Description: Examination of full surrender and benefit utilization industry experience for Variable Annuities with and without Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits. Part 1 of 3 articles focuses on full surrenders and building a dynamic surrender function using predictive modeling tools.

Description: Panelists discuss customer life-cycle needs for life and annuity products and what can be done when a customer's needs change. They also discuss the opportunities and risks associated with the migration of customers through products and wealth-transfer needs. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 32PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Results of the PBITT Working Group annual VA survey.

Description: New Zealand is about to launch its first variable annuity with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits. The product design is mindful of the lessons from the financial crisis in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Description: As part of its work, the PBITT Working Group issued its seventh survey to gather the range of assumptions actuaries use in pricing, reserving, and risk management of minimum guarantees on Variable Annuity products, such as death benefits, income benefits, withdrawal benefits and maturity benefits.

Description: The article describes the 2017 Redington Prize-winning paper "Lapse-and-Reentry in Variable Annuities", by Thorsten Moenig and Nan Zhu, FSA.

Description: In session 81PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the results of the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association LIMRA/SOA 1992-94 Annuity Persistency study. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This is a report on the PBITT Working Group's fourth survey to gather the assumptions actuaries use in pricing, reserving, and risk management of minimum guarantees on Variable Annuity products, such as death benefits, income benefits, withdrawal benefits and maturity benefits.

Description: The article summarizes several recent private letter rulings from the IRS addressing the "investor control" doctrine in the context of funds of funds.

Description: Help to generate ideas for formulating a pricing strategy of 2015 individual health insurance products despite having very limited claims and premium experience in early 2014.