Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting examines the nuts and bolts of implementing a capital markets hedge program for offsetting the market risk embedded in variable annuity and equity-indexed annuity products..

Description: This paper considers the question of how the adjustment mechanisms described for the Swedish and German social security systems might be incorporated into private sector DB plans of the following types: multi-employer and single employer.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to present to the actuarial profession a stochastic investment model which can be used for simulations extending for many years ahead. Discussed in the paper are the general reasons for choosing the style of model, the general model and how to use it, the assumptions and the sensitivity of model to the assumptions made and the possible applications in the investment and actuarial fields.

Description: This paper suggests ways of presenting ideas from the theory of compound interest and actuarial mathematics using simulation on spreadsheets. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1997 Vol. 1.

Description: The purposes of this paper were to help determine the level of adequacy of the 1964 Commissioners Disability Table as a basis for reserving disabled lives, and to provide individual insurers with information that might aid them in their deliberations concerning reserve adequacy and reserve table modifications. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: This 1992 panel discussion is about the Internal Revenue Service's pension nondiscrimination rules, including the 401[a][4] general test regulations, the 401[l] permitted disparity regulations, the 401[a][26] minimum participation requirements, and the 410[b] average benefits test. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Individual Disability Experience Committee has completed their study of claim termination experience for the period 2006-2014 and has produced a report that provide a practical set of changes to the claim termination rates (CTRs) of the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table to reflect key industry individual disability income (IDI) claim experience trends over this time period. The goal was to have the resulting 2006-2014 IDIET in a workable format to facilitate its implementation.

Description: This paper describes the application of source of earnings 'SOE' analysis methodology to the reported pre-tax GAAP income of universal life and other interest-sensitive life and annuity products.

Description: Experience study of individual payout annuities, covering calendar years 2000 through 2004

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. The panelists discussed approaches for measuring risk across risk elements on a consistent basis and discuss the methods for aggregating results and measuring diversification.