The world has been messy enough in recent weeks to prompt many retirement savers to think harder about how well they tolerate risk.
Some annuity issuers have been thinking hard about their own appetite for investment-market risk, but some are still adding and improving guarantees.
The more volatility increases, the more valuable any guarantees still available from highly rated issuers will be.
For three recent announcements involving fixed or fixed indexed annuities, see the gallery accompanying this article.
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