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Soleares Research, LLC is a market research and consulting firm servicing the annuity and life insurance businesses. We provide, through our website, periodic articles that cover important industry trends; we also offer clients phone or on-site consultations, executive briefings and presentations. We pride ourselves on first-class customer service and responsiveness to our clients. We aim to be an indispensable resource to the marketplace.
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Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from August, 2026

Last month, activity along the variable fund filing pipeline was steady, not a torrent: of particular note were a few new registrations and potential changes to existing portfolios related to upcoming merger and acquisition deals...

More Notes on Q2 Sales – Now That Numbers are Official

Not long ago, LIMRA and WINK, Inc. issued final annuity sales data for the second quarter, and both sets of numbers, despite their differences, pointed to strong performance by the industry, and to us, indicated...

Can Rich Bonuses Fuel a Fixed-Indexed Annuity Resurgence?

This week we thought it would be a great time to weigh in on the indexed annuity market and, while taking a brief scan through various contract and feature types, discovered much has been going...

Thinking About Accumulation – Are Investors Focusing on It?

As of this writing, full second quarter annuity sales data have not been released, the industry is in the slow summer months, and not a lot is going on product front, but there does seem...

Notes on 2Q26 Results of Selected Stock-Traded Annuity Insurers

Second quarter annuity business results for most of the publicly traded insurers we track regularly were strong, in our view, indicative of the positive momentum the industry has been sustaining of late…

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from July, 2026

We found the month of July rather active in terms of variable fund filing activity; we identified new registrations, instances of insurers reworking their investment platforms and some interesting things in the offing, involving managerial...

Our Customary Early Thoughts – on 2Q26 Preliminary Sales Numbers

Not long ago, LIMRA released preliminary second quarter annuity sales figures – rather earlier than expected in our view – and in this commentary we will give our perspective on the numbers…

Sifting Through Rate Sheets – for Clues on VA Market Competition

Now we will turn our attention to variable annuity benefit rate sheets, because we recently sorted through a variety of updates since the start of this year and found some interesting things to share, which...

“Torn From the Headlines” – Notes from the Annuity News Cycle

This week, rather than delve into more annuity filings – as we are surely known to do – we will provide some thoughts on recent industry news stories, with a view to provide a unique...