Vanguard has measured a 30-40% chance for a recession by late 2020. The popular fund company (and manager of subaccounts in some of RetireOne’s solutions) base their prognosis on a couple of factors. Writing in the New York Times, journalist Jeff Sommers says, “The recession projection is based largely on interest rate expectations using two...Continue Reading
Deep into this unprecedented bull market, everyone seems to be looking for signs that it will come to an end. Too much of a good thing has made us all nervous as long-tailed cats in a room full of rocking chairs. We all know it can’t go on forever. Experts are coming out of the...Continue Reading
Client needs changing as fee-based advisors plan for rising rates and inflation. San Francisco, CA – August 1, 2018 – RetireOne adds two new solutions to the platform this month as RIAs and Fee-Based advisors look for alternative ways to meet client income needs, manage risk and navigate a rising rate environment. New additions include...Continue Reading
Experts have been weighing in on the slow adoption of no-load annuities and insurance-based solutions by RIAs. Certainly, a lack of non-commission products has been one of the culprits, but as more and more fee-based products come to market, why is adoption still low? Michael Kitces, recently quoted in a Ben Mattlin article in Financial...Continue Reading
Featuring Harold Grubbs, RFC, AIFA® Because they aren’t typically insurance licensed, and they don’t take commissions, Registered Investment Advisors like Harold Grubbs have had to outsource annuity-related client needs, or ignore them. Annuities have also been so complex and expensive that their essential value, tax deferral, has been neutered. But a new generation of low-cost,...Continue Reading
Writing in Advisor Perpectives, RetireOne CEO David Stone provides some insights into how to examine client variable annuities. Some advisors hate them for their complexity, high cost, and lack of transparency. And because RIAs aren’t typically insurance licensed, when clients walk in to their offices with VAs, some would rather refer them to an insurance...Continue Reading
Jay Cooper of Life Annuity Specialist features RetireOne’s recent expansion of the platform’s principal protection suite to include two fixed indexed annuities from Nationwide Financial (New Heights® and Summit®). Mr. Cooper notes that the expanded offering complements RetireOne’s recent addition of the Great-West Capital Choice® Advisor Index-Linked Variable Annuity, pointing out that these structured annuities...Continue Reading
Retirement Income Journal spotlights RetireOne’s partnership with Great-West to carry the new fee-based index-linked variable annuity (ILVA) Capital Choice Advisor. Retirement Income Journal editorial staff note the emergence of index-linked variable annuities as index-following alternatives to their fixed index annuity brethren and note two principal differentiators: ILVAs typically offer much higher upside potential but, in...Continue Reading
The leading independent platform for fee-based insurance solutions now includes fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) San Francisco, CA – April 25, 2018 – A suite of fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) are now available on the RetireOneTM platform. The inclusion of fee-based and traditional FIAs as a portfolio option provides RIAs and fee-based advisors with a risk...Continue Reading
Dick Cotton updated his earlier post on The Retirement Cafe on Floor-and-Upside strategies. The floor-and-upside strategy for financing retirement is sometimes referred to as “safety first” and derives from The Theory of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing. The basic idea behind floor-and-upside is that a retiree devotes some of her retirement funding assets to building a...Continue Reading
