Variable Annuity Product Management Method and System

摘要

A computer-implemented method for providing and managing a variable annuity product capable of investing in exchange-traded funds, including: receiving, on a server computer, a request to allocate an amount of annuity assets comprising tax-deferred or tax-advantaged assets into at least one subaccount corresponding to a specified exchange-traded fund; allocating the amount of annuity funds into at least one subaccount; and initiating the purchase of at least one share of an exchange-traded fund relating to at least a portion of at least one unit of the at least one subaccount. A system and a computer program product for implementing the aforementioned method includes appropriately communicatively connected hardware components. Also disclosed is a computer-implemented method for reducing risk in a variable annuity product as well as a system and a computer program product for implementing the method which includes appropriately communicatively connected hardware components.