Variable Annuities

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Feb 3, 2013

Overview

Back to square one

Financial advisers and clients are grappling with insurers' tweaks to in-force VA contracts.

Data and rankings

Variable annuity sales leaders

Participating issuers, ranked by new sales

Variable annuity asset leaders

Participating issuers ranked by net assets

Top participating variable annuity issuers

Ranked by sales at independent broker-dealers

Trends and insights

Are VA settlements a good deal?

More financial advisers can expect to find themselves and their clients weighing offers to buy out the variable annuities they purchased years ago.

Fee-based products attract attention

With low interest rates and volatile capital markets undermining the economics of writing traditional variable annuities, insurance companies are coming up with new products specifically tailored to fee-based advisers

Q&A: Morningstar's David Blanchett

Researcher challenges advisers to reconsider annuity options.

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