Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss the shift in interest in the market place from accumulation to income, i.e. payout annuities. Marketing opportunities and product designs are discussed.

Description: Discusses the trend for insurance companies to become primarily annuity companies - partly due to settlement options - and the financial implications of this, the probable course of annuitant mortality, and what characteristics of the various group pension methods tend to solve the problem of improved mortality among annuitants.

Description: I recommend a Social Security deferral product, and two annuity enhancements. I then discuss the challenges faced in getting such products distributed.

Description: A contract owner selects a payout for his annuity using an AI/bot. The AI/bot presents various options with differences in payment and interacts with him in a simulated chat session. He decides on the form of payout. Compared to regular customer service the AI/bot was an improved experience with a call to action for the industry to build it.

Description: Report presenting the 1976-86 mortality experience for contracts issued in the U.S. through 1985 under individual immediate annuities, life income settlements, and matured deferred annuities.

Description: The article discusses PLR 201632004, which addresses the partial annuitization rules of IRC section 72(a)(2) in the context of a deferred income annuity rider attached to a variable deferred annuity contract.

Description: This discussion examines the following questions: Do current immediate annuity rates reflect present conditions as to mortality, interest, and expense? To what extent do statutory reserves that exceed gross premiums less expenses represent a serious problem? What is being done in the way of using generation type annuity rates for settlement options?

Description: The Individual Annuity Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries has completed an experience study of individual annuities covering the calendar years 2000 - 2004. The intest of this study was to provide recent annuitant mortality experience which can be compared to the Annuity 2000 Mortality Table, and provide a basis for a possible revision to that table. These are 2 Pivot table data for that experience study. One is for all companies combined and the other is for 10 common companies. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the complete report.

Description: This paper describes the derivation of the ELAS Life Income Mortality Table, which has been adopted by the Equitable Life Assurance Society as the mortality basis for the life income option of the modes of settlement in its current series of policy forms and for the calculation of premiums under currently issued individual deferred annuity contracts.

Description: I propose a Social Security deferral product and two annuity enhancements. Then I address the challenges in getting such products distributed.