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Annuity Research Center
Variable annuity competitive intelligence.
Annuity Research Center
Formerly VARDS Online, the Morningstar® Annuity Research Center provides insurance companies and asset management firms with data and applications for conducting competitive analysis and product development and supporting sales initiatives. It combines the industry’s most comprehensive source of contract and benefit data with broad sales data to deliver a complete research solution.
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Key Features
Contains in-depth data on sales, assets, and cash flows as well as detailed contract and benefit information
Features holdings-level data on VA underlying funds
Provides access to prospectus data
Includes historical data back to 1993
Contains Morningstar proprietary statistics and methodologies to help illustrate VA benefits against other managed investments
Tracks and compares leading VA contracts by sales levels, pricing, and performance
Features a comparison tool that enables users to analyze up to four VA contracts
Enables column customization for tailored analysis
Creates summary reports for easily presenting recommendations
Delivers quarterly summaries of contract sales and assets by distribution channel
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