If you are an avid reader of the Annuity Think Tank blog, you are probably sick and tired of hearing about Guggenheim Partners LLC buying up insurance companies. Well, I wish I could say this blog was going to be about something else, but it is not.  Guggenheim is now the lead suitor for SunLife Insurance [...]

There is an estimated 7 million Americans set to reach the age of the 65 by January 1st 2013, and majority will be thinking about retiring. Even if a deal is reached and the fiscal cliff is avoided, it still may be a rough time to call it a career. With uncertainty surrounding taxes, cuts [...]

Most businesses in America have a mantra to always bring on as much new business as possible, regardless of the circumstance.  The idea is that if the new business is coming in, so is the money, and they will find a way to make it work and keep up the customer service, etc.  But the [...]

A 401(k) with lifetime income you say?  How can that be you ask?  It turns out that quite a few American companies are finally coming to realize that they might be sending their hard working employees “down the river with no paddle” in their current 401(k) plans.  To make things better, a slowly growing movement [...]

A lot of people, including myself, talk about working later into your retirement years just so we can maintain a certain lifestyle we are accustomed to living.  The bad part is, no part time job is really going to allow you to afford all that travel and golf you were planning on doing once you [...]