Study shows immediate annuities need bigger place in retirement

June 25, 2015 by Nick Thornton

Are plan sponsors and participants giving immediate annuities short shrift in designing income distribution strategies?

One Harvard PhD and veteran retirement wonk has published a working paper suggesting that may be the case.

Mark Warshawsky, a visiting scholar at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, a think-tank dedicated to market-oriented policy solutions, has been testing the value proposition of immediate annuities on and off for three decades. Click here to read…

Originally Posted at LifeHealthPro on June 23, 2015 by Nick Thornton.