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Q4 Launches – Products Insurers Hope Will Attract Sales into the New Year

It’s our feeling that these days, most variable annuity insurers are in a “reactive mode” in that few are making truly bold moves with their products; rather they are content to make modifications and enhancements...

Competitive Direction: Tactics VA Market Leaders May Employ, Near Term

It will take a little while before variable annuity industry sales results from the third quarter come out, and at this point we are unsure what those numbers may reveal, since we are not expecting...

Back to School – Viewpoints on VA Industry Issues as Q3 Winds Down

The weather has gotten cooler, football season has commenced, and families are back from vacation, all these things serving to remind us that we are coming to the end of the third quarter. In this...

GLWB Fiddling – Recent Creativity in Rider Designs and Functions

In the variable annuity marketplace there remains a minority of insurers who are tweaking and modifying their guaranteed living benefits regularly, to match up better against the competition. We would say we’re in a period...

Contract Trends – Fresh Ideas, Approaches in New Registrations

We continue to see new variable annuity contracts in the pipeline that have what we call non-traditional chassis and pricing, and we think insurance companies are developing such products to anticipate future needs – not...

Rising Tide – Variable Annuity Insurers See Deposits Lift in Q2

We were somewhat surprised to find that variable annuity deposits for most of the stock-traded life insurance companies we monitor regularly were quite strong in the second quarter. Therefore we now suspect the industry as...

Change is Constant – and Probably Unavoidable for VA Issuers

Lately we have found the kind of product adjustments and upgrades occurring around the variable annuity business to be rather interesting and revealing about the priorities of insurers, their distribution partners and clients. We imagine...

Lincoln’s VA/LTC Combo – Still in the Pipeline and a Topic of Conversation

Sometimes it takes an annuity insurer several attempts to get a new product up and running, especially if it is a first for the industry. Such has been the case with a long-term care benefit...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from June, 2010

This edition of the report is our regular commentary on variable insurance fund filings from the prior month, and during June the most frequent activity we saw involved change, whether through mergers, sub-advisory replacements, new...