Description: This is a book review of 'The Variable Annuity, Its Development, Its Environment and Its Future' by Paul A. Campbell. This attractively produced booklet will serve as a very good introduction to variable annuities for all approaching the subject from a general insurance background. The copious references included should also make it of use to an actuary dealing with variable annuities.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting reviews trends in annuity product design, marketing and agents' compensation, investment strategies, and annuitant mortality. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 2.