Learn what annuities are, how fixed, variable, indexed, immediate, and deferred annuities work, and how they can help provide steady retirement income.

While annuities are not new to the retirement income marketplace, potential clients still hesitate to adopt them, even though ...

Modern annuities address longevity risk, market volatility, inflation, liquidity needs, and legacy planning, helping retirees ...

One of the best ways you can complement your retirement savings is through annuities. Here's how they can help you pad your ...

When saving for retirement, it’s common to have overlapping goals. Most of us want to save enough to generate a comfortable monthly income, avoid outliving our savings and leave something for our ...

(Dow Jones) A new variable annuity will allow investors to build their portfolio by choosing subaccounts that invest in an increasingly popular class of investments: exchange-traded funds. The ...

A recent WSJ article recommended that annuities be a default option in retirement plans. The author responds to readers’ ...

This post continues my series about using IRAs, 401k plans, and other retirement savings to generate a lifetime monthly paycheck. I've previously written about immediate annuities as one way to ...

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Question: Hi, I know from searching Chris’ articles in the past that he’s said variable annuities are a bad idea. I recently found out that my dad is 20 years into a variable life annuity. My dad is ...