. The Guaranteed Minimum Accumulation Benefit GMAB is available with most MetLife deferred variable annuities offered through the company's agency and independent distribution...
- Research articles 2005-11-21
- [C] Profiles of the Top 200 Pension Funds.(The P&I 1,000)(alphabetical listing includes California Public Employees' Retirement System through Cook County Employees' Annuity & Benefit Fund)(Illustration)
- California Public Employees' Retirement System ($ millions) Total assets 128,678 Defined benefit 128,461 Defined contribution 217 DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer DB contributions 322 Benefit payments 5,793 ...
- Research articles 2003-01-20
- A move to internal hedging; VA writers aim to limit risk of living benefits.(News)
- Byline: Rick Miller With the reinsurance market essentially dried up, major variable annuity writers are turning to other means to handle the market volatility that makes offering guarantees a risky business. A number of major insurance...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Prudential Annuities Introduces Variable Annuity Optional Living Benefit for Spouses; Retirement Planning Product Offers No Reduction in Lifetime Income at the Death of the First Spouse
- NEWARK, N.J. -- Prudential Annuities, the domestic annuity business for Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), announced today that it has launched Spousal Lifetime FiveSM, a variable annuity optional living benefit that offers spousal coverage with no reduction in lifetime income at the death of the first spouse. The new living...
- Research articles 2006-03-20
- Prudential Annuities Announces Next Innovation in Guaranteed Protection Optional Benefits
- Highest Daily Lifetime Five offers lifetime income based on highest daily protected value
- Research articles 2006-11-27
- Prudential Financial Announces Enhancement to Strategic Partners Annuity One; Innovative Income Appreciator Benefit Can Add Up to 25% to Contract Earnings
- Business Editors
- Research articles 2003-01-06
- One on One With Bob Cassato of John Hancock Financial Services Inc.(One on One)
- Byline: Gary S. Mogel Variable annuities conjure up thoughts of hard-charging, take-no-prisoners marketing. But Bob Cassato, 55, executive vice president of distribution for John Hancock Financial Services Inc. in Boston, brings old-worl Byline:...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- VAs can't get carrot to stick; 3% return guarantee a drain on profits.(News)
- Byline: Rick Miller Many top variable-annuity providers have removed a great investment deal from their product - the fixed subaccount guaranteeing a 3% minimum one-year return. If fixed subaccounts come back, they will carry far-lower ...
- Research articles 2003-06-16
- Prudential Annuities First to Offer New Generation of Guaranteed Protection Optional Benefits; Launch of Lifetime Five Living Benefit and Highest Daily Value Death Benefit Fills Gaps in Missing Protection for Retirement Planning
- NEWARK, N.J. -- Prudential Annuities, the domestic annuity business for Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), announced today that it has launched Lifetime FiveSM, a variable annuity optional living benefit that guarantees, subject to the program rules, five percent annual compounded investment growth for up to 10 years, and a five...
- Research articles 2005-03-14
- MetLife launches new annuity product.
- MetLife investors Group in Newport Beach, Calif., is offering a suite of variable annuities that will be sold through wirehouses, broker-dealers and banks. The products offer a choice of death benefits, living benefits and an earnings-preserv MetLife investors...
- Research articles 2001-04-23
- John Hancock Adds Features and Benefits to `Guaranteed Principal Annuity'; New `GPA Choice' Product Offers Two Interest Rate Options and Long-Term Care Benefit
- Business Editors
- Research articles 2001-05-22
- FOLLOW THE RULES: Participants win big in Georgia-Pacific cash balance case.
- ATLANTA -- Georgia-Pacific Corp. might have to pay millions of dollars to former employees who took lump-sum payments from the company's cash balance pension plan in the early and mid-1990s. In the first big victory for cash balance plan participan ATLANTA -- Georgia-Pacific Corp....
- Research articles 2000-08-21
- Outlook for variable annuities fairly dim: rising prices a likely deterrent.
- On the surface, estimates that new variable-annuities sales rose 5% last year might be cause for high-fives all around. But executives, who know what's behind the numbers, say the apparent gains are deceptive. If anything, the figures appear t ...
- Research articles 2003-02-03
- DOL probes annuities in terminations. (Department of Labor)
- The federal government is taking a closer look at transactions in which employers terminate a defined benefit plan with one insurance company and buy cheaper annuities for their employees from another. The Department of Labor is currently investiga The federal government is taking a...
- Research articles 1991-06-03
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