Description: This is the 1975 report of mortality on group annuity lives broken down by time of retirement as measured against the normal retirement date.

Description: Provides the results of this study on mortality of specified types of payout annuities.

Description: This is a discussion about equity-oriented product and mutual fund operations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 2, No. 59AB

Description: This paper describes some of the minimum guaranteed death and maturity benefits that have been offered or proposed in conjunction with variable annuity contracts, proposes prospective reserves for these guarantees based on change factors that are somewhat analogous to interest factors used in typical life reserves, and proposes a set of change factors.

Description: Discusses reduction in bank loan and minimum deposit business, sales of a combination of single premium immediate annuities with life policies on a guaranteed issue basis, likely results of recent court decisions regarding allowing interest on indebtedness as a tax deduction, and professional development needs for actuaries taking on management roles.

Description: This section presents and summarizes several insurance-related legal cases from 1954: 1. ACCIDENT POLICY- ACCIDENTAL MEANS: Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company v. Douglass, 2. SUICIDE EXCLUSIONDATE OF ISSUE AND EFFECTIVE DATE: New York Life Insurance Company v. Noonan, 3. INCOME TAX DEFICIENCYGOVERNMENT'S CLAIM AGAINST BENEFICIARY: United States vs. New. 4. BANKRUPTCYPOLICY LOANS MADE AFTER APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEE: Lake, Trustee vs. New York Life Insurance Company, 5. ANNUITY CONTRAcTRECOVERY OF CONSIDERATION: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company vs. Hardwick, 6. DOUBLE INDEMNITYWAIVER OF AGE LIMIT: Peninsular Life Insurance Company vs. Howard, 7. DEATH ON POLICY ANNIVERSARYDEDUCTION OF UNPAID PREMIUM: Callahan vs. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 8. GOOD HEALTH PROVISIONSUBSTANDARD RISK: Green vs. Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company, 9. INSURANCE TRUSTTESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION: Gordon v. Portland Trust Bank, 10. MISREPRESENTATION AS TO INSANITYINCONTESTABLE CLAUSE: Arnold vs. Life Insurance Company of Georgia, 11. ACCIDENT INSURANCEBURNING OF BUILDING: Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company vs. Walt

Description: This discussion looks at the following questions: How well are the life insurance companies carrying out their responsibilities for providing income to the aged? Is there any theoretical basis for determining the maximum annuity which should be underwritten on one life? How are such limits fixed? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: This paper investigates a technique for developing investment assumptions for pricing that are consistent with the investment practices of the company for use in the pricing of single premium immediate annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: The paper describes the various provisions of the new Soviet program - premium rates, pensionable ages, death benefits, withdrawal values, method of administration, and so on. This new program is intended to supplement the Soviet social security benefits.

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.