Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses the nature of the risks associated with equity-based and equity-linked products, and how those products can be managed with the use of capital market instruments.

Description: The IRS believes that any segregated asset account comprised of a pool of individual securities will run afoul of the investor control doctrine. This article articulates that such a conclusion would be deeply flawed based on the administrative, congressional, and judicial precedents involving the investor control doctrine.

Description: This panel discussion reviews various viewpoints, actuary's, agent's, and regulator's views on equity products. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 20, Pt. 2, No. 60.

Description: This session 8 PD of the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium focuses primarily on the Academy's development of nonformulaic statutory risk-based capital and reserve standards for death and living benefits.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers equity-oriented product issues including deciding to sell variable annuities, sales methods, the effect of SEC regulations, and new equity product ideas.

Description: This document requests intents to participate and provides data submission instructions for the 2008 to 2013 Canadian Segregated Fund Policyholder Behavior Experience Study.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this session about annuities, topics discussed included product design, regulatory, marketplace, compensation, and pricing issues.

Description: From a session at the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 29-30, 2001 Teaching session covering the development of realistic liability models for use in asset adequacy analysis, asset/liability management, pricing/repricing, financial reporting or other corporate purposes. The primary focus is modeling issues for variable product features, such as minimum living or death benefit guarantees on both variable life and annuities, annuity death benefit enhancements, and variable immediate annuities. Topics include: • Analysis of the special risks posed by these products • Selecting realistic dynamic assumptions • Techniques used in modeling these products • Scenario testing and result presentation to best communicate risks

Description: Variable Annuity DAC: A Survey of Current Practice by Laura J. Hay and Elizabeth Rogalin from The Financial Reporter, December 2002, Issue No. 51. Examines the DAC calculation for Variable Annuities and the possible write down of DAC under revised assumptions.