Sentence examples for variable business from inspiring English sources

But Prudential noted that Lam's highly variable business model will continue to provide impressive leverage "in what we expect will be a sluggish environment".

The other independent variable business characteristics consists of 11 items which address such elements as: business experience, plant experience, funding, innovation, total number of people working in the enterprise, and business strategy.

MetLife said net income fell in the quarter because of a number of factors, including hedging related to its variable annuity business and higher amortization of costs related to its acquisition of new business.

Allmerica, especially, would add to Lincoln National's variable annuity business.

The settlement was not related to investigations by regulators into Conseco's former variable annuities business, according to Jim Rosensteele, a company spokesman.

While there had been recent reports about misdeeds in the variable annuities business, investigations had largely been confined to sales practices, not trading practices.

Cigna expects to determine in the third quarter whether additional reserves are needed for its variable annuity business, the chief financial officer, James G. Stewart, said.

Spokesmen for the insurance and brokerage industries and the National Association for Variable Annuities, the trade group of the variable annuities business, said they welcomed efforts to improve sales practices, adding that they had not seen evidence of widespread abuses.

MetLife said the transaction, which it expects to complete next year, was also part of an effort to lower the risk of its variable annuities business.

Among those T. Rowe Price sells through is ING's $50 billion variable annuity business; over half of the insurer's variable annuity assets involved retirement accounts in the first half.

Except, that is, for one group that seems to have been left in the lurch life insurers in the variable annuity business.