At its core, a variable annuity is designed to provide a steady stream of income during retirement. But these financial products are more complex, costlier and riskier than other types of annuities.

While I discussed a variety of ways that insurance companies manage the risks around supporting lifetime income guarantees, fees are the headline mechanism for managing the guarantee risk. Fees can be ...

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Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education ...

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The W3C’s CSS Working Group, the standards body that oversees the CSS specification, is getting closer to defining one of CSS’s most requested features — CSS Variables. However, if you’ve been ...

Variable rate student loans are low – as low as 1% – as the fall semester approaches, and that could be a good scenario for college loan borrows – if they play the interest rate game correctly. What ...

System and User Environment Variables have always been a complex topic of discussion for day-to-day Windows OS users. What do they do? A tutorial on the internet said to add a PATH variable, but what ...

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