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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.

Our Customary Look Back on the Variable Annuity Industry In 2017

As usual, our last commentary of December is a reflection on how the variable annuity business performed this year, based upon what we know thus far from sales levels and product developments…

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from November, 2017

During November the rate of variable fund filing tends to slow down, and such was the case this year. We noticed no new registrations and only a moderate amount of other activity…

Ohio National Files Exchange Program Targeting Vintage GMIBs

Over the past five years we have seen a number of insurers offer incentives to clients to cash out of their variable annuity benefits as a risk reduction measure. However late last week Ohio National...

New Coverage: Summaries of I-Share and Low-Cost VA Contracts

This table contains summaries of 62  variable annuity contracts that we have determined to be low cost and /or sold through fee-based advisors…

Concerning Trends in Fee-Based Variable Annuity Contracts

For a number of reasons there is now much interest around the industry in variable annuities built for sale through fee-based financial advisors; with that fact in mind, in this report we’ll provide some perspective...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from October, 2017

This report contains our coverage of noteworthy variable fund filings from October. It was a fairly active time – during the month we saw new fund registrations along with numerous changes to investment platforms…

Some Bright Spots Amid Insurers’ Variable Annuity Sales Results in Q3

After reviewing earnings calls of stock-traded insurance companies we cover regularly, we came away with the impression that for of them, variable annuity results were lackluster, although there were a few instances of modest improvement…

Principal Financial Files New VA Internal Exchange Offer

While we have seen a few insurers offer to buyout owners of vintage guaranteed lifetime benefits for risk-reduction purposes, a company that has taken a different approach is Principal Financial. Earlier this week it filed...

Random Thoughts – on Current Conditions in the VA Market

Third quarter earnings season is now underway, and we are highly interested in what conference calls might reveal about the variable annuity business. We’re suspecting that sales levels might have started improve at least a...