Honorable Mention
Annexus and State Street partner on TDF with income rider; SEC seeks more SPAC disclosure; RetireOne hires McNeela and Cusack; SEC aims to regulate securities dealers, market makers; ‘Thematic...
Breaking News
Equitable to buy CarVal, a $14.3bn alt-assets manager; Life/annuity industry capital and surplus at year-end 2021: $444.5 bn; HealthView Services reports on rising medical costs; PBCG licenses insurer data...
AIG, Innovator, and Reliance Standard announce new products
AIG and Annexus co-launched X5 Accelerator, a fixed indexed annuity (FIA) with a lifetime income option; Innovator added 'Buffer Step-Up' strategies to its lineup of Managed Outcome ETFs, and...
Breaking News
Labor Department investigates Alight, a major recordkeeper; Timber Operators transfer $245 million in pension risks to Prudential; Lincoln enhances its flagship fixed indexed annuity; Price of pension risk transfer...
Breaking News
American Life & Security receives B++ rating from AM Best; SEC proposes more sunlight on private funds; Fidelity is accused of lax oversight of options and margins traders; Principal...
Breaking News
Voya to keep records for new pooled employer plan (PEP); MetLife announces 'significant' pension risk transfer deal in UK; SEC bolsters oversight of private funds; Public pensions are 85.5%...
Breaking News
DPL and Security Benefit add ‘total return’ index option to FIA; Americans expect market volatility in 2022: Allianz Life; Lincoln redesigns participant-facing website.
Breaking News
I-bonds now offer 7.12% return; A great year for life insurer stocks: WSJ; AllianzIM issues new iteration of its buffered outcome ETF; Funding levels of large pensions rose in...
Breaking News
Retirement Income Journal takes a holiday break; Great American offers fixed multi-year guaranteed rate annuity for RIAs; Lincoln’s 401(k) adds Income America 5For Life; Jackson buys back 2.2 million...
Breaking News
Net income of life/annuity companies on track to double this year: AM Best ; Pacific Life enhances offerings for RIAs; Luma enhances annuity and structured product comparison tool; Mutual of...
Breaking News
New bill would tax billionaires’ unrealized gains; Largest defined benefit pensions near 100% funding: Milliman; Know your ‘end-investor,’ Cerulli urges asset managers; Envestnet Insurance Exchange will carry Equitable RILA.
Breaking News
DOL sets new schedule for enforcing fiduciary rules; Annexus and Sammons roll out FIA with ESG index, multi-option rider; RIAs can now access an Allianz RILA with income rider...
Breaking News
Investcorp hires ‘insurance solutions’ expert away from Blackstone; US ranked 19th among world’s retirement systems; Pacific Life VAs to include Invesco ‘Defined Outcome’ funds; Fund and ETF flows abate...
Breaking News
Biden DOL gives green light to green funds in retirement plans; Morningstar announces a ESG Pooled Employer Plan; After 45 years, two of the initials in the acronym ‘KKR’...
Honorable Mention
American Equity partners with BlackRock and Conning on its AEL 2.0 strategy; Go big (in alternative assets) or go home, KKR CIO tells insurance CIOs; Allianz Investment Management launches...
Honorable Mention
Riskalyze to feature Allianz Life annuities; Great American annuities now on the Halo platform;
Honorable Mention
Lincoln Financial to gain $1.2 billion in capital from reinsurance deal; Joanna Rotenberg to run Fidelity’s $4.1 trillion Personal Investing division; Guggenheim Life and Annuity “under review” by ratings...
Honorable Mention
Michelle Richter to lead the Institutional Retirement Income Council; AIG to distribute annuities through SIMON; Morgan Stanley and Empower partner on workplace benefits; Jackson National completes ‘demerger’ from UK...
Honorable Mention
Jackson National enhances retirement income gap calculator; Ubiquity introduces 401(k) for ‘solopreneurs’; 'Income Lab' adds $1.7 million in seed financing; Many women prefer goal-based investing: Cerulli and Schwab; FIG...
Honorable Mention
Button succeeds Morris as Pacific Life CEO; Net income up, total income down for life/annuity industry in 1H2021; Athene Holding acquires £3 billion UK mortgage loan originator.


