Sales of variable annuities slowed in 2016, as development of new products had to take into account the requirements of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule.
But that doesn't mean everything came to a grinding halt—indeed, quite the contrary.
New research from Cerulli finds that sales of fee-based VAs and fixed-indexed annuities bucked that trend last year, the only kind to post sales growth.
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