VA Writers Cut Benefits in 2011 to Reduce Exposure

Amid 2011's sharply volatile equity markets, some U.S. variable annuity writers have cut policyholder benefits to reduce their own financial exposure or exited the market...

Up Next: Interest in Indexed Annuities On The Rise
Exclusive Articles

The 3-Legged Retirement Stool: One Leg Short for the Affluent

John Rafferty, Vice President of Marketing Account Management

With the 'wealthy' being a top target for tax increases, it is important to examine each leg of the 3-legged retirement stool to understand the challenges facing the $250,000-and-up income cohort...

How Annuities Could Be a Health-Care Cost Cushion

Linda Koco, Contributing Editor

A recent report endorses the growing trend of using annuities for health-care expense planning...

More Policyholders Keeping Their Indexed Annuities

Linda Koco, Contributing Editor

If you have been thinking the indexed annuity owners have been keeping their annuities for longer and longer periods in the past few years, you are right! But why they are keeping them, that's the sur

Set Client Expectations like a Financial Physician

Watch Now »

Compliance Closing Tips that Make Advisors Millions

Watch Now »

Step Up to the Plate

Watch Now »

Going Beyond Traditional Disability Insurance, Part I

Watch Now »

Discover What Many Advisors Are Calling the Single Most Powerful Weapon in Their Arsenal.

Watch Now »

Truth About Average Stock Market Returns

Watch Now »

Dr. Bart Basi on Business Succession Planning - Brokers Alliance Special Event

Watch Now »

6 Proven Secrets to Advisor Website Success

Watch Now »

InsuranceNewsNet Magazine

 

Annuity Professional Insights

Provided by AnnuityNews.com Contributors

Add Plain Jane Annuities for Real Sales Sizzle

You can help your client overcome resistance to a new opportunity by turning to the “plain Jane” in the broker’s arsenal, the no-gamble fixed annuity...

The Future Is Here - Now What Do We Do?

There are many challenges facing the life insurance and the annuity business today; we know all the questions and now it's time to supply some answers...

Insurance News

N.Y. Fed Sells Off $7B in Former AIG Assets

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said it has sold $7.01 billion in face amount of assets from Maiden Lane II LLC, one of the limited liability companies that it created to take on the troubled assets of American International Group in 2008...

LIMRA: Only 39% of U.S. Families Exposed to Life Insurance Opportunities

Despite a broad array of ways to buy life insurance-- in person, by phone, by mail, through seminars, at the workplace and online-- LIMRA's 2011 Life Insurance Buyer/Non-buyer study found that only 39 percent of U.S. households recall having an opportunity to buy life insurance in the past two years

Featured Press Releases

submit a press release