American Life & Security Corp. is working to get attention in the annuity market by courting socially conscious investors.
The Lincoln, Nebraska-based Midwest Holding subsidiary has added the S&P 500 ESG index to the menus for its American Select fixed indexed annuity products.
Managers of the S&P indexes introduced the index, which includes S&P 500 companies that meet the managers' environmental, social and governance standards, in 2019.
The American Life annuities are the first nonvariable indexed annuities that offer the S&P 500 ESG Index on the investment index menu, according to American Life.
American Life has also added the Goldman Sachs Xenith Index to the menus for non-variable indexed annuities. The index uses an economic indicator reflecting future economic strength, and allocations between gold and copper, to try to adjust asset allocations to reflect ideas about how the economy might perform in the future.
Midwest Holding is trying to turn American Life into a much bigger player. It announced a deal in July 2021 to share up to $100 million of the risk associated with writing multi-year guaranteed annuities and fixed income annuities with American Republic. American Republic is part of American Enterprise Group.
Great American and Security Benefit are two other companies with annuity product news.
Great American
Great American Life Insurance — a Cincinnati-based insurer that is now a subsidiary of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance — has introduced a fee-based fixed annuity aimed at RIAs.
