Description: Summary of the upcoming activities for the Smaller Insurance Company Section in 2016.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that provides a framework for a joint analysis of financial and longevity guarantees and applies this framework to different annuity conversion options in deferred unit-linked annuities.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss how changes in interest rates affect the assets and liabilities of a life insurance company and what a company can do to prepare. This session examines historical trends in interest rates and how companies have reacted to both sudden and gradual changes.

Description: Impaired annuities - a niche product marketed to people at the “at-need” edge of long-term care and has the potential to instruct in bridging the gap for the products now being marketed to people “pre-need.” From Long-Term Care, Dec 2003, Issue No. 10

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 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: An overview of the NAIC Variable Annuity Reforms, including a discussion of perceived positives and challenges associated with the reforms.

Description: Discusses Product Development Section activities at the upcoming SOA Annual Meeting in the fall.

Description: Transcript of the Q&A period from Session 5A. The paper presented proposes a new method to price the longevity risk premia in order to tackle the pricing obstacle.

Description: This is the tenth experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 13 US life insurance companies.