Description: This report covers the various aspects in the developments and present status of variable annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This paper describes some of the more important actuarial characteristics of the insured variable annuity of the type currently offered by a number of life insurance companies in the United States. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 61.

Description: This paper discusses the actuarial aspects of state regulation of individual variable annuities. Focus is on regulation of interest rates, expense and mortality guarantees, grace period and nonforfeiture provisions, and transfers of surplus to and from separate accounts. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 58.

Description: The objective of this paper is to analyze the nature of the probability density function of rates of return on common stocks, to develop a simulation model for evaluating the net risk premium for an asset value guarantee at the end of a specified investment period under an equity-based product and to analyze the sensitivity of the net risk premium to changes in several underlying parameters. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 61.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major insurance-related legal cases of 1958. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadelphia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings compares variable annuitis and mutual funds from a company and customer standpoint. Other opportunities for selling equity based products as well as the Canadian experience are explored.

Description: In this paper the authors present a proposed solution to some difficult problems which have plagued those who have designed variable benefit plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 43.

Description: This paper focuses on the equity unit annuity popularly termed the variable annuity. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: This paper discusses alternatives open to an actuary in the writing of a variable annuity contract. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 61.

Description: This discussion at an SOA 1968 Regional Meeting compares variable annuitis and mutual funds from a company and customer standpoint. Other opportunities for selling equity based products as well as the Canadian experience are explored.