Many life insurers have announced plans to shift away from taking on new annuity benefits guarantee risk in recent years.
New York Life is moving in a different direction with the introduction of its Clear Income Advantage annuity.
The product is a fixed deferred annuity with a guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit rider. New York Life is including the rider with the contract automatically for purchasers who are ages 75 or younger at the time of purchase, according to a product fact sheet.
The product is aimed at clients who want a guaranteed lifetime stream of income along with some access to their cash.
What It Means
Clients are scared of volatility, and so are many insurers. But some new products with guaranteed benefits are still out there.
New York Life
New York Life is a policyholder-owned mutual insurer, with $710 billion in assets under management at the end of 2022.
It ranked first for sales of deferred fixed-rate annuities in 2022, with $15 billion in sales of those products, according to the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association (LIMRA).
It generated $3.3 billion in sales of payout annuities, including immediate income annuities, deferred income annuities and annuities used to fund lawsuit settlements, and it ranked first in that LIMRA sales category.
