A: An annuity is a contract with an insurance company. In the most basic annuity type, income annuities, you give the insurance company a pool of your money, and they send it back to you as a stream ...

Editor and publisher of the Retirement Income Journal and author of Annuities for Dummies and two other nonfiction books, Kerry Pechter unpacked annuities and addressed how they fit into the ...

In this session, we’ll discuss ways to seek to improve retirement portfolio outcomes and add some income strategies for clients who may be uncomfortable depending solely on market returns. We’ll model ...

Annuities get a bad rap because many annuity products that are sold aggressively are complex and loaded with fees. However, you have a key advantage over insurance companies that sell plain-vanilla ...

According to some, it was akin to an undercover night raid, the speed of which left the insurance industry dizzy and defenseless. One minute the fiduciary rule was fair, the next it had been changed ...

Retirees must make a choice between buying annuities or buying bonds. I ran the numbers through an annuity calculator to determine the annual cash flow yield on the annuities. Using the life ...

An annuity is a financial product that provides a stream of income over a set period. Annuities are often used in retirement planning as a way to generate income from a lump sum investment.