Private-sector employers have been moving away from traditional defined benefit (DB) pension for decades, and now they’ve got fresh motivation to stop offering them: rising worker longevity.
The Society of Actuaries (SOA) released the long-await...
Even when clients have a surplus of annual income to save towards an early retirement, the limits on retirement plan contributions don’t allow an amount necessary to achieve it. But annuities can offer nearly unlimited savings potential and...
Harvard University might not be the top business school in the United States according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek's latest rankings, but it still remains atop the WealthX list of business schools that have the most billionaire alumni. Harvard ha...
Sallie Krawcheck, the former Bank of America executive and chair of Ellevate, says she’s warming up to socially responsible investing. “I have to tell you: after years of dismissing values-based investing as a fringe activity, I have changed my v...
Wells Fargo recently released its annual Middle Class Retirement Study, in which 20 percent of respondents said they would rather die early than not have enough money to live comfortably in retirement. The study includes other grim stats like 19 ...
The Asia-Pacific Wealth Report 2014 has confirmed what we all already know; Asia is minting millionaires. According to the report, by Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management, the region's number of high-net-worth investors (defined as those with inve...
The nation’s largest long-term care insurance (LTCI) underwriter is blazing a new trail for the industry on how policies are underwritten. Genworth informed its sales agents in August that it has begun considering not only the health of applicant...