Annuities Report Card: Insurers are offering greater service and new products to banks in the hope that annuities will remain a staple product.

From: Bank Investment Consultant | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: Sisk, Michael | Copyright information

Variable annuity providers earned a B+ and fixed annuity providers earned a B- in the "Bankers' Report Card" from the 2006 Study of Bank Brokerage & Retail Investment Services conducted by American Brokerage Consultants and American Banker.

The following pages include the ranking of 18 major variable annuity providers by 115 bank program managers, and 20 major fixed annuity providers by 108 bank program managers. Annuity providers were ranked in 10 different categories-a...

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