What a difference a year makes! Despite the bear market forecast a year ago, 2019 turned out to be a stellar year for global equity markets paced by the S&P 500. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and NASDAQ Composite also posted record highs.
Structured annuities are a category within annuities that have gone from zero to $12 billion dollars in annual issuance over the last nine years. Structured annuities are also known as buffered annuities, indexed variable annuities, and index-linked variable annuities.
For months, investors have been scaling what feels like an endless wall of worry. Each concern that gets resolved seems to spawn new uncertainties, yet the market has continued its relentless climb higher.
We’ve lived this movie before. Last August, AAII bullish sentiment struck a 52-week high right before the Fed launched its September rate cutting cycle.