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Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from April-May, 2013

In this commentary we’ll get caught up with variable insurance fund filings from the months of April and May, a time period that was fairly active, however we didn’t see a large number of new...

Lincoln National Communicates Confidence in Its Annuity Business

Investors and analysts are very curious as to how variable annuity operations may affect the health and profitability of insurers, especially since companies are now pulling away from selling rich guarantees. As we noted in...

VA Insurers Say They Are Managing Benefit Risks – But Still Want to Trim Them

It’s been a while since we checked in on variable annuity guaranteed benefit risk levels, and we were reminded of that fact by MetLife’s recent investor day, where the topic was discussed at length. We...

VA Insurers Continue to Revise Existing Benefits to Trim Risks – and Sales

Over the past year or so we have seen an increasing number of insurers file variable annuity guaranteed benefits that are not entirely new, but rather slightly de-risked versions of existing ones. Last week we...

Update: New Variable Annuity Contracts Filed in 2013

This table updates our coverage of new variable annuity contracts filed with the SEC so far in 2013…

Update: New Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits (GLWBs) filed in 2013

This table updates our coverage of new variable annuity Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits (GLWBs) filed with the SEC in 2013…

VA Sales Appear to Have Continued Their Downward Movement in 1Q13

We have just completed our review of variable annuity results for publicly-traded insurers we watch regularly and, based on the performance of those companies, we suspect the industry saw a drop in deposits in the...

Some Notes on VA Contracts and Riders – That Are Coming and Going

We are still working our way through the May variable annuity prospectus updates, and recently we have found an interesting mixture of activity on the part of issuers, ranging from the scaling back or closing...

Update: Variable Insurance Volatility-Managed Portfolios

This spreadsheet updates our tracking of variable insurance volatility-managed funds, including asset data up through the fourth quarter of 2012…