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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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Filing Roundup – Regarding VA Product Moves, Including Ones from 2017

This report contains a brief update to our tracking of variable annuity product filing activity – which continues to be relatively slow – and a short summary of an interesting new variable and index-linked life...

VA Product Update – Covering Filings From Late Last Year, Into 2016

In this report we’ll get caught up with variable annuity product filings from the past few months that we found interesting. In the batch we saw multiple instances where insurers sought to add rate sheet...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from November, 2014

This report will cover noteworthy variable insurance fund filings from November – which was a fairly active month – and also briefly discuss trends in variable managed-volatility funds…

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from November and December, 2013

With this report we will get caught up with noteworthy variable insurance filings from the last two months of 2013. There were quite a few interesting developments during that time, particularly related to volatility-control funds…

Insurers Are Creating More Optionality Within Their VA Contracts, Riders

Due to the constant stream of product changes occurring around the industry, variable annuity insurers are finding they must make adjustments much quicker than ever before, in order to respond to market conditions and moves...

VA Insurers Are Picking Up Where They Left Off – With More Product Changes

As we get fully into 2013 we’re noticing that a few variable annuity insurers are getting right back into the swing of things, by touching up their product offerings and coming out with new designs…

Regarding Risk – and How VA Insurers’ Methods Are Evolving to Manage It

This year has been one of rapid change, as variable annuity insurers of all sizes have sought to reduce their product-related risks in one form or another, and we’re sure that anyone looking at all...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from June, 2012

In the past, June has been a rather slow period in terms of developments related to variable insurance portfolios. This year, however, fund filing activity picked up, and we have to think that there is...

VA Insurers are Looking to Calibrate Their Sales – Using a Variety of Means

Around the variable annuity industry some insurers are attempting to regulate their rate of business through focused initiatives, whether related to product, distribution, or both. Some are trying to deliberately slow their sales; others are...