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Advantage Compendium, Ltd led by Jack Marrion, provides research and consulting services to select financial companies in all aspects of annuities. They publish the Index Compendium monthly newsletter and the Advantage Compendium quarterly annuity future analysis. 

Research from Advantage Compendium has been featured in hundreds of publications including 
Best’s Review, Broker World, Business Week, CBS Reports, Christian Science Monitor, Kiplinger, Money, The National Underwriter, Smart Money, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post
and The Wall Street Journal

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Index Annuity Surrenders Sharply Down 
Based on data from carriers representing 80% of industry sales, a new study published by Ruark Consulting finds that surrenders of index annuity contracts declined significantly from 2006 to 2010. Ruark believes this to be due to less competitive alternatives, use of GLWBs and greater suitability standards. The Ruark study confirms predictions made by Advantage Compendium in 2008 that annuity exchanges would decline due to annuity lifetime benefits and tightened compliance.


The Book Index Annuities: A Suitable Approach is available


Jack Marrion's book Change Buyer Behavior And Sell More Annuities was written to help producers do one thing - close more annuity sales. The book does this by covering what is missing in almost all annuity sales literature – the real behavioral reasons why the sale does or does not happen and what you can do to make the sale. 
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Last Update: 2/01/12

 

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