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Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from April, 2025

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This April we did not identify any new variable portfolio registrations, rather most industry filing activity involved managerial changes…

Contemplating Annuity Surrenders – and Their Link to Sales

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A few months ago, some insurance equity analysts said they are forecasting heightened annuity surrenders during calendar year 2025, and that may generate increased sales into certain products at the expense of others, given the...

A Quick Update on Fixed-Indexed Annuity Product Trends

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In this commentary we’ll provide some thoughts on indexed annuities, whose sales have grown steadily in the years since the COVID-19 crisis and last year were positively sizzling…

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Notable VA and Benefit Rate Sheet Changes in 2025

This spreadsheet commences our coverage of VA product change activity this year and has two sections: one with contractual VA product changes, the other a rate sheet tracker, mostly covering changes to guaranteed lifetime withdrawal...

Update: Variable ESG Portfolios

This spreadsheet is our final 2024 update to our coverage of variable Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) portfolios; at the close of the fourth quarter we counted 27 portfolios in operation, which held $8.1 billion...

Update: Variable Defined Outcome Portfolios

This spreadsheet concludes our coverage of variable defined outcome portfolios for 2024. At year’s end we counted 23 portfolios in operation which held $515.4 million in assets…