Quiz: Can You Identify These Annuity Players?

It's important to know facts about Social Security and income taxes, but what if you go to a holiday party over the next few weeks, meet the CEOs of companies with $10 billion in annual annuity sales and blank on those CEOs' names? Or you start complaining bitterly at a conference luncheon about the motives of the people who write annuity sales regulations ... and the attendee sitting next to you turns out to be your state's top insurance regulator? For a quiz to help you brush up on your annuity people literacy, check out the gallery accompanying this article. It includes some of the people who create the legislative and regulatory framework for annuities, run the companies that write and distribute the products, and manage the flow of information needed to keep the industry running.