Beginning today, individuals who purchase a RiverSource(SM) variable annuity from a bank or an independent broker dealer can choose a valuable new feature called the Guarantor Withdrawal Benefit for ...Life(SM) (GWB for Life(SM)). The GWB for Life(SM) is an optional living benefit rider, available for an additional fee, designed to help manage the risks of market performance, longevity and inflation while also providing an option to receive guaranteed lifetime income. RiverSource Annuities are available through two distribution channels: banks and independent broker dealers and through the personal advisors of Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) The GWB for Life rider is expected to become available in the summer of 2006 for RiverSource variable annuities sold to investors by an Ameriprise financial advisor.(1) RiverSource Annuities includes a broad range of fixed, variable and immediate annuity products that are designed to support today's investors through every stage of retirement planning, from accumulating assets to generating income and passing on wealth to heirs. RiverSource annuities are available through The Personal Advisors of Ameriprise Financial, as well as banks and independent broker-dealers. For more information, visit riversource.com/annuities.
"I would consider that really scouting us well," said Century coach Rose Pentz. "We are a transition team and they slowed it down right from the get-go. Obviously, we had to go after the ball. We ...wanted to take control. We're not used to seeing a team settle it that early on." "They were trying to slow us down," said Katie Schwarzmann, "but we knew we had to get the ball in transition, because we have a lot of fast people and we knew we would get some easy goals off transition." "I don't know whether we panicked thinking about how we were down," said the junior midfielder. "We saw they were sending early doubles to us and so people weren't maybe as confident holding the ball and wanted to get rid of it. "
TO the power four
Accountancy Age,
09/2008
Trade Publication Article
Tony Lomas, Dan Schwarzmann, Mike Jervis and Steven Pearson of PricewaterhouseCoopers are likely to become well-known names over the next few months and years as the administrators of Lehman Brothers ...International (Europe). The UK arm of Lehman Brothers went into administration after the cash from its US parent stopped flowing. Jervis, Lomas and Pearson all worked on the wind-up of Enron's European arm. Lomas and Pearson also worked on the MG Rover administration in 2005. It is Schwarzmann who has been specializing in complicated financial insolvencies.
Mr Dan Schwarzmann said this uncertainty was partly due to legal proceedings that the provisional liquidators had begun against KPMG, Independent's auditors, and Watson Wyatt, its actuarial advisers. ...Proceedings have also started for the recovery of the 2000 final dividend that was paid three weeks prior to Independent's collapse, the letter said.
