Moore on the Market 8/25/2026
August 25, 2026 by Sheryl J. Moore
Greetings!
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ANNUITY
08/25/26: Midland National Life Insurance Company increased GLWB payouts on the Income Planning Annuity indexed annuity.
08/25/26: North American Company for Life and Health increased Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (GLWB) payouts for select ages on the Income Pay Pro indexed annuity.
08/23/26: Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company increased GLWB payouts at select ages on the Safe Income Advantage and SecureIncome 7 indexed annuities.
08/19/26: American National Insurance Company increased the premium bonus on the Strategy Indexed Annuity Plus 7 indexed annuity.
08/17/26: Minnesota Life Insurance Company (a.k.a. Securian) just released their SecureLink Assure 5 and SecureLink Assure 7 indexed annuities. Available to both the broker/dealer and independent agent distributions, these products are not materially different from the preceding SecureLink Ultra series. Is a slimmer list of indexing methods conducive to better sales? It will be interesting to see how sales of these products fare in the 10—year dominated independent distributions.
08/12/26: Ability Insurance Company recently introduced the ReliAbility series of Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuities (MYGAs), which is available to independent insurance agents. With 3-, 5-, 7-, and 10-year surrender charge periods, the carrier is looking to cover all of their bases with this group of “cafeteria plan-like products.” Want more liquidity? You’ll pay for that in terms of rate. Full Account Value on death? That will result in a lesser credited rate as well. (SN: I am not projecting a comeback in 10-year MYGAs.) Ability has plenty of competition when it comes to credited rates; let’s see how they play in the arms race that is MYGA credited rates.
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LIFE INSURANCE
Life insurance launches and product changes are not nearly as frequent as for those on the annuity side. Hit us up next week…we may have something to report on then.
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-sjm
