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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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The 7% Solution – Leading VA Players Vying Over GLWB Base Increases

This year is shaping up as one that will be marked by heated competition among variable annuity issuers over the generosity of their Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits (GLWBs), and we will be watching to see...

Variable Funds-of-Funds Keep Increasing In Number, Accumulating Assets

Compared to the bull market years, the role that underlying sub-accounts play in the sale of variable insurance products has certainly been diminished, however, a storyline that holds much interest for us is how money...

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,...

Impressions on the Variable Annuity Business in 2007 – Part I

Last year at this time we published a commentary with our reflections on how the variable annuity industry performed in 2006, based on what we knew at that point, and made some suggestions as to...

How We Did Last Summer – Appraising Public Insurers’ VA Results from 3Q07

After reviewing third-quarter variable annuity deposits and net flows for the group of major publicly-traded insurers we regularly track, we found most of them endured at least a slight decrease in deposits compared to the...

Some Thoughts on Variable Annuity Sales Trends – As Earnings Season Begins

We honestly look forward to each quarterly earnings season for publicly-traded insurers, because the statistical reports and conference calls always contain plenty of useful information on variable product sales. In this report we’re going to...

Seeing the Connection Between Complexity and Regulation in the VA Business

This week we’re going to step away momentarily from our customary labors – sorting through contract and rider filings, categorizing them and summarizing them – to consider how the unique complexities of variable annuities have...

Tracking VA Industry Competitive Moves through Q2 and Beyond

This report will wrap up our observations regarding second-quarter variable annuity sales results of major public insurers we normally monitor, and will also include some quick thoughts on new guaranteed living benefits that have been...

Continuing Coverage of Public Insurers’ Variable Annuity Results of 2Q07

This report picks up where we left off last week in our monitoring of second-quarter variable annuity sales results for the publicly-traded insurers we track regularly. We found it significant that VA deposits increased for...