Fixed Annuities
Fixed annuity news and analysis, with coverage of book value annuities, multi-year guaranteed annuity (MYGA) contracts, immediate annuities, deferred income annuities (including QLACs), and fixed indexed annuities.
Bank Annuity Sales Climb
By Staff WriterAnnuity sales through banks and savings institutions rose to $3.1 billion in January, up from $2.8 billion in January 2005.January's fixed annuity sales in banks ...
March 11, 2006
Beacon: Flatter Rate Curve Hits FA MarketRecent interest rate shifts may be decreasing consumer interest in contracts with relatively short, 1-year rate guarantee periods.Buyers of both book value fixed annuities and ...
March 11, 2006
Beacon: Flatter Rate Curve Hits FA MarketRecent interest rate shifts may be decreasing consumer interest in contracts with relatively short, 1-year rate guarantee periods.Buyers of both book value fixed annuities and ...
March 05, 2006
Bank Brokerage Programs Stumbled In 2005Since the mid-1990s, when banks first reported retail investments income to the federal government, industry production could be characterized as "onward and upward." Almost each ...
February 26, 2006
Fixed Annuity Sales Fell 10% In 2005Industry sales of fixed annuities totaled $18.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005, the lowest quarterly sales total since the second quarter of 2001.The ...
February 26, 2006
Fixed Annuity Sales Fell 10% In 2005Industry sales of fixed annuities totaled $18.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005, the lowest quarterly sales total since the second quarter of 2001.The ...
February 16, 2006
Banco Popular To Offer Symetra ProductsA financial services distributor will be selling a Northwestern insurer's annuities through a bank with strong ties to Hispanic consumers.Popular Investments, an arm of Independent ...
February 16, 2006
Banco Popular To Offer Symetra ProductsA financial services distributor will be selling a Northwestern insurer's annuities through a bank with strong ties to Hispanic consumers.Popular Investments, an arm of Independent ...