Description: Describes substandard annuities and discusses the market opportunity for them, the associated risk management issues, and the issues companies need to address when competing in the substandard annuity market - underwriting, pricing, sales, administration, financial reporting and risk management practices.

Description: This report reviews retirement planning software programs currently available to individuals and their professional advisors. The report does not rate or recommend specific programs. Rather, it explains how programs that are currently available work, and what features can be improved.

Description: This report, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Individual Annuities,’ examines the persistency of deferred annuities on a contract anniversary basis. The study was designed to analyze the surrender activity of deferred annuities by selected product, customer, and distribution characteristics. Another purpose of the analysis is to quantify, through modeling procedures, the relationship between surrender activity and variables associated with surrender. Quantifying this relationship is useful in product design, valuation, investment management, evaluation of market performance, and corporate planning.

Description: Our panel discusses research conducted by the SOA's committee on post-retirement needs and risks current trends in retirement, including phased and partial retirement special issues for different types of industries and employers and pension and health benefit design issues surrounding phased retirement. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 10pd.

Description: This study examines the GLB utilization of over 4.6 million contracts that were either issued during or in force as of 2012.

Description: The study examines the GLB utilization of over 4.9 million contracts that were either issued during or in force as of 2014.

Description: Few product innovations have transfigured the variable annuity (VA) industry as much asguaranteed living benefits (GLBs).

Description: This report reviews retirement planning software programs currently available to individuals and their professional advisors. The report does not rate or recommend specific programs. Rather, it explains how programs that are currently available work, and what features can be improved.

Description: This session discusses the results of recent studies, one sponsored the Society of Actuaries, conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates and the Employee Benefits Research Institute EBRI and another conducted by Life Insurance Marketing and Research Asssociation LIMRA, focusing on public knowledge and attitudes with regard to post-retirement risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 9pd.

Description: This study examines the persistency of deferred annuities on a contract anniversary basis. The study was designed to analyze the surrender activity of deferred annuities by selected product, customer, and distribution characteristics.