Research & Reports
Some Stock-Traded Insurers Saw Year-over Year VA Sales Improvement in Q1
First-quarter variable annuity deposits for most of the stock-traded insurers we monitor regularly were better compared to the prior-year quarter and we expect the industry may have had a similar experience…
More on New VA Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits – and Other Product Notes
In this report we’ll comment on variable annuity benefit launches that have occurred of late plus touch on adjustments and tweaks insurers have been making during the May prospectus update season…
Notes on Recent Rate Sheet Updates – and Other Notable VA Filings
In this report we’ll comment on recent filings of rate sheets for variable annuity benefits, plus cover some other product developments we found noteworthy, including Lincoln National’s disclosure of rider adjustments it will make in...
New GLWB from Midland National Blends FIA Features into a VA
Despite last year’s sales drop fixed-index annuities (FIA) have been doing better than variable annuities in recent years thus it’s only natural that some ideas from the former should migrate to the latter. Such was...
Filing Roundup – Regarding VA Product Moves, Including Ones from 2017
This report contains a brief update to our tracking of variable annuity product filing activity – which continues to be relatively slow – and a short summary of an interesting new variable and index-linked life...
A Brief Reflection on Current Conditions in the Variable Annuity Market
Given that not much variable annuity product filing activity has occurred since our last update, this week we will provide a simple reflection on current conditions in the industry…
Another Update – On Variable Annuity Product Filings of Recent Weeks
In this report we’ll get caught up on variable annuity products that were filed from mid-February into early March. Included in this batch were a few enhancements to guaranteed living benefits, making us think that...
Looking at Public Insurers’ Variable Annuity Sales Results in 4Q17
As we typically do each earnings season, we reviewed variable annuity business results for a small number of selected stock-traded insurers and for most of them, sales improved in Q4, however we can’t say the...
An Update Regarding Recent Variable Annuity Product Filings
In recent weeks we’ve seen an uptick in product filings coming through around the variable annuity industry, including new contracts, guaranteed benefits and other changes that we’ll cover in this commentary…