There are substantial efforts underway in many parts of the industry to develop similar sorts of benchmarking tools for assessing, comparing and monitoring the growing variety of lifetime income programs for defined contribution plans. A very real challenge these developers face arises from the fundamental difference in the nature of the investments involved: existing equity based assessment tools translate poorly into critiquing programs where decumulation risks are the critical factor. Even the language used to produce these new tools is demanding a new mind set.
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The Notion of DC Lifetime Income as a Participant Investment Choice
The growing acceptance of the idea that defined contribution plans need to provide participant access to a “DB-Like” retirement income benefit is only really possible now because of the foundational work over the past two decades by key policy thought leaders like Mark Iwry, David John, and a handful of others.
Further success of this…
CITs and Lifetime Income Guarantees
Revenue Ruling 2012-3; the preamble to the QLAC Regs; IRS Notice 2014-66; and the Oct. 23, 2014 DOL Information Letter to Treasury are just a few of the critical building blocks which have enabled an exciting new generation of lifetime income products which we are now seeing in the market. The three 2019 SECURE ACT…
The Mathematics of the GLWB
The provision of the “Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit” (or GLWB) is a key element of most of the current market efforts to provide guaranteed lifetime income programs from defined contribution plans-and with good reason. The GLWB is one of a class of annuity payment programs referred to as “living benefits” which seek to remove the…