People in the insurance community who look at the third-quarter fee-based indexed annuity sales numbers may feel as if life insurers are doing everything about selling fee-based products wrong. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Insurers have kept the press release wires burning in recent years with announcement after announcement about the launch of new, fee-based life insurance and annuity products.

LIMRA reported in November that, in the third quarter of 2017, actual sales of fee-based indexed annuities accounted for just $48 million of the $14 billion in indexed annuity sales recorded that quarter.


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