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BlackRock Is Adding Annuities to 401(k)s

New retirement product will allow workers to receive stream of payments for the rest of their lives.

BlackRock Is Adding Annuities to 401(k)s

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Employers who offer retirement plans worry about annuities’ complexity and their cost—and about being sued if the insurer that stands behind the annuity fails to make payments. A 2019 law nowprotects many employers from legal liability.\nBlackRock’s offering is one of the first from a major asset manager since the law passed. Workers at electric utility Tennessee Valley Authority and four other companies will have the new annuity product as the default option in their employee retiree plans. That means collectively around 100,000 U.S. employees with some $7.5 billion in workplace savings stand to eventually get annuities in 401(k)-type plans.\nThe insurance industry has longpromoted annuities as important retirement vehicles; a saver who accumulated stocks and bonds could outlive her assets, but an annuity keeps paying until death. 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BlackRock Is Adding Annuities to 401(k)s

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