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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 ...

While the variable annuities (VA) market in Japan is second in size to the US, the rest of Asia includes only patchy activity. Several isolated deals in Hong Kong and Australia over the past five ...

Researchers in Portugal have simulated 800 power purchase agreemeents across eight different contract type and have found that contracts with a variable price structure achieve higher performance.

Proposed Department of Labor rules may encourage insurance carriers to adopt a more fee-based structure and that could favor the “wrap” variable annuity structure, a market research analyst said. A ...

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 ...