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: This is an article on statutory maximum valuation interest rates, the second of three articles outlining the new Model Valuation and Nonforfeiture Laws.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 2. This article discusses how the the choice of basis for measuring Interest Rate Spread impacts pricing and accounting for interest sensitive products.

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

Description: International case study discussing an innovative distribution method in South Korea.

Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the June 2018 issue of Product Matters published by the Product Development Section.

Description: This article covers measurement of key actions by presenting an approach to the analysis of direct-mail insurance solicitations.

Description: Recent studies have shown that most Americans are not taking the steps needed to provide for a comfortable retirement. By saving too little and waiting too long to become serious about investing, many baby boomers will need investments with relatively high rates of return to achieve their retirement goals. Historically, such returns have come only from equity based vehicles. This article discusses how Equity-indexed products [EIPs] are well positioned to help address the savings problem.

Description: This presentation presents a decumulation strategy during retirement with the purchase of deferred annuities.