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Sales of the Best Annuities are Increasing
Financial advisors whose clients hold annuities haven’t had to worry about fielding concerned investors’ calls in this tumultuous market. According to The Wall Street Journal article “Annuities...
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Fewer Choices for Variable Annuities, Not Necessarily a Bad Thing
In the Wall Street Journal article, “Restyled Annuities Offer Fewer Choices,” Leslie Scism says that variable annuities with lifetime income guarantees don’t have as many investment options as they did...
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Review of Hartford’s Variable Annuity: Benefits Without Drawbacks
For those hoping for a variable annuity that will not reduce death benefits when a lifetime income option is used, The Hartford’s annuity enhancement is for you. According to Market Watch’s “The...
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Indexed Annuities Market Growing and Changing
Indexed annuities have been growing at a much faster rate than variable annuities and fixed annuities in the past 5-10 years. The Life Health Pro article, “New players enter indexed annuity space” by...
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No More Annuity Business for Hartford Financial
In the article “Hartford Financial exiting annuity business, will focus on property and casualty insurance,” an Associated Press article in the Washington Post talks about the upcoming changes to...
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No More Annuities from The Hartford
Big news came from The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. yesterday. While it had previously been announced that they were looking to sell their annuities and life insurance businesses, a deal has...
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Variable Annuity Changes from MetLife, Prudential, Hartford
Three life insurance companies are changing their variable annuities in the wake of some tumult in the industry. MetLife, Prudential, and the Hartford are either updating products or scaling down on...
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Prudential & AIG Pick Up MetLife’s Variable Annuity Business
As MetLife scales back on their variable annuities, other companies are picking up the market share. According to Bloomberg Business News’ “Prudential Joins AIG Taking Annuities Share From MetLife,”...
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Entering Annuity Market Now With A Clean Slate
Although there have been some large insurance carriers leaving the annuity market recently, those who remain think that annuities are going to remain important vehicles for guaranteeing lifetime...
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AIG’s Variable Annuity Sales Increase 20%
Things are looking up for AIG in 2012. Their first three quarters have been successful and they have paid back the remainder of the government loan that they received. AIG plans to announce their...
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2013 Trends for Annuities as a Whole
This blog is, in essence, a continuation of yesterday’s blog on what to expect in variable annuity trends for 2013. But this entry deals with the annuity industry as a whole and what we think will be...
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Changing Season for Variable Annuities
The annuity market is in a tough spot with variable annuities right now. They are still good products and offer many investors benefits they can’t get anywhere else, but low interest rates have made...
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The Hartford Forces Variable Annuity Investment Changes
UPDATED July 27, 2013: The variable annuity community has been up in arms since The Hartford announced forced variable annuity changes earlier this summer. Many of their variable annuity contract...
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UPDATE: Some States Exempt from Hartford’s Variable Annuity Changes
Back in May, The Hartford announced forced changes to their variable annuity contracts that have made a big splash in the annuity community. Many variable annuity holders are being forced to change...
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Lincoln National’s Variable Annuity Sales Increase 48%
Lincoln National Corp. has seen strong variable annuity sales this year. After the first three quarters of the year, they had more than $10 billion in variable annuity sales. That is the highest...
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The Wall Street Journal Evaluates Variable Annuity Buybacks
There has been a lot of talk about variable annuity buybacks over the past year. Basically, insurance companies are sending letters to people who own variable annuities offering to buy back their...
View ArticleNo More Annuities from The Hartford
Big news came from The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. yesterday. While it had previously been announced that they were looking to sell their annuities and life insurance businesses, a deal has...
View ArticleVariable Annuity Changes from MetLife, Prudential, Hartford
Three life insurance companies are changing their variable annuities in the wake of some tumult in the industry. MetLife, Prudential, and the Hartford are either updating products or scaling down on...
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Prudential & AIG Pick Up MetLife's Variable Annuity Business
As MetLife scales back on their variable annuities, other companies are picking up the market share. According to Bloomberg Business News’ “Prudential Joins AIG Taking Annuities Share From MetLife,”...
View ArticleEntering Annuity Market Now With A Clean Slate
Although there have been some large insurance carriers leaving the annuity market recently, those who remain think that annuities are going to remain important vehicles for guaranteeing lifetime...
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