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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

Why Preferred Stock, Muni ETFs Worth A Look

In 2015, preferred stock ... income aspect of preferreds is in demand relative to other fixed-income classes. It’s incrementally higher given the level of risk relative to that of higher-income ... 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

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

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

What's So Great About CEF Investing - Author Interviews

My goal is to continually increase my income and keep reinvesting them to "grow" my portfolio ... superior yields. They are perfect vehicles for today's low interest rate environment. Arbitrage Trader ... read more

Risk-averse investors push advisers to their creative limits

When considering the extreme example of a client wanting no part of stock-market ... is a variable annuity with a guaranteed income rider," said Tim Holsworth, president of AHP Financial Services. "I ... 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