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

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: Summarizes IRS private letter ruling PLR 200818018, released Jan. 29, 2008, related to treatment of certain payments under Immediate VAs as SEPPs, and discusses its significance.

Description: The question of sex discrimination in employee pension plans in life insurance programs is only part of the more general issue of risk classification. Challenges to the old ways of classifying risks are not limited to pensions or to life insurance. It also impacts auto insurance, health insurance, and all other areas. However, for this discussion we will concentrate on sex discrimination in pension and retirement plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: Three papers use sophisticated actuarial methods to develop a straightforward retirement income strategy that can be implemented in virtually any IRA or 401(k).

Description: 1959 intercompany study of mortality under individual immediate and refund annuities issued between 1931 through 1957 and covering experience between anniversaries from 1953-1958.

Description: This paper reviews the need for longevity insurance during retirement, and then establishes a framework to study the total asset allocation decision in retirement, which includes both conventional asset classes and immediate payout annuity products.

Description: Diverse Risks 2016 Call for Essays

Description: Provides a methodology for determining the value of the share of a particular individual in a joint and survivor annuity held by a trust.

Description: This article offers issues and trends with immediate payout annuities.