Not sure how they do it, but our recent experience indicates that Symetra...
Symetra
Symetra Financial provides retirement plans, employee benefits, life insurance and annuities through a national network of independent advisors and agents.
Symetra's annuity product offerings include fixed deferred annuities, income annuities, structured settlement annuities, and variable deferred annuities.
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Product Review of Symetra Income Builder
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The "True"... Product Review of Symetra Freedom Income Annuity
The Freedom Income Annuity is Symetra's longevity insurance offering.
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| Website | http://www.symetra.com |
| Type | Insurance Company |
| Founded | 1957 |
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| Country | USA |
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| Address | Bellevue, WA 98004-5135 |
| Phone | 800-796-3872 |
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The U.S. longevity insurance market has been developing for almost a decade, and yet there are still only a handful of insurance companies providing retail longevity annuities. This is somewhat surprising given demographics, longevity trends, capital market conditions and recent regulatory guidance that should provide a boost to longevity annuities. That said, current environment interest rate environment is challenging for providers of fixed annuities--particularly those companies that need to respond to the shorter-term demands of shareholders. MetLife was an early leader in the market for longevity insurance with a product for the defined contribution market. The focus here, though, is the retail market. In other words, the focus is on products that are provided directly to individuals (retail offerings) rather than longevity annuities that are offered through 401(k) plans. The following is a list (in alphabetical order) of the companies that currently provide retail longevity insurance. We will attempt to keep this list current and comprehensive over time, and we welcome input from readers regarding products not on this list that are either available or in development. 1) MassMutual MassMutual just came to market with its longevity annuity called RetireEase Choice deferred income annuity. 2) MetLife Again, MetLife was a leader with a longevity insurance offering for the 401(k) market almost a decade ago. MetLife’s current retail offering is the Longevity Income Guarantee. New York Life has had quite a bit of success with its longevity annuity. Initial sales exceeded expectations and totaled almost $250 million in the first six months. New York Life’s longevity annuity is called the Guaranteed Future Income Annuity New York Life also released a variable annuity with lifetime income features that is called the Income Plus Variable Annuity. 4) Nortwestern Mutual Northwestern Mutual recently came to market with their longevity annuity. Northwester Mutual’s longevity annuity is the Select Portfolio Deferred Income Annuity 5) Symetra Symetra’s longevity annuity offering is the Freedom Income Annuity 6) The Hartford The Hartford recently sold its annuity operations to Forethought Fianncial Group. In the past, The Hartford had a couple of longevity insurance products. The products that were available were The Hartford Income Security and The Hartford Income Annuity. Guardian Life's longevity insurance product is the SecureFuture Income Annuity.
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The popularity of living benefit features is one thing that seems clear when looking at variable annuity sales data. The vast majority of variable annuity sales include one of several living benefit or guaranteed living benefit features. National Underwriter reports that Bellevue, Washington-based Symetra will be selling a line of low cost variable annuities that do not contain any living benefit features. Apparently Symetra considers the GLB-free variable annuity as an underserved niche. The company also seems to be taking a wait-and-see approach with respect to industry-wide pricing trends for GLB features. Since Symetra is a public company, it will be interesting to follow the progress of their GLB-free VA offering. Source: National Underwriter |
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