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Variable Annuities and Variable Life Insurance in the United States of America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2014

S. Hamilton Leckie
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The purpose of this paper is to outline the development and current status of variable annuities and variable life insurance in the United States of America. The author was fortunate in being granted a Fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust which enabled him to travel extensively in North America for two months in the summer of 1971. It is pointed out that this paper is the result of a large number of impressions formed by the author and has no claim to be a comprehensive treatise on the subjects. However, it is hoped that the paper will be of real interest to actuaries and others in the United Kingdom.

Part I of the paper deals with variable annuities, Part II with variable life insurance, and Part III with the special problem of providing minimum death benefit guarantees and maturity value guarantees for these variable products. Variable annuities are much more established in the United States than in this country, but variable life insurance is just in the process of being developed. Mention will be made of the broader issues as well as of actuarial matters.

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Journal of the Staple Inn Actuarial Society , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , October 1972 , pp. 69 - 112
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Copyright © Institute of Actuaries Students' Society 1972

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