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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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An Update on Variable Managed-Volatility Portfolios Through 4Q17

This report completes our coverage of trends in variable insurance managed-volatility portfolios, referencing data through the end of 2017…

A Brief Reflection on Current Conditions in the Variable Annuity Market

Given that not much variable annuity product filing activity has occurred since our last update, this week we will provide a simple reflection on current conditions in the industry…

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…

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from September, 2017

Last month we saw a good number of interesting variable insurance fund filings, including new registrations, shareholder votes on various issues, and sub-advisory replacements, which we’ll cover in this report…

An Update on Variable Managed-Volatility Portfolios Through 2Q17

This report continues our regular coverage of trends in variable insurance managed-volatility portfolios, referencing data compiled through the first half of this year…

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from July, 2017

Variable fund filing activity has started to pick up this summer: in this report we’ll cover a number of interesting new portfolios that were registered in July, as well as investment platform adjustments…

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from June, 2017

This will be a longer-than-usual fund report because during June we saw a surge in filing activity, including quite a few new portfolio registrations. There was also no shortage of changes of various types…

Summer Thoughts – On Competitive Conditions in the VA Business

As we opined in our last commentary, activity along the variable annuity product pipeline continues to be rather slow, thus we don’t have a great deal of new developments to cover. Our intention with this...