Description: This investigation specifically covers the mortality for immediate single-life annuities issued in the United States and Canada during the years 1931-1947 inclusive and observed between 1946 and 1948 contract anniversaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: New Zealand is about to launch its first variable annuity with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits. The product design is mindful of the lessons from the financial crisis in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Description: Study of mortality experience under Canadian individual annuities for 1980 - 1988 anniversaries. Most policies studied are in the payout status, though experience is additionally included during the deferred period provided the policy has no cash value or right to change the policy.

Description: This paper describes a concept product, advanced-life delayed annuity ALDA, which would be acquired at a young age small premiums would be paid over a ling period of time but the ALDA would only begin paying an inflation-adjusted life-contingent income at the advanced age of 80, 85, or even 90.

Description: Introduction to longevity insurance, including product design and a market overview

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. The panel identifies the risks in annuity products and the product development and reinsurance actions that can enable an insurer to manage the risks.

Description: This is a panel discussion about H.R. 10 pension plans, i.e., tax deferred retirement savings plans for the owners of an unincorporated business and its employees. The following questions are addressed: To what extent is coverage under H.R. 10 being provided under individual policies and under group contracts? What problems are presented in each approach? If special plans are used, what provisions must be included? If normal contracts are used, what modifications or endorsements must be made? What plans are generally used? If split-funding is not used with normal contracts, how are increases in contributions handled? To what extent are trust or custodial accounts being used? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this session about annuities, topics discussed included product design, regulatory, marketplace, compensation, and pricing issues.

Description: The paper will focus on two broad areas, integration of insurance products with investment products to mitigate the risk of outliving one’s assets in post-retirement financial planning. Modeling and pricing for the longevity risk in the secondary market in insurance.

Description: The article discusses an IRS private letter ruling applying the after-death distribution requirements applicable to non-qualified annuity contracts under section 72(s) of the Internal Revenue Code.