In Defense of ‘Buffered’ Annuities
December 18, 2019 by Kerry Pechter
A Wall Street Journal’s article last weekend (‘An Imperfect Solution to a Calamity’) could have put structured variable annuities (aka registered index-linked annuities) in a much more positive light.
As the annuity industry celebrated record sales of structured, or “buffered,” index annuities last week ($12.5 billion in the first three-quarters of 2019, according to the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute), the Wall Street Journal published a tepid review about the whole category of registered index-linked annuities.
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