As we age, many of us will need some form of long-term care, whether at home or in a facility. With nursing home costs ...

Discover how state guaranty funds protect you if your insurance company fails and what steps you can take for additional ...

Both sides of the aisle expressed interest in more choices for  annuities in retirement plans, but only Democrats pushed for ...

Periodic payments – contribute or withdraw money regularly from an investment account. Learn about the types, key components, ...

Annuities provide a guaranteed monthly income for life, making them an increasingly popular strategy for Americans worried about outliving their savings in retirement. Total U.S. annuity sales reached ...

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced it has completed its previously announced $10 billion variable annuity risk transfer transaction with Talcott Resolution Life Insurance Company (Talcott), a ...

Employers have done a lot of work over the past two decades to make it as simple as possible for American workers to save for retirement. Many employers automatically enroll new hires into 401(k) ...

Stubbornly higher inflation has triggered more retirees to buy annuities where the income they get increases each year in line with consumer prices – as well as products that pay out more if you are ...

Since their inception in 2010, sales of registered index-linked annuities, commonly called RILAs, have been nothing short of phenomenal. In the first half of this year, for example, RILA sales surged ...

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