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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…

Ohio National Files Exchange Program Targeting Vintage GMIBs

Over the past five years we have seen a number of insurers offer incentives to clients to cash out of their variable annuity benefits as a risk reduction measure. However late last week Ohio National...

Concerning Trends in Fee-Based Variable Annuity Contracts

For a number of reasons there is now much interest around the industry in variable annuities built for sale through fee-based financial advisors; with that fact in mind, in this report we’ll provide some perspective...

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…

Principal Financial Files New VA Internal Exchange Offer

While we have seen a few insurers offer to buyout owners of vintage guaranteed lifetime benefits for risk-reduction purposes, a company that has taken a different approach is Principal Financial. Earlier this week it filed...

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...

Another Update – On New VA Contracts and Product Changes

This will be a brief report in which we’ll get caught up with the latest in new variable annuity contract filings, and cover a few noteworthy product changes…

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...