Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session provides an overview of the various methods used to manage the risks from guarantees of equity-based life and annuity products. Discussion includes the use of reinsurance, self-insurance and static/dynamic hedging.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session addresed life and annuity sales illustrations. Topics included: • Current initiatives from various task forces including those of the AAA, NAIC, ACLI, NALU, and ASCLU. • Have illustrations taken on a life of their own? • What should be done about illustrations, especially by actuaries?

Description: This discussion note for many sessions at the 1980 Spring Meeting defines the theme of the meeting and sets the objectives under three scenarios. Objectives: 1. Recognize and reflect the basic concepts of futurism. 2. Identify the general direction of individual life and annuity business. 3. Paint a picture of what our business will look like by the end of the decade. Scenarios: 1. High inflation scenario 2. Incentive and investment scenario 3. Social democracy scenario

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs, presented a discussion on life and annuity equity products of the 1980's. Topics included: 1. Product design 2. Taxes 3. Investment policy 4. Regulations 5. Marketing and sales 6. Effect of general account business

Description: Panelists, along with significant audience participation, discuss the proposed changes in tax law for life insurance [which became Section 7702A], company reactions [especially regarding in-force-dividend policy] to the dropping new-money yield rates available, the nascent long-term-care-insurance [LTCI] and accelerated death benefit [ADB] coverages, group universal life products [GULPs], leveraged corporate-owned life insurance [COLI], and the impact of the recent stock-market dip on variable universal life [VUL] sales. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about market developments, federal income tax outlook, investment strategy/crediting strategy, pricing considerations, valuation, nonforfeiture, and state filing considerations. Survivorship life also was discussed in the Q&A. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about product design and pricing of products with bonus features. Topics included: 1. The need for maximum long-term benefits. 2. Designs that maximize long-term benefits. 3. Reasons we should focus on benefits and not cash values. 4. Principles of equity behind bonus features. 5. A practical method to define equity. 6. A summary of current regulatory activity. 7. The definition of equity. 8. The need for cash values. 9. Reasons for considering maximum limits on non-guaranteed elements. 10. Disclosure of non-guaranteed elements. 11. Reserving practices.

Description: This session is about the practical and theoretical considerations in all-lines insurance operations, solvency of all-lines companies, and financial implications of all-lines operations, including investment of assets and Federal Income Tax.