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Voya Files an Annuitization Offer Again – Plus Notes from Other VA Filings

This will be a rather brief commentary because variable annuity filing activity remains slow around the industry, which is not unusual for this time of year. We will touch on probably the most notable development...

New VA Contracts and Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits on the Way

Over the past couple of weeks we have seen a few interesting new variable annuity contracts and riders come through the pipeline – some of which will be launching soon – and in this report...

Concerning Changes – That are Being Made to VA Products This Year

In this report we’ll touch on the kind of tweaks and adjustments insurers have been making to their variable annuity products lately. Most of the changes follow patterns we have seen around the industry the...

Concerning Q1 Variable Annuity Sales – and Recent Product Moves

Variable annuity industry sales in the first quarter finished how we expected they would – down considerably on both a sequential and year-over-year basis. In this report we’ll take a quick look at the numbers...

We Suspect VA Industry Sales Were Probably Down Again in 1Q16

We just finished conducting our review of first quarter results of publicly-traded insurers we monitor regularly, and for all of them, variable annuity sales fell, thus we suspect the industry experienced a similar result…

More Thoughts on Recent Variable Annuity Prospectus Updates, Changes

In our view, variable annuity product filing activity is still rather slow compared to prior years, so for that reason we’ll devote this report to touching on just a few developments, some which we have...

American General Launches GLWB with Highest Daily Ratcheting

Lately we haven’t seen too many variable annuity insurers make their living benefits more generous, but American General introduced a new lifetime withdrawal benefit yesterday which is now one of the few in the industry...

Regarding Rate Sheets – And Other Recent VA Product Moves

We are expecting variable annuity filing activity will be picking up soon as we are entering the May prospectus season, however we are unsure whether insurers will introduce many new product ideas as they are...

Free Riffing – On Current Themes in the Variable Annuity Industry

Product filing activity around the variable annuity business has been kind of slow in our opinion, at least compared to past years, so in this report we’ll do some “riffing” – offering up impromptu thoughts...