Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting examines the structure, cost, risk, volatility, and the use of options for variable annuity guaranteed minimum death benefits. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

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

Description: discussion of the ongoing developments in reserving and risk-based capital RBC requirements for variable annuities including stochastic scenario projections

Description: Discusses how AG 34 provides a clarification of CARVM for variable annuities with MGDB’s.

Description: Discussion of the biases understatement of risk/reserves that arise when aggregating cells in modeling Variable Annuity Minimum Guaranteed Death Benefits

Description: Update on statutory Valuation reserves and required surplus for variable annuities with living benefit guarantees

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: This article is a call for work that has been done in stochastic modeling and papers in the area of of stochastic modeling of investment returns in respect of the maturity and mortality guarantees offered on segregated fund and variable annuity products. These will be used in the symposium on stochastic modeling in September 1999 sponsored by the CIA, SOA and Actuarial Foundation.

Description: This paper discusses alternatives open to an actuary in the writing of a variable annuity contract. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 61.

Description: Current risk management approaches for variable annuity business are not working very well in today's market turmoil.