The origin story This year marks the 10-year anniversary of RetireOne. The company has a storied history, full of ups and downs, tough times and perseverance and rewards. Several people still with RetireOne were here when it started. I’m not one of those people. I’m one of RetireOne’s newest employees, so when I was first...Continue Reading
Grow Your Business by Focusing on Others Business Networking International (or BNI), a networking organization with more than 3700 chapters in the United States alone, has a motto: “Givers Gain.” The basic principle is that, when you approach networking from the perspective of what it can do for you, you’re unlikely to get much out...Continue Reading
The California Insurance Commissioner fined Jefferson National Life (owned by Nationwide) after an 86-year-old contract owner claimed that she didn’t understand the variable annuity that her Investment Advisor Representative had recommended. In a recent Retirement Income Journal article, Publisher Kerry Pechter covers the news out of California regarding the settlement of a complaint against Jefferson...Continue Reading
“A new survey suggests that a growing number of financial advisors will consider annuities that are low cost and less complex.” Former FA-Mag Managing Editor Dorothy Hinchcliff has launched a new retirement-focused publication called Rethinking65. Dorothy and the Rethinking65 team featured RetireOne’s joint “2021 RIA Protected Accumulation + Retirement Income Survey” with Protective in an...Continue Reading
David Stone shares insights about how RIAs can leverage annuities and life insurance in client portfolios with Jay Coulter on his July 27 “Resilient Advisor Show” podcast. Jay invited David on the show to also provide a synopsis of results from our joint “2021 RIA Protected Accumulation + Retirement Income Survey” with Protective. Survey results,...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
This…is 2020, Fear of Bears, Schwabitrade, SECURE Act, How RIAs do Insurance, Louisville Slugging, Celebrating the Life of Dennis Collins The last quarter was huge for RetireOne. We integrated with Covr Financial Technologies and acquired the EF Legacy Securities broker-dealer from Edelman Financial Engines. Covr grew our insurance offerings, and the EFLS deal pushed us...Continue Reading
Under a photo captioned “Louisville Slugging” Oisin Breen writes about RetireOne’s acquisition of EF Legacy Securities broker-dealer from Edelman Financial Engines. In the “Brooke’s Note” intro to the piece, RIABiz Editor Brooke Southall says of the deal, “Nobody can dispute the beauty of guaranteed income. But in financial advice, such a thing takes the form...Continue Reading
Writing of the recent partnership between insurance technology platform Covr Financial Technologies and RetireOne, the publication notes that the two are teaming up to offer access to insurance protections like long-term care, disability, term life and more. “Working together, Covr and RetireOne will produce ongoing educational webinars, create content and provide support for RIAs looking...Continue Reading
RetireOne’s purchase of the Edelman broker-dealer is featured in an article by Alex Padalka for FinancialAdvisorIQ. Padalka discusses the benefits to advisors of the EF Legacy Securities acquisition, a transaction that promises to grow the RetireOne insurance and annuity back office services for RIAs. He quotes CEO David Stone, who says RIAs come to RetireOne...Continue Reading
