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Death Benefits & Tax Deferred Growth

While demand for variable annuities is still very high, many insurers are stepping back from them quite a bit.  According to Investment News’s Darla Mercado in the article “VA carriers hunkering down,” life insurers have had a hard time hedging their variable annuities with living …

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Best Annuity Service Awards

For more than twenty years, research and consulting firm Dalbar has come up with a list of the companies offering the best annuity service.  Their list for 2011 includes both big and small names, but all of the winners have the best customer service in …

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Fewer Choices for Variable Annuities, Not Necessarily a Bad Thing

In the Wall Street Journal article, “Restyled Annuities Offer Fewer Choices,” Leslie Scism says that variable annuities with lifetime income guarantees don’t have as many investment options as they did a few years ago.  When the market was stronger, insurance companies used a wide range …

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MetLife Leapfrogs Over Prudential

Snoopy the beagle, MetLife’s corporate mascot, is famously appealing. But his appeal isn’t big enough to explain what happened in the second quarter of 2011, when investors put almost $7 billion worth of their retirement savings in MetLife’s variable annuities. No, MetLife jumped ahead of …

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