Tag: Indexed annuities
Annuities: insurance firms take a hit in the first quarter
North America | Products
15 May 2020 by Lavanya Nair & Pablo Conde
Life insurance firms Prudential, Athene Holding and Lincoln Financial have suffered substantial setbacks to their first quarter earnings relative the same period a year prior.
New prop indices dispatched as US insurers capitalise on market vol
North America | Indices
12 May 2020 by Lavanya Nair & Pablo Conde
Life insurance firms, North American, Ohio National and Great American have launched new indexed annuity products to meet rising client concerns surrounding market volatility as the world scrambles to repair the turmoil during the Covid-19 outbreak.
DPL Financial onboards commission-free FIAs
North America | Products
09 Apr 2020 by Lavanya Nair & Pablo Conde
The insurance network for registered independent advisers (RIAs) has onboarded two additional commission-free fixed index annuity (FIA) products from Great American Life.
SRP in brief: upside down
International | Industry
06 Apr 2020 by Amélie Labbe
The dust has not settled on recent market correction events, and ambient volatility and uncertainty are at levels rarely seen before. There are few – if any – parts of the market that have been unaffected by the turmoil caused by the global Covid-19 outbreak as we discussed last week.
DPL: Fee-only approach has triggered new demand for indexed annuities
North America | Products
12 Mar 2020 by Lavanya Nair & Pablo Conde
DPL recently partnered with life insurance firm, Jackson National to offer advisory variable and fixed index annuities. SRP data shows that Jackson Life has 57 fixed index annuities that are tied to the S&P500, MSCI EAFE, Jackson Strategic4 and Jackson Multi-Strategy indices.
US indexed annuities set another sales record
North America | Products
24 Feb 2020 by Lavanya Nair & Pablo Conde
Total annuity sales in the US reached their highest recorded figure in 2019, totalling US$241.7 billion since hitting a peak of US$265bn in 2008, a three percent increase from 2018, according to a Limra Secure Retirement Institute (SRI) market report.
Buy-side view: simplicity helps with the positioning of indexed annuities
North America | Industry
20 Feb 2020 by Lavanya Nair & Pablo Conde
Catering to a growing need for innovative annuity products, life insurance company Great American Life became the second insurance carrier to be incorporated to SIMON’s insurtech annuities platform for wealth managers, in January of this year.
Athene USA debuts two ‘exclusive’ prop systematic strategies
North America | Products
10 Feb 2020 by SRP News
The annuity and life insurance provider has expanded its fixed indexed annuity (FIA) line-up with the addition of two exclusive new indices featuring state of the art technology.
US RIA network expands indexed annuity catalogue
North America | Products
03 Feb 2020 by Pablo Conde
DPL Financial Partners has reached an agreement with Pacific Life to include the annuities provider’s variable and fixed indexed annuities in the platforms’ commission-free annuity lineup.