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Are your clients' annuities ready?
By Nick HartshornIf you take the time to look it up, the dictionary defines an annuity as "the annual payment of an allowance of income." Spin that into the broader world of the financial sphere, however, and you'll arrive at something Take that one step further
February 28, 2006
Instruments of mass communicationAdvisors are always on the lookout for ways to increase their visibility. The Yellow Pages, billboards, newspaper ads and radio spots are some of the standard ways. Technological advances have increased the options in the visibility stable, and the
February 28, 2006
Survey: Few Employers Offer AnnuitiesU.S. employers are just starting to adjust to the aging of the work force.Researchers at a unit of MetLife Inc., New York, have presented data ...
February 26, 2006
Fixed Annuity Sales Fell 10% In 2005Industry sales of fixed annuities totaled $18.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005, the lowest quarterly sales total since the second quarter of 2001.The ...
February 26, 2006
Fixed Annuity Sales Fell 10% In 2005Industry sales of fixed annuities totaled $18.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005, the lowest quarterly sales total since the second quarter of 2001.The ...
February 26, 2006
NAVA Hears MFS Executive's Income Solution SuggestionsPeople want to know what will happen to them, financially speaking, if they live to be 80 to 98, said Robert C. Pozen, chairman of ...
February 26, 2006
NAVA Hears MFS Executive's Income Solution SuggestionsPeople want to know what will happen to them, financially speaking, if they live to be 80 to 98, said Robert C. Pozen, chairman of ...
February 26, 2006
Getting Into Income PlanningIt's one thing to say that insurers and advisors should give more focus to income planning, but the question is how to do it?A panel ...