Research & Reports
New Coverage: Summaries of New VA Contracts Filed with the SEC in 2018
This table commences our coverage of new variable annuity contracts filed with the SEC in 2018 and contains summaries of six new products…
Thinking about 1Q18 in the VA Business and Recent Product Developments
Variable annuity industry sales were better than expected in the first quarter of this year and we suspect that if conditions continue to improve over the rest of 2018, insurers will feel more comfortable to...
Change is in the Air: from Ohio National, American General, Lincoln
In this report we’ll cover noteworthy variable annuity filings of recent weeks: another benefit exchange offer from Ohio National that looks much like one we wrote about last year, some guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit changes...
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from April, 2018
This report contains our customary roundup of notable variable insurance fund developments from last month, a time of relatively light filing activity…
Some Stock-Traded Insurers Saw Year-over Year VA Sales Improvement in Q1
First-quarter variable annuity deposits for most of the stock-traded insurers we monitor regularly were better compared to the prior-year quarter and we expect the industry may have had a similar experience…
More on New VA Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits – and Other Product Notes
In this report we’ll comment on variable annuity benefit launches that have occurred of late plus touch on adjustments and tweaks insurers have been making during the May prospectus update season…
Notes on Recent Rate Sheet Updates – and Other Notable VA Filings
In this report we’ll comment on recent filings of rate sheets for variable annuity benefits, plus cover some other product developments we found noteworthy, including Lincoln National’s disclosure of rider adjustments it will make in...
New GLWB from Midland National Blends FIA Features into a VA
Despite last year’s sales drop fixed-index annuities (FIA) have been doing better than variable annuities in recent years thus it’s only natural that some ideas from the former should migrate to the latter. Such was...
Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from March, 2018
This report covers variable insurance fund filings that we found interesting from last month, a time when a relatively small batch of new registrations came through, along with a fairly large amount of changes to...