1.   Although company officials proudly note they operate both an investment management business and annuity business, Liberty Financial gets most of its earnings from annuities.

2.   Hancock is only a tiny player in the variable annuity business, but once again, the pall on annuities is affecting the whole industry.

3.   Golden, who recently helped the Bankers Trust Co. expand its annuity business, has already developed for Equitable a new variety of annuity.

4.   In Massachusetts, banks are pushing to win the right to sell insurance, in partso they can break into the annuity business.

5.   It would be some kind of annuity business and would be a terrible company to work for.

6.   The annuity business has become much more important to insurance companies in recent years as sales of life insurance policies to individuals have slowed.

7.   The company also wants to beef up its domestic equities and annuity businesses, Morgan said.

8.   The Miami-based insurance company plans to sell its credit card operations and it said yesterday it had completed the sale of its annuity business to SunAmerica Inc.

9.   The parent company would also keep the much smaller life insurance and annuities businesses that Weill said had more in common with banking and brokerage operations.

10.   The variable annuity business has created some strange bedfellows.