Description: This paper considers the risk that actual mortality will be lower than the mortality assumed when pricing life annuities on impaired lives. It develops a method for managing this risk through a Provision for Adverse Deviation PAD.

Description: This issue of The Retirement Forum presents the four prize-winning papers from the Retirement 20/20 Call for Models for Public Pension Plans Contest, which was conducted in 2018, and includes commentary from reviewers of these papers and replies from the authors.

Description: This paper is an analysis of the mortality rates of beneficiaries of charitable gift annuities.

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: The first study of mortality specifically related to structured settlement annuities, covering experience years 1966 - 1989. Both standard and substandard lives were analyzed.

Description: This presentation from Session 17 of the SOA 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting focuses on new product concepts that are emerging to capture the huge emerging retirement market. Panelists discuss concepts such as incorporating defined benefit concepts into defined contribution plans, insuring the longevity tail, innovations in 'traditional' annuities, 412i insured pension plans for small businesses, and highly impaired care annuities for people already incurring long-term-care costs.. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: This article is to outline the new requirements for valuation rates in VM-22, highlighting key differences and example calculations to enhance understanding.

Description: Over the last several decades, mortality trends and life expectancies in developed countries have been improving and are expected to continue to improve in the future. This paper discusses issues of longevity risk and volatility faced by small defined-benefit DB pension plans in Canada and outlines the opportunities available for entrepreneurial insurance companies interested in providing solutions to address these issues.

Description: The NAIC approved the 2012 Individual Annuity Reserve table as the standard for computing reserves for individual annuity contracts and developed a model law regulation for states to adopt. On February 17th, 2015, ACLI submitted a letter to Alexis MacIvor, Chief of the Insurance Branch in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, notifying her that as of December 24, 2014, 26 states had approved the 2012 IAR Table as the reserve standard for immediate annuity contracts issued on or after January 1, 2015. The letter thus confirms that the 2012 IAR Table is the Prevailing Commissioners' Standard Table for purposes of computing life insurance reserves under section 807(d) of the Code for individual annuity contracts.

Description: Discusses the titled paper by McCarter regarding a new payout annuity mortality table and with projections.