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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 June, 2010

This edition of the report is our regular commentary on variable insurance fund filings from the prior month, and during June the most frequent activity we saw involved change, whether through mergers, sub-advisory replacements, new...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from March, 2010

Over the recent past we’ve described the variable annuity business as being in a period where fewer new product ideas are being launched than we’re used to for this time of year. Thus we weren’t...

Variable Annuity Sales from 4Q09 Reveal Uneven Patterns in the Industry

After reviewing fourth quarter variable annuity results of stock-traded companies we regularly monitor, we found a familiar mixed result – a few insurers did well while most others saw deposits decline – reflecting how the...

Sorting Through Notable Variable Annuity Product Developments

We continue to see an interesting mix of variable annuity contracts and features coming out, some following the trend towards the simpler and cheaper, others more fully loaded. Regardless of this diversity, we firmly believe...

Reflecting on the VA Industry in 2009: A Time of Shifting Realities

It’s become our custom to dedicate our last commentary each year to looking back at how the variable annuity business performed, to get the evaluation process started before fourth quarter data are released. Thus in...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from October, 2009

During the month of October there was the usual moderate stream of variable insurance fund filings, and within them one could see evidence of key priorities for the industry, one of the most obvious being...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from August, 2009

During August we identified a number of new variable insurance portfolios filed with the SEC, most of them funds of funds (F-of-Fs), however the most frequent activity – as has been the case in recent...

2Q09 Brought a Degree of Recovery for the Markets – and the VA Business

It’s once again time for us to offer our quarterly commentary on variable annuity sales for the stock-traded insurers we regularly monitor, and to discuss relevant themes facing the industry. We’ll start off by saying...

Early Impressions of 2Q09 VA Sales Results, Who is Gaining Momentum

Recently we’ve been soliciting opinions (and, we must admit, a few rumors) from our industry contacts on which variable annuity players got some sales momentum during the second quarter, to help us get some early...