5 New Questions About How the Annuity Market Will Weather 2019

January 1, 2019 by Allison Bell

A year ago, annuity issuers faced three towering problems:

• The possibility that the U.S. Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule could still be… moving.
• Regulators’ quiet worries about how well issuers can manage investment market guarantee risk.
• Stock and mutual fund hawkers’ hostility toward suggestions that stock prices could go down, and stay down, and that rate guarantees might be worth something.

All of those questions are still out there, throbbing in the background, like the cellos in a horror movie.

Now, stock market volatility is back, with a snarl.

One guiding question for participants in the annuity market in 2019 should probably be: “If this were a scene from a movie set in a dark and scary cave, what would I tell the characters to do about that slithering sound?”

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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on December 24, 2018 by Allison Bell.