Description: This article describes the attempt to discover a product for the elderly already receiving long term care, which focused on impaired annuities, and finding the appropriate distribution options.

Description: Increasing life spans and fluctuations in the equity markets have raised awareness of the potential of outliving one's income. This presentation from Session 30 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses single premium immediate annuities as one solution to this growing issue. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: This presentation from Session 17 of the SOA 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting focuses on new product concepts that are emerging to capture the huge emerging retirement market. Panelists discuss concepts such as incorporating defined benefit concepts into defined contribution plans, insuring the longevity tail, innovations in 'traditional' annuities, 412i insured pension plans for small businesses, and highly impaired care annuities for people already incurring long-term-care costs.. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.