Description: Update on the proceedings of the March 2010 NAIC meeting.

Description: A review of product and sales trends for variable, indexed and fixed annuities against the current backdrop of low interest rates and record equity market valuations

Description: Five Insights from the Society of Actuaries Product Development Survey on how to bring products to market.

Description: Provide high level summary of Indexed Variable Annuities.

Description: It's been one year since the Product Development Section Council approved the formation of a subgroup on in-force management. One year in, how are things going?

Description: The current coronavirus pandemic has caused a number of challenges for life insurers and this article summarizes the operational challenges, namely in two areas. First, the article will discuss the challenges companies are facing to collect traditional underwriting evidence and potential short-term solutions used to overcome these limitations. Second, the actions companies are taking to alleviate the financial difficulties customers may have paying premiums will be addressed.

Description: An overview of Electronic Health Records and how they will enhance risk assessment and automated underwriting in the US.

Description: A paper demonstrating how to obviate the need for market timing strategies in variable annuity products by judicious use of product design. The paper presents the premise behind the product design, provides numerical examples, then explores possible extensions of the concept to produce more sophisticated variable annuity plans based on guarantees of investment outcomes.

Description: This article is a summary of a debate at a Southeastern Actuarial Club meeting that looked at the appropriateness of secondary guarantees in UL products.

Description: Highlights from the 2002 Inter-Company Expense Study of U.S. Individual Life Insurance and Annuities.