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: Structured-note annuities provide a retirement solution for the masses while allowing effective hedging and balance sheet usage for the insurance complex.

Description: This article provides background on managed target volatility funds and how they can be used for variable annuities and the mitigation of gap risk.

Description: This article is about the design and growth of the new variable life and annuity products.

Description: This is a book review of 'The Variable Annuity, Its Development, Its Environment and Its Future' by Paul A. Campbell. This attractively produced booklet will serve as a very good introduction to variable annuities for all approaching the subject from a general insurance background. The copious references included should also make it of use to an actuary dealing with variable annuities.

Description: Discusses the taxation of distributions from variable annuities.

Description: This article summarizes information on the regulatory aspects of variable annuities, both federal and state, and offers thoughts on corporate structure, product, marketing and sales commissions.

Description: This is a book review of The Variable Annuity, which the author recommends for a history and current status of this market. The book comments on the effect of variable annuities on stock prices.

Description: This article gives a summary of a presentation given by John Antliff before the Chicago Actuarial Club on April 24, 1967 focusing on the current status of variable annuities.