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16 Things You Need to Know Now About Annuities Read full article May 3, 2021, 11:00 AM·21 min read With the retirement playing field littered with crushed investments and dreams, the safety of guaranteed income streams looks more attractive each day. Some annuities can provide such a guarantee. If you ask an insurance company to define annuities, the marketing phrase the insurer will probably use is: "Annuities can produce an income stream you can't outlive." That can be true. Annuity payments can last for as long as you live -- or even longer -- because the payments are based on your life e...

Risk.net Insurance quants increase risk-adjusted profits using novel hedging technique But there is no standard way for insurance companies to hedge the risk of variable annuity contracts. Two industry practitioners have put forward a new hedging method using protective put options. They estimate that the technique can improve risk-adjusted profits for insurers’ variable annuity portfolios by 60%. The improvement comes from two sources: more efficient use of options as a hedging tool, and a reduction in the capital charges for insurers. The approach is based on the assumption that a variabl...

Aegon N.V.: Aegon reports second half-year 2020 results Improved operating performance; dividend well covered by Free Cash Flows Net loss of EUR 147 million in the second half of 2020, mainly as a result of an increase of the value of liabilities in the Netherlands due to tightening credit spreads, reversing the movement seen in the first half of the year Underlying earnings before tax increase by 7% to EUR 1,029 million driven by the benefit from higher equity markets in the United States and Asset Management, and expense savings. COVID-19 had a manageable impact, as it led to both adverse m...

Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Brighthouse Financial's Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Josh and I will be your coordinator today. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the presentation over to David Rosenbaum, Head of Investor Relations. Mr. Rosenbaum, you may proceed. David Rosenbaum -- Head of Investor Relations Good morning, and thank you for joining Brighthouse Financial's fourth quarter and full year 2020 earnings call. Our earnings release, slide presentation and financial supplement were released last night and can be ac...

The wealth manager whose parent firm also owns an insurer and asset manager settled its third case involving the same time period.