Description: This discussion at a SOA 1967 Regional Meeting covers individual life and health insurance topics including individual health loss of time coverages, life underwriting, reinsurance, individual annuity retirement plans in Canada, market testing new products.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses dividends. Topics include the reflection in dividends of new federal income tax basis for qualified pensions involving individual policies, and for certain annuities, rate of excess interest on supplementary contracts vs. accumulated dividends, and issues involving dividends on supplementary contracts.

Description: This session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium provides an overview of statutory valuation issues for life and annuity products including the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation, variable products reserving standard, adoption of 2001 CSO, C-3 Phase II RBC project and nonforfeiture changes.

Description: This report compares the CIA pricing method for estimating group annuity closeout pricing to methods used in the US.

Description: This web page describes the new Variable Annuity Guaranteed Living Benefits Utilization study.

Description: This is a table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled A Strategic Analysis of the US Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.

Description: The Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses is currently seeking life insurance company data submissions to the 2012 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: This appendix II Report on the Life and Annuity Living Benefits Survey provides supplemental information for the Report on Life and Annuity Living Benefit Riders: Considerations for Insurers and Resinsurers. Appendix A gives a list of 34 participants and Appendix B provides a glossary of terms used in the report. The report utilizes a literature review, company survey, company interviews and/or other methods to catalog a listing of common living benefit riders. It was sponsored by the Product Development and Reinsurance Sections along with the Committee on Life Insurance Research.

Description: This study note will review commutation functions and how they are used to calculate the values, based on simple deterministic assumption, of a variety of simple annuity and insurance functions.

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