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  • Why Write Variable Products When You Can Put the Money Directly into the Stock Market?
    involved in setting profit targets for variable annuity contracts have experi- enced the queasy feeling ... risk characteristics. In the case of the variable annuity contract, almost all of the risk comes from the ...

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    • Authors: David Ingram, Stuart Silverman
    • Date: Oct 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Finance & Investments
  • An out-of-sample analysis of investment guarantees for equity-linked products: Lessons from the financial crisis of the late-2000s
    Overview of data and models • Data: log-returns on the S&P 500 Total Return Index – Period: February 1956 ... in-the-money • The worst cumulative returns on the S&P 500 (TR) on a horizon of 10 years or less generally ...

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    • Authors: Mathieu Boudreault, Maciej Augustyniak
    • Date: Jan 2012
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Topics: Annuities>Equity-indexed annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities; Finance & Investments