Annuities
Annuity news and analysis, including coverage of annuity market regulatory, compliance and legislative issues.
MetLife Offers Income Inflation Protection
By Staff WriterMetropolitan Life Insurance Company is introducing an income annuity feature that can protect purchasers against rapidly rising prices.[@@]Metropolitan Life, a unit of MetLife Inc., ...
November 23, 2005
VA Sales Up 1%, FA Sales Down 8% Year-To-DateIndividual annuity sales dropped 3% year-to-date through September 2005 when compared to the same period in 2004.The overall total of $162.5 billion was comprised ...
November 23, 2005
Combined VA Reserving Proposal EposedChicagoRegulators voted to expose a draft of an actuarial guideline for reserving of variable annuities with living benefits that incorporates a proposal of the ...
November 23, 2005
The Top Fied Annuity Sellers In 3QIn the third quarter 2005, the top selling fixed annuity was MasterDex, an Allianz Life indexed annuity that has ranked first for five consecutive ...
November 23, 2005
3Q Inde Annuity Sales Off 7% From 2QIndex annuity sales declined 7% in the third quarter of 2005 compared to the second quarter of 2005, says Advantage Compendium Ltd., St. Louis, ...
November 23, 2005
Life, Annuity Sales Falter In BanksSales of life insurance in banks were down 13% in the first half of 2005, the first time in years that banks' life premium ...
November 23, 2005
Amid Mostly Flat Sales,"Declared rate and indexed annuities are under attack on multiple fronts," states a new position paper from the National Association for Fixed Annuities, Milwaukee, ...