How is the rise in life expectancy impacting financial needs in retirement? Which annuities nabbed the lion’s share of product sales last year? And why are the wealthy—particularly the most affluent among them—buying annuities, given their other substantial assets?Answers to these questions, among …
Annuities
How to frame annuities more attractively
As has been noted before, since at least 1965 and the seminal research of Menachem Yaari, economists have recognized that retirees should convert far more of their assets into an income annuity at retirement than they do. Franco Modigliani famously formulated the problem in his Nobel Prize …
Annuity owners: “Ownership boosts retirement confidence”
A recent study by LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute has revealed another reason to consider annuities in retirement planning — they provide a boost of confidence. When asked about their confidence in living a desired retirement lifestyle, 47 percent of retirees and pre-retirees who own annuities …