Monday, May 24, 2010
From an IVA, New Blood for Insurers
Life insurers, advisors and consumers should embrace his immediate variable annuity (IVA) with a refund option and a death benefit, says Achaean Financial CEO Lorry Stensrud.
At a presentation a few years ago, Peng Chen, president of Ibbotson Associates, projected a slide that plotted the positions of several retirement income products on a risk/return diagram.
In the northwest corner of the chart, as lonely as Pluto on a black map of the solar system, stood the immediate variable annuity (IVA). All other factors held equal, the IVA's reward-to-risk ratio was highest. Yet no one ever buys it...
Retirement Income Journal: From an IVA, New Blood for Insurers
At a presentation a few years ago, Peng Chen, president of Ibbotson Associates, projected a slide that plotted the positions of several retirement income products on a risk/return diagram.
In the northwest corner of the chart, as lonely as Pluto on a black map of the solar system, stood the immediate variable annuity (IVA). All other factors held equal, the IVA's reward-to-risk ratio was highest. Yet no one ever buys it...
Retirement Income Journal: From an IVA, New Blood for Insurers
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