An annuity is intended to be a long-term, tax-deferred retirement vehicle. Earnings are taxable as ordinary income when distributed, and if withdrawn before age 59½, may be subject to a 10% federal tax penalty. If the annuity will fund an IRA or other tax qualified plan, the tax deferral feature offers no additional value. Qualified distributions from a Roth IRA are generally excluded from gross income, but taxes and penalties may apply to nonqualified distributions. Please consult a tax advisor for specific information. There are charges and expenses associated with annuities, such as surrender charges (deferred sales charges) for early withdrawals.

Some products and optional features may not be available in all states and features may vary by state. Not all products, features and optional benefits are available from all firms.

Guarantees are subject to the financial strength and claims-paying ability of the issuing insurance company.

The indexes are not available for direct investment.

S&P® is a registered trademark of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (“S&P”) and Dow Jones® is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC (“Dow Jones”). The forgoing trademarks have been licensed for use by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. S&P® and S&P 500® are registered trademarks of S&P and have been licensed for use by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and Minnesota Life Insurance Company (“Minnesota Life”). The S&P 500® index is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and has been licensed for use by Minnesota Life. Minnesota Life Annuities are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, Dow Jones, S&P or their respective affiliates and neither S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, Dow Jones, S&P nor their respective affiliates make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in such product(s). Index performance if shown does not include dividends.

Barclays Bank PLC and its affiliates (“Barclays”) is not the issuer or producer of Minnesota Life Insurance Company (“Minnesota Life”) Annuities and Barclays has no responsibilities, obligations or duties to contract owners of Minnesota Life Annuities. The Barclays All Caps Trailblazer 5 Index is a trademark owned by Barclays Bank PLC and licensed for use by Minnesota Life as the Issuer of Minnesota Life Annuities. While Minnesota Life may for itself execute transaction(s) with Barclays in or relating to the Barclays All Caps Trailblazer 5 Index in connection with Minnesota Life Annuities, contract owners acquire Minnesota Life Annuities from Minnesota Life and contract owners neither acquire any interest in Barclays All Caps Trailblazer 5 Index nor enter into any relationship of any kind whatsoever with Barclays upon making an investment in Minnesota Life Annuities. The Minnesota Life Annuities are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Barclays and Barclays makes no representation regarding the advisability of the Minnesota Life Annuities or use of the Barclays All Caps Trailblazer 5 Index or any data included therein. Barclays shall not be liable in any way to the Issuer, contract owners or to other third parties in respect of the use or accuracy of the Barclays All Caps Trailblazer 5 Index or any data included therein.

The products referred to herein are not sponsored, endorsed, or promoted by MSCI, and MSCI bears no liability with respect to any such products or any index on which such products are based. The Contract contains a more detailed description of the limited relationship MSCI has with Minnesota LifeÚnd any related products. Index performance if shown does not include dividends.

The SG Climate Prepared Index (the “Index”) is the exclusive property of Société Générale and its affiliates (collectively, “SG”).  Société Générale has contracted with S&P Opco, LLC (a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC) (“S&P”) to maintain and calculate the Index.  “SG Americas Securities, LLC”, “SGAS”, “Société Générale”, “SG”, “Société Générale Indices”, “SGI”, and “SG Climate Prepared Index” (collectively, the “SG Marks”) are trademarks or service marks of SG or have been licensed for use by agreement with Entelligent Inc. (“Entelligent”) and/or other third parties. SG has licensed use of the SG Marks to Minnesota Life Insurance Company (“Licensee”) and sub-licensed the use of certain Entelligent marks and/or other third-party marks (the “Third-Party Marks”) for use in a fixed indexed annuity offered by Licensee (the “Fixed Indexed Annuities”). SG’s sole contractual relationship with Licensee is to license the Index and the SG Marks and sub-license the Third-Party Marks to Licensee.  

None of Société Générale, S&P, Entelligent or other third party licensor (collectively, the “Index Parties”) to Société Générale is acting, or has been authorized to act, as an agent of Licensee or has in any way sponsored, promoted, solicited, negotiated, endorsed, offered, sold, issued, supported, structured or priced any Fixed Indexed Annuities or provided investment advice to Licensee, and no Index Party makes any representation whatsoever as to the advisability of purchasing, selling or holding any product linked to the Index, including the Fixed Indexed Annuities.  No Index Party shall have any liability with respect to the Fixed Indexed Annuities in which an interest crediting option is based on the Index, and is not liable for any loss relating to the Fixed Indexed Annuities, whether arising directly or indirectly from the use of the Index, its methodology, any SG Mark, Third-Party Marks or otherwise.  Obligations to make payments under the Fixed Indexed Annuities are solely the obligation of Licensee.  The selection of the Index as a crediting option under a Fixed Indexed Annuity does not obligate Licensee or Société Générale to invest annuity payments in the components of the Index. 

In calculating the performance of the Index, SG deducts a maintenance fee of 0.50% per annum on the level of the Index, and fixed transaction and replication costs, each calculated and deducted on a daily basis. The transaction and replication costs cover, among other things, rebalancing and replication costs.  The total amount of transaction and replication costs is not predictable and will depend on a number of factors, including the leverage of the Index, which may be as high as 200%, the performance of the indexes underlying the Index, market conditions and the changes in the market environments, among other factors. The transaction and replication costs, which are increased by the Index’s leverage, and the maintenance fee will reduce the potential positive change in the Index and increase the potential negative change in the Index. While the volatility control applied by the Index may result in less fluctuation in rates of return as compared to indices without volatility controls, it may also reduce the overall rate of return as compared to products not subject to volatility controls.