Misjudged annuity guarantees may cost life insurers billions

June 25, 2013 at 11:02 AM
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Life insurers in the U.S. face charges against earnings potentially totaling billions of dollars from miscalculations about the number of customers who would exercise lifetime-income guarantees sold with the retirement products known as variable annuities, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.