Thank You, Survey Says, Michael Finke Says, Risk is the Fabric of the Financial Universe, Constance Keeps Getting Better…and So Does RetireOne Thank You for Choosing RetireOne In the second quarter of 2022 these advisors began working with us: Brian Low, Brent Wilsey, Karen Vergara, Ann Areco, Ashli Newcomb, Joe Froemming, Matt Jonathan Savela, Amanda...Continue Reading
Bringing more than 55 years of combined industry experience, Tom McNeela and Jeff Cusack join RetireOne as Director of Client Experience and Sr. Managing Director, Strategic Accounts, respectively. San Francisco, CA – March 28, 2022 – RetireOne®, the leading independent platform for fee-based insurance solutions, today announced the appointment of Tom McNeela and Jeff Cusack...Continue Reading
The human cost behind current market troubles We all know what’s happening in Eastern Europe right now. We can feel the shockwaves of it all the way over here, in the USA, and the financial industry is abuzz with predictions and speculation. Whether we’re talking about how a long-term war in Ukraine could hurt our...Continue Reading
Thank You, Constance Launch, New Research from Wade Pfau, Risks for Retirees, 10-Year Anniversary, New MYGAs, New RILAs, and Welcome to the Team! When I was chief legal counsel, and Scott Strait was chief technology officer at Schwab back in the aughts, we had an idea: we wanted to challenge the status quo of retirement...Continue Reading
Former SVP, Head of Annuity Product Development at Protective Life Corporation, Goyer brings 30 years of experience in product management and design San Francisco, CA – November 16, 2021 – RetireOne®, the leading independent platform for fee-based insurance solutions, today announced the appointment of a new Sr. Managing Director of Product Strategy — Stéphane Goyer....Continue Reading
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
Fee-based solution is offered in 3-, 5-, or 7-year duration To help meet growing demand among RIAs, our partners at Midland National Life Insurance Company (Midland National) launched a new Multi-Year Guarantee Annuity (MYGA) named Oak ADVantageSM. This new advisory MYGA has been designed specifically with RIAs in mind and is available on the RetireOne...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
Thank You, RIAs Trending Up, How Annuities Move, Speaking of OIDs, RIA PARIS, and The Future—Unbundled It’s happening. Maybe not as quickly as some are expecting, but it is happening. More folks are going RIA, as fewer are joining the ranks of FINRA-registered broker-dealers. It’s not just about how advisors choose to structure their businesses....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
