Description: This 1978 discussion focused on individual annuities especially non-qualified single premium and flexible premium annuities. Areas covered include marketing problems, product design, reasons for popularity, tax characteristics, SEC investigation and NAIC Model Reg.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. In this session on Single Premium Deferred Annuities, the panelists discussed the results of the 1992 Single Premium Deferred Annuity Persistency Study and they identified some additional research in the area of interest-sensitive cash-flow analysis.

Description: This 1978 discussion focused on Individual Annuity experience and current events including: 1. Marketing issues 2. Actuarial issues 3. SEC study 4. FIT issues 5. Nonforfeiture issues 6. The Model Disclosure Bill.

Description: This 1979 session focused on the future of individual deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Regulatory and Tax Problems a. S.E.C. exemptive provisions b. Tax questions c. Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities 2. Prospects for Profitability a. Disintermediation b. Improving the prospects for profits 3. Portfolio Method of Crediting Interest vs. Investment Year Method 4. Marketing 5. Product Design a. Different product features b. Lapse experience c. Recent innovations

Description: This is a discussion from the 1982 SOA Spring Meeting on individual annuity product design under conditions of inflation. It highlights the design and testing of annuity products in an inflationary envirnonmnet, the marketing and distribution of annuities, the importance of asset/liability matching and surplus and valuation considerations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1982, Volume 8, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses many types of individual annuity products including single premium - SPDA's, annual premium, and flexible premium deferred annuities and structured settlement plans.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this session about annuities, topics discussed included product design, regulatory, marketplace, compensation, and pricing issues.