Galen Weston

Galen Weston has spent over 25 years at the intersection of financial services and technology, building platforms that connect consumers with the information and guidance they need to make informed retirement decisions.

Background

In 1999, while working as a financial advisor with RBC Insurance in Toronto, Galen became frustrated with the limited referral sources available to independent advisors. Rather than accept the status quo, he built one of the first online lead generation platforms for financial services — ProfessionalReferrals.ca. The platform quickly became one of the largest financial lead generators in Canada, providing more client referrals than he could manage alone.

In 2007, recognizing the massive underserved market for annuity education and advisor matching in the United States, Galen founded AdvisorWorld.com. The company has since become one of the leading platforms in the US annuity market, connecting hundreds of thousands of consumers with licensed annuity advisors and generating over $5 million in annual revenue.

AdvisorWorld.com Inc. & AnnuityRatesHQ

AnnuityRatesHQ is owned and operated by AdvisorWorld.com Inc. It was created from a simple observation: consumers researching annuities deserve access to the same institutional-grade data that advisors and insurance companies use internally. The platform brings CANNEX Financial Exchanges rate data — the same source used by major carriers and broker-dealers — directly to consumers for the first time.

Every rate on this site comes from CANNEX. Every carrier rating comes from A.M. Best, Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch. Every product review is written by our in-house research team. We don't sell annuities — we provide the data and tools so people can evaluate their options with clarity.

Philosophy

The annuity industry has a trust problem. Too many websites exist solely to harvest contact information and pass it to the highest bidder. Too many “reviews” are thinly disguised sales pitches. Too many rate comparisons use made-up numbers.

AnnuityRatesHQ takes a different approach: build something genuinely useful, back it with real data, and let the quality speak for itself. When consumers trust the platform, everything else follows.