Description: A contract owner selects a payout for his annuity using an AI/bot. The AI/bot presents various options with differences in payment and interacts with him in a simulated chat session. He decides on the form of payout. Compared to regular customer service the AI/bot was an improved experience with a call to action for the industry to build it.

Description: Report presenting the 1976-86 mortality experience for contracts issued in the U.S. through 1985 under individual immediate annuities, life income settlements, and matured deferred annuities.

Description: I recommend a Social Security deferral product, and two annuity enhancements. I then discuss the challenges faced in getting such products distributed.

Description: This session focuses on the financial issues related to income products. A panel of experts discusses pricing, investment, and risk management in underwriting payout annuities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 80PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting.

Description: Discusses the trend for insurance companies to become primarily annuity companies - partly due to settlement options - and the financial implications of this, the probable course of annuitant mortality, and what characteristics of the various group pension methods tend to solve the problem of improved mortality among annuitants.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss the shift in interest in the market place from accumulation to income, i.e. payout annuities. Marketing opportunities and product designs are discussed.

Description: This discussion examines the following questions: Do current immediate annuity rates reflect present conditions as to mortality, interest, and expense? To what extent do statutory reserves that exceed gross premiums less expenses represent a serious problem? What is being done in the way of using generation type annuity rates for settlement options?

Description: The Individual Annuity Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries has completed an experience study of individual annuities covering the calendar years 2000 - 2004. The intest of this study was to provide recent annuitant mortality experience which can be compared to the Annuity 2000 Mortality Table, and provide a basis for a possible revision to that table. These are 2 Pivot table data for that experience study. One is for all companies combined and the other is for 10 common companies. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the complete report.

Description: In session 138 PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the possibility of a single premium immediate annuity that offers liquidity options. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Increasing life spans and fluctuations in the equity markets have raised awareness of the potential of outliving one's income. This presentation from Session 30 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses single premium immediate annuities as one solution to this growing issue. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.