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Episode 161: Product Innovation in The Future

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This summer, Nassau Re/Imagine hosted the first annual Retiretech Forum. Nearly 100 attendees representing industry decision-makers, and insurtech, fintech, and retiretech startups, joined us in Hartford, CT.
Six-panel discussions with over 25 speakers took the stage at the Retiretech Forum, exploring sales & marketing, service & operations, product innovation, risk management, climate risk, and core advisor software.
Today, we’re sharing our panel on Product Innovation hosted by none other than our new co-host, Bruno Caron. We called it “How Will Key Product Categories Evolve over the Next Five Years?”
We had some great speakers from PlanGap, Nuovalo, AM Best, Vitech Systems Group, Lincoln Financial Group, and The Index Standard.
For more information on the event and access to the panel recordings, go here:

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Episode 138: Sizing the Prize of Institutional Annuities with Martin Powell and Bruno Caron

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We opened our digital papers a few weeks ago to read an article in AM Best News entitled, “Annuity Providers See Growth Opportunity in US Retirement Plan Changes.” Who was quoted but none other than two regular guests – Martin Powell, Head of Annuity Distribution for CUNA Mutual and Bruno Caron Associate Director at AM Best. It’s a big prize. Even converting a small share of the $7.3 trillion in assets in 401(k) plans to annuities would prove transformational for the industry. We decided to “double click” on the article and bring in both experts to continue the discussion.

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We hope you enjoy the show.

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https://news.ambest.com/newscontent.aspx?refnum=239183&altsrc=114

Martin Powell:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-powell-4790b01a/

Bruno Caron:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruno-caron-68a303/

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Built on the principle of “people helping people,” CUNA Mutual Group is a financially strong insurance, investment and financial services company that believes a brighter financial future should be accessible to everyone. Through our company culture, community engagement, and products and solutions, we are working to create a more equitable financial system that helps to improve the lives of those we serve and our society. For more information, visit cunamutual.com/annuities.

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[Paul Tyler]: Hi, this is Paul Tyler, and welcome to a. another episode of that annuity show

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[Paul Tyler]: and uh, uh, Mark Ramsey, good to see you.

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: as always great being here

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[Ramsey Smith]: Great to be here. Always

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[Paul Tyler]: Yeah, and uh, you know. every once in a while you know we. we see breaking news

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[Paul Tyler]: and we say Wow, look at this. Our, Our, The Our universes are colliding and Um.

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[Paul Tyler]: in um,

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[Paul Tyler]: uh, A Ms. news actually came across. Uh, recently released an article entitled

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[Paul Tyler]: The annuity providers see growth opportunity in U. S retirement Plan changes. We’ve

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[Paul Tyler]: been talking about the secure act. We’ve been talking about the opportunity in

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[Paul Tyler]: in, uh in in some of the the institutional retirement plans, And who’s ▁quoted.

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[Paul Tyler]: But we have a picture of Bruno Car and Bruno. welcome to a show.

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[Bruno Caron]: thank you great to be back here

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[Paul Tyler]: Yeah, D, no, lovely and uh, Martin Powell, uh, from CUNA Mutual, who is head of

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[Paul Tyler]: the Unity distribution. Martin, We got you on as well, Martin. Welcome.

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[Martin Powell]: to be back could seeing everybody

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[Paul Tyler]: Yeah, yeah, glad to have you. So two two regular, uh, guests now, Martin. you’re

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[Paul Tyler]: now regular on the show, Um, we, we’ll put that in our show notes. Um, but uh,

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[Paul Tyler]: uh, real interesting opportunity. thought it was timely to talk about. Only you

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[Paul Tyler]: know W. how big is this market going? How quick is it going to change? And and

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[Paul Tyler]: just generally you know where’s the annuity industry going Toead In the next you

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[Paul Tyler]: know, couple of quarters. Given all the turmoil. Um, so um, Ramsey. How kind ofl

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[Paul Tyler]: have you lead off? This is uh, an important area for you in a lot of focus.

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[Ramsey Smith]: sure,

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[Paul Tyler]: Um, where shall we start

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[Ramsey Smith]: so I think maybe the the biggest potential opportunity in the retirement

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[Ramsey Smith]: income space is with four one plans, so implant annuities and it’s an area

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[Ramsey Smith]: that’s been under developed for a variety of reasons. Part of it that uh

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[Ramsey Smith]: hopefully has been cured by the advent of the secure act, But there’s still

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[Ramsey Smith]: a whole lot more work to do in the space and uh, so I was fascinated when I

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[Ramsey Smith]: saw this article that featured Uh. Bruno and Martin, You know, talking about

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[Ramsey Smith]: where what the potential is there. I think that’s I think it is. Uh. I think

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[Ramsey Smith]: is is the one place that might help to save the retirement income problem

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[Ramsey Smith]: that we have you know across the broadest possible audience. So uh, from my

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[Ramsey Smith]: perspective, this is this is. This may be the most most important mission of

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[Ramsey Smith]: the insurance industry. So Martin and Bruno, you guys are on the front

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[Ramsey Smith]: lines. Uh, and you know you know, Martin, You know you are. You run an annuity

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[Ramsey Smith]: distribution, So you, you know very much. What’s what’s Uh, You know what’s

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[Ramsey Smith]: on the horizon for Cuna Bruno. You have a fantastic perspective across the

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[Ramsey Smith]: industry In your role at a M. best, so we’re just we’re really looking

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[Ramsey Smith]: forward to hearing from both of you One. your perspectives on what you’re

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[Ramsey Smith]: seeing, and too, your perspective on where you think you’d like to see.

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[Ramsey Smith]: You’d like to see things go. So so Martin, why do we start with you and and

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[Ramsey Smith]: Martin? even though you were just on our last show? Please re, introduce

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[Ramsey Smith]: yourself a little bit. because we, we have the the benefit of doing back to

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[Ramsey Smith]: back recordings today, which has been great.

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[Martin Powell]: well thanks thanks for having me back and it’s martin powell i’m responsible for

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[Martin Powell]: annuity distribution for community cut a mutual group historically been focused

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[Martin Powell]: just on credit unions now’ outside with independent and bank broker dealers

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[Martin Powell]: selling our annuity products and uh we’re growing

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[Martin Powell]: to be a top twenty an new distributor in the country and we’re really bullish on

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[Martin Powell]: the annuity market because it really drives at our mission to help people get

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[Martin Powell]: access to a brighter financial future and

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[Martin Powell]: we really see that this

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[Martin Powell]: opportunity

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[Martin Powell]: to continue to grow not only through financial advisers because its annuities

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[Martin Powell]: today are sold through a financial advisor sitting face to face with somebody

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[Martin Powell]: who is near retirement or in retirement talking about income protection

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[Martin Powell]: and as all of us on this call know that annuity is the only product in the world

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[Martin Powell]: that provides a personal pension and the best longevity insurance you can

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[Martin Powell]: get

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[Martin Powell]: but now introducing it to a four hundred one thousand plan it’s just powerful

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[Martin Powell]: especially if you can

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[Martin Powell]: you know similar to what they do now in four hundred one thousand plans they you

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[Martin Powell]: have to opt out

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[Martin Powell]: versus opt in and we’ve seen the numbers change dramatically with four four o one

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[Martin Powell]: same thing here where you they can opt they need to opt out potentially of

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[Martin Powell]: getting annuity because once again people need this product and their portfolio

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[Martin Powell]: and it’s going to raise the awareness it’s gonna get more people educated

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[Martin Powell]: on protecting

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[Martin Powell]: their income stream and protecting against longevity so i think it’s really

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[Martin Powell]: exciting to see the development and for us as a company to work on our strategy

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[Martin Powell]: to ultimately at some point in time induce space as well to get not just with the

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[Martin Powell]: financial advisers but to ultimately get with the plan sponsors and the ultimate

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[Martin Powell]: employees

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[Martin Powell]: getting opportunities to protect their um retirement

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[Paul Tyler]: and Bruno Ramsey said, I love his declaration. The biggest opportunity that

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[Paul Tyler]: the annuity industry faces

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[Paul Tyler]: the next five to ten years, true or false,

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[Bruno Caron]: true absolutely true

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[Bruno Caron]: and uh you know definitely echoing ah Ramsey and and martin comments uh j just

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[Bruno Caron]: earlier and

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[Martin Powell]: no

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[Bruno Caron]: it it’s is nice for for us as as as rating analysts i mean obviously the the biggest

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[Bruno Caron]: product we offer at the

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[Bruno Caron]: but at the same time it is important for us

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[Bruno Caron]: you know to to always get back to fundamentals

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[Bruno Caron]: and

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: yeah

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[Bruno Caron]: you know we always we always in constant conversations with our colleagues on the

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[Bruno Caron]: on the pnc side and you know this whole concept of risk cooling is so fundamental

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[Bruno Caron]: and the you know most people i know uh will earn more in a year than the value of

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[Bruno Caron]: their car

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[Bruno Caron]: and that that’s just you know you know people who make fifty thousand dollars

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[Bruno Caron]: will most likely have a card that’s worth a little less than that uh a hundred

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[Bruno Caron]: thousand dollars two hundred thousand dollars whatever your number is

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[Bruno Caron]: and yet people risk pool the risk of

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[Bruno Caron]: uh damaging their car if their car you know they have an accident and they have

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[Bruno Caron]: you know the risk pool that that risk through car insurance

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[Bruno Caron]: and

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: yes

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[Bruno Caron]: you know think about earnings when it make sense to risk pool that the value of

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[Bruno Caron]: earnings you know if you outlive

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[Bruno Caron]: your your your life expectancy by one year

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[Bruno Caron]: two years a decade two decades uh

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[Bruno Caron]: doesn’t it make sense to have that type of risk pooling you know w within your

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[Bruno Caron]: retirement planning and i think the answer is yes i think you know to go back to

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[Bruno Caron]: your question

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[Bruno Caron]: true absolutely true i think it’s a huge opportunity the

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[Bruno Caron]: the insurance industry has you know at at the forefront and there’s been a lot of

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[Bruno Caron]: improvement there’s been a lot of development you mentioned so i think it’s it’s

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[Bruno Caron]: a very very exciting time for for lifetime income

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[Ramsey Smith]: So should we revisit this? this idea of opting versus opt out, because I

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[Ramsey Smith]: think it’s a very importantlynch in in whether or not this works. So so

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[Ramsey Smith]: Martin, you mentioned, Uh, opt out as being part of the future. Um,

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[Ramsey Smith]: how important do you think that is to the success of of impuities?

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[Ramsey Smith]: If if consumers can simply elect or or have to elect in order to get

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[Ramsey Smith]: guaranteed income?

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[Ramsey Smith]: what kind of what kind of take rates would youpo More orders of magnitude,

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[Ramsey Smith]: not’ not looking for specific statistics, But how much of a difference do

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[Ramsey Smith]: you think it makes you know based on your your years of experience,

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[Martin Powell]: it makes a tremendous difference that if people

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[Martin Powell]: have tot out and go their way they’re going to be so much more successful of of

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[Martin Powell]: saving in their four one k plan and take advantage of the benefits of a form one

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[Martin Powell]: k and the same thing here um

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[Martin Powell]: they need to ensure

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[Martin Powell]: their income for your life and

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: alright good morning everybody

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[Martin Powell]: great analogy about car insurance right

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: uh

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[Martin Powell]: there’s no opt out or apt in based on your f i mean many people

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[Martin Powell]: financially

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: uh one

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[Martin Powell]: they they they have to get car insurance right it’s not you can’t

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[Martin Powell]: so it’s just it’s it’s so important that

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[Martin Powell]: you know the

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[Martin Powell]: the power of insurance

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[Martin Powell]: is is pooling pulling your wrist

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[Martin Powell]: and y you

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[Martin Powell]: got to educate people on it so i i opted out to me is

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[Ramsey Smith]: So

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[Martin Powell]: sobs it solves the

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[Martin Powell]: the uh the pension crisis in this country

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[Paul Tyler]: Yp.

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[Ramsey Smith]: so I, I always like the ask of the question of people. So is social

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[Ramsey Smith]: so I, I always like the ask of the question of people. So is social

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[Ramsey Smith]: security? Is it optrupt out?

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[Ramsey Smith]: security? Is it optrupt out?

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[Ramsey Smith]: Actuallyly, just opt

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[Martin Powell]: that’s right

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[Ramsey Smith]: you’re in. right,

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[Martin Powell]: exactly where in

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[Ramsey Smith]: not optional, right, uh,

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[Ramsey Smith]: the, the the find define pension benefit plans when they existed like you

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[Ramsey Smith]: know, optional, y or nay,

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[Ramsey Smith]: nay,

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: right

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[Martin Powell]: yes

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[Ramsey Smith]: right.

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[Paul Tyler]: Yeah,

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[Ramsey Smith]: So arguably those are the two most successful, at least two of the most

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[Ramsey Smith]: right. So D v plans obviously are being phased out, but they have been

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: okay

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[Ramsey Smith]: is that they’re they’re mandatory. And so

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[Ramsey Smith]: you know, to your point, Martin, it’s hard to see how how imple annuities

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[Ramsey Smith]: completely. arere going to be very successful.

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[Ramsey Smith]: And And and it’s probably because they will. They will. precisely this

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[Ramsey Smith]: reason that you’ve highlighted that they will be uh, not optional.

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[Paul Tyler]: Okay, w. one of my first jobs was a management consultant. So Bruno, I’m very

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[Bruno Caron]: uh on your

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[Bruno Caron]: you know on on your on your second questions

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[Bruno Caron]: yes i i you know i believe there there is capacity there

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[Bruno Caron]: i do believe that market is going to to to grow and

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[Bruno Caron]: and evolve

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[Bruno Caron]: you know there’s appetite

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[Bruno Caron]: on both sides you know there is appetite for for capital intensive business

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[Bruno Caron]: there is all those fixed income assets that are that are ready to be to be

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[Bruno Caron]: deployed

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[Bruno Caron]: so i think everything is is out there for

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[Bruno Caron]: for for for success

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: great thank you

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[Paul Tyler]: Ramsy.

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[Mark Fitzgerald]: you

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[Ramsey Smith]: uh, so yeah,

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[Ramsey Smith]: I, uh. I’ll say it again. I think this is the. I think

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[Martin Powell]: one

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[Ramsey Smith]: this is the biggest opportunity that we have right now. Uh, I think it is an

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[Ramsey Smith]: opportunity for the industry, I think is an opportunity for America. Most

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[Ramsey Smith]: importantly,

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[Ramsey Smith]: and

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[Ramsey Smith]: I, we just need people to of put themselves out there and try and make it

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[Ramsey Smith]: work. They’ already, by our count, by our teams, count eight or nine

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[Ramsey Smith]: offerings right up up and running. Um,

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[Ramsey Smith]: some have made announcements, but uh, not clear that products have been

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[Ramsey Smith]: filed yet. It’s still early days. It’s still very early days and I think

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[Ramsey Smith]: that uh

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[Ramsey Smith]: people that jump out in front and learn how to navigate what is a very very

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[Ramsey Smith]: different distribution channel. Early, Um, will put themselves in a position

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[Ramsey Smith]: to succeed in a market to Bruno’s point, That is big enough for a lot of

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[Ramsey Smith]: players.

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[Bruno Caron]: it is

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[Paul Tyler]: Yeah is great, Uh, Martin. thanks for joining us and thanks for sharing your

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[Paul Tyler]: perspective. If people want to get in touch with what, what’s the best way for

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[Paul Tyler]: for people to uh, reach out to you?

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[Martin Powell]: you can reach me martin dpu at kuntu dot com

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[Paul Tyler]: Excellent. All right,

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[Ramsey Smith]: Martin. Great to have you back again

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[Paul Tyler]: Yeah,

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[Ramsey Smith]: and twice

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[Martin Powell]: it could be back yes

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[Bruno Caron]: let’s listen

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[Ramsey Smith]: double trouble awesome.

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[Paul Tyler]: thanks and and burn up for you. best way to reach. Uh, reach you.

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[Bruno Caron]: same emails good linkedin’s good um

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[Bruno Caron]: so they’re

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[Bruno Caron]: bruno backing at aves plus the the linkedin’s always there um anytime

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[Paul Tyler]: Okay. great, and we’ll also put a a link to your book again. Everybody should

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[Paul Tyler]: buy the book and and read it if they uh want to understand how this market works

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[Paul Tyler]: with the opportunity, Thanks so much, Martin Bruno thinks everybody thans our

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[Paul Tyler]: listeners, and Uh join Skin next week for another episode of that annuity show.

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[Bruno Caron]: thank you

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Bruno Caron, Senior Financial Analyst at AM Best Company, shared with us his unique perspective on product design and the health of our industry. Bruno is an actuary with more than a decade of experience spanning various sectors of the life and annuity industry: consulting, life insurance company, start-up company, sell-side equity research and credit rating.

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