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Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from February, 2021

Variable fund filing activity usually picks up in February, as new offerings are registered so that they can launch in time for the May prospectus season. This year we did see a few new arrivals,...

Some Springtime Storylines for the U.S. Annuity Business in 2021

Now that spring is upon us, the worst of the COVID-19 crisis hopefully over, and the first quarter of the year is drawing to a close, we have started to get a handle on where...

Commencing Our 2021 Tracking – of VA Benefit Rate Sheet Changes

Since it’s become ever more common for insurers to design variable annuity benefits with components that can be changed periodically via rate sheet, we now consider the monitoring of such benefits as one of the...

Variable Annuity Sales for Some Stock-Traded Insurers Improved in 4Q20

As we customarily do each earnings season, we combed through the annuity results of selected stock-traded insurers and this time found that for most of them, their experience over the latter part of 2020 mirrored...

Covering a Very Active VA Product Pipeline of the Past Few Months

Since the annuity industry has been facing stiff headwinds of late, due to the COVID-19 crisis, market volatility and historically low interest rates, one might not expect the brisk level of activity we have been...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from January, 2021

Last month we saw plenty of evidence that emerging fund types that have gained traction on the retail side – namely defined outcome portfolios and those that pursue environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing –...

Notes on New Registered Index-Linked Annuities – and Related Issues

It wasn’t that long ago that we discussed trends in registered index-linked annuities (RILAs), however we now feel we must do so again, since several new ones were filed with the SEC recently. This, we...

Wrapping Up Coverage of Variable Annuity Product Filings from 2020

In this report we’ll offer up our closing thoughts on variable annuity product filings from 2020, a year which saw an increase in de-risking activity on the part of insurers, as some major names are...

An Outlook on Fixed-Index Annuities in this Low-Rate Environment

This year we intend to follow through on a longtime resolution to start covering fixed-index annuities (FIAs) more frequently in these pages, due to their importance to the overall annuity market and the fact that...