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Insurance-Variable Annuities-Application Of Investment Company Act Of 1940, William C. Brashares

Michigan Law Review

Anticipating the sale of variable annuity contracts as a part of its regular business, Prudential, a life insurance company, applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission for complete exemption from the requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940. Prudential claimed that it qualified for exemption as an insurance company under the definition of "insurance company" in the Investment Company Act ("a company ... whose primary and predominant business activity is the writing of insurance . . . and which is subject to supervision by the insurance commissioner or a similar official or agency of a state"). In the alternative, …