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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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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...

Update: Summaries of Registered Index-Linked Annuities (RILAs)

This table updates our coverage of registered index-linked annuities (RILAs), also known at times as structured annuities; it contains summaries of products currently for sale and new registrations from 2020 and early 2021…

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...

Update: Summaries of New VA Contracts Filed With the SEC in 2020

This table is our final update to our coverage of new variable annuity contracts filed with the SEC in 2020 and contains summaries of 37 new host contracts…

Update: Summaries of New VA Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits Filed With the SEC in 2020

This table concludes our coverage of new variable annuity Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits (GLWBs) filed with the SEC in 2020 and contains summaries of 13 riders (inclusive of New York versions)…

Update: Notable VA Product Changes in 2020

This spreadsheet contains our final update to our coverage of noteworthy variable annuity product changes that occurred last year; it contains 113 entries…

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...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from December, 2020

This will be a longer-than-usual variable fund report as December was quite an active time, especially for insurer Jackson National, which filed numerous moves, including new fund registrations, sub-advisory changes and reorganizations which are scheduled...

An Outlook on Registered Index-Linked Annuities – as We Enter 2021

This year we intend on providing our subscribers with more in-depth coverage of registered index-linked annuities (RILAs), firstly because we expect their sales to continue outpacing all other annuity types, secondly because we think insurers...