Description: Structured-note annuities provide a retirement solution for the masses while allowing effective hedging and balance sheet usage for the insurance complex.

Description: In session 131 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss the nature of derivatives and emerging practice with respect to the financial reporting for these instruments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers credit derivatives and how they have evolved, credit-default swaps CDSs, the advantages and disadvantages of credit derivatives and the regulatory overview. From the Society of Actuaries Record, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This session at the 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium provides an overview of equity-indexed products. An in-depth look at product features and the functioning of the index within the product is offered.