Mixed Bag: How Americans View Their Financial Security
A number of important metrics suggest American workers should be in a good place financially. Unemployment levels are near historic lows. Participation rates in 401(k) plans are up, and according to Alight Solutions, a provider of benefits administration and human resources services, the average 401(k) account balance grew nearly 38% over the past eight years, […]
Stable Times Volume 23 Issue 2
The biannual publication of the Stable Value Investment Association that covers both industry concerns and association activities. Table of contents: Democratic Strategist Brazile Calls for Bridging Political Divide The 116th Congress: Outlook for Retirement and Health Initiatives Stable Value Grows Election 2020: Examining the Issues That May Decide the Presidential Race Navigating a Late-Stage Economic […]
Democratic Strategist Brazile Calls for Bridging Political Divide
Donna Brazile knows partisan politics up close—she twice served as interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, and she managed the presidential campaign of Democrat Al Gore in 2000. But the longtime political strategist says the hyper partisanship gripping the U.S. today is threatening the country’s democracy. “We’re at the point where I believe we’re […]
Election 2020: Veteran Pollster Examines the Issues That May Decide the Presidential Race
After more than four decades as a Democratic pollster, Peter Hart knows there’s too much time between now and November 2020 to safely predict who the next president of the United States will be. But the founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates has some strong ideas about what will shape the outcome of the […]
The Crumbling Social Contract: Retirement Readiness a Global Issue
Many Americans worry that they are ill-prepared for a financially secure retirement. Catherine Collinson, CEO and president of the Transamerica Institute and executive director of the Aegon Center for Longevity and Retirement, says they aren’t alone. Speaking at the SVIA’s 2019 Spring Seminar in Tucson, Arizona, Collinson said longer lifespans, lower birth rates and aging […]
Moving from Retirement Accumulation to Distribution: Annuities and Stable Value
In the nearly four decades since the creation of the first 401(k) plan, the retirement industry has done an admirable job developing additional tools, products and services to help Americans accumulate retirement assets. It’s only recently, though, that the industry has begun to turn its attention to helping Americans convert their accumulated savings into retirement […]
Stable Value Exit Provisions
Exit provisions are stipulated in the contract between the stable value contract issuer and plan. Exit provisions generally require the plan sponsor to wait a stated period before receiving the full benefit responsive value (principal plus accumulated interest).
Stable Times Volume 23 Issue 1
Download PDF The biannual publication of the Stable Value Investment Association that covers both industry concerns and association activities. Table of contents: Stable Value: The Consultants’ View The Shift: Fed Makes U-Turn on Monetary Policy On Deck: What the 116th Congress is Doing About Retirement A Precarious Existence: Transamerica Study Finds Retirees’ Financial Health at […]
Stable Value: The Consultants’ View
For years, stable value providers have known their success depends on winning the confidence not just of retirement plan sponsors and participants but also plan consultants. In April, the stable value industry took advantage of the 2019 SVIA Spring Seminar to find out how consultants are thinking about stable value products and what they’re hearing […]
