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Executive’s Life’s 1991 collapse made a mockery of the insurance company rating system. Just months prior to its demise, S&P had given that insurer its highest rating (AAA, “Extremely strong capacity to meet financial commitments”) and Moody’s was awarding it
I had to chuckle a bit when I first read Nevin Adam’s excellent (of course) recap of the latest DC class action lawsuit, this one involving JP Morgan Chase Bank’s DC plan’s selection of stable value funds. He noted
The ongoing Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) litigation poignantly demonstrates the growing importance of the SECURE Act’s “Annuity Safe Harbor” provision to the continuing efforts to design and develop responsive DC Lifetime Income programs.
The PRT plaintiffs claim fiduciary violations of
The efforts to get some sort of handle on how to review, assess and implement DC lifetime income programs is very reminiscent, to me, of my experiences following the system-wide impacts following the fundamental changes introduced by the 2007 403(b)
There are substantial efforts underway in many parts of the industry to develop similar sorts of benchmarking tools for assessing, comparing and monitoring the growing variety of lifetime income programs for defined contribution plans. A very real challenge these developers
The growing acceptance of the idea that defined contribution plans need to provide participant access to a “DB-Like” retirement income benefit is only really possible now because of the foundational work over the past two decades by key policy thought
Generating over 19,000 written comments, the DOL’s proposed fiduciary rule changes clearly hit a “vein.” Though the proposed changes are complex and multi-tiered, there are two of them which are particularly garnering most of the attention.
The first is the
There is much to be considered under the new set fiduciary rules recently proposed by the DOL, especially as we sort through the (very extensive) details of this new regulatory regime. We are already hearing much about the impact and
Revenue Ruling 2012-3; the preamble to the QLAC Regs; IRS Notice 2014-66; and the Oct. 23, 2014 DOL Information Letter to Treasury are just a few of the critical building blocks which have enabled an exciting new generation of lifetime
Let’s face it. Annuities generally are not well received in much of the retirement plan adviser community. From the historical impression that “annuities are sold, not bought;” to some advisers perceived baggage associated with being that ghastly “licensed insurance agent;”