Most recently, Vanguard began offering employees regular payouts within 401(k) plans. An in-plan annuity lets workers ...

One of ACLI’s proposals would require defined contribution plans to offer an annuity option. Under the framework outlined to lawmakers, participants in plans such as 401 (k) and 403 (b) arrangements ...

Marking its first new target-date addition in two decades, Vanguard’s new CITs offer 401(k) participants another option in ...

A guide to immediate, deferred, fixed, variable and joint-life annuities, and how to match them to your retirement needs.

Nationwide’s latest research finds that 76% of investors with annuities expect to retire when they want, compared to just 49% of those without them. However, planned retirement ages have crept later, ...

Most Americans fear a financial crisis could upend their retirement—but still haven’t planned for it. Here’s how to build a ...

A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research explored a guaranteed payout path involving defaulting 20% of a retiree’s assets greater than a certain threshold into an immediate annuity ...

When retirement planning with a client, the transition from the accumulation phase (where the focus is on building wealth) to the decumulation phase (where the focus shifts to using that wealth to ...

Responses from a select group of retirement plan participants show that in-retirement-plan annuity options may be gaining favor, with providers potentially finding traction by leaning into “pension ...

As employees struggle with extending their savings well into retirement, a new collaboration between Vanguard and TIAA is set ...