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Registered Rep. September 17, 2012 Alan Lavine	Insuring Income You'd like to insure at least part of your client's income for life. But do you choose a variable annuity with a guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit? Or an immediate annuity?
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Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen	Nest Egg Survival After spending your working years accumulating money, you face a rude awakening in retirement when that growth is replaced by withdrawal. This drawdown phase might be described as the relentless cracking of the retirement nest egg.
Registered Rep. June 21, 2011 Alan Lavine	A Good Match: Managed Payout Funds and Annuities Combining a managed payout mutual fund with a deferred immediate annuity may be a simple way to help clients plan for retirement.
Investment Advisor March 2008 Melanie Waddell	Sweetening the Pot A new report has found that adding a variable annuity with a lifetime guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit rider to a traditional stock and bond retirement portfolio can increase income while decreasing income risk.
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Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Joseph A. Tomlinson	Retirement Income Products: A Wish List America faces a retirement crisis that is perhaps even bigger than the "47 million uninsured" crisis we face in healthcare. Which financial products can individuals purchase today to reduce the risk of outliving their assets?
Registered Rep. August 15, 2011 Alan Lavine	Investors Flock to Variable Annuities With Guaranteed Benefits, But Beware Retiring baby boomers are pouring their money into variable annuities with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits.
Financial Advisor October 2007 William Glasgall	The New Retirement Wave Planners will need to seek innovative ways to help keep the baby boomers from exhausting their nest eggs.
Financial Advisor September 2007 Alan Lavine	Looking For Certainty Sponsors of 401(k) and 403(b) plans want employees to draw a stable source of retirement income from them. But it's a daunting task to manage a portfolio of mutual funds while withdrawing money, based on government-mandated minimum distribution rules. A few plan sponsors already have begun adding income replacement funds to solve this problem.
Knowledge@Wharton August 27, 2003	How Much Money Will You Need for Retirement? More Than You Think What you don't know can't hurt you, according to the old saying. When it comes to retirement planning, though, the old saying doesn't apply.
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Registered Rep. November 14, 2014 Kevin McKinley	Tapping Annuities for an Early Retirement Annuities can offer nearly unlimited savings potential and unique benefits that can pique the interest of would-be early retirees.
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On Wall Street December 1, 2009 Geoffrey Stiff	When Your Client's Retirement Plan Is Washed Away, You Can Rebuild it Investors who are close to retirement are emerging from their storm cellars to assess the damage their retirement portfolios suffered during last year's financial tornados.
Financial Advisor September 2006 Frank O'Connor	An Expensive Guarantee? Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit (GMWB) features in variable annuities have grown steadily in popularity since first introduced in 2002. But financial advisors need to know if this feature is really worth the cost.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Ellen Hoffman	Annuities: Don't Believe The Hype Many of the tax benefits of variable annuities no longer exist, but the hard sell continues
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Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Joseph A. Tomlinson	Live Long and Prosper How can you help clients balance their asset needs with longer life expectancies? Longevity insurance may do the trick.
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Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Ilana Polyak	Annuities, Revisited Financial advisors who once sneered at annuities are now realizing that they could be a magic bullet.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2004 J. Graham	Beware of Brokers Bearing Annuities Annuities may sound good, but their costs overwhelm their benefits. Stockbrokers and financial advisors love to sell annuities because of the high commissions they reap. My ex-broker sold one to me, and it has proven to be the most restrictive, highest-cost, least-liquid, and poorest-performing investment in my portfolio.
Financial Planning February 1, 2005 Jim Otar	A Matter of Luck Contrary to popular opinion, there's more to portfolio success than the asset allocation decision. As an adviser, you can find peace of mind in recognizing and quantifying the luck factor for individual retirement portfolios.
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Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Pamela J. Black	The Pros and Cons of Annuities With retirement accounts battered by the bear market, guaranteed income from a fixed annuity now has more appeal, especially for clients who may be too close to retirement to count on a rebound from equity markets alone. This article surveys types of annuities, tax implications, and fees.
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 Allan S. Roth	How to Calculate an Advisor's Value Morningstar has a new way to measure the payoff to clients from working with a good planner. Do you measure up?
BusinessWeek July 3, 2008 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	Spending Safely Advisers now concede that fluctuating conditions make rigid formulas for drawing down savings unrealistic.
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Registered Rep. August 12, 2011 Diana Britton	Retirement Income Fever The industry has responded to the great wave of retirees that has just begun with an increased focus on creating retirement income streams -- successfully. It's always a tough feat, what with expanding life expectancies and estimating health care needs far out in the future.
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