Description: Discussion of the use of traditional individual insurance products for pension plans of employers with small numbers of employees. Also discusses the new products in use, or under development for such plans. Also discusses the pros and cons of shifting individual policy funded plans to some other basis when the number of participants becomes larger. Finally, a discussion of products and methods under development in contemplation of enactment of a Keogh-type bill to provide retirement benefits for the self-employed?

Description: These are discussions of the paper, 'Group Annuity Ill-Health Terminations' by Conrad M. Siegel. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: 1959 SOA Regional Meeting in Atlanta. This discussion covered the advantages and disadvantages of entering the pension field through Ordinary policies or Group Annuities. The panel also discussed considerations in entering the Accident and Sickness field.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Digest of Informal Discussion’ addresses the current status of reflecting investment timing in the crediting of interest to participating policyholders, primarily in the group pension market where the term “new money” method has come into use.

Description: This is a study of mortality experience among pensioners under certain large self-administered retirement plans.

Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 Discussion of indexed guaranteed separate accounts, typically issued to defined-benefit pension plans. Contract terms, risks, marketing, financial reporting, reserves, and investment strategies are discussed. Risk-based capital and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Regulation for Separate Accounts with Guarantees are also discussed. A hypothetical indexed separate account is analyzed for return on capital and economic risk.

Description: Modeling experience sharing by David Yu who leads the retirement product and asset model development team within Prudential Financial

Description: This paper presents a new group annuity mortality table which is being proposed as a new Statutory valuation table.

Description: This mortality study is limited to the 1960 experience of single life matured annuities under Group Annuity contracts.

Description: This article is about structuring participating group annuities to guarantee permanent security to participants of defined benefit plans. From The Actuary Vol. 26, No. 8