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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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Wading Back – Into Variable Annuity Living Benefit Competition

We firmly believe that, over the near term, most leading variable annuity players will need strong guaranteed living benefits to maintain their current sales levels – if not capture more market share. We say this...

Shifting Directions – Industry Players are Adjusting to New Realities

At this early stage in the year, a growing number of variable annuity insurers are demonstrating a willingness to de-risk in one form or another. What’s not clear is whether these companies are experiencing specific...

Getting Started – What’s in the VA Product Pipeline for Early 2011

Already some interesting competitive moves are being unveiled around the variable annuity business for the first half of the New Year, both of a “de-risking” nature or otherwise. What we are not sure about is...

2010 – For the Variable Annuity Industry, a Time of Renewed Risk Taking

It’s become our custom with the last report of December to offer reflections on how the variable annuity business performed over the past year, and suggest issues to watch in the future. We admit that...

Rate Switch – Pru Discloses Details of New Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits

We were all set to publish a commentary on another subject, but since Prudential submitted filings to the SEC late this afternoon with particulars on new guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits it has in the pipeline,...

Mixed Messages – Can VA Insurers Hope for a Strong Showing in Q4?

We have a somewhat positive outlook for variable annuity industry sales in the fourth quarter, even though things tend to slow down during that time period, there has not been a great deal of product...

Matching Up – VA Insurers Plan Moves to Answer Competitors

We have been noticing some rather interesting variable annuity product filings lately, which we think hint at strategic directions insurance companies will be taking, both now and into next year. The catch is that in...

An Agreeable Summer – Insurers Post Respectable VA Sales in Q3

As is our custom, we delved into the variable annuity business results of 10 stock-traded insurers we track, and, overall, came away with a pretty positive impression about the third quarter. We say this even...

Concerning the RIA Market – and Noteworthy Product Filings

The number of variable annuity contracts designed for fee-based financial advisors has been growing of late, and in this commentary we’ll share some thoughts as to the why this is happening, and weigh in on...