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Date: January 29, 2019

We believe healthy environments create strong, vibrant communities. Our sustainable practices hold fast to this vision. These practices help ensure a better future for everyone, and we’ll keep seeking ways to reduce our ecological footprint.

Date: January 29, 2019

Your clients have many investment choices, all with various features and results. Does an annuity have the right combination of guarantees, features and results to meet their financial goals? Let's compare many of the common features of annuities and other types of investments.

Date: January 29, 2019

The IRS requires The Standard file Form 1099R by Jan. 31 of the year after a taxable distribution. Your clients should receive their 1099R no later than the second week in February.

Date: January 2, 2019

Happy New Year from The Standard’s annuity sales team! We’ve seen an incredible amount of growth and volatility in the stock market. One way to mitigate those ups and downs – and still participate in some of those gains – is with fixed index annuities like our Index Select Annuity.

Rich Lane
Second Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Individual Annuities

Date: January 2, 2019

We’re excited that Kelly Howlett has joined our sales team as a senior sales consultant. Many of you may have worked with him as a senior operations specialist on our administrative team.

Date: January 2, 2019

Marketing materials for the enhanced Index Select Annuity 5, 7 and 10 are now available to use with consumers in Nevada and Oregon.

Date: January 2, 2019
Offering a beneficiary review provides a chance to check in with current or prospective clients to ensure that beneficiary designations match their wishes. This type of review may also lead you to new deferred and immediate annuity sales opportunities.
Date: January 2, 2019

It’s January, and that means we’ll be mailing Required Minimum Distribution Notifications by the end of the month. We’ll be notifying all owners of qualified deferred annuity contracts who will attain age 70½ in 2019 or are already of RMD age.

Date: July 2, 2018
Effective August 1, 2018, The Standard will no longer offer the Index Growth Annuity series (IGA 5 and IGA 7) or the Flexible Premium Deferred Annuity.
Date: March 30, 2018

We now have four online calculator tools for you to use. These tools offer you 24-hour access where you can input your own numbers. Our Cost of Waiting calculator can help show clients if they wait for interest rates to rise, how many years it will take to catch up.

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