Life and Annuity Issuers Watch for Interest Rate Hike Sunshine

February 8, 2022 by Allison Bell

Many executives from the big, publicly traded U.S. life and annuity issuers have been talking to securities analysts this week about fourth-quarter COVID-19 mortality.

But executives have also had a chance to address a more cheerful topic: the possibility that interest rate increases, driven by efforts by the Federal Reserve Board to move the interest rate levers it controls, could increase the yields on the insurers’ huge investment portfolios.

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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on February 4, 2022 by Allison Bell.