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Soleares Research, LLC is a market research and consulting firm servicing the annuity and life insurance businesses. We provide, through our website, periodic articles that cover important industry trends; we also offer clients phone or on-site consultations, executive briefings and presentations. We pride ourselves on first-class customer service and responsiveness to our clients. We aim to be an indispensable resource to the marketplace.
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Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from March, 2017

This report covers notable variable fund developments from the last month, a time in which we saw no new registrations, but a good amount of filings that made changes to investment platforms…

Thinking About the Variable Annuity Business in 2016 – and Beyond

Not long ago industry research firms released full-year 2016 variable annuity sales data, thus in this report we’ll give our thoughts on what the numbers revealed, and discuss some themes from last year might remain...

More Notes on Lincoln National’s New GLWB – and Other Matters

Due to this being a somewhat slow period in the variable annuity product pipeline, in this report we’ll delve a little further into a new guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit from Lincoln National scheduled to launch...

Highlights from Recent VA Filings from February and Early March

In this report we’ll get caught up with notable annuity product filings filed with the SEC from February and early March, including new contracts and benefits as well as modifications to existing ones…

Variable Annuity Sales Were Again Depressed in Q4 and Full Year 2016

After reviewing the results of selected publicly-traded insurers from their fourth quarter earnings calls and financial statements, we expect that the variable annuity industry as a whole reflected the experience of these companies, namely lower...

Putting Hartford’s Planned VA Fund Replacements in Perspective

In this commentary we’ll discuss Hartford’s plan to replace a large number of funds in its variable annuity contracts, and the controversy it has generated. We’ll also endeavor to put the proposed move in context...

Some Comments on Recent VA Filings – Including New Contracts

Over the past couple of weeks we have seen a few interesting developments along the variable annuity product pipeline which we'll cover in this commentary, among them a new guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit (GLWB) and...

Concluding Notes on VA Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits Filed in 2016

In this report we’ll offer up our reflections on the kinds of guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits (GLWBs) that were filed by the variable annuity industry last year. We anticipate that the same design concepts will...

An Update on VA Contract Registrations from Last Year – Into This

In this report we’ll get caught up with variable annuity contract registrations, wrapping up our coverage of filings from last year and touching on a couple of new ones that came through this month…