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...Millions of Americans are at risk of running out of savings in retirement,” said Catherine Collinson, president of the non-profit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies....
...Università La Sapienza, Italy; economics degree 1994, Insead, France; MBA Career 1995, Product marketing manager, General Electric Lighting Europe 1999, Director of business development and marketing Europe, Transamerica...
...Among them are Aberdeen, Delaware, DFA, John Hancock, Lord Abbett, OppenheimerFunds, Russell and Transamerica....
...Aegon paid $10.9bn in 1999 for Transamerica. But to underscore the difficulties in the US market, MetLife, the S&P 500 insurer, said last week it would scale back its variable annuities business....
...Lipper cites several examples of hedge managers sub-advising retail absolute return funds, including AQR on the Transamerica AQR Managed Futures Strategy, Akros Capital on the Quaker Akros Absolute Return...
...Combined with more stringent regulation, this is probably what induced insurer Transamerica to cease sales of fixed annuities through brokers....
...Similarly, Transamerica Re, the US life-reinsurance business being sold by Dutch insurer Aegon, is said to have attracted at least initial interest among some financial investors....
...On Thursday Standard & Poor’s withdrew an ‘AA’ strength rating on Life Investors Insurance Co. of America, citing its merger with Aegon’s US operation, Transamerica Life Insurance....
...Aegon’s Transamerica unit would continue to offer the flagship Merrill Lynch Investors Choice Annuity through the broker’s financial adviser network but Merrill would also look to increase distribution of...
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