Annuities

Increased bank-customer interest in variable products indicates a positive shift in their aversion to market exposure.

Market-linked CDs’ winning features are pushing indexed annuities off banks’ product shelves.

Annuity information company is a unit of Advanced Sales and Marketing.

Report says technical wherewithal more important than ever as industry bounces back from financial crisis.

While annuity sales are down for the first half of the year overall, second-quarter sales go a long way to closing the gap.

Sectors’ business fundamentals may remain the same, but variations in strategy seen in response to economic turmoil, growth mandates, notes Robert E. Nolan report.

Nomura Securities International Inc. said on Monday that it hired Pascal Bandelier and Paul Sangimino as co-heads of U.S. cash equities in New York.

A closer examination of why (and why not) annuities belong in a 401(k) plan.

Experts say that the new law could push annuities forward.

There’s a lot of debate right now about whether putting annuities in 401(k) plans is a good idea or not.

Quarterly fee payments save the day, as new product sales suffer from a market dip.

Low rates on fixed annuities force advisors to branch out into life insurance sales, hitting a home run.

Advisors are turning to annuities, using tactical asset allocation and continuing to move to fee-based business models, as they cope with the effects that the sluggish economic climate is having on their practices, according to findings from the latest Russell’s Financial Professional Outlook, released last week.

Allianz survey demonstrates the need to dispel myths and educate on such annuity innovations as access to the market upside.

Vanguard Annuity Access is designed for individuals seeking a guaranteed stream of income in retirement to augment their retirement savings and Social Security benefits.

The creator of the highest daily value rider saw bank sales shoot up by 144% year-over-year in the second quarter.

Things look up for the bank channel after a challenging few years.

Fixed annuities, which experienced a sales boom last year in banks, stem the bleeding, while variable annuities finally start trending upward, Kehrer-Limra says.

While 2010 fixed-annuity sales can’t hold a candle to freakishly high sales a year ago, widening spreads are making it a pretty good year.

Fixed annuities drag the overall numbers down, but variable annuity sales are growing at a healthy clip.