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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
March 30, 2018
If your money is in taxable investments, you may be losing money every year to taxes, decreasing your after-tax return. For example, if your federal tax rate is 24%, and you earn 2.50% in a taxable investment, then your after-tax earnings would be only 1.90%. One of the benefits of an annuity is tax deferral, because you don't pay taxes on your earnings until you withdraw your funds.
March 30, 2018

One of the benefits of many individual annuity contracts is the accessibility to a regularly occurring payment stream. Many of your clients rely on receipt of these funds on specific, recurring dates in order to pay bills and meet general day-to-day living costs. Electronic Funds Transfer, or EFT, is the best way to ensure that they receive the funds due them on time, every time.
February 27, 2018

Last month we extended the issue age through 93 on our Focused Growth Annuity 5 and our Index Select Annuity 5. These extended issue ages allow you to offer an annuity solution for your older age clients. The purchase of the annuity will still need to pass suitability, with the key factor that the purchase will need to be for transfer-of-wealth or estate-planning purposes. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to give us a call at 800.378.4578.

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