Annuities - Financial Group Announces Record

Annuities - Financial Group Announces Record

American Financial Group Announces Record Core Net Operating
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Feb 13, 2006 Shareholders' equity (excluding unrealized gains on fixed maturities) at the end reflecting sales of recently introduced single premium indexed annuity products

Pension liabilities
International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 25, 2006 rate of return of 50-year inflation-indexed British government assets such as hedge funds and private equity. Annuity yields are so low that pensioners will be

StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full
MSN Money - Feb 2, 2006 Individual fixed-rate annuity sales, which are recorded as deposits, were due to competition from shorter-term investment and equity-indexed products, which

America's Largest Fixed Annuities Distributor Targets Record
Business Wire (press release), CA - Feb 2, 2006 "On the surface, it may look like 05-50 hurts the industry. The reality of 05-50 is it represents a great opportunity for the equity-indexed annuity business.