Annuity Criticisms Often Boil-Down to Control of Assets
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Annuity Puzzle
The annuity puzzle refers to the fact that few people choose to annuitize even a portion of their accumulated savings even though they have many good and rational reasons to do so.
Richard Thaler on Annuities
Richard Thaler is a professor at the University of Chicago and he is a renown economist. Best known for his work in the area of behavioral finance , Thaler focuses on how human psychology affects economic decision making. Thaler recently wrote a piece on annuities which was published in the New York Times. The Times article focused on the annuity puzzle. The term annuity puzzle is used to describe the lack of annuity adoption (purchases) relative to what economists would consider rational given...
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Guaranteed Income Solutions Take Center Stage
Putnam Investments President and CEO Robert Reynolds spoke on the need to address America’s lifetime income challenge at the recent Retirement Income Industry Association (RIIA) conference in Chicago.
While Reynolds has spent most of his career in leadership positions in the investment management industry, his...
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Annuities are Insurance
Here is a bit of advice that might make annuities easier to understand:
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Harvard Professor Roland Fryer – The Annuity Puzzle and Why People are More Comfortable Flying if They Can See the Cockpit
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