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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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2Q09 Brought a Degree of Recovery for the Markets – and the VA Business

It’s once again time for us to offer our quarterly commentary on variable annuity sales for the stock-traded insurers we regularly monitor, and to discuss relevant themes facing the industry. We’ll start off by saying...

Q1 Results Brought New Accounting Adjustments for the VA Business

First quarter earnings season concluded last week for the publicly-traded insurers we regularly monitor, and for most of them, variable annuity deposits and net flows declined, much as we expected. What surprised us were accounting...

The “De-Risking” Process Ramps Up Around the Variable Annuity Business

We’re figuring that the myriad reductions variable annuity insurers have been making to their benefits and features signal the potential for reduced deposits and net flows for the industry, not to mention big shifts in...

A Discussion of Variable Annuity Industry Hot Topics as 2Q09 Gets Underway

Just as we were this time last year, we’re very curious about the performance of the variable annuity business in the first quarter – especially given the kind of difficult market conditions we’re in –...

Sliding Finish to a Volatile 2008 as Downward Markets Jolt VA Players

Fourth-quarter earnings season has almost concluded and in this report we’ll offer our customary review of variable annuity operating results for selected publicly-traded insurers. As we expected, most companies went through a difficult time during...

Shining a Spotlight on GMIBs – Competitors Look for the Lucky Number

Following up on our last report covering lifetime withdrawal benefits, this week we’re going to focus on variable annuity Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefits (GMIBs), because tweaks and modifications have been taking place that we think...

Most VA Insurers Continue in Rider Pullback Mode as New Year Begins

Benefit Bases, Risks and Related Competitive Matters on the VA Scene

By now it’s obvious that in the variable annuity business leading players have either started to cut back on the generosity of their guaranteed benefits or are thinking strongly about doing so, since the downturn...

Q3 Commentary Part II – Risks, Returns are Main Themes in VA Insurers’ Reports

In wrapping up our third quarter reporting on selected variable annuity insurers, we’ll say that it seems clear that for now, investors are still reluctant to purchase VAs during troubling market conditions such as the...