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         <title><![CDATA[How to Put DB in DC ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Imagine a future where 401(k) plan participants go online not to check their accumulations but to view their guaranteed monthly income in retirement.   ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.retirementincomereporter.com/issues/2008_10/186149-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Life Settlements: The Movie]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The hero of my latest screenplay is an 82-year-old man with a $1 million life insurance policy. He's pursued by bloodthirsty beneficiaries and a pack of life settlement salespeople.   ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.retirementincomereporter.com/issues/2008_10/186150-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Executive Moves]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[  Stephen Pelletier has been named president of Prudential Annuities, replacing David R. Odenath.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.retirementincomereporter.com/issues/2008_10/186151-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[How the Presidential Candidates Differ on Retirement Income]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Both John McCain and Barack Obama have incorporated retirement savings into their agendas. So far, Obama has been more explicit about his proposals. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Bucket List: IFLM Updates the Retirement Income Ladder]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The 'bucket method' of assigning money to short-, medium and long-term accounts has long served as a way for advisers to control risk and generate income for retirees.   ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.retirementincomereporter.com/issues/2008_10/186153-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Two-Decade Evolution of IFLM]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In the '80s, Phil Lubinski gathered some historical stock market tables and a few legal pads and roughed out the laddered system that would evolve into IFLM. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Skuttlebutt about IFLM And Other 'Bucket' Methods]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA['IFLM addresses the question, 'Once I retire, how do I structure my portfolio to generate money with a high degree of confidence?''  ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Putting a Freeze on STOLI (Not the Vodka) ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Baby Boomers with in-force life insurance but inadequate savings are the target market of the burgeoning but much-criticized life settlement industry.  ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The State of STOLI Laws]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Recent amendments to the Viatical Settlement Model Act prohibit the sale of a life insurance policy for five years except in cases of terminal illness.   ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Annuity Providers Face a Challenge: Advisers' Aversion]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Chicago-based Spectrem Group found that 70% of advisers avoid locking their clients into annuities and would prefer other long-term retirement products.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Research Watch]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A 'perfect storm' of economic forces makes lifetime income annuities a smart move for women, according to a Wharton Financial Institutions Center essay. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.retirementincomereporter.com/issues/2008_10/186159-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[NAVA Welcomes Catherine J. Weatherford as New President: Former CEO of National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After a successful 12-year tenure as EVP and CEO of NAIC, and with long experience in insurance regulation, government, and public policy, Weatherford is poised to move NAVA forward. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.retirementincomereporter.com/issues/2008_10/186160-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[NAVA Chairman Clifford Jack Offers a Special Welcome to New President]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[For more than 10 years, Cathy Weatherford provided exemplary leadership for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).  ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[On the Road to STP: October 2008]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Electronic signing of electronic documents produces a truly 'paper-free' STP process, which will reduce errors, compress process time, and assure a transparent, expeditious, and error-free outcome. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[NAVA Bids Farewell to Mark Mackey: Colleagues and Board Members Share Their Best Wishes]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As its first full-time president and CEO, Mackey guided NAVA from a small start-up to a significant force in the variable annuity and retirement income industries.]]></description>
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