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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.

John Hancock Files New Variable Annuity Benefit Buyback Program

This year we’ve seen a number of variable annuity guaranteed benefit buyback offers, and in this report we’ll cover one filed not long ago by John Hancock. It is tentatively scheduled to commence in the...

More Thoughts on VA Living Benefits – and Clarifying an RMD Provision

In this report we’ll discuss industry trends in election rates of guaranteed living benefits (GLBs), citing data from LIMRA, and make a correction to our coverage last week of a new lifetime withdrawal benefit from...

An Update on VA Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits and Rate Sheets

In this commentary we’ll review a new variable annuity guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit (GLWB) filed recently by Nationwide, and touch on some recent trends in rider rate sheets, which seem to point to a de-risking...

Update: Variable Insurance Volatility-Managed Portfolios

This spreadsheet contains our coverage of variable insurance volatility-managed portfolios for first quarter 2019. By our count, at the end of the quarter there were 213 such portfolios in operation, containing $271 billion in assets…

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from June, 2019

This will be a fairly long commentary because variable insurance fund filing activity picked up nicely last month – among notable developments was the filing of a newly-formed trust containing a large number of fund...

Update: Summaries of New VA Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits Filed With the SEC in 2019

This table updates our coverage of new variable annuity Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits (GLWBs) filed with the SEC so far this year and contains summaries of 12 riders…

Update: Summaries of New VA Contracts Filed With the SEC in 2019

This table updates our coverage of new variable annuity contracts filed with the SEC in 2019 and contains summaries of 11 new products…

Yet More Thoughts on New VAs and Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits

This week we’ll once again weigh in on patterns we’re seeing in variable annuity product development, which will serve as an accompaniment to our updates of Featured Research tables covering new contracts and guaranteed lifetime...

Notes From the VA Contract Pipeline – And Some New Rider Filings

In this report we’ll get caught up with recent developments along the variable annuity product pipeline and touch on pre-effective amendments to new contracts that have launched or will soon, as well as some new...