Sentences with phrase «indexed annuity sales»

The fact that more than half of indexed annuity sales now involve products having 10 - year surrender charges may be of interest to indexed annuity critics.

Fixed indexed annuity sales, which hit a record $ 61 billion in 2016, are expected to fall between 5 and 10 percent in 2017 compared to 2016.

Total indexed annuity sales for 2017 were $ 53.9 billion, a decline of 7.1 percent from the year prior, according to Wink's Sales & Market Report.

Total indexed annuity sales for 2017 were $ 53.9 billion, a decline of 7.1 % from the year prior.

One answer has to do with guaranteed living benefits — the features were a big part of fixed indexed annuity sales in the first quarter...

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.

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

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.

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 lines.

Annual indexed annuity sales for 2017 were $ 53.9 billion, a decline of 7.1 %.

Total indexed annuity sales for 2017 were $ 53.9 billion, a decline of 7.1 percent from the year prior, according to Wink's Sales & Market Report.

Indexed annuity sales in 2017 fell 5 percent to $ 57.6 billion compared with record sales in 2016, but analysts expect FIA sales to rise this year as insurers and distributors adjust and move on from new Department of Labor fiduciary rules.

Fourth quarter indexed annuity sales totaled $ 14.7 billion, a 7 percent rebound from prior quarter and a 5 percent increase, compared with fourth quarter 2016 results.

«This is the first time that annual sales of indexed annuity sales have declined in a decade,» proclaimed Sheryl J. Moore, president and CEO of both Moore Market Intelligence and Wink, Inc..

Indexed annuity sales for the fourth quarter were $ 13.6 billion; up 6.4 % when compared to the previous quarter, and up 2.3 % when compared with the same period last year.

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

Fee - based variable and indexed annuities, considered critical to attracting registered investment advisors (RIA), finished 2017 with sales of $ 2.3 billion, or about 3.1 percent of all variable and indexed annuity sales, data show.

Fee - based indexed annuities finished with sales of $ 138 million, just 0.4 percent of all indexed annuity sales last year.

Wjile fee - based variable and indexed annuity sales are moving at a tortoise - like pace, analysts say there is hope the products will catch on with advisors.

Athene competes in the retirement savings market with Allianz Life and American Equity Life, and the company routinely sits near the top of the indexed annuity sales tables.

Indexed annuity sales, of which $ 54 billion worth were sold last year, fell compared to 2016 but analysts expect sales to pick up in 2018 as the uncertainties surrounding the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule fade.

Fee - based variable and indexed annuities finished 2017 with sales of about $ 2.3 billion, or 3.1 percent of all variable and indexed annuity sales, data show.

Wjile fee - based variable and indexed annuity sales are moving at a tortoise - like pace, analysts say there is hope the products will catch on with advisors.

According to a recent LIMRA report, indexed annuity sales were at 8.6 billion in just the first half of 2012.