Vanguard: Retirement funds will help it grow market share - Philadelphia Inquirer

Vanguard: Retirement funds will help it grow market share Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 8 hours ago The funds do not guarantee fixed payouts as annuities do. Instead, monthly payments are reset each January based on the funds' performance. ...
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Speaking at the LHCA Conference in Boston on Friday, Commissioner Burnes addressed a participant question regarding the unisex annuity legislation, discussed here previously. The commissioner wanted to make sure that all attendees
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Maybe What We Need is a Deregulated Individual Defined Benefit Plan

... as a higher rate than is currently permitted by Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). A recent article by Scott Burns in the Boston Globe has re-ignited this discussion among a bunch of my pension geek friends. The article was titled " ... a defined benefit plan. One of the suggestions in the article was for workers to convert some of their retirement savings into a lifetime annuity. I think this misses the point. In 2008,
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Defined-benefit pension is a huge contributor to financial ... - Boston Globe

Defined-benefit pension is a huge contributor to financial ... Boston Globe, United States - 11 hours ago Just convert some of your retirement savings into a lifetime annuity . A single female without a pension, for instance, has about a 75 percent chance of ...
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How to guarantee retirement income for life Eagle Tribune, MA - Sep 1, 2008 Annuities cost more, and they should, because they do so much
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National Retirement Risk Index: Many Households 'At Risk' and Don't Know It (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

COLUMBUS, Ohio----More than 40 percent of households 'at risk' of being financially unprepared for retirement don't know it, and the picture is even worse when accounting for health care, according to the most recent findings by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
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More than 40 percent of households 'at risk' of being financially unprepared for retirement don't know it,
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There's little under the Sun - Financial Post

Financial Post There's little under the Sun Financial Post, Canada - 9 hours ago Sun Life's woes stem from its 2001 purchase of Boston -based Keyport Life Insurance Co., a player in US fixed annuities . With fixed annuities , retirees ...
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Massachusetts business in brief Daily News Tribune, MA - 10 minutes ago Prosecutors allege Passmore represented a now-deceased client who received monthly annuity payments from TIAA-CREF. When that client died
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Form 4 Oracle: Boston, MA -- Form4Oracle: Insider Trading Report ... - Trading Markets (press release)

Form 4 Oracle: Boston , MA -- Form4Oracle: Insider Trading Report ... Trading Markets (press release), CA - Jul 29, 2008 The company also offers various other financial services, including an insurance and investment center that markets annuities , life insurance products, ...
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The Big Regulatory Fix Financial-Planning.com, NY - Jul 29, 2008 I'm pretty sure the annuity salesman would recommend that those be liquidated in favor of a "nonspeculative" investment like equity-indexed annuities
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John Hancock Variable Annuities Launches 'Advisor of Choice' (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

John Hancock Variable Annuities today announced a major program designed to support advisors' efforts to expand their business with simple new tools to develop guaranteed retirement income plans for their clients.
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John Hancock Variable Annuities Launches 'Advisor of Choice' Trading Markets (press release), CA - 1 hour ago BOSTON , July 21, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- MFC | Quote | Chart | News |
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Parents Face Savings Conundrum: Retirement versus College (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

BOSTON----Of all the financial goals faced by growing families, saving for retirement and college are easily the two biggest. Increasingly, the question for parents is how do we pay for our children's college expenses without raiding the retirement nest egg or depleting the equity in one's home?
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When the Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced a rules proposal to regulate equity-indexed annuities,
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Job Doc chat transcript - Boston Globe

Boston GlobeJob Doc chat transcriptBoston Globe, United States - Jun 2, 2008Pattie Hunt Sinacole: Then, probe a bit further "do you offer short-term and/or long-term disability insurance?" Followed by "how do they work? ...
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Around Town June 5 -- Concert shows some have aged better than othersScituate Mariner, MA - Jun 5, 2008In his role, he is responsible for managing the support and sales
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AM Best Affirms Ratings of Manulife Financial Corporation and Its ... - FOXBusiness

AM Best Affirms Ratings of Manulife Financial Corporation and Its ...FOXBusiness - Jun 7, 2008... of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (MLI) (Toronto, Canada), John Hancock Life Insurance Company (JHLIC) (Boston, MA) and their affiliates. ...
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Form 4 Oracle: Boston, MA -- Form4Oracle: Insider Trading Report ...Trading Markets (press release), CA - Jun 12, 2008This division also offers retail mutual funds, other
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