Annuity Secure Act Impacts Not Being Disclosed at Point of Sale Originally, I intended to author this blog one year following the passage of the Secure Act but, out of fairness, decided to give the life insurance industry a little more time. Now, a full TWO years later, I think sufficient time has passed to assign the life insurance industry an “official” F grade. I’m not going to single out individual carriers…
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It’s Official: Ken Fisher Hates … Me! (A Fictional Conversation With Ken Fisher– Satire)
Several weeks ago, a feverish annuity agent/industry response was unleashed driven by the posting of the USA Today interview of Ken Fisher (KF), Founder, Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Fisher Investments titled; “Why I still hate annuities: Here are the reasons these investments are bogus”, on LinkedIn. This was, yet again, another annuity attack in a long series of such attacks spanning many years. A long-time Ken Fisher…
Joseph M. Belth Tontine Rebuttal
I’m disappointed that the insurance industry’s venerable Joseph M. Belth(Belth), in his recent Insurance Forum blog article: “No 127: Tontines Are Not Likely to Stage a Comeback” elected to not support a possible revival of a tontine designed income financial arrangement. Moshe Milevsky (Milevsky), a professor at the Schulich School of Business and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at York University in…
Annuity Rates, Is This The Best We Get?
Many times, I wonder if today’s annuity rates will be the best we are going to get. As of now, a 3.00% crediting rate (on average) can be had on declared fixed rate deferred annuity contracts with durations of seven years or longer, generally from carriers with an AM Best FSR of A- or better. In the fixed immediate annuity market and unless you are able to incorporate some kind…
