According to a survey of advisory firms by TD Ameritrade Institutional, growth in assets slowed considerably last year thanks to the market downturn, yet financially, firms remain strong.
Read this research paper that compares the performance of a variable annuity (VA) with a guaranteed minimum accumulation benefit (GMAB) against several popular fixed indexed annuity (FIA) designs, including a finding that to exceed the performance of a VA with a GMAB (higher performance 50 percent of the time), a FIA strategy using a rate cap must have a cap greater than 8.25 percent. SMRU 1813377 For registered representative use.
