Digging Into the Details: Movements in VA Designs, Applications

As this week begins, we’ve been combing through variable annuity contract registrations – including ones from this year we haven’t commented on yet – and so far we’ve been finding interesting designs and approaches getting filed. It’s our sense that most insurers, as they are de-risking, are looking for ways to take products in new directions, so we should see new ideas (and probably the recasting of old ones) as the year progresses...