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BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Margaret Collins	Variable Annuities: Lifelong Income, High Cost Guarantees make annuities more appealing - and more complex.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Don't Pay Too Much for This Investment When it comes to guaranteed variable annuities, buyers are paying more for protection than they did in recent years -- even though the market has already dropped substantially.
The Motley Fool November 28, 2008 Dan Caplinger	The Retirement Ripoff You Can't Afford Insurance companies are making changes to annuities that will make them an even worse deal for investors.
The Motley Fool October 9, 2009 Dan Caplinger	This Much-Hated Investment Could Actually Help You Few investments inspire such devotion and scorn as annuities.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2011 Dan Caplinger	How Skittish Investors Can Protect Their Money You can lock in a sure thing with just two investments.
Financial Advisor June 2012 Alan Lavine	Tough Business Major players exit variable annuities, but VA sales are up overall.
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
On Wall Street October 1, 2012 Dave Lindorff	Indexed Annuities Grab the Spotlight Indexed annuities have gained popularity while variable annuities have softened, as the players on the buy and sell side change.
Financial Planning February 1, 2006 Patrick Ferrer	Annuities Special: Fee Factor When your clients buy annuities, do you really know what they're paying for?
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 John McCarthy	Variable Annuities Sliding As carriers move to adjust risk, sales taper off after three straight years of growth.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2009 Selena Maranjian	A New Annuity You Probably Don't Need New York Life is rolling out a new offering of variable annuities. But variable annuities are often a bad idea for consumers. Investing directly in stocks may be a better idea.
Registered Rep. May 18, 2010 Alan Lavine	No-Load Annuities Gain Momentum As more wirehouse registered reps join RIAs or start their own, as income tax rates rise, and as Baby Boomers continue their march into retirement, expect investments in no-load variable annuities to grow.
Registered Rep. December 18, 2012 Alan Lavine	Uh, Sorry...Can We Have That Back? Several insurance companies are following in the footsteps of The Hartford and offering to buyback variable annuities with guaranteed lifetime income. Should your clients take the cash?
Registered Rep. May 1, 2012 Diana Britton	Annuities: Growing Pains Since the beginning of 2011, three insurance carriers -- Sun Life Financial, Genworth Financial and, most recently, The Hartford -- have exited the annuity business altogether.
Financial Planning June 1, 2012 O'Connor & McCarthy	Making Adjustments 2012 started out about average for variable annuity issuers in terms of SEC filing activity, with a total of 59 annuity product changes in the first quarter com pared with 130 filings in the fourth quarter of 2011 and 49 in the first quarter of last year.
On Wall Street November 1, 2008 Elizabeth Wine	Seeking Unsexy Annuities Annuities have received a bad rap of late for their high fees and confusing contracts. But as other investments tank, clients are once again looking for guaranteed income streams from their portfolios.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	The Best of Both Worlds Is the line between funds and annuities disappearing? Not yet; regulators and corporate bureaucracies insist on separating the two investments. But in the next decade, the distinctions could blur.
Financial Planning July 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien	A Cheaper Annuity Is Raymond James's new cap on fees the start of a trend in variable annuities?
Financial Advisor July 2011 Gail Liberm	Aiming For Advisors New annuity products and platforms are being designed to appeal to fee-only advisors.
Financial Advisor May 2010 Alan Lavine	Sizing Up Annuities In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, the income guarantees offered by annuities have become quite attractive. The payouts are appealing, but do your homework.
Financial Advisor February 2005 Tracey Longo	Guarantees Spur Income Variable Annuities Sales Burgeoning investor interest in guaranteeing some part of their retirement income, especially in this era of diminishing pensions, is spurring more companies to develop a host of new variable products and features.
On Wall Street January 1, 2012 John Diehl	Lifting The Cloud Over Annuities Anyone who sells annuities knows two things to be true: annuities can deliver significant value to clients and they are also one of the most misunderstood financial products on the market.
Financial Planning March 1, 2012 Frank O'Connor	Solid Footing New sales of variable annuities held steady in the third quarter, totaling $38.5 billion vs. $39.4 billion in the second quarter and $33.8 billion in the third quarter of 2010.
Financial Planning February 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn	Annuities Special: The Right Rider Boomers want guaranteed lifetime income, but don't want to buy an immediate annuity. Variable annuity issuers think they have a solution.
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Frank O'Connor	Encouraging Signs New variable annuity sales slipped slightly in the third quarter of 2010, to $33.6 billion from $33.9 billion in the second quarter, but they were still up 9.9% from the $30.6 billion in the third quarter of 2009.
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.
Financial Advisor February 2007 Tracey Longo	Variable Annuities Get Sales Boost Do you really want to get your clients' attention as they prepare for retirement? Talk to them about variable annuities.
Financial Advisor February 2006 Tracey Longo	A Push For Lifetime Income Variable annuity providers hope to jump-start their business by selling security to worried baby boomers.
On Wall Street February 1, 2010 Elizabeth Wine	Variable Annuities Are Down but Not Out Variable annuities had a tough 2008 and 2009 like everybody else.
Financial Planning June 1, 2009 Paul Menchaca	Post-Boom It is no secret that as investors continue their flight to safety, the variable annuity boom has at least deflated, if not entirely gone bust. More conservative retirement products are now in favor.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Pamela J. Black	Not So Easy Riders The bear market has created interest in annuities that offer guarantees on returns. A look at riders being offered to protect value, improve liquidity, etc.
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.
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 Advisor February 2, 2009 Eric Rasmussen	The Annuity In Winter Can variable annuities gain some luster after a horrible year in the fund world?
Financial Advisor June 2007 Thomas Scott	What An Airline Crash Taught Me About Retirement Planning It doesn't take a catastrophic crash to cause significant injuries, in an airliner or in a retirement plan. As advisors, how can we best assure our clients will have an adequate income stream for their lifetimes?
Financial Advisor March 2007 Raymond Fazzi	Annuities Anew No-load variable annuities begin to attract interest among fee-based advisors.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Buz Livingston	Beware of Brokers Bearing Annuities Be careful, be very careful, when listening to sales pitches from insurance agents promoting retirement planning. Big commissions and poor performance can cost you.
Financial Advisor February 2010 Leslie Scism	Latest Look Redesigned variable annuities are pitched to investors.
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Joseph A. Tomlinson	Income Choices Retirement income is a growth industry, and the menu of products is expanding fast. Immediate annuities and variable annuities with living benefits are established products, while longevity insurance and standalone living benefits are more recent additions.
Financial Advisor March 2004 Tracey Longo	Making The Grade With Variable Annuity Exchanges With the creation of one-shot wrinkle reducers like Botox, battery-operated automobiles and cloned humans, can a world where there is no need to replace variable annuities be far off?
The Motley Fool April 13, 2004 Dan Otter	Annuities in a 403(b) or 457(b)? Before you invest in an annuity, make sure there aren't better options available. It won't take long to find them.
Financial Planning June 1, 2006 Frank O'Connor	A Slow Ascent Variable annuity sales for 2005 managed to beat sales for 2004, but not by much.
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Paul Menchaca	Annuities From Bust to Boom With roughly 76 million baby boomers set to retire, the insurance industry could be poised to significantly grow its annuity market.
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 Donna Mitchell	FINRA Seeks to Clarify Rule Mishmash Regulators are taking action regarding what they view as abuse in the way that variable annuity products are sometimes marketed and sold. The latest proposal will codify various practices for marketing variable annuity products.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2010 Dan Caplinger	This Investment Won't Save Your Retirement Annuities can't work if you don't have the money to buy them.
CFO March 1, 2007 Marie Leone	Beware the Fine Print Despite some welcome improvements, variable annuities still scream ''caveat emptor.''
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Kristen French	VA Sales Keepin' On Despite the recent onslaught of negative regulatory and media attention to variable annuities, sales of these products have not suffered.
The Motley Fool August 19, 2004	The Lowdown on Variable Annuities Plans such as 401(k)s and IRAs are generally more effective for socking away money for retirement.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2007 Zoe Van Schyndel	Fixed-Income Fever The fixed-income universe for ETF investors has been limited to shades of gray rather than a full palette, until now. Two of BGI's new funds are mixed government/credit funds options, which invest in U.S. government and investment-grade corporate securities.