{"id":7476,"date":"2010-02-25T21:42:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T02:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2023-02-15T05:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:05:24","slug":"indexed-annuities-break-records-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/indexed-annuities-break-records-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Indexed Annuities Break Records in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With $30 billion of sales in 2009, indexed <a title=\"annuities\" href=\"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annuities<\/a> set a record for the highest sales of all time, according to &#8220;2009 Indexed Annuity Sales Set Record&#8221; from <em>Insurance News Net<\/em>.&nbsp; The previous record from 2007 was beat by close to 10%.&nbsp; Data representing 99% of the companies selling indexed annuities was collected by Annuity Spec&#8217;s Indexed Sales and Market Report.&nbsp; While 4th quarter indexed annuity sales were down from the third quarter, sales levels were adjusting back to a normal level after their record highs.<\/p>\n<p>Allianz Life remained in the top spot for total 2009 sales, as well as staying in the #1 carrier position in the market.&nbsp; Their MasterDex X held its position as the top selling indexed annuity for the third quarter in a row.&nbsp; Indexed annuities are tied to the markets, proving that their <a title=\"annuity rates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/compare-best-annuity-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annuity rates<\/a> were popular to investors.&nbsp; After Allianz Life, Aviva moved up to the second spot in this annuities market.&nbsp; The third, fourth, and fifth spots were occupied by American Equity, Jackson National, and ING.&nbsp; In regards to bank and wirehouse 4th quarter distributions, Jackson National Life had the most indexed annuity sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With $30 billion of sales in 2009, indexed annuities set a record for the highest sales of all time, according to &#8220;2009 Indexed Annuity Sales Set Record&#8221; from Insurance News Net.&nbsp; The previous record from 2007 was beat by close to 10%.&nbsp; Data representing 99% &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Indexed Annuities Break Records in 2009\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/indexed-annuities-break-records-in-2009\/#more-7476\" aria-label=\"Read more about Indexed Annuities Break Records in 2009\">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":[102,97,34,438,381,129,345,122],"tags":[33,335],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476"}],"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=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25758,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions\/25758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}