Jackson issues its first structured annuity (RILA)
RILA sales hit a record $9.8 billion in the second quarter of 2021. Jackson enters a field whose peloton includes the leader, Equitable, and fast-followers Allianz Life, Lincoln Financial,...
Structured Products
One-Stop Shops for Notes and Annuities
Luma Financial Technologies is now among the structured notes platforms that have chosen to add index-linked annuities to the products they support. It joins SIMON Markets and Halo in...
Diversification and Insurance: Which Should Come First?
'Diversification before insurance tends to perform better than insurance before diversification in the long run... but there are exceptions to this finding,' according to four analysts at Rand Merchant...
A Closer Look at CLOs
New research into collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), which are helping reshape the investment policies of the life/annuity industry, explores whether they have the same vulnerabilities as the 'CDOs' in...
Fresh from Midland National and DPL, AllianzIM
Midland National's new fee-based FIA, only at DPL Financial Partners, has a health-related income multiplier. Allianz Investment Management's structured ETFs have new caps.
How Equitable Invented the Structured Annuity
Indexed or "structured" variable annuities are on track to be a $20 billion business this year. The product, born of necessity, emerged from AXA's Innovation Hub ten...
A buffet of buffered ETFs for jittery investors
Allianz Life will compete in the structured ETF space against Innovator Capital Management, which invented this type of investment in 2018, First Trust, and New York Life Investments,...
“Buffered” ETFs for sensitive stomachs
Like registered index-linked annuities (aka structured annuities), Innovator's Defined Outcome ETFs use options to generate a customized range of returns based on the movement of an equity index.
Prudential Joins the SIMON Platform
Prudential's PruSecure fixed indexed annuity is the first annuity product to be offered on the SIMON structured products platform, which had previously specialized in structured notes. Prudential also invested...
‘SIMON’ Makes Indexed Annuities Simpler
Originally a platform for distributing structured notes to broker-dealers, SIMON is adding index-linked annuities to its product suite. Prudential is both an investor and, as of today, a product...
It’s Hot Around the ‘Collar’
Nervous investors can get an indexed collar strategy from an annuity or an ETF. Great West Financial and Innovator Capital Management have new products in the category. Cap-and-buffer products,...
Allianz Life’s New FIA Aims for Accumulation
'By using volatility controlled indices, we can offer higher caps,' said Matt Gray, vp of product innovation at Allianz Life. 'In such a low-rate environment, those higher caps have...
With “Ascend,” Voya Enters the Structured Variable Annuity Race
'It’s a new and improved version of a product that we previously offered called Potential Plus,' said Chad Tope (pictured), president of Annuities and Individual Life Distribution for Voya...
