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  Nationwide Financial launches low-cost variable annuity

  By Maria Wood  |  May 23, 2013

  The new product is targeted for fee-based advisors who may have been reluctant to sell VAs in the past.

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  The 2013 NUL top 100

  By Bill Coffin  |  May 22, 2013

  Ten graphs chart who's who in the life and health world, focusing on net premiums written, investment income, policyholder surplus and number of health enrollees.

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  LIMRA: Q1 a wipeout for annuity sales

  By Maria Wood  |  May 22, 2013

  Annuity sales took a steep tumble in the first quarter. Even indexed annuities didn’t escape the slump.

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  RI lawyer taken into custody in investment fraud case

  By Michelle R. Smith  |  May 22, 2013

  A federal judge refuses to allow the defendant to withdraw his guilty plea in a case involving the sale of variable annuities.

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  Will MetLife join VA buyback movement?

  By Maria Wood  |  May 22, 2013

  The risk associated with variable annuities took up a good portion of the firm’s Investor Day conference.

• What if there was no IRS?

  By Staff Writer  |  May 21, 2013

  Stop fantasizing and get back to work.

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  MetLife removes alien status from captive

  By Arthur D. Postal, Elizabeth D. Festa  |  May 21, 2013

  MetLife is merging three U.S. life insurers and a captive reinsurer “to create a larger, well capitalized U.S. life company.”

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  Variable annuities getting more variable

  By Maria Wood  |  May 20, 2013

  IRI panelists: Change was a constant in the variable annuity world in 2012.

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  Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index: More of the same

  By Michael K.Stanley  |  May 17, 2013

  A key measure of the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities was slightly down in May.

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  Help wanted: More advisors needed

  By Maria Wood  |  May 17, 2013

  The demand for financial planning advice grows as the cadre of advisors shrinks.