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Is Your Nationwide Annuities Portfolio Underperforming?
Nationwide Annuities packages investments inside insurance and annuity wrappers, adding layers of cost that can be hard to see from the outside.
Pure Benchmarks ranks real Nationwide Annuities portfolios against thousands of other verified investor portfolios across nine standardized risk categories, from 100% equity to 90% fixed income. Every portfolio is recategorized daily from actual end-of-day holdings, and Community Nests shows exactly where your Nationwide Annuities portfolio ranks against other real Nationwide Annuities clients in the same risk category — built entirely from verified portfolio data, with no firm that manages money able to see any data point on the platform.
Why your Nationwide Annuities portfolio can lag a pure index baseline
The wrapper-cost stack. Insurance and annuity wrappers can layer rider charges, mortality and expense fees, and surrender terms on top of the expense ratios of the sub-accounts inside them. Each layer is easy to miss, and together they can widen the gap against a plain index baseline over time.
What to review on a Nationwide Annuities portfolio
- Confirm whether surrender terms or wrapper fees reduce net returns versus a simple index baseline.
- Compare the sub-account allocation with a diversified index over time.
Illustrative 10-year comparison — a standard managed portfolio versus a pure index baseline. Figures are illustrative only.
| Year | Standard managed portfolio | Pure index baseline | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $105,200 | $107,000 | -$1,800 |
| Year 3 | $116,400 | $122,500 | -$6,100 |
| Year 5 | $128,700 | $140,300 | -$11,600 |
| Year 7 | $142,300 | $160,600 | -$18,300 |
| Year 10 | $165,100 | $196,700 | -$31,600 |
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This page is an information baseline for comparison only. It is not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy, sell, replace, or transfer any specific asset, account, or firm. Past performance does not guarantee future results. All figures shown are illustrative.