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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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Some Random Thoughts – as 1Q26 Sales Figures Trickle In

As of this writing, LIMRA has yet to issue its full first quarter annuity sales data, but WINK, Inc. has released its numbers, so we will provide a bit of perspective on them in this...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from May, 2026

Fund filing activity in May was about what we expected given conditions in the variable annuity space, namely a good deal of changes to investment strategies, as well as fund reorganizations…

Equitable – Bound and Determined to Retain its RILA Supremacy

Maintaining sales dominance in a competitive industry like annuities is no easy feat, but Equitable Holdings has managed to keep a firm grip on the top spot in registered index-linked annuity (RILA) sales, ever since...

Notes on 1Q26 Results of Selected Stock-Traded Annuity Insurers

First quarter annuity sales for publicly traded insurers we track regularly reflected industry trends, because for most of them, volume was up on a year-over-year basis, but down sequentially…

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from April, 2026

Variable fund filing activity in April consisted mainly of managerial changes, adjustments to investment guidelines and diversification status, mergers and liquidations. Once again, we saw instances of defined outcome portfolios being closed for good…

Our Notes – from the Traditional VA and RILA Filing Pipeline

In our view, the filing pipeline has not been terribly active of late, but we think we’re overdue for an update since this is the time of year when insurers debut new products and make...

Thinking About Current Annuity Industry Sales Drivers

In our view, industry sales are mostly correlated with which product attributes are resonating with investors at any given time, given their current priorities, whether accumulation, protection, income, liquidity, wealth transfer – to name a...

Insurers and Private Credit – What We Know, What We Don’t

Lately we’ve been seeing articles in trade publications noting how rating agencies and regulators have been raising concerns over the high level of private credit usage on the part of annuity insurers, so we figured...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from March, 2026

Variable fund filing activity in March was moderate in our view. As usual, in this report we will provide coverage of noteworthy developments during that month, which included the registration of a new variable insurance...