retirement income products

• Top retirement income providers win by showing they understand issues

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  February 12, 2013

  Thorough understanding, leadership and assistance key to giving retirement income providers a leg up on the competition.

• Retirement market will hit $22 trillion by 2020

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  February 4, 2013

  Advisors will face an abundance of opportunity as the investible assets of U.S. households is set to double in less than two decades.

• IRIC report explores retirement products for plan sponsors

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  January 25, 2013

  The Institutional Retirement Income Council issued a report to help employers that sponsor retirement plans better understand and navigate through the maze of retirement income products that are emerging in the marketplace.

• Plan sponsors get help on selecting institutional products

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  January 23, 2013

  The Institutional Retirement Income Council aims to help plan sponsors get a better overview of the options available and a way of evaluating what's best for their employees.

• AIG Advisor Group buys Woodbury Financial

  By Staff Writer  |  August 1, 2012

  Woodbury will join an AIG-owned umbrella group that includes FSC Securities, Royal Alliance and SagePoint Financial.

• Great-West offers new retirement product for bank-affiliated broker/dealers

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  May 3, 2012

  Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company has introduced a new retirement income solution for bank-affiliated broker/dealers, called Great-West SecureFoundation Smart Future.

• New legal team focuses on sustainable income solutions

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  March 1, 2012

  Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has formed a team to help the retirement industry navigate the legal and regulatory maze associated with creating sustainable income solutions.

• DST Systems launches admin system for guaranteed income products

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  February 17, 2012

  DST Systems, a provider of information processing solutions to the asset management, insurance, retirement, brokerage and health care industries, has launched a new administrative solution that makes retirement income products more widely available to sponsors of defined contribution plans and their participants.

• Industry groups collaborate to promote lifetime income options

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  February 9, 2012

  The Retirement Income Industry Association and the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association have agreed to jointly manage a new working group of financial services and retirement industry firms to help providers of retirement income products, services and solutions collaborate to include life income options in defined contribution plans.

• Financial professionals to ramp up retirement income planning

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  September 28, 2011

  A large number of financial professionals plan to ramp up their retirement income planning practices over the next few years, according to a new study by the Principal Financial Group.