Description: Discussion of what bank holding companies earned in insurance brokerage fee income in 2008.

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 study note will review commutation functions and how they are used to calculate the values, based on simple deterministic assumption, of a variety of simple annuity and insurance functions.

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

Description: This paper proposes weighted fund style analysis as a better method to hedge market risks of variable annuities.

Description: This web page describes the new Variable Annuity Guaranteed Living Benefits Utilization study.

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: This study is designed to analyze new planning approaches and strategies that combine SPIAs with other techniques to create retirement income synergies. Using historical scenarios, it evaluates how different retirement income strategies hypothetically would have met four separate client goals: sustainable income, liquidity, accessibility and legacy. This report summarizes study findings and includes “planning points” to help readers interpret the study data.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that derives a simple explicit solution for an efficient portfolio with positive weights.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that implements a lifetime utility model including both GMDB options and term life insurance and allowing the policyholder to optimize both consumption and fund allocation decisions.