Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss variable annuity reserving issues with respect to statutory, GAAP and tax. Methodologies and the effect of a proposed Standard of Practice are discussed.

Description: From session 75CS at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999, Presenters identify issues and challenges faced by the valuation actuary when performing cash-flow testing on equity-indexed and variable products.

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 is the sixth experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 27 US life insurance companies.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 The panelists discuss the benefits of hedging variable annuity guarantees, the challenges they face and how they keep score.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss various topics and issues related to products marketed through the financial services industry, including the products sold and how they are distributed, the future of such marketing arrangements, whether banks and stockbrokers are a growth market, and the risks/returns to insurance companies. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

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: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session discussed the concepts of expense allocation, determination of product costs, overhead expenses, the product-cost system, variable versus fixed expenses, and pricing on a marginal basis.

Description: The first in a series of articles exploring the improvement in retiree life expectancies and ways the improvement can be incorporated into actuarial estimates of annuity and pension plan reserves.