Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. In a previous blog entry I described the basic mechanics of structured note variable annuities (SNVAs). The products’ partial or ...

Life and annuity insurers, with memories still fresh about promises they struggled to keep, don’t want to make the same mistakes twice. More than a decade ago, insurers sold variable annuities with ...

Structured variable annuity sales in the second quarter rose 36 percent to $1.8 billion compared with the year-ago period. The product subcategory now accounts for 7 percent of the variable annuity ...

Last month, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) came out with a draft proposal recommending changes to life insurance products. One of the changes it proposed was ...