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

For many investors, annuities are the investment you’ve heard of but likely turned down. With IRAs and 401(k)’s commanding the most investor attention, annuities may seem an obscure or confusing ...

Although many financial professionals know the value of annuities in protecting their clients’ assets and generating retirement income, they are uncovering another benefit: Annuities are helping them ...

Annuities are complicated. And the jargon that professionals use to discuss them does not help. That’s because the word “annuity” actually refers to a broad range of financial products. To help ...

When securing your financial future, especially during retirement, “annuity” often comes up. Yet, this financial product remains uncertain for many, shrouded in more questions than answers. Despite ...

The J.D. Power U.S. Annuity Study is part of the U.S. Life Insurance Study platform and explores customers’ experiences with their annuity product(s). The study benchmarks to what degree customers ...

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College's new special report about longevity starts with a simple fact: Over the past century, life expectancy has increased significantly around the world ...

An indexed annuity ties part or all of the crediting rate of an annuity to the performance of an investment index, such as the S&P 500. Keyport Life issued the first modern U.S. indexed annuity in ...

My colleagues, Karolos Arapakis and Gal Wettstein, have just published a really interesting paper on the “annuity puzzle.” That is, while economic models predict that many people would be better off ...

Unlike fine wine, a pair of new surveys shows that neither life insurance contracts nor annuities grow more appealing with age. According to J.D. Power's 2022 U.S. Individual Life Insurance Study and ...