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September 10, 2009 at 08:00 PM
The upheaval in the variable annuity market may create new opportunities for insurers, a market research firm says.
Analysts at Financial Research Corp., Boston, make that argument in a commentary based partly on a survey of 268 advisors and a survey of 6 large VA manufacturers.
Investors are more willing to pay these days for protection against the possibility of loss of principal, but absolute return funds, managed-payout funds, principal-protection funds and other products will compete with VA living benefits guarantees for those investors’ assets, FRC analysts write in the commentary.
Uncertainty about the economy and the direction of federal financial services regulation could discourage many insurers from developing new products and product features over the next 18 months, the FRC analysts write.
