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On Rate Sheets – Rising Rates Help Insurers Enhance Their Benefits

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Now that the second quarter is nearly over, we figured it would be a good time to get caught up with trends in variable annuity guaranteed living benefit (GLB) rate sheets, especially since insurers have...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from May, 2022

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In May we saw an increase in variable portfolio registrations, quite a few of them of defined outcome portfolios, which in our view are gaining favor because they have downside protection features similar to registered...

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Covering Filings of New VA Contracts and Living Benefit Riders

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Now that the year is nearly half over, we thought it would be a great time to get caught up with new variable annuities and guaranteed living benefits (GLBs) that have been registered with the...

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Newest Research

Initial Coverage: Notable VA Benefit Rate Sheet Changes in 2022

This spreadsheet commences our 2022 coverage of variable annuity rate sheet updates that involved noteworthy changes from the prior sheet as well as new benefit launches; it contains 62 entries…

Update: Variable Defined Outcome Portfolios

This spreadsheet updates our coverage of variable defined outcome portfolios through the first quarter of this year; during the quarter the number of portfolios in our coverage and their assets increased greatly due to 26...

Update: Variable ESG Portfolios

This spreadsheet updates our coverage of variable Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) portfolios through the first quarter of this year; during the quarter one new portfolio commenced operations while three existing ones were converted to...

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