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Thoughts on Q3 VA Industry Sales – and a Few Product Developments

Earnings season for publicly-traded insurers is now underway but won’t finish until midway through next month, so in this commentary we’ll offer up some of our suspicions on how variable annuity sales moved in the...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from September, 2014

This report contains our regular coverage of variable insurance fund filings from the prior month. During September there were not so many new registrations, but we did see a large amount of sub-advisory changes and...

A New In-Plan VA Contract From Prudential – And Other Recent Filings

In this report we’ll pick up from last week’s coverage of variable product filings from recent weeks, and this time we’ll touch on a new contract coming from Prudential Financial intended for employer-sponsored retirement plans…

New Lincoln National Contracts – and Other VA Product Filing News

In this report we’ll discuss variable annuity filing activity from the past few weeks. Of particular note was the registration of new contracts from Lincoln National, aimed at IRA rollover money, which will include a...

An Update on Trends in Variable Insurance Volatility-Control Portfolios

Variable insurance volatility-control portfolios continue to gather assets at a brisk pace around the industry – and not just because of the introduction of brand-new ones. In recent months a large number of existing portfolios...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from August, 2014

In this report we’ll cover noteworthy variable insurance fund developments from August, a month that we thought was rather busy, considering the season…

Thoughts About Directions in Variable Annuity Sales As Q3 Winds Down

The start of the fall season is close upon us, as is the end of the third quarter, so in this commentary we’ll provide some quick thoughts about where we think variable annuity industry sales...

Late Summer Filings Held Yet More IOVA Products, Assorted Changes

In this report we’ll get caught up with product filings from late August – of particular note is that the batch included a number of investment-only variable annuities (IOVAs), providing further evidence that the trend...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from July, 2014

In July we saw an increase in variable insurance fund filing activity and some interesting new registrations, which we’ll cover in this commentary. We’ll also attempt to put some filing trends in perspective, particularly those...