Description: This panel discussion is about the viability of single premium annuities and single premium life insurance. Items discusses include product design, pricing and regulatory issues with the back drop of high inflation of the times.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. The panelists addressed fixed annuity regulatory issues with emphasis on the annuity nonforfeiture law, current trends and product design, and how reinsurance can address the conflicting issues of competitiveness and profitability.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This individual annuity product update focused on a market overview, SEC developments, market value adjusted annuities, and the marketing of annuities through financial institutions.

Description: Discusses the ways in which insurers can position themselves in today's annuity marketplace, the market-value-adjusted fixed annuity, and marketing of annuity products through the stock-brokerage channel. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting provides an update on developments in the fixed, variable and market-value-adjusted annuity markets, including product trends such as compensation, bailouts, guaranties, return-of-premium benefit and roll-up benefit. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This second session in the two-part series focuses on proposed changes to the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for deferred annuities. Industry experts discuss and debate the necessity for these changes, the issues surrounding them, and their impact on product design. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 148PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting reviews trends in annuity product design, marketing and agents' compensation, investment strategies, and annuitant mortality. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 2.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about interest-sensitive products and methods of arriving at current rates, current regulatory restraints on illustrative rates, illustrations of vanishing premium products, advantages of deferring taxes on inside build-up, trends toward emphasis on marketing of financial services and buy term and invest the difference.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session provided an update of topics relating to individual annuity products. Subjects covered included: 1. The marketing and design of variable annuities, fixed interest rate annuities and market-value adjusted annuities. 2. Immediate annuities with participation and liquidity features.

Description: This panel discussion looks at individual tax qualified products. The areas addressed include regulatory developments, products being used, the effect of volatile money markets on product design, variations in assumptions by market, variations in results by market, defined benefit HR10, spousal IRAs, and Canadian RRSP's.