Research & Reports
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from September, 2014
This report contains our regular coverage of variable insurance fund filings from the prior month. During September there were not so many new registrations, but we did see a large amount of sub-advisory changes and...
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from August, 2014
In this report we’ll cover noteworthy variable insurance fund developments from August, a month that we thought was rather busy, considering the season…
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from July, 2014
In July we saw an increase in variable insurance fund filing activity and some interesting new registrations, which we’ll cover in this commentary. We’ll also attempt to put some filing trends in perspective, particularly those...
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from June, 2014
This commentary contains our regular coverage of notable variable insurance fund filings from the prior month. In June we saw fairly brisk rate of activity, including a number of new registrations…
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from May, 2014
This report contains our coverage of notable variable insurance fund filings from the month of May, and to summarize that time period, most activity involved changes to existing offerings. We didn’t see any new registrations...
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from April, 2014
In this commentary we’ll cover notable variable insurance fund filings from the month of April, which was a somewhat slow period in our opinion…
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from March, 2014
This report is our regular compilation of noteworthy variable insurance fund filings from the prior month. In our view there wasn’t a large volume of filings in March, which makes us think that insurers submitted...
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from February, 2014
February is typically a month when a large number of new variable fund registrations come through, in preparation for additions to contracts during the May prospectus update season, and such was again the case this...
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from January, 2014
During the month of January we saw a large number of new variable insurance portfolios registered with the SEC, as well as plenty of interesting changes to existing funds and platforms. It came as no...