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Lincoln Financial Group Comments on Standard & Poor's Ratings Action (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Lincoln Financial Group today announced that Standard & Poor's affirmed its AA counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York, and revised its outlook for the insurance subsidiaries from positive to stable.
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Pennsylvania Insurance Department Hits Allegheny County Insurance ... - MarketWatch
Pennsylvania Insurance Department Hits Allegheny County Insurance ... MarketWatch - 21 hours ago Lorena Mierau - Philadelphia - $8000 penalty and five-year license supervision for selling and misrepresenting annuity products not authorized in ...
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Insurers in for More Misery
Insurance companies that have sold billions of dollars worth of annuities that make guaranteed payments when stock indices like S&P 500 fall, could weigh on several companies that offer the products. Equity index annuities (EIAs), also known as fixed index annuities, pay holders a percentage based on the performance of a market index, such as the S&P 500. As the S&P goes up or down, so does the amount of interest the insurer pays the annuity holder. However, EIAs also offer a minimum guaranteed interest rate, generally about 3% (the "fixed" component). Companies do employ hedging strategies targeted to time
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Financial Advisors Award Prudential Annuities Top Industry Honors
Prudential Annuities announced today that for the fourth consecutive year, one of its variable annuity optional living benefits has won a Boomer Market Advisor Readers Choice Award . Additionally, Insurance Marketing readers recently ranked Prudential Annuities No. 1 for the Best Line of Variable Annuities. Prudential Annuities is Prudential Financial's domestic annuity business. Financial Advisors Award Prudential Annuities Top Industry Honors Source: Yahoo! Finance
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