Annuity Market News articles from March 2007

Annuity Market News archives from March 2007

How MasterDex Mastered the EIA Market: Allianz Life Mixes Controversial Formula for Success.
March 1, 2007... America has a love-hate relationship with annuities, and that seems to go double for the MasterDex suite of equity-indexed annuities from Allianz Life of Minneapolis. The three MasterDex annuities, especially the MasterDex 5 and MasterDex...

The Buzz Over Longevity Bonds': Hypothetical New Hedge Could Boost Life Annuities.
March 1, 2007... If researchers at the National Institutes of Health discovered a panacea that would add three or four years to the average person's lifespan, most of us would feel grateful. Nobel Prizes would be awarded to everyone in the lab. But for...

Getting Out Annuities' Good Name: The Makings of Annuity Public Relations.
March 1, 2007... The ballroom of the National Press Club in Washington hosts hundreds of press conferences and luncheons every year, with speakers ranging from former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, to Jordan's Queen Noor, to novelist Stephen King. On Jan....

Very Wealthy Unlikely to Own Annuities.
March 1, 2007... The chance someone will own a variable annuity increases with a household's income, wealth, age and education, but the very wealthy are unlikely to own an annuity, and the ownership of variable annuities is less concentrated than the ownership...

At Deadline.
March 1, 2007... Pressure Building Over NASD Notice 05-50 An expert on NASD regulation suggests that the controversy over Notice 05-50 regarding supervision of equity-indexed annuities (EIAs) could soon be "blown wide open." The expert, Margaret A....

People Moves.(Insurance industry)
March 1, 2007... Mullen Becomes President of Lincoln Distributors Terry Mullen is now president of Lincoln Financial Distributors, promoted from senior vice president of sales. Before that, he had been senior vice president and national sales manager for...

Insurers Undercharge for Living Benefits.
March 1, 2007... Insurers are undercharging for living benefit guarantees, according to Moshe Milevsky, a finance professor at York University of Toronto. Today's variable annuity products are designed to protect retirement income for a policyholder's life....