Tag: Retirement products
SRP Europe 2022: Solutions for pension and insurance investors
Europe | Conferences
31 Mar 2022 by Summer Wang
As state pension systems struggle to meet the needs of retirement investors structured products are seen as a viable alternative.
Annuity regulator seeks to tighten up Rila features
North America | Regulations & Legal
24 Feb 2022 by Lavanya Nair
The US insurance regulator has developed new guidelines for technical changes to registered index-linked annuity values. These would bring the products in line with traditional variable annuities (VA).
Multi-asset indexed annuities take lead, fail to deliver
North America | Products
11 Feb 2022 by Lavanya Nair
Mean variance optimisation has become the dominant allocation process for risk control indices used in annuities.
Rilas poised to hit US$50 billion landmark by 2026
North America | Products
02 Feb 2022 by Lavanya Nair
The recent boom of the registered index-linked annuity (Rila) during turbulent markets led to retirement clients swapping out fixed index annuities (FIA) for the more stable alternative.
Barclays, Goldman Sachs prop plays set to underlie FIAs
North America | Indices
14 Jan 2022 by Lavanya Nair
The new proprietary underlyings will be offered as index options for fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) sold by life insurance firms DPL Financial and American Life, respectively.
Finanzlab: pension funds will only invest in structured products via funds
Europe | Industry
06 Jan 2022 by Pablo Conde
The firm is targeting the country’s pension funds with the first fund of structured products launched in Switzerland.
FNZ (Part 2): investment banks need help with legacy systems, underwriting operational risk
International | Technology
17 Nov 2021 by Pablo Conde
In the second part of an interview, Walter Cegarra, chief executive of FNZ’s structured investments platform FNZ Q-Hub, talks about why technology has become increasingly central to investment banks in the structured products space.
FNZ: long-term open-ended structures require specialised expertise
International | Technology
16 Nov 2021 by Pablo Conde
Investment banks and asset managers are adopting new technology to respond to demand for structured products and customisation in the long-term savings and retirement space.
US insurers ride the indexed annuity wave as FIA demand intensifies
North America | Products
10 Nov 2021 by Lavanya Nair
The Secure Retirement Institute (SRI) has recorded a 14% increase in the sales of fixed indexed annuities during the first nine months of 2021 with figures totalling US$47.1 billion, compared with the same period of 2020.