Description: In session 140 PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss issues related to equity-indexed annuity EIA products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This article summarizes a recent session at an SOA meeting that presented tips on improving and speeding the product filing process.

Description: This session discussion is about annuity product developments. The market value adjusted products, non-tax deferred products, non-surrenderable annuities, qualified market developments, effect of non-aggregation rule and variable annuity developments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting looks at the behind-the-scenes costs that are often missed when designing newer, more complex products. From The Society of Actuaries Record, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: The Individual Annuity Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries has completed an experience study of individual annuities covering the calendar years 2000 - 2004. The intest of this study was to provide recent annuitant mortality experience which can be compared to the Annuity 2000 Mortality Table, and provide a basis for a possible revision to that table. These are 2 Pivot table data for that experience study. One is for all companies combined and the other is for 10 common companies. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the complete report.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews bank annuity product development from three perspectives: strategic alliances between insurance organizations and banks, a consultant matching banks with insurance carriers, and a reinsurer working with banks on the 'retirement CD' product. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting gives an overview of the equity indexed market and discusses the issues associated with managing these products after issue.

Description: Summarizes IRS private letter ruling PLR 200818018, released Jan. 29, 2008, related to treatment of certain payments under Immediate VAs as SEPPs, and discusses its significance.

Description: The article offers a discussion about future products, distribution, insurance laws, and contracts. Some ideas might not be possible today, but it is offered as food for thought.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this teaching session on Equity-Indexed Annuities, the panelists discussed the background and techniques of the NAIC's Guideline ZZZ, what must be done, the market-value-based methods, the book-value method, and ideas regarding making the best overall choice among the methods.