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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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Impressions on the Variable Annuity Business in 2007 – Part I

Last year at this time we published a commentary with our reflections on how the variable annuity industry performed in 2006, based on what we knew at that point, and made some suggestions as to...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from November, 2007

In November, variable insurance fund filing activity with the SEC was pretty vigorous, and we identified 13 new registrations, notable among them some funds-of-funds (F-of-Fs) and several portfolios with a global or emerging markets focus....

New Coverage: Summaries of Selected New Variable Annuity Contracts

This table commences our coverage of new variable annuity contracts filed recently with the SEC…

Contract Compilation – Our Remarks on the Latest VAs Filed This Year

In the interest of remaining on top of what’s happening with variable annuity contracts, and given the fact that we haven’t touched on them for several months, this week we’ll give our observations on chassis...

New Coverage: Summaries of Selected VA Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits

This table initiates our coverage of variable annuity Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits (GLWBs) currently for sale in the industry…

What the Competition Dictates: Continual Refinements to VA Benefit Features

This year might be winding down, but in the variable annuity space we are still encountering registrations of new living benefits and enhancements to existing ones, although a good portion of them won’t actually roll...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from October, 2007

After conducting our usual compilation and review of variable fund-related filings, for October we identified 12 new registrations, most of them funds-of-funds (F-of-Fs), and in this report we’ll review them and also comment on interesting...

How We Did Last Summer – Appraising Public Insurers’ VA Results from 3Q07

After reviewing third-quarter variable annuity deposits and net flows for the group of major publicly-traded insurers we regularly track, we found most of them endured at least a slight decrease in deposits compared to the...

Insurers Strategize Carefully Regarding VA Contract and Feature Expenses

Based on our continual reading of regulatory filings, we see evidence that insurers are exercising ever more care in crafting the fees and expenses they charge on variable annuity contracts and riders, and we think...