-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, TIXQs6xpm1WrtHQXzUnuD/xmjZ98r9RFtGQ4zNChApjpmB6phcReFHx2hXHkY0OU fwUeXIWVsaPGlP1aINl8ww== 0000836687-07-000322.txt : 20070831 0000836687-07-000322.hdr.sgml : 20070831 20070831111958 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000836687-07-000322 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 497 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070831 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070831 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20070831 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: VARIABLE ANNUITY ACCOUNT B OF ING LIFE INSURANCE & ANNUITY CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000103005 IRS NUMBER: 710294708 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 497 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-56297 FILM NUMBER: 071093428 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 151 FARMINGTON AVE CITY: HARTFORD STATE: CT ZIP: 06156 BUSINESS PHONE: 860-723-4646 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 151 FARMINGTON AVE CITY: HARTFORD STATE: CT ZIP: 06156 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: VARIABLE ANNUITY ACCOUNT B OF ING LIFE INS & ANNUITY CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20020319 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: VARIABLE ANNUITY ACCOUNT B OF AETNA LIFE INS & ANNUITY CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: VARIABLE ANNUITY ACCOUNT B OF AETNA VARIABLE ANNUITY LIFE IN DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19791108 0000103005 S000000900 VARIABLE ANNUITY ACCOUNT B OF ING LIFE INS & ANNUITY CO C000002574 ING VARIABLE ANNUITY 497 1 etpsupp.htm SUPPLEMENT etpsupp.htm -- Converted by SEC Publisher, created by BCL Technologies Inc., for SEC Filing
August 31, 2007 
Prospectus SUPPLEMENT 
 
ING USA Annuity and Life Insurance Company 
ReliaStar Life Insurance Company of New York 
ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company 

 
 
This supplement updates the current prospectus for your variable annuity contract. Please read it 
carefully and keep it with your copy of the prospectus for future reference. If you have any questions, 
please call our Customer Service Center at 1-800-366-0066. 

 
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING AN UPCOMING 
CHANGE TO OUR EXCESSIVE TRADING POLICY 
 
Effective October 16, 2007 

  Under “Transfers Among Your Investments (Excessive Trading Policy)” please replace the subsections
entitled “Limits on Frequent or Disruptive Transfers,” “Limits Imposed by Underlying Funds” and
“Agreements to Share Information with Funds” in their entirety with the following:

  Limits on Frequent or Disruptive Transfers

  The contract is not designed to serve as a vehicle for frequent transfers. Frequent transfer activity can
disrupt management of a fund and raise its expenses through:

  • Increased trading and transaction costs;
  • Forced and unplanned portfolio turnover;
  • Lost opportunity costs; and
  • Large asset swings that decrease the fund’s ability to provide maximum investment return to all contract owners.

  This in turn can have an adverse effect on fund performance. Accordingly, individuals or organizations
that use market-timing investment strategies or make frequent transfers should not purchase the
contract.

Excessive Trading Policy. We and the other members of the ING family of insurance companies, as
providers of multi-fund variable insurance and retirement products, have adopted a common Excessive
Trading Policy to respond to the demands of the various fund families that make their funds available
through our products to restrict excessive fund trading activity and to ensure compliance with Section
22c-2 of the 1940 Act.

We actively monitor fund transfer and reallocation activity within our variable insurance products to
identify violations of our Excessive Trading Policy. Our Excessive Trading Policy is violated if fund
transfer and reallocation activity:

  • Exceeds our current definition of Excessive Trading, as defined below; or
  • Is determined, in our sole discretion, to be disruptive or not in the best interests of other owners of our variable insurance and retirement products.

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We currently define Excessive Trading as:

  • More than one purchase and sale of the same fund (including money market funds) within a 60 calendar day period (hereinafter, a purchase and sale of the same fund is referred to as a “round-trip”).
    This means two or more round-trips involving the same fund within a 60 calendar day period wouldmeet our definition of Excessive Trading; or
  • Six round-trips involving the same fund within a twelve month period.

The following transactions are excluded when determining whether trading activity is excessive:

  • Purchases or sales of shares related to non-fund transfers (for example, new purchase payments, withdrawals and loans);
  • Transfers associated with scheduled dollar cost averaging, scheduled rebalancing or scheduled asset allocation programs;
  • Purchases and sales of fund shares in the amount of $5,000 or less;
  • Purchases and sales of funds that affirmatively permit short-term trading in their fund shares, and movement between such funds and a money market fund; and
  • Transactions initiated by us, another member of the ING family of insurance companies or a fund.

If we determine that an individual or entity has made a purchase of a fund within 60 days of a prior
round-trip involving the same fund, we will send them a letter warning that another sale of that same fund
within 60 days of the beginning of the prior round-trip will be deemed to be Excessive Trading and result
in a six month suspension of their ability to initiate fund transfers or reallocations through the Internet,
facsimile, Voice Response Unit (VRU), telephone calls to the ING Customer Service Center, or other
electronic trading medium that we may make available from time to time (“Electronic Trading
Privileges”). Likewise, if we determine that an individual or entity has made five round-trips involving
the same fund within a twelve month period, we will send them a letter warning that another purchase and
sale of that same fund within twelve months of the initial purchase in the first round-trip in the prior
twelve month period will be deemed to be Excessive Trading and result in a six month suspension of their
Electronic Trading Privileges. According to the needs of the various business units, a copy of the warning
letters may also be sent, as applicable, to the person(s) or entity authorized to initiate fund transfers or
reallocations, the agent/registered representative or investment adviser for that individual or entity. A
copy of the warning letters and details of the individual’s or entity’s trading activity may also be sent to
the fund whose shares were involved in the trading activity.

If we determine that an individual or entity has violated our Excessive Trading Policy, we will send them
a letter stating that their Electronic Trading Privileges have been suspended for a period of six months.
Consequently, all fund transfers or reallocations, not just those which involve the fund whose shares were
involved in the activity that violated our Excessive Trading Policy, will then have to be initiated by
providing written instructions to us via regular U.S. mail. Suspension of Electronic Trading Privileges
may also extend to products other than the product through which the Excessive Trading activity
occurred. During the six month suspension period, electronic “inquiry only” privileges will be permitted
where and when possible. A copy of the letter restricting future transfer and reallocation activity to
regular U.S. mail and details of the individual’s or entity’s trading activity may also be sent, as applicable,
to the person(s) or entity authorized to initiate fund transfers or reallocations, the agent/registered
representative or investment adviser for that individual or entity and the fund whose shares were involved
in the activity that violated our Excessive Trading Policy.

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Following the six month suspension period during which no additional violations of our Excessive
Trading Policy are identified, Electronic Trading Privileges may again be restored. We will continue to
monitor the fund transfer and reallocation activity, and any future violations of our Excessive Trading
Policy will result in an indefinite suspension of Electronic Trading Privileges. A violation of our
Excessive Trading Policy during the six month suspension period will also result in an indefinite
suspension of Electronic Trading Privileges.

We reserves the right to suspend Electronic Trading Privileges with respect to any individual or entity,
with or without prior notice, if we determine, in our sole discretion, that the individual’s or entity’s
trading activity is disruptive or not in the best interests of other owners of our variable insurance products,
regardless of whether the individual’s or entity’s trading activity falls within the definition of Excessive
Trading set forth above.

Our failure to send or an individual’s or entity’s failure to receive any warning letter or other notice
contemplated under our Excessive Trading Policy will not prevent us from suspending that individual’s or
entity’s Electronic Trading Privileges or taking any other action provided for in our Excessive Trading
Policy.

Limits Imposed by the Funds. Each underlying fund available through the variable insurance and
retirement products offered by us and/or the other members of the ING family of insurance companies,
either by prospectus or stated contract, has adopted or may adopt its own excessive/frequent trading
policy, and orders for the purchase of fund shares are subject to acceptance or rejection by the underlying
fund.. We reserve the right, without prior notice, to implement fund purchase restrictions and/or
limitations on an individual or entity that the fund has identified as violating its excessive/frequent trading
policy and to reject any allocation or transfer request to a subaccount if the corresponding fund will not
accept the allocation or transfer for any reason. All such restrictions and/or limitations (which may
include, but are not limited to, suspension of Electronic Trading Privileges and/or blocking of future
purchases of a fund or all funds within a fund family) will be done in accordance with the directions we
receive from the fund.

Agreements to Share Information with Funds. As required by Rule 22c-2 under the 1940 Act, we have
entered into information sharing agreements with each of the fund companies whose funds are offered
through the contract. Contract owner trading information is shared under these agreements as necessary
for the fund companies to monitor fund trading and our implementation of our Excessive Trading Policy.
Under these agreements, the company is required to share information regarding contract owner
transactions, including but not limited to information regarding fund transfers initiated by you. In addition
to information about contract owner transactions, this information may include personal contract owner
information, including names and social security numbers or other tax identification numbers.

As a result of this information sharing, a fund company may direct us to restrict a contract owner’s
transactions if the fund determines that the contract owner has violated the fund’s excessive/frequent
trading policy. This could include the fund directing us to reject any allocations of premium or contract
value to the fund or all funds within the fund family.

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