Great American Insurance Group joins SIMON Markets

Great American Life Insurance Company is now the second insurance carrier (following Prudential) to offer products on SIMON’s new annuities platform for wealth managers. “The new partnership is an exciting and natural next step to expand offerings available on SIMON’s platform, which sits on the desktop of more than 30,000 financial professionals who serve more than $3 trillion in assets.”

“SIMON has demonstrated its leadership in the structured investments space with cutting-edge technology and the delivery of an end-to-end solution that it is now bringing to annuities. Providing financial professionals with a unique solution for the ever-growing retirement planning needs of their clients is a vision Great American shares.” – Joe Maringer, Great American Life’s National Sales Vice President.

“This new partnership highlights Great American’s forward-thinking focus on product education and client-advisor transparency, and is a natural next step in SIMON’s efforts to radically simplify wealth management. Ultimately, we aim to create a more robust market structure for the entire industry—reducing complexity and increasing transparency so advisors can focus on running and growing their businesses with differentiated, leading-edge technology.” – Jason Broder, CEO of SIMON , a NYC-based online distribution platform for financial professionals that focuses on structured investments.