Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers life and annuity valuation issues including an update on the Separate Accounts Technical Resource Group, Regulation XXX, a comparison of the unitary reserve method with the segmented reserve method, New York Regulation 147 and an update on the Annuity Nonforfeiture Technical Resource Group.

Description: This 1978 discussion focused on individual annuities especially non-qualified single premium and flexible premium annuities. Areas covered include marketing problems, product design, reasons for popularity, tax characteristics, SEC investigation and NAIC Model Reg.

Description: Panel discussion session examining individual retirement account competition including products offered by banks, stock brokerage firms,mutual fund companies, and insurers. Discussion of market share of each type of financial institution in the IRA market.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting is a discussion looking at trends in annuity product design, disintermediation and intermediation - C-3 risk, structured settlements, marketing and agents' compensation, and investment strategies. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This 1979 session focused on the future of individual deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Regulatory and Tax Problems a. S.E.C. exemptive provisions b. Tax questions c. Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities 2. Prospects for Profitability a. Disintermediation b. Improving the prospects for profits 3. Portfolio Method of Crediting Interest vs. Investment Year Method 4. Marketing 5. Product Design a. Different product features b. Lapse experience c. Recent innovations

Description: The Society's Task Force to Study Risk of Loss from Changes in the Interest Rate Environment C-3 Risk Task Force was formed in March 1981 with the charge to quantify C-3 risk. The Task Force made a preliminary report as part of a panel discussion on C-3 risk at the Society's October 1981 meeting in Atlanta. This presentation provides an update on the progress to date and its future plans.