Sentences with phrase «fixed indexed annuity sales»

In addition, Lincoln is ranked as # 10 in the industry in fixed indexed annuity sales.

Despite a drop in fixed indexed annuity sales last year, the president of American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co. said Friday the company has no intention of steering sales away from the independent agent channel.

The rule would cause «extraordinary» harm to the $ 50 billion industry, Bartz said, noting that 60 % of fixed indexed annuity sales go through individual insurance agents.

Not exact matches

[31] Therefore, from June 9, 2017, until January 1, 2018, insurance agents, insurance brokers, pension consultants and insurance companies will be able to continue to rely on PTE 84 - 24, as previously written, [32] for the recommendation and sale of fixed indexed, variable, and other annuity contracts to plans and IRAs, [33] subject to Start Printed Page 16917the addition of the Impartial Conduct Standards.

Now that it has become clear that sales and recommendations with respect to fixed indexed annuity products will cause an advisor to become subject to the final Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule, the real question has shifted to what advisors need to know in order to continue selling these popular products.

North American also offers a wide variety of traditional fixed and fixed index annuities and consistently ranks among the top fixed index annuity carriers in the U.S. (Source: Wink Sales & Market Report, 2017).

In addition, 12 percent of fourth quarter indexed annuity sales went to a fixed (bond) index, Wink reported.

While Wink currently reports on indexed annuity, fixed annuity, and multi-year guaranteed annuity product sales, the firm looks forward to reporting on immediate annuity and variable annuity product sales in the future.

Fifty - eight indexed annuity providers, 52 fixed annuity providers, and 60 MYGA companies participated in the 82nd edition of Wink's Sales & Market Report for 4th Quarter, 2017.

March 21, 2018 - Wink's Sales & Market Report, the insurance industry's # 1 resource for indexed annuity sales data since 1997, is in its third year of reporting on all non-variable deferred annuities which include indexed annuity, traditional fixed annuity, and multi-year guaranteed annuity (MYGA) product lSales & Market Report, the insurance industry's # 1 resource for indexed annuity sales data since 1997, is in its third year of reporting on all non-variable deferred annuities which include indexed annuity, traditional fixed annuity, and multi-year guaranteed annuity (MYGA) product lsales data since 1997, is in its third year of reporting on all non-variable deferred annuities which include indexed annuity, traditional fixed annuity, and multi-year guaranteed annuity (MYGA) product lines.

In the wake of the final Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule, advisors and insurance carriers alike have been compelled to reevaluate sales practices surrounding annuity sales — especially with respect to variable and fixed indexed annuities.

«Positive rating actions could occur if the company diversified its product offerings into more creditworthy product lines, resulting in sales growth in products other than fixed indexed annuities,» A.M. Best analysts said.

While parts of the rule went into effect June 9, provisions strictly regulating the sale of variable and fixed indexed annuities are delayed until July 1, 2019.

As fixed index annuity (FIA) sales continue their meteoric rise, their risk profile has been increasing as well.

See http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/09/have-an-annuity-with-lifetime-income-guarantees-dont-give-it-up/ I have written negatively about equity - indexed annuities (which the industry likes to call «fixed annuities,» even though they aren't fixed), due to lack of disclosure, hidden fees and, yes, abusive sales, as several lawsuits by attorneys general can attest.

Traditional fixed annuities (FAs) and multi-year guaranteed annuities (MYGAs) might seem like yesteryear's afterthought, shivering as their sales are in the shadow of the soaring fixed index annuity (FIA) sales.

With the exception of second quarter 2014, fixed index annuity (FIA) sales were «greater this quarter than in any other second quarter in the history of the product line,» said Sheryl J. Moore, president and CEO of both Wink Inc. and Moore Market Intelligence.

Living benefit features in fixed index annuities are helping fuel their growth in sales, according to researchers.

This article will present the three major types of annuities — fixed, variable and indexed — and furnish you what to seek out in each, as well as what to do before you invest or opt to put up your annuity for sale.

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company is engaged in the development and sale of index and fixed rate annuity products.

For investment purposes, we offer tax - deferred fixed annuity investments, equity - indexed annuity plans, immediate (income generating) annuities, guaranteed income riders, structured settlements, and structured sale accounts.

Those matters have arisen from almost every aspect of the development, pricing, marketing, underwriting, sale, administration and claims handling of whole, universal, variable and indexed life insurance, as well as variable, fixed and indexed annuity contracts and retirement products.

We provide a full range of legal and regulatory services to insurance companies, broker - dealers and service providers relating to the design, marketing, and sale of variable insurance products, individual and group annuities, fixed indexed annuities, market - value - adjustment products, synthetic annuities, BOLI, funding agreements, stable value wrap contracts, and other innovative products.