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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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A Holiday Respite? VA Product Activity Seems to be Simmering Down

Over the past few weeks the pace of product filing in the variable annuity business has slowed, as has the amount of chatter coming through the rumor mill, and we attribute these conditions to the...

Changing Minds – VA Insurers Cancel, Adjust, Postpone Products

By the looks of things, we are entering a period of de-risking around the variable annuity space, brought on by a variety of pressures, among them market volatility, low interest rates, and abrupt spikes in...

Works in Progress: Contingent Annuities for Mutual Funds, Managed Accounts

For some months we’ve been planning to provide an update on annuities constructed to wrap living benefits around retail mutual funds and brokerage accounts, because we haven’t checked in on them for a while and...

Insurers Are Ironing Out Details of Group Annuity Certificate Products

Even though not even two months has elapsed, much activity has occurred since we last weighed in on new group annuity certificate products that were built to wrap lifetime withdrawal benefits around retail mutual funds...

“New Wave” Annuities – Offer Living Benefits to Funds, Managed Accounts

Now that the appeal of variable annuity guaranteed living benefits has been firmly established – and has grown steadily over the past several years, greatly helping insurers sustain growth – it seems only natural that...

Reflecting on the Year Almost Past: 2006 in the Variable Annuity Business

As the holiday season is now upon us, in our last commentary of the year we’ll take the opportunity to quickly consider how things went for the variable annuity business in 2006, using currently-available data,...

What the Competition Dictates: Continual Refinements to VA Benefit Features

This year might be winding down, but in the variable annuity space we are still encountering registrations of new living benefits and enhancements to existing ones, although a good portion of them won’t actually roll...

No Summer Vacation for Product Development in the Variable Business

During the summer the rate of new features, tweaks and modifications to variable annuities tends to slow down, but the past couple of months have contained enough meaningful filings to keep us quite occupied, and...

The Growing Number of Lifetime GMWBs – in Interesting and Complex Varieties

It’s about time we checked back in on variable annuity lifetime Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefits (GMWBs) and our goal for this report will be to offer highlights of the latest filings and attempt to identify...