Description: This article covers measurement of key actions by presenting an approach to the analysis of direct-mail insurance solicitations.

Description: Managed strategies as underlying investments in VA/FIA products have seen spectacular growth since the financial crisis. The speakers of these sessions will share their views on the development of this market and what is expected to unfold over the next 12 months in regard to the next generation of products and fund-based strategies.

Description: This study note will review commutation functions and how they are used to calculate the values, based on simple deterministic assumption, of a variety of simple annuity and insurance functions.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that derives a simple explicit solution for an efficient portfolio with positive weights.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that implements a lifetime utility model including both GMDB options and term life insurance and allowing the policyholder to optimize both consumption and fund allocation decisions.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that generalizes the Poisson process to a renewal process, especially Erlang (n) renewal processes.

Description: This paper proposes weighted fund style analysis as a better method to hedge market risks of variable annuities.

Description: This report compares the CIA pricing method for estimating group annuity closeout pricing to methods used in the US.

Description: The Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses is currently seeking life insurance company data submissions to the 2012 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: This appendix II Report on the Life and Annuity Living Benefits Survey provides supplemental information for the Report on Life and Annuity Living Benefit Riders: Considerations for Insurers and Resinsurers. Appendix A gives a list of 34 participants and Appendix B provides a glossary of terms used in the report. The report utilizes a literature review, company survey, company interviews and/or other methods to catalog a listing of common living benefit riders. It was sponsored by the Product Development and Reinsurance Sections along with the Committee on Life Insurance Research.