Description: Discussion of new individual life, annuity and disability product developments designed to meet conditions in today's market. This article was presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: Outline of modifications to formulas in previously released FORTRAN program to compute two-life annuities, including those designated 'qualified joint and survivor annuities' in the ERISA Act of 1974.

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: 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: This discussion seeks to determine if: 1. Is there justification for paying higher rates of commissions to experienced agents? 2. Is grading of commission rates by size of policy appropriate for Ordinary insurance? 3. In what ways have normal commission scales been modified in connection with the sale of permanent insurance on the minimum deposit plan? 4. What practical methods are available to maintain consistency between the levels of commission payments for pension plans funded by means of individual policies and group annuities?

Description: This is a discussion about group annuity contracts issued for a very small number of lives and how it affected new sales of individual pension-trust policies.

Description: This report presents the formal recommendation for a new mortality basis for individual annuity valuations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: From session 55PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss current topics related to annuities. These topics include Equity Indexed Annuities, persistency, illustrations and product development. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: Panel discusses current topics relating to reserving for deferred annuities, including Actuarial Guideline 33 [formerly GGG], equity-indexed annuities [EIAs], variable annuity minimum death benefit guarantees [MDBGs], and Actuarial Guideline 34 [formerly MMM]. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.