Western Reserve Grabs Top 2 Slots In New Scale

started to rank annuity products by their overall investment performance.

The company, which tracks underwriters' variable annuity sales, ranks the contracts in seven different categories based on a contract's volatility and on one-, three-, and five-year returns.

Western Reserve's WRL Freedom Attainer Variable Annuity, with a 22.2% return, took the top slot ranked by five-year returns. That was followed by the same company's Freedom Bellwether Variable Annuity, which had annual return of 20.9%.

Products from Vanguard, Guardian Life, and Hartford Life rounded out the top five. - Michael O'D. Moore

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