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Annuity Sales Rise for Jackson Insurance

Jackson National Life Insurance Company has fixed annuities to thank for it’s increasing sales in the first quarter of 2009.  While sales of their variable annuities were down compared to last year, sales of traditional fixed annuities almost doubled from the same period last year.  …

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A.M. Best Downgrades Nationwide Rating

A recent press release by A.M. Best announces that they have revised their rating of Nationwide Financial Services to negative. Nationwide’s rating had been stable. A.M. Best says that the downgrade are is largely due to the fact that the firm’s financial performance is heavily …

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Tips for Buying Annuities from Money Magazine

Walter Updegrave, editor of Money magazine, recently wrote about the conventional wisdom of annuities being a safer investment and wondered if that is still true today. He believes that an annuity continues to be a good option, but that you need to keep several guidelines …

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Kiplinger’s: Don’t Worry About AIG Annuities

In Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, Kimberly Lankford advised individuals with annuities or life insurance policies from AIG to sit tight. Despite the well-publicized struggles of its other divisions, the life insurance subsidiaries are mostly unaffected and currently have an A rating from A.M. Best (under …

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