Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Charts to be attached to the session on 'Minimum Guaranteed Benefits on Variable Annuities'.

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

Description: Panelists discuss major pricing issues with immediate annuities: [1] mortality assumptions, including improvement projections and substandard risks, [2] investment strategy, [3] expenses, and [4] valuation. Also discussed separately is a description of structured settlements and special issues with marketing such products. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: This paper investigates the use of models of dependent mortality for determining annuity values. We discuss a broad class of parametric models using a bivariate survivorship function called a copula. Using data from a large insurance company to illustrate our methods, we calculate maximum likelihood estimates to calibrate the rnodel.

Description: This paper gives a brief description of the New Mortality Basis for Annuities, shows statistics on recent decreases in mortality rates and supplies projection scales and factors for future mortality decreases. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: Feature article discussing the results of a recent ULSG AG38 Valuation Research Report.

Description: Practical Considerations for Implementing the New Statement of Position for Long Duration Contracts and Separate Accounts .

Description: Discusses the taxation of distributions from variable annuities.

Description: Discussion of NAIC efforts to amend the annuity nonforfeiture laws to respond to falling interest rates.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Discusses the new regulatory requirements, including the invention of an illustration actuary and what the job entails, and the tasks to be accomplished in achieving compliance.