Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Regional Meeting is about annuity product development and includes an overview of variable annuity products, fixed product designs, and marketing and distribution issues.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Attendees learn of recent financial reporting activity, including Actuarial Guideline MMMM, the new AICPA Standard Of Practice 'SOP' on Non-Traditional contracts, a new SOP on internal replacements, and treatment of annuities under proposed international accounting standards.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists discuss product design issues for annuities, including “CD annuities,” which are like individual guaranteed investment contracts, traditional single premium deferred annuities, ‘SPDAs,’ two-tiered annuities, immediate annuities, and others. They also discuss tax developments, investment strategies, and reserve issues. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This study examines the persistency of deferred annuities on a contract anniversary basis for 1992 and 1993 anniversaries. One purpose of this study is to analyze the surrender activity of deferred annuities by selected product, customer, and distribution characteristics. This study is the first to examine surrender activity of all types of deferred annuities.

Description: Living benefits (GLWBs) in fixed index annuity products are typically accounted for under SOP03-1 under current GAAP guidance. LDTI requires companies to classify these riders as Market Risk Benefit (MRB). This webcast focuses on challenges and considerations of the MRB implementation. Industry practices of the reserving approach will be shared during this webcast, as well as hedging and pricing implications.

Description: This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses issues related to variable and fixed deferred annuity modeling.

Description: Save the date for SOA's 2021 Life and Annuity Symposium.

Description: Discuss a comparison of the U.S. general and insured population mortality experience and how COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 excess deaths impacted the populations differently. Discover the population mortality experience in the UK with a focus on the recent emergence of excess deaths for non-COVID causes. The long-term implications on the insured population will also be explored. Wrap up with a discussion of different conditions of long COVID, including organ impairments.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a Variable Annuity Guaranteed Living Benefit Utilization Study.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting presents an overview of the annuity market, discussion of various annuity product designs including CD annuities, modified guarantee plans, split annuities, and TSA plans, and distribution issues.