Description: This article provides an update on various legislative and regulatory activities including, allowing individual variable annuities, federal standard for fiductiary responsibitlity with respect to pensions, policy loan interest rate and credit insurance issues.

Description: Applying GAAP to GMDBs in Variable Annuities. by Karen Sasveld and David Heavilin from The Financial Reporter, September 2001, Issue No. 47.

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 article describes how different types of regression models used for fund modeling can affect the variable annuity's risk exposure report and attribution report.

Description: Why Write Variable Products When You Can Put the Money Directly into the Stock Market?

Description: This article is about variable annuity products in Japan. Topics covered are the history of variable annuities, product and risk management, distribution, the regulatory environment and the market outlook.

Description: This article provides the reader with some insights regarding tax planning under the new required methodology.

Description: A discussion of the effective dates and statutory reserves cap for variable annuities under Actuarial Guideline 43.

Description: This article reviews the topics discussed at the December 2004 meeting of the Life and Health Actuarial task force. The covered topics include Actuarial Guideline 38 and Reserves for Variable Annuities C-3 Phase 2 reserves.

Description: Discussion of three aspects of GMDB— the retail product, the reinsurance players and the reinsurance techniques.