Mr Powell on Market Watch has a nice piece he wrote about the retirement problems that the President must fix.  I’ll give you a few snippets and then a link to read the whole piece. His 4 area’s of concern are Social Security, Medicare, Retirement Security, and Healthcare for Elderly.   For the past four [...]

Since we are closing in on 2012, we have had some of our clients ask us who was the #1 seller of annuities last year and where do they stand today?  Although we will have to update you in a couple months on the total 2012 annuity numbers, here is the total 2011 total annuity [...]

Hartford Life Insurance Company is now offering to many of their variable annuity owners an opportunity to cash out of the contracts with a higher dollar amount then their current account value.   According to CEO Liam E. McGee, the option will be offered to VA holders that collectively account for about 15 percent of the [...]