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The New Fee-Based Variable Annuity
After a period of time where variable annuity products that were fee-based had a bad reputation, some of the biggest annuity companies are revamping the products. Reuters Linda Stern discusses this...
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Best Annuity Service Awards
For more than twenty years, research and consulting firm Dalbar has come up with a list of the companies offering the best annuity service. Their list for 2011 includes both big and small names, but...
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National Retirement Planning Week Ends Friday
Tomorrow is the last day for National Retirement Planning Week, an informative week run by the National Retirement Planning Coalition. The Insured Retirement Institute leads this Coalition and works...
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Volatility Managed with New Variable Annuity Tactics
Many big name insurance companies are changing their strategies for managing volatility, according to Investment News’s Darla Mercado. Unfortunately, the financial advisors with which they work don’t...
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Variable Annuity Changes from MetLife, Prudential, Hartford
Three life insurance companies are changing their variable annuities in the wake of some tumult in the industry. MetLife, Prudential, and the Hartford are either updating products or scaling down on...
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Who Is Selling the Most Indexed Annuities?
The second quarter numbers are in and Sheryl J. Moore has compiled a list of the best in the indexed industry. According to Insurance Networking News’ Carrie Burns, the “Top 10 Q2 Indexed Annuity and...
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2013 Trends for Annuities as a Whole
This blog is, in essence, a continuation of yesterday’s blog on what to expect in variable annuity trends for 2013. But this entry deals with the annuity industry as a whole and what we think will be...
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Changing Season for Variable Annuities
The annuity market is in a tough spot with variable annuities right now. They are still good products and offer many investors benefits they can’t get anywhere else, but low interest rates have made...
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MetLife has Newest Structured Annuity Hybrid
In her latest article for Investment News, Darla Mercado tells why “Structured products (are) gain(ing) favor.” Using structured products helps insurance companies continue selling annuities while...
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Many Companies Made Variable Annuity Changes Recently
Last month brought about a lot of changes to the annuity market, as May often does. In Darla Mercado’s Investment News article, “It must be May in VA-land: Payout cuts, price hikes, new products,” she...
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Variable Annuity Industry has Divided Into Two Categories
The landscape of the variable annuity industry has been changing over the past couple of months. Insurance companies are introducing a range of new variable annuity products that don’t offer living...
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Structured Annuities Are An Alternative to Fixed Income Products
One of the newest annuity products is linked to a stock market index, but is not exactly an indexed annuity. Investment News’ Darla Mercado discussed these structured-product annuities in the article...
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Jackson National & New York Life Sold the Most Annuities In 2013
The total annuity sales for 2013 were released last month and included some surprises and some results that were expected. Daniel Williams of LifeHealthPro summarized all of the sales results in the...
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VA Living Benefit Riders Are Making A Comeback
A lot of the changes made to variable annuity products in the last year were negative. But the most recent changes show that the variable annuity market looks to be on an upswing. One of the most...
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Should Structured Product Annuities Be Classified as Variable or Fixed?
Voya Financial is now the fifth company to start offering structured product annuities. AXA Equitable, Allianz Life, CUNA Mutual and MetLife already offer these so-called hybrid or buffered annuity...
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Third quarter annuity sales results were released last month. LIMRA has released multiple reports detailing the annuity sales totals and the companies selling the most annuity products. During the...
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3 Notable SEC Variable Annuity Filings
Every spring insurance companies release variable annuity product updates and introduce new products to the market. The filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission give us a preview of...
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Jackson National, AIG Led Second Quarter Annuity Sales
The LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute recently collected annuity sales data for their quarterly U.S. Individual Annuities Sales Survey. This information came from Investment News’s article “Top 10...
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Variable Annuity Decline Shuffles Annuity Sales Leaders
The LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute just published their quarterly annuity sales report detailing the “Top 10 annuity sales leaders” from the first quarter. In an article for LifeHealthPro, Kristen...
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The Decline of the Variable Annuity
Last week, we wrote about the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute sales results showing the strength of fixed annuities. Higher fixed annuity sales last year and to start this year came at the expense of...
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