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• Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits

  By Maria Wood  |  November 1, 2012

  GLWBs are popular with consumers, but can variable annuity providers pay for those riders long into the future?

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  Extreme makeover: Variable annuity edition

  By Maria Wood  |  October 5, 2012

  As guaranteed living benefit riders in VAs get more expensive to hedge, several carriers are reworking their products.

• How CEOs and politicians messed up pensions

  By Richard Hoe, ChFC, CLU, AEP  |  September 1, 2012

  Employers argue that employees began changing jobs more often and wanted portability — the ability to move pension money from place to place — but that contention doesn’t explain the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution.

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  Late Money Manager Wrote Coach into Life Insurance

  By Danny Robbins  |  June 14, 2012

  A Texas financial advisor who committed suicide as authorities probed his management of college coaches' money left $1.8 million in benefits to University of Houston coach Bill Yeoman, who has declined to claim the money.

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  Catalyst Health 1Q Revenue Up 29.7%

  By Noah Guillaume  |  May 4, 2012

  In addition to 1Q results, Catalyst Health Solutions executed a $4.4 billion merger agreement with SXC Health Solutions.

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  Riders: The New Selling Point

  By Lori Widmer  |  October 1, 2011

  For the consumer, it's all about added benefits. For agents selling in a tough economy, it's more about finding ways to attract and retain customers.

• Three timely indexed annuity riders meet clients' needs

  By Dana Pedersen  |  December 1, 2010

  Clients and prospects are worried about retirement, costly long-term care and an uncertain legacy. The good news for producers is a trio of established and emerging riders - layered on an indexed annuity -- directly addresses these concerns.