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Inflation became the predominant focus for investors late in 2021, a year that featured strong U.S. stock market performance, ongoing COVID challenges, supply chain issues, and much talk about cryptocurrencies. Monetary and fiscal stimulus helped propel the U.S. stock market, but also helped brin

DPL Financial Partners (“DPL”), the leading turnkey insurance platform for registered investment advisors (RIAs), announced the introduction of a new and innovative U.S. equity index designed to deliver higher expected returns with lower volatility. The Avantis Barclays Volatility Control (“VC”)

Security Benefit announced the expansion of its EliteDesigns and EliteDesigns II variable annuity fund lineups with three products from two emerging fund managers. The new funds are available now and will provide advisors with even greater asset allocation options for their clients.

Mike Kiley, Chief Executive Officer, on how Security Benefit disrupted the insurance segment helped usher in a new era of innovation. Read full article i

Justin Jacquinot, a senior vice president for direct relationships at Security Benefit, a Topeka, Kansas-based annuity company, helped out by answering a series of questions about one common annuity feature — indexed annuity strategy caps — through an email interview. 

Doug Wolff, President of Security Benefit Life Insurance, was featured in an article explaining what we have seen in terms of sales activity since the COVID pandemic impacted selling last year.

Kun Qiu, Co-Head of Derivatives Trading and Analytics at Security Benefit, was featured in an article in S&P's InsuranceTalks publication. Qiu discusses Security Benefit’s approach to FIAs, groundbreaking development of new underlying index options and the research and creation of the factor

Doug Wolff, President of Security Benefit Life, was featured in a podcast by Advisor Perspectives focusing on some new thoughts around how to achieve something similar to the old 4% rule using FIAs. With COVID-19 variants keeping retirement-ready consumers wondering w

As factor investing has seen significant growth in recent years, one new crediting strategy to consider seeks to rotate between multiple factors in a single, robust index. Security Benefit's Factor Rotator combines factor diversification, volatility exposure and dynamic rebalancing over

Security Benefit was featured in a recent article by FinancialAdvisor magazine. Teachers are retiring in droves because of the pandemic and need to rethink their retirement plans, according to Tom Granger, second vice president of qualified plans at Security Benefit,