The Life Experience Committee released a resource and discussion guide, Utilization Assumptions of Guaranteed Living Benefits for Deferred Annuities. The guide suggests some reasons why there may be a cohort that never utilizes its guaranteed living benefits (GLBs). It also provides sources of information on how to develop reasonable assumptions regarding GLB withdrawals.
( )A new issue brief from the Asset Adequacy and Reinsurance Task Force, Asset-Intensive Reinsurance Ceded Offshore From U.S. Life Insurers (With Focus on Bermuda), offers a summary of motivations, common practices, and relevant actuarial guidance for U.S.-based actuaries involved in reinsurance transactions based offshore, particularly in Bermuda. Read the Academy press release.
( )Academy Senior Life Fellow Nancy Bennett and Paul Navratil, chairperson of the Life Investment and Capital Adequacy Committee, presented to the U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council public meeting on pension risk transfers on July 18. They gave an overview of life insurance regulations focused on the regulatory framework governing solvency requirements, including the establishment of liabilities and required capital for benefit obligations that are the result of a pension risk transfer. Additionally, the Academy submitted the Pension Committee’s recent issue brief, Buy-Out Group Annuity Purchase Primer, for the meeting record as a resource on “buy-out” annuity contract transactions from a pension actuarial perspective.
( )The Academy’s Life Experience Committee released a discussion brief on credibility in life insurance modeling.
( )The Academy’s Life Experience Committee released a discussion brief on the use of margins in life insurance modeling.
( )The Academy’s Life Experience Committee released a discussion brief on the impacts of inflation, interest rates, stock market volatility, and potential recession on life insurance business.
( )The Academy's Lifetime Income Risk Joint Committee released an issue brief that that provides a discussion of a variety of approaches for adding annuity options to defined contribution (DC) plans providing for insured lifetime income that begins immediately, is deferred, or is provided under an accumulation product that converts funds to lifetime income.
( )The Academy's Lifetime Income Risk Joint Committee released an issue brief that provides a discussion of the various types of insured annuities available to individuals and their potential uses, as well as some relevant tax implications.
( )The Academy's Lifetime Income Risk Joint Committee released an issue brief providing a discussion of Qualifying Longevity Annuity Contracts (QLACs), which are insured annuities paid out one or more years after purchase, possibly starting at an advanced age.
( )Sources of Information on Life Insurance COVID Mortality
( )COVID-19 in Life Insurance Mortality Improvement Discussion Brief
( )Lifetime Income Risk Joint Committee issue brief on application of actuarial methods to risk management in retirement income planning.
( )Tax Work Group issue brief on the implications of calculating tax-deductible claim reserves based on incurral date versus issue date for long-term disability insurance policies.
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Government Mandates Work Group issue brief providing information on the impact of laws and regulations on consumer cost and consumer choice for annuity and life insurance benefits. (
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Lifetime Income Risk Joint Task Force issue brief explaining general retirement planning considerations. (
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Lifetime Income Risk Joint Task Force issue brief in the Risky Business series providing actuarial insights regarding lifetime income planning. (
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Lifetime Income Risk Joint Task Force issue brief intended to give a high-level perspective on a few key risks and aspects related to lifetime income. (
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Lifetime Income Risk Joint Task Force issue brief in the Risky Business series explaining how a retiree can use the concept of “risk sharing” to help manage longevity risk through lifetime payout options and individual annuities, as well as other approaches to lessen risk. (
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Lifetime Income Risk Joint Task Force issue brief in the Risky Business series exploring legislative and regulatory approaches that emphasize financial literacy and education for prospective retirees, refocusing plan design on lifetime income needs, and refocusing federal retirement policies to support lifetime income needs. (
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Task Force on Genetic Testing issue brief on genetic information and voluntary life insurance. (
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