Research & Reports
Our Customary Look Back on the Variable Annuity Industry In 2017
As usual, our last commentary of December is a reflection on how the variable annuity business performed this year, based upon what we know thus far from sales levels and product developments…
Some Bright Spots Amid Insurers’ Variable Annuity Sales Results in Q3
After reviewing earnings calls of stock-traded insurance companies we cover regularly, we came away with the impression that for of them, variable annuity results were lackluster, although there were a few instances of modest improvement…
Random Thoughts – on Current Conditions in the VA Market
Third quarter earnings season is now underway, and we are highly interested in what conference calls might reveal about the variable annuity business. We’re suspecting that sales levels might have started improve at least a...
Some Noteworthy VA Product Changes from Recent Filings
While activity along the variable annuity product pipeline has been slower than usual of late, we did manage to find a few interesting developments in recent SEC filings which we’ll cover in this report…
Current Directions in Variable Annuity Contract Sales and Designs
In this report we’ll discuss which kinds of variable annuities are selling best so far this year, and we’ll cover a few new registrations that were filed recently which we think reflect the kinds of...
New Variable Annuity Contracts and Benefits Filed Recently with the SEC
In this report we’ll cover new variable annuity contracts and guaranteed death and living benefits filed with the SEC in August. In most cases the products are next-generations versions of existing ones, with slight modifications...
On New VA and Structured Annuity Contracts Filed Recently With the SEC
Just when we thought product development pipeline activity had gotten as slow as it could possibly get, we noticed interesting filings last week of new variable and structured annuities, which should launch sometime this year…
Thoughts on VA and Structured Annuity Filings – And Related Topics
Activity has been a bit slow along the variable annuity product pipeline of late – which is typical of this time of year – however we do have a few notable filings to report on,...
An Assortment of VA Product Filings – and Other Items – from April and May
It’s about time we checked in on the variable annuity product pipeline because we noticed a good mix of interesting filings come through over the past few months, most of them debuting during the May...
