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A Portfolio Of Preferred Stock Will Provide Life Income Superior To An Equivalent Life Annuity

So how will an income portfolio of only preferred stock be able to provide a growing annual ... preferred stock provides far superior payments and residual value to the retiree and heirs than an ... read more

How To Add 6% Income To Your Portfolio Without Sacrificing Growth

On the other you have the common stock that is likely to overtake the preferred in 10 years or so—maybe sooner if you've picked a stock with above-average growth prospects. The result is a pair of ... read more

Kitces: A Fix for Retirement Plan Guessing

One option: A longevity annuity. This form of single premium deferred annuity still provides payments for life ... far superior to a fixed income portfolio in the long run. The primary reason for this ... read more

Will Your Retirement Income Be Enough?

Further, with a diversified portfolio of stock and bond mutual funds, Beth expects a return of 6% annually on her retirement contributions. With a 5% savings rate throughout her working life ... one ... read more

A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Torchmark Corporation and Its Subsidiaries

While Torchmark's life insurance products generate the majority of the organization's earnings, its individual annuity and supplemental health insurance lines of business continue to provide material ... read more

Athene Holding: A New Fixed-To-Floating Preferred Stock, But It Is Not Good Enough

Retirement Services has retail operations, which provide annuity retirement solutions to its policyholders. The Company's subsidiaries include Athene Life Re ... out if its new preferred stock has the ... read more

How to build the ultimate income portfolio

Stocks that not only provide dividends ... for your ultimate income portfolio, and that’s the annuity. Many income investors overlook this income staple, but where else are you going to find a ... read more

12 Ways You Can Get More Money in Retirement

Annuities can provide much peace of mind, removing stock market moves and the economy's current condition from your worries. A deferred annuity ... in life. You can generate income in retirement by ... read more

Swedroe: 4 Horsemen Of Your Portfolio

Examples of how plans can fail for noninvestment reasons include the premature death of a family’s main income earner combined with insufficient life insurance ... to-safety benefits that a portfolio ... read more

Measuring the Benefits of Tax-Deferred Annuities

In a paper published in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of Financial Planning (“Measuring the Tax Benefit of a Tax-Deferred Annuity ... that produce tax-preferred income, the remaining assets ... read more

Annuity Analytics: What Is a Guaranteed Rate Really Worth?

In my opinion, advisors should provide clients with the embedded investment return (i.e., the cash-equivalent ... of lifetime income scenario) is $71,500 today. This is the price of a pure deferred ... read more