Description: This article provides an update on Department of Labor's fiduciary regulation for retirement plans/investors focusing on a July 2017 request for information.

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: 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 section presents and summarizes insurance-related legal cases of 1953 including: 1. GROUP ANNUITY CONTRACTPERPETUAL OBLIGATION: Freeport Sulphur Company v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, 2. SERVICE OF PROCESSUNAUTHORIZED INSURER: Parmalee v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Association, 3. ORAL PLEDGE OR ASSIGNMENTCREDITOR'S RIGHT: Commercial National Bank v. Chapman, 4. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Weissman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 5. LIQUIDATION OF MUTUAL COMPANYJURISDICTION OF INSURANCE COMMISSlONER: Allyn v. Hull, 6. AVIATION EXCLUSIONPARACHUTE JUMP: Smith v. Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, 7. SETTLEMENT OPTIONTESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION: Hall v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 8. PURCHASE OF HOME OFFICE PROPERTYINSURANCE SUPERINTENDENT'S APPROVAL: Guardian Life Insurance Company vs. Bohlinger, 9. LOAN VALUE: DISABILITY AND DOUBLE INDEMNITY RESERVES: Chastang v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 10. CONVERSION OF GROUP INSURANCESUICIDE: Lineberry v. Security Life and Trust Company, 11. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Western Reserve Life Insurance Company vs. Meadows

Description: In March this year a charter for the new corporation, the College Retirement Equities Fund, was granted by the State of New York and it is expected that within a few months the Fund will begin operations as a supplement to TIAA annuities. The purpose of this paper is to describe this rather novel type of corporation, which presents some unusual and interesting actuarial problems. Comparisons of the performance of fixed annuities vs. variable annuities are provided.

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

Description: Presents 5 year mortality experience on self-administered pension plans for period from 1980 - 1984, and presents historical data from 1945 forward.

Description: The failure of a few large life insurers in the early 1990's led to public concern about the safety of annuities purchased by qualified retirement plans. As a result, the Department of Labor issued guidelines, known as the 'Safest Annuity Rule,' for selecting annuity providers. This study examines whether the Safest Annuity Rule is significantly changing the market for insured annuities issued to tax-qualified pension plans, particularly upon the termination of defined benefit plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1997-98 Reports.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this report, which presents the 2003 through 2006 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. The committee has also presented the results in pivot table format to allow readers to easily customize their analyses to suit their individual purposes. This is that table which is call 2001-2006 Group Annuity Pivot Table. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to outline some of the points to be considered in arriving at a method of making cost estimates and funding calculations and their practical application.