Retirement Experts Offer Advice and Potential Solutions Retirement expert Robert Powell penned a lengthy column for MarketWatch outlining the retirement crisis and the most significant developments that came out of the retirement planning industry last year. From the SECURE Act, to annuities in 401(k)s, to SeLFIES, to ESG funds, and more, Powell provides a bird’s...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
Think of it as retirement income insurance Writing for Kiplinger, RetireOne President Ed Mercier addresses the need for retirees to pensionize retirement savings so that they may navigate sequence of returns risk and longevity risk effectively. As American retirement plans have shifted from defined benefit to defined contribution plans the aforementioned risks were also shifted...Continue Reading
The Future is Unbundled Sequence-of-return risk can play havoc with an individual investor’s retirement income. The “fragile decade” – the five years before and after retirement begins – is a uniquely volatile time in a retiree’s life, because it can be unclear just how much money can safely be withdrawn from retirement accounts to sustain...Continue Reading
CDAs Are Ready for Their Moment RIA Intel recently ran a piece covering Constance, the new contingent deferred annuity RetireOne is offering in partnership with Midland National. In the article, Holly Deaton talks about annuities in general and CDAs specifically, and the challenges they face in the market, as well as some of the outdated...Continue Reading
Citywire recently published an article entitled “Attack of the Annuities!” and, as you might expect from an article with a title patterned after schlocky B-movies, it leans toward sensationalism on the subject of annuities in the RIA space. The article sets the tone with a quote from Ken Fisher: “I would die and go to...Continue Reading
In October, Kerry Pechter weighed in on two different retirement income solutions that recently launched: RetireOne’s Constance Portflio Retirement Income Guarantee and BlackRock’s LifePath Paycheck. In his Retirement Income Journal, he covers the broad strokes of each income solution, what they’re used for and how they come at the problem from different directions: “The two...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
RetireOne collaborated with American College Professor of Retirement Income Wade Pfau, Ph.D., on a recent webinar for Advisor Perspectives: “Best Practices for Retirement Income Planning + How a New Tool can Help.” Dr. Pfau joined RetireOne Founder and CEO David Stone and Inside Information’s Bob Veres to discuss strategies for protecting retirement portfolios against risk...Continue Reading
