Description: Author suggests the newly popular Equity-Indexed Annuity product can be transformed into Equity-Indexed Immediate Annuity to serve additional retirement needs.

Description: Discussion of how the weak equity environment has led to a growth in the sale of fixed annuities and fixed account allocations within variable annuities. Includes a description of typical product design features and changes in the nonforfeiture laws to accomodate the low interest rate environment.

Description: A discussion about how insurance companies weathered the storm of low interest rates in 2003.

Description: An overview of the immediate payout annuity market.

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: Milliman, Inc. recently conducted a survey of leading variable annuity insurers to better quantify the current dynamics of the GLB market. The scope of the Milliman survey included variable annuities that offered any type of GLB during calendar year 2004 and during the first quarter of 2005.

Description: Highlights of the results of a Milliman survey of the 2004-2009 historical pattern of sales of annuity products with guaranteed living benefits

Description: Discussion of combination long-term care insurance and annuity products.