Laurence Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics and Boston University. Professor Kotlikoff is one of the nation’s leading experts on fiscal policy, national saving and personal finance.
Professor Kotlikoff is the author or co-author of 15 books and he publishes extensively in newspapers, magazines and blogs on issues of personal finance, financial reform, taxes,...
Dividends contributed five percent of the 7.9 percent total return from stocks over the 200 year period from 1802 through 2002.
Dividend paying stocks in the S&P 500 produced an average return of 8.92 percent since 1972. Over that same roughly 40 year period, non-dividend paying stocks in the same index returned 1.83 percent.
Most equity indexed annuities only count market price gains in their reference index when crediting...
The world is filled with investing indexes and benchmarks, and all professional investment managers measure their results relative to some type of performance standard such as the S&P 500.
On the retirement...
Adam J. Bryan is Managing Director and General Manager of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Insurance &Retirement Services.
DTCC’s Insurance and Retirement business unit is the central messaging hub for...
