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August 31, 2011 at 08:00 PM
State insurance regulators have expressed concern about the approach some life insurers have taken to getting approval for contingent annuity programs.
The Life Actuarial Task Force at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Kansas City, Mo., has published an account of debate on the topic in a collection of task force conference call minutes posted on its section of the NAIC’s website.
The task force recently asked the NAIC’s Life Insurance and Annuities Committee to look at the products.
A contingent annuity is a product that guarantees access to a stream of withdrawals, then, at a certain point, produces a stream of income when annuity assets fall to a designated level.
During a conference call, the state insurance regulators and others who participated talked about whether the contracts are really financial guarantee arrangements; how the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission view the contracts; and use or non-use of separate accounts in connection with the contracts.
