{"id":65,"date":"2009-03-06T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2023-02-15T06:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:23:45","slug":"phoenix-annuities-dropped-by-state-farm-national-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/phoenix-annuities-dropped-by-state-farm-national-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Annuities Dropped by State Farm, National Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, both State Farm and the National Life Group announced that they will stop selling Phoenix Companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annuities<\/a>. Diane Levick writes in the <em>Hartford Courant <\/em>that those firms, which combined&nbsp;made up 82% of Phoenix&#8217;s 2008 annuity sales,&nbsp;have&nbsp;made this decision because of&nbsp;Phoenix&#8217;s recent ratings downgrade from Hartford.<\/p>\n<p>The firm is already struggling, given its 37% decrease in annuity sales (based on customer depositsw) in Q4 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, both State Farm and the National Life Group announced that they will stop selling Phoenix Companies annuities. Diane Levick writes in the Hartford Courant that those firms, which combined&nbsp;made up 82% of Phoenix&#8217;s 2008 annuity sales,&nbsp;have&nbsp;made this decision because of&nbsp;Phoenix&#8217;s recent ratings downgrade &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Phoenix Annuities Dropped by State Farm, National Life\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/phoenix-annuities-dropped-by-state-farm-national-life\/#more-65\" aria-label=\"Read more about Phoenix Annuities Dropped by State Farm, National Life\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,186,204,122,332,334],"tags":[33,54,36,56,333],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27579,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/27579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}