AGENT GUIDE

How to sell annuities using Brokers Alliance

Annuities can be one of the most profitable and client-beneficial products in your portfolio. Selling them well takes more than a license. You need the right carriers, the right tools, and a support system that helps you close complex cases with confidence.

A complete guide for insurance agents

Everything you need to sell more annuities

By David Racich, Owner and CEO of Brokers Alliance. Updated July 2025. Whether you are new to annuities or scaling your production, this guide walks the four steps that turn appointments into placed business: knowing the products, getting contracted, designing the case, and getting paid competitively.

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01 · ANNUITY TYPES

Understand what annuities you can sell

As a licensed agent you have access to several annuity types. Brokers Alliance helps you match the right product to each client, whether the need is income, legacy planning, or accumulation.

FAFixed Annuities
Safe, predictable growth.
FIAFixed Indexed Annuities
Growth tied to index performance with downside protection.
MYGAMulti-Year Guaranteed Annuities
Like a CD, but with tax deferral.
SPIASingle Premium Immediate Annuities
Guaranteed income starting immediately.
RILARegistered Index-Linked Annuities
Higher potential growth with structured downside.
02 · CARRIER ACCESS

Get contracted with top annuity carriers

To sell annuities you must be appointed with carriers that offer competitive products. Brokers Alliance provides direct access to top annuity carriers, and gets you appointed fast, often within 48 to 72 hours, with no hidden production requirements and no unnecessary hurdles.

Athene Allianz American Equity F&G Nationwide North American Protective AIG and many more
03 · CASE DESIGN

Use custom case design to build winning proposals

Selling annuities often takes a detailed comparison of products, riders, and income options. That is where our in-house annuity case design team comes in, so you can present solutions that resonate and close more complex sales.

01Compare the numbers
Rates, surrender schedules, and bonus structures side by side.
02Illustrate the benefits
Income riders and legacy benefits made clear for the client.
03Position for retirement
Annuities placed inside real retirement income strategies.
04Structure laddering
Laddering strategies for RMD or estate planning needs.
04 · COMPENSATION

Maximize commissions with competitive payouts

Brokers Alliance offers some of the highest annuity compensation in the industry without sacrificing transparency or support.

$Top commission grids
Access top commission grids from top carriers.
%Split-comp arrangements
Understand split-comp arrangements for joint cases or agency structures.
01 · THE REAL SALE

The sale is rarely about the product

I am David Racich, owner of Brokers Alliance. My father founded this firm in 1982, I acquired it in 2009, and the last fifteen years have gone into making independent agents more productive with technology most marketing organizations cannot build. Annuities are where that shows up most clearly. Commissions and carrier lineups are table stakes. What is hard to copy is the technology, and that is what separates a productive annuity agent from a stalled one.

01The conversation
The sale lives in how you frame the problem with the client, not in the brochure. Accumulation or income. That is the first fork.
02The comparison
Rate and terms move constantly across carriers. The agent who can shop the shelf fast wins the case the one who guesses loses.
03The speed
The measure that matters is how quickly you move a case from idea to issued and paid. Everything we build takes friction off that path.
02 · PRODUCT CATEGORIES

Four categories, one problem each

You do not need to memorize every rider on every chassis. You need to know which category fits which client problem, then let the comparison work do the rest.

FIAFixed index annuities
Growth tied to a market index without the downside of being in the market. Principal is protected, the upside is linked through a crediting method, and an optional income rider can layer guaranteed lifetime income on top. Your workhorse for the client who says: I cannot afford to lose it again, but I still need it to grow.
MYGAMulti-year guaranteed annuities
The fixed-rate, defined-term contract. The cleanest CD-alternative conversation in the business ... a guaranteed rate for a set number of years, with a surrender period that matches the term. For the client whose money is sitting in a low-yield bank product or who is uneasy about market exposure entirely.
INCIncome-rider annuities
For the client who is buying a paycheck for life. The income-rider conversation centers on guaranteed lifetime income, layered onto the contract so the client cannot outlive the check.
ACCAccumulation annuities
For the client who is buying a larger pile to draw from later. Here you are solving for growth first and income second, on the same categories of chassis.
03 · SHOP EVERY CARRIER

Shop the best available terms across carriers

The whole game with a MYGA is rate, and rate moves constantly across carriers. The same pressure runs up and down the shelf on crediting methods and income riders. The tools we build in-house take the busywork off your desk, so you can put the strongest available terms in front of the client and move the case faster than a marketing organization that only hands you a carrier list.

Accumulation or income, decided up front Rate shopped across carriers, not guessed Crediting methods compared side by side Idea to issued and paid, with less friction

Ready to sell more annuities?

Get contracted with Brokers Alliance and put top carriers, in-house case design, and competitive payouts behind your next case. Call (866) 872-9394 or reach out and the team will get you appointed.

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