Description: This paper presents a generalized profits released model which resolves the difficulties of the traditional analysis posed by products that have fluctuating profits and losses over time or have no initial investment. Discussions of the paper are included.

Description: This paper develops pricing theory for single premium immediate annuities using Anderson's present value of book profits method. A discussion of the paper follows regarding particpating single premium immediate annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This paper considers a typical retirement endowment plan where an endowment provides for a monthly payment at retirement and units of life insurance prior to retirement and which the amounts of insurance in later years are net level premium reserves. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 37.

Description: A review of recent trends in immediate non-refund annuity mortality and a presentation of a modification of the a-1949 Table with Projection Scale B which reflects these recent mortality trends. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: This paper concentrates on the issue of determining interest rates for pricing the guaranteed purchase rates at time of retirement under a group annuity contract, but the technique developed can also be applied to possible variations from expected mortality. A discussion of this paper is included.

Description: These are discussion papers on the paper, 'The ELAS Life Income Mortality Table' by Harry Walker. That paper describes the derivation of the ELAS Life Income Mortality Table, which has been adopted by the Equitable Life Assurance Society as the mortality basis for the life income option of the modes of settlement in its current series of policy forms and for the calculation of premiums under currently issued individual deferred annuity contracts.

Description: In general, a complete annuity of one per annum may be defined as a curtate annuity of one per annum with an additional final payment, made a fraction of a year after the last payment of one, representing the accrued portion of the succeeding payment not yet due. This paper explores the relationships which occur if compound interest is used instead of simple interest to calculate the final partial payment.

Description: This paper describes the derivation of the ELAS Life Income Mortality Table, which has been adopted by the Equitable Life Assurance Society as the mortality basis for the life income option of the modes of settlement in its current series of policy forms and for the calculation of premiums under currently issued individual deferred annuity contracts.

Description: Development of a formula for the continuous annuity ax:n| in terms of the Makeham parameters A, B, and c, and the force of interest. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: These are submitted discussion papers on the paper, 'Annuity Mortality' by Walter G. Bowerman.