Ryan Neal, the Financial Planning Technology Editor featured RetireOne’s recent launch of the Advisory Annuity Impact calculator in a story covering advisor’s use of downside risk protection products. He points out that providers are developing technologies to prove the value of insured solutions in client portfolios, as rates remain historically low, and folks make the case for replacing a...Continue Reading
Tool created in partnership with inStream demonstrates how replacing a portion of fixed income portfolio with a next-gen advisory fixed index annuity can improve performance while substantially decreasing risk San Francisco, CA – April 7th, 2021 – RetireOne® — the leading independent platform for fee-based insurance solutions — today announced the broad availability of the...Continue Reading
Available on the RetireOne® platform, BESGUVCX is the first ESG option to be offered in a fixed index annuity San Francisco, CA – February 25, 2021 – Midland National Life Insurance Company (Midland National) announced the addition of the BlackRock ESG US 5% Index ER (ticker: BESGUVCX) to help customers take advantage of the burgeoning...Continue Reading
Website Offers RetireOne Partner Firms Immediate Access to Client Policy Data on Phones, Tablets, or Desktops San Francisco, CA – January 14, 2021 – The newly-launched RetireOne® Advisor Portal provides RIAs direct access to client insurance policy and annuity data. Partner firms now have four options for accessing client insurance policy and annuity data for...Continue Reading
Ben Mattlin takes a look at pension risk transfer in an article for ThinkAdvisor published Sunday, December 20. As folks are living longer and 10,000 boomers retire every day, the need for durable retirement income solutions becomes more and more critical. Mattlin points to a recent trend in corporate pensions toward sharing risk with insurance...Continue Reading
A Ballet of Black Swans Investors over 40 have now experienced several so-called black swan events in the last 20 years. These are those “once every 100 years” financial haymakers that drop our investments to the mat with fearsome efficiency. It is remarkable that Gen-Xers had their 401(k)s and IRAs staggered by not one but...Continue Reading
Three things to know before buying one Relatively new to the market, Index-Linked Annuities (“ILAs”) are a bit misunderstood. (For an example of an ILA, look at the Allianz Index Advantage ADV ILA). Like their cousins, fixed indexed annuities, ILAs offer upside potential with downside protection. Both provide market participation via index-following crediting methods, and...Continue Reading
RetireOne/Jackson 2020 RIA Survey featured in ThinkAdvisor Michael S. Fischer featured the 2020 RetireOne/Jackson RIA survey in an article for ThinkAdvisor titled “Two-Thirds of RIAs Open to Recommending Annuities: Survey.” The study aims to gain insights into how RIAs allocate client assets, the technologies they use for planning and management, the timing of income planning...Continue Reading
More advisers are becoming open to the products, but many still don’t like their costs, complexity and lack of liquidity With this headline, “Just say no to annuities, one-third of RIAs say: Survey,” Emile Hallez (InvestmentNews) certainly interprets the results of RetireOne’s joint RIA survey with Jackson as ‘glass half empty.’ Or maybe it’s ‘glass third...Continue Reading
