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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2010.
Registrations Nos.

333-93059
811-08946

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-4

     
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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Pre-Effective Amendment No. ___
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Post-Effective Amendment No. 40
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and/or
   
 
   
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
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Amendment No. 269
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(Check appropriate box or boxes)

SEPARATE ACCOUNT A
(Exact Name of Registrant)

PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
(Name of Depositor)

700 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660
(Address of Depositor’s Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

(949) 219-3943
(Depositor’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)

Brandon J. Cage

Assistant Vice President
Pacific Life Insurance Company
700 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660
(Name and address of agent for service)

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering:

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)

     
o   immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485
þ   on May 1, 2010 pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485
     
o   60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a) (1) of Rule 485
     
o   on _____________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485

If appropriate, check the following box:

     
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Title of Securities Being Registered: Interests in the Separate Account Under Pacific Innovations and Pacific Innovations Select individual flexible premium deferred variable annuity contracts.

Filing Fee: None



 


 

     
PACIFIC INNOVATIONS
SELECT
  PROSPECTUS MAY 1, 2010
     
 
Pacific Innovations Select is an individual flexible premium deferred variable annuity contract issued by Pacific Life Insurance Company (Pacific Life).
 
This Prospectus provides information you should know before buying a Contract. It’s accompanied by current Prospectuses for the Funds that provide the underlying Portfolios for the Variable Investment Options offered under the Contract. The Variable Investment Options are funded by Separate Account A of Pacific Life. Please read both Prospectuses carefully, and keep them for future reference.
 
Here’s a list of all the Investment Options currently available under your Contract; the Variable Investment Options are listed according to the underlying Funds:
 
 
VARIABLE INVESTMENT OPTIONS
 
Pacific Select Fund
             
International Value
Long/Short Large-Cap
International Small-Cap
Mid-Cap Value
Equity Index
Small-Cap Index
Small-Cap Equity
Equity
American Funds® Asset Allocation
American Funds® Growth-Income
  American Funds® Growth
Large-Cap Value
Technology
Floating Rate Loan
Small-Cap Growth
Short Duration Bond
Comstock
Growth LT
Focused 30
Health Sciences
  Mid-Cap Equity
International Large-Cap
Mid-Cap Growth
Real Estate
Small-Cap Value
Multi-Strategy
Main Street® Core
Emerging Markets
Cash Management
(formerly called Money Market)
  High Yield Bond
Managed Bond
Inflation Managed
Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth
Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth
Pacific Dynamix – Growth
Dividend Growth
(formerly called Diversified Research)
Large-Cap Growth
Diversified Bond
 
         
AIM Variable Insurance Funds
(Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)
Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset
Fund Series II
(formerly called AIM V.I. PowerShares
ETF Allocation Fund Series II)
  AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.
AllianceBernstein VPS
Balanced Wealth Strategy
Portfolio Class B
  BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc.
BlackRock Global Allocation V.I.
Fund Class III
         
Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance
Products Trust
Franklin Templeton VIP
Founding Funds Allocation
Fund Class 4
  GE Investments Funds, Inc.
GE Investments Total Return
Fund Class 3
  PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust
PIMCO Global Multi-Asset Portfolio – Advisor Class
         
Van Kampen Life Investment Trust
Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation Portfolio Class II
       
         
             
FIXED OPTIONS
Fixed Option
DCA Plus Fixed Option
 
The Fixed Option is only available on Contracts issued before November 1, 2002.
 
You’ll find more information about the Contract and Separate Account A in the SAI dated May 1, 2010. The SAI has been filed with the SEC and is considered to be part of this Prospectus because it’s incorporated by reference. You’ll find a table of contents for the SAI on page 101 of this Prospectus. You can get a copy of the SAI without charge by calling or writing to Pacific Life or you can visit our website at www.pacificlife.com. You can also visit the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, which contains the SAI, material incorporated into this Prospectus by reference, and other information about registrants that file electronically with the SEC.
 
This Contract is not available in all states. This Prospectus is not an offer in any state or jurisdiction where we are not legally permitted to offer the Contract.
 
The Contract is described in detail in this Prospectus and its Statement of Additional Information (SAI). A Fund is described in its Prospectus and its SAI. No one has the right to describe the Contract or a Fund any differently than they have been described in these documents.
 
You should be aware that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not reviewed the Contract and does not guarantee that the information in this Prospectus is accurate or complete. It’s a criminal offense to say otherwise.
 
This material is not intended to be used, nor can it be used by any taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding U.S. federal, state or local tax penalties. Pacific Life, its distributors and their respective representatives do not provide tax, accounting or legal advice. Any taxpayer should seek advice based on the taxpayer’s particular circumstances from an independent tax advisor.
 
This Contract is not a deposit or obligation of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank. It’s not federally insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve Board, or any other government agency. Investment in a Contract involves risk, including possible loss of principal.


 

 
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AN OVERVIEW OF PACIFIC INNOVATIONS SELECT
 
 
This overview tells you some key things you should know about your Contract. It’s designed as a summary only – please read this Prospectus, your Contract and the Statement of Additional Information (SAI) for more detailed information.
 
Certain Contract features described in this Prospectus may vary or may not be available in your state. The state in which your Contract is issued governs whether or not certain features, Riders, charges or fees are allowed or will vary under your Contract. These variations are reflected in your Contract and in Riders or Endorsements to your Contract. See your financial professional or contact us for specific information that may be applicable to your state. See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – State Considerations. This prospectus provides a description of the material rights and obligations under the Contract. Your Contract (including any riders and/or endorsements) represents the contractual agreement between you and us. Any guarantees provided for under your Contract or through optional riders are backed by our financial strength and claims paying ability. You must look to the strength of the insurance company with regard to such guarantees. Your financial professional or financial professional’s firm is not responsible for any Contract guarantees.
 
In this Prospectus, you and your mean the Contract Owner or Policyholder. Pacific Life, we, us and our refer to Pacific Life Insurance Company. Contract means a Pacific Innovations Select variable annuity contract, unless we state otherwise.
 
Some of the Terms used in this Prospectus may be new to you. You will find a glossary of certain terms in the TERMS USED IN THIS PROSPECTUS section.
 
Pacific Innovations Select Basics
 
An annuity contract may be appropriate if you are looking for retirement income or you want to meet other long-term financial objectives. Discuss with your financial professional whether a variable annuity, optional benefits and underlying Investment Options are appropriate for you, taking into consideration your age, income, net worth, tax status, insurance needs, financial objectives, investment goals, liquidity needs, time horizon, risk tolerance and other relevant information. Together you can decide if a variable annuity is right for you.
 
This Contract may not be the right one for you if you need to withdraw money for short-term needs, because withdrawal charges and tax penalties for early withdrawal may apply.
 
You should consider the Contract’s investment and income benefits, as well as its costs.
 
Pacific Innovations Select is an annuity contract between you and Pacific Life Insurance Company. Annuity contracts have two phases, the accumulation phase and the annuitization (income) phase. The two phases are discussed below.
 
This Contract is designed for long-term financial planning. It allows you to invest money on a tax-deferred basis for retirement or other goals, and/or to receive income in a variety of ways, including a series of income payments for life or for a specified period of years.
 
Non-Qualified and Qualified Contracts are available. You buy a Non-Qualified Contract with “after-tax” dollars. You buy a Qualified Contract under a qualified retirement or pension plan, or some form of an individual retirement annuity or account (IRA). It’s important to know that IRAs and qualified plans are already tax-deferred which means the tax deferral feature of a variable annuity does not provide a benefit in addition to that already offered by an IRA or qualified plan. An annuity contract should only be used to fund an IRA or qualified plan to benefit from the annuity’s features other than tax deferral.
 
Pacific Innovations Select is a variable annuity, which means that the value of your Contract fluctuates depending on the performance of the Investment Options you choose. The Contract allows you to choose how often you make Investments (“Purchase Payments”) and how much you add each time.


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AN OVERVIEW OF PACIFIC INNOVATIONS SELECT
 
Your Right to Cancel (“Free Look”)
 
During the Free Look period, you have the right to cancel your Contract and return it with instructions to us or to your financial professional for a refund. The amount refunded may be more or less than the Purchase Payments you have made, depending on the state where you signed your application and the type of Contract you purchased.
 
You will find more information about the Right to Cancel (“Free Look”) period starting on page 44.
 
The Accumulation Phase
 
The Investment Options you choose and how they perform will affect the value of your Contract during the accumulation phase, as well as the amount available to annuitize on the Annuity Date.
 
The accumulation phase begins on your Contract Date and continues until your Annuity Date. During the accumulation phase, you can put money in your Contract by making Purchase Payments, and choose Investment Options in which to allocate them. You can also take money out of your Contract by making a withdrawal.
 
Investments (“Purchase Payments”)
 
Your initial Purchase Payment must be at least $10,000 for a Non-Qualified Contract and at least $2,000 for a Qualified Contract. Additional Purchase Payments must be at least $250 for a Non-Qualified Contract and $50 for a Qualified Contract.
 
You will find more information about Making Your Investments (“Purchase Payments”) starting on page 19.
 
Investment Options
 
Ask your financial professional to help you choose the right Investment Options for your goals and risk tolerance. Any financial firm or financial professional you engage to provide advice and/or make transfers for you is not acting on our behalf. We are not responsible for any investment decisions or allocations you make, recommendations such financial professionals make or any allocations or specific transfers they choose to make on your behalf. Some broker-dealers may not allow or may limit the amount you may allocate to certain Investment Options.
 
You can choose from a variety of Variable Investment Options (also called Subaccounts), each of which invests in a corresponding Portfolio of a Fund. The value of each Portfolio will fluctuate with the value of the investments it holds, and returns are not guaranteed.
 
You can also choose any available fixed option that earns a guaranteed rate of interest of at least 3% annually.
 
We allocate your Purchase Payments to the Investment Options you choose. The value of your Contract will fluctuate during the accumulation phase depending on the Investment Options you have chosen. You bear the investment risk of any Variable Investment Options you choose.
 
You will find more information about the Investment Options and the Investment Advisers starting on page 15.
 
Transferring Among Investment Options
 
You can transfer among Investment Options any time, subject to certain limitations, until your Annuity Date without paying any current income tax. Transfers are limited to 25 for each calendar year. Only 2 transfers per month may involve the Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset Fund, BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund, GE Investments Total Return Fund, International Value, International Small-Cap, International Large-Cap, Emerging Markets, PIMCO Global Multi-Asset, or Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation Investment Options. In addition, only 2 transfers into or out of the American Funds Asset Allocation, American Funds Growth or American Funds Growth-Income Investment Options may occur in any calendar month. If you have used all 25 transfers in a calendar year, you may make one additional transfer of all or a portion of your Variable Account Value to the Cash Management Investment Option before the start of the next calendar year. You can also make systematic transfers by enrolling in our dollar cost averaging, portfolio rebalancing or earnings sweep programs. Transfers made under these systematic transfer programs or transfers made by us to update a Portfolio Optimization Model are excluded from the limitation. Some restrictions may apply to transfers to or from any fixed option.
 
You will find more information about transfers and transfer limitations starting on page 26.
 
Withdrawals
 
You can make full and partial withdrawals to supplement your income or for other purposes. You can withdraw a certain amount each year without paying a withdrawal charge, but any amount withdrawn in excess of this amount may incur a withdrawal charge on Investments that are less than 4 years old. Some restrictions may apply to making partial withdrawals from any fixed option.


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In general, you may have to pay income taxes on withdrawals or other distributions from your Contract. If you’re under age 591/2, a 10% federal tax penalty may also apply to taxable withdrawals.
 
You will find more information about withdrawals starting on page 42.
 
The Income Phase
 
The income phase of your Contract begins on your Annuity Date. Generally, you can choose to surrender your Contract and receive a single payment or you can annuitize your Contract and receive a series of income payments over a fixed period or for life.
 
You can choose fixed or variable annuity payments, or a combination of both. Variable annuity payments may not be available in all states. You can choose monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual payments. We will make the income payments to you or your designated payee. The Owner is responsible for any tax consequences of any annuity payments.
 
If you choose variable annuity payments, the amount of the payments will fluctuate depending on the performance of the Variable Investment Options you choose. After your Annuity Date, if you choose variable annuity payments, you can exchange your Subaccount Annuity Units among the Variable Investment Options up to 4 times in any 12-month period.
 
You will find more information about annuitization starting on page 33 and annuity options available under the Contract starting on page 35.
 
The Death Benefit
 
Generally, the Contract provides a death benefit upon the first death of an Owner or the death of the sole surviving Annuitant, whichever occurs first, during the accumulation phase. Death benefit proceeds are payable when we receive proof of death and payment instructions in proper form. To whom we pay a death benefit, and how we calculate the amount of the death benefit depends on who dies first and the type of Contract you own.
 
You will find more information about the death benefit starting on page 36.
 
Optional Riders
 
Optional Riders are subject to availability (including state availability). Before purchasing any optional Rider, make sure you understand all of the terms and conditions and consult with your financial professional for advice on whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you. We reserve the right to restrict the purchase of an optional living benefit Rider to only Contract issue in the future.
 
Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider (SDBR)
 
This optional Rider offers you the ability to lock in market gains for your beneficiaries with a stepped-up death benefit, which is the highest Contract Value on any previous Contract Anniversary (prior to the Annuitant’s 81st birthday) adjusted for additional Purchase Payments and withdrawals. You can only buy the SDBR when you buy your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the SDBR starting on page 39.
 
Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG) Rider
 
This optional Rider provides for an additional amount (EEG Amount) to be included in the death benefit proceeds when such proceeds become payable as a result of the sole surviving Annuitant’s death or first death of an Owner who is also an Annuitant. You may buy the EEG Rider on the Contract Date or on the first Contract Anniversary.
 
If you buy the EEG Rider within 60 days after the Contract Date or within 60 days after the first Contract Anniversary, we will make the effective date of the EEG Rider coincide with that Contract Date or Contract Anniversary.
 
The Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG) Rider, EEG Amount and EEG Charge are called the Guaranteed Earnings Enhancement (GEE) Rider, GEE Amount, and GEE Charge, respectively, in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the EEG Rider starting on page 41.
 
Optional Living Benefit Riders
 
You may purchase an optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available). In addition, if you purchase a Rider within 60 days after the Contract Date or, if available, within 60 days after any Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date will be that Contract Date or Contract Anniversary.


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AN OVERVIEW OF PACIFIC INNOVATIONS SELECT
 
At initial purchase and during the entire time that you own an optional living benefit Rider, you must invest your entire Contract Value in an asset allocation program or in Investment Options we make available for these Riders. The allocation limitations associated with these Riders may limit the number of Investment Options that are otherwise available to you under your Contract. See OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – General Information – Investment Allocation Requirements. Failure to adhere to the Investment Allocation Requirements may cause your Rider to terminate.
 
Taking a withdrawal before a certain age or a withdrawal that is greater than the allowed annual withdrawal amount under a particular Rider, may result in adverse consequences such as a reduction in Rider benefits or the failure to receive lifetime withdrawals under a Rider.
 
Some optional riders allow for owner elected Resets/Step-Ups. If you elect to Reset/Step-Up, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary (“60 day period”) on which the Reset/Step-Up is effective. We may, at our sole discretion, allow Resets/Step-Ups after the 60 day period. We reserve the right to refuse a Reset/Step-Up request after the 60 day period regardless of whether we may have allowed you or others to Reset/Step-Up in the past. Each Contract Anniversary starts a new 60 day period in which a Reset/Step-Up may be elected.
 
There may be adverse consequences to taking a loan while an optional Rider is in effect. If you have an existing loan on your Contract, you should carefully consider whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you.
 
CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider
 
This Rider is available for purchase starting June 1, 2010 (subject to availability). This optional Rider lets you, before the Annuity Date, withdraw up to 5% of your Protected Payment Base per year, lock in market gains, and provides the potential to receive 5% of a Protected Payment Base for life, if certain conditions are met. Lifetime withdrawals are available if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If your total withdrawals in a Contract Year exceed the annual withdrawal amount allowed under the Rider, then the Protected Payment Base may decrease and the amount you may withdraw in the future under the Rider may be reduced.
 
Beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. Any reset may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 1.00%) associated with the Rider. Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Automatic Reset, Owner-Elected Reset and Reset Date are described in OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider.
 
This Rider is called the Core Withdrawal Benefit Rider in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider starting on page 48.
 
CoreProtect Advantage Rider
 
This optional Rider lets you, before the Annuity Date, withdraw up to 5% of your Protected Payment Base per year, lock in market gains, and provides the potential to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount for life, if certain conditions are met. Lifetime withdrawals are available if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If your total withdrawals in a Contract Year exceed the annual withdrawal amount allowed under the Rider, then the Protected Payment Base may decrease and the amount you may withdraw in the future under the Rider may be reduced.
 
Before the first withdrawal or 10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date (whichever occurs first), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be increased to the greater of the Annual Credit Value (a 5% Annual Credit is added to this value) or the Highest Anniversary Value.
 
After the first withdrawal or 10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date (whichever occurs first), the Rider provides for Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. Any reset may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 1.50%) associated with the Rider. Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Rider Effective Date, Highest Anniversary Value, Annual Credit Value, Annual Credit, Automatic Reset, Owner-Elected Reset and Reset Date are described in OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreProtect Advantage Rider.
 
This Rider is called the Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit IV Rider in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the CoreProtect Advantage Rider starting on page 53.


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CoreIncome Advantage Rider
 
This optional Rider lets you, before the Annuity Date, withdraw up to 4% of your Protected Payment Base per year, lock in market gains, and provides the potential to receive 4% of a Protected Payment Base for life, if certain conditions are met. Lifetime withdrawals are available if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If your total withdrawals in a Contract Year exceed the annual withdrawal amount allowed under the Rider, then the Protected Payment Base may decrease and the amount you may withdraw in the future under the Rider may be reduced.
 
Beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. Any reset may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 1.00%) associated with the Rider. Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Automatic Reset, Owner-Elected Reset and Reset Date are described in OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreIncome Advantage Rider.
 
This Rider is called the Core Withdrawal Benefit Rider in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the CoreIncome Advantage Rider starting on page 59.
 
Income Access Rider
 
This optional Rider lets you, before the Annuity Date, withdraw up to 7% of your Protected Payment Base per year and lock in market gains, if certain conditions are met. If your total withdrawals in a Contract Year exceed the annual withdrawal amount allowed under the Rider, then the Protected Payment Base may decrease and the amount you may withdraw in the future under the Rider may be reduced. This Rider does not provide lifetime withdrawal benefits.
 
Starting May 1, 2007, on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Step-Up Date, whichever is later, this Rider provides for Automatic Step-Ups or Owner-Elected Step-Ups of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. If you want to participate in Automatic Step-Ups, you must make an affirmative election in a form satisfactory to us. Any Step-Up may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 0.75%) associated with the Rider. Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Automatic Step-Up, Owner-Elected Step-Up, and Step-Up Date are described in OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Income Access Rider.
 
You will find more information about the Income Access Rider starting on page 63.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3) Rider
 
This optional Rider allows for an additional amount that may be added to your Contract Value at the end of a 10-year period (the “Term”), if certain conditions are met. The Rider also provides for an additional option (the “Step-Up”) on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd anniversary of the Rider Effective Date and before the Annuity Date. If the Step-Up is elected, your 10-year Term would begin again as of the effective date of the Step-Up election, and may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 1.00%) associated with the Rider.
 
You will find more information about the GPA 3 Rider starting on page 67.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5) Rider
 
This optional Rider allows for an additional amount that may be added to your Contract Value at the end of a 10-year period (the “Term”), if certain conditions are met. The Rider also provides for an additional option (the “Step-Up”) on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 5th anniversary of the Effective Date of the Rider and before the Annuity Date. If the Step-Up is elected, your 10-year Term would begin again as of the effective date of the Step-Up election, and may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 0.75%) associated with the Rider.
 
You will find more information about the GPA 5 Rider starting on page 69.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA) Rider
 
This optional Rider is only available if the original Effective Date of the Rider is before April 1, 2003. The optional Rider provides for an additional amount that may be added to your Contract Value at the end of a 10-year period (the “Term”), if certain conditions are met. The Term begins on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
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Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus) Rider
 
The optional Rider offers a guaranteed income annuity option, a minimum fixed income payout, the ability to lock in market gains, and withdraw money each year, if certain conditions are met.
 
The GIA Plus Rider is called the Guaranteed Income Annuity (GIA) Rider in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the GIA Plus Rider starting on page 72.


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Fees and Expenses
 
This section of the overview explains the fees and expenses associated with your Pacific Innovations Select Contract.
 
Contract Transaction Expenses
 
The following describes the transaction fees and expenses that you will pay when owning your Contract. Expenses are fixed under the terms of your Contract. Premium taxes and/or other taxes may also apply to your Contract. We generally charge state premium taxes and/or other taxes when you annuitize your Contract, but there are other times when we charge them to your Contract instead. Please see your Contract for details.
 
         
• Maximum Withdrawal Charge (as a percentage of Purchase Payments withdrawn)1
       
 
                 
“Age” of Payment in Years:
  1   2   3   4 or more
Withdrawal Charge Percentage:
  7%   6%   4%   0%
 
Periodic Expenses
 
The following describes the fees and expenses that you will pay periodically during the time you own your Contract not including Portfolio fees and expenses.
 
                 
• Annual Fee2           $ 30.00  
 
Separate Account A Annual Expenses (as a percentage of the average daily Variable Account Value3):
 
                         
    Without
  With Stepped-Up
  With Premier
    Rider   Death Benefit Rider   Death Benefit Rider
     
• Mortality and Expense Risk Charge4
    1.40%       1.40%       1.40%  
• Administrative Fee4
    0.25%       0.25%       0.25%  
• Death Benefit Rider Charge4,5
    none       0.20%       0.35%  
                         
• Total Separate Account A Annual Expenses
    1.65%       1.85%       2.00%  
                         
 
Loan Expenses (interest on Contract Debt) (Loans are only available with certain Qualified Contracts. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES—Qualified Contracts—General Rules—Loans on page 87):
                         
• Loan Interest Rate (net)6
                    2.00%  
 
Optional Rider7 Annual Expenses:
 
                 
    Current Charge
  Maximum Charge
    Percentage   Percentage
     
• Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG) Rider Charge8
    0.25%       0.25%  
• CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider Charge9
    0.60%       1.20%  
• CoreProtect Advantage Rider Charge10
    1.05%       1.50%  
• CoreIncome Advantage Rider Charge11
               
If purchased before June 1, 2010
    0.40%       1.00%  
If purchased on or after June 1, 2010
    0.30%       1.00%  
• Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider Charge (Single)12
    1.50%       1.50%  
• Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider Charge (Joint)12
    1.75%       1.75%  
• Foundation 10 Rider Charge13
    1.50%       1.50%  
• Automatic Income Builder Rider Charge14
    0.95%       1.50%  
• Flexible Lifetime Income Rider Charge (Single)15
    0.65%       1.20%  
• Flexible Lifetime Income Rider Charge (Joint)15
    0.85%       1.20%  
• Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider Charge16
    0.60%       1.20%  
• Income Access Plus Rider Charge16
    0.40%       1.20%  
• Income Access Rider Charge17
    0.75%       0.75%  
• Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3) Rider Charge18
    0.95%       1.00%  
• Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5) Rider Charge19
    0.55%       0.75%  
• Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA) Rider Charge20
    0.10%       0.10%  
• Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus) Rider Charge21
    0.75%       0.75%  
• Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5) Rider Charge22
    0.40%       0.75%  
• Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II) Rider Charge22
    0.70%       1.00%  
• Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA) Rider Charge23
    0.30%       0.30%  


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1 The withdrawal charge may or may not apply or may be reduced under certain circumstances. The age is measured from the date of each Purchase Payment. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS and WITHDRAWALS.
 
2 We deduct an Annual Fee on each Contract Anniversary up to your Annuity Date and when you make a full withdrawal if the Contract Value on these days is less than $50,000 after deducting any outstanding loan and interest (your Net Contract Value). See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS.
 
3 The Variable Account Value is the value of your Variable Investment Options on any Business Day.
 
4 This is an annual rate and is assessed on a daily basis. The daily rate is calculated by dividing the annual rate by 365.
 
5 If you buy an Optional Death Benefit Rider, we will add this charge to the Mortality and Expense Risk Charge until your Annuity Date. The Premier Death Benefit Rider is only available on Contracts issued before May 1, 2003. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS.
 
6 If we process a loan on your Contract, we will charge you a gross interest rate of 5.00% on your outstanding principal amount. We will credit you the amount of 3.00% on any Contract Value attributed to your Loan Account. The net amount of interest you pay on your loan will be 2.00% annually. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES—Qualified Contracts—General Rules—Loans.
 
7 Only one CoreIncome Advantage 5, CoreProtect Advantage, CoreIncome Advantage, Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint), Foundation 10, Automatic Income Builder, Flexible Lifetime Income (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Joint), Lifetime Income Access Plus, Income Access Plus, or Income Access Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time. Only one GIA Plus, GIA 5, GIA II, or GIA Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time. Only one GPA 3, GPA 5, or GPA Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time.
 
8 If you buy the EEG Rider (subject to availability), we deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the date you purchase the Rider, and when you make a full withdrawal, if the EEG Rider is in effect on that date. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS.
 
9 If you buy the CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage (divided by 4) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on a quarterly basis. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on a quarterly basis. The quarterly amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct the charge proportionately from your Investment Options (excluding the DCA Plus Fixed Option) every quarter following the Rider Effective Date, during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract, or if your Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the quarter that we are notified of death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
10 If you buy the CoreProtect Advantage Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage (divided by 4) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on a quarterly basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreProtect Advantage Rider. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on a quarterly basis. The quarterly amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments, increases to the Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options (excluding the DCA Plus Fixed Option) every quarter following the Rider Effective Date, during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract or if your Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the quarter that we are notified of death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
11 If you buy the CoreIncome Advantage Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage (divided by 4) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on a quarterly basis. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreIncome Advantage Rider. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on a quarterly basis. The quarterly amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct the charge proportionately from your Investment Options (excluding the DCA Plus Fixed Option) every quarter following the Rider Effective Date, during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract, or if your Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the quarter that we are notified of death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
12 If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single or Joint), the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on an annual basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single or Joint) subsection in the SAI and/or in the Rider attached to your Contract. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on an annual basis. The amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments and Annual Credits, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the Single version, we will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract or after the Contract Value is zero. Under the Joint version, we will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of the surviving Designated Life, upon full annuitization of the Contract or after the Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single or Joint) is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
13 If you purchased the Foundation 10 Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on an annual basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see the OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Foundation 10 Rider subsection in the SAI and/or in the Rider attached to your Contract. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on an annual basis. The amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments and Annual Credits, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that


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we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Foundation 10 Rider is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased this Rider, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
14 If you purchased the Automatic Income Builder Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on an annual basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Automatic Income Builder Rider. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on a annual basis. The amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Rider Effective Date, during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract or after the Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Automatic Income Builder Rider is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased this Rider, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
15 If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single or Joint), the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on an annual basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single or Joint) subsection in the SAI and/or in the Rider attached to your Contract. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on an annual basis. The amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments and Annual Credits, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the Single version, we will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. Under the Joint version, we will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of the surviving Designated Life or upon full annuitization of the Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single or Joint) is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
16 If you purchased the Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider or the Income Access Plus Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the current charge percentage if an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Lifetime Income Access Plus and Income Access Plus Riders are no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
17 If you buy the Income Access Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the current charge percentage if an Automatic Step-Up or Owner-Elected Step-Up occurs, but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
18 If you buy the GPA 3 Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Guaranteed Protection Amount, deducted on an annual basis. The initial Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Guaranteed Protection Amount, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3) Rider. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the current charge percentage if a Step-Up is elected but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
19 If you buy the GPA 5 Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the current charge percentage if a Step-Up is elected but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
20 If you purchased the GPA Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect. The GPA Rider is only available if the original Effective Date of the Rider is before April 1, 2003. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
21 If you purchased the GIA Plus Rider, we charge the fee based on the greater of the Contract Value or the Guaranteed Income Base, deducted on an annual basis. The initial Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. The Guaranteed Income Base is the amount invested to date grown at 5% annually (until the Contract Anniversary prior to the youngest Annuitant’s 81st birthday) that may be used for fixed annuity payments starting on the Annuity Date. For a complete explanation of the Guaranteed Income Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus). We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary and when you make a full withdrawal if the Rider is in effect on that date, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
22 If you purchased the GIA 5 or GIA II Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary, the Annuity Date, and when you make a full withdrawal, if the Rider is in effect on that date, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the


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current charge percentage if a Step-Up occurs, but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The GIA 5 and GIA II Riders are no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
23 If you purchased the GIA Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary, Annuity Date, and when you make a full withdrawal, if the Rider is in effect on that date, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The GIA Rider is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased this Rider, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.


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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
 
You will find more about the underlying Funds starting on page 15, and in each underlying Fund Prospectus which accompanies this Prospectus.
 
This table shows the minimum and maximum total annual operating expenses paid by the Portfolios that you indirectly pay during the time you own the Contract. This table shows the range (minimum and maximum) of fees and expenses (including management fees, shareholder servicing and/or distribution (12b-1) fees, and other expenses) charged by any of the Portfolios, expressed as an annual percentage of average daily net assets. The amounts are based on expenses paid in the year ended December 31, 2009, adjusted to reflect anticipated changes in fees and expenses, or, for new Portfolios, are based on estimates for the current fiscal year.
 
Each Variable Account of the Separate Account purchases shares of the corresponding Fund Portfolio at net asset value. The net asset value reflects the investment advisory fees and other expenses that are deducted from the assets of the Portfolio. The advisory fees and other expenses are not fixed or specified under the terms of the Contract, and they may vary from year to year. These fees and expenses are described in each Fund Prospectus.
 
                 
    Minimum     Maximum  
   
 
Range of total annual portfolio operating expenses before any waivers or expense reimbursements     0.28%       2.62%  
Range of total annual portfolio operating expenses after any waivers or expense reimbursements     0.28%       1.56%  
 
To help limit Fund expenses, Fund advisers have contractually agreed to reduce investment advisory fees or otherwise reimburse certain Portfolios of their respective Funds which may reduce the Portfolio’s expenses. The range of expenses in the first row above does not include the effect of any waiver and/or expense reimbursement arrangement. The range of expenses in the second row above includes the effect of waiver and/or expense reimbursement arrangements that will remain in effect at least through April 30, 2011. There can be no assurance that expense waivers or reimbursements will be extended beyond their current terms, and they may not cover certain expenses such as extraordinary expenses. See each Fund prospectus for complete information regarding annual operating expenses of that Fund.


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Examples
 
The following examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in your Contract with the cost of investing in other variable annuity contracts. The maximum amounts reflected below include the maximum periodic Contract expenses, Separate Account annual expenses and the Portfolio with the highest fees and expenses for the year ended December 31, 2009. The maximum amounts also include the combination of optional Riders whose cumulative maximum charge expenses totaled more than any other optional Rider combination. The optional Riders included are the PDBR, EEG, Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint), GPA 3 and GIA II Riders. The minimum amounts reflected below include the minimum periodic Contract expenses, Separate Account annual expenses and the Portfolio with the lowest fees and expenses for the year ended December 31, 2009. The minimum amounts do not include any optional Riders.
 
The examples assume that you invest $10,000 in the Contract for the time periods indicated. They also assume that your Purchase Payment has a 5% return each year and assumes the maximum and minimum fees and expenses of all of the Investment Options available. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your maximum and minimum costs would be:
 
•  If you surrendered your Contract:
 
                 
    1 Year   3 Years   5 Years   10 Years
Maximum*
  $1,503   $2,975   $4,350   $8,623
Minimum*
  $866   $1,090   $1,253   $2,703
 
 
•  If you annuitized your Contract:
 
                 
    1 Year   3 Years   5 Years   10 Years
Maximum*
  $1,503   $2,615   $4,350   $8,623
Minimum*   $866   $730   $1,253   $2,703
 
 
•  If you did not surrender or annuitize, but left the money in your Contract:
 
                 
    1 Year   3 Years   5 Years   10 Years
Maximum*
  $873   $2,615   $4,350   $8,623
Minimum*
  $236   $730   $1,253   $2,703
 
* In calculating the examples above, we used the maximum and minimum total operating expenses of all the Portfolios as shown in the Fees And Expenses section of each Fund Prospectus. For more information on fees and expenses, see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS in this Prospectus, and see each Fund Prospectus. See the FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS section in this Prospectus for condensed financial information about the Subaccounts.


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YOUR INVESTMENT OPTIONS
 
Some broker-dealers may not allow or may limit the amount you may allocate to certain Investment Options. Work with your financial professional to help you choose the right Investment Options for your investment goals and risk tolerance.
 
You may choose among the different Variable Investment Options, the DCA Plus Fixed Option and for Contracts issued before November 1, 2002, the Fixed Option.
 
Your Variable Investment Options
 
Each Variable Investment Option invests in a separate Portfolio of a Fund. For your convenience, the following chart summarizes some basic data about each Portfolio. This chart is only a summary. For more complete information on each Portfolio, including a discussion of the Portfolio’s investment techniques and the risks associated with its investments, see the applicable Fund Prospectus. No assurance can be given that a Portfolio will achieve its investment objective. YOU SHOULD READ EACH FUND PROSPECTUS CAREFULLY BEFORE INVESTING.
 
             
             
PACIFIC SELECT FUND   INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
International Value


  Seeks long-term capital appreciation primarily through investment in equity securities of corporations domiciled in countries with developed economies and markets other than the U.S. Current income from dividends and interest will not be an important consideration.   Invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of equity securities of relatively large non-U.S. companies that the manager believes to be undervalued.   AllianceBernstein L.P.
             
Long/Short Large-Cap


  Seeks above-average total returns.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with large market capitalizations.   Analytic Investors, LLC &
J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc.

             
International Small-Cap


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with small market capitalizations.   Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc.
             
Mid-Cap Value


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies.   BlackRock Capital Management, Inc.


             
Equity Index


  Seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the total return of common stocks that are publicly traded in the U.S.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of companies included in the portfolio’s applicable benchmark index, including instruments representative of that index (such as derivatives).
  BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
             
Small-Cap Index


  Seeks investment results that correspond to the total return of an index of small capitalization companies.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with small market capitalizations included in the portfolio’s applicable benchmark index, including instruments representative of that index (such as derivatives).   BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
             
Small-Cap Equity


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with small market capitalizations, including instruments with characteristics of small-capitalization equity securities (such as derivatives).   BlackRock Investment Management, LLC &
Franklin Advisory Services, LLC
             
Equity

  Seeks capital appreciation; current income is of secondary importance.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities.   Capital Guardian Trust Company



             
American Funds Asset Allocation

  Seeks high total returns (including income and capital gains) consistent with preservation of capital over the long-term.   Invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of the Asset Allocation Fund, a series of American Funds Insurance Series®, a registered open-end investment company (Master Asset Allocation Fund).   Capital Research and Management Company
  (adviser to the Master Asset
  Allocation Fund)
             
American Funds
Growth-Income
  Seeks long-term growth of capital and income.   Invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of the Growth-Income Fund, a series of the American Funds Insurance Series®, a registered open-end investment company (Master Growth-Income Fund).   Capital Research and Management Company
  (adviser to the Master Growth-
  Income Fund)
             
American Funds
Growth

  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of the Growth Fund, a series of American Funds Insurance Series®, a registered open-end investment company (Master Growth Fund).   Capital Research and Management Company
  (adviser to the Master Growth
  Fund)
             
Large-Cap Value


  Seeks long-term growth of capital; current income is of secondary importance.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in common stocks of large companies.   ClearBridge Advisors, LLC
             
Technology
  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of technology companies that may benefit from technological improvements, advancements or developments.   Columbia Management


             
Floating Rate Loan
  Seeks to provide high level of current income.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in floating rate loans.   Eaton Vance Management


             
Small-Cap Growth


  Seeks capital appreciation; no consideration is given to income.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in small-capitalization equity securities.   Fred Alger Management, Inc.
             
Short Duration Bond
  Seeks current income; capital appreciation is of secondary importance.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in fixed income securities (including derivatives on such securities).   Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.


             
Comstock

  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests its assets in equity securities.   Invesco Advisers, Inc.
Invesco Ltd. has entered in to a definitive agreement to acquire certain portfolios of the retail asset management business of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. (MSIM) (“the Transaction”). The Transaction includes a sale of the asset management business that sub-advises the Comstock Portfolio and is subject to certain approvals and other conditions prior to its expected closing in mid-2010. MSIM is the current subadviser to the Comstock Portfolio and upon closing of the Transaction, Invesco Advisers, Inc. will become the subadviser.


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PACIFIC SELECT FUND   INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
Growth LT


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests in companies of any size. The portfolio principally invests in equity securities but may also invest in debt securities. The portfolio may invest up to 25% of its assets in foreign securities (equity and debt), including emerging market countries, denominated in a foreign currency and not publicly traded in the U.S.   Janus Capital Management LLC
             
Focused 30


  Seeks long term growth of capital.   Invests primarily in domestic and foreign equity securities (including common stock and warrants) selected for their growth potential.   Janus Capital Management LLC
             
Health Sciences


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities and derivatives of companies in the health sciences sector.   Jennison Associates LLC
             
Mid-Cap Equity


  Seeks capital appreciation.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of companies with medium market capitalizations.   Lazard Asset Management LLC
             
International Large-Cap


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with large market capitalizations.   MFS Investment Management
             
Mid-Cap Growth


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with medium market capitalizations.   Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.
             
Real Estate


  Seeks current income and long-term capital appreciation.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies operating in the real estate and related industries.   Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.
             
Small-Cap Value


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in small-capitalization equity securities.   NFJ Investment Group LLC
             
Multi-Strategy


  Seeks to provide a high total return from a portfolio of equity and fixed income securities.   Invests in a mix of equity and fixed income securities, although there is no requirement to weight the portfolio holdings in any fixed proportion.   OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
             
Main Street Core


  Seeks long-term growth of capital and income.   Invests in common stocks of companies of different capitalization ranges, with a focus on U.S. companies with large market capitalizations.   OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
             
Emerging Markets


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities (including American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)) of companies whose principal activities are conducted in countries that are generally regarded as emerging market countries.   OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
             
Cash Management
(formerly called Money Market)
  Seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital.   Invests in money market instruments that the portfolio manager believes have minimal credit risk.   Pacific Asset Management
             
High Yield Bond


  Seeks a high level of current income.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in non-investment grade (high yield/high risk, sometimes called “junk” bonds) debt instruments or in instruments with characteristics of non-investment grade debt instruments.   Pacific Asset Management
             
Managed Bond


  Seeks to maximize total return consistent with prudent investment management.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in debt instruments, including instruments with characteristics of debt instruments (such as derivatives).   Pacific Investment Management Company LLC
             
Inflation Managed


  Seeks to maximize total return consistent with prudent investment management.   Invests its assets in fixed income securities.   Pacific Investment Management Company LLC
             
Pacific Dynamix –
Conservative Growth

  Seeks current income and moderate growth of capital.   Targets an equity/debt blend of 40/60 through investment in certain underlying portfolios of Pacific Select Fund.   Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC
             
Pacific Dynamix –
Moderate Growth

  Seeks long-term growth of capital and low to moderate income.   Targets an equity/debt blend of 60/40 through investment in certain underlying portfolios of Pacific Select Fund.   Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC
             
Pacific Dynamix –
Growth

  Seeks moderately high, long-term growth of capital with low, current income.   Targets an equity/debt blend of 80/20 through investment in certain underlying portfolios of Pacific Select Fund.   Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC
             
Dividend Growth
(formerly called Diversified Research)
  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 65% of its assets in equity securities of dividend paying companies that the manager expects to increase their dividends over time and also provide long-term appreciation.   T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
             
Large-Cap Growth


  Seeks long-term growth of capital; current income is of secondary importance.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies.   UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc.
             
Diversified Bond


  Seeks to maximize total return consistent with prudent investment management.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in fixed income securities.   Western Asset Management Company


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AIM VARIABLE
INSURANCE FUNDS (INVESCO VARIABLE INSURANCE FUNDS)
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
Invesco V.I. Global
Multi-Asset
Fund Series II
(formerly called AIM V.I. PowerShares ETF Allocation Fund Series II)
  Provide total return consistent with a moderate level of risk relative to the broad stock market.   The fund invests in underlying funds that invest in U.S. and international fixed-income, equity and commodities markets. The fund may invest in affiliated and unaffiliated exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds, and in other securities. The fund will invest at least 30% of its assets in underlying funds that invest in fixed-income securities and cash.   Invesco Advisers, Inc.
 
             
             
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN
VARIABLE PRODUCTS
SERIES FUND, INC.
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
AllianceBernstein VPS
Balanced Wealth
Strategy Portfolio
Class B
  Maximize total return.   Invests in equity and debt securities. Targets a weighting of 60% equity securities and 40% debt securities with a goal of providing moderate upside potential without excessive volatility.   AllianceBernstein L.P.
 
             
             
BLACKROCK VARIABLE
SERIES FUNDS, INC.
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
BlackRock Global
Allocation V.I. Fund
Class III

  Seeks high total investment return.   A mix of U.S. and foreign equity, debt and money market securities.   BlackRock Advisors, LLC
             
             
FRANKLIN TEMPLETON
VARIABLE INSURANCE
PRODUCTS TRUST
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
Franklin Templeton VIP
Founding Funds
Allocation Fund
Class 4
  Seeks capital appreciation, with income as a secondary goal.   Normally invests equal portions in Class 1 shares of Franklin Income Securities Fund, Mutual Shares Securities Fund and Templeton Growth Securities Fund. The underlying funds invest in both U.S. and foreign equity securities and debt securities.   Franklin Templeton Services, LLC serves as the Fund’s administrator.
 
             
             
GE INVESTMENTS
FUNDS, INC.
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
GE Investments Total Return Fund
Class 3
  Highest total return, composed of current income and capital appreciation, as is consistent with prudent investment risk.   Invests primarily in a combination of U.S. and foreign equity and debt securities and cash.   GE Asset Management Incorporated
             
             
PIMCO VARIABLE
INSURANCE TRUST
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
PIMCO Global
Multi-Asset Portfolio – Advisor Class
  Seeks total return which exceeds that of a blend of 60% MSCI World Index, 40% Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index.   Normally invests in other mutual funds (combination of affiliated and unaffiliated funds), securities and other instruments.   Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC
             
             
VAN KAMPEN LIFE
INVESTMENT TRUST
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
Van Kampen LIT
Global Tactical Asset
Allocation Portfolio
Class II
  Seek capital appreciation over time.   Invests primarily in a diversified mix of equity securities and fixed income securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers.   Van Kampen Asset Management
On or about June 1, 2010, the Fund name will change to “AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)” and the Portfolio will change its name to the “Invesco Van Kampen V.I. Global Tactical Asset Allocation Fund Series II”. In addition, the manager will change to Invesco Advisers, Inc. As a result, all references in this prospectus to the “Van Kampen Life Investment Trust” will be changed to the “AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)” and the “Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation” Portfolio will be changed to the “Invesco Van Kampen V.I. Global Tactical Asset Allocation” Fund once the changes are completed.


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The Investment Advisers
 
Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC (PLFA), a subsidiary of Pacific Life Insurance Company, is the investment adviser for the Pacific Select Fund. PLFA and the Pacific Select Fund’s Board of Trustees oversee the management of all the Pacific Select Fund’s Portfolios, and PLFA also manages certain portfolios directly. PLFA also does business under the name “Pacific Asset Management” and manages the Pacific Select Fund’s Cash Management and High Yield Bond Portfolios under that name.
 
Invesco Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser for the AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds).
 
AllianceBernstein L.P. is the investment adviser for the AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.
 
BlackRock Advisors, LLC is the investment adviser for the BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc. and has retained various sub-advisors for its portfolios.
 
Franklin Templeton Services, LLC is the fund administrator for the Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund of the Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust.
 
GE Asset Management Incorporated is the investment adviser for the GE Investments Funds, Inc.
 
Pacific Investment Management Company LLC is the investment adviser for the PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust.
 
Van Kampen Asset Management is the investment adviser for the Van Kampen Life Investment Trust. On or about June 1, 2010, Invesco Advisers, Inc. will be the investment adviser, Invesco Asset Management Deutschland GmbH will be the sub-adviser, and the Fund name will change from the Van Kampen Life Investment Trust to the AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds).
 
Your Fixed Options
 
The fixed options offer you a guaranteed minimum interest rate on amounts that you allocate to these options. Amounts you allocate to these options, and your earnings credited are held in our General Account. For more detailed information about these options, see THE GENERAL ACCOUNT.
 
PURCHASING YOUR CONTRACT
 
How to Apply for Your Contract
 
To purchase a Contract, you must work with your financial professional to fill out an application and submit it along with your initial Purchase Payment to Pacific Life Insurance Company at P.O. Box 2290, Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2290. In those instances when we receive electronic transmission of the information on the application from your financial professional’s broker-dealer firm and our administrative procedures with your broker-dealer so provide, we consider the application to be received on the Business Day we receive the transmission. If your application and Purchase Payment are complete when received, or once they have become complete, we will issue your Contract within 2 Business Days. If some information is missing from your application, we may delay issuing your Contract while we obtain the missing information. However, we will not hold your initial Purchase Payment for more than 5 Business Days without your permission. In any case, we will not hold your initial Purchase Payment after 20 Business Days.
 
You may also purchase a Contract by exchanging your existing annuity. You must submit all contracts to be exchanged when you submit your application. Call your financial professional or call us at 1-800-722-4448. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
We reserve the right to reject any application or Purchase Payment for any reason, subject to any applicable nondiscrimination laws and to our own standards and guidelines. On your application, you must provide us with a valid U.S. tax identification number for federal and state tax reporting purposes.
 
The maximum age of a Contract Owner/Annuitant, including Joint and Contingent Owners/Annuitants, for which a Contract will be issued is 85. The Contract Owner’s age is calculated as of his or her last birthday. If any Contract Owner or any sole Annuitant named in the application for a Contract dies and we are notified of the death before we issue the Contract, then we will return the amount we received. If we are not notified of the death and we issue the Contract, then the application for the Contract and/or any Contract issued will be deemed cancelled and a refund will be issued. Depending on the state where your application was signed, the amount of the refund may be more or less than the initial Purchase Payment received, or any other Purchase Payment we received in connection with an exchange or transfer. In most states, the refund will be the Contract Value based upon the next determined Accumulated Unit Value (AUV) after we receive proof of death, in proper form, of the Contract Owner or Annuitant, plus a refund of any amount used to pay premium taxes and/or any other taxes, and minus the Contract Value attributable to any additional amount as described in CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Waivers and Reduced Charges. Any refund may subject the refunded assets to probate.


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Making Your Investments (“Purchase Payments”)
 
Making Your Initial Purchase Payment
 
Your initial Purchase Payment must be at least $10,000 if you are buying a Non-Qualified Contract, and at least $2,000 if you are buying a Qualified Contract. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum initial Purchase Payment on Qualified Contracts but we reserve the right to enforce the minimum initial Purchase Payment on Qualified Contracts in the future. For Non-Qualified Contracts, if the entire minimum initial Purchase Payment is not included when you submit your application, you must submit a portion of the required Contract minimum and/or establish a pre-authorized checking plan (PAC). A PAC allows you to pay the remainder of the required initial Purchase Payment in equal installments over the first year. Further requirements for PAC are discussed in the PAC form.
 
You must obtain our consent before making an initial or additional Purchase Payment that will bring your aggregate Purchase Payments over $1,000,000. As of July 23, 2004, if you allocate all or part of an additional Purchase Payment to the Fixed Option, the maximum aggregate Purchase Payments you may have in the Fixed Option is currently $250,000. This limitation is subject to change at any time. Ask your financial professional about current limitations.
 
Making Additional Purchase Payments
 
If your Contract is Non-Qualified, you may choose to invest additional amounts in your Contract at any time. If your Contract is Qualified, the method of contribution and contribution limits may be restricted by the Qualified Plan or the Internal Revenue Code (“the Code”). Each additional Purchase Payment must be at least $250 for Non-Qualified Contracts and $50 for Qualified Contracts. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum additional Purchase Payment amounts but we reserve the right to enforce the minimum additional Purchase Payment amounts in the future. Additional Purchase Payments will be allocated according to the instructions we have on file unless we receive specific allocation instructions. Contracts issued in certain states may limit additional Purchase Payments.
 
Forms of Purchase Payment
 
Your initial and additional Purchase Payments may be sent by personal or bank check or by wire transfer. Purchase Payments must be made in a form acceptable to us before we can process it. Acceptable forms of Purchase Payments are:
 
  •  personal checks or cashier’s checks drawn on a U.S. bank,
 
  •  money orders and traveler’s checks in single denominations of more than $10,000 if they originate in a U.S. bank,
 
  •  third party payments when there is a clear connection of the third party to the underlying transaction, and
 
  •  wire transfers that originate in U.S. banks.
 
We will not accept Purchase Payments in the following forms:
 
  •  cash,
 
  •  credit cards or checks drawn against a credit card account,
 
  •  money orders or traveler’s checks in single denominations of $10,000 or less,
 
  •  starter checks,
 
  •  cashier’s checks, money orders, traveler’s checks or personal checks drawn on non-U.S. banks, even if the payment may be effected through a U.S. bank,
 
  •  third party payments if there is not a clear connection of the third party to the underlying transaction, and
 
  •  wire transfers that originate from foreign bank accounts.
 
All unacceptable forms of Purchase Payments will be returned to the payor along with a letter of explanation. We reserve the right to reject or accept any form of payment. If you make Purchase Payments by check other than a cashier’s check, your payment of any withdrawal proceeds and any refund during the “Right to Cancel” period may be delayed until we receive confirmation in our Annuities administrative office that your check has cleared.
 
HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED
 
Choosing Your Investment Options
 
You may allocate your Purchase Payments among any of the available Investment Options. Allocations of your initial Purchase Payment to the Investment Options you selected will be effective on your Contract Date. Each additional Purchase Payment will be allocated to the Investment Options according to your allocation instructions in your application, or most recent instructions, if any, subject to the terms described in WITHDRAWALS – Right to Cancel (“Free Look”). We reserve the right to require that your allocation to any particular


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Investment Option must be at least $500. We also reserve the right to transfer any remaining Account Value that is not at least $500 to your other Investment Options on a pro rata basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
If your Contract is issued in exchange for another annuity contract or a life insurance policy, our administrative procedures may vary depending on the state in which your Contract is delivered.
 
Portfolio Optimization
 
The Service. Portfolio Optimization is an asset allocation service that is offered at no additional charge for use within this variable annuity. Asset allocation refers to the manner that investments are distributed among asset classes to help attain an investment goal. For your variable annuity, Portfolio Optimization can help with decisions about how you should allocate your Contract Value among available Investment Options. The theory behind Portfolio Optimization is that diversification among asset classes can help reduce volatility over the long term.
 
As part of the Portfolio Optimization service, several asset allocation models have been developed (“Portfolio Optimization Models” or “Models”), each based on different profiles of an investor’s willingness to accept investment risk. If you decide to subscribe to the Portfolio Optimization service and select one of the Portfolio Optimization Models, your initial Purchase Payment (in the case of a new application) or Contract Value, as applicable, will be allocated to the Investment Options according to the Model you select. Subsequent Purchase Payments, if allowed under your Contract, will also be allocated accordingly, unless you instruct us otherwise. If you choose, you can rebalance your Contract Value quarterly, semi-annually, or annually, to the current allocations of your Portfolio Optimization Model, since changes in the net asset values of the underlying Portfolios within each Model will alter your asset allocation over time. If you also allocate part of your Purchase Payment or Contract Value to Investment Options that are not currently included in your Model and you elect periodic rebalancing, such amounts will not be considered when rebalancing. If you subscribe to Portfolio Optimization and elect periodic rebalancing, only the Investment Options within your Model will be rebalanced.
 
If you subscribe to Portfolio Optimization, Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC (Adviser), a subsidiary of Pacific Life, will serve as your investment adviser for the service solely for purposes of development of the Portfolio Optimization Models and periodic updates of the Models.
 
On a periodic basis (typically annually), the Portfolio Optimization Models are evaluated and the Models are updated, as discussed below. If you subscribe to Portfolio Optimization, your Contract Value or subsequent Purchase Payments, as applicable, will automatically be reallocated in accordance with the Model you select, as it is updated from time to time, based on discretionary authority that you grant to the Adviser, unless you instruct otherwise. For more information on the role of the investment adviser for the Portfolio Optimization service, please see the brochure from the Adviser’s Form ADV, the SEC investment adviser registration form, which will be delivered to Contract Owners at the time they apply for a Contract. Please contact us if you would like to receive a copy of this brochure. In developing and periodically updating the Portfolio Optimization Models, the Adviser currently relies on the recommendations of an independent third-party analytical firm. The Adviser may change the firm that it uses from time to time, or, to the extent permissible under applicable law, use no independent firm at all.
 
The Portfolio Optimization Models. Five asset allocation models are offered, each comprised of a carefully selected combination of Investment Options (from among the underlying Portfolios of Pacific Select Fund). Development of the Portfolio Optimization models involves a multi-step process. First, an optimization analysis is performed to determine the breakdown of asset classes. Optimization analysis requires forecasting returns, standard deviations and correlation coefficients of asset classes over the desired investing horizon and an analysis using a state-of-the art program and a statistical analytical technique known as “mean-variance optimization”. Next, after the asset class exposures are known, a determination is made of how available Investment Options (underlying Portfolios) can be used to implement the asset class level allocations. The Investment Options are selected by evaluating the asset classes represented by the underlying Portfolios and combining Investment Options to arrive at the desired asset class exposures. The Portfolio-specific analysis uses historical returns-based style analysis and asset performance and regression and attribution analyses. It may also include portfolio manager interviews. Based on this analysis, Investment Options are selected in a way intended to optimize potential returns for each Model, given a particular level of risk tolerance. This process could, in some cases, result in the inclusion of an Investment Option in a Model based on its specific asset class exposure or other specific optimization factors, even where another Investment Option may have better historical performance.
 
Periodic Updates of the Portfolio Optimization Model and Notices of Updates. Each of the Portfolio Optimization Models are evaluated periodically (generally, annually) to assess whether the combination of Investment Options within each Model should be changed to better seek to optimize the potential return for the level of risk tolerance intended for the Model. As a result of the periodic analysis, each Model may change. Investment Options may be added to a Model (including Investment Options not currently available), Investment Options may be deleted from a Model, and the target allocation percentages for the Investment Options may be changed.
 
When your Portfolio Optimization Model is updated, your Contract Value (and subsequent Purchase Payments, if applicable) will automatically be reallocated in accordance with the changes to the Model you have selected. This means the allocation of your Contract Value, and potentially the Investment Options in which you are invested, will automatically change and your Contract Value (and subsequent Purchase Payments, if applicable) will automatically be reallocated among the Investment Options in your updated Model


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(independently of any automatic rebalancing you may have selected). The Adviser requires that you grant it discretionary investment authority to periodically reallocate your Contract Value (and subsequent Purchase Payments, if applicable) in accordance with the updated version of the Portfolio Optimization Model you have selected, if you wish to participate in Portfolio Optimization.
 
When the Adviser updates the Portfolio Optimizations Models, a written notice of the updated Models will be sent to participants at least 30 days in advance of the date the Adviser intends the updated version of the Model to be effective. You should carefully review these notices. If you wish to accept the changes in your selected Model, you will not need to take any action, as your Contract Value (or subsequent Purchase Payments, if applicable) will automatically be reallocated in accordance with the updated Model. If you do not wish to accept the changes to your selected Model, you can change to a different Model that is offered at the time or withdraw from the Portfolio Optimization service. Some of the optional riders available under your Contract have investment allocation requirements. If you purchased any of these riders, such riders may terminate if you do not allocate your Contract Value consistent with the investment allocation requirements or if you withdraw from the service. See OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS — General Information — Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Selecting a Portfolio Optimization Model. If you choose to subscribe to the Portfolio Optimization service, you need to determine which Portfolio Optimization Model is best for you. Neither the Adviser nor its affiliates will make this decision. You should consult with your financial professional on this decision. Your financial professional can help you determine which Model is best suited to your financial needs, investment time horizon, and willingness to accept investment risk. You should periodically review these factors with your financial professional to determine if you should change Models to keep up with changes in your personal circumstances. Your financial professional can assist you in completing the proper forms to subscribe to the Portfolio Optimization service or to change to a different Model. You may, in consultation with your financial professional, utilize analytical tools made available by the Adviser, including an investor profile questionnaire, which asks questions intended to help you or your financial professional assess your financial needs, investment time horizon, and willingness to accept investment risk. While the information may assist you, it is your decision, in consultation with your financial professional, to select a Model or to change to a different Model, and the Adviser and its affiliates bear no responsibility for this decision. You may change to a different available Model at any time, subject to transfer and market timing restrictions, with a proper written request or by telephone or electronic instructions provided a valid telephone/electronic authorization is on file with us.
 
Periodic Reports. Participants in the Portfolio Optimization service will periodically be sent performance information regarding the Investment Options within a selected Model. This information may also be accessed online. Information concerning the current Models is described below.
 
Risks. Although the Models are designed to optimize returns given the various levels of risk, there is no assurance that a Model portfolio will not lose money or that investment results will not experience volatility. Investment performance of your Contract Value could be better or worse by participating in a Portfolio Optimization Model than if you had not participated. A Model may perform better or worse than any single Investment Option or asset class or other combinations of Investment Options or asset classes. Model performance is dependent upon the performance of the component Investment Options (the selected underlying Portfolios). The timing of your investment and the frequency of automatic rebalancing may affect performance. Your Contract Value will fluctuate, and when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost.
 
A Portfolio Optimization Model may not perform as intended. Although the Models are intended to optimize returns given various levels of risk tolerance, portfolio, market and asset class performance, as well as the correlation of risks and returns among different asset classes, may differ in the future from the historical performance and assumptions upon which the Models are based, which could cause the Models to be ineffective or less effective in reducing volatility.
 
Periodic updating of the Portfolio Optimization Models can cause the underlying Portfolios to incur transactional expenses to raise cash for money flowing out of the Portfolios or to buy securities with money flowing into the Portfolios. These expenses can adversely affect performance of the pertinent Portfolios and the Models.
 
The Adviser may be subject to competing interests that have the potential to influence its decision making with regard to Portfolio Optimization. For example, one Portfolio may provide a higher advisory fee to the Adviser than another Portfolio, and provide the Adviser with incentive to use the Portfolio with the higher fee as part of a Portfolio Optimization Model. In addition, the Adviser may believe that certain Portfolios may benefit from additional assets or could be harmed by redemptions. As adviser to Pacific Select Fund, the Advisor has duties to the Pacific Select Fund and its shareholders, including those shareholders who do not subscribe to Portfolio Optimization, and at times there may be some conflicts between the interests of the different shareholders. The Adviser monitors the Portfolios, and may, from time to time, recommend to the Pacific Select Fund’s Board of Trustees a change in portfolio management firm or strategy or the closure or merger of a Portfolio, all of which could impact a Model. All Pacific Select Fund Portfolios available as Investment Options, except those expected to be liquidated or merged or that are asset allocation oriented by structure (i.e. the American Funds Asset Allocation Portfolio and the Pacific Dynamix Portfolios), are analyzed by the independent third party analytical firm. The third party analytical firm determines the number of Portfolios in a Model, the percent that any Portfolio represents in a Model, and which Portfolios may be selected. The Adviser will work with the analytical firm to resolve any investment related matters derived from the analytical firm’s recommendations. The Adviser believes that its reliance on the recommendations of an independent third-party


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analytical firm to develop and update the Models (as described above) reduces or eliminates the potential for the Adviser to be influenced by these competing interests, but there can be no assurance of this.
 
The Advisor may, when it is not inconsistent with the interests of participants, consider certain business factors of its affiliates, Pacific Life Insurance Company and Pacific Life & Annuity Company (together the “Insurers”). For example, in certain of the Variable Products the Insurers offer optional guaranteed lifetime income benefits or death benefits under which the Insurers assume investment and other risks, and their exposure and required reserves may be affected by gains or losses incurred in the Variable Products. The Advisor’s investment decisions in allocating monies to the available Investment Options may be influenced by these factors. For example, in volatile markets, the Insurers may benefit from Models that are designed in a more conservative fashion, such as by increasing allocations to fixed-income securities, so as to help reduce potential losses. Alternatively, in flat markets, the Insurers may benefit from Models that are designed in a more aggressive fashion, such as by increasing allocations to equity securities of various categories, seeking to generate gains. While the investment process is intended to produce allocation decisions that are in the best interests of participants, participants should be aware that the Advisor’s investment decisions may be influenced by this and other potential conflicts of interests.
 
In addition to the Portfolio Optimization service, the Adviser provides asset allocation advisory services to various mutual funds. The asset allocation models may differ amongst these groups, e.g., one group of funds may not have the same target asset class allocations as the other group of funds or as the Portfolio Optimization service.
 
The Adviser and its affiliates are under no contractual obligation to continue this service and have the right to terminate or change the Portfolio Optimization service at any time. The Advisor may, in its discretion, cease offering one or more of the Models at any time, reduce or expand the number of available Models, or combine two or more Models into a single Model. The Advisor may, in its discretion, add funds in addition to or in lieu of Pacific Select Fund as a source of Investment Options for the Models. The Advisor may, in its discretion, manage the service through investment in single mutual fund portfolios, including, but not limited to, portfolios that use multiple strategies and/or invest in multiple asset classes, so that a Model would be effected through investment in a single portfolio, which could be a “fund-of-funds”, which may charge fees and bear expenses in addition to fees and expenses of the underlying funds. Once invested in single mutual fund portfolios, the Advisor may discontinue active management of the Models and allow asset allocation to be effected through the single portfolios.


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The Models. Information concerning the Portfolio Optimization Models is described below. You should review this information carefully with your financial professional before selecting or changing a Model.
 
                         
Model A
    Model B
    Model C
    Model D
    Model E
Conservative     Moderate-Conservative     Moderate     Moderate-Aggressive     Aggressive
 
Investor Profile
You are looking for a
relatively stable investment
and do not tolerate short-term market swings.
   
Your focus is on keeping pace with inflation and you can tolerate a moderate level of risk.
   
You want the opportunity for long-term moderate growth.
   
You want an investment that is geared for growth and are willing to accept above average risk.
   
You are an aggressive investor and can tolerate short-term market swings.
 
 Shorter Investment Time Horizon◄———►Longer Investment Time Horizon 
 
Investor Objective
Primarily preservation of capital
   
Moderate growth
   
Steady growth in asset values
   
Moderately high growth in asset values
   
High growth in asset values
 
Risk Characteristics
There may be some losses in the values of the investment as asset values fluctuate.
   
There may be some losses in the values of the investment from year to year.
   
There will probably be some losses in the values of the underlying investments from
year to year.
           
Fluctuations in value should be less than those of the overall stock markets.
   
Some of these might be large, but the overall fluctuations in asset values should be less than those of the U.S. stock market.
 
 Lower Risk◄———►Higher Risk 
 
Asset Class Target Exposure
                                                 
      Model A     Model B     Model C     Model D   Model E
Cash Equivalents
      7 %       5 %       2 %              
Fixed Income
      73         57         42         25 %     8 %
Domestic Equity
      15         29         41         54       66  
International Equity
      5         9         15         21       26  
                                                 
 
Portfolio Optimization Model Target Allocations
  
    Model A     Model B     Model C     Model D   Model E
Small-Cap Growth
                      1 %       2 %     2 %
International Value
      2 %       2 %       3         4       4  
Long/Short Large-Cap
      2         3         4         4       5  
International Small-Cap
              1         2         3       3  
Equity Index
      2         3         4         5       6  
Small-Cap Index
                                    2  
Mid-Cap Value
              2         3         3       4  
Dividend Growth (formerly called Diversified Research)
              2         2         3       3  
American Funds® Growth-Income
                      3         4       4  
American Funds® Growth
              1         2         2       3  
Large-Cap Value
      5         6         7         7       8  
Short Duration Bond
      11         8         3         2        
Floating Rate Loan
      8         6         3                
Growth LT
              2         3         3       4  
Mid-Cap Equity
      3         2         3         5       6  
International Large-Cap
      3         4         4         6       8  
Small-Cap Value
              1         1         1       2  
Main Street® Core
              2         2         3       3  
Emerging Markets
                      3         4       5  
Managed Bond
      21         17         14         8       4  
Inflation Managed
      18         14         11         8        
High Yield Bond
      5         4         3                
Large-Cap Growth
      2         3         3         3       4  
Mid-Cap Growth
              2         2         3       4  
Comstock
      2         3         5         6       6  
Real Estate
                              2       3  
Small-Cap Equity
                      1         5       5  
Diversified Bond
      16         12         8         4       2  
 
      Less Volatile◄———►More Volatile 
                                                 


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Custom Model
 
The Custom Model program allows you, with the help of your financial professional, to create your own asset allocation model that will comply with the Investment Allocation Requirements for certain optional living benefit Riders. (See OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – General Information – Investment Allocation Requirements.) You will create your own model using the parameters listed below.
 
Parameters. To create your model, you may select Investment Options from the 4 Categories (Categories A, B, C and D) listed below. You must allocate at least 25% into each of Categories A, B, and C. You may not allocate more than 15% into any one Investment Option within Category A, B, or C. Category D is optional and you are not required to allocate any part of your Purchase Payment or Contract Value to this Category. If you choose to allocate your Purchase Payment or Contract Value to Category D, you are allowed to allocate up to 25% into any one Investment Option within Category D. Allocation percentages among the Categories must total 100%. The model you create will be automatically rebalanced on a quarterly basis.
 
Example: Assume a $100,000 Purchase Payment. Following the parameters and using the Investment Options listed from the Categories below, you may allocate your Purchase Payment as follows:
 
  •  Category A – 15% to Diversified Bond, 10% to Managed Bond and 5% to Cash Management,
 
  •  Category B – 15% to Focused 30, 10% to Small-Cap Index, 10% to Mid-Cap Growth, 5% to Large-Cap Growth and 5% to Large-Cap Value, and
 
  •  Category C – 10% to International Value, 10% to International Large-Cap and 5% to Emerging Markets.
 
The total allocated is 100%: Category A = 30%, Category B = 45% and Category C = 25%. If you want to include all 4 Categories when creating your model, you could adjust your allocation percentages in Categories A, B and C and allocate up to 25% to any combination of the Investment Options in Category D. Keep in mind that you may select any Investment Option within a Category and the allocation percentages among the Categories must total 100%.
 
             
Category A – Fixed Income Investment Options
Short Duration Bond
  Cash Management   Managed Bond   Floating Rate Loan
High Yield Bond
  Inflation Managed   Diversified Bond    
 
             
Category B – Domestic Equity Investment Options
Small-Cap Growth
Dividend Growth
  Long/Short Large-Cap
Equity
  Equity Index
American Funds
Growth-Income
  Small-Cap Index
American Funds Growth
Large-Cap Value
Large-Cap Growth
Comstock
  Growth LT
Small-Cap Value
Mid-Cap Growth
  Focused 30
Multi-Strategy
Small-Cap Equity
  Mid-Cap Equity
Main Street Core
Mid-Cap Value
 
             
Category C – International Equity and Sector Investment Options
International Value
  International Small-Cap   Technology   Health Sciences
International Large-Cap
  Emerging Markets   Real Estate    
 
             
Category D – Asset Allocation Investment Options
Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset
Fund
  AllianceBernstein VPS
Balanced Wealth
Strategy Portfolio
  American Funds Asset Allocation   BlackRock Global
Allocation V.I. Fund
             
Franklin Templeton
VIP Founding Funds
Allocation Fund
  GE Investments Total Return Fund   Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth   Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth
             
Pacific Dynamix – Growth   Van Kampen LIT Global
Tactical Asset
Allocation Portfolio
  PIMCO Global Multi-Asset
Portfolio
   
 
You may make transfers between Investment Options within a particular Group or from one Group to another Group as long as you follow the Custom Model parameters. Transfers made will be subject to any transfer and market timing restrictions (see HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions). Subsequent Purchase Payments will be allocated according to your current model allocation instructions. Any withdrawals must be made on a pro rata basis from each of the Investment Options you selected for your model.


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You may terminate your participation in the Custom Model program at any time. However, if you own an optional living benefit rider and do not allocate your entire Contract Value to another asset allocation model or Investment Options we make available for the Riders, your Rider will terminate. If you allocate any subsequent Purchase Payment or Contract Value inconsistent with the Custom Model parameters, make transfers between Investment Options outside the Custom Model parameters, or do not make a withdrawal on a pro rata basis, you will no longer be participating in the Custom Model program and your Rider will terminate. Work with your financial professional and consider your options before making any Investment Option transfers. Any changes in the allocation percentages due to market performance will not be a violation of the program, since the model you created will automatically be rebalanced on a quarterly basis.
 
We are under no contractual obligation to continue this program and have the right to terminate or change the Custom Model program at any time.
 
Investing in Variable Investment Options
 
Each time you allocate your Purchase Payment to a Variable Investment Option, your Contract is credited with a number of “Subaccount Units” in that Subaccount. The number of Subaccount Units credited is equal to the amount you have allocated to that Subaccount, divided by the “Unit Value” of one Unit of that Subaccount.
 
Example: You allocate $600 to the Inflation Managed Subaccount. At the end of the Business Day on which your allocation is effective, the value of one Unit in the Inflation Managed Subaccount is $15. As a result, 40 Subaccount Units are credited to your Contract for your $600 ($600/$15 = 40).
 
Your Variable Account Value Will Change
 
After we credit your Contract with Subaccount Units, the value of those Units will usually fluctuate. This means that, from time to time, your Purchase Payment allocated to the Variable Investment Options may be worth more or less than the original Purchase Payments to which those amounts can be attributed. Fluctuations in Subaccount Unit Value will not change the number of Units credited to your Contract.
 
Subaccount Unit Values will vary in accordance with the investment performance of the corresponding Portfolio. For example, the value of Units in the Equity Index Subaccount will change to reflect the performance of the Equity Index Portfolio (including that Portfolio’s investment income, its capital gains and losses, and its expenses). Subaccount Unit Values are also adjusted to reflect the Administrative Fee and applicable Risk Charge imposed on the Separate Account.
 
We calculate the value of all Subaccount Units on each Business Day.
 
Calculating Subaccount Unit Values
 
We calculate the Unit Value of the Subaccount Units in each Variable Investment Option at the close of the New York Stock Exchange which usually closes at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on each Business Day. At the end of each Business Day, the Unit Value for a Subaccount is equal to:
 
Y × Z
 
             
where
  (Y)   =   the Unit Value for that Subaccount as of the end of the preceding Business Day; and
    (Z)   =   the Net Investment Factor for that Subaccount for the period (a “valuation period”) between that Business Day and the immediately preceding Business Day.
 
The “Net Investment Factor” for a Subaccount for any valuation period is equal to:
 
(A ¸ B) – C
 
             
where
  (A)   =   the “per share value of the assets” of that Subaccount as of the end of that valuation period, which is equal to: a+b+c
 
             
where
  (a)   =   the net asset value per share of the corresponding Portfolio shares held by that Subaccount as of the end of that valuation period;
    (b)   =   the per share amount of any dividend or capital gain distributions made by each Fund for that Portfolio during that valuation period; and
    (c)   =   any per share charge (a negative number) or credit (a positive number) for any income taxes and/or any other taxes or other amounts set aside during that valuation period as a reserve for any income and/or any other taxes which we determine to have resulted from the operations of the Subaccount or Contract, and/or any taxes attributable, directly or indirectly, to Investments;


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    (B)   =   the net asset value per share of the corresponding Portfolio shares held by the Subaccount as of the end of the preceding valuation period; and
    (C)   =   a factor that assesses against the Subaccount net assets for each calendar day in the valuation period the basic Risk Charge plus any applicable increase in the Risk Charge and the Administrative Fee (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS).
 
The Subaccount Unit Value may increase or decrease from one valuation period to another.
 
When Your Purchase Payment is Effective
 
Your initial Purchase Payment is effective on the day we issue your Contract. Any additional Purchase Payment is effective on the day we receive it in proper form. See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – Inquiries and Submitting Forms and Requests.
 
The day your Purchase Payment is effective determines the Unit Value at which Subaccount Units are attributed to your Contract. In the case of transfers or withdrawals, the effective day determines the Unit Value at which affected Subaccount Units are debited and/or credited under your Contract. That Unit Value is the value of the Subaccount Units next calculated after your transaction is effective. Your Variable Account Value begins to reflect the investment performance results of your new allocations on the day after your transaction is effective.
 
Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions
 
Transfers
 
Transfers are allowed 30 days after the Contract Date. Currently, we are not enforcing this restriction but we reserve the right to enforce it in the future. Once your Purchase Payments are allocated to the Investment Options you selected, you may transfer your Account Value less Loan Account Value from any Investment Option to any other Investment Option, except the DCA Plus Fixed Option. Transfers are limited to 25 for each calendar year. Only 2 transfers in any calendar month may involve any of the following Investment Options: Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset Fund, BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund, GE Investments Total Return Fund, International Value, International Small-Cap, International Large-Cap, Emerging Markets, PIMCO Global Multi-Asset, or Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation. In addition, only 2 transfers into or out of the American Funds Asset Allocation, American Funds Growth or American Funds Growth-Income Investment Options may occur in any calendar month.
 
Transfers to or from a Variable Investment Option cannot be made before the seventh calendar day following the last transfer to or from the same Variable Investment Option. If the seventh calendar day is not a Business Day, then a transfer may not occur until the next Business Day. The day of the last transfer is not considered a calendar day for purposes of meeting this requirement. For example, if you make a transfer into the Equity Index Variable Investment Option on Monday, you may not make any transfers to or from that Variable Investment Option before the following Monday. Transfers to or from the Cash Management Variable Investment Option are excluded from this limitation.
 
For the purpose of applying the limitations, multiple transfers that occur on the same day are considered 1 transfer. A transfer of Account Value from the Loan Account back into your Investment Options following a loan repayment is not considered a transfer under these limitations. Transfers that occur as a result of the DCA Plus program, the dollar cost averaging program, the portfolio rebalancing program, the earnings sweep program, approved corporate owned life insurance policy rebalancing programs or an approved asset allocation service are excluded from these limitations. Also, allocations of Purchase Payments are not subject to these limitations.
 
If you have used all 25 transfers available to you in a calendar year, you may no longer make transfers between the Investment Options until the start of the next calendar year. However, you may make 1 transfer of all or a portion of the Account Value remaining in the Variable Investment Options into the Cash Management Investment Option prior to the start of the next calendar year.
 
There are no exceptions to the above transfer limitations in the absence of an error by us, a substitution of Investment Options, or reorganization of underlying Portfolios, or other extraordinary circumstances.
 
If we deny a transfer request, we will notify your financial professional via telephone. If you (or your financial professional) request a transfer via telephone that exceeds the above limitations, we will notify you (or your financial professional) immediately.
 
Certain restrictions apply to any available fixed option. See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT. Transfer requests are generally effective on the Business Day we receive them in proper form, unless you request a date in the future or a systematic transfer program.
 
We have the right, at our option (unless otherwise required by law), to require certain minimums in the future in connection with transfers. These may include a minimum transfer amount and a minimum Account Value, if any, for the Investment Option from which the transfer is made or to which the transfer is made. If your transfer request results in your having a remaining Account Value in an Investment Option that is less than $500 immediately after such transfer, we may transfer that Account Value to your other Investment Options on a pro rata basis, relative to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
We reserve the right (unless otherwise required by law) to limit the size of transfers, to restrict transfers, to require that you submit any transfer requests in writing, to suspend transfers, and to impose further limits on the number and frequency of transfers you can make.


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We also reserve the right to reject any transfer request. Any policy we may establish with regard to the exercise of any of these rights will be applied uniformly to all Contract Owners.
 
Market-timing Restrictions
 
The Contract is not designed to serve as a vehicle for frequent trading in response to short-term fluctuations in the market. Accordingly, organizations or individuals that use market-timing investment strategies and make frequent transfers should not purchase the Contract. Such frequent trading can disrupt management of the underlying Portfolios and raise expenses. The transfer limitations set forth above are intended to reduce frequent trading. In addition, we monitor certain large transaction activity in an attempt to detect trading that may be disruptive to the Portfolios. In the event transfer activity is found to be disruptive, certain future transactions by such Contract Owners, or by a financial professional or other party acting on behalf of one or more Contract Owners, will require preclearance. Frequent trading and large transactions that are disruptive to portfolio management can have an adverse effect on Portfolio performance and therefore your Contract’s performance. Such trading may also cause dilution in the value of the Investment Options held by long-term Contract Owners. While these issues can occur in connection with any of the underlying Portfolios, Portfolios holding securities that are subject to market pricing inefficiencies are more susceptible to abuse. For example, Portfolios holding international securities may be more susceptible to time-zone arbitrage which seeks to take advantage of pricing discrepancies occurring between the time of the closing of the market on which the security is traded and the time of pricing of the Portfolios.
 
Our policies and procedures which limit the number and frequency of transfers and which may impose preclearance requirements on certain large transactions are applied uniformly to all Contract Owners. However, there is a risk that these policies and procedures will not detect all potentially disruptive activity or will otherwise prove ineffective in whole or in part. Further, we and our affiliates make available to our variable annuity and variable life insurance Contract Owners underlying funds not affiliated with us. We are unable to monitor or restrict the trading activity with respect to shares of such funds not sold in connection with our Contracts. In the event the Board of Trustees/Directors of any underlying fund imposes a redemption fee or trading (transfer) limitations, we will pass them on to you.
 
We reserve the right to restrict, in our sole discretion and without prior notice, transfers initiated by a market timing organization or individual or other party authorized to give transfer instructions on behalf of multiple Contract Owners. Such restrictions could include:
 
  •  not accepting transfer instructions from a financial professional acting on behalf of more than one Contract Owner, and
 
  •  not accepting preauthorized transfer forms from market timers or other entities acting on behalf of more than one Contract Owner at a time.
 
We further reserve the right to impose, without prior notice, restrictions on transfers that we determine, in our sole discretion, will disadvantage or potentially hurt the rights or interests of other Contract Owners; or to comply with any applicable federal and state laws, rules and regulations.
 
Exchanges of Annuity Units
 
Exchanges of Annuity Units in any Subaccount(s) to any other Subaccount(s) after the Annuity Date are limited to 4 in any 12-month period. See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT section in this Prospectus and THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT section in the SAI.
 
Systematic Transfer Options
 
We offer 4 systematic transfer options: dollar cost averaging, DCA Plus, portfolio rebalancing, and earnings sweep. There is no charge for these options and transfers under these options are not counted towards your total transfers in a calendar year. However, they are subject to the same requirements and restrictions as non-systematic transfers. You can have only one DCA Plus, dollar cost averaging, or earnings sweep program in effect at one time. Only portfolio rebalancing is available after you annuitize.
 
Dollar Cost Averaging
 
Dollar cost averaging is a method in which you buy securities in a series of regular purchases instead of in a single purchase. This allows you to average the securities’ prices over time, and may permit a “smoothing” of abrupt peaks and drops in price. Prior to your Annuity Date, you may use dollar cost averaging to transfer amounts, over time, from any Investment Option with an Account Value of at least $5,000 to one or more Variable Investment Options. Each transfer must be for at least $250. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum Account Value and/or transfer amounts but we reserve the right to enforce such minimum amounts in the future. Transfers from the Fixed Option (if available) under the dollar cost averaging program are subject to a minimum duration of 12 months. Detailed information appears in the SAI.


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DCA Plus
 
DCA Plus provides a way to transfer amounts monthly from the DCA Plus Fixed Option to one or more Variable Investment Option(s) over a period of up to one year. The initial minimum amount that you may allocate to the DCA Plus Fixed Option is $5,000. The minimum amount for subsequent Purchase Payments is $250. Currently, we are not enforcing the initial or subsequent Purchase Payment minimum amounts but we reserve the right to enforce such minimum amounts in the future. Amounts allocated to the DCA Plus Fixed Option are held in our General Account and receive interest at rates declared periodically by us, but not less than an annual rate of 3% (the “Guaranteed Interest Rate”). The DCA Plus program can also be used with allowable Asset Allocation Models or allowable Investment Options to qualify for certain optional benefit riders offered under your Contract. See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT.
 
Portfolio Rebalancing
 
You may instruct us to maintain a specific balance of Variable Investment Options under your Contract (e.g., 30% in the Equity Index Subaccount, 40% in the Managed Bond Subaccount, and 30% in the Growth LT Subaccount) prior to your Annuity Date. Periodically, we will “rebalance” your values in the elected Subaccounts to the percentages you have specified. Rebalancing may result in transferring amounts from a Subaccount earning a relatively higher return to one earning a relatively lower return. You may choose to have rebalances made quarterly, semi-annually or annually until your Annuity Date. Only Variable Investment Options are available for rebalancing. Detailed information appears in the SAI.
 
Earnings Sweep
 
You may instruct us to make automatic periodic transfers of your earnings from the Cash Management Subaccount or from the Fixed Option (if available) to one or more Variable Investment Options (other than the Cash Management Subaccount). Detailed information appears in the SAI.
 
CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS
 
Withdrawal Charge
 
No sales charge is imposed on any Purchase Payment which means the entire amount of your Purchase Payment is allocated to the Investment Options you selected. Your Purchase Payments may, however, be subject to a withdrawal charge. This charge may apply to amounts you withdraw under your Contract prior to the Annuity Date, depending on the length of time each Purchase Payment has been invested and on the amount you withdraw. This amount is deducted proportionately among all Investment Options from which the withdrawal occurs. See the Choosing Your Annuity Option – Annuity Options section for withdrawal charges that may apply to redemptions after the Annuity Date. No withdrawal charge is imposed on:
 
  •  the free withdrawal amount (see WITHDRAWALS – Withdrawals Free of a Withdrawal Charge),
 
  •  death benefit proceeds, except as provided under the DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Non-Natural Owner section for certain Non-Natural Owners,
 
  •  amounts converted after the first Contract Anniversary to a life contingent Annuity Option or an Annuity Option with a period certain of at least 5 years that is offered under the Contract, unless guaranteed variable annuity payments under Annuity Option 2 or 4 are subsequently redeemed (see ANNUITIZATION – Choosing Your Annuity Option),
 
  •  withdrawals by Owners to meet the minimum distribution rules for Qualified Contracts as they apply to amounts held under the Contract,
 
  •  withdrawals after the first Contract Anniversary, if the Owner or Annuitant has been diagnosed with a medically determinable condition that results in a life expectancy of 12 months or less and we are provided with medical evidence satisfactory to us, or
 
  •  subject to medical evidence satisfactory to us, after 90 days from the Contract Date, full or partial withdrawals while the Owner or Annuitant has been confined to an accredited nursing home for 60 days or longer.
 
The waiver of withdrawal charges applies only to withdrawals made while the Owner or Annuitant is in a nursing home or within 90 days after the Owner or Annuitant leaves the nursing home. In addition, the nursing home confinement period for which you seek the waiver must begin after the Contract Date. In order to use this waiver, you must submit with your withdrawal request the following documents:
 
  •  a physician’s note recommending the Owner or Annuitant’s admittance to a nursing home,
 
  •  an admittance form which shows the type of facility the Owner or Annuitant entered, and
 
  •  a bill from the nursing home which shows that the Owner or Annuitant met the 60 day nursing home confinement requirement.


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An accredited nursing home is defined as a home or facility that:
 
  •  is operating in accordance with the law of jurisdiction in which it is located,
 
  •  is primarily engaged in providing, in addition to room and board, skilled nursing care under the supervision of a duly licensed physician, and
 
  •  provides continuous 24 hour a day nursing service by or under the supervision of a registered nurse, and maintains a daily record of the patient.
 
If you annuitize your Contract by electing the GIA Plus Annuity Option, the waiver of withdrawal charges described above will not apply.
 
Transfers of all or part of your Account Value from one Investment Option to another are not considered a withdrawal of an amount from your Contract, so no withdrawal charge is imposed at the time of transfer. See HOW YOUR INVESTMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions and THE GENERAL ACCOUNT.
 
How the Withdrawal Charge is Determined
 
The amount of the withdrawal charge depends on how long each Purchase Payment was held under your Contract. Each Purchase Payment you make is considered to have a certain “age,” depending on the length of time since that Purchase Payment was effective. A Purchase Payment is “one year old” or has an “age of one” from the day it is effective until the beginning of the day preceding your next Contract Anniversary. Beginning on the day preceding that Contract Anniversary, your Purchase Payment will have an “age of two” and increases in age on the day preceding each Contract Anniversary. When you withdraw an amount subject to the withdrawal charge, the “age” of the Purchase Payment you withdraw determines the level of withdrawal charge as follows:
 
         
    Withdrawal
    Charge as a
    percentage
    of the
“Age” of Payment
  Purchase Payment
in Years   withdrawn
1
    7 %
2
    6 %
3
    4 %
4 or more
    0 %
 
We calculate your withdrawal charge by assuming that your Earnings are withdrawn first, followed by amounts attributed to Purchase Payments with the “oldest” Purchase Payment withdrawn first and before any deduction for other charges due or taxes are made. The withdrawal charge will be deducted proportionately among all Investment Options from which your withdrawal occurs. Unless you specify otherwise, a partial withdrawal amount requested will be processed as a “gross” amount, which means that applicable charges and taxes will be deducted from the requested amount. If a partial withdrawal amount is requested to be a “net” amount, applicable charges and taxes will be added to the requested amount and the withdrawal charges and taxes will be calculated on the grossed up amount. See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT.
 
Example: You make an initial Purchase Payment of $10,000 in Contract Year 1 and make an additional Purchase Payment of $7,000 in Contract Year 2. With Earnings, your Contract Value in Contract Year 3 is $19,000. In Contract Year 3 you make a withdrawal of $9,000. At this point, total Purchase Payments equal $17,000, Earnings equal $2,000, and the “age” of the applicable Purchase Payments withdrawn is 3 Years. Earnings ($2,000) and 10% of all remaining Purchase Payments made ($1,700) may be withdrawn free of a withdrawal charge per Contract year. The amount of the withdrawal charge applied would be $212 ($9,000–$2,000–$1,700=$5,300; $5,300*4%=$212).
 
The withdrawal charge is designed to reimburse us for sales commissions and other expenses associated with the promotion and solicitation of offers for the Contracts, although our actual expenses may be greater or less than the amount of the withdrawal charge. See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – Distribution Arrangements for information regarding commissions and other amounts paid to broker-dealers in connection with distribution of the Contracts.
 
Withdrawal Enhancements
 
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to calculate your withdrawal charge on more favorable terms to you than as otherwise described in the preceding paragraphs. These withdrawal enhancements may include an acceleration of the day on which the “age” of any Purchase Payments is considered to occur or a waiver of some or all of the withdrawal charge in the event the Guaranteed Interest Rate is less than a specified rate. Although we retain the discretion to add a withdrawal enhancement, once it is added, it is binding on us and effective for any specified period we have designated. In the event of any withdrawal enhancement, we will notify the Owner within 30 days of the effective date of the withdrawal enhancement.


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Mortality and Expense Risk Charge
 
We assess a charge against the assets of each Subaccount to compensate for certain mortality and expense risks that we assume under the Contract (the “Risk Charge”). The risk that an Annuitant will live longer (and therefore receive more annuity payments) than we predict through our actuarial calculations at the time the Contract is issued is “mortality risk.” We also bear mortality risk in connection with death benefit payable under the Contract. The risk that the expense charges and fees under the Contract and Separate Account are less than our actual administrative and operating expenses is called “expense risk.”
 
This Risk Charge is assessed daily at an annual rate equal to 1.40% of each Subaccount’s assets. This charge may not be increased for the duration of your Contract.
 
The Risk Charge will stop at the Annuity Date if you select fixed annuity payments. The base Risk Charge will continue after the Annuity Date if you choose variable annuity payments, even though we do not bear mortality risk if your Annuity Option is Period Certain Only.
 
We will realize a gain if the Risk Charge exceeds our actual cost of expenses and benefits, and will suffer a loss if such actual costs exceed the Risk Charge. Any gain will become part of our General Account. We may use it for any reason, including covering sales expenses on the Contracts.
 
Increase in Risk Charge if an Optional Death Benefit Rider is Purchased
 
We increase your Risk Charge by an annual rate equal to 0.20% of each Subaccount’s assets if you purchase the Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider (SDBR) or 0.35% if your Contract was issued before May 1, 2003 and you purchased the Premier Death Benefit Rider (PDBR). The total Risk Charge annual rate will be 1.60% if the SDBR is purchased or 1.75% if the PDBR was purchased. Any increase in your Risk Charge will not continue after the Annuity Date. See DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits.
 
Administrative Fee
 
We charge an Administrative Fee as compensation for costs we incur in operating the Separate Account, issuing and administering the Contracts, including processing applications and payments, and issuing reports to you and to regulatory authorities.
 
The Administrative Fee is assessed daily at an annual rate equal to 0.25% of the assets of each Subaccount. This rate is guaranteed not to increase for the life of your Contract. A correlation will not necessarily exist between the actual administrative expenses attributable to a particular Contract and the Administrative Fee paid in respect of that particular Contract. The Administrative Fee will continue after the Annuity Date if you choose any variable payout option. We do not intend to realize a profit from this fee.
 
Annual Fee
 
We will charge you an Annual Fee of $30.00 on each Contract Anniversary prior to the Annuity Date, and at the time you withdraw your entire Net Contract Value (on a pro rated basis for that Contract Year) if your Net Contract Value is less than $50,000 on that date. The fee is not imposed on amounts you annuitize or on payment of death benefit proceeds. The fee reimburses certain costs in administering the Contracts and the Separate Account. We do not intend to realize a profit from this fee. This fee is guaranteed not to increase for the life of your Contract.
 
Your Annual Fee will be charged proportionately against your Investment Options. Assessments against your Variable Investment Options are made by debiting some of the Subaccount Units previously credited to your Contract. That is, assessment of the Annual Fee does not change the Unit Value for those Subaccounts. Any portion of the Annual Fee we deduct from any of our fixed options (if available under the Contract) will not be greater than the annual interest credited in excess of that fixed option’s minimum guaranteed interest rate.
 
Optional Rider Charges
 
If you purchase an optional Rider listed in the table below, we will deduct an annual charge from your Investment Options (excluding the DCA Plus Fixed Option if you own the CoreIncome Advantage Rider, CoreProtect Advantage Rider or CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider) on a proportionate basis.
 
Depending on which Rider you own, the charge is deducted each Contract Anniversary or every 3 months following the Rider Effective Date (“Quarterly Rider Anniversary”). The Rider charge will be deducted while the Rider remains in effect, when the Rider terminates and for some Riders on the Annuity Date. The annual charge for the GIA 5, GIA II and GIA Riders will be charged on the Annuity Date if the Rider is still in effect. The charge is deducted in arrears each Contract Anniversary or Quarterly Rider Anniversary.
 
If your Rider charge is deducted each Contract Anniversary and your Rider terminates on a Contract Anniversary, the entire charge for the prior year will be deducted on that anniversary. If the Rider terminates prior to a Contract Anniversary, a prorated charge will be deducted on the earlier of the day your Contract terminates or the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day your Rider terminates. The charge will be determined as of the day your Rider terminates.


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If your Rider charge is deducted each Quarterly Rider Anniversary and your Rider terminates on a Quarterly Rider Anniversary, the entire charge for the prior quarter will be deducted on that anniversary. If the Rider terminates prior to a Quarterly Rider Anniversary, a prorated charge will be deducted on the earlier of the day the Contract terminates or on the Quarterly Rider Anniversary immediately following the day your Rider terminates. The charge will be determined as of the day your Rider terminates.
 
Any portion of the Rider’s charge we deduct from any fixed option will not be greater than the annual interest credited in excess of 3%. If you make a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal during a Contract Year, we will deduct the charge from the final payment made to you.
 
An optional Rider annual charge percentage may change if a Step-Up/Reset occurs under the Rider provisions. However, the annual charge percentage will not exceed the maximum annual charge percentage (indicated in the table below) for the applicable Rider. You may elect to opt-out of a Reset and your annual charge percentage will remain the same as it was before the Reset. If an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset never occurs, the annual charge percentage established on the Rider Effective Date is guaranteed not to change.
 
Annual Charge Percentage Table
 
                               
          Maximum
           
    Current
    Annual Charge
    To determine the amount to be
     
    Annual Charge
    Percentage
    deducted, the Annual Charge
    The Charge is
Optional Rider   Percentage     Under the Rider     Percentage is multiplied by the:     deducted on each:
 
Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG)
    0.25%         0.25%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    0.60%         1.20%       Protected Payment Base     Quarterly Rider Anniversary
                           
CoreProtect Advantage
    1.05%         1.50%       Protected Payment Base     Quarterly Rider Anniversary
                           
CoreIncome Advantage1
                             
If purchased before June 1, 2010
    0.40%         1.00%       Protected Payment Base     Quarterly Rider Anniversary
If purchased on or after June 1, 2010
    0.30%         1.00%       Protected Payment Base     Quarterly Rider Anniversary
                           
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single)2
    1.50%         1.50%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint)3
    1.75%         1.75%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Foundation 104
    1.50%         1.50%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Automatic Income Builder5
    0.95%         1.50%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Flexible Lifetime Income (Single)
    0.65%         1.20%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Flexible Lifetime Income (Joint)
    0.85%         1.20%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Lifetime Income Access Plus6
    0.60%         1.20%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Income Access Plus
    0.40%         1.20%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Income Access7
    0.75%         0.75%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3)8
    0.95%         1.00%       Guaranteed Protection Amount     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5)9
    0.55%         0.75%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA)
    0.10%         0.10%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus)10
    0.75%         0.75%       Greater of Contract Value or
Guaranteed Income Base
    Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5)
    0.40%         0.75%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II)
    0.70%         1.00%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA)
    0.30%         0.30%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
 
 
1  If you purchased the CoreIncome Advantage Rider before June 1, 2010, the charge percentage is equal to 0.40%. A Reset must occur on or after June 1, 2010 to receive the reduced charge percentage of 0.30%.
 
2  If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.85% unless a Reset occurs. If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after January 1, 2009 and before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.95% unless a Reset occurs. If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.25% unless a Reset occurs.
 
3  If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.00% unless a Reset Occurs. If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after January 1, 2009 and before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.10% unless a Reset occurs. If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.40% unless a Reset occurs.


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4  If you purchased the Foundation 10 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.85% unless a Reset occurs. If you purchased the Foundation 10 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after January 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.35% unless a Reset occurs.
 
5  If you purchased the Automatic Income Builder Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.85% unless a Reset occurs.
 
6  If you purchased the Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before July 1, 2006, the charge percentage is equal to 0.40% unless a Reset occurs.
 
7  If you purchased the Income Access Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before March 1, 2004, the charge percentage is equal to 0.30% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the Income Access Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after March 1, 2004 and before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.40% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the Income Access Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.65% unless a Step-Up occurs.
 
8  If you purchased the GPA 3 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.45% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the GPA 3 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after January 1, 2009 and before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.55% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the GPA 3 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.75% unless a Step-Up occurs.
 
9  If you purchased the GPA 5 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before March 1, 2004, the charge percentage is equal to 0.10% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the GPA 5 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after March 1, 2004 and before May 1, 2008, the current charge percentage is equal to 0.25% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the GPA 5 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2008 and before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.40% unless a Step-Up occurs.
 
10  If you purchased the GIA Plus Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.50%.
 
See Mortality and Expense Risk Charge for the Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider and Premier Death Benefit Rider charge information.
 
Premium Taxes
 
Depending on your state of residence (among other factors), a tax may be imposed on your Purchase Payments (“premium tax”) at the time your Investment is made, at the time of a partial or full withdrawal, at the time any death benefit proceeds are paid, at annuitization or at such other time as taxes may be imposed. Tax rates ranging from 0% to 3.5% are currently in effect, but may change in the future. Some local jurisdictions also impose a tax.
 
If we pay any premium taxes attributable to Purchase Payments, we will impose a similar charge against your Contract Value. Premium tax is subject to state requirements. We normally will charge you when you annuitize some or all of your Contract Value. We reserve the right to impose this charge for applicable premium taxes and/or other taxes when you make a full or partial withdrawal, at the time any death benefit proceeds are paid, or when those taxes are incurred. For these purposes, “premium taxes” include any state or local premium or retaliatory taxes and any federal, state or local income, excise, business or any other type of tax (or component thereof) measured by or based upon, directly or indirectly, the amount of Purchase Payments we have received. We currently base this charge on your Contract Value, but we reserve the right to base this charge on the amount of the transaction, the aggregate amount of Purchase Payments we receive under your Contract, or any other amount, that in our sole discretion we deem appropriately reimburses us for premium taxes paid on this Contract.
 
We may also charge the Separate Account or your Contract Value for taxes attributable to the Separate Account or the Contract, including income taxes attributable to the Separate Account or to our operations with respect to the Contract, or taxes attributable, directly or indirectly, to Purchase Payments. Currently, we do not impose any such charges.
 
Waivers and Reduced Charges
 
We may agree to waive or reduce charges under our Contracts, in situations where selling and/or maintenance costs associated with the Contracts are reduced, such as the sale of several Contracts to the same Contract Owner(s), sales of large Contracts, sales of Contracts in connection with a group or sponsored arrangement or mass transactions over multiple Contracts.
 
For Contracts issued before May 1, 2007, we may agree to waive or reduce some or all of such charges and/or credit additional amounts under our Contracts, for those Contracts sold to persons who meet criteria established by us, who may include current and retired officers, directors and employees of us and our affiliates, trustees of the Pacific Select Fund, financial professionals and employees of broker/dealers with a current selling agreement with us and their affiliates, and immediate family members of such persons (“Eligible Persons”). We will credit additional amounts to Contracts owned by Eligible Persons. If such Contracts are purchased directly through Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD), Eligible Persons will not be afforded the benefit of services of any other broker/dealer and will bear the responsibility of determining whether a variable annuity, optional benefits and underlying Investment Options are appropriate, taking into consideration age, income, net worth, tax status, insurance needs, financial objectives, investment goals, liquidity needs, time horizon, risk tolerance and other relevant information. In addition, Eligible Persons who purchased their Contract through PSD, must contact us directly with servicing questions, Contract changes and other matters relating to their Contracts.
 
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with our administrative procedures. These credits will be added to an Eligible Person’s Contract when we apply the Investments. We may also agree to waive minimum Investment requirements for Eligible Persons.
 
We will only waive or reduce such charges or credit additional amounts on any Contract where expenses associated with the sale or distribution of the Contract and/or costs associated with administering and maintaining the Contract are reduced. Any additional amounts will be added to the Contract when we apply Purchase Payments. We reserve the right to terminate waiver, reduced charge and crediting programs at any time, including for issued Contracts.
 
With respect to additional amounts as described above, in most states you may not receive any amount credited if you return your Contract during the Free Look period as described under WITHDRAWALS – Right to Cancel (“Free Look”).
 
Fund Expenses
 
Your Variable Account Value reflects advisory fees and other expenses incurred by the various Portfolios of the Funds, net of any applicable reductions and/or reimbursements. These fees and expenses may vary. Each Fund is governed by its own Board of Trustees, and your Contract does not fix or specify the level of expenses of any Portfolio. A Fund’s fees and expenses are described in detail in the applicable Fund Prospectus and SAI.
 
Some Investment Options available to you are “fund of funds”. A fund of funds portfolio is a fund that invests in other funds in addition to other investments that the portfolio may make. Expenses of fund of funds Investment Options may be higher than non fund of funds Investment Options due to the two tiered level of expenses. See the Fund prospectuses for detailed portfolio expenses and other information before investing.
 
ANNUITIZATION
 
Selecting Your Annuitant
 
When you submit the application for your Contract, you must choose a sole Annuitant or Joint Annuitants. If you are buying a Qualified Contract, you must be the sole Annuitant. If you are buying a Non-Qualified Contract you may choose yourself and/or another person as Annuitant. Whether you have a sole or Joint Annuitants, you may choose a Contingent Annuitant. The Contingent Annuitant will not have any Contract benefits, including death benefit proceeds, until becoming the sole surviving Annuitant. You will not be able to add or change a sole or Joint Annuitant after your Contract is issued. However, if you are buying a Qualified Contract, you may add a Joint Annuitant on the Annuity Date. You will be able to add or change a Contingent Annuitant until your Annuity Date or the death of your sole Annuitant or both Joint Annuitants, whichever occurs first. However, once your Contingent Annuitant has become the Annuitant under your Contract, no additional Contingent Annuitant may be named. No Annuitant (Primary, Joint or Contingent) may be named upon or after reaching his or her 86th birthday. We reserve the right to require proof of age or survival of the Annuitant(s).
 
Annuitization
 
Annuitization occurs on the Annuity Date when you convert your Contract from the accumulation phase to the annuitization (income) phase. You may choose both your Annuity Date and your Annuity Option. At the Annuity Date, you may elect to annuitize some or all of your Net Contract Value, less any applicable charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes, (the “Conversion Amount”), as long as such Conversion Amount annuitized is at least $10,000. We will send the annuity payments to the payee that you designate.
 
If you annuitize only a portion of this available Contract Value, you may have the remainder distributed, less any Contract Debt, any applicable charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes, any applicable withdrawal charge, any Annual Fee, and any applicable optional Rider charge. This option of distribution may or may not be available, or may be available only for certain types of contracts. Currently, we only allow this option on Qualified Contracts but we reserve the right to make it available on other contract types in the future. Any such distribution will be made to you in a single sum if the remaining Conversion Amount is less than $10,000 on your Annuity Date. Distributions under your Contract may have tax consequences. You should consult a qualified tax adviser for information on full or partial annuitization.
 
If you annuitize only a portion of your Net Contract Value on your Annuity Date, you may, at that time, have the option to elect not to have the remainder of your Contract Value distributed, but instead to continue your Contract with that remaining Contract Value (a “continuing Contract”). If this option is available, you would then choose a second Annuity Date for your continuing Contract, and all references in this Prospectus to your “Annuity Date” would, in connection with your continuing Contract, be deemed to refer to that second Annuity Date. The second Annuity Date may not be later than the date specified in the Choosing Your Annuity Date section of this Prospectus. This option may not be available, or may be available only for certain types of Contracts. You should be aware that some or all of the payments received before the second Annuity Date may be fully taxable. We recommend that you contact a qualified tax adviser for more information if you are interested in this option.


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Choosing Your Annuity Date
 
You should choose your Annuity Date when you submit your application or we will apply a default Annuity Date to your Contract. You may change your Annuity Date by notifying us, in proper form, at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of your current Annuity Date or your new Annuity Date. Your Annuity Date cannot be earlier than your first Contract Anniversary. Adverse federal tax consequences may result if you choose an Annuity Date that is prior to an Annuitant’s attained age 591/2. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
If you have a sole Annuitant, your Annuity Date cannot be later than his or her 95th birthday. If you have Joint Annuitants, your Annuity Date cannot be later than your younger Joint Annuitant’s 95th birthday. Different requirements may apply as required by any applicable state law or the Code. We may, at our sole discretion, allow you to extend your Annuity Date. We reserve the right, at any time, to not offer any extension to your Annuity Date regardless of whether we may have granted any extensions to you or to any others in the past. Some Broker/Dealers may not allow their clients to extend the Annuity Date beyond age 95.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, you may also be subject to additional restrictions. In order to meet the Code minimum distribution rules, your Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) may begin earlier than your Annuity Date. For instance, under Section 401 of the Code (for Qualified Plans) and Section 408 of the Code (for IRAs), the entire interest under the Contract must be distributed to the Owner/Annuitant not later than the Owner/Annuitant’s Required Beginning Date (“RBD”), or distributions over the life of the Owner/Annuitant (or the Owner/Annuitant and his or her Beneficiary) must begin no later than the RBD. For more information see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Default Annuity Date and Options
 
If you have a Non-Qualified Contract and you do not choose an Annuity Date when you submit your application, your Annuity Date will be your Annuitant’s 95th birthday or your younger Joint Annuitant’s 95th birthday, whichever applies. However some states’ laws may require a different Annuity Date. Certain Qualified Contracts may require distributions to occur at an earlier age.
 
If you have not specified an Annuity Option or do not instruct us otherwise, at your Annuity Date your Net Contract Value, less any charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes, will be annuitized (if this net amount is at least $10,000) as follows:
 
  •  the net amount from a fixed option will be converted into fixed annuity payments and
 
  •  the net amount from your Variable Account Value will be converted into variable annuity payments directed to the Subaccounts proportionate to your Account Value in each.
 
If the net amount is less than $10,000, the entire amount will be distributed. If you have a Non-Qualified Contract, or if you have a Qualified Contract and are not married, your default Annuity Option will be Life with a ten year Period Certain. If you have a Qualified Contract and you are married, your default Annuity Option will be Joint and Survivor Life with survivor payments of 50%; your spouse will automatically be named your Joint Annuitant.
 
Choosing Your Annuity Option
 
You should carefully review the Annuity Options with a qualified tax adviser, and, for Qualified Contracts, reference should be made to the terms of the particular plan and the requirements of the Code for pertinent limitations regarding annuity payments, Required Minimum Distributions (“RMDs”), and other matters.
 
You may make three basic decisions about your annuity payments. First, you may choose whether you want those payments to be a fixed-dollar amount and/or a variable-dollar amount. Second, you may choose the form of annuity payments (see Annuity Options below). Third, you may decide how often you want annuity payments to be made (the “frequency” of the payments). You may not change these selections after the Annuity Date.
 
Fixed and Variable Payment Options
 
You may choose fixed annuity payments based on a fixed rate and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the ages set back 10 years, variable annuity payments that vary with the investment results of the Subaccounts you select, or you may choose both, converting one portion of the net amount you annuitize into fixed annuity payments and another portion into variable annuity payments.
 
If you select fixed annuity payments, each periodic annuity payment received will be equal to the initial annuity payment, unless you select a Joint and Survivor Life annuity with reduced survivor payments when the Primary Annuitant dies. Any net amount you convert to fixed annuity payments will be held in our General Account (but not under any fixed option).
 
If you select variable annuity payments, you may choose as many Variable Investment Options as you wish. The amount of the periodic annuity payments will vary with the investment results of the Variable Investment Options selected and may be more or less than a fixed payment option. After the Annuity Date, Annuity Units may be exchanged among available Variable Investment Options up to four times in any twelve-month period. How your Contract converts into variable annuity payments is explained in more detail in THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT section in the SAI.


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Annuity Options
 
Four Annuity Options are currently available under the Contract, although additional options may become available in the future. For other Annuity Options see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS.
 
1.  Life Only.  Periodic payments are made to the designated payee during the Annuitant’s lifetime. Payments stop when the Annuitant dies.
 
2.  Life with Period Certain.  Periodic payments are made to the designated payee during the Annuitant’s lifetime, with payments guaranteed for a specified period. You may choose to have payments guaranteed from 5 through 30 years (in full years only). The guaranteed period may be limited on Qualified Contracts based on your life expectancy.
 
3.  Joint and Survivor Life.  Periodic payments are made to the designated payee during the lifetime of the Primary Annuitant. After the death of the Primary Annuitant, periodic payments will continue to be made during the lifetime of the secondary Annuitant named in the election. You may choose to have the payments to the surviving secondary Annuitant equal 50%, 662/3% or 100% of the original amount payable made during the lifetime of the Primary Annuitant (you must make this election when you choose your Annuity Option). If you elect a reduced payment based on the life of the secondary Annuitant, fixed annuity payments will be equal to 50% or 662/3% of the original fixed payment payable during the lifetime of the Primary Annuitant; variable annuity payments will be determined using 50% or 662/3%, as applicable, of the number of Annuity Units for each Subaccount credited to the Contract as of the date of death of the Primary Annuitant. Payments stop when both Annuitants have died.
 
4.  Period Certain Only.  Periodic payments are made to the designated payee, guaranteed for a specified period. You may choose to have payments guaranteed from 5 through 30 years (in full years only). The guaranteed period may be limited on Qualified Contracts based on your life expectancy.
 
Periodic payment amounts will differ based on the Annuity Option selected. Generally, the longer the possible payment period, the lower the payment amount.
 
Additionally, if variable payments are elected under Annuity Options 2 and 4, you may redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments after the Annuity Date. Also, under Option 4, partial redemptions of remaining guaranteed variable payments after the Annuity Date are available. If you elect to redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments in a single sum, we will not make any additional variable annuity payments during the Annuitant’s lifetime or the remaining guaranteed period after the redemption. The amount available upon full redemption would be the present value of any remaining guaranteed variable payments at the assumed investment return. Any applicable withdrawal charge will be deducted from the present value as if you made a full withdrawal, or if applicable, a partial withdrawal. For purposes of calculating the withdrawal charge and Free Withdrawal amount, it will be assumed that the Contract was never converted to provide annuity payments and any prior variable annuity payments in that Contract Year will be treated as if they were partial withdrawals from the Contract (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Withdrawal Charge).
 
For example, assume that a Contract was issued with a single investment of $10,000 and in Contract Year 2 the Owner elects to receive variable annuity payments under Annuity Option 4. In Contract Year 3, the Owner elects to make a partial redemption of $5,000. The withdrawal charge as a percentage of the Purchase Payments with an age of 3 years is 4%. Assuming the Free Withdrawal amount immediately prior to the partial redemption is $200, the withdrawal charge for the partial redemption will be $192 (($5,000 – $200) * 4%). No withdrawal charge will be imposed on a redemption if:
 
  •  the Annuity Option is elected as the form of payments of death benefit proceeds, or
 
  •  the Annuitant dies before the period certain has ended and the Beneficiary requests a redemption of the variable annuity payments.
 
Full or partial redemptions of remaining guaranteed variable payments are explained in more detail in the SAI under THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT.
 
If the Annuitant dies before the guaranteed payments under Annuity Options 2 and 4 are completed, we will pay the remainder of the guaranteed payments to the first person among the following who is (1) living; or (2) an entity or corporation entitled to receive the remainder of the guaranteed payments:
 
  •  the Owner;
 
  •  the Joint Owner;
 
  •  the Contingent Owner;
 
  •  the Beneficiary; or
 
  •  the Contingent Beneficiary.
 
If none are living (or if there is no entity or corporation entitled to receive the remainder of the guaranteed payments), we will pay the remainder of the guaranteed payments to the Owner’s estate.


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If the Owner dies on or after the Annuity Date, but payments have not yet been completed, then distributions of the remaining amounts payable under the Contract must be made at least as rapidly as the method of distribution that was being used at the date of the Owner’s death. All of the Owner’s rights granted by the Contract will be assumed by the first among the following who is (1) living; or (2) an entity or corporation entitled to assume the Owner’s rights granted by the Contract:
 
  •  the Joint Owner;
 
  •  the Contingent Owner;
 
  •  the Beneficiary; or
 
  •  the Contingent Beneficiary.
 
If none are living (or if there is no entity or corporation entitled to assume the Owner’s rights granted by the Contract), all of the Owner’s rights granted by the Contract will be assumed by the Owner’s estate.
 
For Qualified Contracts, please refer to the Choosing Your Annuity Date section in this Prospectus. If your Contract was issued in connection with a Qualified Plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), your spouse’s consent may be required when you seek any distribution under your Contract, unless your Annuity Option is Joint and Survivor Life with survivor payments of at least 50%, and your spouse is your Joint Annuitant.
 
Your Annuity Payments
 
Frequency of Payments
 
You may choose to have annuity payments made monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually. The amount of a variable payment will be determined in each period on the date corresponding to your Annuity Date, and payment will be made on the next succeeding day.
 
Your initial annuity payment must be at least $250. Depending on the net amount you annuitize, this requirement may limit your options regarding the period and/or frequency of annuity payments.
 
Amount of the First Payment
 
Your Contract contains tables that we use to determine the amount of the first annuity payment under your Contract, taking into consideration the annuitized portion of your Net Contract Value at the Annuity Date. This amount will vary, depending on the annuity period and payment frequency you select. This amount will be larger in the case of shorter Period Certain annuities and smaller for longer Period Certain annuities. Similarly, this amount will be greater for a Life Only annuity than for a Joint and Survivor Life annuity, because we will expect to make payments for a shorter period of time on a Life Only annuity. If you do not choose the Period Certain Only annuity, this amount will also vary depending on the age of the Annuitant(s) on the Annuity Date and, for some Contracts in some states, the sex of the Annuitant(s).
 
For fixed annuity payments, the guaranteed income factors in our tables are based on an annual interest rate of 3% and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the ages set back 10 years. If you elect a fixed annuity, fixed annuity payments will be based on the periodic income factors in effect for your Contract on the Annuity Date which are at least the guaranteed income factors under the Contract.
 
For variable annuity payments, the tables are based on an assumed annual investment return of 5% and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the ages set back 10 years. If you elect a variable annuity, your initial variable annuity payment will be based on the applicable variable annuity income factors in effect for your Contract on the Annuity Date which are at least the variable annuity income factors under the Contract. You may choose any other annuity option we may offer on the option’s effective date. A higher assumed investment return would mean a larger first variable annuity payment, but subsequent payments would increase only when actual net investment performance exceeds the higher assumed rate and would fall when actual net investment performance is less than the higher assumed rate. A lower assumed rate would mean a smaller first payment and a more favorable threshold for increases and decreases. If the actual net investment performance is a constant 5% annually, annuity payments will be level. The assumed investment return is explained in more detail in the SAI under THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT.
 
DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS
 
Death Benefits
 
Death benefit proceeds may be payable before the Annuity Date on proof of death of the sole surviving Annuitant or of any Contract Owner while the Contract is in force. Any death benefit payable will be calculated on the “Notice Date”, which is the day on which we receive, in proper form, proof of death and instructions regarding payment of death benefit proceeds. If a Contract has multiple recipients, death benefit proceeds will be calculated when we first receive proof of death and instructions, in proper form, from any recipient. The death benefit proceeds still remaining to be paid to other recipients will fluctuate with the performance of the underlying Investment Options.


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Death Benefit Proceeds
 
Death benefit proceeds will be payable on the Notice Date. Such proceeds will be reduced by any charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes and any Contract Debt. The death benefit proceeds may be payable in a single sum, as an Annuity Option available under the Contract, towards the purchase of any other Annuity Option we then offer, or in any other manner permitted by the IRS and approved by us. The Owner’s spouse may continue the Contract (see Death Benefits – Spousal Continuation). In addition, there may be legal requirements that limit the recipient’s Annuity Options and the timing of any payments. A recipient should consult a qualified tax adviser before making a death benefit election.
 
The death benefit proceeds will be paid to the first among the following who is (1) living; or (2) an entity or corporation entitled to receive the death benefit proceeds, in the following order:
 
  •  Owner,
 
  •  Joint Owner,
 
  •  Contingent Owner,
 
  •  Beneficiary, or
 
  •  Contingent Beneficiary.
 
If none are living (or if there is no entity or corporation entitled to receive the death benefit proceeds), the proceeds will be payable to the Owner’s Estate.
 
Death Benefit Amount
 
The Death Benefit Amount as of any Business Day before the Annuity Date is equal to the greater of:
 
  •  your Contract Value as of that day, or
 
  •  your aggregate Purchase Payments reduced by an amount for each withdrawal, which is calculated by multiplying the aggregate Purchase Payments received before each withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to each withdrawal. The reduction made, when the Contract Value is less than aggregate Purchase Payments made into the Contract, may be greater than the actual amount withdrawn.
 
We calculate the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date and the death benefit will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section above.
 
See APPENDIX G: DEATH BENEFIT AMOUNT AND STEPPED-UP DEATH BENEFIT RIDER (SDBR) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS.
 
Spousal Continuation
 
Generally, a sole designated recipient who is the Owner’s spouse may elect to become the Owner (and sole Annuitant if the deceased Owner had been the Annuitant) and continue the Contract until the earliest of the spouse’s death, the death of the Annuitant, or the Annuity Date, except in the case of a Qualified Contract issued under section 403 of the Code. On the Notice Date, if the surviving spouse is deemed to have continued the Contract, we will set the Contract Value equal to the death benefit proceeds that would have been payable to the spouse as the deemed Beneficiary/designated recipient of the death benefit proceeds. This “Add-In Amount” is the difference between the Contract Value and the death benefit proceeds that would have been payable. The Add-In Amount will be added to the Contract Value on the Notice Date. There will not be an adjustment to the Contract Value if the Contract Value is equal to or greater than the death benefit proceeds as of the Notice Date. The Add-In Amount will be allocated among Investment Options in accordance with the current allocation instructions for the Contract and may be, under certain circumstances, considered earnings. The Add-In Amount is not treated as a new Purchase Payment. A Joint or Contingent Owner who is the designated recipient, but not the Owner’s spouse, may not continue the Contract.
 
Example: On the Notice Date, the Owner’s surviving spouse elects to continue the Contract. On that date, the death benefit proceeds were $100,000 and the Contract Value was $85,000. Since the surviving spouse elected to continue the Contract in lieu of receiving the death benefit proceeds, we will increase the Contract Value by an Add-In Amount of $15,000 ($100,000–$85,000=$15,000). If the Contract Value on the Notice Date was $100,000 or higher, then nothing would be added to the Contract Value.
 
Death of Annuitant
 
If a sole surviving Annuitant dies before the Annuity Date, the amount of the death benefit will be equal to the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date and will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section.


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If there is more than one Annuitant and an Annuitant who is not an Owner dies, no death benefit proceeds will be payable. The designated sole Annuitant will then be the first living person in the following order:
 
  •  a surviving Joint Annuitant, or
 
  •  a surviving Contingent Annuitant.
 
Death of Owner
 
The amount of the death benefit will be the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date and will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section if:
 
  •  a Contract Owner who is an Annuitant dies before the Annuity Date, or
 
  •  a Contract Owner, who is not an Annuitant, and the Annuitant die simultaneously.
 
If a Contract Owner who is not an Annuitant dies before the Annuity Date, the death benefit proceeds will be equal to your Contract Value as of the Notice Date and will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section.
 
Non-Natural Owner
 
If you are a Non-Natural Owner of a Contract other than a Contract issued under a Qualified Plan as defined in Section 401 or 403 of the Code, the Primary Annuitant will be treated as the Owner of the Contract for purposes of the Non-Qualified Contract Distribution Rules. If there are Joint or Contingent Annuitants, the death benefit proceeds will be payable on proof of death of the first annuitant. If there is a change in the Primary Annuitant prior to the Annuity Date, such change will be treated as the death of the Owner. The Death Benefit Amount will be: (a) the Contract Value, if the Non-Natural Owner elects to maintain the Contract and reinvest the Contract Value into the contract in the same amount as immediately prior to the distribution; or (b) the Contract Value, less any annual fee, withdrawal charge and charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes, if the Non-Natural Owner elects a cash distribution and will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefits Proceeds section.
 
Non-Qualified Contract Distribution Rules
 
The Contract is intended to comply with all applicable provisions of Code Section 72(s) and any successor provision, as deemed necessary by us to qualify the Contract as an annuity contract for federal income tax purposes. If an Owner of a Non-Qualified Contract dies before the Annuity Date, distribution of the death benefit proceeds must begin within 1 year after the Owner’s death or complete distribution within 5 years after the Owner’s death. In order to satisfy this requirement, the designated recipient must receive a final lump sum payment by the fifth anniversary of the death of the Contract Owner, or elect to receive an annuity for life or over a period that does not exceed the life expectancy of the designated recipient with annuity payments that start within 1 year after the Owner’s death or, if permitted by the IRS, elect to receive a systematic distribution over a period not exceeding the beneficiary’s life expectancy using a method that would be acceptable for purposes of calculating the minimum distribution required under section 401(a)(9) of the Code. If an election to receive an annuity is not made within 60 days of our receipt of proof, in proper form, of the Owner’s death or, if earlier, 60 days (or shorter period as we permit) prior to the first anniversary of the Owner’s death, the lump sum option will be deemed elected, unless otherwise required by law. If the lump sum option is deemed elected, we will consider that deemed election as receipt of instructions regarding payment of the death benefit proceeds. If a Non-Qualified Contract has Joint Owners, this requirement applies to the first Contract Owner to die.
 
The Owner may designate that the Beneficiary will receive death benefit proceeds through annuity payments for life or life with Period Certain. The Owner must designate the payment method in writing in a form acceptable to us. The Owner may revoke the designation only in writing and only in a form acceptable to us. Once the Owner dies, the Beneficiary cannot revoke or modify the Owner’s designation.
 
Qualified Contract Distribution Rules
 
Under Internal Revenue Service regulations and our administrative procedures, if the Contract is owned under a Qualified Plan as defined in Sections 401, 403, 457(b) or Sections 408, or 408A of the Code and the Annuitant dies before the Required Beginning Date, the payment of any death benefit proceeds must be made to the designated recipient in accordance with one of two rules. One rule generally requires the death benefit proceeds to commence distribution by December 31 of the calendar year following the calendar year of the Annuitant’s death and continue over the life of his or her Beneficiary (the “life expectancy method”). The second rule requires distribution of the entire death benefit proceeds no later than December 31 of the calendar year in which the fifth anniversary of the Annuitant’s death falls (the “five-year rule”).
 
However, the life expectancy method and the five-year rule are modified if the sole primary Beneficiary is a surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse elects not to do an eligible rollover to an IRA or another existing eligible plan in his or her name, then he or she will be subject to the five-year rule. However, the surviving spouse may waive the five-year requirement and elect to take distributions over his or


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her life expectancy. If the surviving spouse elects to defer the commencement of required distributions beyond the first anniversary of the Annuitant’s death, the surviving spouse may defer required distributions until the later of:
 
  •  December 31 of the year following the year the Annuitant died, or
 
  •  December 31 of the year in which the deceased Annuitant would have turned 701/2.
 
Further, under our administrative procedures, if the required distributions election is not received by us in good order by December 31 of the year following the Annuitant’s death or by December 31 of the year in which the Annuitant would have attained age 701/2, the lump sum option will be deemed by us to have been elected, unless otherwise required by law. If the lump sum option is deemed elected, we will treat that deemed election as receipt of instructions regarding payment of death benefit proceeds.
 
If the Annuitant dies after the commencement of RMDs (except in the case of a Roth IRA when RMDs do not apply) but before the Annuitant’s entire interest in the Contract (other than a Roth IRA) has been distributed, the remaining interest in the Contract must be distributed to the designated recipient at least as rapidly as under the distribution method in effect at the time of the Annuitant’s death.
 
Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider (SDBR)
 
This optional Rider offers you the ability to lock in market gains for your beneficiaries with a stepped-up death benefit, which is the highest Contract Value on any previous Contract Anniversary (prior to the Annuitant’s 81st birthday) increased by the amount of additional Purchase Payments and decreased by withdrawals that you make.
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider at the time your application is completed. You may not purchase the SDBR after the Contract Date. The SDBR may only be purchased if the age of each Annuitant is 75 or younger on the Contract Date.
 
How the Rider Works
 
If you purchase the SDBR at the time your application is completed, upon the death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the first Owner who is also an Annuitant, prior to the Annuity Date, the death benefit proceeds will be equal to the greater of (a) or (b) below:
 
  (a)  the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date.
 
The Death Benefit Amount as of any day before the Annuity Date is equal to the greater of:
 
  •  your Contract Value as of that day, or
 
  •  your aggregate Purchase Payments reduced by an amount for each withdrawal, which is calculated by multiplying the aggregate Purchase Payments received before each withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to each withdrawal. The reduction made, when the Contract Value is less than aggregate Purchase Payments made into the Contract, may be greater than the actual amount withdrawn.
 
  (b)  the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date.
 
The actual Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount is calculated only when death benefit proceeds become payable as a result of the death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the first death of an Owner who is also an Annuitant, prior to the Annuity Date and is determined as follows:
 
First we calculate what the Death Benefit Amount would have been as of your first Contract Anniversary and each subsequent Contract Anniversary that occurs while the Annuitant is living and before the Annuitant reaches his or her 81st birthday (each of these Contract Anniversaries is a “Milestone Date”).
 
We then adjust the Death Benefit Amount for each Milestone Date by:
 
  •  adding the aggregate amount of any Purchase Payments received by us since the Milestone Date, and
 
  •  subtracting an amount for each withdrawal that has occurred since that Milestone Date, which is calculated by multiplying the Death Benefit Amount before the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of each withdrawal that has occurred since that Milestone Date, including any withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal. The reduction made, when the Contract Value is less than aggregate Purchase Payments made into the Contract, may be greater than the actual amount withdrawn.
 
The highest of these adjusted Death Benefit Amounts for each Milestone Date, as of the Notice Date, is your Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount if you purchase the SDBR. Calculation of any actual Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount is only made once death benefit proceeds become payable under your Contract.
 
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See APPENDIX G: DEATH BENEFIT AMOUNT AND STEPPED-UP DEATH BENEFIT RIDER (SDBR) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date death benefit proceeds become payable under the Contract,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
The Rider may not otherwise be cancelled.
 
Premier Death Benefit Rider (PDBR)
 
The PDBR is not available for Contracts issued on or after May 1, 2003. All references to the PDBR in this section, the Prospectus, and the Statement of Additional Information do not apply to such Contracts.
 
If you purchased the PDBR at the time your application was completed, upon the death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the first Owner who is also an Annuitant, prior to the Annuity Date, the death benefit proceeds will be equal to the greater of (a) or (b) below:
 
  (a)  the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date.
 
The Death Benefit Amount as of any day prior to the Annuity Date is equal to the greater of:
 
  •  your Contract Value as of that day, or
 
  •  your aggregate Purchase Payments less an adjusted amount for each withdrawal increased at an effective annual rate of 6% to that day, subject to a maximum of two times the difference between the aggregate Purchase Payments and withdrawals, including any withdrawal charge.
 
The 6% annual rate of growth will take into account the timing of when each Purchase Payment and withdrawal occurred by applying a daily factor of 1.00015965 to each day’s balance. The 6% effective annual rate of growth will stop accruing as of the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary following the date the Annuitant reaches his or her 80th birthday, or
 
  •  the date of death of the sole Annuitant, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
To determine the adjusted amount for each withdrawal we:
 
  •  divide the amount of each withdrawal, including withdrawal charges, by your Contract Value immediately before that withdrawal, and
 
  •  then multiply the result by your Death Benefit Amount immediately before that withdrawal.
 
For Contracts issued on or after February 2, 2003 and before May 1, 2003, the effective annual rate of growth is 5% and a daily factor of 1.00013368 will apply.
 
  (b)  the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date.
 
The actual Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount is calculated only when death benefit proceeds become payable as a result of the death of the sole Annuitant, or the first death of an Owner who is also an Annuitant, prior to the Annuity Date, and is determined as follows:
 
First, we calculate what the Death Benefit Amount would have been as of the quarterly anniversary following the Contract Date and as of each subsequent quarterly anniversary that occurs while the Annuitant is living and up to and including the Contract Anniversary following the Annuitant’s 65th birthday. Quarterly anniversaries are measured from the Contract Date. After the Contract Anniversary following the Annuitant’s 65th birthday, we calculate what the Death Benefit Amount would have been as of each Contract Anniversary that occurs while the Annuitant is living and before the Annuitant reaches his or her 81st birthday. Each quarterly anniversary and each Contract Anniversary in which a Death Benefit Amount is calculated is referred to as a “Milestone Date”.
 
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  •  subtracting an amount for each withdrawal that has occurred since that Milestone Date, which is calculated by multiplying the Death Benefit Amount before the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of each withdrawal that has occurred since that Milestone Date, including any withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
The highest of these adjusted Death Benefit Amounts as of the notice date is your Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit if the Rider is purchased. Calculation of any actual Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit is only made once death benefit proceeds become payable under your Contract.
 
Any death benefit paid under this Rider will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section above.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date death benefit proceeds become payable under the Contract,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
The Rider may not otherwise be cancelled.
 
Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase the EEG Rider on the Contract Date or on the first Contract Anniversary. If you buy the EEG Rider within 60 days after the Contract Date or within 60 days after the first Contract Anniversary, we will make the Effective Date of the EEG Rider coincide with that Contract Date or Contract Anniversary. The EEG Rider is also called the Guaranteed Earnings Enhancement (GEE) Rider and the EEG Amount is called the GEE Amount in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You may purchase the EEG Rider only if the age of each Annuitant is 75 years or younger on the date of purchase. The date of purchase is the Rider Effective Date as shown in your Contract.
 
How the Rider Works
 
If you purchase the EEG Rider, an Earnings Enhancement Guarantee amount (EEG Amount) is added to the death benefit proceeds when such proceeds become payable as a result of the sole surviving Annuitant’s death or the first death of an Owner who is also an Annuitant.
 
The EEG amount is calculated as follows:
 
If the age of the oldest Annuitant was age 69 or younger on the Effective Date of the Rider, the EEG amount is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  40% of Earnings, or
 
  •  40% of Remaining Purchase Payments, excluding any Purchase Payments made in the 12 months prior to the date of death, adjusted for withdrawals.
 
If the age of the oldest Annuitant was age 70 to 75 on the Effective Date of the Rider, the EEG Amount is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  25% of Earnings, or
 
  •  25% of Remaining Purchase Payments, excluding any Purchase Payments made in the 12 months prior to the date of death, adjusted for withdrawals.
 
For purposes of calculating the EEG Amount, Earnings are equal to the Contract Value as of the date of death minus Remaining Purchase Payments. Remaining Purchase Payments is defined as (a) or (b) below:
 
  (a)  If the Rider is effective on the Contract Date, Remaining Purchase Payments are equal to:
 
  •  the Initial Purchase Payments, plus
 
  •  any additional Purchase Payments added, minus
 
  •  the amount that each withdrawal exceeds the amount of Earnings in the Contract immediately prior to such withdrawal. Withdrawals are assumed to be taken from Earnings first, then from Purchase Payments in the order they were received.
 
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  •  any additional Purchase Payments added since the Effective Date of the Rider, minus
 
  •  the amount that each withdrawal taken after the Effective Date of the Rider exceeds the amount of Earnings in the Contract accumulated since that date. Withdrawals are assumed to be taken first from Earnings accumulated since the Effective Date of the Rider, then from Purchase Payments in the order that they were received.
 
See APPENDIX H: EARNINGS ENHANCEMENT GUARANTEE (EEG) RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS.
 
If the Surviving Spouse of the deceased Owner continues the Contract in accordance with its terms and conditions, then all provisions of the Rider for the Surviving Spouse will be based on the age of the Surviving Spouse on the date of death of the deceased Owner. If the Surviving Spouse is over age 75 on the date of death, the Rider will not be continued for such Surviving Spouse and the benefits and charges provided by the Rider will no longer be applied.
 
Termination
 
Once purchased, the Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date death benefit proceeds become payable under the Contract,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
The Rider may not otherwise be cancelled.
 
WITHDRAWALS
 
Optional Withdrawals
 
You may, on or prior to your Annuity Date, withdraw all or a portion of the amount available under your Contract while the Annuitants are living and your Contract is in force. You may surrender your Contract and make a full withdrawal at any time. If you surrender your Contract it will be terminated as of the Effective Date of the withdrawal. Beginning 30 days after your Contract Date, you also may make partial withdrawals from your Investment Options at any time. Currently, we are not requiring the 30-day waiting period on partial withdrawals, but we reserve the right to require a 30-day waiting period on partial withdrawals in the future. You may request to withdraw a specific dollar amount or a specific percentage of an Account Value or your Net Contract Value. You may choose to make your withdrawal from specified Investment Options. If you do not specify Investment Options, your withdrawal will be made from all of your Investment Options proportionately. Each partial withdrawal must be for $500 or more. Pre-authorized partial withdrawals must be at least $250, except for pre-authorized withdrawals distributed by Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), which must be at least $100. If your partial withdrawal from an Investment Option would leave a remaining Account Value in that Investment Option of less than $500, we also reserve the right, at our option, to transfer that remaining amount to your other Investment Options on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions. If your partial withdrawal leaves you with a Net Contract Value of less than $1,000, or if your partial withdrawal request is for an amount exceeding the amount available for withdrawal, as described in the Amount Available for Withdrawal section below, we have the right, at our option, to terminate your Contract and send you the withdrawal proceeds. However, we will not terminate your Contract if you own an optional rider and a partial withdrawal reduces the Net Contract Value to an amount less than $1,000. Partial withdrawals from any fixed option in any Contract Year may be subject to restrictions.
 
See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT.
 
Amount Available for Withdrawal
 
The amount available for withdrawal is your Net Contract Value (Contract Value less Contract Debt) at the end of the Business Day on which your withdrawal request is effective, less any applicable Annual Fee, optional Rider Charges, withdrawal charge, and any charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes. The amount we send to you (your “withdrawal proceeds”) will also reflect any required or requested federal and state income tax withholding. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES and THE GENERAL ACCOUNT. If you own optional Riders, taking a withdrawal before a certain age or a withdrawal that is greater than the allowed annual withdrawal amount under a Rider, may result in adverse consequences such as a reduction in Rider benefits or the failure to receive lifetime withdrawals under the Rider.
 
You assume investment risk on Purchase Payments in the Subaccounts. As a result, the amount available to you for withdrawal from any Subaccount may be more or less than the total Purchase Payments you have allocated to that Subaccount.
 
Withdrawals Free of a Withdrawal Charge
 
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Purchase Payments at the beginning of a Contract Year that have an “age” of less than 4 years, plus 10% of any Purchase Payments received during the Contract Year plus 100% of any remaining purchase payments that have an age of 4 years or more. Our calculations of the withdrawal charge deduct this “free 10%” from your “oldest” Purchase Payment that is still subject to the withdrawal charge. For purposes of determining the free withdrawal amounts, withdrawal of mandatory required minimums from certain Qualified Plans are included within the calculations.
 
Example: You make an initial Purchase Payment of $10,000 in Contract Year 1, and make additional Purchase Payments of $1,000 and $6,000 in Contract Year 2. With Earnings, your Contract Value in Contract Year 3 is $19,000. In Contract Year 3, you may withdraw $3,700 free of the withdrawal charge (your total Purchase Payments were $17,000, so 10% of that total equals $1,700, plus you had $2,000 of Earnings). After your withdrawal, your Contract Value is $15,300 (all attributable to your prior Purchase Payments). If, in Contract Year 4, your Contract Value equals $12,500; you may withdraw $9,000 [$8,300 (remaining amount of your initial $10,000 Purchase Payment that in Contract Year 4 is free of withdrawal charges) plus $700 (10% of $7,000 additional Purchase Payments)].
 
See Choosing Your Annuity Option – Annuity Options for Free Withdrawal amounts that apply to redemptions after the Annuity Date.
 
Qualified Contracts have special restrictions on withdrawals. For purposes of determining the free withdrawal amounts, withdrawal of mandatory required minimums from certain Qualified Contracts are included within the calculations. For additional information, see Special Restrictions Under Qualified Plans below. For those Contracts issued to a Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT), the amount available for withdrawal free of withdrawal charges during a Contract Year includes all eligible Purchase Payments plus all earnings even if all Purchase Payments have not been deemed withdrawn.
 
Pre-Authorized Withdrawals
 
If your Contract Value is at least $5,000, you may select the pre-authorized withdrawal option, and you may choose monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual withdrawals. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum Contract Value amount but we reserve the right to enforce the minimum amount in the future. Each withdrawal must be for at least $250, except for withdrawals distributed by Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), which must be at least $100. Each pre-authorized withdrawal is subject to federal income tax on its taxable portion and may be subject to a tax penalty of 10% if you have not reached age 591/2. Pre-authorized withdrawals cannot be used to continue the Contract beyond the Annuity Date. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES and THE GENERAL ACCOUNT. Additional information and options are set forth in the SAI.
 
Special Requirements for Full Withdrawals and Payments to Third Party Payees
 
Instructions for a full withdrawal and surrender of your Contract in proper form includes, among other things, a return of the original Contract or a lost contract affidavit. For your convenience, our Withdrawal Request form includes a lost contract affidavit for your use in providing us with your full withdrawal and surrender instructions. If you wish to have a full or partial withdrawal check made payable to a third-party payee, you must provide complete instructions and an original signature is required on the Withdrawal Request form or your withdrawal request instructions. If you wish to withdraw the entire amount available under your Contract, you must either return your Contract to us or sign and submit a Withdrawal Request form or a Lost Contract Affidavit if no Withdrawal Request form is completed.
 
Special Restrictions Under Qualified Plans
 
Qualified Plans may have additional rules regarding withdrawals from a Contract purchased under such a Plan. In general, if your Contract was issued under certain Qualified Plans, you may not withdraw amounts attributable to contributions made pursuant to a salary reduction agreement (as defined in Section 402(g)(3)(A) of the Code) or to transfers from a custodial account (as defined in Section 403(b)(7) of the Code) except in cases of your:
 
  •  severance from employment,
 
  •  death,
 
  •  disability as defined in Section 72(m)(7) of the Code,
 
  •  reaching age 591/2, or
 
  •  hardship as defined for purposes of Section 401 of the Code.
 
These limitations do not affect certain rollovers or exchanges between Qualified Plans, and do not apply to rollovers from these Qualified Plans to an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity. In the case of a 403(b) plan, these limitations do not apply to certain salary reduction contributions made, and investment results earned, prior to dates specified in the Code.
 
Hardship withdrawals under the exception provided above are restricted to amounts attributable to salary reduction contributions, and do not include investment results. This additional restriction does not apply to salary reduction contributions made, or investment results earned, prior to dates specified in the Code.


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Certain distributions, including rollovers, may be subject to mandatory withholding of 20% for federal income tax and to a tax penalty of 10% if the distribution is not transferred directly to the trustee of another Qualified Plan, or to the custodian of an individual retirement account or issuer of an individual retirement annuity. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES. Distributions may also trigger withholding for state income taxes. The tax and ERISA rules relating to withdrawals from Contracts issued to Qualified Plans are complex. We are not the administrator of any Qualified Plan. You should consult your qualified tax adviser and/or your Plan Administrator before you withdraw any portion of your Contract Value.
 
Effective Date of Withdrawal Requests
 
Withdrawal requests are normally effective on the Business Day we receive them in proper form. If you make Purchase Payments by check and submit a withdrawal request immediately afterwards, payment of your withdrawal proceeds may be delayed until we receive confirmation in our Annuities administrative office that your check has cleared.
 
Tax Consequences of Withdrawals
 
All withdrawals, including pre-authorized withdrawals, will generally have federal income tax consequences, which could include tax penalties. You should consult with a qualified tax adviser before making any withdrawal or selecting the pre-authorized withdrawal option. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Right to Cancel (“Free Look”)
 
You may return your Contract for cancellation and a refund during your Free Look period. Your Free Look period is usually the 10-day period beginning on the day you receive your Contract, but may vary if required by state law. The amount of your refund may be more or less than the Purchase Payments you have made. If you return your Contract and it is post-marked during the Free Look period, it will be cancelled as of the date we receive your Contract. In most states, you will then receive a refund of your Contract Value, based upon the next determined Accumulated Unit Value (AUV) after we receive your Contract for cancellation, plus a refund of any amount that may have been deducted as Contract fees and charges, and minus any additional amount credited as described in CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Waivers and Reduced Charges. You bear the investment risk on any additional amount credited.
 
In some states we are required to refund your Purchase Payments. If your Contract was issued in such a state and you cancel your Contract during the Free Look period, we will return the greater of your Purchase Payments or the Contract Value. In addition, if your Contract was issued as an IRA and you return your Contract within 7 days after you receive it, we will return the greater of your Purchase Payments (less any withdrawals made) or the Contract Value.
 
Your Purchase Payments are allocated to the Investment Options you indicated on your application, unless otherwise required by state law. If state law requires that your Purchase Payments must be allocated to Investment Options different than you requested, we will comply with state requirements. At the end of the Free Look period, we will allocate your Purchase Payments based on your allocation instructions.
 
See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – State Considerations.
 
For replacement business and in some states, the Free Look period may be extended and the amount returned may be different than as otherwise described above. Please consult with your financial professional if you have any questions regarding your state’s Free Look period and the amount of any refund.
 
You will find a complete description of the Free Look period and amount to be refunded that applies to your Contract on the Contract’s cover page, or on a notice that accompanies your Contract.
 
If your Contract is issued in exchange for another annuity contract or a life insurance policy, our administrative procedures may vary, depending on the state in which your Contract is issued.
 
OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS
 
General Information
 
Optional Riders are subject to availability (including state availability). Before purchasing any optional Rider, make sure you understand all of the terms and conditions and consult with your financial professional for advice on whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you. We reserve the right to restrict the purchase of an optional living benefit Rider to only Contract issue in the future.
 
You may purchase an optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available). In addition, if you purchase a Rider within 60 days after the Contract Date or, if available, within 60 days after any Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date will be that Contract Date or Contract Anniversary.


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Taking a withdrawal before a certain age or a withdrawal that is greater than the allowed annual withdrawal amount under a particular Rider, may result in adverse consequences such as a reduction in Rider benefits or the failure to receive lifetime withdrawals under a Rider.
 
Some optional riders allow for owner elected Resets/Step-Ups. If you elect to Reset/Step-Up, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary (“60 day period”) on which the Reset/Step-Up is effective. We may, at our sole discretion, allow Resets/Step-Ups after the 60 day period. We reserve the right to refuse a Reset/Step-Up request after the 60 day period regardless of whether we may have allowed you or others to Reset/Step-Up in the past. Each Contract Anniversary starts a new 60 day period in which a Reset/Step-Up may be elected.
 
Some broker/dealers may limit their clients from purchasing some optional benefits based upon the client’s age or other factors. You should work with your financial professional to decide whether an optional benefit is appropriate for you.
 
There may be adverse consequences to taking a loan while an optional Rider is in effect. If you have an existing loan on your Contract, you should carefully consider whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you.
 
Investment Allocation Requirements
 
At initial purchase and during the entire time that you own an optional living benefit Rider (except for GIA II and GIA), you must allocate your entire Contract Value to an asset allocation program or Investment Options we make available for these Riders. You may allocate your Contract Value according to the following requirements:
 
  •  100% to one allowable Asset Allocation Model, OR
 
  •  100% among allowable Investment Options.
 
You may also use the DCA Plus program to transfer amounts to an Asset Allocation Model or among the Investment Options listed below. Currently, the allowable Asset Allocation Models and Investment Options are as follows:
 
     
Allowable Asset Allocation Models   Allowable Investment Options
 
Portfolio Optimization Model A
  Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset Fund
Portfolio Optimization Model B
  AllianceBernstein VPS Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio
Portfolio Optimization Model C
  American Funds Asset Allocation
Portfolio Optimization Model D
  BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund
Portfolio Optimization Model E1
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund
Custom Model
  GE Investments Total Return Fund
    Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth
    Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth
    Pacific Dynamix – Growth
    PIMCO Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
    Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation Portfolio
 
1 Portfolio Optimization Model E will no longer be an allowable Asset Allocation Model for any optional living benefit rider with a Rider Effective Date on or after January 1, 2009.
 
You may transfer your entire Contract Value between an allowable Asset Allocation Model and allowable Investment Options, between allowable Asset Allocation Models or between allowable Investment Options, subject to certain transfer limitations. See HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions. Keep in mind that you must allocate your entire Contract Value to either one allowable Asset Allocation Model or among the allowable Investment Options. If you do not allocate your entire Purchase Payment or Contract Value according to the requirements above, your Rider will terminate.
 
Allowable Asset Allocation Models – Portfolio Optimization.  You may transfer your entire Contract Value to a different Portfolio Optimization Model without affecting your Rider. However, if you change the allocation percentages within the Portfolio Optimization Model you have selected, including allocating any subsequent Purchase Payments inconsistent with your Model’s target allocations, you will no longer be participating in the Portfolio Optimization program and your Rider will terminate. See HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Portfolio Optimization for information about the program.
 
Allowable Asset Allocation Models – Custom Model.  You may also make transfers between the Investment Options available under the Custom Model program as long as you follow the Custom Model parameters. However, if you make transfers, subsequent Purchase Payments or change the allocation percentages within your Custom Model and they do not comply with the Custom Model parameters, you will no longer be participating in the Custom Model program and your Rider will terminate. See HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Custom Model for information about the program.


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Allowable Investment Options.  You may allocate your entire Contract Value among any of the allowable Investment Options listed in the table above.
 
By adding an optional living benefit Rider to your Contract, you agree to the above referenced investment allocation requirements for the entire period that you own a Rider. These requirements may limit the number of Investment Options that are otherwise available to you under your Contract. We reserve the right to add, remove or change allowable asset allocation programs or allowable Investment Options at any time. We may make such a change due to a fund reorganization, fund substitution, or when we believe a change is necessary to protect our ability to provide the guarantees under these riders. If such a change is required, we will provide you with reasonable notice (generally 90 calendar days unless we are required to give less notice) prior to the effective date of such change to allow you to reallocate your Contract Value to maintain your rider benefits. If you do not reallocate your Contract Value your rider will terminate.
 
We will send you written notice in the event any transaction made by you will involuntarily cause the Rider to terminate for failure to invest according to the investment allocation requirements. However, you will have 10 Business Days after the date of our written notice (“10 day period”), to instruct us to take appropriate corrective action to continue participation in an allowable asset allocation program or allowable Investment Options to continue the Rider.
 
Multiple Rider Ownership
 
Only one CoreIncome Advantage 5, CoreProtect Advantage, CoreIncome Advantage, Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint), Foundation 10, Automatic Income Builder, Flexible Lifetime Income (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income (Joint), Lifetime Income Access Plus, Income Access Plus, or Income Access Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time. Only one GIA Plus, GIA 5, GIA II, or GIA Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time. Only one GPA 3, GPA 5, or GPA Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time.


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Withdrawal Benefit Rider Exchanges
 
Subject to availability, you may elect to exchange among the following withdrawal benefit Riders:
 
             
FROM     TO     WHEN
 
Income Access
    CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary.
             
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
CoreProtect Advantage
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
CoreIncome Advantage
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Income Access Plus
    Income Access
CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary.
             
Lifetime Income Access Plus
    Income Access
CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary.
             
Flexible Lifetime Income (Single)
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Flexible Lifetime Income (Joint)
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Foundation 10
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single)
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint)
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Automatic Income Builder
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
 
 
When you elect an exchange, you are terminating your existing Rider and purchasing a new Rider. The Initial Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance under the new Rider will be equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Generally, if your Contract Value is lower than the Protected Payment Base under your existing Rider, your election to exchange from one rider to another may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and


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any Annual Credit that may be applied. In other words, your existing protected balances will not carryover to the new Rider. If you elect an exchange, you will be subject to the charge for the new Rider in effect at the time of the exchange. Only one exchange may be elected each Contract Year. In addition, there are withdrawal percentages, annual credit percentages, and lifetime income age requirements that differ between the Riders listed above. Work with your financial professional prior to electing an exchange.
 
Accumulation Benefit Rider Exchanges
 
Subject to availability, you may elect to exchange among the following accumulation benefit Riders:
 
             
FROM     TO     WHEN
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA)
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5)
    Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3)     On any Contract Anniversary.
 
 
When you elect an exchange, you are terminating your existing Rider and purchasing a new Rider. The initial Guaranteed Protection Amount under the new Rider will be equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Generally, if your Contract Value is lower than the Guaranteed Protection Amount under your existing Rider, your election to exchange from one rider to another may result in a reduction in the Guaranteed Protection Amount. In other words, your existing Guaranteed Protection Amount will not carryover to the new Rider. If you elect an exchange, you will be subject to the charge for the new Rider in effect at the time of the exchange. Only one exchange may be elected each Contract Year. In addition, there are Step-Up eligibility requirements that differ between the Riders listed above. Work with your financial professional prior to electing an exchange.
 
Income Benefit Rider Exchanges
 
Subject to availability, you may elect to exchange among the following income benefit Riders:
 
             
FROM     TO     WHEN
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA)
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II)
Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5)
    Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus)     On any Contract Anniversary.
 
 
When you elect an exchange, you are terminating your existing Rider and purchasing a new Rider. The Initial Guaranteed Income Base, Withdrawal Base, and Step-Up Value under the new Rider will be equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Your election to exchange to GIA Plus may result in a reduction in the Guaranteed Income Base, Withdrawal Base, Withdrawal Amount and Step-Up Value. In other words, your existing balances will not carryover to the new Rider. If you elect an exchange, you will be subject to the charge for the new Rider in effect at the time of the exchange. Only one exchange may be elected each Contract Year. Work with your financial professional prior to electing an exchange.
 
Optional Riders Not Available for Purchase
 
The Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint), Automatic Income Builder, Flexible Lifetime Income (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income (Joint), Foundation 10, Lifetime Income Access Plus, Income Access Plus, GIA 5, GIA II and GIA Riders are no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is available for purchase starting June 1, 2010 (subject to availability). You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available) if the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase, the Contract is not issued as an Inherited IRA or Inherited TSA, and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
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If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider, unless withdrawals are guaranteed until the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 65 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
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be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX A: COREINCOME ADVANTAGE 5 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner).
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
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Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before 65 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 65. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than 65 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of Rider charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the


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Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your financial professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only fixed annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only fixed annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 65 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Contract Value or Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse is 65 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
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  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX A: COREINCOME ADVANTAGE 5 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
CoreProtect Advantage Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available) if the age of each Owner and Annuitant is at least 55 and no greater than 85 years of age on the date of purchase, the Contract is not issued as an Inherited IRA or Inherited TSA, and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Annual Credit Value.
 
Annual Credit Value – One of two values (the other value is the Highest Anniversary Value) that determine the Protected Payment Base prior to the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date.
 
The Annual Credit Value is increased each year by any Annual Credits, plus any subsequent Purchase Payments received from the most recent Contract Anniversary, during the periods described above.
 
The initial Annual Credit Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Highest Anniversary Value – One of two values (the other value is the Annual Credit Value) that determine the Protected Payment Base prior to the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date.
 
On any day after the Rider Effective Date and during the periods described above, the Highest Anniversary Value is equal to:
 
  •  the Highest Anniversary Value as of the prior day, plus
 
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On any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, the Highest Anniversary Value is equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary, or
 
  •  the Highest Anniversary Value immediately prior to that Contract Anniversary.
 
The initial Highest Anniversary Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The Protected Payment Amount will never be less than zero. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero and will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider, unless withdrawals are guaranteed until the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). The Remaining Protected Balance will never be less than zero. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Adjustment to Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance Using the Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value
 
On each Contract Anniversary, while this Rider is in effect, before the Annuity Date, and before the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be equal to the greater of the Annual Credit Value or the Highest Anniversary Value. An increase to the Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value is not considered an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset and will not result in a change to the annual charge percentage. In addition, once resets become available (after the first withdrawal or 10 Contract Anniversaries as described above), eligibility for the Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value adjustment cannot be reinstated by any Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date and prior to the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
will result in an increase in the Annual Credit Value, Highest Anniversary Value, Protected Payment Base, and Remaining Protected Balance equal to the Purchase Payment Amount.
 
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  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
will result in an increase in the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance equal to the Purchase Payment Amount.
 
In addition, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The Annual Credit Value or the Highest Anniversary Value (whichever is greater) will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance prior to the earlier of the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date or 10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each contract year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken at age 64 or younger and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for a Highest Anniversary Value feature and for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Annual Credit Value. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount.  If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX B: COREPROTECT ADVANTAGE RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
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Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – General Rules – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner).
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of death of an Owner or the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal at age 64 or younger and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 65. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are age 64 or younger when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
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Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Annual Credit Value until the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal from the Contract since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries measured from the Rider Effective Date.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 5% of either:
 
  •  total Purchase Payments if the Rider is purchased on the Contract Issue Date, or
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary Value at the time the Rider is added to the Contract plus any subsequent Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date.
 
Once a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) or 10 Contract Anniversaries has occurred, as measured from the Rider Effective Date, no Annual Credit will be added to the Annual Credit Value. In addition, Annual Credit eligibility cannot be reinstated by any Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset. On each Contract Anniversary, while this Rider is in effect, before the Annuity Date, and after the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election. Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation. You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic). You may, on any Contract Anniversary after the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
elect to reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
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election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your financial professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only fixed annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only fixed annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 65 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Contract Value or Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, the Rider will terminate. If the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance are greater than zero and the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect, the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner may elect to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms and the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place, then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse is 65 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of death of an Owner or the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.


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The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of death of an Owner or the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX B: COREPROTECT ADVANTAGE RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
CoreIncome Advantage Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available) if the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase, the Contract is not issued as an Inherited IRA or Inherited TSA, and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to 4% multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  4% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 4% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider, unless withdrawals are guaranteed until the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first


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withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 65 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX C: COREINCOME ADVANTAGE RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
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Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner).
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before 65 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 65. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than 65 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of Rider charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).


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Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your financial professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only fixed annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only fixed annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 65 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Contract Value or Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse is 65 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base) for life.


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The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX C: COREINCOME ADVANTAGE RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Income Access Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary if the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase, the Contract is not issued as an Inherited IRA or Inherited TSA, and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.


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Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn each Contract Year under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  7% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The Protected Payment Amount for a Contract Year is determined at the beginning of that Contract Year and will remain unchanged throughout that Contract Year. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 7% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Step-Up Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Step-Up Date, whichever is later, on which an Automatic Step-Up occurs or you elect to Step-Up the Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, determined as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
This Rider allows for withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. This Rider does not provide lifetime withdrawal benefits. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
The Income Access Rider also provides, on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Effective Date or most recent Step-Up Date, Automatic Annual Step-Ups and Owner-Elected Step-Ups of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. An Automatic Step-Up or Owner-Elected Step-Up will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Step-Up Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under the Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While the Rider is in effect, you may make cumulative withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance equals zero. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
Under your Contract, you may withdraw more than the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year. However, withdrawals of more than the Protected Payment Amount in a Contract Year will cause an immediate adjustment to the Remaining Protected Balance, the Protected Payment Base, and, at the next Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Amount.


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If a withdrawal does not cause the total amount withdrawn during the Contract Year to exceed the Protected Payment Amount, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) causes the total amount withdrawn during the Contract Year to exceed the Protected Payment Amount, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX D: INCOME ACCESS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The Protected Payment Amount will remain unchanged until the next Contract Anniversary, when the Protected Payment Amount for the new Contract Year is determined.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
A withdrawal may not exceed the amount available for withdrawal under the Contract, if such withdrawal would cause the cumulative withdrawals for that Contract Year to exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduce the Contract Value to zero.
 
Except as otherwise provided under the Required Minimum Distributions subsection below, if, immediately after a withdrawal, the cumulative withdrawals for that Contract Year do not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is reduced to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency, as elected by you, but no less frequently than annually, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum or may not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the designated Beneficiary under the series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
On and after August 1, 2005, no adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
If the Contract Value is reduced to zero, RMD withdrawals will cease and any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals in accordance with the terms of the Rider.
 
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Step-Up of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which Step-Up option is used, on and after each Step-Up Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future Step-Up options available on and after the Step-Up Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Step-Up Date. Please discuss with your financial professional your Contract’s maximum Annuity Date when considering Step-Up options. A Step-Up occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are stepped-up to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Step-Up Date.
 
If you want to participate in Automatic Step-Ups, you must make an affirmative election in a form satisfactory to us. Otherwise, you may Step-Up the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as outlined under Owner-Elected Step-Ups (Non-Automatic) below.
 
Automatic Step-Up.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically Step-Up the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Step-Up (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Step-Up – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Step-Up is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and any change in the annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Step-Up. Any future Automatic Step-Ups will continue in accordance with the Automatic Step-Up paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective.
 
Automatic Step-Up – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Step-Ups at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Step-Ups, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Step-Ups at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Step-Up paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Step-Ups (Non-Automatic).  On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Step-Up Date, whichever is later, you may elect to Step-Up the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Step-Up.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective. The Step-Up will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the Step-Up. You are strongly advised to work with your financial professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Step-Up. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive any additional Purchase Payments to the Contract, we will immediately increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payment. However, the Protected Payment Amount will remain unchanged until the next Contract Anniversary, when the Protected Payment Amount for the new Contract Year is determined.
 
For purposes of the Income Access Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).


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Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically end on the earliest of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, except as otherwise provided in the paragraph below,
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date, or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate on the first death of an Owner or death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract if, at the time of those events, the Contract Value is zero and we are making pre-authorized withdrawals of the Remaining Protected Balance under the provisions of the Rider. If we are making pre-authorized withdrawals, the Contract will terminate on the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day the Remaining Protected Balance is zero.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX D: INCOME ACCESS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase the optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any subsequent Contract Anniversary if:
 
  •  the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase,
 
  •  the date of the purchase is at least 10 years before your selected Annuity Date, and
 
  •  you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
How the Rider Works
 
The Rider will remain in effect, unless otherwise terminated, for a 10-year period (the “Term”) beginning on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
On the last day of the Term, we will add an additional amount to your Contract Value if, on that day, the Contract Value is less than the Guaranteed Protection Amount. The additional amount will be equal to the difference between the Contract Value on the last day of the Term and the Guaranteed Protection Amount. The additional amount added to the Contract Value will be considered earnings and allocated to your Investment Options according to your most recent allocation instructions. Additional Purchase Payments that are not part of the Guaranteed Protection Amount (Purchase Payments made after the first year of a Term and not included in a Step-Up) will not be included in the benefit calculation at the end of Term.
 
The Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to (a) plus (b) minus (c) as indicated below:
 
  (a)   is the Contract Value at the start of the Term,
 
  (b)   is the amount of each subsequent Purchase Payment received during the first year of the Term, and
 
  (c)   is a pro rata adjustment for withdrawals made from the Contract during the Term. The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the


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  withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charges, premium taxes, and/or other taxes, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
For purposes of determining the Contract Value at the start of the Term, if the Effective Date of the Rider is the Contract Date, the Contract Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment. If the Effective Date of the Rider is a Contract Anniversary, the Contract Value is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Any subsequent Purchase Payments received after the first year of a Term are not included in the Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
If, on the last day of the Term, the Contract is annuitized, the first death of an Owner or the death of the last surviving Annuitant occurs (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), or a full withdrawal is made, the Contract Value will reflect any additional amount owed under the Rider before the payment of any annuity or death benefits, or full withdrawal. No additional amount will be made if the Contract Value on the last day of the Term is greater than or equal to the Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
Optional Step-Up in the Guaranteed Protection Amount
 
On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the third (3rd) anniversary of the Effective Date of this Rider and before the Annuity Date, you may elect to increase (“Step-Up”) your Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
If you elect the optional Step-Up, the following conditions will apply:
 
  •  your election of a Step-Up must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective,
 
  •  the Guaranteed Protection Amount will be equal to your Contract Value as of the Effective Date of the Step-Up (“Step-Up Date”),
 
  •  a new 10-year Term will begin as of the Step-Up Date, and
 
  •  you may not elect another Step-Up until on or after the 3rd anniversary of the latest Step-Up Date.
 
We will not permit a Step-Up if the new 10-year Term will extend beyond the Annuity Date.
 
The annual charge percentage may change if you elect a Step-Up, but it will never be more than the maximum annual charge percentage associated with the Rider. If you do not elect any Step-Up of the Guaranteed Protection Amount during the Term of the Rider, your annual charge percentage will remain the same as it was on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies during the Term and the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of the Rider will continue until the end of the Term.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will automatically terminate at the end of the Term, or, if earlier on:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day we receive notification from the Owner to terminate the Rider,
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the last surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated according to the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary. If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center more than 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate the day we receive the request.
 
If the Rider is terminated, you must wait until a Contract Anniversary that is at least one (1) year from the Effective Date of the termination before the Rider may be purchased again (if available).


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Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX E: GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 3 (GPA 3) AND GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 5 (GPA 5) RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any subsequent Contract Anniversary if:
 
  •  the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase,
 
  •  the date of the purchase is at least 10 years before your selected Annuity Date, and
 
  •  you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
How the Rider Works
 
The Rider will remain in effect, unless otherwise terminated, for a 10-year period (the “Term”) beginning on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
On the last day of the Term, we will add an additional amount to your Contract Value if, on that day, the Contract Value is less than a specified amount (the “Guaranteed Protection Amount”). The additional amount will be equal to the difference between the Contract Value on the last day of the Term and the Guaranteed Protection Amount. The additional amount added to the Contract Value will be considered earnings and allocated to your Investment Options according to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
The Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to (a) plus (b) minus (c) as indicated below:
 
  (a)  is the Contract Value at the start of the Term,
 
  (b)  is the amount of each subsequent Purchase Payment received during the first year of the Term, and
 
  (c)  is a pro rata adjustment for withdrawals made from the Contract during the Term. The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charges, premium taxes, and/or other taxes, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
For purposes of determining the Contract Value at the start of the Term, if the Effective Date of the Rider is the Contract Date, the Contract Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment. If the Effective Date of the Rider is a Contract Anniversary, the Contract Value is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Any subsequent Purchase Payments received after the first year of the Term are not included in the Guaranteed Protection Amount. However, the Rider charge will be based on the Contract Value which may include any subsequent Purchase Payments that are not included in the Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
If, on the last day of the Term, the Contract is annuitized, the first death of an Owner or the death of the last surviving Annuitant occurs (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), or a full withdrawal is made, the Contract Value will reflect any additional amount owed under the Rider before the payment of any annuity or death benefits, or full withdrawal. No additional amount will be made if the Contract Value on the last day of the Term is greater than or equal to the Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
Optional Step-Up in the Guaranteed Protection Amount
 
On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 5th anniversary of the Effective Date of this Rider and before the Annuity Date, you may elect to increase (“Step-Up”) your Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
If you elect the optional Step-Up, the following conditions will apply:
 
  •  your election of a Step-Up must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective,
 
  •  the Guaranteed Protection Amount will be equal to your Contract Value as of the Effective Date of the Step-Up (“Step-Up Date”),
 
  •  a new 10-year Term will begin as of the Step-Up Date, and
 
  •  you may not elect another Step-Up until on or after the 5th anniversary of the latest Step-Up Date.
 
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The Guaranteed Protection Charge (“GPA 5 Charge”) may change if you elect a Step-Up, but it will never be more than the GPA 5 Charge being charged under the then current terms and conditions of the Rider. If you do not elect any Step-Up of the Guaranteed Protection Amount during the lifetime of the Rider, your GPA 5 Charge will remain the same as it was on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies during the Term and the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of the Rider will continue until the end of the Term.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will automatically terminate at the end of the Term, or, if earlier on:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the date any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the date we receive notification from the Owner to terminate the Rider,
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the last surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated according to the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary. If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center more than 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate the day we receive the request.
 
If the Rider is terminated, you must wait until a Contract Anniversary that is at least 1 year from the Effective Date of the termination before the Rider may be purchased again (if available).
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX E: GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 3 (GPA 3) AND GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 5 (GPA 5) RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
The GPA Rider is only available if the original Effective Date of the Rider is before April 1, 2003.
 
You may purchase this Rider on the Contract Date or on any subsequent Contract Anniversary if:
 
  •  the age of each Annuitant is 80 years or younger on the date of purchase,
 
  •  the date of the purchase is at least 10 years before your selected Annuity Date, and
 
  •  you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
How the Rider Works
 
The Rider will remain in effect, unless otherwise terminated, for a 10-year period (the “Term”) beginning on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
On the last day of the Term, we will add an additional amount to your Contract Value if, on that day, the Contract Value is less than a specified amount (the “Guaranteed Protection Amount”). The additional amount will be equal to the difference between the Contract Value on the last day of the Term and the Guaranteed Protection Amount. The additional amount added to the Contract Value will be considered earnings and allocated to your Investment Options according to your most recent allocation instructions.


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The Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to (a) plus (b) minus (c) as indicated below:
 
  (a)  is the Contract Value at the start of the Term,
 
  (b)  is a percentage of each additional Purchase Payment, as determined from the table below, paid to the Contract during the Term,
 
             
 
     Number of Years Since
  Percentage of Purchase Payment
   
     Beginning of Term   Added to Guaranteed Protection Amount    
 
 
1 through 4
    100 %    
5
    90 %    
6
    85 %    
7
    80 %    
8 through 10
    75 %    
 
 
 
  (c)  is a pro rata adjustment for withdrawals made from the Contract during the Term. The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charges, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
For purposes of determining the Contract Value at the start of the Term, if the Effective Date of the Rider is the Contract Date, the Contract Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment. If the Effective Date of the Rider is a Contract Anniversary, the Contract Value is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary.
 
If, on the last day of the Term, the Contract is annuitized, the first death of an Owner or the death of the last surviving Annuitant occurs, or a full withdrawal is made, the Contract Value will reflect any additional amount owed under the Rider before the payment of any annuity or death benefits, or full withdrawal.
 
No additional amount will be made if the Contract Value on the last day of the Term is greater than or equal to the Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
On or before the end of the Term, you can elect to repurchase the Rider subject to its availability and the then current terms and conditions of the Rider provided:
 
  •  all Annuitant(s) are 80 years or younger at the start of the new Term, and
 
  •  the new Term does not extend beyond your selected Annuity Date.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies during the Term and the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue until the end of the Term. Subject to the terms of the Rider, the surviving spouse may repurchase the Rider for another Term at the then current terms and conditions of the Rider, provided the surviving spouse is age 80 or younger at the start of the new Term and the new Term does not extend beyond the selected Annuity Date. If the surviving spouse elects to not repurchase the Rider, it will automatically terminate the day immediately following the end of the Term.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the end of a Term,
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the date any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the date we receive notification from the Owner to terminate this Rider,
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the last surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, or
 
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Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary. You may purchase this Rider only if the age of each Annuitant is 80 years or younger on the date of purchase and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
How the Rider Works
 
You may, prior to the Annuity Date, choose any of the Annuity Options described in your Contract, or you may choose the GIA Plus Annuity Option provided this Rider has been in effect for at least 10 years from its Effective Date. If you choose the GIA Plus Annuity Option, you must choose fixed annuity payments and the entire amount available for annuitization at the time you convert to the GIA Plus Annuity Option must be annuitized. The guaranteed income purchased per $1,000 of the net amount applied to the annuity payments will be based on an effective annual interest rate of 2.0% and the 1996 US Annuity 2000 Mortality Table with the age set back 8 years.
 
Annuity Payments – The annuity payments that may be elected under the GIA Plus Annuity Option are:
 
  •  Life Only,
 
  •  Life with 10 years or more Period Certain,
 
  •  Joint and Survivor Life, or
 
  •  20 years or more Period Certain.
 
The Rider contains annuity tables for each GIA Plus Annuity Option available.
 
On the Annuity Date, the Net Amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA Plus Annuity Option will be equal to the greater of the Guaranteed Income Base on that day or the GIA Plus Step-Up Value on that day, less the following:
 
  •  applicable withdrawal charges resulting from the conversion to the GIA Plus Annuity Option,
 
  •  applicable annual charges for expenses related to other optional benefit riders attached to the Contract that are in effect as of the Annuity Date, and
 
  •  charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Premium Taxes.
 
If you elect the GIA Plus Annuity Option, the waiver of withdrawal charges as described in the Contract will not apply. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Withdrawal Charge.
 
For information regarding taxation of annuity payments, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Initial Values – The Guaranteed Income Base, GIA Plus Withdrawal Base, GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount and GIA Plus Step-Up Value are values used in determining the Net Amount applied on the Annuity Date to provide payments under the GIA Plus Annuity Option.
 
The initial values are determined on the Rider Effective Date as follows:
 
  •  if this Rider is effective on the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment.
 
  •  if this Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Contract Value on that day.
 
  •  if this Rider is effective on the Contract Date, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base is equal to the total Purchase Payments received in the first 60 days since the Rider Effective Date.
 
  •  if this Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base is equal to the Contract Value on that day plus any Purchase Payments received in the first 60 days since the Rider Effective Date.
 
  •  the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for the Contract Year beginning on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base.
 
  •  the GIA Plus Step-Up Value is equal to the Contract Value on the Rider Effective Date.
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Base and GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount after the Rider Effective Date are recalculated only on each subsequent Contract Anniversary.
 
Subsequent Values – The Guaranteed Income Base, GIA Plus Withdrawal Base, GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount and GIA Plus Step-Up Value after the Rider Effective Date are determined as follows:
 
Limitation on Subsequent Purchase Payments – For purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary from the Effective Date of the Rider


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to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Guaranteed Income Base – On any day after the Rider Effective Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to:
 
  •  the Guaranteed Income Base on the prior day, multiplied by a daily factor of 1.000133680 which is equivalent to increasing the Guaranteed Income Base at an annual growth rate of 5%, plus
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us on that day, less
 
  •  adjustments for withdrawals made on that day.
 
The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Income Base immediately prior to the withdrawal by the percentage decrease in Contract Value as a result of the withdrawal.
 
However, on each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, if there is at least one withdrawal during the prior Contract Year and the cumulative withdrawals for that Contract Year do not exceed the sum of:
 
  •  the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for that Contract Year, and
 
  •  any remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount,
 
the Guaranteed Income Base as of that Contract Anniversary will be reset to equal:
 
  •  the Guaranteed Income Base on the Rider Effective Date or prior Contract Anniversary, whichever is later, increased at an annual growth rate of 5%, plus
 
  •  the amount of any subsequent Purchase Payments received by us during the prior Contract Year, each increased at an annual growth rate of 5% from the effective date of that Purchase Payment, less
 
  •  the amount of cumulative withdrawals during the prior Contract Year.
 
The 5% annual growth rate will stop accruing as of the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary prior to the youngest Annuitant’s 81st birthday, or
 
  •  the day this Rider terminates.
 
GIA Plus Withdrawal Base – On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base is equal to:
 
  •  the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base determined on the Rider Effective Date, plus
 
  •  the amount of any subsequent Purchase Payments received by us after the Rider Effective Date, up through the day immediately prior to that Contract Anniversary.
 
GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount – On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for the Contract Year beginning on that Contract Anniversary is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
GIA Plus Step-Up Value – On any day after the Rider Effective Date, the GIA Plus Step-Up Value is equal to:
 
  •  the GIA Plus Step-Up Value as of the prior day, plus
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us on that day, less
 
  •  adjustment for withdrawals made on that day.
 
The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the GIA Plus Step-Up Value immediately prior to the withdrawal by the percentage decrease in Contract Value as a result of that withdrawal.
 
On any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date and prior to the youngest Annuitant’s 81st birthday, the GIA Plus Step-Up Value is set equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary, or
 
  •  the GIA Plus Step-Up Value immediately prior to that Contract Anniversary.
 
The GIA Plus Step-Up Value will then be adjusted for any Purchase Payments or withdrawals on that Contract Anniversary in accordance with the first paragraph of this subsection.
 
The GIA Plus Step-Up Value on each Contract Anniversary on and after the youngest Annuitant’s 81st birthday is equal to the GIA Plus Step-Up Value immediately prior to the Contract Anniversary preceding that 81st birthday, adjusted for any Purchase Payments and withdrawals since that anniversary.


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Partial Conversion of Net Contract Value for Annuity Payments – If a portion of the Net Contract Value (Contract Value less Contract Debt) is converted to provide payments under an Annuity Option described in the Contract at any time before you annuitize under the GIA Plus Annuity Option, the amount converted will be considered a “withdrawal” for purposes of determining withdrawal adjustments to the Guaranteed Income Base and GIA Plus Step-Up Value. A withdrawal charge may also apply.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue, unless otherwise terminated.
 
Termination
 
Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day we receive notification from you to terminate the Rider,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the terms of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
Upon your request, the Rider may be terminated at any time. If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary. If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center more than 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate the day we receive the request.
 
If the Rider is terminated, you must wait until a Contract Anniversary that is at least 1 year from the Effective Date of the termination before the Rider may be purchased again (if available).
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX F: GUARANTEED INCOME ADVANTAGE PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
PACIFIC LIFE AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
 
Pacific Life
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company is a life insurance company domiciled in Nebraska. Along with our subsidiaries and affiliates, our operations include life insurance, annuity, pension and institutional products, mutual funds, broker-dealer operations, and investment advisory services. At the end of 2009, we had $214.9 billion of individual life insurance in force and total admitted assets of approximately $94.7 billion.
 
We are authorized to conduct our life insurance and annuity business in the District of Columbia and in all states except New York. Our executive office is located at 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California 92660.
 
We were originally organized on January 2, 1868, under the name “Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California” and reincorporated as “Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company” on July 22, 1936. On September 1, 1997, we converted from a mutual life insurance company to a stock life insurance company ultimately controlled by a mutual holding company and were authorized by California regulatory authorities to change our name to Pacific Life Insurance Company. On September 1, 2005, Pacific Life changed from a California corporation to a Nebraska corporation. Pacific Life is a subsidiary of Pacific LifeCorp, a holding company, which, in turn, is a subsidiary of Pacific Mutual Holding Company, a mutual holding company. Under their respective charters, Pacific Mutual Holding Company must always hold at least 51% of the outstanding voting stock of Pacific LifeCorp, and Pacific LifeCorp must always own 100% of the voting stock of Pacific Life. Owners of Pacific Life’s annuity contracts and life insurance policies have certain membership interests in Pacific Mutual Holding Company, consisting principally of the right to vote on the election of the Board of Directors of the mutual holding company and on other matters, and certain rights upon liquidation or dissolutions of the mutual holding company.
 
Our subsidiary, Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD) serves as the principal underwriter (distributor) for the Contracts. PSD is located at 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California 92660. We and PSD enter into selling agreements with broker-dealers, whose financial professionals are authorized by state insurance departments to sell the Contracts.


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We may provide you with reports of our ratings both as an insurance company and as to our claims-paying ability with respect to our General Account assets.
 
Separate Account A
 
Separate Account A was established on September 7, 1994 as a separate account of ours, and is registered with the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”), as a type of investment company called a “unit investment trust.” We established the Separate Account under the laws of the state of California. The Separate Account is maintained under the laws of the state of Nebraska.
 
Obligations arising under your Contract are our general corporate obligations. We are also the legal owner of the assets in the Separate Account. Assets of the Separate Account attributed to the reserves and other liabilities under the Contract and other contracts issued by us that are supported by the Separate Account may not be charged with liabilities arising from any of our other business; any income, gain or loss (whether or not realized) from the assets of the Separate Account are credited to or charged against the Separate Account without regard to our other income, gain or loss.
 
We may invest money in the Separate Account in order to commence its operations and for other purposes, but not to support contracts other than variable annuity contracts. A portion of the Separate Account’s assets may include accumulations of charges we make against the Separate Account and investment results of assets so accumulated. These additional assets are ours and we may transfer them to our General Account at any time; however, before making any such transfer, we will consider any possible adverse impact the transfer might have on the Separate Account. Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to transfer our assets in the Separate Account to our General Account.
 
The Separate Account is not the sole investor in the Funds. Investment in a Fund by other separate accounts in connection with variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts may create conflicts. See the accompanying Prospectus and SAI for the Funds for more information.


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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
 
The table below is designed to help you understand how the Variable Investment Options have performed. It shows the value of a Subaccount Unit at the beginning and end of each period, as well as the number of Subaccount Units at the end of each period. A Subaccount Unit is also called an Accumulation Unit.
 
You should read the table in conjunction with the financial statements for Separate Account A, which are included in its annual report dated as of December 31, 2009.
 
                                                                         
          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
International Value
                                                                       
2009
    $7.87       $9.90       43,161,143       $7.75       $9.73       17,539,133       $7.66       $9.61       1,061,250  
2008
    $15.32       $7.87       59,211,277       $15.11       $7.75       24,476,469       $14.96       $7.66       1,591,335  
2007
    $14.66       $15.32       51,677,253       $14.49       $15.11       21,050,055       $14.37       $14.96       1,739,485  
2006
    $11.86       $14.66       32,404,621       $11.74       $14.49       13,569,351       $11.66       $14.37       1,778,685  
2005
    $11.01       $11.86       23,225,074       $10.93       $11.74       9,293,731       $10.87       $11.66       2,134,923  
2004
    $9.62       $11.01       24,459,524       $9.56       $10.93       9,374,678       $9.53       $10.87       3,291,061  
2003
    $7.66       $9.62       16,233,519       $7.63       $9.56       6,370,903       $7.61       $9.53       3,655,738  
2002
    $9.04       $7.66       7,111,510       $9.03       $7.63       2,574,027       $9.02       $7.61       2,461,826  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.04       2,504,993       $10.00       $9.03       834,945       $10.00       $9.02       851,203  
 
 
Long/Short Large Cap
                                                                       
2009
    $6.53       $8.19       42,685,331       $6.52       $8.16       16,923,937       $6.51       $8.14       781,483  
05/02/2008-12/31/2008
    $10.16       $6.53       26,565,327       $10.16       $6.52       10,865,151       $10.16       $6.51       531,721  
 
 
International Small-Cap
                                                                       
2009
    $5.39       $6.91       30,226,002       $5.36       $6.86       12,301,686       $5.34       $6.82       508,117  
2008
    $10.50       $5.39       25,909,620       $10.47       $5.36       10,817,475       $10.44       $5.34       519,303  
2007
    $10.20       $10.50       23,380,515       $10.18       $10.47       9,544,382       $10.17       $10.44       553,881  
05/02/2006-12/31/2006
    $10.00       $10.20       16,736,433       $10.07       $10.18       7,316,246       $10.16       $10.17       572,574  
 
 
Mid-Cap Value
                                                                       
05/01/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.00       $13.09       19,247,946       $10.00       $13.07       7,699,691       $10.00       $13.06       342,570  
 
 
Equity Index
                                                                       
2009
    $7.80       $9.70       73,181,360       $7.68       $9.53       29,185,488       $7.59       $9.41       1,745,845  
2008
    $12.66       $7.80       32,601,789       $12.49       $7.68       13,015,296       $12.37       $7.59       1,072,161  
2007
    $12.24       $12.66       16,777,935       $12.10       $12.49       6,596,000       $11.99       $12.37       923,352  
2006
    $10.77       $12.24       20,909,790       $10.67       $12.10       8,382,617       $10.59       $11.99       1,288,207  
2005
    $10.46       $10.77       18,904,245       $10.38       $10.67       7,102,093       $10.32       $10.59       1,735,029  
2004
    $9.61       $10.46       7,448,400       $9.56       $10.38       2,344,348       $9.52       $10.32       1,267,489  
2003
    $7.62       $9.61       6,772,396       $7.59       $9.56       2,421,254       $7.57       $9.52       1,680,027  
2002
    $9.97       $7.62       7,481,319       $9.96       $7.59       2,544,186       $9.95       $7.57       2,382,816  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.97       3,326,399       $10.00       $9.96       1,114,646       $10.00       $9.95       1,209,353  
 
 
Small-Cap Index
                                                                       
2009
    $10.49       $13.23       2,766,137       $10.33       $13.00       1,001,615       $10.21       $12.83       358,904  
2008
    $16.42       $10.49       2,751,668       $16.20       $10.33       1,109,197       $16.04       $10.21       406,230  
2007
    $17.04       $16.42       14,799,822       $16.84       $16.20       6,068,318       $16.70       $16.04       831,178  
2006
    $14.71       $17.04       6,899,007       $14.57       $16.84       3,001,440       $14.46       $16.70       805,318  
2005
    $14.32       $14.71       10,397,751       $14.22       $14.57       4,561,777       $14.14       $14.46       1,421,905  
2004
    $12.37       $14.32       9,634,851       $12.30       $14.22       3,962,745       $12.25       $14.14       1,748,128  
2003
    $8.58       $12.37       5,654,000       $8.55       $12.30       2,074,241       $8.53       $12.25       1,400,194  
2002
    $11.07       $8.58       2,655,068       $11.05       $8.55       1,065,894       $11.04       $8.53       971,831  
04/09/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $11.07       603,720       $10.00       $11.05       204,137       $10.00       $11.04       186,900  
 
 
Small-Cap Equity
                                                                       
2009
    $10.09       $12.93       13,179,400       $10.02       $12.81       5,364,020       $9.97       $12.72       202,432  
2008
    $13.89       $10.09       14,572,163       $13.82       $10.02       6,208,309       $13.76       $9.97       248,998  
2007
    $13.32       $13.89       7,620,399       $13.27       $13.82       3,252,633       $13.24       $13.76       144,156  
2006
    $11.41       $13.32       1,612,535       $11.39       $13.27       580,617       $11.38       $13.24       63,491  
05/05/2005-12/31/2005
    $10.11       $11.41       1,064,974       $10.15       $11.39       497,625       $10.15       $11.38       80,972  
 
 
Equity
                                                                       
2009
    $6.31       $8.39       532,580       $6.21       $8.25       219,801       $6.14       $8.14       141,831  
2008
    $10.89       $6.31       627,045       $10.75       $6.21       242,942       $10.64       $6.14       166,090  
2007
    $10.42       $10.89       776,941       $10.30       $10.75       332,957       $10.22       $10.64       236,601  
2006
    $9.75       $10.42       557,225       $9.66       $10.30       285,959       $9.59       $10.22       236,167  
2005
    $9.31       $9.75       667,892       $9.24       $9.66       478,846       $9.19       $9.59       374,564  
2004
    $9.00       $9.31       797,084       $8.95       $9.24       408,775       $8.91       $9.19       455,566  
2003
    $7.36       $9.00       965,248       $7.33       $8.95       455,200       $7.31       $8.91       642,882  
2002
    $10.18       $7.36       1,105,041       $10.16       $7.33       470,399       $10.15       $7.31       529,832  
04/04/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.18       954,219       $10.00       $10.16       442,282       $10.00       $10.15       388,844  
 
 
American Funds®Asset Allocation
                                                                       
02/02/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.00       $12.79       2,581,594       $10.09       $12.76       1,022,740       $9.07       $12.75       9,290  
 
 


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          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
American Funds® Growth-Income
                                                                       
2009
    $7.69       $9.89       33,297,201       $7.63       $9.80       13,839,260       $7.59       $9.73       765,383  
2008
    $12.63       $7.69       32,821,292       $12.56       $7.63       14,096,457       $12.51       $7.59       902,935  
2007
    $12.27       $12.63       36,031,155       $12.23       $12.56       14,929,361       $12.20       $12.51       1,140,622  
2006
    $10.87       $12.27       26,376,319       $10.85       $12.23       11,241,890       $10.84       $12.20       1,234,121  
05/02/2005-12/31/2005
    $10.00       $10.87       14,198,100       $10.12       $10.85       5,521,729       $10.09       $10.84       912,742  
 
 
American Funds® Growth
                                                                       
2009
    $7.73       $10.56       18,376,300       $7.67       $10.46       7,353,363       $7.63       $10.38       432,481  
2008
    $14.08       $7.73       33,848,121       $14.00       $7.67       13,710,807       $13.95       $7.63       841,379  
2007
    $12.79       $14.08       24,376,511       $12.74       $14.00       10,031,841       $12.71       $13.95       687,375  
2006
    $11.84       $12.79       27,853,997       $11.82       $12.74       11,592,795       $11.81       $12.71       1,064,626  
05/02/2005-12/31/2005
    $10.00       $11.84       18,531,682       $10.12       $11.82       6,983,924       $10.15       $11.81       1,075,239  
 
 
Large-Cap Value
                                                                       
2009
    $8.30       $10.05       72,322,603       $8.17       $9.87       29,178,958       $8.07       $9.74       2,141,820  
2008
    $12.93       $8.30       53,209,184       $12.76       $8.17       21,774,538       $12.63       $8.07       2,040,792  
2007
    $12.70       $12.93       48,846,338       $12.56       $12.76       19,948,834       $12.45       $12.63       2,341,894  
2006
    $10.98       $12.70       37,344,391       $10.88       $12.56       15,877,686       $10.80       $12.45       2,752,849  
2005
    $10.52       $10.98       27,320,961       $10.44       $10.88       11,317,968       $10.38       $10.80       3,218,656  
2004
    $9.73       $10.52       41,222,265       $9.67       $10.44       16,123,858       $9.63       $10.38       6,016,668  
2003
    $7.53       $9.73       24,755,093       $7.51       $9.67       10,422,829       $7.49       $9.63       6,090,920  
2002
    $9.94       $7.53       12,859,786       $9.93       $7.51       5,254,064       $9.92       $7.49       4,854,748  
04/04/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.94       5,006,090       $10.00       $9.93       2,023,116       $10.00       $9.92       1,787,341  
 
 
Technology
                                                                       
2009
    $5.47       $8.21       1,820,631       $5.39       $8.07       634,082       $5.33       $7.97       290,399  
2008
    $11.51       $5.47       1,371,803       $11.35       $5.39       498,028       $11.24       $5.33       333,268  
2007
    $9.51       $11.51       2,022,482       $9.40       $11.35       1,092,031       $9.32       $11.24       391,353  
2006
    $8.84       $9.51       1,589,886       $8.76       $9.40       886,437       $8.70       $9.32       421,109  
2005
    $7.38       $8.84       2,462,891       $7.33       $8.76       1,309,540       $7.29       $8.70       524,103  
2004
    $7.24       $7.38       2,297,364       $7.20       $7.33       1,155,537       $7.17       $7.29       621,340  
2003
    $5.16       $7.24       3,014,428       $5.15       $7.20       1,073,167       $5.13       $7.17       818,208  
2002
    $9.78       $5.16       1,487,105       $9.77       $5.15       604,395       $9.76       $5.13       515,237  
04/05/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.78       625,538       $10.00       $9.77       374,247       $10.00       $9.76       345,460  
 
 
Floating Rate Loan
                                                                       
2009
    $6.75       $8.25       27,598,614       $6.73       $8.21       9,707,942       $6.71       $8.18       747,943  
2008
    $9.71       $6.75       23,035,957       $9.69       $6.73       7,750,819       $9.68       $6.71       572,066  
05/03/2007-12/31/2007
    $10.00       $9.71       17,694,734       $10.00       $9.69       6,044,366       $10.00       $9.68       594,734  
 
 
Small-Cap Growth
                                                                       
2009
    $7.64       $11.08       11,422,147       $7.53       $10.89       4,772,531       $7.44       $10.75       243,174  
2008
    $14.69       $7.64       15,428,010       $14.49       $7.53       6,529,991       $14.35       $7.44       382,816  
2007
    $12.98       $14.69       11,855,736       $12.83       $14.49       4,994,930       $12.72       $14.35       342,950  
2006
    $12.56       $12.98       6,459,380       $12.44       $12.83       2,781,679       $12.35       $12.72       258,219  
2005
    $12.44       $12.56       7,013,489       $12.34       $12.44       2,785,226       $12.27       $12.35       454,932  
2004
    $10.63       $12.44       1,411,025       $10.57       $12.34       523,346       $10.53       $12.27       237,265  
2003
    $8.12       $10.63       1,724,803       $8.09       $10.57       666,157       $8.07       $10.53       402,565  
2002
    $11.01       $8.12       1,014,789       $11.00       $8.09       423,805       $10.99       $8.07       369,398  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $11.01       293,748       $10.00       $11.00       137,859       $10.00       $10.99       113,526  
 
 
Short Duration Bond
                                                                       
2009
    $9.77       $10.44       31,508,623       $9.66       $10.31       11,376,812       $9.58       $10.20       766,582  
2008
    $10.47       $9.77       36,494,766       $10.37       $9.66       13,197,934       $10.30       $9.58       873,096  
2007
    $10.19       $10.47       31,982,008       $10.11       $10.37       11,872,271       $10.06       $10.30       1,123,318  
2006
    $9.93       $10.19       38,476,357       $9.88       $10.11       14,375,289       $9.84       $10.06       1,868,119  
2005
    $9.94       $9.93       29,394,674       $9.91       $9.88       10,768,218       $9.88       $9.84       2,244,758  
2004
    $9.99       $9.94       24,698,124       $9.97       $9.91       8,977,631       $9.96       $9.88       2,971,880  
05/01/2003-12/31/2003
    $10.00       $9.99       14,384,887       $10.00       $9.97       5,126,474       $10.00       $9.96       2,854,347  
 
 
Comstock
                                                                       
2009
    $7.50       $9.49       51,442,456       $7.38       $9.32       20,687,756       $7.29       $9.20       1,066,195  
2008
    $12.06       $7.50       45,078,085       $11.89       $7.38       18,823,851       $11.77       $7.29       1,073,691  
2007
    $12.64       $12.06       49,023,200       $12.49       $11.89       19,832,496       $12.39       $11.77       1,492,347  
2006
    $11.04       $12.64       26,271,081       $10.94       $12.49       10,692,298       $10.86       $12.39       1,225,584  
2005
    $10.76       $11.04       15,446,011       $10.68       $10.94       5,743,813       $10.62       $10.86       1,239,565  
2004
    $9.33       $10.76       11,934,458       $9.28       $10.68       4,562,154       $9.25       $10.62       1,507,530  
2003
    $7.22       $9.33       6,604,550       $7.20       $9.28       2,821,909       $7.18       $9.25       1,465,531  
2002
    $9.43       $7.22       1,198,731       $9.42       $7.20       653,082       $9.41       $7.18       459,562  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.43       703,659       $10.00       $9.42       414,009       $10.00       $9.41       341,710  
 
 

77


 

                                                                         
          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
Growth LT
                                                                       
2009
    $7.13       $9.63       28,024,023       $7.02       $9.46       11,441,130       $6.94       $9.34       951,344  
2008
    $12.28       $7.13       27,564,237       $12.11       $7.02       11,569,790       $11.99       $6.94       1,067,440  
2007
    $10.80       $12.28       21,726,819       $10.67       $12.11       9,192,974       $10.58       $11.99       1,140,414  
2006
    $10.00       $10.80       20,503,191       $9.91       $10.67       8,797,442       $9.84       $10.58       1,501,651  
2005
    $9.44       $10.00       12,786,820       $9.37       $9.91       5,421,771       $9.32       $9.84       1,673,304  
2004
    $8.70       $9.44       15,342,087       $8.65       $9.37       5,738,539       $8.61       $9.32       2,603,422  
2003
    $6.60       $8.70       11,422,554       $6.58       $8.65       4,362,063       $6.56       $8.61       2,811,147  
2002
    $9.44       $6.60       8,308,946       $9.43       $6.58       3,060,290       $9.42       $6.56       2,887,113  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.44       3,483,870       $10.00       $9.43       1,294,812       $10.00       $9.42       1,275,421  
 
 
Focused 30
                                                                       
2009
    $11.36       $16.81       1,620,478       $11.19       $16.52       490,049       $11.06       $16.30       83,096  
2008
    $23.17       $11.36       6,039,719       $22.86       $11.19       2,443,185       $22.63       $11.06       205,740  
2007
    $17.87       $23.17       2,185,602       $17.66       $22.86       800,982       $17.51       $22.63       158,286  
2006
    $14.68       $17.87       1,631,096       $14.54       $17.66       613,371       $14.44       $17.51       179,857  
2005
    $12.23       $14.68       1,426,661       $12.13       $14.54       591,502       $12.07       $14.44       186,618  
2004
    $10.82       $12.23       1,112,729       $10.76       $12.13       295,421       $10.72       $12.07       218,935  
2003
    $7.73       $10.82       820,810       $7.71       $10.76       285,259       $7.69       $10.72       260,196  
2002
    $11.14       $7.73       559,816       $11.12       $7.71       220,187       $11.11       $7.69       211,042  
04/01/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $11.14       384,534       $10.00       $11.12       133,218       $10.00       $11.11       151,411  
 
 
Health Sciences
                                                                       
2009
    $11.18       $13.99       838,191       $11.01       $13.75       348,339       $10.88       $13.57       195,014  
2008
    $15.82       $11.18       994,256       $15.61       $11.01       412,589       $15.45       $10.88       233,181  
2007
    $13.81       $15.82       1,237,030       $13.65       $15.61       630,739       $13.54       $15.45       264,509  
2006
    $12.99       $13.81       1,411,422       $12.87       $13.65       522,952       $12.77       $13.54       335,383  
2005
    $11.45       $12.99       1,613,960       $11.37       $12.87       1,009,200       $11.30       $12.77       429,951  
2004
    $10.83       $11.45       1,828,388       $10.77       $11.37       791,475       $10.72       $11.30       508,555  
2003
    $8.61       $10.83       1,742,267       $8.58       $10.77       828,543       $8.56       $10.72       705,383  
2002
    $11.42       $8.61       1,403,390       $11.40       $8.58       608,030       $11.39       $8.56       713,719  
04/03/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $11.42       928,216       $10.00       $11.40       384,333       $10.00       $11.39       566,124  
 
 
Mid-Cap Equity                                                                        
2009
    $10.62       $14.58       27,544,580       $10.45       $14.33       11,259,082       $10.33       $14.14       956,465  
2008
    $17.69       $10.62       55,862,907       $17.45       $10.45       23,263,538       $17.28       $10.33       1,696,918  
2007
    $18.38       $17.69       53,021,708       $18.17       $17.45       22,017,662       $18.02       $17.28       2,039,782  
2006
    $16.25       $18.38       42,398,406       $16.10       $18.17       17,929,819       $15.99       $18.02       2,466,604  
2005
    $15.18       $16.25       29,032,393       $15.07       $16.10       11,739,864       $14.98       $15.99       2.932,182  
2004
    $12.34       $15.18       14,663,864       $12.27       $15.07       5,918,325       $12.22       $14.98       2,623,177  
2003
    $9.71       $12.34       10,139,353       $9.68       $12.27       4,442,833       $9.66       $12.22       2,890,203  
2002
    $11.55       $9.71       6,005,013       $11.53       $9.68       2,748,866       $11.52       $9.66       2,389,821  
04/03/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $11.55       3,095,066       $10.00       $11.53       1,301,503       $10.00       $11.52       1,186,018  
 
 
International Large-Cap
                                                                       
2009
    $10.61       $13.94       40,324,651       $10.44       $13.70       16,460,754       $10.32       $13.52       1,111,878  
2008
    $16.68       $10.61       42,119,498       $16.46       $10.44       17,509,439       $16.29       $10.32       1,267,367  
2007
    $15.52       $16.68       40,143,701       $15.34       $16.46       16,553,310       $15.21       $16.29       1,536,464  
2006
    $12.42       $15.52       53,538,447       $12.31       $15.34       22,555,163       $12.22       $15.21       2,580,491  
2005
    $11.21       $12.42       44,183,055       $11.12       $12.31       17,689,591       $11.06       $12.22       3,571,044  
2004
    $9.61       $11.21       25,556,009       $9.55       $11.12       10,215,565       $9.51       $11.06       3,508,209  
2003
    $7.48       $9.61       15,132,339       $7.46       $9.55       6,493,298       $7.44       $9.51       3,578,216  
2002
    $9.23       $7.48       6,181,781       $9.22       $7.46       2,556,131       $9.21       $7.44       2,293,198  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.23       2,663,769       $10.00       $9.22       989,214       $10.00       $9.21       886,013  
 
 
Mid-Cap Growth
                                                                       
2009
    $6.48       $10.15       25,201,258       $6.38       $9.98       10,514,744       $6.31       $9.85       851,833  
2008
    $12.76       $6.48       18,991,281       $12.58       $6.38       8,080,836       $12.46       $6.31       888,769  
2007
    $10.55       $12.76       24,139,506       $10.43       $12.58       10,367,091       $10.34       $12.46       1,172,860  
2006
    $9.85       $10.55       20,030,155       $9.75       $10.43       8,963,134       $9.68       $10.34       1,433,334  
2005
    $8.49       $9.85       4,227,825       $8.43       $9.75       1,874,372       $8.38       $9.68       902,141  
2004
    $7.10       $8.49       3,922,200       $7.06       $8.43       2,216,459       $7.03       $8.38       1,060,288  
2003
    $5.53       $7.10       3,450,185       $5.52       $7.06       2,025,364       $5.50       $7.03       1,182,007  
2002
    $10.62       $5.53       2,396,177       $10.61       $5.52       1,574,297       $10.60       $5.50       1,093,405  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.62       1,200,646       $10.00       $10.61       756,565       $10.00       $10.60       537,801  
 
 
Real Estate
                                                                       
2009
    $14.91       $19.40       6,143,247       $14.68       $19.07       2,568,510       $14.51       $18.82       187,806  
2008
    $25.27       $14.91       5,699,749       $24.93       $14.68       2,430,450       $24.68       $14.51       210,959  
2007
    $30.64       $25.27       7,252,014       $30.29       $24.93       3,139,444       $30.03       $24.68       359,992  
2006
    $22.56       $30.64       6,513,881       $22.35       $30.29       2,864,640       $22.19       $30.03       517,718  
2005
    $19.64       $22.56       5,405,509       $19.49       $22.35       2,041,650       $19.38       $22.19       627,708  
2004
    $14.51       $19.64       4,845,399       $14.43       $19.49       1,905,654       $14.37       $19.38       783,966  
2003
    $10.72       $14.51       3,694,864       $10.69       $14.43       1,394,468       $10.66       $14.37       906,395  
2002
    $10.94       $10.72       2,355,294       $10.92       $10.69       869,518       $10.91       $10.66       742,357  
04/04/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.94       1,127,914       $10.00       $10.92       415,872       $10.00       $10.91       323,797  
 
 

78


 

                                                                         
          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
Small-Cap Value
                                                                       
2009
    $14.49       $18.12       7,778,514       $14.33       $17.88       3,101,003       $14.20       $17.71       185,095  
2008
    $20.52       $14.49       5,737,919       $20.33       $14.33       2,321,356       $20.19       $14.20       191,885  
2007
    $20.23       $20.52       4,965,189       $20.08       $20.33       1,906,856       $19.97       $20.19       262,336  
2006
    $17.17       $20.23       4,897,299       $17.08       $20.08       1,752,071       $17.02       $19.97       356,300  
2005
    $15.36       $17.17       4,801,477       $15.31       $17.08       1,691,934       $15.27       $17.02       433,838  
2004
    $12.55       $15.36       6,404,610       $12.54       $15.31       2,555,569       $12.52       $15.27       765,219  
05/01/2003-12/31/2003
    $10.00       $12.55       3,535,410       $10.00       $12.54       1,517,298       $10.00       $12.52       745,713  
 
 
Multi-Strategy
                                                                       
2009
    $7.20       $8.71       934,875       $7.09       $8.56       436,432       $7.01       $8.45       205,883  
2008
    $13.31       $7.20       1,171,410       $13.13       $7.09       525,071       $13.00       $7.01       241,896  
2007
    $12.97       $13.31       1,724,563       $12.82       $13.13       676,348       $12.71       $13.00       319,717  
2006
    $11.80       $12.97       2,155,636       $11.69       $12.82       831,712       $11.61       $12.71       364,279  
2005
    $11.56       $11.80       2,821,148       $11.47       $11.69       1,031,078       $11.41       $11.61       535,215  
2004
    $10.70       $11.56       3,180,223       $10.64       $11.47       1,172,919       $10.60       $11.41       679,007  
2003
    $8.83       $10.70       3,035,317       $8.80       $10.64       1,152,985       $8.77       $10.60       752,111  
2002
    $10.32       $8.83       2,402,344       $10.31       $8.80       998,418       $10.29       $8.77       641,237  
04/06/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.32       1,473,184       $10.00       $10.31       519,267       $10.00       $10.29       380,828  
 
 
Main Street® Core
                                                                       
2009
    $7.02       $8.93       28,558,279       $6.91       $8.77       11,802,464       $6.83       $8.66       1,140,775  
2008
    $11.67       $7.02       41,205,551       $11.52       $6.91       16,926,657       $11.40       $6.83       1,565,652  
2007
    $11.37       $11.67       43,126,926       $11.24       $11.52       17,513,264       $11.14       $11.40       1,976,198  
2006
    $10.03       $11.37       33,321,757       $9.94       $11.24       13,625,210       $9.87       $11.14       1,983,902  
2005
    $9.62       $10.03       29,179,580       $9.55       $9.94       11,671,842       $9.50       $9.87       2,638,771  
2004
    $8.93       $9.62       14,223,814       $8.88       $9.55       5,897,453       $8.85       $9.50       2,399,097  
2003
    $7.15       $8.93       8,604,484       $7.13       $8.88       3,670,780       $7.11       $8.85       2,356,022  
2002
    $10.16       $7.15       2,578,296       $10.14       $7.13       1,211,446       $10.13       $7.11       1,015,515  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.16       1,984,450       $10.00       $10.14       840,251       $10.00       $10.13       697,289  
 
 
Emerging Markets
                                                                       
2009
    $24.54       $44.61       7,837,414       $24.16       $43.83       3,247,774       $23.88       $43.26       177,897  
2008
    $47.69       $24.54       8,418,302       $47.05       $24.16       3,562,677       $46.58       $23.88       214,705  
2007
    $36.43       $47.69       8,794,487       $36.02       $47.05       3,746,589       $35.71       $46.58       285,526  
2006
    $29.77       $36.43       7,673,700       $29.49       $36.02       3,307,012       $29.28       $35.71       376,728  
2005
    $21.39       $29.77       6,980,143       $21.23       $29.49       2,882,406       $21.11       $29.28       535,529  
2004
    $16.16       $21.39       4,137,609       $16.07       $21.23       1,670,937       $16.00       $21.11       523,622  
2003
    $9.75       $16.16       1,610,401       $9.71       $16.07       685,510       $9.69       $16.00       336,278  
2002
    $10.22       $9.75       668,754       $10.21       $9.71       243,783       $10.20       $9.69       225,126  
04/03/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.22       211,483       $10.00       $10.21       78,029       $10.00       $10.20       90,230  
 
 
Cash Management
(formerly called Money Market)
                                                                       
2009
    $10.77       $10.61       10,661,563       $10.60       $10.43       4,631,856       $10.48       $10.29       623,285  
2008
    $10.69       $10.77       21,114,676       $10.55       $10.60       6,962,481       $10.45       $10.48       1,326,940  
2007
    $10.36       $10.69       8,723,588       $10.24       $10.55       3,576,374       $10.15       $10.45       817,857  
2006
    $10.06       $10.36       8,902,198       $9.96       $10.24       3,253,488       $9.89       $10.15       904,255  
2005
    $9.94       $10.06       7,520,132       $9.87       $9.96       2,986,076       $9.81       $9.89       1,027,221  
2004
    $10.01       $9.94       7,613,780       $9.95       $9.87       2,225,698       $9.91       $9.81       1,402,841  
2003
    $10.09       $10.01       8,772,801       $10.06       $9.95       2,436,151       $10.03       $9.91       1,588,852  
2002
    $10.12       $10.09       11,419,100       $10.10       $10.06       3,600,821       $10.09       $10.03       3,129,500  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.12       8,675,282       $10.00       $10.10       3,485,768       $10.00       $10.09       2,157,872  
 
 
High Yield Bond
                                                                       
2009
    $9.74       $13.40       16,464,752       $9.59       $13.16       5,867,921       $9.48       $12.99       676,630  
2008
    $12.72       $9.74       12,046,289       $12.55       $9.59       4,153,758       $12.43       $9.48       554,513  
2007
    $12.63       $12.72       10,271,636       $12.48       $12.55       3,684,275       $12.38       $12.43       709,290  
2006
    $11.73       $12.63       9,584,644       $11.62       $12.48       3,551,183       $11.54       $12.38       843,881  
2005
    $11.65       $11.73       10,206,012       $11.56       $11.62       3,516,722       $11.50       $11.54       1,083,587  
2004
    $10.82       $11.65       9,619,489       $10.77       $11.56       3,670,580       $10.72       $11.50       1,389,214  
2003
    $9.15       $10.82       10,001,359       $9.12       $10.77       3,793,983       $9.09       $10.72       1,727,493  
2002
    $9.59       $9.15       4,408,755       $9.57       $9.12       1,784,489       $9.56       $9.09       1,241,320  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.59       1,862,023       $10.00       $9.57       482,390       $10.00       $9.56       406,825  
 
 
Managed Bond
                                                                       
2009
    $13.07       $15.56       60,205,938       $12.87       $15.29       22,543,621       $12.72       $15.09       2,274,022  
2008
    $13.52       $13.07       63,259,024       $13.34       $12.87       23,174,889       $13.21       $12.72       2,484,293  
2007
    $12.67       $13.52       62,511,763       $12.52       $13.34       23,661,614       $12.42       $13.21       3,278,354  
2006
    $12.29       $12.67       47,265,193       $12.17       $12.52       17,466,446       $12.09       $12.42       3,524,249  
2005
    $12.17       $12.29       42,829,952       $12.08       $12.17       15,953,373       $12.01       $12.09       4,699,841  
2004
    $11.74       $12.17       32,119,285       $11.68       $12.08       11,903,817       $11.63       $12.01       5,322,509  
2003
    $11.24       $11.74       23,854,309       $11.20       $11.68       8,974,943       $11.17       $11.63       6,038,644  
2002
    $10.30       $11.24       18,674,851       $10.28       $11.20       6,522,651       $10.27       $11.17       5,940,033  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.30       9,330,375       $10.00       $10.28       3,094,696       $10.00       $10.27       2,643,122  
 
 

79


 

                                                                         
          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
Inflation Managed
                                                                       
2009
    $12.55       $14.92       62,879,483       $12.36       $14.66       24,217,830       $12.22       $14.47       1,793,774  
2008
    $14.08       $12.55       69,166,318       $13.89       $12.36       25,945,488       $13.75       $12.22       1,911,933  
2007
    $13.00       $14.08       70,844,351       $12.85       $13.89       27,339,046       $12.74       $13.75       2,662,696  
2006
    $13.14       $13.00       50,164,757       $13.02       $12.85       18,992,146       $12.93       $12.74       2,856,783  
2005
    $13.03       $13.14       36,854,951       $12.93       $13.02       12,726,350       $12.86       $12.93       3,252,755  
2004
    $12.16       $13.03       28,904,226       $12.10       $12.93       10,020,214       $12.05       $12.86       3,738,839  
2003
    $11.42       $12.16       19,037,992       $11.38       $12.10       5,855,231       $11.35       $12.05       3,707,537  
2002
    $10.06       $11.42       10,913,817       $10.04       $11.38       3,212,778       $10.03       $11.35       2,692,681  
04/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.06       3,532,994       $10.00       $10.04       1,016,780       $10.00       $10.03       772,661  
 
 
Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth
                                                                       
05/05/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.12       $11.30       705,493       $10.25       $11.29       104,405       N/A       N/A       N/A  
 
 
Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth
                                                                       
05/04/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.20       $11.83       1,571,729       $10.06       $11.81       272,291       $11.79       $11.80       4,157  
 
 
Pacific Dynamix – Growth
                                                                       
05/08/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.31       $12.30       857,203       $10.48       $12.28       153,667       $10.45       $12.27       5,036  
 
 
Dividend Growth
(formerly called Diversified Research)
                                                                       
2009
    $7.65       $9.96       9,510,927       $7.53       $9.78       4,293,476       $7.44       $9.66       592,915  
2008
    $12.76       $7.65       18,199,323       $12.59       $7.53       7,704,051       $12.46       $7.44       884,944  
2007
    $12.82       $12.76       24,172,362       $12.67       $12.59       10,000,348       $12.56       $12.46       1,244,178  
2006
    $11.64       $12.82       24,468,744       $11.53       $12.67       10,619,009       $11.44       $12.56       1,722,546  
2005
    $11.24       $11.64       15,960,429       $11.16       $11.53       6,701,215       $11.09       $11.44       2,053,247  
2004
    $10.28       $11.24       6,015,531       $10.22       $11.16       2,814,536       $10.18       $11.09       1,595,171  
2003
    $7.88       $10.28       3,829,014       $7.85       $10.22       1,945,268       $7.83       $10.18       1,511,183  
2002
    $10.56       $7.88       2,648,078       $10.55       $7.85       1,400,498       $10.54       $7.83       1,389,542  
04/05/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $10.56       1,497,959       $10.00       $10.55       689,111       $10.00       $10.54       496,758  
 
 
Large-Cap Growth
                                                                       
2009
    $4.97       $6.88       43,011,663       $4.90       $6.76       17,368,438       $4.84       $6.67       1,297,552  
2008
    $10.21       $4.97       22,821,634       $10.08       $4.90       9,814,115       $9.97       $4.84       1,032,606  
2007
    $8.54       $10.21       22,347,317       $8.44       $10.08       9,589,208       $8.37       $9.97       1,199,976  
2006
    $9.02       $8.54       38,602,869       $8.94       $8.44       16,161,037       $8.87       $8.37       2,290,890  
2005
    $8.91       $9.02       24,198,667       $8.84       $8.94       9,991,185       $8.79       $8.87       2,516,298  
2004
    $8.66       $8.91       38,027,600       $8.61       $8.84       15,055,552       $8.57       $8.79       5,058,308  
2003
    $7.02       $8.66       19,708,773       $7.00       $8.61       8,321,304       $6.98       $8.57       4,492,838  
2002
    $9.64       $7.02       10,249,236       $9.62       $7.00       4,341,489       $9.61       $6.98       3,460,103  
04/05/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.64       3,907,567       $10.00       $9.62       1,638,628       $10.00       $9.61       1,290,854  
 
 
Diversified Bond
                                                                       
2009
    $9.40       $10.56       46,327,547       $9.35       $10.48       16,810,713       $9.31       $10.42       1,038,673  
2008
    $10.37       $9.40       46,328,184       $10.33       $9.35       16,479,556       $10.31       $9.31       1,084,994  
2007
    $10.40       $10.37       43,682,852       $10.39       $10.33       16,414,440       $10.38       $10.31       1,337,762  
05/04/2006-12/31/2006
    $10.01       $10.40       16,974,005       $9.99       $10.39       6,660,512       $10.01       $10.38       717,753  
 
 
Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset
(formerly called AIM V.I. PowerShares ETF Allocation)
                                                                       
02/02/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.00       $13.32       422,270       $10.05       $13.29       369,015       $9.95       $13.27       41,482  
 
 
AllianceBernstein VPS Balanced Wealth Strategy
                                                                       
2009
    $7.06       $8.64       3,115,620       $7.05       $8.61       1,240,482       $7.04       $8.59       50,224  
05/02/2008-12/31/2008
    $10.02       $7.06       2,214,265       $10.03       $7.05       634,100       $10.02       $7.04       61,304  
 
 
BlackRock Global Allocation V.I.
                                                                       
2009
    $7.89       $9.38       51,873,396       $7.88       $9.35       14,064,896       $7.87       $9.33       638,745  
05/01/2008-12/31/2008
    $10.00       $7.89       36,210,329       $10.00       $7.88       8,595,765       $10.04       $7.87       780,968  
 
 
Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation
                                                                       
2009
    $6.59       $8.43       6,838,269       $6.58       $8.41       2,452,837       $6.58       $8.38       45,308  
05/01/2008-12/31/2008
    $10.00       $6.59       5,437,694       $10.04       $6.58       1,332,533       $9.99       $6.58       40,717  
 
 
GE Investments Total Return1
                                                                       
02/04/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.06       $12.48       1,055,639       $10.13       $12.46       349,805       $11.04       $12.44       123  
 
 
Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation
                                                                       
02/10/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.07       $12.58       2,758,072       $9.74       $12.56       759,338       $10.76       $12.54       133,257  
 
 
1  All investments in GE Investments Total Return Class 4 were converted to GE Investments Total Return Class 3 on November 20, 2009.

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FEDERAL TAX ISSUES
 
The following summary of federal income tax issues is based on our understanding of current tax laws and regulations, which may be changed by legislative, judicial or administrative action. The summary is general in nature and is not intended as tax advice. Moreover, it does not consider any applicable foreign, state or local tax laws. We do not make any guarantee regarding the tax status, federal, foreign, state or local, of any Contract or any transaction involving the Contracts. Accordingly, you should consult a qualified tax adviser for complete information and advice before purchasing a Contract. Additional tax information is included in the SAI.
 
Diversification Requirements and Investor Control
 
Section 817(h) of the Code provides that the investments underlying a variable annuity must satisfy certain diversification requirements in order for the contract to be treated as an annuity contract and qualify for tax deferral. We believe the underlying Variable Investment Options for the contract meet these requirements. Details on these diversification requirements appear in the Pacific Select Fund SAI.
 
In addition, for a variable annuity contract to qualify for tax deferral, assets in the separate accounts supporting the contract must be considered to be owned by the insurance company and not by the contract owner. Under current U.S. tax law, if a contract owner has excessive control over the investments made by a separate account, or the underlying fund, the contract owner will be taxed currently on income and gains from the account or fund. In other words, in such a case of investor control the contract owner would not derive the tax benefits normally associated with variable annuities. For more information regarding investor control, please refer to the contract SAI.
 
Taxation of Annuities - General Provisions
 
Section 72 of the Code governs the taxation of annuities in general, and we designed the Contracts to meet the requirements of Section 72 of the Code. We believe that, under current law, the Contract will be treated as an annuity for federal income tax purposes if the Contract Owner is a natural person or an agent for a natural person, and that we (as the issuing insurance company), and not the Contract Owner(s), will be treated as the owner of the investments underlying the Contract. Accordingly, no tax should be payable by you as a Contract Owner as a result of any increase in Contract Value until you receive money under your Contract. You should, however, consider how amounts will be taxed when you do receive them. The following discussion assumes that your Contract will be treated as an annuity for federal income tax purposes.
 
Non-Qualified Contracts - General Rules
 
These general rules apply to Non-Qualified Contracts. As discussed below, however, tax rules may differ for Qualified Contracts and you should consult a qualified tax adviser if you are purchasing a Qualified Contract.
 
Taxes Payable
 
A Contract Owner is not taxed on the increases in the value of a Contract until an amount is received or deemed to be received. An amount could be received or deemed to be received, for example, if there is a partial distribution, a lump sum distribution, an Annuity payment or a material change in the Contract. Increases in Contract Value that are received or deemed to be received are taxable to the Contract Owner as ordinary income. Distributions of net investment income or capital gains that each Subaccount receives from its corresponding Portfolio are automatically reinvested in such Portfolio unless we, on behalf of the Separate Account, elect otherwise. As noted above, you will be subject to federal income taxes on the investment income from your Contract only when it is distributed to you.
 
Non-Natural Persons as Owners
 
If a contract is not owned or held by a natural person or as agent for a natural person, the contract generally will not be treated as an “annuity” for tax purposes, meaning that the contract owner will be subject to current tax on annual increases in Contract Value at ordinary income rates unless some other exception applies. Certain entities, such as some trusts, may be deemed to be acting as agents for natural persons. Corporations, including S corps, C corps, LLCs, partnerships and FLPs, and tax exempt entities are non-natural persons that will not be deemed to be acting as agents for natural persons.
 
Addition of Optional Rider or Material Change to Contract
 
The addition of a rider to the Contract, or a material change in the Contract’s provisions, such as a change in Contract ownership or an assignment of the Contract, could cause it to be considered newly issued or entered into for tax purposes, and thus could cause a taxable event or the Contract to lose certain grandfathered tax status. Please contact your tax adviser for more information.
 
Taxes Payable on Withdrawals Prior to the Annuity Date
 
Amounts you withdraw before annuitization, including amounts withdrawn from your Contract Value in connection with partial withdrawals for payment of any charges and fees, will be treated first as taxable income to the extent that your Contract Value exceeds the aggregate of your Purchase Payments reduced by non-taxable amounts previously received (investment in the Contract), and then as non-taxable recovery of your Purchase Payments. Therefore, you include in your gross income the smaller of: a) the amount of the partial


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withdrawal, or b) the amount by which your Contract Value (determined without considering any surrender charge) immediately before you receive the distribution exceeds your investment in the Contract at that time. If at the time of a partial withdrawal your Contract Value does not exceed your investment in the Contract, then the withdrawal will not be includable in gross income and will simply reduce your investment in the Contract. Exceptions to this rule are distributions in full discharge of your Contract (a full surrender) or distributions from contracts issued and investments made before August 14, 1982.
 
The assignment or pledge of (or agreement to assign or pledge) the value of the Contract for a loan will be treated as a withdrawal subject to these rules. You should consult your tax adviser for additional information regarding taking a partial or a full distribution from your Contract.
 
Multiple Contracts (Aggregation Rule)
 
Multiple Non-Qualified Contracts that are issued after October 21, 1988, by us or our affiliates to the same Owner during the same calendar year are treated as one Contract for purposes of determining the taxation of distributions (the amount includible in gross income under Code Section 72(e)) prior to the Annuity Date from any of the Contracts. A Contract received in a tax-free exchange under Code Section 1035 may be treated as a new Contract for this purpose. For Contracts subject to the Aggregation Rule, the values of the Contracts and the investments in the Contracts should be added together to determine the taxation under Code Section 72(e). Withdrawals will be treated first as withdrawals of income until all of the income from all such Contracts is withdrawn. The Treasury Department has specific authority under Code Section 72(e)(11) to issue regulations to prevent the avoidance of the income-out-first rules for withdrawals prior to the Annuity Date through the serial purchase of Contracts or otherwise. As of the date of this Prospectus there are no regulations interpreting these aggregation provisions.
 
10% Tax Penalty Applicable to Certain Withdrawals and Annuity Payments
 
The Code provides that the taxable portion of a withdrawal or other distribution may be subject to a tax penalty equal to 10% of that taxable portion unless the withdrawal is:
 
  •  made on or after the date you reach age 591/2,
 
  •  made by a Beneficiary after your death,
 
  •  attributable to your becoming disabled,
 
  •  any payment made under an immediate annuity,
 
  •  attributable to an investment in the Contract made prior to August 14, 1982, or
 
  •  any distribution that is a part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (Code Section 72(q) payments) made (at least annually) over your life (or life expectancy) or the joint lives (or life expectancies) of you and your designated beneficiary.
 
Additional exceptions may apply to certain Qualified Contracts (see Taxes Payable on Annuity Payments and the applicable Qualified Contracts).
 
Taxes Payable on Optional Rider Charges
 
It is our understanding that the charges relating to any optional death benefit rider are not subject to current taxation and we will not report them as such. However, the IRS may determine that these charges should be treated as partial withdrawals subject to current taxation to the extent of any gain and, if applicable, the 10% tax penalty. We reserve the right to report any optional death benefit rider charges as partial withdrawals if we believe that we would be expected to report them in accordance with IRS regulations.
 
Distributions After the Annuity Date
 
After you annuitize, a portion of each annuity payment you receive under a Contract generally will be treated as a partial recovery of Investments (as used here, “Investments” means the aggregate Purchase Payments less any amounts that were previously received under the Contract but not included in income) and will not be taxable. (In certain circumstances, subsequent modifications to an initially-established payment pattern may result in the imposition of a tax penalty.) The remainder of each annuity payment will be taxed as ordinary income. However, after the full amount of aggregate Investments has been recovered, the full amount of each annuity payment will be taxed as ordinary income. Exactly how an annuity payment is divided into taxable and non-taxable portions depends on the period over which annuity payments are expected to be received, which in turn is governed by the form of annuity selected and, where a lifetime annuity is chosen, by the life expectancy of the Annuitant(s) or payee(s). Such a payment may also be subject to a tax penalty.
 
Same-Sex Spouses
 
Pursuant to Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), same-sex marriages currently are not recognized for purposes of federal law. Therefore, the favorable income-deferral options afforded by federal tax law to an opposite-sex spouse under Internal Revenue Code sections 72(s) and 401(a)(9) are currently NOT available to a same-sex spouse. Same-sex spouses who own or are considering the


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purchase of annuity products that provide benefits based upon status as a spouse should consult a tax advisor. To the extent that an annuity contract or certificate accords to spouses other rights or benefits that are not affected by DOMA, same-sex spouses remain entitled to such rights or benefits to the same extent as any annuity holder’s spouse.
 
Distributions to Beneficiary After Contract Owner’s Death
 
Generally, the same tax rules apply to amounts received by the Beneficiary as those that apply to the Contract Owner, except that the early withdrawal tax penalty does not apply. Thus, any annuity payments or lump sum withdrawal will be divided into taxable and non-taxable portions.
 
If within sixty days after the date on which a lump sum death benefit first becomes payable and the Beneficiary elects to receive annuity or life expectancy payments in lieu of the lump sum death benefit, then the Beneficiary will not be treated for tax purposes as having received the lump sum death benefit in the tax year it first becomes payable. Rather, in that case, the Beneficiary will be taxed on the annuity or life expectancy payments as they are received.
 
If death occurs after the Annuity Date, but before the expiration of a period certain option, the Beneficiary will recover the balance of the Investments as payments are made and may be allowed a deduction on the final tax return for the unrecovered Investments. A lump sum payment taken by the Beneficiary in lieu of remaining monthly annuity payments is not considered an annuity payment for tax purposes. The portion of any lump sum payment to a Beneficiary in excess of aggregate unrecovered Investments would be subject to income tax.
 
Contract Owner’s Estate
 
Generally, any amount payable to a Beneficiary after the Contract Owner’s death, whether before or after the Annuity Date, will be included in the estate of the Contract Owner for federal estate tax purposes. If the inclusion of the value of the Contract triggers a federal estate tax to be paid, the Beneficiary may be able to use a deduction called Income in Respect of Decedent (IRD) in calculating the income taxes payable upon receipt of the death benefit proceeds. In addition, designation of a non-spouse Beneficiary who either is 371/2 or more years younger than a Contract Owner or is a grandchild of a Contract Owner may have Generation Skipping Transfer Tax (GSTT) consequences under section 2601 of the Code. You should consult with a qualified tax advisor if you have questions about federal estate tax, IRD, or GSTT.
 
Gifts of Annuity Contracts
 
Generally, gifts of Non-Qualified Contracts prior to the annuity start date will trigger tax reporting to the donor on the gain on the Contract, with the donee getting a stepped-up basis for the amount included in the donor’s income. The 10% early withdrawal tax penalty and gift tax also may be applicable. This provision does not apply to transfers between spouses or incident to a divorce, or transfers to and from a trust acting as agent for the Owner or the Owner’s spouse.
 
Tax Withholding for Non-Qualified Contracts
 
Unless you elect to the contrary, any amounts you receive under your Contract that are attributable to investment income will be subject to withholding to meet federal income tax obligations. For nonperiodic distributions, you will have the option to provide us with withholding information at the time of your withdrawal request. If you do not provide us with withholding information, we will generally withhold 10% of the taxable distribution amount and remit it to the IRS. For periodic (annuity) payments, the rate of withholding will be determined on the basis of the withholding information you provide to us with your application. If you do not provide us with withholding information, we are required to determine the withholding, from every annuity payment, as if you are a married person with 3 exemptions.
 
Certain states have indicated that pension and annuity withholding will apply to payments made to residents.
 
Please call 1-800-722-4448 with any questions about the required withholding information. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
Tax Withholding for Non-resident Aliens or Non U.S. Persons
 
Taxable distributions to Contract Owners who are non-resident aliens or other non U.S. persons are generally subject to U.S. federal income tax withholding at a 30% rate, unless a lower treaty rate applies. Prospective foreign owners are advised to consult with a tax advisor regarding the U.S., state and foreign tax treatment of a Contract.
 
Exchanges of Non-Qualified Contracts (1035 Exchanges)
 
You may make your initial or an additional Purchase Payment through an exchange of an existing annuity contract or endowment life insurance contract pursuant to Section 1035 of the Code (a 1035 exchange). The exchange can be effected by completing the Transfer/Exchange form, indicating in the appropriate section of the form that you are making a 1035 exchange and submitting any applicable state replacement form. The form is available by calling your Financial professional or by calling our Contract Owner number at


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1-800-722-4448. Financial professionals can call 1-800-722-2333. Once completed, the form should be mailed to us, along with the annuity contract or life insurance policy you are exchanging. If you are making an initial Purchase Payment, a completed Contract application should also be attached.
 
In general terms, Section 1035 of the Code provides that no gain or loss is recognized when you exchange one annuity or life insurance contract for another annuity contract. Transactions under Section 1035, however, may be subject to special rules and may require special procedures and record keeping, particularly if the exchanged annuity contract was issued prior to August 14, 1982. You should consult your tax adviser prior to effecting a 1035 exchange.
 
Partial 1035 Exchanges
 
A partial exchange is the direct transfer of only a portion of an existing annuity’s Contract Value to a new annuity contract. Rev. Proc. 2008-24 adopted the provisions of Notice 2003-51, with some modifications, finalizing the guidelines for partial 1035 exchanges. Under Rev. Proc. 2008-24, the 24 month period is reduced to 12 months, so that a partial exchange will be treated as tax-free under Code Section 1035 if there are no distributions, from either annuity, within 12 months of the partial 1035 exchange. Alternatively, a partial 1035 exchange will be treated as tax-free under Code Section 1035 if the taxpayer demonstrates that any distribution taken within the 12 months is due to a specifically identified condition that occurred between the date of the partial transfer and the distribution (the conditions are death, disability, attaining age 591/2, divorce or loss of employment). Rev Proc. 2008-24 removes the subjective element of Notice 2003-51 (whether the distribution was contemplated at the time of the partial exchange). Also, Rev. Proc. 2008-24 provides that if the partial exchange does not qualify as a tax-free exchange under Code Section 1035, it will be treated as a taxable distribution with a subsequent repurchase, and that if the partial exchange is treated as tax-free under Code Section 1035 and this Rev. Proc., the two contracts will not be aggregated and treated as one contract, but rather will be treated as two separate contracts for tax and penalty purposes.
 
You should consult your tax adviser prior to effecting a partial 1035 exchange.
 
Impact of Federal Income Taxes
 
In general, in the case of Non-Qualified Contracts, if you are an individual and expect to accumulate your Contract Value over a relatively long period of time without making significant withdrawals, there may be federal income tax advantages in purchasing such a Contract. This is because any increase in Contract Value is not subject to current taxation. Income taxes are deferred until the money is withdrawn, at which point taxation occurs only on the gain from the investment in the Contract. With income taxes deferred, you may accumulate more money over the long term through a variable annuity than you may through non-tax-deferred investments. The advantage may be greater if you decide to liquidate your Contract Value in the form of monthly annuity payments after your retirement, or if your tax rate is lower at that time than during the period that you held the Contract, or both.
 
When withdrawals or distributions are taken from the variable annuity, the gain is taxed as ordinary income. This may be a potential disadvantage because money that had been invested in other types of assets may qualify for a more favorable federal tax rate. For example, in 2010 the tax rate applicable both to the sale of capital gain assets held more than 1 year and to the receipt of qualifying dividends by individuals is generally 15% (5% for lower-income individuals). In contrast, an ordinary income tax rate of up to 35% applies to taxable withdrawals on distributions from a variable annuity in 2010. Also, withdrawals or distributions taken from a variable annuity may be subject to a tax penalty equal to 10% of the taxable portion, although exceptions to the tax penalty may apply.
 
An owner of a variable annuity cannot deduct or offset losses on transfers to or from Subaccounts, or at the time of any partial withdrawals. If you surrender your Contract and your Net Contract Value is less than the aggregate of your investments in the Contract (reduced by any previous non-taxable distributions), there may be a deductible ordinary income loss, although the deduction may be limited. Consult with your tax adviser regarding the impact of federal income taxes on your specific situation.
 
Taxes on Pacific Life
 
Although the Separate Account is registered as an investment company, it is not a separate taxpayer for purposes of the Code. The earnings of the Separate Account are taxed as part of our operations. No charge is made against the Separate Account for our federal income taxes (excluding the charge for premium taxes), but we will review, periodically, the question of charges to the Separate Account or your Contract for such taxes. Such a charge may be made in future years for any federal income taxes that would be attributable to the Separate Account or to our operations with respect to your Contract, or attributable, directly or indirectly, to investments in your Contract.
 
Under current law, we may incur state and local taxes (in addition to premium taxes) in several states. At present, these taxes are not significant and they are not charged against the Contract or the Separate Account. If there is a material change in applicable state or local tax laws, the imposition of any such taxes upon us that are attributable to the Separate Account or to our operations with respect to your Contract may result in a corresponding charge against the Separate Account or your Contract.
 
Given the uncertainty of future changes in applicable federal, state or local tax laws, we cannot appropriately describe the effect a tax law change may have on taxes that would be attributable to the Separate Account or your Contract.


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Qualified Contracts - General Rules
 
The Contracts are available to a variety of Qualified Plans and IRAs. Tax restrictions and consequences for Contracts under each type of Qualified Plan and IRAs differ from each other and from those for Non-Qualified Contracts. No attempt is made herein to provide more than general information about the use of the Contract with the various types of Qualified Plans and IRAs. Participants under such Qualified Plans, as well as Contract Owners, Annuitants and Beneficiaries, are cautioned that the rights of any person to any benefits under such Qualified Plans may be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plans themselves or limited by applicable law, regardless of the terms and conditions of the Contract issued in connection therewith.
 
Tax Deferral
 
It is important to know that Qualified Plans such as 401(k)s, as well as IRAs, are already tax-deferred. Therefore, an annuity contract should be used to fund an IRA or Qualified Plan to benefit from the annuity’s features other than tax deferral. The other benefits of using a variable annuity to fund a Qualified Plan or an IRA include the lifetime income options, guaranteed death benefit options and the ability to transfer among Investment Options without sales or withdrawal charges. You should consider if the Contract is a suitable investment if you are investing through a Qualified Plan or IRA.
 
Taxes Payable
 
Generally, amounts received from Qualified Contracts are taxed as ordinary income under Section 72, to the extent that they are not treated as a tax free recovery of contributions. Different rules apply for Roth IRAs. Consult your tax advisor before requesting a distribution from a Qualified Contract.
 
10% Tax Penalty for Early Withdrawals
 
Generally, distributions from IRAs and Qualified Plans that occur before you attain age 591/2 are subject to a 10% tax penalty imposed on the amount of the distribution that is includable in gross income, with certain exceptions. These exceptions include distributions:
 
  •  made to a beneficiary after the owner’s/participant’s death,
 
  •  attributable to the owner/participant becoming disabled under Section 72(m)(7),
 
  •  that are part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (also referred to as SEPPs or 72(t) payments) made (at least annually) over your life (or life expectancy) or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of you and your designated beneficiary,
 
  •  for certain higher education expenses (IRAs only),
 
  •  used to pay for certain health insurance premiums or medical expenses (IRAs only),
 
  •  for costs related to the purchase of your first home (IRAs only), and
 
  •  (except for IRAs) made to an employee after separation from service after reaching age 55 (or age 50 in the case of a qualified public safety employee).
 
Tax Withholding for Qualified Contracts
 
Distributions from a Contract under a Qualified Plan (not including an individual retirement annuity subject to Code Section 408 or Code Section 408A) to an employee, surviving spouse, or former spouse who is an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, in the form of a lump sum settlement or periodic annuity payments for a fixed period of fewer than 10 years are subject to mandatory income tax withholding of 20% of the taxable amount of the distribution, unless:
 
  •  the distributee directs the transfer of such amounts in cash to another Qualified Plan or a traditional IRA, or
 
  •  the payment is a minimum distribution required under the Code.
 
The taxable amount is the amount of the distribution less the amount allocable to after-tax contributions. All other types of taxable distributions are subject to withholding unless the distributee elects not to have withholding apply.
 
Certain states have indicated that pension and annuity withholding will apply to payments made to residents.
 
IRAs and Other Qualified Contracts with Optional Benefit Riders
 
As of the date of this Prospectus, there are special considerations for purchases of any optional living or death benefit riders. IRS regulations state that Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) may generally not invest in life insurance contracts. We believe that these regulations do not prohibit the optional living or death benefit riders from being added to your Contract if it is issued as a Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA or SIMPLE IRA. However, the law is unclear and it is possible that a Contract that has optional living or death benefit riders and is issued as a Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, or SIMPLE IRA could be disqualified and may result in increased taxes to the Owner.


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Similarly, section 401 plans, section 403(b), 457(b) annuities and IRAs (but not Roth IRAs) can only offer incidental death benefits. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) could take the position that the enhanced death benefits provided by optional benefit riders are not incidental. In addition, to the extent that the optional benefit riders alter the timing or the amount of the payment of distributions under a Qualified Contract, the riders cannot be paid out in violation of the minimum distribution rules of the Code.
 
It is our understanding that the charges relating to the optional benefit riders are not subject to current taxation and we will not report them as such. However, the IRS may determine that these charges should be treated as partial withdrawals subject to current income taxation to the extent of any gain and, if applicable, the 10% tax penalty. We reserve the right to report the rider charges as partial withdrawals if we believe that we would be expected to report them in accordance with IRS regulations.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
The regulations provide that you cannot keep assets in Qualified Plans or IRAs indefinitely. Eventually they are required to be distributed; at that time (the Required Beginning Date (RBD)), Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) are the amount that must be distributed each year.
 
Under Section 401 of the Code (for Qualified Plans) and Section 408 of the Code (for IRAs), the entire interest under the Contract must be distributed to the Owner/Annuitant no later than the Owner/Annuitant’s RBD, or distributions over the life of the Owner/Annuitant (or the Owner/Annuitant and his beneficiary) must begin no later than the RBD.
 
The RBD for distributions from a Qualified Contract maintained for an IRA under Section 408 of the Code is generally April 1 of the calendar year following the year in which the Owner/Annuitant reaches age 701/2. The RBD for a Qualified Contract maintained for a qualified retirement or pension plan under Section 401 of the Code or a Section 403(b) annuity is April 1 of the calendar year following the later of the year in which the Owner/Annuitant reaches age 701/2, or, if the plan so provides, the year in which the Owner/Annuitant retires. There is no RBD for a Roth IRA maintained pursuant to Section 408A of the Code.
 
The IRS issued Final and Temporary Regulations on April 17, 2002 (“Final Regulations”). Effective January 1, 2003, the IRS requires that all IRA holders and Qualified Plan Participants (with one exception discussed below) use the Uniform Lifetime Table to calculate their RMDs.
 
The Uniform Lifetime Table is based on a joint life expectancy and uses the IRA owner’s actual age and assumes that the beneficiary is 10 years younger than the IRA owner. Note that under these Final Regulations, the IRA owner does not need to actually have a named beneficiary when they turn age 701/2.
 
The exception noted above is for an IRA owner who has a spouse, who is more than 10 years younger, as the sole beneficiary on the IRA. In that situation, the spouse’s actual age (and life expectancy) will be used in the joint life calculation.
 
If the Owner/Annuitant dies prior to his RBD or complete distribution from the Qualified Contract, the remainder shall be distributed as provided in the “Qualified Contract Distribution Rules” section of this Prospectus. For non-spouse beneficiaries, life expectancy is initially computed by use of the Single Life Table of the Final Regulations (Regulation Section 1.401(a)(9)-9). Subsequent life expectancy shall be calculated by reducing the life expectancy of the Beneficiary by one in each following calendar year.
 
For calendar year 2003 and thereafter, taxpayers (and the underlying Qualified Plan) must rely on the Final and Temporary Regulations (discussed above) for determining RMDs. If any future guidance from the IRS is more restrictive than the guidance in these Final and Temporary Regulations, the future guidance will be issued without retroactive effect.
 
The method of distribution selected must comply with the minimum distribution rules of Code Section 401(a)(9), and the applicable proposed Regulations thereunder.
 
Actuarial Value
 
In accordance with recent changes in laws and regulations, RMDs may be calculated based on the sum of the contract value and the actuarial value of any additional death benefits and benefits from optional riders that you have purchased under the Contract. As a result, RMDs may be larger than if the calculation were based on the contract value only, which may in turn result in an earlier (but not before the required beginning date) distribution under the Contract and an increased amount of taxable income distributed to the contract owner, and a reduction of death benefits and the benefits of any optional riders.
 
RMDs and Annuity Options
 
Under the Final Regulations, for retirement plans that qualify under Section 401 or 408 of the Code, the period elected for receipt of RMDs as annuity payments under Annuity Options 2 and 4 generally may be:
 
  •  no longer than the joint life expectancy of the Annuitant and Beneficiary in the year that the Annuitant reaches age 701/2, and
 
  •  must be shorter than such joint life expectancy if the Beneficiary is not the Annuitant’s spouse and is more than 10 years younger than the Annuitant.


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Under Annuity Option 3, if the Beneficiary is not the Annuitant’s spouse and is more than 10 years younger than the Annuitant, the 662/3% and 100% elections specified below may not be available. The restrictions on options for retirement plans that qualify under Sections 401 and 408 also apply to a retirement plan that qualifies under Section 403(b) with respect to amounts that accrued after December 31, 1986.
 
Loans
 
Certain Owners of Qualified Contracts may borrow against their Contracts. Otherwise loans from us are not permitted. You may request a loan from us, using your Contract Value as your only security if yours is a Qualified Contract that is:
 
  •  not subject to Title 1 of ERISA,
 
  •  issued under Section 403(b) of the Code, and
 
  •  issued under a Plan that permits Loans (a “Loan Eligible Plan”).
 
You may have only one loan outstanding at any time. The minimum loan amount is $1,000, subject to certain state limitations. Your Contract Debt at the effective date of your loan may not exceed the lesser of:
 
  •  50% of the amount available for withdrawal under this Contract (see WITHDRAWALS – Optional Withdrawals – Amount Available for Withdrawal), or
 
  •  $50,000 less your highest outstanding Contract Debt during the 12-month period immediately preceding the effective date of your loan.
 
If your request for a loan is processed, you will be charged interest on your Contract Debt at a fixed annual rate equal to 5%. The amount held in the Loan Account to secure your loan will earn a return equal to an annual rate of 3%. These rates may vary by state.
 
Interest charges accrue on your Contract Debt daily, beginning on the effective date of your loan. Interest earned on the Loan Account Value accrues daily beginning on the day following the effective date of the loan, and those earnings will be transferred once a year to your Investment Options in accordance with your most recent allocation instructions. For more information about loans, including the consequences of loans, loan procedures, loan terms and repayment terms, see the SAI.
 
We may change these loan provisions to reflect changes in the Code or interpretations thereof. We urge you to consult with a qualified tax adviser prior to effecting any loan transaction under your Contract.
 
IRAs and Qualified Plans
 
The following is only a general discussion about types of IRAs and Qualified Plans for which the Contracts are available. We are not the administrator of any Qualified Plan. The plan administrator and/or custodian, whichever is applicable, (but not us) is responsible for all Plan administrative duties including, but not limited to, notification of distribution options, disbursement of Plan benefits, handling any processing and administration of Qualified Plan loans, compliance regulatory requirements and federal and state tax reporting of income/distributions from the Plan to Plan participants and, if applicable, Beneficiaries of Plan participants and IRA contributions from Plan participants. Our administrative duties are limited to administration of the Contract and any disbursements of any Contract benefits to the Owner, Annuitant, or Beneficiary of the Contract, as applicable. Our tax reporting responsibility is limited to federal and state tax reporting of income/distributions to the applicable payee and IRA contributions from the Owner of a Contract, as recorded on our books and records. The Qualified Plan (the plan administrator or the custodian) is required to provide us with information regarding individuals with signatory authority on the Contract(s) owned. If you are purchasing a Qualified Contract, you should consult with your plan administrator and/or a qualified tax adviser. You should also consult with a qualified tax adviser and/or plan administrator before you withdraw any portion of your Contract Value.
 
Individual Retirement Annuities (“IRAs”)
 
In addition to “traditional” IRAs established under Code 408, there are SEP IRAs under Code Section 408(k), Roth IRAs governed by Code Section 408A and SIMPLE IRAs established under Code Section 408(p). Also, Qualified Plans under Section 401, 403(b), or 457(b) of the Code that include after-tax employee contributions may be treated as deemed IRAs subject to the same rules and limitations as traditional IRAs. Contributions to each of these types of IRAs are subject to differing limitations. The following is a very general description of each type of IRA and other Qualified Plans.
 
Traditional IRAs
 
Traditional IRAs are subject to limitations on the amount that may be contributed each year, the persons who may be eligible to contribute, when rollovers are available and when distributions must commence. Depending upon the circumstances of the individual, contributions to a traditional IRA may be made on a deductible or non-deductible basis.


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Annual contributions are generally allowed for persons who have not attained age 701/2 and who have compensation (as defined by the IRS) of at least the contribution amount. Distributions of minimum amounts specified by the Code must commence by April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which you attain age 701/2. Failure to make mandatory minimum distributions may result in imposition of a 50% tax penalty on any difference between the required distribution amount and the amount actually distributed. Additional distribution rules apply after your death.
 
You (or your surviving spouse if you die) may rollover funds (such as proceeds from existing insurance policies, annuity contracts or securities) from certain existing Qualified Plans into your traditional IRA if those funds are in cash. This will require you to liquidate any value accumulated under the existing Qualified Plan. Mandatory withholding of 20% may apply to any rollover distribution from your existing Qualified Plan if the distribution is not transferred directly to your traditional IRA. To avoid this withholding you should have cash transferred directly from the insurance company or plan trustee to your traditional IRA.
 
SIMPLE IRAs
 
The Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees of Small Employers (“SIMPLE Plan”) is a type of IRA established under Code Section 408(p)(2). Depending upon the SIMPLE Plan, employers may make plan contributions into a SIMPLE IRA established by each participant of the SIMPLE Plan. Like other IRAs, a 10% tax penalty is imposed on certain distributions that occur before an employee attains age 591/2. In addition, the tax penalty is increased to 25% for amounts received or rolled to another IRA or Qualified Plan during the 2-year period beginning on the date an employee first participated in a qualified salary reduction arrangement pursuant to a SIMPLE Plan maintained by their employer. Contributions to a SIMPLE IRA will generally include employee salary deferral contributions and employer contributions. Distributions from a SIMPLE IRA may be transferred to another SIMPLE IRA tax free or may be eligible for tax free rollover to a traditional IRA, a 403(b), a 457(b) or other Qualified Plan after the required 2-year period.
 
SEP-IRAs
 
A Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) is an employer sponsored retirement plan under which an employer is allowed to make contributions toward their employees’ retirement, as well as their own retirement (if the employer is self-employed). A SEP is a type of IRA established under Code Section 408(k). Under a SEP, a separate IRA account called a SEP-IRA is set up by or for each eligible employee and the employer makes the contribution to the account. Like other IRAs, a 10% tax penalty is imposed on certain distributions that occur before an employee attains age 591/2.
 
Roth IRAs
 
Section 408A of the Code permits eligible individuals to establish a Roth IRA. Contributions to a Roth IRA are not deductible, but withdrawals of amounts contributed and the earnings thereon that meet certain requirements are not subject to federal income tax. In general, Roth IRAs are subject to limitations on the amount that may be contributed and the persons who may be eligible to contribute and are subject to certain required distribution rules on the death of the Contract Owner. Unlike a traditional IRA, Roth IRAs are not subject to minimum required distribution rules during the Contract Owner’s lifetime. Generally, however, the amount remaining in a Roth IRA must be distributed by the end of the fifth year after the death of the Contract Owner/Annuitant or distributed over the life expectancy of the Designated Beneficiary. The owner of a traditional IRA may convert a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA under certain circumstances. The conversion of a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA will subject the amount of the converted traditional IRA to federal income tax. Anyone considering the purchase of a Qualified Contract as a Roth IRA or a “conversion” Roth IRA should consult with a qualified tax adviser.
 
In accordance with recent changes in laws and regulations, at the time of either a full or partial conversion from a Traditional IRA annuity to a Roth IRA annuity, the determination of the amount to be reported as income will be based on the annuity contract’s “fair market value”, which will include all front-end loads and other non-recurring charges assessed in the 12 months immediately preceding the conversion, and the actuarial present value of any additional contract benefits.
 
Tax Sheltered Annuities (“TSAs”)
 
Employees of certain tax-exempt organizations, such as public schools or hospitals, may defer compensation through an eligible plan under Code Section 403(b). Salary deferral amounts received from employers for these employees are excludable from the employees’ gross income (subject to maximum contribution limits). Distributions under these Contracts must comply with certain limitations as to timing, or result in tax penalties. Distributions from amounts contributed to a TSA pursuant to a salary reduction arrangement, may be made from a TSA only upon attaining age 591/2, severance from employment, death, disability, or financial hardship. Section 403(b) annuity distributions can be rolled over to other Qualified Plans in a manner similar to those permitted by Qualified Plans that are maintained pursuant to Section 401 of the Code.
 
In accordance with Code Section 403(b) and final regulations published on July 26, 2007 (“Final Regulations”), as of January 1, 2009, we are required to provide information regarding loans or hardship distributions from your Contract to your 403(b) employer or an agent of your 403(b) employer, upon request. In addition, prior to processing your request for a loan, a hardship distribution or a rollover, we are required to verify certain information about you with your 403(b) employer (or if applicable, former 403(b) employer).


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Section 457(b) Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans
 
Certain employees of governmental entities or tax exempt employers may defer compensation through an eligible plan under Code section 457(b). Contributions to a Contract of an eligible plan are subject to limitations. Subject to plan provisions and a qualifying triggering event, assets in a Section 457(b) plan established by a governmental entity may be transferred or rolled into an IRA or another Qualified Plan, if the Qualified Plan allows the transfer or rollover. If a rollover to an IRA is completed, the assets become subject to IRA rules, including the 10% penalty on distributions prior to age 591/2. Assets from other plans may be rolled into a governmental 457(b) plan if the 457(b) plan allows the rollover and if the investment provider is able to segregate the assets for tax reporting purposes. Consult both the distributing plan and the receiving plan prior to making this election. Assets in a 457(b) plan set up by a tax exempt employer may not be rolled to a different type of Qualified Plan or IRA at any time.
 
401(k) Plans; Pension and Profit-Sharing Plans
 
Qualified Plans may be established by an employer for certain eligible employees under Section 401 of the Code. These plans may be 401(k) plans, profit-sharing plans, or other pension or retirement plans. Contributions to these plans are subject to limitations. Rollover to other eligible plans may be available. Please consult your Qualified Plans Summary Plan description for more information.
 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
Voting Rights
 
We are the legal owner of the shares of the Portfolios held by the Subaccounts. We may vote on any matter voted on at shareholders’ meetings of the Funds. However, our current interpretation of applicable law requires us to vote the number of shares attributable to your Variable Account Value (your “voting interest”) in accordance with your directions.
 
We will pass proxy materials on to you so that you have an opportunity to give us voting instructions for your voting interest. You may provide your instructions by proxy or in person at the shareholders’ meeting. If there are shares of a Portfolio held by a Subaccount for which we do not receive timely voting instructions, we will vote those shares in the same proportion as all other shares of that Portfolio held by that Subaccount for which we have received timely voting instructions. If we do not receive any voting instructions for the shares in a Separate Account, we will vote the shares in that Separate Account in the same proportion as the total votes for all of our separate accounts for which we’ve received timely instructions. If we hold shares of a Portfolio in our General Account, we will vote such shares in the same proportion as the total votes cast for all of our separate accounts, including Separate Account A. We will vote shares of any Portfolio held by our non-insurance affiliates in the same proportion as the total votes for all separate accounts of ours and our insurance affiliates. As a result of proportional voting, the votes cast by a small number of Contract Owners may determine the outcome of a vote.
 
We may elect, in the future, to vote shares of the Portfolios held in Separate Account A in our own right if we are permitted to do so through a change in applicable federal securities laws or regulations, or in their interpretation.
 
The number of Portfolio shares that form the basis for your voting interest is determined as of the record date set by the Board of Trustees of the Fund. It is equal to:
 
  •  your Contract Value allocated to the Subaccount corresponding to that Portfolio, divided by
 
  •  the net asset value per share of that Portfolio.
 
Fractional votes will be counted. We reserve the right, if required or permitted by a change in federal regulations or their interpretation, to amend how we calculate your voting interest.
 
After your Annuity Date, if you have selected a variable annuity, the voting rights under your Contract will continue during the payout period of your annuity, but the number of shares that form the basis for your voting interest, as described above, will decrease throughout the payout period.
 
Changes to Your Contract
 
Contract Owner(s) and Contingent Owner
 
Transfer of Contract ownership may involve federal income tax and/or gift tax consequences; you should consult a qualified tax adviser before effecting such a transfer. A change to or from joint Contract ownership is considered a transfer of ownership. If your Contract is Non-Qualified, you may change Contract ownership at any time while the Annuitant is living and prior to your Annuity Date. You may name a different Owner or add or remove a Joint Owner or Contingent Owner. A Contract cannot name more than two Contract Owners (either as Joint or Contingent Owners) at any time. Any newly-named Contract Owners, including Joint and/or Contingent Owners, must be under the age of 86 at the time of change or addition. The Contract Owner(s) may make all decisions regarding the Contract, including making allocation decisions and exercising voting rights. Transactions under a Contract with Joint Owners require approval from both Owners.


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If your Contract is Qualified under Code Sections 401 or 457(b), the Qualified Plan must be the sole Owner of the Contract and the ownership cannot be changed unless and until a triggering event has been met under the terms of the Qualified Plan. Upon such event, the ownership can only be changed to the Annuitant. If your Contract is Qualified under Code Sections 408 and 403(b), you must be the sole Owner of the Contract and no changes can be made.
 
Annuitant and Contingent or Joint Annuitant
 
Your sole Annuitant cannot be changed, and Joint Annuitants cannot be added or changed, once your Contract is issued. Certain changes may be permitted in connection with Contingent Annuitants. See ANNUITIZATION – Selecting Your Annuitant. There may be limited exceptions for certain Qualified Contracts.
 
Beneficiaries
 
Your Beneficiary is the person(s) or entity who may receive death benefit proceeds under your Contract or any remaining annuity payments after the Annuity Date if the Annuitant or Owner dies. You may change or remove your Beneficiary or add Beneficiaries at any time prior to the death of the Annuitant or Owner, as applicable. Any change or addition will generally take effect only when we receive all necessary documents, in proper form, at our Service Center and we record the change or addition. Any change or addition will not affect any payment made or any other action taken by us before the change or addition was received and recorded.
 
Spousal consent may be required to change the Beneficiary of an IRA. If you are considering removing a spouse as a Beneficiary, it is recommended that you consult your legal or tax advisor regarding any applicable state or federal laws prior to requesting the change. If you have named your Beneficiary irrevocably, you will need to obtain that Beneficiary’s consent before making any changes. Qualified Contracts may have additional restrictions on naming and changing Beneficiaries. If your Contract was issued in connection with a Qualified Plan subject to Title I of ERISA, contact your Plan Administrator for details. We require that Contracts issued under Code Sections 401 and 457(b) name the Plan as Beneficiary. If you leave no surviving Beneficiary or Contingent Beneficiary, your estate will receive any death benefit proceeds under your Contract.
 
Changes to All Contracts
 
If, in the judgment of our management, continued investment by Separate Account A in one or more of the Portfolios becomes unsuitable or unavailable, we may seek to alter the Variable Investment Options available under the Contracts. We do not expect that a Portfolio will become unsuitable, but unsuitability issues could arise due to changes in investment policies, market conditions, tax laws, or due to marketing or other reasons.
 
Alterations of Variable Investment Options may take differing forms. We reserve the right to substitute shares of any Portfolio that were already purchased under any Contract (or shares that were to be purchased in the future under a Contract) with shares of another Portfolio, shares of another investment company or series of another investment company, or another investment vehicle. Required approvals of the SEC and state insurance regulators will be obtained before any such substitutions are effected, and you will be notified of any planned substitution.
 
We may add new Subaccounts to Separate Account A and any new Subaccounts may invest in Portfolios of a Fund or in other investment vehicles. Availability of any new Subaccounts to existing Contract Owners will be determined at our discretion. We will notify you, and will comply with the filing or other procedures established by applicable state insurance regulators, to the extent required by applicable law. We also reserve the right, after receiving any required regulatory approvals, to do any of the following:
 
  •  cease offering any Subaccount;
 
  •  add or change designated investment companies or their portfolios, or other investment vehicles;
 
  •  add, delete or make substitutions for the securities and other assets that are held or purchased by the Separate Account or any Variable Account;
 
  •  permit conversion or exchanges between portfolios and/or classes of contracts on the basis of Owners’ requests;
 
  •  add, remove or combine Variable Accounts;
 
  •  combine the assets of any Variable Account with any other of our separate accounts or of any of our affiliates;
 
  •  register or deregister Separate Account A or any Variable Account under the 1940 Act;
 
  •  operate any Variable Account as a managed investment company under the 1940 Act, or any other form permitted by law;
 
  •  run any Variable Account under the direction of a committee, board, or other group;
 
  •  restrict or eliminate any voting rights of Owners with respect to any Variable Account or other persons who have voting rights as to any Variable Account;
 
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  •  make any changes necessary to maintain the status of the Contracts as annuities under the Code;
 
  •  make other changes required under federal or state law relating to annuities;
 
  •  suspend or discontinue sale of the Contracts; and
 
  •  comply with applicable law.
 
Inquiries and Submitting Forms and Requests
 
You may reach our service representatives at 1-800-722-4448 between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Pacific time. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
Please send your forms and written requests or questions to:
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company
P.O. Box 2378
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2378
 
If you are submitting a Purchase Payment or other payment by mail, please send it, along with your application if you are submitting one, to the following address:
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company
P.O. Box 2290
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2290
 
If you are using an overnight delivery service to send payments, please send them to the following address:
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company
1299 Farnam Street, 6th Floor, AMF
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
 
The effective date of certain notices or of instructions is determined by the date and time on which we “receive” the notice or instructions. We “receive” this information only when it arrives, in proper form, at the correct mailing address set out above. In those instances when we receive electronic transmission of the information on the application from your financial professional’s broker-dealer firm and our administrative procedures with your broker-dealer so provide, we consider the application to be received on the Business Day we receive the transmission. If the address on your Contract specification pages is different and our administrative procedures with your broker-dealer so provide, in those instances when information regarding your Purchase Payment is electronically transmitted to us by the broker-dealer, we will consider the Purchase Payment to be received by us on the Business Day we receive the transmission of the information. Please call us at 1-800-722-4448 if you have any questions regarding which address you should use. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
We reserve the right to process any Purchase Payment received at an incorrect address when it is received at either the address indicated in your Contract specification pages or the appropriate address indicated in the Prospectus.
 
Purchase Payments after your initial Purchase Payment, loan requests, transfer requests, loan repayments and withdrawal requests we receive before the close of the New York Stock Exchange, which usually closes at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, will normally be effective at the end of the same Business Day that we receive them in “proper form,” unless the transaction or event is scheduled to occur on another day. Generally, whenever you submit any other form, notice or request, your instructions will be effective on the next Business Day after we receive them in “proper form” unless the transaction or event is scheduled to occur on another day. “Proper form” means in a form satisfactory to us and may require, among other things, a signature guarantee or other verification of authenticity. We do not generally require a signature guarantee unless it appears that your signature may have changed over time or the signature does not appear to be yours; or an executed application or confirmation of application, as applicable, in proper form is not received by us; or, to protect you or us. Requests regarding death benefit proceeds must be accompanied by both proof of death and instructions regarding payment satisfactory to us. You should call your financial professional or us if you have questions regarding the required form of a request.
 
Telephone and Electronic Transactions
 
You are automatically entitled to make certain transactions by telephone or, to the extent available, electronically. You may also authorize other people to make certain transaction requests by telephone or, to the extent available, electronically by so indicating on the application or by sending us instructions in writing in a form acceptable to us. We cannot guarantee that you or any other person you authorize will always be able to reach us to complete a telephone or electronic transaction; for example, all telephone lines may be busy or access to our website may be unavailable during certain periods, such as periods of substantial market fluctuations or other drastic economic or market change, or telephones or the Internet may be out of service or unavailable during severe weather conditions or other emergencies. Under these circumstances, you should submit your request in writing (or other form acceptable to us). Transaction instructions we receive by telephone or electronically before the close of the New York Stock Exchange, which usually closes at 4:00 p.m.


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Eastern time, on any Business Day will usually be effective at the end of that day, and we will provide you confirmation of each telephone or electronic transaction.
 
We have established procedures reasonably designed to confirm that instructions communicated by telephone or electronically are genuine. These procedures may require any person requesting a telephone or electronic transaction to provide certain personal identification upon our request. We may also record all or part of any telephone conversation with respect to transaction instructions. We reserve the right to deny any transaction request made by telephone or electronically. You are authorizing us to accept and to act upon instructions received by telephone or electronically with respect to your Contract, and you agree that, so long as we comply with our procedures, neither we, any of our affiliates, nor any Fund, or any of their directors, trustees, officers, employees or agents will be liable for any loss, liability, cost or expense (including attorneys’ fees) in connection with requests that we believe to be genuine. This policy means that so long as we comply with our procedures, you will bear the risk of loss arising out of the telephone or electronic transaction privileges of your Contract. If a Contract has Joint Owners, each Owner may individually make telephone and/or electronic transaction requests.
 
Electronic Information Consent
 
Subject to availability, you may authorize us to provide prospectuses, prospectus supplements, annual and semi-annual reports, quarterly statements and immediate confirmations, proxy solicitation, privacy notice and other notices and documentation in electronic format when available instead of receiving paper copies of these documents by U.S. mail. You may enroll in this service by so indicating on the application, via our Internet website, or by sending us instructions in writing in a form acceptable to us to receive such documents electronically. Not all contract documentation and notifications may be currently available in electronic format. You will continue to receive paper copies of any documents and notifications not available in electronic format by U.S. mail. In addition, you will continue to receive paper copies of annual statements if required by state or federal law. By enrolling in this service, you consent to receive in electronic format any documents added in the future. For jointly owned contracts, both owners are consenting to receive information electronically. Documents will be available on our Internet website. As documents become available, we will notify you of this by sending you an e-mail message that will include instructions on how to retrieve the document. You must have ready access to a computer with Internet access, an active e-mail account to receive this information electronically, and the ability to read and retain it. You may access and print all documents provided through this service.
 
If you plan on enrolling in this service, or are currently enrolled, please note that:
 
  •  We impose no additional charge for electronic delivery, although your Internet provider may charge for Internet access.
 
  •  You must provide a current e-mail address and notify us promptly when your e-mail address changes.
 
  •  You must update any e-mail filters that may prevent you from receiving e-mail notifications from us.
 
  •  You may request a paper copy of the information at any time for no charge, even though you consented to electronic delivery, or if you decide to revoke your consent.
 
  •  For jointly owned contracts, both owners are consenting that the primary owner will receive information electronically. (Only the primary owner will receive e-mail notices.)
 
  •  This election will be effective for all Contracts you currently own or acquire in the future.
 
  •  Electronic delivery will be cancelled if e-mails are returned undeliverable.
 
  •  This consent will remain in effect until you revoke it.
 
We are not required to deliver this information electronically and may discontinue electronic delivery in whole or in part at any time. If you are currently enrolled in this service, please call (800) 722-4448 if you would like to revoke your consent, wish to receive a paper copy of the information above, or need to update your e-mail address.
 
Timing of Payments and Transactions
 
For withdrawals, including exchanges under Code Section 1035 and other Qualified transfers, from the Variable Investment Options or for death benefit payments attributable to your Variable Account Value, we will normally send the proceeds within 7 calendar days after your request is effective or after the Notice Date, as the case may be. We will normally effect periodic annuity payments on the day that corresponds to the Annuity Date and will make payment on the following day. Payments or transfers may be suspended for a longer period under certain extraordinary circumstances. These include: a closing of the New York Stock Exchange other than on a regular holiday or weekend; a trading restriction imposed by the SEC; or an emergency declared by the SEC. Amounts withdrawn or transferred from any fixed-rate General Account Investment Option may be delayed for up to six months after the request is effective. See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT for more details.


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Confirmations, Statements and Other Reports to Contract Owners
 
Confirmations will be sent out for unscheduled Purchase Payments and transfers, loans, loan repayments, unscheduled partial withdrawals, a full withdrawal, optional living benefit rider Automatic or Owner Elected Resets/Step-Ups, and on payment of any death benefit proceeds. Periodically, we will send you a statement that provides certain information pertinent to your Contract. These statements disclose Contract Value, Subaccount values, any fixed option values, fees and charges applied to your Contract Value, transactions made and specific Contract data that apply to your Contract. Confirmations of your transactions under the pre-authorized checking plan, dollar cost averaging, earnings sweep, portfolio rebalancing, and pre-authorized withdrawal options will appear on your quarterly account statements. Your fourth-quarter statement will contain annual information about your Contract Value and transactions. You may also access these statements online.
 
If you suspect an error on a confirmation or quarterly statement, you must notify us in writing as soon as possible to ensure proper accounting to your Contract. When you write, tell us your name, contract number and a description of the suspected error. We assume transactions are accurate unless you notify us otherwise within 30 days of receiving the transaction confirmation or, if the transaction is first confirmed on the quarterly statement, within 30 days of receiving the quarterly statement. All transactions are deemed final and may not be changed after the applicable 30 day period.
 
You will also be sent an annual report for the Separate Account and the Funds and a list of the securities held in each Portfolio of the Funds, as required by the 1940 Act; or more frequently if required by law.
 
Contract Owner Mailings. To help reduce expenses, environmental waste and the volume of mail you receive, only one copy of Contract Owner documents (such as the prospectus, supplements, announcements, and each annual and semi-annual report) may be mailed to Contract Owners who share the same household address (Householding). If you are already participating, you may opt out by contacting us. Please allow 30 calendar days for regular delivery to resume. You may also elect to participate in Householding by writing to us. The current documents are available on our website any time or an individual copy of any of these documents may be requested – see the last page of this Prospectus for more information.
 
Distribution Arrangements
 
PSD, a broker-dealer and our subsidiary, pays various forms of sales compensation to broker-dealers (including other affiliates) that solicit applications for the Contracts. PSD also may reimburse other expenses associated with the promotion and solicitation of applications for the Contracts.
 
We offer the Contracts for sale through broker-dealers that have entered into selling agreements with PSD. Broker-dealers sell the Contracts through their financial professionals. PSD pays compensation to broker-dealers for the promotion and sale of the Contracts. The individual financial professional who sells you a Contract typically will receive a portion of the compensation, under the financial professional’s own arrangement with his or her broker-dealer. Broker-dealers may receive aggregate commissions of up to 7.00% of your aggregate Purchase Payments. Under certain circumstances where PSD pays lower initial commissions, certain broker-dealers that solicit applications for Contracts may be paid an ongoing persistency trail commission (sometimes called a residual) which will take into account, among other things, the Account Value and the length of time Purchase Payments have been held under a Contract. A trail commission is not anticipated to exceed 1.50%, on an annual basis, of the Account Value considered in connection with the trail commission. Certain broker-dealers may also be paid an amount under a persistency program which will be based on assets under management and duration of Contracts. The amount under the persistency program for a financial professional is not expected to exceed .25% of their total assets under management.
 
We may also provide compensation to broker-dealers for providing ongoing service in relation to Contracts that have already been purchased.
 
Additional Compensation and Revenue Sharing
 
To the extent permitted by SEC and FINRA rules and other applicable laws and regulations, selling broker-dealers may receive additional payments in the form of cash, other special compensation or reimbursement of expenses, sometimes called “revenue sharing”. These additional compensation or reimbursement arrangements may include, for example, payments in connection with the firm’s “due diligence” examination of the contracts, payments for providing conferences or seminars, sales or training programs for invited financial professionals and other employees, payments for travel expenses, including lodging, incurred by financial professionals and other employees for such seminars or training programs, seminars for the public, advertising and sales campaigns regarding the Contracts, and payments to assist a firm in connection with its administrative systems, operations and marketing expenses and/or other events or activities sponsored by the firms. Subject to applicable FINRA rules and other applicable laws and regulations, PSD and its affiliates may contribute to, as well as sponsor, various educational programs, sales contests and/or promotions in which participating firms and their salespersons may receive prizes such as merchandise, cash, or other awards. Such additional compensation may give us greater access to financial professionals of the broker-dealers that receive such compensation or may otherwise influence the way that a broker-dealer and financial professional market the Contracts.


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These arrangements may not be applicable to all firms, and the terms of such arrangements may differ between firms. We provide additional information on special compensation or reimbursement arrangements involving selling firms and other financial institutions in the Statement of Additional Information, which is available upon request. Any such compensation will not result in any additional direct charge to you by us.
 
The compensation and other benefits provided by PSD or its affiliates may be more or less than the overall compensation on similar or other products. This may influence your financial professional or broker-dealer to present this Contract over other investment options available in the marketplace. You may ask your financial professional about these differing and divergent interests, how he/she is personally compensated and how his/her broker-dealer is compensated for soliciting applications for the Contract.
 
Service Arrangements
 
We have entered into services agreements with certain Funds, or Fund affiliates, which pay us for administrative and other services, including, but not limited to, certain communications and support services. The fees are based on an annual percentage of average daily net assets of certain Fund portfolios purchased by us at Contract Owner’s instructions. Currently, the fees received do not exceed an annual percentage of 0.30% and each Fund (or Fund affiliate) may not pay the same annual percentage (some may pay significantly less). Because we receive such fees, we may be subject to competing interests in making these Funds available as Investment Options under the Contracts.
 
AllianceBernstein Investments, Inc. pays us for each AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc. portfolio (Class B) held by our separate accounts. BlackRock Distributors, Inc. pays us for each BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc. portfolio (Class III) held by our separate accounts. Franklin Templeton Services, LLC pays us for each Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust portfolio (Class 4) held by our separate accounts. Invesco Advisers, Inc. and its affiliates pay us for each AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds) portfolio (Series II) held by our separate accounts. Pacific Investment Management Company LLC pays us for each PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust portfolio held by our separate accounts. Van Kampen Funds Inc. pays us for each Van Kampen Life Investment Trust portfolio (Class II) held by our separate accounts. GE Investments Funds, Inc. pays us for each GE Investments Funds, Inc. portfolio (Class 3) held by our separate accounts.
 
PSD shall pay American Funds Distributors, Inc. at a rate of 0.16% of Purchase Payments up to $1.5 billion, 0.14% on Purchase Payments on next $1.5 billion and 0.10% on Purchase Payments made in excess, attributable to the Master Funds for certain marketing assistance.
 
Replacement of Life Insurance or Annuities
 
The term “replacement” has a special meaning in the life insurance industry and is described more fully below. Before you make your purchase decision, we want you to understand how a replacement may impact your existing plan of insurance.
 
A policy “replacement” occurs when a new policy or contract is purchased and, in connection with the sale, an existing policy or contract is surrendered, lapsed, forfeited, assigned to the replacing insurer, otherwise terminated, or used in a financed purchase. A “financed purchase” occurs when the purchase of a new life insurance policy or annuity contract involves the use of funds obtained from the values of an existing life insurance policy or annuity contract through withdrawal, surrender or loan.
 
There are circumstances in which replacing your existing life insurance policy or annuity contract can benefit you. As a general rule, however, replacement is not in your best interest. Accordingly, you should make a careful comparison of the costs and benefits of your existing policy or contract and the proposed policy or contract to determine whether replacement is in your best interest.
 
State Considerations
 
Certain Contract features described in this Prospectus may vary or may not be available in your state. The state in which your Contract is issued governs whether or not certain features, Riders, charges or fees are available or will vary under your Contract. These variations are reflected in your Contract and in Riders or Endorsements to your Contract. See your financial professional or contact us for specific information that may be applicable to your state.
 
For Contracts issued in the state of Pennsylvania, any person who knowingly and with intent to defraud any insurance company or other person files an application for insurance or statement of claim containing any materially false information or conceals for the purpose of misleading, information concerning any fact material thereto commits a fraudulent insurance act, which is a crime and subjects such person to criminal and civil penalties.
 
In addition, you understand that benefits and values provided under the Contract may be on a variable basis. Amounts directed into one or more variable Investment Options will reflect the investment experience of those Investment Options. These amounts may increase or decrease and are not guaranteed as to a dollar amount.


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California Applicants Age 60 or Older
 
For residents of the state of California 60 years of age or older, the Free Look period is a 30-day period beginning on the day you receive your Contract. If you are a California applicant age 60 or older and your Contract is delivered or issued for delivery on or after July 1, 2004, you must elect, at the time you apply for your Contract, to receive a return of either your Purchase Payments or your Contract Value proceeds if you exercise your Right to Cancel and return your Contract to us.
 
If you elect to receive the return of Purchase Payments option, the following will apply:
 
  •  We will allocate all or any portion of any Purchase Payment we receive to any available fixed option if you instruct us to do so. We will allocate all or any portion of any Purchase Payment designated for any Variable Investment Option to the Cash Management Subaccount until the Free Look Transfer Date. The Free Look Transfer Date is 30 days from the Contract Date. On the Free Look Transfer Date, we will automatically transfer your Cash Management Subaccount Value according to the instructions on your application, or your most recent instruction, if any. This automatic transfer to the Variable Investment Options according to your initial allocation instruction is excluded from the Transfer limitations. See HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions.
 
  •  If you specifically instruct us to allocate all or any portion of any additional Purchase Payments we receive to any Variable Investment Option other than the Cash Management Subaccount before the Free Look Transfer Date, you will automatically change your election to the return of your Contract Value proceeds option. This will automatically cancel your election of the “return of Purchase Payments” option for the entire Contract.
 
  •  If you request a transfer of all or any portion of your Contract Value from the Cash Management Subaccount to any other Variable Investment Option before the Free Look Transfer Date, you will automatically change your election to the return of your Contract Value proceeds option. This will automatically cancel your election of the “return of Purchase Payments” option for the entire Contract.
 
  •  If you exercise your Right to Cancel, we will send you your Purchase Payments.
 
If you elect the return of Contract Value proceeds option, the following will apply:
 
  •  We will immediately allocate any Purchase Payments we receive to the Investment Options you select on your application or your most recent instructions, if any.
 
  •  If you exercise your Right to Cancel, we will send you your Contract Value proceeds described in the Right to Cancel (“Free Look”) section of this prospectus.
 
  •  Once you elect this option, it may not be changed.
 
For the Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Joint) and Foundation 10 Rider issued in the state of Washington, the annual rider charge is the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value.
 
Financial Statements
 
The statements of assets and liabilities of Separate Account A as of December 31, 2009, the related statements of operations for the periods presented, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the periods presented and the financial highlights for each of the periods presented are incorporated by reference in the Statement of Additional Information from the Annual Report of Separate Account A dated December 31, 2009. Pacific Life’s consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 are contained in the Statement of Additional Information.
 
Rule 12h-7 Representation
 
In reliance on the exemption provided by Rule 12h-7 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“34 Act”), we do not intend to file periodic reports as required under the 34 Act.
 
THE GENERAL ACCOUNT
 
General Information
 
All amounts allocated to a fixed option become part of our General Account. Subject to applicable law, we exercise sole discretion over the investment of General Account assets, and bear the associated investment risk. You will not share in the investment experience of General Account assets. Unlike the Separate Account, the General Account is subject to liabilities arising from any of our other business. Any guarantees provided for under the contract or through optional riders are backed by our financial strength and claims paying ability. You must look to the strength of the insurance company with regard to such guarantees.


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Because of exemptive and exclusionary provisions, interests in the General Account under the Contract are not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the General Account has not been registered as an investment company under the 1940 Act. Any interest you have in a fixed option is not subject to these Acts, and we have been advised that the SEC staff has not reviewed disclosure in this Prospectus relating to any fixed option. This disclosure may, however, be subject to certain provisions of federal securities laws relating to the accuracy and completeness of statements made in prospectuses.
 
Guarantee Terms
 
When you allocate any portion of your Investments or Contract Value to any fixed option, we guarantee you an interest rate (a “Guaranteed Interest Rate”) for a specified period of time (a “Guarantee Term”) of up to one year. Guarantee Terms will be offered at our discretion.
 
Guaranteed Interest Rates for any fixed option may be changed periodically for new allocations. Your allocation will receive the Guaranteed Interest Rate in effect for that fixed option on the effective date of your allocation. All Guaranteed Interest Rates will credit interest daily at a rate that compounds over one year to equal the annual effective rate. The Guaranteed Interest Rate on your fixed option will remain in effect for the Guarantee Term and will never be less than an annual rate of 3%.
 
Withdrawals and Transfers
 
Prior to the Annuity Date, you may withdraw or transfer amounts from any fixed option to one or more of the other Variable Investment Options. No partial withdrawal or transfer may be made from a fixed option within 30 days of the Contract Date. Currently, we are not requiring the 30-day waiting period on partial withdrawals and transfers, but we reserve the right to require the 30-day waiting period on partial withdrawals and transfers in the future. If your withdrawal leaves you with a Net Contract Value of less than $1,000, we have the right, at our option, to terminate your Contract and send you the withdrawal proceeds.
 
Amounts transferred or withdrawn from any fixed option may be delayed, as described under ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – Timing of Payments and Transactions. Any amount delayed, so long as it is held under any fixed option, will continue to earn interest at the Guaranteed Interest Rate then in effect until that Guarantee Term has ended, and the minimum guaranteed interest rate of 3% thereafter, unless state law requires a greater rate be paid.
 
DCA Plus Fixed Option
 
Before your Annuity Date, you can allocate all or some of your Investment(s) to the DCA Plus Fixed Option. The initial minimum amount that you may allocate to the DCA Plus Fixed Option is $5,000. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum amount you may allocate to the DCA Plus Fixed Option but we reserve the right to enforce the minimum amount in the future. You may not transfer any amount to the DCA Plus Fixed Option from any other Investment Option. All Investments allocated to the DCA Plus Fixed Option will earn interest at the then current Guaranteed Interest Rate declared by us.
 
The DCA Plus Fixed Option Value on any Business Day is the DCA Plus Fixed Option Value on the prior Business Day, increased by any additions to the DCA Plus Fixed Option on that day as a result of any:
 
  •  interest, plus
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us then allocated to the DCA Plus Fixed Option, plus
 
  •  any additional amounts allocated to the DCA Plus Fixed Option,
 
and decreased by any deductions from the DCA Plus Fixed Option on that day as a result of any;
 
  •  transfers, including transfers to the Loan Account,
 
  •  withdrawals, including any applicable withdrawal charges,
 
  •  amounts applied to provide an annuity,
 
  •  annual fees,
 
  •  charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes, and
 
  •  proportionate reductions for annual charges for expenses relating to optional benefit riders attached to the Contract.
 
The DCA Plus program will automatically terminate at the end of your DCA Plus Guarantee Term, or upon the earliest of:
 
  •  the date death benefit proceeds become payable under the Contract,
 
  •  the date you transfer the entire amount from the DCA Plus Fixed Option to another Investment Option,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated, or
 
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At the end of the DCA Plus program, upon receipt of an additional Purchase Payment that satisfies our minimum allocation requirements, you may request, in a form satisfactory to us, a new DCA Plus program.
 
We reserve the right to change the terms and conditions of the DCA Plus program, but not a DCA Plus program you already have in effect.
 
Guarantee Terms
 
The day that the first Investment allocation is made to the DCA Plus Fixed Option will begin the Guarantee Term. You can choose a Guarantee Term of up to one year. Currently, we offer Guarantee Terms of 6 or 12 months with monthly transfers on the same day of each month thereafter to the Variable Investment Options that you selected. The amount transferred each month is equal to your DCA Plus Fixed Option Value on that day divided by the remaining number of monthly transfers in the Guarantee Term.
 
Example: On May 1, you submit a $10,000 Investment entirely to the DCA Plus Fixed Option at a then current Guaranteed Interest Rate of 5.00% with a Guarantee Term of 6 months. On June 1, the value of the DCA Plus Fixed Option is $10,041.52. On June 1, a transfer equal to $1,673.59 (10,041.52/6) will be made according to your DCA Plus transfer instructions. Your remaining DCA Plus Fixed Option Value after the transfer is $8,367.93. On July 1, your DCA Plus Fixed Option has now increased to $8,401.56. We will transfer $1,680.31 ($8,401.56/5) to the Variable Investment Options, leaving a remaining value of $6,721.25 in the DCA Plus Fixed Option.
 
During the Guarantee Term, you can allocate all or a part of any additional Investments to the DCA Plus Fixed Option. Additional allocations must be at least $250. Each additional allocation will be transferred to the Variable Investment Options you select over the remaining Guarantee Term. Transfers will be made from the DCA Plus Fixed Option Value attributed to the oldest Investment allocation and each subsequent Investment in the order received.
 
Example: (using the previous example): On July 15, you allocate an additional $5,000 to the DCA Plus Option at a Guaranteed Interest Rate of 4.00%. On August 1, your DCA Plus Fixed Option Value has increased to $11,758.30. An amount equal to $2,939.58 ($11,758.30/4) is transferred from the DCA Plus Fixed Option to the Variable Investment Options. The remaining DCA Plus Fixed Option Value is $8,818.72.
 
Transfers
 
DCA Plus transfers must be made on a monthly basis to the Variable Investment Options. No transfers to the DCA Plus Fixed Option may be made at any time. You cannot choose to transfer other than monthly. Unless otherwise instructed, any additional Investment we receive during a Guarantee Term will be allocated to the Investment Options, including the DCA Plus Fixed Option if so indicated, according to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
If the Owner dies while transfers are being made from the DCA Plus Fixed Option and the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, transfers will continue to be made from the DCA Plus Fixed Option to the selected Variable Investment Options, until the Guarantee Term ends.
 
Fixed Option
 
The Fixed Option is no longer available for new Contracts issued on or after November 1, 2002. All references to the Fixed Option in this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information do not apply to such Contracts.
 
Each allocation (or rollover) you make to the Fixed Option receives a Guarantee Term that begins on the day that allocation or rollover is effective and ends at the end of that Contract Year or, if earlier, on your Annuity Date. At the end of that Contract Year, we will roll over your Fixed Option Value on that day into a new Guarantee Term of one year (or, if shorter, the time remaining until your Annuity Date) at the then current Guaranteed Interest Rate, unless you instruct us otherwise.
 
Example: Your Contract Anniversary is February 1. On February 1 of year 1, you allocate $1,000 to the Fixed Option and receive a Guarantee Term of one year and a Guaranteed Interest Rate of 5%. On August 1, you allocate another $500 to the Fixed Option and receive a Guaranteed Interest Rate of 6%. Through January 31, year 1, your first allocation of $1,000 earns 5% interest and your second allocation of $500 earns 6% interest. On February 1, year 2, a new interest rate may go into effect for your entire Fixed Option Value.
 
Withdrawals and Transfers
 
After the first Contract Anniversary, you may make one transfer or partial withdrawal from your Fixed Option during any Contract Year, except as provided under the dollar cost averaging, earnings sweep and pre-authorized withdrawal programs. You may make one transfer or one partial withdrawal within the 30 days after the end of each Contract Anniversary. Normally, you may transfer or withdraw up to one-third (331/3%) of your Fixed Option Value in any given Contract Year. However, in consecutive Contract Years you may transfer or withdraw up to one-third (331/3%) of your Fixed Option Value in one year; you may transfer or withdraw up to one-half (50%) of your remaining Fixed Option Value in the next year; and you may transfer or withdraw up to the entire amount (100%) of any remaining Fixed Option Value in the third year. In addition, if, as a result of a partial withdrawal or transfer, the Fixed Option Value is less than


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$500, we have the right, at our option, to transfer the entire remaining amount to your other Investment Options on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
We reserve the right to waive the restrictions that limit transfers from the Fixed Option to one transfer within the 30 days after the end of each Contract Anniversary. We also reserve the right to waive the limitations on the maximum amount you may transfer from the Fixed Option in any given Contract year. Currently, we are not enforcing any of the Fixed Option withdrawal and transfer restrictions. We may process requests for transfers from the Fixed Option that are within the maximum number of allowable transfers among the Investment Options each calendar year; i.e. transfers are limited to 25 for each calendar year.


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TERMS USED IN THIS PROSPECTUS
 
 
Some of the terms we’ve used in this Prospectus may be new to you. We’ve identified them in the Prospectus by capitalizing the first letter of each word. You will find an explanation of what they mean below.
 
If you have any questions, please ask your financial professional or call us at 1-800-722-4448. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
Account Value – The amount of your Contract Value allocated to a specified Variable Investment Option or any fixed option.
 
Annual Fee – A $30.00 fee charged each year on your Contract Anniversary and at the time of a full withdrawal, if your Net Contract Value is less than $50,000 on that date.
 
Annuitant – A person on whose life annuity payments may be determined. An Annuitant’s life may also be used to determine certain increases in death benefits, and to determine the Annuity Date. A Contract may name a single (“sole”) Annuitant or two (“Joint”) Annuitants, and may also name a “Contingent” Annuitant. If you name Joint Annuitants or a Contingent Annuitant, “the Annuitant” means the sole surviving Annuitant, unless otherwise stated.
 
Annuity Date – The date specified in your Contract, or the date you later elect, if any, for the start of annuity payments if the Annuitant (or Joint Annuitants) is (or are) still living and your Contract is in force; or if earlier, the date that annuity payments actually begin.
 
Annuity Option – Any one of the income options available for a series of payments after your Annuity Date.
 
Beneficiary – A person who may have a right to receive the death benefit payable upon the death of the Annuitant or a Contract Owner prior to the Annuity Date, or may have a right to receive remaining guaranteed annuity payments, if any, if the Annuitant dies after the Annuity Date.
 
Business Day – Any day on which the value of an amount invested in a Variable Investment Option is required to be determined, which currently includes each day that the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading and our administrative offices are open. The New York Stock Exchange and our administrative offices are closed on weekends and on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, July Fourth, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, and the Friday before New Year’s Day, July Fourth or Christmas Day if that holiday falls on a Saturday, the Monday following New Year’s Day, July Fourth or Christmas Day if that holiday falls on a Sunday, unless unusual business conditions exist, such as the ending of a monthly or yearly accounting period. In this Prospectus, “day” or “date” means Business Day unless otherwise specified. If any transaction or event called for under a Contract is scheduled to occur on a day that is not a Business Day, such transaction or event will be deemed to occur on the next following Business Day unless otherwise specified. Any systematic pre-authorized transaction scheduled to occur on December 30 or December 31 where that day is not a Business Day will be deemed an order for the last Business Day of the calendar year and will be calculated using the applicable Subaccount Unit Value at the close of that Business Day. Special circumstances such as leap years and months with fewer than 31 days are discussed in the SAI.
 
Code – The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
 
Contingent Annuitant – A person, if named in your Contract, who will become your sole surviving Annuitant if your existing sole Annuitant (or both Joint Annuitants) should die before your Annuity Date.
 
Contingent Owner – A person, if named in your Contract, who will succeed to the rights as a Contract Owner of your Contract if all named Contract Owners die before your Annuity Date.
 
Contract Anniversary – The same date, in each subsequent year, as your Contract Date.
 
Contract Date – The date we issue your Contract. Contract Years, Contract Semi-Annual Periods, Contract Quarters and Contract Months are measured from this date.
 
Contract Debt – As of the end of any given Business Day, the principal amount you have outstanding on any loan under your Contract, plus any accrued and unpaid interest. Loans are only available on certain Qualified Contracts.
 
Contract Owner, Owner, Policyholder, you, or your – Generally, a person who purchases a Contract and makes the Investments. A Contract Owner has all rights in the Contract, including the right to make withdrawals, designate and change beneficiaries, transfer amounts among Investment Options, and designate an Annuity Option. If your Contract names Joint Owners, both Joint Owners are Contract Owners and share all such rights.
 
Contract Value – As of the end of any Business Day, the sum of your Variable Account Value, any fixed option value, the value of any other Investment Option added to the Contract by Rider or Endorsement, and any Loan Account Value.
 
Contract Year – A year that starts on the Contract Date or on a Contract Anniversary.
 
DCA Plus Fixed Option – If you allocate all or part of your investments to the DCA Plus Fixed Option, such amounts are held in our General Account and receive interest at rates declared periodically (the “Guaranteed Interest Rate”), but not less than an annual rate of 3%.
 
DCA Plus Fixed Option Value – The aggregate amount of your Contract Value allocated to the DCA Plus Fixed Option.
 
Earnings – As of the end of any Business Day, your Earnings equal your Contract Value less your aggregate Purchase Payments, which are reduced by withdrawals of prior Investments.
 
Fixed Option – If you allocate all or part of your Investments or Contract Value to the Fixed Option, such amounts are held in our General Account and receive the Guaranteed Interest Rate declared periodically, but not less than an annual rate of 3%.
 
Fixed Option Value – The aggregate amount of your Contract Value allocated to the Fixed Option.
 
Fund – Pacific Select Fund, AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds), AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc., BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc., Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, GE Investments Funds, PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, and/or Van Kampen Life Investment Trust.
 
General Account – Our General Account consists of all of our assets other than those assets allocated to Separate Account A or to any of our other separate accounts.
 
Guaranteed Interest Rate – The interest rate guaranteed at the time of allocation (or rollover) for the Guarantee Term on amounts allocated to a fixed option. All Guaranteed Interest Rates are expressed as annual rates and interest is accrued daily. The rate will not be less than an annual rate of 3%.
 
Guarantee Term – The period during which an amount you allocate to any available fixed option earns interest at a Guaranteed Interest Rate. These terms are up to one-year for a fixed option.
 
Investment (“Purchase Payment”) – An amount paid to us by or on behalf of a Contract Owner as consideration for the benefits provided under the Contract.
 
Investment Option – A Subaccount, any fixed option or any other Investment Option added to the Contract by Rider or Endorsement.
 
Joint Annuitant – If your Contract is a Non-Qualified Contract, you may name two Annuitants, called “Joint Annuitants,” in your application for your Contract. Special restrictions apply for Qualified Contracts.
 
Loan Account – The Account in which the amount equal to the principal amount of a loan and any interest accrued is held to secure any Contract Debt.
 
Loan Account Value – The amount, including any interest accrued, held in the Loan Account to secure any Contract Debt.


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Net Contract Value – Your Contract Value less Contract Debt.
 
Non-Natural Owner – A corporation, trust or other entity that is not a (natural) person.
 
Non-Qualified Contract – A Contract other than a Qualified Contract.
 
Policyholder – The Contract Owner.
 
Portfolio – A separate portfolio of a Fund in which a Subaccount invests its assets.
 
Primary Annuitant – The individual that is named in your Contract, the events in the life of whom are of primary importance in affecting the timing or amount of the payout under the Contract.
 
Purchase Payment (“Investment”) – An amount paid to us by or on behalf of a Contract Owner as consideration for the benefits provided under the Contract.
 
Qualified Contract – A Contract that qualifies under the Code as an individual retirement annuity or account (IRA), or form thereof, or a Contract purchased by a Qualified Plan, qualifying for special tax treatment under the Code.
 
Qualified Plan – A retirement plan that receives favorable tax treatment under Section 401, 403, or 457 of the Code.
 
SEC – Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Separate Account A (the “Separate Account”) – A separate account of ours registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
 
Subaccount – An investment division of the Separate Account. Each Subaccount invests its assets in shares of a corresponding Portfolio.
 
Subaccount Annuity Unit – Subaccount Annuity Units (or “Annuity Units”) are used to measure variation in variable annuity payments. To the extent you elect to convert all or some of your Contract Value into variable annuity payments, the amount of each annuity payment (after the first payment) will vary with the value and number of Annuity Units in each Subaccount attributed to any variable annuity payments. At annuitization (after any applicable premium taxes and/or other taxes are paid), the amount annuitized to a variable annuity determines the amount of your first variable annuity payment and the number of Annuity Units credited to your annuity in each Subaccount. The value of Subaccount Annuity Units, like the value of Subaccount Units, is expected to fluctuate daily, as described in the definition of Unit Value.
 
Subaccount Unit – Before your Annuity Date, each time you allocate an amount to a Subaccount, your Contract is credited with a number of Subaccount Units in that Subaccount. These Units are used for accounting purposes to measure your Account Value in that Subaccount. The value of Subaccount Units is expected to fluctuate daily, as described in the definition of Unit Value.
 
Unit Value – The value of a Subaccount Unit (“Subaccount Unit Value”) or Subaccount Annuity Unit (“Subaccount Annuity Unit Value”). Unit Value of any Subaccount is subject to change on any Business Day in much the same way that the value of a mutual fund share changes each day. The fluctuations in value reflect the investment results, expenses of and charges against the Portfolio in which the Subaccount invests its assets. Fluctuations also reflect charges against the Separate Account. Changes in Subaccount Annuity Unit Values also reflect an additional factor that adjusts Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to offset our Annuity Option Table’s implicit assumption of an annual investment return of 5%. The effect of this assumed investment return is explained in detail in the SAI. Unit Value of a Subaccount Unit or Subaccount Annuity Unit on any Business Day is measured as of the close of the New York Stock Exchange on that Business Day, which usually closes at 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, although it occasionally closes earlier.
 
Variable Account Value – The aggregate amount of your Contract Value allocated to all Subaccounts.
 
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CONTENTS OF THE STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
         
PERFORMANCE
       
Total Returns
       
Yields
       
Performance Comparisons and Benchmarks
       
Power of Tax Deferral
       
DISTRIBUTION OF THE CONTRACTS
       
Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD)
       
THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
       
Calculating Subaccount Unit Values
       
Variable Annuity Payment Amounts
       
Redemptions of Remaining Guaranteed Variable Payments Under Options 2 and 4
       
Corresponding Dates
       
Age and Sex of Annuitant
       
Systematic Transfer Programs
       
Pre-Authorized Withdrawals
       
Joint Annuitants on Qualified Contracts
       
More on Federal Tax Issues
       
Safekeeping of Assets
       
OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS
       
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single)
       
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Joint)
       
Automatic Income Builder Rider
       
Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single)
       
Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Joint)
       
Foundation 10 Rider
       
Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider
       
Income Access Plus Rider
       
Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5) Rider
       
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II) Rider
       
Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA) Rider
       
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
       
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM AND INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
       
APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
       
APPENDIX B: AUTOMATIC INCOME BUILDER RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
       
APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
       
APPENDIX D: FOUNDATION 10 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
       
APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER & INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
       
         
         
 
         
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APPENDIX A:
 
COREINCOME ADVANTAGE 5 RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Rider purchased at Contract issue by a 64-year old.
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of contract Year 2.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $10,350   $207,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment).
 
An automatic reset takes place at the beginning of Contract Year 2, since the Contract Value ($207,000) is higher than the Protected Payment Base ($200,000). This resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $207,000 and the Protected Payment Amount to $10,350 (5% × $207,000). Also, the Protected Payment Amount will now be paid for life.
 
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Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $10,350   $207,000
Activity
      $5,000   $216,490   $207,000   $5,350   $202,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $216,490   $207,000   $10,350   $202,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $216,490   $216,490   $10,825   $216,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,350):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $202,000 ($207,000 – $5,000) and the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $5,350 ($10,350 -$5,000).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,825 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $10,350   $207,000
Activity
      $25,000   $196,490   $192,655   $0   $182,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $196,490   $192,655   $9,633   $182,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $196,490   $196,490   $9,825   $196,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $25,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($25,000 > $10,350), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $207,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $207,000


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  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,350 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $207,000 = $10,350)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $25,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,350 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $14,650 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $25,000 – $10,350 = $14,650).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $196,490 after the withdrawal plus the $25,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 6.93% ($14,650 ¸ ($221,490 – $10,350); $14,650 ¸ $211,140 = 0.0693 or 6.93%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $192,655 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $207,000 × (1-6.93%); $207,000 × 93.07% = $192,655).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $183,022 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($207,000 – $10,350) × (1-6.93%); $196,650 × 93.07% = $183,022).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $182,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $207,000 – $25,000 = $182,000).
 
Therefore, since $182,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $183,022 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $182,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $192,655 = $9,633), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($25,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006               $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006           $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,910   $0   $88,309
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,910 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,309.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375


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  •  Protected Payment Amount = $1,250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $1,250. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.09% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0309 or 3.09%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,910 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.09%); $100,000 × 96.91% = $96,910).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,309 ((Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $1,250) × (1-3.09%); $91,125 × 96.91% = $88,309).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,309 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,309.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.


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            Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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APPENDIX B:
 
COREPROTECT ADVANTAGE RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s Age = 65 on the Contract Date
 
                                 
                Annual
  Highest
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
    Purchase
      Contract Value
  Credit
  Anniversary
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
    Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Value   Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
Rider Effective Date
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Annual Credit Value = $100,000
  •  Highest Anniversary Value = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s Age = 65 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Each Contract Anniversary referenced in the table represents the first day of the applicable Contract Year.
 
                                 
                Annual
  Highest
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
    Purchase
      Contract Value
  Credit
  Anniversary
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
    Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Value   Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
Rider Effective Date
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
Year 2 Contract Anniversary
          $208,000   $210,000   $208,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Annual Credit Value, Highest Anniversary Value, Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there were no withdrawals during that Contract Year).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to Year 2 Contract Anniversary, an annual credit of $10,000 (5% of total Purchase Payments) is applied to the Annual Credit Value on that Contract Anniversary, increasing it to $210,000. On Year 2 Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are reset to $210,000, which is the greater of Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $10,500 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).


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In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s Age = 65 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Years 2 and 4.
  •  Each Contract Anniversary referenced in the table represents the first day of the applicable Contract Year.
 
                                 
                Annual
  Highest
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
    Purchase
      Contract Value
  Credit
  Anniversary
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
    Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Value   Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
Rider Effective Date
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
Year 2 Contract Anniversary
          $208,000   $210,000   $208,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
Activity
      $10,500   $205,000           $210,000   $0   $199,500
Year 3 Contract Anniversary
          $205,000   NA   NA   $210,000   $10,500   $199,500
Year 4 Contract Anniversary
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $215,000   NA   NA   $210,000   $10,500   $199,500
Year 4 Contract Anniversary
  (After to Automatic Reset)       $215,000   NA   NA   $215,000   $10,750   $215,000
Activity
      $10,750   $212,000           $215,000   $0   $204,250
Year 5 Contract Anniversary
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $217,000   NA   NA   $215,000   $10,750   $204,250
Year 5 Contract Anniversary
  (After to Automatic Reset)       $217,000   NA   NA   $217,000   $10,850   $217,000
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged;
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $199,500 ($210,000 – $10,500); and
  •  since a withdrawal occurred, the Annual Credit Value and Highest Anniversary Value are no longer applicable.
 
Because at Year 4 Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Year 4 Contract Anniversary – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Year 4 Contract Anniversary – After Automatic Reset). The Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,750 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 4 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,750):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $204,250 ($215,000 – $10,750).
 
Because at Year 5 Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Year 5 Contract Anniversary – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Year 5 Contract Anniversary – After Automatic Reset). The Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,850 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).


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Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s Age = 65 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Each Contract Anniversary referenced in the table represents the first day of the applicable Contract Year.
 
                                 
                Annual
  Highest
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
    Purchase
      Contract Value
  Credit
  Anniversary
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
    Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Value   Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
Rider Effective Date
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
Year 2 Contract Anniversary
          $208,000   $210,000   $208,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
Activity
      $20,000   $195,000           $200,235   $0   $190,000
Year 3 Contract Anniversary
          $195,000   NA   NA   $200,235   $10,011   $190,000
Year 4 Contract Anniversary
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $215,000   NA   NA   $200,235   $10,011   $190,000
Year 4 Contract Anniversary
  (After to Automatic Reset)       $215,000   NA   NA   $215,000   $10,750   $215,000
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $20,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($20,000 > $10,500), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced. Since a withdrawal occurred, the Annual Credit Value and Highest Anniversary Value are no longer applicable.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $215,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $210,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $210,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,500 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $210,000 = $10,500)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $20,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,500 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $9,500 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $20,000 – $10,500 = $9,500).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $215,000, which equals the $195,000 after the withdrawal plus the $20,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 4.65% ($9,500 ¸ ($215,000 – $10,500); $9,500 ¸ $204,500 = 0.0465 or 4.65%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $200,235 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $210,000 × (1-4.65%); $210,000 × 95.35% = $200,235).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $190,223 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($210,000 – $10,500) × (1-4.65%); $199,500 × 95.35% = $190,223).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $190,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $210,000 – $20,000 = $190,000).


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Therefore, since $190,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $190,223 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $190,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $200,235 = $10,011), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($20,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at Year 4 Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Year 4 Contract Anniversary – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Year 4 Contract Anniversary – After Automatic Reset). The Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,750 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.
 
This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
              $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 


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On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount − Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 − $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value − Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 − $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 ((Remaining Protected Balance − Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 − $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance − total withdrawal amount; $92,375 − $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.
 


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            Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1, no annual credit will be applied. Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.

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APPENDIX C:
 
COREINCOME ADVANTAGE RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 4% of Protected Payment Base = $4,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Rider purchased at Contract issue by a 64-year old.
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of contract Year 2.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $8,280   $207,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $8,000 (4% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment).
 
An automatic reset takes place at the beginning of Contract Year 2, since the Contract Value ($207,000) is higher than the Protected Payment Base ($200,000). This resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $207,000 and the Protected Payment Amount to $8,280 (4% × $207,000). Also, the Protected Payment Amount will now be paid for life.
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.


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Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $8,280   $207,000
Activity
      $5,000   $216,490   $207,000   $3,280   $202,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $216,490   $207,000   $8,280   $202,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $216,490   $216,490   $8,660   $216,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($8,280):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $202,000 ($207,000 – $5,000) and the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $3,280 ($8,280 -$5,000).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $8,660 (4% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $8,280   $207,000
Activity
      $25,000   $196,490   $190,750   $0   $182,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $196,490   $190,750   $7,630   $182,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $196,490   $196,490   $7,860   $196,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $25,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($25,000 > $8,280), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $207,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $207,000


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  •  Protected Payment Amount = $8,280 (4% × Protected Payment Base; 4% × $207,000 = $8,280)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $25,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $8,280 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $16,720 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $25,000 – $8,280 = $16,720).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $196,490 after the withdrawal plus the $25,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 7.85% ($16,720 ¸ ($221,490 – $8,280); $16,720 ¸ $213,210 = 0.0785 or 7.85%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $190,750 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $207,000 × (1-7.85%); $207,000 × 92.15% = $190,750).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $183,120 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($207,000 – $8,280) × (1-7.85%); $198,720 × 92.15% = $183,120).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $182,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $207,000 – $25,000 = $182,000).
 
Therefore, since $182,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $183,120 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $182,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (4% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (4% of $190,750 = $7,630), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($25,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006               $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $2,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $4,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $2,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $4,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006           $0   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $2,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $4,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $2,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $95,820   $0   $88,274
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $4,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (4% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($4,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $95,820 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,274.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375


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  •  Protected Payment Amount = $250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $250. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $3,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $250 = $3,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 4.18% ($3,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $250); $3,750 ¸ $89,750 = 0.0418 or 4.18%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $95,820 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-4.18%); $100,000 × 95.82% = $95,820).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,274 ((Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $250) × (1-4.18%); $92,125 × 95.82% = $88,274).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,274 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,274.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 4% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.


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            Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $4,000   $96,489   $100,000   $4,000   $96,000
2
  $4,000   $94,384   $100,000   $4,000   $92,000
3
  $4,000   $92,215   $100,000   $4,000   $88,000
4
  $4,000   $89,982   $100,000   $4,000   $84,000
5
  $4,000   $87,681   $100,000   $4,000   $80,000
6
  $4,000   $85,311   $100,000   $4,000   $76,000
7
  $4,000   $82,871   $100,000   $4,000   $72,000
8
  $4,000   $80,357   $100,000   $4,000   $68,000
9
  $4,000   $77,768   $100,000   $4,000   $64,000
10
  $4,000   $75,101   $100,000   $4,000   $60,000
11
  $4,000   $72,354   $100,000   $4,000   $56,000
12
  $4,000   $69,524   $100,000   $4,000   $52,000
13
  $4,000   $66,610   $100,000   $4,000   $48,000
14
  $4,000   $63,608   $100,000   $4,000   $44,000
15
  $4,000   $60,517   $100,000   $4,000   $40,000
16
  $4,000   $57,332   $100,000   $4,000   $36,000
17
  $4,000   $54,052   $100,000   $4,000   $32,000
18
  $4,000   $50,674   $100,000   $4,000   $28,000
19
  $4,000   $47,194   $100,000   $4,000   $24,000
20
  $4,000   $43,610   $100,000   $4,000   $20,000
21
  $4,000   $39,918   $100,000   $4,000   $16,000
22
  $4,000   $36,115   $100,000   $4,000   $12,000
23
  $4,000   $32,199   $100,000   $4,000   $8,000
24
  $4,000   $28,165   $100,000   $4,000   $4,000
25
  $4,000   $24,010   $100,000   $4,000   $0
26
  $4,000   $19,730   $100,000   $4,000   $0
27
  $4,000   $15,322   $100,000   $4,000   $0
28
  $4,000   $10,782   $100,000   $4,000   $0
29
  $4,000   $6,105   $100,000   $4,000   $0
30
  $4,000   $1,288   $100,000   $4,000   $0
31
  $4,000   $0   $100,000   $4,000   $0
32
  $4,000   $0   $100,000   $4,000   $0
33
  $4,000   $0   $100,000   $4,000   $0
34
  $4,000   $0   $100,000   $4,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 4% of Protected Payment Base = $4,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($4,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 4% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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APPENDIX D:
 
INCOME ACCESS RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 7% of Protected Payment Base = $7,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $20,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
Activity
  $20,000       $122,000   $120,000   $7,000   $120,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Step-Up)       $122,000   $120,000   $8,400   $120,000
2
  (After Automatic Step-Up)       $122,000   $122,000   $8,540   $122,000
 
 
Immediately after the $20,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $120,000 ($100,000 + $20,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment remains at $7,000 until the Protected Payment Amount is determined at the Beginning of Contract Year 2.
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 2 – Prior to Automatic Step-Up), an Automatic Step-Up occurred which changes the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at the Beginning of Contract Year 2 – After Automatic Step-Up). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $8,540 (7% of the Stepped-Up Protected Payment Base).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.


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Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $20,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  Automatic Step-Up at the Beginning of Contract Year 2.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
Activity
  $20,000       $122,000   $120,000   $7,000   $120,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Step-Up)       $122,000   $120,000   $8,400   $120,000
2
  (After Automatic Step-Up)       $122,000   $122,000   $8,540   $122,000
Activity
      $8,540   $116,000   $122,000   $8,540   $113,460
3
          $116,000   $122,000   $8,540   $113,460
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($8,540):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $113,460 ($122,000 – $8,540).
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Step-Up at Beginning of Contract Year 2 and 4.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $7,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Step-Up)       $207,000   $200,000   $14,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Step-Up)       $207,000   $207,000   $14,490   $207,000
Activity
      $15,000   $206,490   $206,503   $14,490   $192,000
3
          $206,490   $206,503   $14,455   $192,000
4
  (Prior to Automatic Step-Up)       $220,944   $206,503   $14,455   $192,000
4
  (After Automatic Step-Up)       $220,944   $220,944   $15,466   $220,944
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $15,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($15,000 > $14,490), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $207,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $207,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $14,490 (7% × Protected Payment Base; 7% × $207,000 = $14,490)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal


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A withdrawal of $15,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $14,490 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $510 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $15,000 – $14,490 = $510).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $206,490 after the withdrawal plus the $15,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 0.24% ($510 ¸ ($221,490 – $14,490); $510 ¸ $207,000 = 0.0024 or 0.24%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $206,503 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $207,000 × (1-0.24%); $207,000 × 99.76% = $206,503).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $192,047 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($207,000 – $14,490) × (1-0.24%); $192,510 × 99.76% = $192,047).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $192,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $207,000 – $15,000 = $192,000).
 
Therefore, since $192,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $192,047 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $192,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $14,490, but at the Beginning on Contract Year 3, it is adjusted to $14,455 (7% of the Protected Payment Base (7% of $206,503 = $14,455).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Step-Up), an automatic step-up occurred which step-ups the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Step-Up).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $98,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $98,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $7,000   $90,500
05/01/2008
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $90,500
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $7,000   $96,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $96,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $99,140   $7,000   $88,358
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $7,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (7% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($7,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $99,140 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,358.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375
  •  Protected Payment Amount less withdrawals already taken = $7,000 – $3,750 = $3,250


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A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount less withdrawals already taken. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount less withdrawals already taken; $4,000 – ($7,000 – $3,750) = $750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 0.86% ($750 ¸ ($90,000 – $3,250); $750 ¸ $86,750 = 0.0086 or 0.86%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $99,140 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-0.86%); $100,000 × 99.14% = $99,140).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,358 (Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $3,250) × (1-0.86%); $89,125 × 99.14% = $88,358).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,358 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,358.


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APPENDIX E:
 
GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 3 (GPA 3) AND GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 5 (GPA 5) RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. They have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments and withdrawals made from the Contract Prior to the end of a 10-Year Term effect the values and benefits under this Rider. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $20,000 is received in Contract Year 1 and $10,000 is received in Contract Year 4.
  •  A withdrawal of $10,000 is taken during Contract Year 7.
 
                     
Beginning
  Purchase
          Guaranteed
  Amount
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  Contract
  Protection
  added to the
Year   Received   Amount   Value   Amount   Contract Value
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000    
Activity
  $20,000       $118,119   $120,000    
2
          $117,374   $120,000    
3
          $114,439   $120,000    
4
          $111,578   $120,000    
Activity
  $10,000       $119,480   $120,000    
5
          $118,726   $120,000    
6
          $124,662   $120,000    
Step-Up
(New 10-
Year Term
Begins)
          $124,662   $124,662    
7
          $121,546   $124,662    
Activity
      $10,000   $109,259   $114,209    
8
          $108,570   $114,209    
9
          $105,856   $114,209    
10
          $103,209   $114,209    
11
          $100,629   $114,209    
12
          $98,114   $114,209    
13
          $95,661   $114,209    
14
          $93,269   $114,209    
15
          $90,937   $114,209    
Values at
End of
15th Year
          $88,664
$114,209
  $114,209
$0
 
$25,545
 
 
The Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to (a) + (b) − (c) as indicated below:
 
  (a)  is the Contract Value at the start of the Term,
  (b)  is the amount of each subsequent Purchase Payment received during the first year of the Term, and
  (c)  is a pro rata adjustment for withdrawals made from the Contract during the Term. The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charges, premium taxes, and/or other taxes, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Guaranteed Protected Amount = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000 ($100,000 + 0 − 0 = $100,000)
 
During Contract Year 1, an additional Purchase Payment of $20,000 was made. Since this Purchase Payment was made during the first Contract Year, the Guaranteed Protection Amount will be increased by $20,000 to $120,000. ($100,000 + $20,000 – 0 = $120,000)


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During Contract Year 4, an additional Purchase Payment of $10,000 was made. However, this Purchase Payment will not increase the Guaranteed Protection Amount because it was not made during the first Contract Year (or first year of the 10-Year Term).
 
On the 6th Contract Anniversary, there was an optional Step-Up elected. The Step-Up will reset the Guaranteed Protection Amount equal to the Contract Value ($124,662) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
During Contract Year 7, a withdrawal of $10,000 was made. This withdrawal will reduce the Guaranteed Protection Amount on a pro rata basis and will result in a new Guaranteed Protection Amount. The pro rata adjustment is $10,453 and was determined by calculating the ratio of the withdrawal to the Contract Value immediately before the withdrawal ($10,000/$119,259 = 0.08385) multiplied by the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal ($124,662*0.08385 = $10,453). The new Guaranteed Protection Amount (a) + (b) − (c) = $114,209 ($124,662 + 0 − $10,453 = 114,209).
 
At the end of Contract Year 15 (end of the 10-Year Term) the Contract Value ($88,664) is less than the Guaranteed Protection Amount ($114,209). Therefore, $25,545 ($114,209 − $88,664 = $25,545) is added to the Contract Value and the Rider terminates.


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APPENDIX F:
 
GUARANTEED INCOME ADVANTAGE PLUS RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. They have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by the Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (“GIA Plus”) Rider, and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – The initial values on the Rider Effective Date based on an Initial Purchase Payment of $100,000. The Initial Purchase Payment is assumed to be the Contract Value if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
                                 
                                Remaining
            Contract
              GIA Plus
  Dollar
Beginning
  Purchase
      Value
  Guaranteed
  GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
  Amount of
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  after
  Income
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
  Prior Year’s
Year   Received   Amount   Activity   Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)   GWA
 
1   $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   N/A
 
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payment received during the first Contract Year and its effect on the values and balances under this Rider. This example assumes that no withdrawals have been made.
 
                                 
                                Remaining
            Contract
              GIA Plus
  Dollar
Beginning
  Purchase
      Value
  Guaranteed
  GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
  Amount of
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  after
  Income
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
  Prior Year’s
Year   Received   Amount   Activity   Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)   GWA
 
1   $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   N/A
Activity
  $100,000       $200,742   $201,237   $200,000            
2
          $205,242   $208,717   $205,242   $200,000   $10,000   $5,000
 
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during a Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
The Guaranteed Income Base prior to receipt of the Purchase Payment is assumed to have accumulated to $101,237. This amount is derived by multiplying each day’s Guaranteed Income Base by the daily factor of 1.000133680. As a result of the subsequent Purchase Payment, the Guaranteed Income Base is increased to $201,237 ($101,237 + $100,000). The Guaranteed Income Base will assume to accumulate to $208,717 at the next Contract Anniversary, by multiplying each day’s Guaranteed Income Base immediately after receipt of the subsequent Purchase Payment by the daily factor of 1.000133680.
 
The GIA Plus Step-Up Value prior to receipt of the Purchase Payment is $100,000. As a result of the subsequent Purchase Payment, the GIA Plus Step-Up Value is increased to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). On the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, the Contract Value ($205,242) is greater than the GIA Plus Step-Up Value immediately prior to that Contract Anniversary ($200,000). As a result, the GIA Plus Step-Up Value as of that Contract Anniversary is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary ($205,242).
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2 is equal to the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on the Rider Effective Date ($100,000) plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date ($100,000). As a result of the subsequent Purchase Payment, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2 is equal to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000).
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2 is determined on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, and is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on that Contract Anniversary (5% of $200,000). As a result of the subsequent Purchase Payment, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2 is equal to $10,000.
 
Since no withdrawals were made during Contract Year 1, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 1 ($5,000) becomes the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2.


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Example #3 – Cumulative withdrawals during Contract Year 2 exceeding the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2; and (b) the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2. The withdrawal is assumed to result in a 10% reduction in the Contract Value.
 
                                         
 
                                  Remaining
 
            Contract
              GIA Plus
    Dollar
 
Beginning
  Purchase
      Value
  Guaranteed
  GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
    Amount of
 
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  after
  Income
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
    Prior Year’s
 
Year   Received   Amount   Activity   Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)     GWA  
 
 
1   $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000     $5,000       N/A   
Activity
  $100,000       $200,742   $201,237   $200,000                    
2
          $205,242   $208,717   $205,242   $200,000     $10,000       $5,000  
Activity
      $20,830   $187,468   $192,471   $184,717         -$15,830
= $0
      -$5,000
= $0
 
3
          $190,259   $197,237   $190,259   $200,000     $10,000       $0  
 
 
Since the $20,830 withdrawal exceeded the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2; and (b) the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract’s Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2, the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3 is zero. Withdrawals are first applied to the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount, if any, until exhausted, then to the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for the current Contract Year, until exhausted.
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3 is determined on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 3, and is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on that Contract Anniversary (5% of $200,000). As a result, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3 is equal to $10,000. The GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for any Contract Year will not be less than zero.
 
Immediately after the withdrawal, the Guaranteed Income Base and the GIA Plus Step-Up Value are reduced by the percentage decrease (10%) in Contract Value as a result of the withdrawal.
 
Since no subsequent Purchase Payments were received during Contract Year 2, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base at the beginning of Contract Year 3 remains unchanged.


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Example #4 – Cumulative withdrawals during Contract Year 3 not exceeding the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3; and (b) the remaining dollar value of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3.
 
                                         
 
                                  Remaining
 
            Contract
              GIA Plus
    Dollar
 
Beginning
  Purchase
      Value
  Guaranteed
  GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
    Amount of
 
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  after
  Income
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
    Prior Year’s
 
Year   Received   Amount   Activity   Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)     GWA  
 
 
1   $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000     $5,000       N/A   
Activity
  $100,000       $200,742   $201,237   $200,000                    
2
          $205,242   $208,717   $205,242   $200,000     $10,000       $5,000  
Activity
      $20,830   $187,468   $192,471   $184,717         -$15,830
= $0
      -$5,000
= $0
 
3
          $190,259   $197,237   $190,259   $200,000     $10,000       $0  
Activity
      $8,000   $185,092   $193,743   $182,376          -$8,000
= $2,000
       -$0
= $0
 
4
          $187,848   $199,099   $187,848   $200,000     $10,000       $2,000  
 
 
Because cumulative withdrawals for Contract Year 3 did not exceed the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3; and (b) the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3, the Guaranteed Income Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4 is calculated as follows:
 
Guaranteed Income Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 3:
$197,237
 
Increased at an annual rate of 5% to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4:
+ $9,862
 
Reduced by the amount equal to the amount withdrawn in Contract Year 3:
− $8,000
 
Guaranteed Income Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4:
$199,099
 
Since no subsequent Purchase Payments were received during Contract Year 3, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base at the beginning of Contract Year 4 remains unchanged.
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 4 is determined on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4, and is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on that Contract Anniversary (5% of $200,000). As a result, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 4 is equal to $10,000.
 
Because cumulative withdrawals for Contract Year 3 did not exceed the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3; and (b) the remaining dollar value of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3; the dollar amount of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contact Year 3 remaining ($2,000) becomes the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 4.


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Example #5 – Rider values on each Contract Anniversary based on an Initial Purchase Payment of $100,000 paid on the Contract Date. The values further assume that no subsequent Purchase Payments are received and no withdrawals are taken during the first ten (10) Contract Years after the Rider Effective Date. The Initial Purchase Payment is assumed to be the Contract Value if the Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary.
 
                         
                    GIA Plus
   
Beginning
          GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
  Remaining Dollar
of Contract
  Contract Value
  Guaranteed
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
  Amount of
Year   after Activity   Income Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)   Prior Year’s GWA
 
1
  $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   N/A
2
  $103,000   $105,000   $103,000   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
3
  $106,090   $110,250   $106,090   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
4
  $109,273   $115,763   $109,273   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
5
  $112,551   $121,551   $112,551   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
6
  $115,927   $127,628   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
7
  $112,450   $134,010   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
8
  $109,076   $140,710   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
9
  $105,804   $147,746   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
10
  $102,630   $155,133   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
11
  $99,551   $162,889   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
 
 
Example #6 – Rider values on each Contract Anniversary based on an Initial Purchase Payment of $100,000 paid on the Contract Date. The values further assume that no subsequent Purchase Payments are received and withdrawals of $5,000 are taken each Contract Year for the first ten (10) Contract Years after the Rider Effective Date. The Initial Purchase Payment is assumed to be the Contract Value if the Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary.
 
                         
                    GIA Plus
   
Beginning
          GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
  Remaining Dollar
of Contract
  Contract Value
  Guaranteed
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
  Amount of
Year   after Activity   Income Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)   Prior Year’s GWA
 
1
  $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   N/A
2
  $97,926   $100,000   $97,926   $100,000   $5,000   $0
3
  $95,789   $100,000   $95,789   $100,000   $5,000   $0
4
  $93,588   $100,000   $93,588   $100,000   $5,000   $0
5
  $91,321   $100,000   $91,321   $100,000   $5,000   $0
6
  $88,986   $100,000   $88,986   $100,000   $5,000   $0
7
  $81,392   $100,000   $83,910   $100,000   $5,000   $0
8
  $74,026   $100,000   $78,676   $100,000   $5,000   $0
9
  $66,881   $100,000   $73,280   $100,000   $5,000   $0
10
  $59,950   $100,000   $67,718   $100,000   $5,000   $0
11
  $53,227   $100,000   $61,983   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
Should the Contract annuitize immediately after the Rider has been in effect for at least ten (10) years and the GIA Plus Annuity Option has been elected to provide such payments, the net amount applied on the Annuity Date as a single premium to provide the payments is equal to the greater of:
 
  (a)  the Guaranteed Income Base; or
 
  (b)  the GIA Plus Step-Up Value; less any:
 
  (c)  applicable withdrawal charges resulting from the conversion to the GIA Plus Annuity Option;
 
  (d)  applicable annual charges for expenses related to other optional benefit riders attached to the Contract that are in effect as of the Annuity Date; and
 
  (e)  charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes.
 
Under Example #5, the net amount applied on the Annuity Date (the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 11) is equal to the Guaranteed Income Base ($162,889), as it is greater than the GIA Plus Step-Up Value ($115,927) as of the Annuity Date, less the amounts in (c), (d) and (e) above, if any.
 
Under Example #6, the net amount applied on the Annuity Date (the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 11) is equal to the Guaranteed Income Base ($100,000), as it is greater than the GIA Plus Step-Up Value ($61,983) as of the Annuity Date, less the amounts in (c), (d) and (e) above, if any.


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APPENDIX G:
 
DEATH BENEFIT AMOUNT AND STEPPED-UP DEATH BENEFIT RIDER (SDBR) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. They have been provided to assist in understanding the death benefit amount under the Contract and the optional Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments and withdrawals made from the Contract may effect the values and benefits. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to reflect what your actual death benefit proceeds will be or serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Death Benefit Amount
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $25,000 is received in Contract Year 3.
  •  A withdrawal of $35,000 is taken during Contract Year 6.
  •  A withdrawal of $10,000 is taken during Contract Year 11.
 
                 
Beginning
  Purchase
          Return of
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
      Purchase
Year   Received   Amount   Contract Value1   Payments1
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $100,000
3
          $106,090   $100,000
Activity
  $25,000       $133,468   $125,000
4
          $134,458   $125,000
5
          $138,492   $125,000
6
          $142,647   $125,000
Activity
      $35,000   $110,844   $95,000
7
          $111,666   $95,000
8
          $103,850   $95,000
9
          $96,580   $95,000
10           $89,820   $95,000
11
      $10,000   $73,530   $83,629
12
          $68,383   $83,629
13
          $63,596   $83,629
14
Death
Occurs
          $59,144   $83,629
 
1  The greater of the Contract Value or the adjusted Return of Purchase Payments represents the Death Benefit Amount.
 
On the Rider effective date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Return of Purchase Payment = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Contract Value = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
 
During Contract Year 3, an additional Purchase Payment of $25,000 was made. The Return of Purchase Payment amount increased to $125,000. The Contract Value increased to $133,468.
 
During Contract Year 6, a withdrawal of $35,000 was made. This withdrawal reduced the Return of Purchase Payment amount on a pro rata basis to $95,000 and decreased the Contract Value to $110,844. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is calculated as follows:
 
First, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the withdrawal amount divided by the Contract Value prior to the withdrawal ($145,844, which equals the $110,844 Contract Value after the withdrawal plus the $35,000 withdrawal amount). Numerically, the ratio is 24.00% ($35,000 ¸ $145,844 = 0.2400 or 24.00%).
 
Second, determine the new Return of Purchase Payment amount. The Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is $95,000 (Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal × (1-ratio); $125,000 × (1-24.00%); $125,000 × 76.00% = $95,000).


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During Contract Year 11, a withdrawal of $10,000 was made. This withdrawal reduced the Return of Purchase Payment amount on a pro rata basis to $83,629 and decreased the Contract Value to $73,530. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is calculated as follows:
 
First, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the withdrawal amount divided by the Contract Value prior to the withdrawal ($83,530, which equals the $73,530 Contract Value after the withdrawal plus the $10,000 withdrawal amount). Numerically, the ratio is 11.97% ($10,000 ¸ $83,530 = 0.1197 or 11.97%).
 
Second, determine the new Return of Purchase Payment amount. The Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is $83,629 (Return of Purchase Payment prior to the withdrawal × (1-ratio); $95,000 × (1-11.97%); $95,000 × 88.03% = $83,629).
 
During Contract Year 14, death occurs. The Death Benefit Amount will be the Return of Purchase Payments reduced by an amount for each withdrawal ($83,629) because that amount is greater than the Contract Value ($59,144).
 
Using the table above, if death occurred in Contract Year 7, the Death Benefit Amount would be the Contract Value ($111,666) because that amount is greater than the Return of Purchase Payment (reduced by an amount for withdrawals) of $95,000.
 
Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $25,000 is received in Contract Year 3.
  •  A withdrawal of $35,000 is taken during Contract Year 6.
  •  Annual Step-Ups occur on each of the first seven Contract Anniversaries.
 
                     
                    Guaranteed
                    Minimum
Beginning
  Purchase
          Return of
  (Stepped-Up)
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  Contract
  Purchase
  Death Benefit
Year   Received   Amount   Value1   Payments1   Amount
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $100,000   $103,000
3
          $106,090   $100,000   $106,090
Activity
  $25,000       $133,468   $125,000   $131,090
4
          $134,458   $125,000   $134,458
5
          $138,492   $125,000   $138,492
6
          $142,647   $125,000   $142,647
Activity
      $35,000   $110,844   $95,000   $108,412
7
          $111,666   $95,000   $111,666
8
          $103,850   $95,000   $111,666
9
          $96,580   $95,000   $111,666
Death
Occurs
          $89,820   $95,000   $111,666
 
1  The greater of the Contract Value or the adjusted Return of Purchase Payments represents the Death Benefit Amount.
 
On the Rider effective date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Return of Purchase Payment = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Contract Value = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
 
During Contract Year 3, an additional Purchase Payment of $25,000 was made. This results in an increase in the Return of Purchase Payment amount to $125,000. The Contract Value increased to $133,468 and the Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount increased to $131,090.
 
During Contract Year 6, a withdrawal of $35,000 was made. This withdrawal reduced the Return of Purchase Payment amount on a pro rata basis to $95,000 and decreased the Contract Value to $110,844. In addition, the Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount was reduced on a pro rata basis to $108,412. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment and Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount is calculated as follows:
 
First, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the withdrawal amount divided by the Contract Value prior to the withdrawal ($145,844, which equals the $110,844 Contract Value after the withdrawal plus the $35,000 withdrawal amount). Numerically, the ratio is 24.00% ($35,000 ¸ $145,844 = 0.2400 or 24.00%)


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Second, determine the new Return of Purchase Payment amount. The Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is $95,000 (Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal × (1-ratio); $125,000 × (1-24.00%); $125,000 × 76.00% = $95,000).
 
Third, determine the new Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount. The Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount prior to the withdrawal is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount is $108,412 (Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount prior to the withdrawal × (1-ratio); $142,647 × (1-24.00%); $142,647 × 76.00% = $108,412).
 
During Contract Year 9, death occurs. The death benefit proceeds are the greater of the Death Benefit Amount (Contract Value or Return of Purchase Payments adjusted for withdrawals) or the Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount. The Death Benefit Amount is $95,000 because the Return of Purchase Payment Amount ($95,000) is greater than the Contract Value ($89,820). The death benefit proceeds are equal to the Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount of $111,666 because it is greater than the Death Benefit Amount (Return of Purchase Payments of $95,000).


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APPENDIX H:
 
EARNINGS ENHANCEMENT GUARANTEE (EEG)
RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. They have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments and withdrawals effect the values and benefits under this Rider. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $20,000 is received during Contract Year 3.
  •  A withdrawal of $20,000 is taken during Contract Year 7.
  •  A withdrawal of $10,000 is taken during Contract Year 8.
 
                                 
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Beginning
  Purchase
              Remaining
  Remaining
       
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  Payments
  Withdrawal
  Contract
      Purchase
  Purchase
       
Year   Received   Amount   Value   Earnings1   Payments   Payments   40% EEG2   25% EEG3
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000     $0   $0
2
          $103,000   $3,000   $100,000     $1,200   $750
3
          $106,090   $6,090   $100,000     $2,436   $1,523
Activity
  $20,000       $128,468   $8,468   $120,000     $3,387   $2,117
4
          $129,421   $9,421   $120,000     $3,768   $2,355
5
          $133,304   $13,304   $120,000     $5,321   $3,326
6
          $137,303   $17,303   $120,000     $6,921   $4,326
7
          $141,422   $21,422   $120,000     $8,569   $5,355
Activity
      $20,000   $124,592   $4,592   $120,000     $1,837   $1,148
8
          $125,516   $5,516   $120,000     $2,206   $1,379
Activity
      $10,000   $118,330   $0   $118,330   $1,670   $0   $0
9
          $119,208   $878   $118,330     $351   $219
Death at
the
beginning
of year 10
          $126,360   $8,030   $118,330     $3,212   $2,008
 
 
1  For Rider purposes, Earnings are equal to the Contract Value less Remaining Purchase Payments.
 
2  40% EEG amount is applicable if the oldest Annuitant was age 69 or younger on the Rider Effective Date.
 
3  25% EEG amount is applicable if the oldest Annuitant was age 70 to 75 on the Rider Effective Date.
 
On the Rider effective date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Remaining Purchase Payments = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
 
During Contract Year 3, an additional Purchase Payment of $20,000 was made. As a result, the Remaining Purchase Payments increased to $120,000 ($100,000 + $20,000 = $120,000). The Contract Value increased to $128,468.
 
During Contract Year 7, a withdrawal of $20,000 was made. This will cause an adjustment to the Earnings amount on a dollar for dollar basis that results in a balance of $4,592. The $4,592 is the result of taking the Contract Value after the withdrawal less the Remaining Purchase Payments ($124,592 – $120,000 = $4,592). Since there are Earnings remaining after the withdrawal, there is no adjustment to the Remaining Purchase Payments.
 
During Contract Year 8, a withdrawal of $10,000 was made. Assuming the Earnings at the time of the withdrawal were $8,330, the withdrawal exceeds the Earnings. Since the $10,000 withdrawal exceeded the Earnings, an adjustment to the Remaining Purchase Payments will occur. The Remaining Purchase Payments will be reduced by $1,670 which is the difference between the amount of the withdrawal less the Earnings at the time of the withdrawal ($10,000 – $8,330 = $1,670). The Earnings will be reduced to zero.
 
During Contract Year 10 death occurs. The EEG amount added to the death benefit is based on the age of the oldest Annuitant on the Rider Effective Date and the lesser of the Earnings and Remaining Purchase Payments adjusted for withdrawals.


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Assuming the oldest Annuitant was 69 or younger on the Rider Effective Date, the EEG amount added to the death benefit would be $3,212. $3,212 represents 40% of the Earnings ($8,030 × 40% = $3,212) which is less than 40% of the Remaining Purchase Payments adjusted for withdrawals ($118,330 × 40% = $47,332).
 
Assuming the oldest Annuitant was 70 to 75 on the Rider Effective Date, the EEG amount added to the death benefit would be $2,008. $2,008 represents 25% of the Earnings ($8,030 × 25% = $2,008) which is less than 25% of the Remaining Purchase Payments adjusted for withdrawals ($118,330 × 25% = $29,583).


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PACIFIC INNOVATIONS
SELECT
  WHERE TO GO FOR MORE INFORMATION
 
     
The Pacific Innovations Select variable annuity Contract is offered by Pacific Life Insurance Company, 700 Newport Center Drive. P.O. Box 9000, Newport Beach, California 92660.

If you have any questions about the Contract, please ask your financial professional or contact us.
 
You will find more information about the Pacific Innovations Select variable annuity contract and Separate Account A in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI) dated May 1, 2010.

The SAI has been filed with the SEC and is considered to be part of this Prospectus because it is incorporated by reference. In this Prospectus, you will find the table of contents for the SAI on page 101.

You can get a copy of the SAI at no charge by calling or writing to us, or by contacting the SEC. The SEC may charge you a fee for this information.
     
     
How to Contact Us
 
Call or write to us at:
Pacific Life Insurance Company
P.O. Box 2378
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2378

Contract Owners: 1-800-722-4448
Financial Professionals: 1-800-722-2333
6 a.m. through 5 p.m. Pacific time

Send Purchase Payments, other payments and application forms to the following address:

By mail
Pacific Life Insurance Company
P.O. Box 2290
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2290

By overnight delivery service
Pacific Life Insurance Company1299 Farnam Street, 6th Floor, AMF
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
     
     
How to Contact the SEC
  Commission’s Public Reference Section
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
1-202-551-8090
Website: www.sec.gov
e-mail: publicinfo@sec.gov
     
     
FINRA Public Disclosure Program
  The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) provides investor protection education through its website and printed materials. The FINRA regulation website address is www.finra.org. An investor brochure that includes information describing the Public Disclosure program may be obtained from FINRA. The FINRA Public Disclosure hotline number is (800) 289-9999. FINRA does not charge a fee for the Public Disclosure program services.
     


 

 
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Pacific Life Insurance Company
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 2378
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2378
 
Visit us at our website: www.PacificLife.com
 
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PACIFIC INNOVATIONS   PROSPECTUS MAY 1, 2010
     
 
Pacific Innovations is an individual flexible premium deferred variable annuity contract issued by Pacific Life Insurance Company (Pacific Life).
 
This Prospectus provides information you should know before buying a Contract. It’s accompanied by current Prospectuses for the Funds that provide the underlying Portfolios for the Variable Investment Options offered under the Contract. The Variable Investment Options are funded by Separate Account A of Pacific Life. Please read both Prospectuses carefully, and keep them for future reference.
 
Here’s a list of all the Investment Options currently available under your Contract; the Variable Investment Options are listed according to the underlying Funds:
 
 
VARIABLE INVESTMENT OPTIONS
 
Pacific Select Fund
             
International Value
Long/Short Large-Cap
International Small-Cap
Mid-Cap Value
Equity Index
Small-Cap Index
Small-Cap Equity
Equity
American Funds® Asset Allocation
American Funds® Growth-Income
  American Funds® Growth
Large-Cap Value
Technology
Floating Rate Loan
Small-Cap Growth
Short Duration Bond
Comstock
Growth LT
Focused 30
Health Sciences
  Mid-Cap Equity
International Large-Cap
Mid-Cap Growth
Real Estate
Small-Cap Value
Multi-Strategy
Main Street® Core
Emerging Markets
Cash Management
(formerly called Money Market)
  High Yield Bond
Managed Bond
Inflation Managed
Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth
Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth
Pacific Dynamix – Growth
Dividend Growth
(formerly called Diversified Research)
Large-Cap Growth
Diversified Bond
 
         
AIM Variable Insurance Funds
(Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)
Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset
Fund Series II
(formerly called AIM V.I. PowerShares
ETF Allocation Fund Series II)
  AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.
AllianceBernstein VPS
Balanced Wealth Strategy
Portfolio Class B
  BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc.
BlackRock Global Allocation V.I.
Fund Class III
         
Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance
Products Trust
Franklin Templeton VIP
Founding Funds Allocation
Fund Class 4
  GE Investments Funds, Inc.
GE Investments Total Return
Fund Class 3
  PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust
PIMCO Global Multi-Asset Portfolio – Advisor Class
         
Van Kampen Life Investment Trust
Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation Portfolio Class II
       
         
             
FIXED OPTION
Fixed Option
 
You’ll find more information about the Contract and Separate Account A in the SAI dated May 1, 2010. The SAI has been filed with the SEC and is considered to be part of this Prospectus because it’s incorporated by reference. You’ll find a table of contents for the SAI on page 98 of this Prospectus. You can get a copy of the SAI without charge by calling or writing to Pacific Life or you can visit our website at www.pacificlife.com. You can also visit the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, which contains the SAI, material incorporated into this Prospectus by reference, and other information about registrants that file electronically with the SEC.
 
This Contract is not available in all states. This Prospectus is not an offer in any state or jurisdiction where we are not legally permitted to offer the Contract.
 
The Contract is described in detail in this Prospectus and its Statement of Additional Information (SAI). A Fund is described in its Prospectus and its SAI. No one has the right to describe the Contract or a Fund any differently than they have been described in these documents.
 
You should be aware that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not reviewed the Contract and does not guarantee that the information in this Prospectus is accurate or complete. It’s a criminal offense to say otherwise.
 
This material is not intended to be used, nor can it be used by any taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding U.S. federal, state or local tax penalties. Pacific Life, its distributors and their respective representatives do not provide tax, accounting or legal advice. Any taxpayer should seek advice based on the taxpayer’s particular circumstances from an independent tax advisor.
 
This Contract is not a deposit or obligation of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank. It’s not federally insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve Board, or any other government agency. Investment in a Contract involves risk, including possible loss of principal.


 

 
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AN OVERVIEW OF PACIFIC INNOVATIONS
 
 
This overview tells you some key things you should know about your Contract. It’s designed as a summary only – please read this Prospectus, your Contract and the Statement of Additional Information (SAI) for more detailed information.
 
Certain Contract features described in this Prospectus may vary or may not be available in your state. The state in which your Contract is issued governs whether or not certain features, Riders, charges or fees are allowed or will vary under your Contract. These variations are reflected in your Contract and in Riders or Endorsements to your Contract. See your financial professional or contact us for specific information that may be applicable to your state. See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – State Considerations. This prospectus provides a description of the material rights and obligations under the Contract. Your Contract (including any riders and/or endorsements) represents the contractual agreement between you and us. Any guarantees provided for under your Contract or through optional riders are backed by our financial strength and claims paying ability. You must look to the strength of the insurance company with regard to such guarantees. Your financial professional or financial professional’s firm is not responsible for any Contract guarantees.
 
In this Prospectus, you and your mean the Contract Owner or Policyholder. Pacific Life, we, us and our refer to Pacific Life Insurance Company. Contract means a Pacific Innovations variable annuity contract, unless we state otherwise.
 
Some of the Terms used in this Prospectus may be new to you. You will find a glossary of certain terms in the TERMS USED IN THIS PROSPECTUS section.
 
Pacific Innovations Basics
 
An annuity contract may be appropriate if you are looking for retirement income or you want to meet other long-term financial objectives. Discuss with your financial professional whether a variable annuity, optional benefits and underlying Investment Options are appropriate for you, taking into consideration your age, income, net worth, tax status, insurance needs, financial objectives, investment goals, liquidity needs, time horizon, risk tolerance and other relevant information. Together you can decide if a variable annuity is right for you.
 
This Contract may not be the right one for you if you need to withdraw money for short-term needs, because withdrawal charges and tax penalties for early withdrawal may apply.
 
You should consider the Contract’s investment and income benefits, as well as its costs.
 
Pacific Innovations is an annuity contract between you and Pacific Life Insurance Company. Annuity contracts have two phases, the accumulation phase and the annuitization (income) phase. The two phases are discussed below.
 
This Contract is designed for long-term financial planning. It allows you to invest money on a tax-deferred basis for retirement or other goals, and/or to receive income in a variety of ways, including a series of income payments for life or for a specified period of years.
 
Non-Qualified and Qualified Contracts are available. You buy a Non-Qualified Contract with “after-tax” dollars. You buy a Qualified Contract under a qualified retirement or pension plan, or some form of an individual retirement annuity or account (IRA). It’s important to know that IRAs and qualified plans are already tax-deferred which means the tax deferral feature of a variable annuity does not provide a benefit in addition to that already offered by an IRA or qualified plan. An annuity contract should only be used to fund an IRA or qualified plan to benefit from the annuity’s features other than tax deferral.
 
Pacific Innovations is a variable annuity, which means that the value of your Contract fluctuates depending on the performance of the Investment Options you choose. The Contract allows you to choose how often you make Investments (“Purchase Payments”) and how much you add each time.


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AN OVERVIEW OF PACIFIC INNOVATIONS
 
Your Right to Cancel (“Free Look”)
 
During the Free Look period, you have the right to cancel your Contract and return it with instructions to us or to your financial professional for a refund. The amount refunded may be more or less than the Purchase Payments you have made, depending on the state where you signed your application and the type of Contract you purchased.
 
You will find more information about the Right to Cancel (“Free Look”) period starting on page 42.
 
The Accumulation Phase
 
The Investment Options you choose and how they perform will affect the value of your Contract during the accumulation phase, as well as the amount available to annuitize on the Annuity Date.
 
The accumulation phase begins on your Contract Date and continues until your Annuity Date. During the accumulation phase, you can put money in your Contract by making Purchase Payments, and choose Investment Options in which to allocate them. You can also take money out of your Contract by making a withdrawal.
 
Investments (“Purchase Payments”)
 
Your initial Purchase Payment must be at least $10,000 for a Non-Qualified Contract and at least $2,000 for a Qualified Contract. Additional Purchase Payments must be at least $250 for a Non-Qualified Contract and $50 for a Qualified Contract.
 
You will find more information about Making Your Investments (“Purchase Payments”) starting on page 17.
 
Investment Options
 
Ask your financial professional to help you choose the right Investment Options for your goals and risk tolerance. Any financial firm or financial professional you engage to provide advice and/or make transfers for you is not acting on our behalf. We are not responsible for any investment decisions or allocations you make, recommendations such financial professionals make or any allocations or specific transfers they choose to make on your behalf. Some broker-dealers may not allow or may limit the amount you may allocate to certain Investment Options.
 
You can choose from a variety of Variable Investment Options (also called Subaccounts), each of which invests in a corresponding Portfolio of a Fund. The value of each Portfolio will fluctuate with the value of the investments it holds, and returns are not guaranteed.
 
You can also choose any available fixed option that earns a guaranteed rate of interest of at least 3% annually.
 
We allocate your Purchase Payments to the Investment Options you choose. The value of your Contract will fluctuate during the accumulation phase depending on the Investment Options you have chosen. You bear the investment risk of any Variable Investment Options you choose.
 
You will find more information about the Investment Options and the Investment Advisers starting on page 14.
 
Transferring Among Investment Options
 
You can transfer among Investment Options any time, subject to certain limitations, until your Annuity Date without paying any current income tax. Transfers are limited to 25 for each calendar year. Only 2 transfers per month may involve the Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset Fund, BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund, GE Investments Total Return Fund, International Value, International Small-Cap, International Large-Cap, Emerging Markets, PIMCO Global Multi-Asset, or Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation Investment Options. In addition, only 2 transfers into or out of the American Funds Asset Allocation, American Funds Growth or American Funds Growth-Income Investment Options may occur in any calendar month. If you have used all 25 transfers in a calendar year, you may make one additional transfer of all or a portion of your Variable Account Value to the Cash Management Investment Option before the start of the next calendar year. You can also make systematic transfers by enrolling in our dollar cost averaging, portfolio rebalancing or earnings sweep programs. Transfers made under these systematic transfer programs or transfers made by us to update a Portfolio Optimization Model are excluded from the limitation. Some restrictions may apply to transfers to or from any fixed option.
 
You will find more information about transfers and transfer limitations starting on page 25.
 
Withdrawals
 
You can make full and partial withdrawals to supplement your income or for other purposes. You can withdraw a certain amount each year without paying a withdrawal charge, but any amount withdrawn in excess of this amount may incur a withdrawal charge on Investments that are less than 4 years old. Some restrictions may apply to making partial withdrawals from any fixed option.


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In general, you may have to pay income taxes on withdrawals or other distributions from your Contract. If you’re under age 591/2, a 10% federal tax penalty may also apply to taxable withdrawals.
 
You will find more information about withdrawals starting on page 40.
 
The Income Phase
 
The income phase of your Contract begins on your Annuity Date. Generally, you can choose to surrender your Contract and receive a single payment or you can annuitize your Contract and receive a series of income payments over a fixed period or for life.
 
You can choose fixed or variable annuity payments, or a combination of both. Variable annuity payments may not be available in all states. You can choose monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual payments. We will make the income payments to you or your designated payee. The Owner is responsible for any tax consequences of any annuity payments.
 
If you choose variable annuity payments, the amount of the payments will fluctuate depending on the performance of the Variable Investment Options you choose. After your Annuity Date, if you choose variable annuity payments, you can exchange your Subaccount Annuity Units among the Variable Investment Options up to 4 times in any 12-month period.
 
You will find more information about annuitization starting on page 31 and annuity options available under the Contract starting on page 33.
 
The Death Benefit
 
Generally, the Contract provides a death benefit upon the first death of an Owner or the death of the sole surviving Annuitant, whichever occurs first, during the accumulation phase. Death benefit proceeds are payable when we receive proof of death and payment instructions in proper form. To whom we pay a death benefit, and how we calculate the amount of the death benefit depends on who dies first and the type of Contract you own.
 
You will find more information about the death benefit starting on page 35.
 
Optional Riders
 
Optional Riders are subject to availability (including state availability). Before purchasing any optional Rider, make sure you understand all of the terms and conditions and consult with your financial professional for advice on whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you. We reserve the right to restrict the purchase of an optional living benefit Rider to only Contract issue in the future.
 
Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider (SDBR)
 
This optional Rider offers you the ability to lock in market gains for your beneficiaries with a stepped-up death benefit, which is the highest Contract Value on any previous Contract Anniversary (prior to the Annuitant’s 81st birthday) adjusted for additional Purchase Payments and withdrawals. You can only buy the SDBR when you buy your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the SDBR starting on page 37.
 
Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG) Rider
 
This optional Rider provides for an additional amount (EEG Amount) to be included in the death benefit proceeds when such proceeds become payable as a result of the sole surviving Annuitant’s death or first death of an Owner who is also an Annuitant. You may buy the EEG Rider on the Contract Date or on the first Contract Anniversary.
 
If you buy the EEG Rider within 60 days after the Contract Date or within 60 days after the first Contract Anniversary, we will make the effective date of the EEG Rider coincide with that Contract Date or Contract Anniversary.
 
The Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG) Rider, EEG Amount and EEG Charge are called the Guaranteed Earnings Enhancement (GEE) Rider, GEE Amount, and GEE Charge, respectively, in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the EEG Rider starting on page 39.
 
Optional Living Benefit Riders
 
You may purchase an optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available). In addition, if you purchase a Rider within 60 days after the Contract Date or, if available, within 60 days after any Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date will be that Contract Date or Contract Anniversary.


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At initial purchase and during the entire time that you own an optional living benefit Rider, you must invest your entire Contract Value in an asset allocation program or in Investment Options we make available for these Riders. The allocation limitations associated with these Riders may limit the number of Investment Options that are otherwise available to you under your Contract. See OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – General Information – Investment Allocation Requirements. Failure to adhere to the Investment Allocation Requirements may cause your Rider to terminate.
 
Taking a withdrawal before a certain age or a withdrawal that is greater than the allowed annual withdrawal amount under a particular Rider, may result in adverse consequences such as a reduction in Rider benefits or the failure to receive lifetime withdrawals under a Rider.
 
Some optional riders allow for owner elected Resets/Step-Ups. If you elect to Reset/Step-Up, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary (“60 day period”) on which the Reset/Step-Up is effective. We may, at our sole discretion, allow Resets/Step-Ups after the 60 day period. We reserve the right to refuse a Reset/Step-Up request after the 60 day period regardless of whether we may have allowed you or others to Reset/Step-Up in the past. Each Contract Anniversary starts a new 60 day period in which a Reset/Step-Up may be elected.
 
There may be adverse consequences to taking a loan while an optional Rider is in effect. If you have an existing loan on your Contract, you should carefully consider whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you.
 
CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider
 
This Rider is available for purchase starting June 1, 2010 (subject to availability). This optional Rider lets you, before the Annuity Date, withdraw up to 5% of your Protected Payment Base per year, lock in market gains, and provides the potential to receive 5% of a Protected Payment Base for life, if certain conditions are met. Lifetime withdrawals are available if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If your total withdrawals in a Contract Year exceed the annual withdrawal amount allowed under the Rider, then the Protected Payment Base may decrease and the amount you may withdraw in the future under the Rider may be reduced.
 
Beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. Any reset may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 1.00%) associated with the Rider. Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Automatic Reset, Owner-Elected Reset and Reset Date are described in OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider.
 
This Rider is called the Core Withdrawal Benefit Rider in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider starting on page 46.
 
CoreProtect Advantage Rider
 
This optional Rider lets you, before the Annuity Date, withdraw up to 5% of your Protected Payment Base per year, lock in market gains, and provides the potential to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount for life, if certain conditions are met. Lifetime withdrawals are available if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If your total withdrawals in a Contract Year exceed the annual withdrawal amount allowed under the Rider, then the Protected Payment Base may decrease and the amount you may withdraw in the future under the Rider may be reduced.
 
Before the first withdrawal or 10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date (whichever occurs first), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be increased to the greater of the Annual Credit Value (a 5% Annual Credit is added to this value) or the Highest Anniversary Value.
 
After the first withdrawal or 10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date (whichever occurs first), the Rider provides for Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. Any reset may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 1.50%) associated with the Rider. Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Rider Effective Date, Highest Anniversary Value, Annual Credit Value, Annual Credit, Automatic Reset, Owner-Elected Reset and Reset Date are described in OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreProtect Advantage Rider.
 
This Rider is called the Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit IV Rider in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
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CoreIncome Advantage Rider
 
This optional Rider lets you, before the Annuity Date, withdraw up to 4% of your Protected Payment Base per year, lock in market gains, and provides the potential to receive 4% of a Protected Payment Base for life, if certain conditions are met. Lifetime withdrawals are available if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If your total withdrawals in a Contract Year exceed the annual withdrawal amount allowed under the Rider, then the Protected Payment Base may decrease and the amount you may withdraw in the future under the Rider may be reduced.
 
Beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. Any reset may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 1.00%) associated with the Rider. Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Automatic Reset, Owner-Elected Reset and Reset Date are described in OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreIncome Advantage Rider.
 
This Rider is called the Core Withdrawal Benefit Rider in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the CoreIncome Advantage Rider starting on page 57.
 
Income Access Rider
 
This optional Rider lets you, before the Annuity Date, withdraw up to 7% of your Protected Payment Base per year and lock in market gains, if certain conditions are met. If your total withdrawals in a Contract Year exceed the annual withdrawal amount allowed under the Rider, then the Protected Payment Base may decrease and the amount you may withdraw in the future under the Rider may be reduced. This Rider does not provide lifetime withdrawal benefits.
 
Starting May 1, 2007, on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Step-Up Date, whichever is later, this Rider provides for Automatic Step-Ups or Owner-Elected Step-Ups of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. If you want to participate in Automatic Step-Ups, you must make an affirmative election in a form satisfactory to us. Any Step-Up may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 0.75%) associated with the Rider. Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Automatic Step-Up, Owner-Elected Step-Up, and Step-Up Date are described in OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Income Access Rider.
 
You will find more information about the Income Access Rider starting on page 61.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3) Rider
 
This optional Rider allows for an additional amount that may be added to your Contract Value at the end of a 10-year period (the “Term”), if certain conditions are met. The Rider also provides for an additional option (the “Step-Up”) on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd anniversary of the Rider Effective Date and before the Annuity Date. If the Step-Up is elected, your 10-year Term would begin again as of the effective date of the Step-Up election, and may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 1.00%) associated with the Rider.
 
You will find more information about the GPA 3 Rider starting on page 65.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5) Rider
 
This optional Rider allows for an additional amount that may be added to your Contract Value at the end of a 10-year period (the “Term”), if certain conditions are met. The Rider also provides for an additional option (the “Step-Up”) on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 5th anniversary of the Effective Date of the Rider and before the Annuity Date. If the Step-Up is elected, your 10-year Term would begin again as of the effective date of the Step-Up election, and may include a change in the annual charge percentage (up to a maximum of 0.75%) associated with the Rider.
 
You will find more information about the GPA 5 Rider starting on page 66.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA) Rider
 
This optional Rider is only available if the original Effective Date of the Rider is before April 1, 2003. The optional Rider provides for an additional amount that may be added to your Contract Value at the end of a 10-year period (the “Term”), if certain conditions are met. The Term begins on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
You will find more information about the GPA Rider starting on page 68.


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Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus) Rider
 
The optional Rider offers a guaranteed income annuity option, a minimum fixed income payout, the ability to lock in market gains, and withdraw money each year, if certain conditions are met.
 
The GIA Plus Rider is called the Guaranteed Income Annuity (GIA) Rider in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You will find more information about the GIA Plus Rider starting on page 69.


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Fees and Expenses
 
This section of the overview explains the fees and expenses associated with your Pacific Innovations Contract.
 
Contract Transaction Expenses
 
The following describes the transaction fees and expenses that you will pay when owning your Contract. Expenses are fixed under the terms of your Contract. Premium taxes and/or other taxes may also apply to your Contract. We generally charge state premium taxes and/or other taxes when you annuitize your Contract, but there are other times when we charge them to your Contract instead. Please see your Contract for details.
 
         
• Maximum Withdrawal Charge (as a percentage of Purchase Payments withdrawn)1
       
 
                 
“Age” of Payment in Years:
  1   2   3   4 or more
Withdrawal Charge Percentage:
  9%   8%   8%   0%
 
Periodic Expenses
 
The following describes the fees and expenses that you will pay periodically during the time you own your Contract not including Portfolio fees and expenses.
 
                         
• Annual Fee2                   $ 30.00  
 
Separate Account A Annual Expenses (as a percentage of the average daily Variable Account Value3):
 
                         
    Without
  With Stepped-Up
  With Premier
    Rider   Death Benefit Rider   Death Benefit Rider
     
• Mortality and Expense Risk Charge4
    1.25%       1.25%       1.25%  
• Administrative Fee4
    0.15%       0.15%       0.15%  
• Death Benefit Rider Charge4,5
    none       0.20%       0.35%  
                         
• Total Separate Account A Annual Expenses
    1.40%       1.60%       1.75%  
                         
 
Loan Expenses (interest on Contract Debt) (Loans are only available with certain Qualified Contracts. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – General Rules – Loans on page 86):
                         
• Loan Interest Rate (net)6
                    2.00%  
 
Optional Rider7 Annual Expenses:
 
                 
    Current Charge
  Maximum Charge
    Percentage   Percentage
     
• Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG) Rider Charge8
    0.25%       0.25%  
• CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider Charge9
    0.60%       1.20%  
• CoreProtect Advantage Rider Charge10
    1.05%       1.50%  
• CoreIncome Advantage Rider Charge11
               
If purchased before June 1, 2010
    0.40%       1.00%  
If purchased on or after June 1, 2010
    0.30%       1.00%  
• Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider Charge (Single)12
    1.50%       1.50%  
• Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider Charge (Joint)12
    1.75%       1.75%  
• Foundation 10 Rider Charge13
    1.50%       1.50%  
• Automatic Income Builder Rider Charge14
    0.95%       1.50%  
• Flexible Lifetime Income Rider Charge (Single)15
    0.65%       1.20%  
• Flexible Lifetime Income Rider Charge (Joint)15
    0.85%       1.20%  
• Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider Charge16
    0.60%       1.20%  
• Income Access Plus Rider Charge16
    0.40%       1.20%  
• Income Access Rider Charge17
    0.75%       0.75%  
• Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3) Rider Charge18
    0.95%       1.00%  
• Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5) Rider Charge19
    0.55%       0.75%  
• Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA) Rider Charge20
    0.10%       0.10%  
• Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus) Rider Charge21
    0.75%       0.75%  
• Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5) Rider Charge22
    0.40%       0.75%  
• Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II) Rider Charge22
    0.70%       1.00%  
 
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2 We deduct an Annual Fee on each Contract Anniversary up to your Annuity Date and when you make a full withdrawal if the Contract Value on these days is less than $50,000 after deducting any outstanding loan and interest (your Net Contract Value). See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS.
 
3 The Variable Account Value is the value of your Variable Investment Options on any Business Day.
 
4 This is an annual rate and is assessed on a daily basis. The daily rate is calculated by dividing the annual rate by 365.
 
5 If you buy an Optional Death Benefit Rider, we will add this charge to the Mortality and Expense Risk Charge until your Annuity Date. The Premier Death Benefit Rider is only available on Contracts issued before May 1, 2003. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS.
 
6 If we process a loan on your Contract, we will charge you a gross interest rate of 5.00% on your outstanding principal amount. We will credit you the amount of 3.00% on any Contract Value attributed to your Loan Account. The net amount of interest you pay on your loan will be 2.00% annually. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – General Rules – Loans.
 
7 Only one CoreIncome Advantage 5, CoreProtect Advantage, CoreIncome Advantage, Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint), Foundation 10, Automatic Income Builder, Flexible Lifetime Income (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income (Joint), Lifetime Income Access Plus, Income Access Plus, or Income Access Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time. Only one GIA Plus, GIA 5, or GIA II Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time. Only one GPA 3, GPA 5, or GPA Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time.
 
8 If you buy the EEG Rider (subject to availability), we deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the date you purchase the Rider, and when you make a full withdrawal, if the EEG Rider is in effect on that date. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS.
 
9 If you buy the CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage (divided by 4) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on a quarterly basis. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on a quarterly basis. The quarterly amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct the charge proportionately from your Investment Options every quarter following the Rider Effective Date, during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract, or if your Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the quarter that we are notified of death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
10 If you buy the CoreProtect Advantage Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage (divided by 4) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on a quarterly basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreProtect Advantage Rider. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on a quarterly basis. The quarterly amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments, increases to the Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options every quarter following the Rider Effective Date, during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract or if your Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the quarter that we are notified of death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
11 If you buy the CoreIncome Advantage Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage (divided by 4) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on a quarterly basis. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – CoreIncome Advantage Rider. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on a quarterly basis. The quarterly amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct the charge proportionately from your Investment Options every quarter following the Rider Effective Date, during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract, or if your Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the quarter that we are notified of death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
12 If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single or Joint), the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on an annual basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single or Joint) subsection in the SAI and/or in the Rider attached to your Contract. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on an annual basis. The amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments and Annual Credits, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the Single version, we will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract or after the Contract Value is zero. Under the Joint version, we will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of the surviving Designated Life, upon full annuitization of the Contract or after the Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single or Joint) is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
13 If you purchased the Foundation 10 Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on an annual basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see the OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Foundation 10 Rider subsection in the SAI and/or in the Rider attached to your Contract. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on an annual basis. The amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments and Annual Credits, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Foundation 10 Rider is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased this Rider, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
14 If you purchased the Automatic Income Builder Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on an annual basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract


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Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Automatic Income Builder Rider. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on a annual basis. The amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Rider Effective Date, during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant, upon full annuitization of your Contract or after the Contract Value is zero. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Automatic Income Builder Rider is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased this Rider, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
15 If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single or Joint), the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base, deducted on an annual basis. The Protected Payment Base is the amount used to determine the allowable annual withdrawal amount under the Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to the Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Protected Payment Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single or Joint) subsection in the SAI and/or in the Rider attached to your Contract. The charge is deducted from your Contract Value on an annual basis. The amount deducted may increase or decrease due to changes in your Protected Payment Base. Your Protected Payment Base may increase due to additional Purchase Payments and Annual Credits, decrease due to withdrawals or also change due to Resets. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the Single version, we will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. Under the Joint version, we will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of the surviving Designated Life or upon full annuitization of the Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single or Joint) is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
16 If you purchased the Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider or the Income Access Plus Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the current charge percentage if an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The Lifetime Income Access Plus and Income Access Plus Riders are no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
17 If you buy the Income Access Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the current charge percentage if an Automatic Step-Up or Owner-Elected Step-Up occurs, but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
18 If you buy the GPA 3 Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Guaranteed Protection Amount, deducted on an annual basis. The initial Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. For a complete explanation of the Guaranteed Protection Amount, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3) Rider. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the current charge percentage if a Step-Up is elected but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
19 If you buy the GPA 5 Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the current charge percentage if a Step-Up is elected but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
20 If you purchased the GPA Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary following the Effective Date of the Rider during the term of the Rider and while the Rider is in effect. The GPA Rider is only available if the original Effective Date of the Rider is before April 1, 2003. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
21 If you purchased the GIA Plus Rider, we charge the fee based on the greater of the Contract Value or the Guaranteed Income Base, deducted on an annual basis. The initial Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment if purchased at Contract issue or is equal to Contract Value if the Rider is purchased on a Contract Anniversary. The Guaranteed Income Base is the amount invested to date grown at 5% annually (until the Contract Anniversary prior to the youngest Annuitant’s 81st birthday) that may be used for fixed annuity payments starting on the Annuity Date. For a complete explanation of the Guaranteed Income Base, see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus). We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary and when you make a full withdrawal if the Rider is in effect on that date, and when the Rider is terminated. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges.
 
22 If you purchased the GIA 5 or GIA II Rider, the annual charge is equal to the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value, deducted on an annual basis. We deduct this charge proportionately from your Investment Options on each Contract Anniversary, the Annuity Date, and when you make a full withdrawal, if the Rider is in effect on that date, and when the Rider is terminated. Under the terms and conditions of the Rider, the annual charge percentage may change to the current charge percentage if a Step-Up occurs, but will never be more than the maximum charge percentage. We will waive the annual charge if the Rider terminates as a result of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant or upon full annuitization of your Contract. The annual charge is only waived for the Contract Year that we are notified of the death or annuitization. See CHARGES, FEES, AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges. The GIA 5 and GIA II Riders are no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.


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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
 
You will find more about the underlying Funds starting on page 14, and in each underlying Fund Prospectus which accompanies this Prospectus.
 
This table shows the minimum and maximum total annual operating expenses paid by the Portfolios that you indirectly pay during the time you own the Contract. This table shows the range (minimum and maximum) of fees and expenses (including management fees, shareholder servicing and/or distribution (12b-1) fees, and other expenses) charged by any of the Portfolios, expressed as an annual percentage of average daily net assets. The amounts are based on expenses paid in the year ended December 31, 2009, adjusted to reflect anticipated changes in fees and expenses, or, for new Portfolios, are based on estimates for the current fiscal year.
 
Each Variable Account of the Separate Account purchases shares of the corresponding Fund Portfolio at net asset value. The net asset value reflects the investment advisory fees and other expenses that are deducted from the assets of the Portfolio. The advisory fees and other expenses are not fixed or specified under the terms of the Contract, and they may vary from year to year. These fees and expenses are described in each Fund Prospectus.
 
                 
    Minimum     Maximum  
   
 
Range of total annual portfolio operating expenses before any waivers or expense reimbursements     0.28%       2.62%  
Range of total annual portfolio operating expenses after any waivers or expense reimbursements     0.28%       1.56%  
 
To help limit Fund expenses, Fund advisers have contractually agreed to reduce investment advisory fees or otherwise reimburse certain Portfolios of their respective Funds which may reduce the Portfolio’s expenses. The range of expenses in the first row above does not include the effect of any waiver and/or expense reimbursement arrangement. The range of expenses in the second row above includes the effect of waiver and/or expense reimbursement arrangements that will remain in effect at least through April 30, 2011. There can be no assurance that expense waivers or reimbursements will be extended beyond their current terms, and they may not cover certain expenses such as extraordinary expenses. See each Fund prospectus for complete information regarding annual operating expenses of that Fund.


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Examples
 
The following examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in your Contract with the cost of investing in other variable annuity contracts. The maximum amounts reflected below include the maximum periodic Contract expenses, Separate Account annual expenses and the Portfolio with the highest fees and expenses for the year ended December 31, 2009. The maximum amounts also include the combination of optional Riders whose cumulative maximum charge expenses totaled more than any other optional Rider combination. The optional Riders included are the PDBR, EEG, Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint), GPA 3 and GIA II Riders. The minimum amounts reflected below include the minimum periodic Contract expenses, Separate Account annual expenses and the Portfolio with the lowest fees and expenses for the year ended December 31, 2009. The minimum amounts do not include any optional Riders.
 
The examples assume that you invest $10,000 in the Contract for the time periods indicated. They also assume that your Purchase Payment has a 5% return each year and assumes the maximum and minimum fees and expenses of all of the Investment Options available. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your maximum and minimum costs would be:
 
•  If you surrendered your Contract:
 
                 
    1 Year   3 Years   5 Years   10 Years
Maximum*
  $1,658   $3,268   $4,249   $8,472
Minimum*
  $1,021   $1,373   $1,125   $2,442
 
 
•  If you annuitized your Contract:
 
                 
    1 Year   3 Years   5 Years   10 Years
Maximum*
  $1,658   $2,548   $4,249   $8,472
Minimum*
  $1,021   $653   $1,125   $2,442
 
 
•  If you did not surrender, nor annuitize, but left the money in your Contract:
 
                 
    1 Year   3 Years   5 Years   10 Years
Maximum*
  $848   $2,548   $4,249   $8,472
Minimum*
  $211   $653   $1,125   $2,442
 
* In calculating the examples above, we used the maximum and minimum total operating expenses of all the Portfolios as shown in the Fees And Expenses section of each Fund Prospectus. For more information on fees and expenses, see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS in this Prospectus, and see each Fund Prospectus. See the FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS section in this Prospectus for condensed financial information about the Subaccounts.


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YOUR INVESTMENT OPTIONS
 
Some broker-dealers may not allow or may limit the amount you may allocate to certain Investment Options. Work with your financial professional to help you choose the right Investment Options for your investment goals and risk tolerance.
 
You may choose among the different Variable Investment Options and the Fixed Option.
 
Your Variable Investment Options
 
Each Variable Investment Option invests in a separate Portfolio of a Fund. For your convenience, the following chart summarizes some basic data about each Portfolio. This chart is only a summary. For more complete information on each Portfolio, including a discussion of the Portfolio’s investment techniques and the risks associated with its investments, see the applicable Fund Prospectus. No assurance can be given that a Portfolio will achieve its investment objective. YOU SHOULD READ EACH FUND PROSPECTUS CAREFULLY BEFORE INVESTING.
 
             
             
PACIFIC SELECT FUND   INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
International Value


  Seeks long-term capital appreciation primarily through investment in equity securities of corporations domiciled in countries with developed economies and markets other than the U.S. Current income from dividends and interest will not be an important consideration.   Invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of equity securities of relatively large non-U.S. companies that the manager believes to be undervalued.   AllianceBernstein L.P.
             
Long/Short Large-Cap


  Seeks above-average total returns.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with large market capitalizations.   Analytic Investors, LLC &
J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc.

             
International Small-Cap


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with small market capitalizations.   Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc.
             
Mid-Cap Value


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies.   BlackRock Capital Management, Inc.


             
Equity Index


  Seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the total return of common stocks that are publicly traded in the U.S.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of companies included in the portfolio’s applicable benchmark index, including instruments representative of that index (such as derivatives).
  BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
             
Small-Cap Index


  Seeks investment results that correspond to the total return of an index of small capitalization companies.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with small market capitalizations included in the portfolio’s applicable benchmark index, including instruments representative of that index (such as derivatives).   BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
             
Small-Cap Equity


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with small market capitalizations, including instruments with characteristics of small-capitalization equity securities (such as derivatives).   BlackRock Investment Management, LLC &
Franklin Advisory Services, LLC
             
Equity

  Seeks capital appreciation; current income is of secondary importance.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities.   Capital Guardian Trust Company



             
American Funds Asset Allocation

  Seeks high total returns (including income and capital gains) consistent with preservation of capital over the long-term.   Invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of the Asset Allocation Fund, a series of American Funds Insurance Series®, a registered open-end investment company (Master Asset Allocation Fund).   Capital Research and Management Company
  (adviser to the Master Asset
  Allocation Fund)
             
American Funds
Growth-Income
  Seeks long-term growth of capital and income.   Invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of the Growth-Income Fund, a series of the American Funds Insurance Series®, a registered open-end investment company (Master Growth-Income Fund).   Capital Research and Management Company
  (adviser to the Master Growth-
  Income Fund)
             
American Funds
Growth

  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of the Growth Fund, a series of American Funds Insurance Series®, a registered open-end investment company (Master Growth Fund).   Capital Research and Management Company
  (adviser to the Master Growth
  Fund)
             
Large-Cap Value


  Seeks long-term growth of capital; current income is of secondary importance.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in common stocks of large companies.   ClearBridge Advisors, LLC
             
Technology
  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of technology companies that may benefit from technological improvements, advancements or developments.   Columbia Management


             
Floating Rate Loan
  Seeks to provide high level of current income.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in floating rate loans.   Eaton Vance Management


             
Small-Cap Growth


  Seeks capital appreciation; no consideration is given to income.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in small-capitalization equity securities.   Fred Alger Management, Inc.
             
Short Duration Bond
  Seeks current income; capital appreciation is of secondary importance.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in fixed income securities (including derivatives on such securities).   Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.


             
Comstock

  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests its assets in equity securities.   Invesco Advisers, Inc.
Invesco Ltd. has entered in to a definitive agreement to acquire certain portfolios of the retail asset management business of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. (MSIM) (“the Transaction”). The Transaction includes a sale of the asset management business that sub-advises the Comstock Portfolio and is subject to certain approvals and other conditions prior to its expected closing in mid-2010. MSIM is the current subadviser to the Comstock Portfolio and upon closing of the Transaction, Invesco Advisers, Inc. will become the subadviser.


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PACIFIC SELECT FUND   INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
Growth LT


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests in companies of any size. The portfolio principally invests in equity securities but may also invest in debt securities. The portfolio may invest up to 25% of its assets in foreign securities (equity and debt), including emerging market countries, denominated in a foreign currency and not publicly traded in the U.S.   Janus Capital Management LLC
             
Focused 30


  Seeks long term growth of capital.   Invests primarily in domestic and foreign equity securities (including common stock and warrants) selected for their growth potential.   Janus Capital Management LLC
             
Health Sciences


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities and derivatives of companies in the health sciences sector.   Jennison Associates LLC
             
Mid-Cap Equity


  Seeks capital appreciation.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of companies with medium market capitalizations.   Lazard Asset Management LLC
             
International Large-Cap


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with large market capitalizations.   MFS Investment Management
             
Mid-Cap Growth


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies with medium market capitalizations.   Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.
             
Real Estate


  Seeks current income and long-term capital appreciation.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies operating in the real estate and related industries.   Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.
             
Small-Cap Value


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in small-capitalization equity securities.   NFJ Investment Group LLC
             
Multi-Strategy


  Seeks to provide a high total return from a portfolio of equity and fixed income securities.   Invests in a mix of equity and fixed income securities, although there is no requirement to weight the portfolio holdings in any fixed proportion.   OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
             
Main Street Core


  Seeks long-term growth of capital and income.   Invests in common stocks of companies of different capitalization ranges, with a focus on U.S. companies with large market capitalizations.   OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
             
Emerging Markets


  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in securities (including American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)) of companies whose principal activities are conducted in countries that are generally regarded as emerging market countries.   OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
             
Cash Management
(formerly called Money Market)
  Seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital.   Invests in money market instruments that the portfolio manager believes have minimal credit risk.   Pacific Asset Management
             
High Yield Bond


  Seeks a high level of current income.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in non-investment grade (high yield/high risk, sometimes called “junk” bonds) debt instruments or in instruments with characteristics of non-investment grade debt instruments.   Pacific Asset Management
             
Managed Bond


  Seeks to maximize total return consistent with prudent investment management.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in debt instruments, including instruments with characteristics of debt instruments (such as derivatives).   Pacific Investment Management Company LLC
             
Inflation Managed


  Seeks to maximize total return consistent with prudent investment management.   Invests its assets in fixed income securities.   Pacific Investment Management Company LLC
             
Pacific Dynamix –
Conservative Growth

  Seeks current income and moderate growth of capital.   Targets an equity/debt blend of 40/60 through investment in certain underlying portfolios of Pacific Select Fund.   Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC
             
Pacific Dynamix –
Moderate Growth

  Seeks long-term growth of capital and low to moderate income.   Targets an equity/debt blend of 60/40 through investment in certain underlying portfolios of Pacific Select Fund.   Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC
             
Pacific Dynamix –
Growth

  Seeks moderately high, long-term growth of capital with low, current income.   Targets an equity/debt blend of 80/20 through investment in certain underlying portfolios of Pacific Select Fund.   Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC
             
Dividend Growth
(formerly called Diversified Research)
  Seeks long-term growth of capital.   Invests at least 65% of its assets in equity securities of dividend paying companies that the manager expects to increase their dividends over time and also provide long-term appreciation.   T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
             
Large-Cap Growth


  Seeks long-term growth of capital; current income is of secondary importance.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies.   UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc.
             
Diversified Bond


  Seeks to maximize total return consistent with prudent investment management.   Invests at least 80% of its assets in fixed income securities.   Western Asset Management Company


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AIM VARIABLE
INSURANCE FUNDS (INVESCO VARIABLE INSURANCE FUNDS)
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
Invesco V.I. Global
Multi-Asset
Fund Series II
(formerly called AIM V.I. PowerShares ETF Allocation Fund Series II)
  Provide total return consistent with a moderate level of risk relative to the broad stock market.   The fund invests in underlying funds that invest in U.S. and international fixed-income, equity and commodities markets. The fund may invest in affiliated and unaffiliated exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds, and in other securities. The fund will invest at least 30% of its assets in underlying funds that invest in fixed-income securities and cash.   Invesco Advisers, Inc.
 
             
             
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN
VARIABLE PRODUCTS
SERIES FUND, INC.
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
AllianceBernstein VPS
Balanced Wealth
Strategy Portfolio
Class B
  Maximize total return.   Invests in equity and debt securities. Targets a weighting of 60% equity securities and 40% debt securities with a goal of providing moderate upside potential without excessive volatility.   AllianceBernstein L.P.
 
             
             
BLACKROCK VARIABLE
SERIES FUNDS, INC.
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
BlackRock Global
Allocation V.I. Fund
Class III

  Seeks high total investment return.   A mix of U.S. and foreign equity, debt and money market securities.   BlackRock Advisors, LLC
             
             
FRANKLIN TEMPLETON
VARIABLE INSURANCE
PRODUCTS TRUST
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
Franklin Templeton VIP
Founding Funds
Allocation Fund
Class 4
  Seeks capital appreciation, with income as a secondary goal.   Normally invests equal portions in Class 1 shares of Franklin Income Securities Fund, Mutual Shares Securities Fund and Templeton Growth Securities Fund. The underlying funds invest in both U.S. and foreign equity securities and debt securities.   Franklin Templeton Services, LLC serves as the Fund’s administrator.
             
             
GE INVESTMENTS
FUNDS, INC.
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
GE Investments Total Return Fund
Class 3
  Highest total return, composed of current income and capital appreciation, as is consistent with prudent investment risk.   Invests primarily in a combination of U.S. and foreign equity and debt securities and cash.   GE Asset Management Incorporated
             
             
PIMCO VARIABLE
INSURANCE TRUST
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
PIMCO Global
Multi-Asset Portfolio – Advisor Class
  Seeks total return which exceeds that of a blend of 60% MSCI World Index, 40% Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index.   Normally invests in other mutual funds (combination of affiliated and unaffiliated funds), securities and other instruments.   Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC
             
             
VAN KAMPEN LIFE
INVESTMENT TRUST
  INVESTMENT GOAL   THE PORTFOLIO’S
MAIN INVESTMENTS
  MANAGER
             
Van Kampen LIT
Global Tactical Asset
Allocation Portfolio
Class II
  Seek capital appreciation over time.   Invests primarily in a diversified mix of equity securities and fixed income securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers.   Van Kampen Asset Management
On or about June 1, 2010, the Fund name will change to “AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)” and the Portfolio will change its name to the “Invesco Van Kampen V.I. Global Tactical Asset Allocation Fund Series II”. In addition, the manager will change to Invesco Advisers, Inc. As a result, all references in this prospectus to the “Van Kampen Life Investment Trust” will be changed to the “AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)” and the “Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation” Portfolio will be changed to the “Invesco Van Kampen V.I. Global Tactical Asset Allocation” Fund once the changes are completed.


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The Investment Advisers
 
Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC (PLFA), a subsidiary of Pacific Life Insurance Company, is the investment adviser for the Pacific Select Fund. PLFA and the Pacific Select Fund’s Board of Trustees oversee the management of all the Pacific Select Fund’s Portfolios, and PLFA also manages certain portfolios directly. PLFA also does business under the name “Pacific Asset Management” and manages the Pacific Select Fund’s Cash Management and High Yield Bond Portfolios under that name.
 
Invesco Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser for the AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds).
 
AllianceBernstein L.P. is the investment adviser for the AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.
 
BlackRock Advisors, LLC is the investment adviser for the BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc. and has retained various sub-advisors for its portfolios.
 
Franklin Templeton Services, LLC is the fund administrator for the Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund of the Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust.
 
GE Asset Management Incorporated is the investment adviser for the GE Investments Funds, Inc.
 
Pacific Investment Management Company LLC is the investment adviser for the PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust.
 
Van Kampen Asset Management is the investment adviser for the Van Kampen Life Investment Trust. On or about June 1, 2010, Invesco Advisers, Inc. will be the investment adviser, Invesco Asset Management Deutschland GmbH will be the sub-adviser, and the Fund name will change from the Van Kampen Life Investment Trust to the AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds).
 
Your Fixed Option
 
The fixed option offers you a guaranteed minimum interest rate on amounts that you allocate to this option. Amounts you allocate to this option, and your earnings credited are held in our General Account. For more detailed information about this option, see THE GENERAL ACCOUNT.
 
PURCHASING YOUR CONTRACT
 
How to Apply for Your Contract
 
To purchase a Contract, you must work with your financial professional to fill out an application and submit it along with your initial Purchase Payment to Pacific Life Insurance Company at P.O. Box 2290, Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2290. In those instances when we receive electronic transmission of the information on the application from your financial professional’s broker-dealer firm and our administrative procedures with your broker-dealer so provide, we consider the application to be received on the Business Day we receive the transmission. If your application and Purchase Payment are complete when received, or once they have become complete, we will issue your Contract within 2 Business Days. If some information is missing from your application, we may delay issuing your Contract while we obtain the missing information. However, we will not hold your initial Purchase Payment for more than 5 Business Days without your permission. In any case, we will not hold your initial Purchase Payment after 20 Business Days.
 
You may also purchase a Contract by exchanging your existing annuity. You must submit all contracts to be exchanged when you submit your application. Call your financial professional or call us at 1-800-722-4448. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
We reserve the right to reject any application or Purchase Payment for any reason, subject to any applicable nondiscrimination laws and to our own standards and guidelines. On your application, you must provide us with a valid U.S. tax identification number for federal and state tax reporting purposes.
 
The maximum age of a Contract Owner/Annuitant, including Joint and Contingent Owners/Annuitants, for which a Contract will be issued is 80. The Contract Owner’s age is calculated as of his or her last birthday. If any Contract Owner or any sole Annuitant named in the application for a Contract dies and we are notified of the death before we issue the Contract, then we will return the amount we received. If we are not notified of the death and we issue the Contract, then the application for the Contract and/or any Contract issued will be deemed cancelled and a refund will be issued. Depending on the state where your application was signed, the amount of the refund may be more or less than the initial Purchase Payment received, or any other Purchase Payment we received in connection with an exchange or transfer. In most states, the refund will be the Contract Value based upon the next determined Accumulated Unit Value (AUV) after we receive proof of death, in proper form, of the Contract Owner or Annuitant, plus a refund of any amount used to pay premium taxes and/or any other taxes. Any refund may subject the refunded assets to probate.
 
Making Your Investments (“Purchase Payments”)
 
Making Your Initial Purchase Payment
 
Your initial Purchase Payment must be at least $10,000 if you are buying a Non-Qualified Contract, and at least $2,000 if you are buying a Qualified Contract. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum initial Purchase Payment on Qualified Contracts but we reserve the


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right to enforce the minimum initial Purchase Payment on Qualified Contracts in the future. For Non-Qualified Contracts, if the entire minimum initial Purchase Payment is not included when you submit your application, you must submit a portion of the required Contract minimum and/or establish a pre-authorized checking plan (PAC). A PAC allows you to pay the remainder of the required initial Purchase Payment in equal installments over the first year. Further requirements for PAC are discussed in the PAC form.
 
You must obtain our consent before making an initial or additional Purchase Payment that will bring your aggregate Purchase Payments over $1,000,000. As of July 23, 2004, if you allocate all or part of an additional Purchase Payment to the Fixed Option, the maximum aggregate Purchase Payments you may have in the Fixed Option is currently $250,000. This limitation is subject to change at any time. Ask your financial professional about current limitations.
 
Making Additional Purchase Payments
 
If your Contract is Non-Qualified, you may choose to invest additional amounts in your Contract at any time. If your Contract is Qualified, the method of contribution and contribution limits may be restricted by the Qualified Plan or the Internal Revenue Code (“the Code”). Each additional Purchase Payment must be at least $250 for Non-Qualified Contracts and $50 for Qualified Contracts. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum additional Purchase Payment amounts but we reserve the right to enforce the minimum additional Purchase Payment amounts in the future. Additional Purchase Payments will be allocated according to the instructions we have on file unless we receive specific allocation instructions. Contracts issued in certain states may limit additional Purchase Payments.
 
Forms of Purchase Payment
 
Your initial and additional Purchase Payments may be sent by personal or bank check or by wire transfer. Purchase Payments must be made in a form acceptable to us before we can process it. Acceptable forms of Purchase Payments are:
 
  •  personal checks or cashier’s checks drawn on a U.S. bank,
 
  •  money orders and traveler’s checks in single denominations of more than $10,000 if they originate in a U.S. bank,
 
  •  third party payments when there is a clear connection of the third party to the underlying transaction, and
 
  •  wire transfers that originate in U.S. banks.
 
We will not accept Purchase Payments in the following forms:
 
  •  cash,
 
  •  credit cards or checks drawn against a credit card account,
 
  •  money orders or traveler’s checks in single denominations of $10,000 or less,
 
  •  starter checks,
 
  •  cashier’s checks, money orders, traveler’s checks or personal checks drawn on non-U.S. banks, even if the payment may be effected through a U.S. bank,
 
  •  third party payments if there is not a clear connection of the third party to the underlying transaction, and
 
  •  wire transfers that originate from foreign bank accounts.
 
All unacceptable forms of Purchase Payments will be returned to the payor along with a letter of explanation. We reserve the right to reject or accept any form of payment. If you make Purchase Payments by check other than a cashier’s check, your payment of any withdrawal proceeds and any refund during the “Right to Cancel” period may be delayed until we receive confirmation in our Annuities administrative office that your check has cleared.
 
HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED
 
Choosing Your Investment Options
 
You may allocate your Purchase Payments among any of the available Investment Options. Allocations of your initial Purchase Payment to the Investment Options you selected will be effective on your Contract Date. Each additional Purchase Payment will be allocated to the Investment Options according to your allocation instructions in your application, or most recent instructions, if any, subject to the terms described in WITHDRAWALS – Right to Cancel (“Free Look”). We reserve the right to require that your allocation to any particular Investment Option must be at least $500. We also reserve the right to transfer any remaining Account Value that is not at least $500 to your other Investment Options on a pro rata basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
If your Contract is issued in exchange for another annuity contract or a life insurance policy, our administrative procedures may vary depending on the state in which your Contract is delivered.


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Portfolio Optimization
 
The Service. Portfolio Optimization is an asset allocation service that is offered at no additional charge for use within this variable annuity. Asset allocation refers to the manner that investments are distributed among asset classes to help attain an investment goal. For your variable annuity, Portfolio Optimization can help with decisions about how you should allocate your Contract Value among available Investment Options. The theory behind Portfolio Optimization is that diversification among asset classes can help reduce volatility over the long term.
 
As part of the Portfolio Optimization service, several asset allocation models have been developed (“Portfolio Optimization Models” or “Models”), each based on different profiles of an investor’s willingness to accept investment risk. If you decide to subscribe to the Portfolio Optimization service and select one of the Portfolio Optimization Models, your initial Purchase Payment (in the case of a new application) or Contract Value, as applicable, will be allocated to the Investment Options according to the Model you select. Subsequent Purchase Payments, if allowed under your Contract, will also be allocated accordingly, unless you instruct us otherwise. If you choose, you can rebalance your Contract Value quarterly, semi-annually, or annually, to the current allocations of your Portfolio Optimization Model, since changes in the net asset values of the underlying Portfolios within each Model will alter your asset allocation over time. If you also allocate part of your Purchase Payment or Contract Value to Investment Options that are not currently included in your Model and you elect periodic rebalancing, such amounts will not be considered when rebalancing. If you subscribe to Portfolio Optimization and elect periodic rebalancing, only the Investment Options within your Model will be rebalanced.
 
If you subscribe to Portfolio Optimization, Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC (Adviser), a subsidiary of Pacific Life, will serve as your investment adviser for the service solely for purposes of development of the Portfolio Optimization Models and periodic updates of the Models.
 
On a periodic basis (typically annually), the Portfolio Optimization Models are evaluated and the Models are updated, as discussed below. If you subscribe to Portfolio Optimization, your Contract Value or subsequent Purchase Payments, as applicable, will automatically be reallocated in accordance with the Model you select, as it is updated from time to time, based on discretionary authority that you grant to the Adviser, unless you instruct otherwise. For more information on the role of the investment adviser for the Portfolio Optimization service, please see the brochure from the Adviser’s Form ADV, the SEC investment adviser registration form, which will be delivered to Contract Owners at the time they apply for a Contract. Please contact us if you would like to receive a copy of this brochure. In developing and periodically updating the Portfolio Optimization Models, the Adviser currently relies on the recommendations of an independent third-party analytical firm. The Adviser may change the firm that it uses from time to time, or, to the extent permissible under applicable law, use no independent firm at all.
 
The Portfolio Optimization Models. Five asset allocation models are offered, each comprised of a carefully selected combination of Investment Options (from among the underlying Portfolios of Pacific Select Fund). Development of the Portfolio Optimization models involves a multi-step process. First, an optimization analysis is performed to determine the breakdown of asset classes. Optimization analysis requires forecasting returns, standard deviations and correlation coefficients of asset classes over the desired investing horizon and an analysis using a state-of-the art program and a statistical analytical technique known as “mean-variance optimization”. Next, after the asset class exposures are known, a determination is made of how available Investment Options (underlying Portfolios) can be used to implement the asset class level allocations. The Investment Options are selected by evaluating the asset classes represented by the underlying Portfolios and combining Investment Options to arrive at the desired asset class exposures. The Portfolio-specific analysis uses historical returns-based style analysis and asset performance and regression and attribution analyses. It may also include portfolio manager interviews. Based on this analysis, Investment Options are selected in a way intended to optimize potential returns for each Model, given a particular level of risk tolerance. This process could, in some cases, result in the inclusion of an Investment Option in a Model based on its specific asset class exposure or other specific optimization factors, even where another Investment Option may have better historical performance.
 
Periodic Updates of the Portfolio Optimization Model and Notices of Updates. Each of the Portfolio Optimization Models are evaluated periodically (generally, annually) to assess whether the combination of Investment Options within each Model should be changed to better seek to optimize the potential return for the level of risk tolerance intended for the Model. As a result of the periodic analysis, each Model may change. Investment Options may be added to a Model (including Investment Options not currently available), Investment Options may be deleted from a Model, and the target allocation percentages for the Investment Options may be changed.
 
When your Portfolio Optimization Model is updated, your Contract Value (and subsequent Purchase Payments, if applicable) will automatically be reallocated in accordance with the changes to the Model you have selected. This means the allocation of your Contract Value, and potentially the Investment Options in which you are invested, will automatically change and your Contract Value (and subsequent Purchase Payments, if applicable) will automatically be reallocated among the Investment Options in your updated Model (independently of any automatic rebalancing you may have selected). The Adviser requires that you grant it discretionary investment authority to periodically reallocate your Contract Value (and subsequent Purchase Payments, if applicable) in accordance with the updated version of the Portfolio Optimization Model you have selected, if you wish to participate in Portfolio Optimization.
 
When the Adviser updates the Portfolio Optimizations Models, a written notice of the updated Models will be sent to participants at least 30 days in advance of the date the Adviser intends the updated version of the Model to be effective. You should carefully review these


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notices. If you wish to accept the changes in your selected Model, you will not need to take any action, as your Contract Value (or subsequent Purchase Payments, if applicable) will automatically be reallocated in accordance with the updated Model. If you do not wish to accept the changes to your selected Model, you can change to a different Model that is offered at the time or withdraw from the Portfolio Optimization service. Some of the optional riders available under your Contract have investment allocation requirements. If you purchased any of these riders, such riders may terminate if you do not allocate your Contract Value consistent with the investment allocation requirements or if you withdraw from the service. See OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS — General Information — Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Selecting a Portfolio Optimization Model. If you choose to subscribe to the Portfolio Optimization service, you need to determine which Portfolio Optimization Model is best for you. Neither the Adviser nor its affiliates will make this decision. You should consult with your financial professional on this decision. Your financial professional can help you determine which Model is best suited to your financial needs, investment time horizon, and willingness to accept investment risk. You should periodically review these factors with your financial professional to determine if you should change Models to keep up with changes in your personal circumstances. Your financial professional can assist you in completing the proper forms to subscribe to the Portfolio Optimization service or to change to a different Model. You may, in consultation with your financial professional, utilize analytical tools made available by the Adviser, including an investor profile questionnaire, which asks questions intended to help you or your financial professional assess your financial needs, investment time horizon, and willingness to accept investment risk. While the information may assist you, it is your decision, in consultation with your financial professional, to select a Model or to change to a different Model, and the Adviser and its affiliates bear no responsibility for this decision. You may change to a different available Model at any time, subject to transfer and market timing restrictions, with a proper written request or by telephone or electronic instructions provided a valid telephone/electronic authorization is on file with us.
 
Periodic Reports. Participants in the Portfolio Optimization service will periodically be sent performance information regarding the Investment Options within a selected Model. This information may also be accessed online. Information concerning the current Models is described below.
 
Risks. Although the Models are designed to optimize returns given the various levels of risk, there is no assurance that a Model portfolio will not lose money or that investment results will not experience volatility. Investment performance of your Contract Value could be better or worse by participating in a Portfolio Optimization Model than if you had not participated. A Model may perform better or worse than any single Investment Option or asset class or other combinations of Investment Options or asset classes. Model performance is dependent upon the performance of the component Investment Options (the selected underlying Portfolios). The timing of your investment and the frequency of automatic rebalancing may affect performance. Your Contract Value will fluctuate, and when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost.
 
A Portfolio Optimization Model may not perform as intended. Although the Models are intended to optimize returns given various levels of risk tolerance, portfolio, market and asset class performance, as well as the correlation of risks and returns among different asset classes, may differ in the future from the historical performance and assumptions upon which the Models are based, which could cause the Models to be ineffective or less effective in reducing volatility.
 
Periodic updating of the Portfolio Optimization Models can cause the underlying Portfolios to incur transactional expenses to raise cash for money flowing out of the Portfolios or to buy securities with money flowing into the Portfolios. These expenses can adversely affect performance of the pertinent Portfolios and the Models.
 
The Adviser may be subject to competing interests that have the potential to influence its decision making with regard to Portfolio Optimization. For example, one Portfolio may provide a higher advisory fee to the Adviser than another Portfolio, and provide the Adviser with incentive to use the Portfolio with the higher fee as part of a Portfolio Optimization Model. In addition, the Adviser may believe that certain Portfolios may benefit from additional assets or could be harmed by redemptions. As adviser to Pacific Select Fund, the Advisor has duties to the Pacific Select Fund and its shareholders, including those shareholders who do not subscribe to Portfolio Optimization, and at times there may be some conflicts between the interests of the different shareholders. The Adviser monitors the Portfolios, and may, from time to time, recommend to the Pacific Select Fund’s Board of Trustees a change in portfolio management firm or strategy or the closure or merger of a Portfolio, all of which could impact a Model. All Pacific Select Fund Portfolios available as Investment Options, except those expected to be liquidated or merged or that are asset allocation oriented by structure (i.e. the American Funds Asset Allocation Portfolio and the Pacific Dynamix Portfolios), are analyzed by the independent third party analytical firm. The third party analytical firm determines the number of Portfolios in a Model, the percent that any Portfolio represents in a Model, and which Portfolios may be selected. The Adviser will work with the analytical firm to resolve any investment related matters derived from the analytical firm’s recommendations. The Adviser believes that its reliance on the recommendations of an independent third-party analytical firm to develop and update the Models (as described above) reduces or eliminates the potential for the Adviser to be influenced by these competing interests, but there can be no assurance of this.
 
The Advisor may, when it is not inconsistent with the interests of participants, consider certain business factors of its affiliates, Pacific Life Insurance Company and Pacific Life & Annuity Company (together the “Insurers”). For example, in certain of the Variable Products the Insurers offer optional guaranteed lifetime income benefits or death benefits under which the Insurers assume investment and other risks, and their exposure and required reserves may be affected by gains or losses incurred in the Variable Products. The Advisor’s investment


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decisions in allocating monies to the available Investment Options may be influenced by these factors. For example, in volatile markets, the Insurers may benefit from Models that are designed in a more conservative fashion, such as by increasing allocations to fixed-income securities, so as to help reduce potential losses. Alternatively, in flat markets, the Insurers may benefit from Models that are designed in a more aggressive fashion, such as by increasing allocations to equity securities of various categories, seeking to generate gains. While the investment process is intended to produce allocation decisions that are in the best interests of participants, participants should be aware that the Advisor’s investment decisions may be influenced by this and other potential conflicts of interests.
 
In addition to the Portfolio Optimization service, the Adviser provides asset allocation advisory services to various mutual funds. The asset allocation models may differ amongst these groups, e.g., one group of funds may not have the same target asset class allocations as the other group of funds or as the Portfolio Optimization service.
 
The Adviser and its affiliates are under no contractual obligation to continue this service and have the right to terminate or change the Portfolio Optimization service at any time. The Advisor may, in its discretion, cease offering one or more of the Models at any time, reduce or expand the number of available Models, or combine two or more Models into a single Model. The Advisor may, in its discretion, add funds in addition to or in lieu of Pacific Select Fund as a source of Investment Options for the Models. The Advisor may, in its discretion, manage the service through investment in single mutual fund portfolios, including, but not limited to, portfolios that use multiple strategies and/or invest in multiple asset classes, so that a Model would be effected through investment in a single portfolio, which could be a “fund-of-funds”, which may charge fees and bear expenses in addition to fees and expenses of the underlying funds. Once invested in single mutual fund portfolios, the Advisor may discontinue active management of the Models and allow asset allocation to be effected through the single portfolios.


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The Models. Information concerning the Portfolio Optimization Models is described below. You should review this information carefully with your financial professional before selecting or changing a Model.
 
                         
Model A
    Model B
    Model C
    Model D
    Model E
Conservative     Moderate-Conservative     Moderate     Moderate-Aggressive     Aggressive
 
Investor Profile
You are looking for a
relatively stable investment
and do not tolerate short-term market swings.
   
Your focus is on keeping pace with inflation and you can tolerate a moderate level of risk.
   
You want the opportunity for long-term moderate growth.
   
You want an investment that is geared for growth and are willing to accept above average risk.
   
You are an aggressive investor and can tolerate short-term market swings.
 
 Shorter Investment Time Horizon◄———►Longer Investment Time Horizon 
 
Investor Objective
Primarily preservation of capital
   
Moderate growth
   
Steady growth in asset values
   
Moderately high growth in asset values
   
High growth in asset values
 
Risk Characteristics
There may be some losses in the values of the investment as asset values fluctuate.
   
There may be some losses in the values of the investment from year to year.
   
There will probably be some losses in the values of the underlying investments from
year to year.
           
Fluctuations in value should be less than those of the overall stock markets.
   
Some of these might be large, but the overall fluctuations in asset values should be less than those of the U.S. stock market.
 
 Lower Risk◄———►Higher Risk 
 
Asset Class Target Exposure
                                                 
      Model A     Model B     Model C     Model D   Model E
Cash Equivalents
      7 %       5 %       2 %              
Fixed Income
      73         57         42         25 %     8 %
Domestic Equity
      15         29         41         54       66  
International Equity
      5         9         15         21       26  
                                                 
 
Portfolio Optimization Model Target Allocations
  
    Model A     Model B     Model C     Model D   Model E
Small-Cap Growth
                      1 %       2 %     2 %
International Value
      2 %       2 %       3         4       4  
Long/Short Large-Cap
      2         3         4         4       5  
International Small-Cap
              1         2         3       3  
Equity Index
      2         3         4         5       6  
Small-Cap Index
                                    2  
Mid-Cap Value
              2         3         3       4  
Dividend Growth (formerly called Diversified Research)
              2         2         3       3  
American Funds® Growth-Income
                      3         4       4  
American Funds® Growth
              1         2         2       3  
Large-Cap Value
      5         6         7         7       8  
Short Duration Bond
      11         8         3         2        
Floating Rate Loan
      8         6         3                
Growth LT
              2         3         3       4  
Mid-Cap Equity
      3         2         3         5       6  
International Large-Cap
      3         4         4         6       8  
Small-Cap Value
              1         1         1       2  
Main Street® Core
              2         2         3       3  
Emerging Markets
                      3         4       5  
Managed Bond
      21         17         14         8       4  
Inflation Managed
      18         14         11         8        
High Yield Bond
      5         4         3                
Large-Cap Growth
      2         3         3         3       4  
Mid-Cap Growth
              2         2         3       4  
Comstock
      2         3         5         6       6  
Real Estate
                              2       3  
Small-Cap Equity
                      1         5       5  
Diversified Bond
      16         12         8         4       2  
 
      Less Volatile◄———►More Volatile 
                                                 


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Custom Model
 
The Custom Model program allows you, with the help of your financial professional, to create your own asset allocation model that will comply with the Investment Allocation Requirements for certain optional living benefit Riders. (See OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS – General Information – Investment Allocation Requirements.) You will create your own model using the parameters listed below.
 
Parameters. To create your model, you may select Investment Options from the 4 Categories (Categories A, B, C and D) listed below. You must allocate at least 25% into each of Categories A, B, and C. You may not allocate more than 15% into any one Investment Option within Category A, B, or C. Category D is optional and you are not required to allocate any part of your Purchase Payment or Contract Value to this Category. If you choose to allocate your Purchase Payment or Contract Value to Category D, you are allowed to allocate up to 25% into any one Investment Option within Category D. Allocation percentages among the Categories must total 100%. The model you create will be automatically rebalanced on a quarterly basis.
 
Example: Assume a $100,000 Purchase Payment. Following the parameters and using the Investment Options listed from the Categories below, you may allocate your Purchase Payment as follows:
 
  •  Category A – 15% to Diversified Bond, 10% to Managed Bond and 5% to Cash Management,
 
  •  Category B – 15% to Focused 30, 10% to Small-Cap Index, 10% to Mid-Cap Growth, 5% to Large-Cap Growth and 5% to Large-Cap Value, and
 
  •  Category C – 10% to International Value, 10% to International Large-Cap and 5% to Emerging Markets.
 
The total allocated is 100%: Category A = 30%, Category B = 45% and Category C = 25%. If you want to include all 4 Categories when creating your model, you could adjust your allocation percentages in Categories A, B and C and allocate up to 25% to any combination of the Investment Options in Category D. Keep in mind that you may select any Investment Option within a Category and the allocation percentages among the Categories must total 100%.
 
             
Category A – Fixed Income Investment Options
Short Duration Bond
  Cash Management   Managed Bond   Floating Rate Loan
High Yield Bond
  Inflation Managed   Diversified Bond    
 
             
Category B – Domestic Equity Investment Options
Small-Cap Growth
Dividend Growth
  Long/Short Large-Cap
Equity
  Equity Index
American Funds
Growth-Income
  Small-Cap Index
American Funds Growth
Large-Cap Value
Large-Cap Growth
Comstock
  Growth LT
Small-Cap Value
Mid-Cap Growth
  Focused 30
Multi-Strategy
Small-Cap Equity
  Mid-Cap Equity
Main Street Core
Mid-Cap Value
 
             
Category C – International Equity and Sector Investment Options
International Value
  International Small-Cap   Technology   Health Sciences
International Large-Cap
  Emerging Markets   Real Estate    
 
             
Category D – Asset Allocation Investment Options
Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset
Fund
  AllianceBernstein VPS
Balanced Wealth
Strategy Portfolio
  American Funds Asset Allocation   BlackRock Global
Allocation V.I. Fund
             
Franklin Templeton
VIP Founding Funds
Allocation Fund
  GE Investments Total Return Fund   Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth   Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth
             
Pacific Dynamix – Growth   Van Kampen LIT Global
Tactical Asset
Allocation Portfolio
  PIMCO Global Multi-Asset
Portfolio
   
 
You may make transfers between Investment Options within a particular Group or from one Group to another Group as long as you follow the Custom Model parameters. Transfers made will be subject to any transfer and market timing restrictions (see HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions). Subsequent Purchase Payments will be allocated according to your current model allocation instructions. Any withdrawals must be made on a pro rata basis from each of the Investment Options you selected for your model.


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You may terminate your participation in the Custom Model program at any time. However, if you own an optional living benefit rider and do not allocate your entire Contract Value to another asset allocation model or Investment Options we make available for the Riders, your Rider will terminate. If you allocate any subsequent Purchase Payment or Contract Value inconsistent with the Custom Model parameters, make transfers between Investment Options outside the Custom Model parameters, or do not make a withdrawal on a pro rata basis, you will no longer be participating in the Custom Model program and your Rider will terminate. Work with your financial professional and consider your options before making any Investment Option transfers. Any changes in the allocation percentages due to market performance will not be a violation of the program, since the model you created will automatically be rebalanced on a quarterly basis.
 
We are under no contractual obligation to continue this program and have the right to terminate or change the Custom Model program at any time.
 
Investing in Variable Investment Options
 
Each time you allocate your Purchase Payment to a Variable Investment Option, your Contract is credited with a number of “Subaccount Units” in that Subaccount. The number of Subaccount Units credited is equal to the amount you have allocated to that Subaccount, divided by the “Unit Value” of one Unit of that Subaccount.
 
Example: You allocate $600 to the Inflation Managed Subaccount. At the end of the Business Day on which your allocation is effective, the value of one Unit in the Inflation Managed Subaccount is $15. As a result, 40 Subaccount Units are credited to your Contract for your $600 ($600/$15 = 40).
 
Your Variable Account Value Will Change
 
After we credit your Contract with Subaccount Units, the value of those Units will usually fluctuate. This means that, from time to time, your Purchase Payment allocated to the Variable Investment Options may be worth more or less than the original Purchase Payments to which those amounts can be attributed. Fluctuations in Subaccount Unit Value will not change the number of Units credited to your Contract.
 
Subaccount Unit Values will vary in accordance with the investment performance of the corresponding Portfolio. For example, the value of Units in the Equity Index Subaccount will change to reflect the performance of the Equity Index Portfolio (including that Portfolio’s investment income, its capital gains and losses, and its expenses). Subaccount Unit Values are also adjusted to reflect the Administrative Fee and applicable Risk Charge imposed on the Separate Account.
 
We calculate the value of all Subaccount Units on each Business Day.
 
Calculating Subaccount Unit Values
 
We calculate the Unit Value of the Subaccount Units in each Variable Investment Option at the close of the New York Stock Exchange which usually closes at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on each Business Day. At the end of each Business Day, the Unit Value for a Subaccount is equal to:
 
Y × Z
 
             
where
  (Y)   =   the Unit Value for that Subaccount as of the end of the preceding Business Day; and
    (Z)   =   the Net Investment Factor for that Subaccount for the period (a “valuation period”) between that Business Day and the immediately preceding Business Day.
 
The “Net Investment Factor” for a Subaccount for any valuation period is equal to:
 
(A ¸ B) – C
 
             
where
  (A)   =   the “per share value of the assets” of that Subaccount as of the end of that valuation period, which is equal to: a+b+c
 
             
where
  (a)   =   the net asset value per share of the corresponding Portfolio shares held by that Subaccount as of the end of that valuation period;
    (b)   =   the per share amount of any dividend or capital gain distributions made by each Fund for that Portfolio during that valuation period; and
    (c)   =   any per share charge (a negative number) or credit (a positive number) for any income taxes and/or any other taxes or other amounts set aside during that valuation period as a reserve for any income and/or any other taxes which we determine to have resulted from the operations of the Subaccount or Contract, and/or any taxes attributable, directly or indirectly, to Investments;


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    (B)   =   the net asset value per share of the corresponding Portfolio shares held by the Subaccount as of the end of the preceding valuation period; and
    (C)   =   a factor that assesses against the Subaccount net assets for each calendar day in the valuation period the basic Risk Charge plus any applicable increase in the Risk Charge and the Administrative Fee (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS).
 
The Subaccount Unit Value may increase or decrease from one valuation period to another.
 
When Your Purchase Payment is Effective
 
Your initial Purchase Payment is effective on the day we issue your Contract. Any additional Purchase Payment is effective on the day we receive it in proper form. See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – Inquiries and Submitting Forms and Requests.
 
The day your Purchase Payment is effective determines the Unit Value at which Subaccount Units are attributed to your Contract. In the case of transfers or withdrawals, the effective day determines the Unit Value at which affected Subaccount Units are debited and/or credited under your Contract. That Unit Value is the value of the Subaccount Units next calculated after your transaction is effective. Your Variable Account Value begins to reflect the investment performance results of your new allocations on the day after your transaction is effective.
 
Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions
 
Transfers
 
Transfers are allowed 30 days after the Contract Date. Currently, we are not enforcing this restriction but we reserve the right to enforce it in the future. Once your Purchase Payments are allocated to the Investment Options you selected, you may transfer your Account Value less Loan Account Value from any Investment Option to any other Investment Option. Transfers are limited to 25 for each calendar year. Only 2 transfers in any calendar month may involve any of the following Investment Options: Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset Fund, BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund, GE Investments Total Return Fund, International Value, International Small-Cap, International Large-Cap, Emerging Markets, PIMCO Global Multi-Asset, or Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation. In addition, only 2 transfers into or out of the American Funds Asset Allocation, American Funds Growth or American Funds Growth-Income Investment Options may occur in any calendar month.
 
Transfers to or from a Variable Investment Option cannot be made before the seventh calendar day following the last transfer to or from the same Variable Investment Option. If the seventh calendar day is not a Business Day, then a transfer may not occur until the next Business Day. The day of the last transfer is not considered a calendar day for purposes of meeting this requirement. For example, if you make a transfer into the Equity Index Variable Investment Option on Monday, you may not make any transfers to or from that Variable Investment Option before the following Monday. Transfers to or from the Cash Management Variable Investment Option are excluded from this limitation.
 
For the purpose of applying the limitations, multiple transfers that occur on the same day are considered 1 transfer. A transfer of Account Value from the Loan Account back into your Investment Options following a loan repayment is not considered a transfer under these limitations. Transfers that occur as a result of the dollar cost averaging program, the portfolio rebalancing program, the earnings sweep program, approved corporate owned life insurance policy rebalancing programs or an approved asset allocation service are excluded from these limitations. Also, allocations of Purchase Payments are not subject to these limitations.
 
If you have used all 25 transfers available to you in a calendar year, you may no longer make transfers between the Investment Options until the start of the next calendar year. However, you may make 1 transfer of all or a portion of the Account Value remaining in the Variable Investment Options into the Cash Management Investment Option prior to the start of the next calendar year.
 
There are no exceptions to the above transfer limitations in the absence of an error by us, a substitution of Investment Options, or reorganization of underlying Portfolios, or other extraordinary circumstances.
 
If we deny a transfer request, we will notify your financial professional via telephone. If you (or your financial professional) request a transfer via telephone that exceeds the above limitations, we will notify you (or your financial professional) immediately.
 
Certain restrictions apply to any available fixed option. See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT. Transfer requests are generally effective on the Business Day we receive them in proper form, unless you request a date in the future or a systematic transfer program.
 
We have the right, at our option (unless otherwise required by law), to require certain minimums in the future in connection with transfers. These may include a minimum transfer amount and a minimum Account Value, if any, for the Investment Option from which the transfer is made or to which the transfer is made. If your transfer request results in your having a remaining Account Value in an Investment Option that is less than $500 immediately after such transfer, we may transfer that Account Value to your other Investment Options on a pro rata basis, relative to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
We reserve the right (unless otherwise required by law) to limit the size of transfers, to restrict transfers, to require that you submit any transfer requests in writing, to suspend transfers, and to impose further limits on the number and frequency of transfers you can make.


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We also reserve the right to reject any transfer request. Any policy we may establish with regard to the exercise of any of these rights will be applied uniformly to all Contract Owners.
 
Market-timing Restrictions
 
The Contract is not designed to serve as a vehicle for frequent trading in response to short-term fluctuations in the market. Accordingly, organizations or individuals that use market-timing investment strategies and make frequent transfers should not purchase the Contract. Such frequent trading can disrupt management of the underlying Portfolios and raise expenses. The transfer limitations set forth above are intended to reduce frequent trading. In addition, we monitor certain large transaction activity in an attempt to detect trading that may be disruptive to the Portfolios. In the event transfer activity is found to be disruptive, certain future transactions by such Contract Owners, or by a financial professional or other party acting on behalf of one or more Contract Owners, will require preclearance. Frequent trading and large transactions that are disruptive to portfolio management can have an adverse effect on Portfolio performance and therefore your Contract’s performance. Such trading may also cause dilution in the value of the Investment Options held by long-term Contract Owners. While these issues can occur in connection with any of the underlying Portfolios, Portfolios holding securities that are subject to market pricing inefficiencies are more susceptible to abuse. For example, Portfolios holding international securities may be more susceptible to time-zone arbitrage which seeks to take advantage of pricing discrepancies occurring between the time of the closing of the market on which the security is traded and the time of pricing of the Portfolios.
 
Our policies and procedures which limit the number and frequency of transfers and which may impose preclearance requirements on certain large transactions are applied uniformly to all Contract Owners. However, there is a risk that these policies and procedures will not detect all potentially disruptive activity or will otherwise prove ineffective in whole or in part. Further, we and our affiliates make available to our variable annuity and variable life insurance Contract Owners underlying funds not affiliated with us. We are unable to monitor or restrict the trading activity with respect to shares of such funds not sold in connection with our Contracts. In the event the Board of Trustees/Directors of any underlying fund imposes a redemption fee or trading (transfer) limitations, we will pass them on to you.
 
We reserve the right to restrict, in our sole discretion and without prior notice, transfers initiated by a market timing organization or individual or other party authorized to give transfer instructions on behalf of multiple Contract Owners. Such restrictions could include:
 
  •  not accepting transfer instructions from a financial professional acting on behalf of more than one Contract Owner, and
 
  •  not accepting preauthorized transfer forms from market timers or other entities acting on behalf of more than one Contract Owner at a time.
 
We further reserve the right to impose, without prior notice, restrictions on transfers that we determine, in our sole discretion, will disadvantage or potentially hurt the rights or interests of other Contract Owners; or to comply with any applicable federal and state laws, rules and regulations.
 
Exchanges of Annuity Units
 
Exchanges of Annuity Units in any Subaccount(s) to any other Subaccount(s) after the Annuity Date are limited to 4 in any 12-month period. See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT section in this Prospectus and THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT section in the SAI.
 
Systematic Transfer Options
 
We offer 3 systematic transfer options: dollar cost averaging, portfolio rebalancing, and earnings sweep. There is no charge for these options and transfers under these options are not counted towards your total transfers in a calendar year. However, they are subject to the same requirements and restrictions as non-systematic transfers. You can have only one dollar cost averaging or earnings sweep program in effect at one time. Only portfolio rebalancing is available after you annuitize.
 
Dollar Cost Averaging
 
Dollar cost averaging is a method in which you buy securities in a series of regular purchases instead of in a single purchase. This allows you to average the securities’ prices over time, and may permit a “smoothing” of abrupt peaks and drops in price. Prior to your Annuity Date, you may use dollar cost averaging to transfer amounts, over time, from any Investment Option with an Account Value of at least $5,000 to one or more Variable Investment Options. Each transfer must be for at least $250. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum Account Value and/or transfer amounts but we reserve the right to enforce such minimum amounts in the future. Transfers from the Fixed Option under the dollar cost averaging program are subject to a minimum duration of 12 months. Detailed information appears in the SAI.


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Portfolio Rebalancing
 
You may instruct us to maintain a specific balance of Variable Investment Options under your Contract (e.g., 30% in the Equity Index Subaccount, 40% in the Managed Bond Subaccount, and 30% in the Growth LT Subaccount) prior to your Annuity Date. Periodically, we will “rebalance” your values in the elected Subaccounts to the percentages you have specified. Rebalancing may result in transferring amounts from a Subaccount earning a relatively higher return to one earning a relatively lower return. You may choose to have rebalances made quarterly, semi-annually or annually until your Annuity Date. Only Variable Investment Options are available for rebalancing. Detailed information appears in the SAI.
 
Earnings Sweep
 
You may instruct us to make automatic periodic transfers of your earnings from the Cash Management Subaccount or from the Fixed Option to one or more Variable Investment Options (other than the Cash Management Subaccount). Detailed information appears in the SAI.
 
CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS
 
Withdrawal Charge
 
No sales charge is imposed on any Purchase Payment which means the entire amount of your Purchase Payment is allocated to the Investment Options you selected. Your Purchase Payments may, however, be subject to a withdrawal charge. This charge may apply to amounts you withdraw under your Contract prior to the Annuity Date, depending on the length of time each Purchase Payment has been invested and on the amount you withdraw. This amount is deducted proportionately among all Investment Options from which the withdrawal occurs. See the Choosing Your Annuity Option – Annuity Options section for withdrawal charges that may apply to redemptions after the Annuity Date. No withdrawal charge is imposed on:
 
  •  the free withdrawal amount (see WITHDRAWALS – Withdrawals Free of a Withdrawal Charge),
 
  •  death benefit proceeds, except as provided under the DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Non-Natural Owner section for certain Non-Natural Owners,
 
  •  amounts converted after the first Contract Anniversary to a life contingent Annuity Option or an Annuity Option with a period certain of at least 5 years that is offered under the Contract, unless guaranteed variable annuity payments under Annuity Option 2 or 4 are subsequently redeemed (see ANNUITIZATION – Choosing Your Annuity Option),
 
  •  withdrawals by Owners to meet the minimum distribution rules for Qualified Contracts as they apply to amounts held under the Contract,
 
  •  withdrawals after the first Contract Anniversary, if the Owner or Annuitant has been diagnosed with a medically determinable condition that results in a life expectancy of 12 months or less and we are provided with medical evidence satisfactory to us, or
 
  •  subject to medical evidence satisfactory to us, after 90 days from the Contract Date, full or partial withdrawals while the Owner or Annuitant has been confined to an accredited nursing home for 60 days or longer.
 
The waiver of withdrawal charges applies only to withdrawals made while the Owner or Annuitant is in a nursing home or within 90 days after the Owner or Annuitant leaves the nursing home. In addition, the nursing home confinement period for which you seek the waiver must begin after the Contract Date. In order to use this waiver, you must submit with your withdrawal request the following documents:
 
  •  a physician’s note recommending the Owner or Annuitant’s admittance to a nursing home,
 
  •  an admittance form which shows the type of facility the Owner or Annuitant entered, and
 
  •  a bill from the nursing home which shows that the Owner or Annuitant met the 60 day nursing home confinement requirement.
 
An accredited nursing home is defined as a home or facility that:
 
  •  is operating in accordance with the law of jurisdiction in which it is located,
 
  •  is primarily engaged in providing, in addition to room and board, skilled nursing care under the supervision of a duly licensed physician, and
 
  •  provides continuous 24 hour a day nursing service by or under the supervision of a registered nurse, and maintains a daily record of the patient.
 
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Transfers of all or part of your Account Value from one Investment Option to another are not considered a withdrawal of an amount from your Contract, so no withdrawal charge is imposed at the time of transfer. See HOW YOUR INVESTMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions and THE GENERAL ACCOUNT.
 
How the Withdrawal Charge is Determined
 
The amount of the withdrawal charge depends on how long each Purchase Payment was held under your Contract. Each Purchase Payment you make is considered to have a certain “age,” depending on the length of time since that Purchase Payment was effective. A Purchase Payment is “one year old” or has an “age of one” from the day it is effective until the beginning of the day preceding your next Contract Anniversary. Beginning on the day preceding that Contract Anniversary, your Purchase Payment will have an “age of two” and increases in age on the day preceding each Contract Anniversary. When you withdraw an amount subject to the withdrawal charge, the “age” of the Purchase Payment you withdraw determines the level of withdrawal charge as follows:
 
         
    Withdrawal
    Charge as a
    percentage of the
“Age” of Payment
  Purchase Payments
in Years   withdrawn
1
    9 %
2
    8 %
3
    8 %
4 or more
    0 %
 
We calculate your withdrawal charge by assuming your withdrawal is applied to Purchase Payments first, in the order your Purchase Payments were received and before any deductions for other charges due or taxes are made. The withdrawal charge will be deducted proportionately among all Investment Options from which your withdrawal occurs. Unless you specify otherwise, a partial withdrawal amount requested will be processed as a “gross” amount, which means that applicable charges and taxes will be deducted from the requested amount. If a partial withdrawal amount is requested to be a “net” amount, applicable charges and taxes will be added to the requested amount and the withdrawal charges and taxes will be calculated on the grossed up amount. See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT.
 
Example: You make an initial Purchase Payment of $10,000 in Contract Year 1 and make an additional Purchase Payment of $7,000 in Contract Year 2. With Earnings, your Contract Value in Contract Year 3 is $19,000. In Contract Year 3 you make a withdrawal of $9,000. At this point, total Purchase Payments equal $17,000 and the “age” of the applicable Purchase Payments withdrawn is 3 Years. 10% of all Purchase Payments made ($1,700) plus any remaining portion not withdrawn from the previous Contract Year’s Eligible Purchase Payments ($1,700) may be withdrawn free of a withdrawal charge per Contract Year. The amount of the withdrawal charge applied would be $448 ($9,000–$1,700–$1,700=$5,600; $5,600*8%=$448).
 
The withdrawal charge is designed to reimburse us for sales commissions and other expenses associated with the promotion and solicitation of offers for the Contracts, although our actual expenses may be greater or less than the amount of the withdrawal charge. See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – Distribution Arrangements for information regarding commissions and other amounts paid to broker-dealers in connection with distribution of the Contracts.
 
Withdrawal Enhancements
 
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to calculate your withdrawal charge on more favorable terms to you than as otherwise described in the preceding paragraphs. These withdrawal enhancements may include an acceleration of the day on which the “age” of any Purchase Payments is considered to occur or a waiver of some or all of the withdrawal charge in the event the Guaranteed Interest Rate is less than a specified rate. Although we retain the discretion to add a withdrawal enhancement, once it is added, it is binding on us and effective for any specified period we have designated. In the event of any withdrawal enhancement, we will notify the Owner within 30 days of the effective date of the withdrawal enhancement.
 
Mortality and Expense Risk Charge
 
We assess a charge against the assets of each Subaccount to compensate for certain mortality and expense risks that we assume under the Contract (the “Risk Charge”). The risk that an Annuitant will live longer (and therefore receive more annuity payments) than we predict through our actuarial calculations at the time the Contract is issued is “mortality risk.” We also bear mortality risk in connection with death benefit payable under the Contract. The risk that the expense charges and fees under the Contract and Separate Account are less than our actual administrative and operating expenses is called “expense risk.”
 
This Risk Charge is assessed daily at an annual rate equal to 1.25% of each Subaccount’s assets. This charge may not be increased for the duration of your Contract.
 
The Risk Charge will stop at the Annuity Date if you select fixed annuity payments. The base Risk Charge will continue after the Annuity Date if you choose variable annuity payments, even though we do not bear mortality risk if your Annuity Option is Period Certain Only.


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We will realize a gain if the Risk Charge exceeds our actual cost of expenses and benefits, and will suffer a loss if such actual costs exceed the Risk Charge. Any gain will become part of our General Account. We may use it for any reason, including covering sales expenses on the Contracts.
 
Increase in Risk Charge if an Optional Death Benefit Rider is Purchased
 
We increase your Risk Charge by an annual rate equal to 0.20%% of each Subaccount’s assets if you purchase the Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider (SDBR) or 0.35% if your Contract was issued before May 1, 2003 and you purchased the Premier Death Benefit Rider (PDBR). The total Risk Charge annual rate will be 1.45% if the SDBR is purchased or 1.60% if the PDBR was purchased. Any increase in your Risk Charge will not continue after the Annuity Date. See DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits.
 
Administrative Fee
 
We charge an Administrative Fee as compensation for costs we incur in operating the Separate Account, issuing and administering the Contracts, including processing applications and payments, and issuing reports to you and to regulatory authorities.
 
The Administrative Fee is assessed daily at an annual rate equal to 0.15% of the assets of each Subaccount. This rate is guaranteed not to increase for the life of your Contract. A correlation will not necessarily exist between the actual administrative expenses attributable to a particular Contract and the Administrative Fee paid in respect of that particular Contract. The Administrative Fee will continue after the Annuity Date if you choose any variable payout option. We do not intend to realize a profit from this fee.
 
Annual Fee
 
We will charge you an Annual Fee of $30.00 on each Contract Anniversary prior to the Annuity Date, and at the time you withdraw your entire Net Contract Value (on a pro rated basis for that Contract Year) if your Net Contract Value is less than $50,000 on that date. The fee is not imposed on amounts you annuitize or on payment of death benefit proceeds. The fee reimburses certain costs in administering the Contracts and the Separate Account. We do not intend to realize a profit from this fee. This fee is guaranteed not to increase for the life of your Contract.
 
Your Annual Fee will be charged proportionately against your Investment Options. Assessments against your Variable Investment Options are made by debiting some of the Subaccount Units previously credited to your Contract. That is, assessment of the Annual Fee does not change the Unit Value for those Subaccounts. Any portion of the Annual Fee we deduct from any of our fixed options (if available under the Contract) will not be greater than the annual interest credited in excess of that fixed option’s minimum guaranteed interest rate.
 
Optional Rider Charges
 
If you purchase an optional Rider listed in the table below, we will deduct an annual charge from your Investment Options on a proportionate basis.
 
Depending on which Rider you own, the charge is deducted each Contract Anniversary or every 3 months following the Rider Effective Date (“Quarterly Rider Anniversary”). The Rider charge will be deducted while the Rider remains in effect, when the Rider terminates and for some Riders on the Annuity Date. The annual charge for the GIA 5 and GIA II Riders will be charged on the Annuity Date if the Rider is still in effect. The charge is deducted in arrears each Contract Anniversary or Quarterly Rider Anniversary.
 
If your Rider charge is deducted each Contract Anniversary and your Rider terminates on a Contract Anniversary, the entire charge for the prior year will be deducted on that anniversary. If the Rider terminates prior to a Contract Anniversary, a prorated charge will be deducted on the earlier of the day your Contract terminates or the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day your Rider terminates. The charge will be determined as of the day your Rider terminates.
 
If your Rider charge is deducted each Quarterly Rider Anniversary and your Rider terminates on a Quarterly Rider Anniversary, the entire charge for the prior quarter will be deducted on that anniversary. If the Rider terminates prior to a Quarterly Rider Anniversary, a prorated charge will be deducted on the earlier of the day the Contract terminates or on the Quarterly Rider Anniversary immediately following the day your Rider terminates. The charge will be determined as of the day your Rider terminates.
 
Any portion of the Rider’s charge we deduct from any fixed option will not be greater than the annual interest credited in excess of 3%. If you make a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal during a Contract Year, we will deduct the charge from the final payment made to you.
 
An optional Rider annual charge percentage may change if a Step-Up/Reset occurs under the Rider provisions. However, the annual charge percentage will not exceed the maximum annual charge percentage (indicated in the table below) for the applicable Rider. You may elect to opt-out of a Reset and your annual charge percentage will remain the same as it was before the Reset. If an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset never occurs, the annual charge percentage established on the Rider Effective Date is guaranteed not to change.


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Annual Charge Percentage Table
 
                               
          Maximum
           
    Current
    Annual Charge
    To determine the amount to be
     
    Annual Charge
    Percentage
    deducted, the Annual Charge
    The Charge is
Optional Rider   Percentage     Under the Rider     Percentage is multiplied by the:     deducted on each:
 
Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG)
    0.25%         0.25%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    0.60%         1.20%       Protected Payment Base     Quarterly Rider Anniversary
                           
CoreProtect Advantage
    1.05%         1.50%       Protected Payment Base     Quarterly Rider Anniversary
                           
CoreIncome Advantage1
                             
If purchased before June 1, 2010
    0.40%         1.00%       Protected Payment Base     Quarterly Rider Anniversary
If purchased on or after June 1, 2010
    0.30%         1.00%       Protected Payment Base     Quarterly Rider Anniversary
                           
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single)2
    1.50%         1.50%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint)3
    1.75%         1.75%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Foundation 104
    1.50%         1.50%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Automatic Income Builder5
    0.95%         1.50%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Flexible Lifetime Income (Single)
    0.65%         1.20%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Flexible Lifetime Income (Joint)
    0.85%         1.20%       Protected Payment Base     Contract Anniversary
                           
Lifetime Income Access Plus6
    0.60%         1.20%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Income Access Plus
    0.40%         1.20%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Income Access7
    0.75%         0.75%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3)8
    0.95%         1.00%       Guaranteed Protection Amount     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5)9
    0.55%         0.75%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA)
    0.10%         0.10%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus)10
    0.75%         0.75%       Greater of Contract Value or
Guaranteed Income Base
    Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5)
    0.40%         0.75%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
                           
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II)
    0.70%         1.00%       Contract Value     Contract Anniversary
 
 
1  If you purchased the CoreIncome Advantage Rider before June 1, 2010, the charge percentage is equal to 0.40%. A Reset must occur on or after June 1, 2010 to receive the reduced charge percentage of 0.30%.
 
2  If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.85% unless a Reset occurs. If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after January 1, 2009 and before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.95% unless a Reset occurs. If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.25% unless a Reset occurs.
 
3  If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.00% unless a Reset occurs. If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after January 1, 2009 and before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.10% unless a Reset occurs. If you purchased the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint) Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.40% unless a Reset occurs.
 
4  If you purchased the Foundation 10 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.85% unless a Reset occurs. If you purchased the Foundation 10 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after January 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 1.35% unless a Reset occurs.
 
5  If you purchased the Automatic Income Builder Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.85% unless a Reset occurs.
 
6  If you purchased the Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before July 1, 2006, the charge percentage is equal to 0.40% unless a Reset occurs.
 
7  If you purchased the Income Access Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before March 1, 2004, the charge percentage is equal to 0.30% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the Income Access Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after March 1, 2004 and before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.40% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the Income Access Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.65% unless a Step-Up occurs.
 
8  If you purchased the GPA 3 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.45% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the GPA 3 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after January 1, 2009 and before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.55% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the GPA 3 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2009 and before October 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.75% unless a Reset occurs.
 
9  If you purchased the GPA 5 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before March 1, 2004, the charge percentage is equal to 0.10% unless a Step-Up occurs. If you purchased the GPA 5 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after March 1, 2004 and before May 1, 2008, the charge percentage is equal to 0.25% unless a Step-


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Up occurs. If you purchased the GPA 5 Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is on or after May 1, 2008 and before January 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.40% unless a Step-Up occurs.
 
10  If you purchased the GIA Plus Rider and the Effective Date of the Rider is before May 1, 2009, the charge percentage is equal to 0.50%
 
See Mortality and Expense Risk Charge for the Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider and Premier Death Benefit Rider charge information.
 
Premium Taxes
 
Depending on your state of residence (among other factors), a tax may be imposed on your Purchase Payments (“premium tax”) at the time your Investment is made, at the time of a partial or full withdrawal, at the time any death benefit proceeds are paid, at annuitization or at such other time as taxes may be imposed. Tax rates ranging from 0% to 3.5% are currently in effect, but may change in the future. Some local jurisdictions also impose a tax.
 
If we pay any premium taxes attributable to Purchase Payments, we will impose a similar charge against your Contract Value. Premium tax is subject to state requirements. We normally will charge you when you annuitize some or all of your Contract Value. We reserve the right to impose this charge for applicable premium taxes and/or other taxes when you make a full or partial withdrawal, at the time any death benefit proceeds are paid, or when those taxes are incurred. For these purposes, “premium taxes” include any state or local premium or retaliatory taxes and any federal, state or local income, excise, business or any other type of tax (or component thereof) measured by or based upon, directly or indirectly, the amount of Purchase Payments we have received. We currently base this charge on your Contract Value, but we reserve the right to base this charge on the amount of the transaction, the aggregate amount of Purchase Payments we receive under your Contract, or any other amount, that in our sole discretion we deem appropriately reimburses us for premium taxes paid on this Contract.
 
We may also charge the Separate Account or your Contract Value for taxes attributable to the Separate Account or the Contract, including income taxes attributable to the Separate Account or to our operations with respect to the Contract, or taxes attributable, directly or indirectly, to Purchase Payments. Currently, we do not impose any such charges.
 
Waivers and Reduced Charges
 
We may agree to waive or reduce charges under our Contracts, in situations where selling and/or maintenance costs associated with the Contracts are reduced, such as the sale of several Contracts to the same Contract Owner(s), sales of large Contracts, sales of Contracts in connection with a group or sponsored arrangement or mass transactions over multiple Contracts.
 
We will only waive or reduce such charges on any Contract where expenses associated with the sale or distribution of the Contract and/or costs associated with administering and maintaining the Contract are reduced. We reserve the right to terminate waiver and reduced charge programs at any time, including for issued Contracts.
 
Fund Expenses
 
Your Variable Account Value reflects advisory fees and other expenses incurred by the various Portfolios of the Funds, net of any applicable reductions and/or reimbursements. These fees and expenses may vary. Each Fund is governed by its own Board of Trustees, and your Contract does not fix or specify the level of expenses of any Portfolio. A Fund’s fees and expenses are described in detail in the applicable Fund Prospectus and SAI.
 
Some Investment Options available to you are “fund of funds”. A fund of funds portfolio is a fund that invests in other funds in addition to other investments that the portfolio may make. Expenses of fund of funds Investment Options may be higher than non fund of funds Investment Options due to the two tiered level of expenses. See the Fund prospectuses for detailed portfolio expenses and other information before investing.
 
ANNUITIZATION
 
Selecting Your Annuitant
 
When you submit the application for your Contract, you must choose a sole Annuitant or Joint Annuitants. If you are buying a Qualified Contract, you must be the sole Annuitant. If you are buying a Non-Qualified Contract you may choose yourself and/or another person as Annuitant. Whether you have a sole or Joint Annuitants, you may choose a Contingent Annuitant. The Contingent Annuitant will not have any Contract benefits, including death benefit proceeds, until becoming the sole surviving Annuitant. You will not be able to add or change a sole or Joint Annuitant after your Contract is issued. However, if you are buying a Qualified Contract, you may add a Joint Annuitant on the Annuity Date. You will be able to add or change a Contingent Annuitant until your Annuity Date or the death of your sole Annuitant or both Joint Annuitants, whichever occurs first. However, once your Contingent Annuitant has become the Annuitant under your Contract, no additional Contingent Annuitant may be named. No Annuitant (Primary, Joint or Contingent) may be named upon or after reaching his or her 81st birthday. We reserve the right to require proof of age or survival of the Annuitant(s).

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Annuitization
 
Annuitization occurs on the Annuity Date when you convert your Contract from the accumulation phase to the annuitization (income) phase. You may choose both your Annuity Date and your Annuity Option. At the Annuity Date, you may elect to annuitize some or all of your Net Contract Value, less any applicable charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes, (the “Conversion Amount”), as long as such Conversion Amount annuitized is at least $10,000. We will send the annuity payments to the payee that you designate.
 
If you annuitize only a portion of this available Contract Value, you may have the remainder distributed, less any Contract Debt, any applicable charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes, any applicable withdrawal charge, any Annual Fee, and any applicable optional Rider charge. This option of distribution may or may not be available, or may be available only for certain types of contracts. Currently, we only allow this option on Qualified Contracts but we reserve the right to make it available on other contract types in the future. Any such distribution will be made to you in a single sum if the remaining Conversion Amount is less than $10,000 on your Annuity Date. Distributions under your Contract may have tax consequences. You should consult a qualified tax adviser for information on full or partial annuitization.
 
If you annuitize only a portion of your Net Contract Value on your Annuity Date, you may, at that time, have the option to elect not to have the remainder of your Contract Value distributed, but instead to continue your Contract with that remaining Contract Value (a “continuing Contract”). If this option is available, you would then choose a second Annuity Date for your continuing Contract, and all references in this Prospectus to your “Annuity Date” would, in connection with your continuing Contract, be deemed to refer to that second Annuity Date. The second Annuity Date may not be later than the date specified in the Choosing Your Annuity Date section of this Prospectus. This option may not be available, or may be available only for certain types of Contracts. You should be aware that some or all of the payments received before the second Annuity Date may be fully taxable. We recommend that you contact a qualified tax adviser for more information if you are interested in this option.
 
Choosing Your Annuity Date
 
You should choose your Annuity Date when you submit your application or we will apply a default Annuity Date to your Contract. You may change your Annuity Date by notifying us, in proper form, at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of your current Annuity Date or your new Annuity Date. Your Annuity Date cannot be earlier than your first Contract Anniversary. Adverse federal tax consequences may result if you choose an Annuity Date that is prior to an Annuitant’s attained age 591/2. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
If you have a sole Annuitant, your Annuity Date cannot be later than his or her 95th birthday. If you have Joint Annuitants, your Annuity Date cannot be later than your younger Joint Annuitant’s 95th birthday. Different requirements may apply as required by any applicable state law or the Code. We may, at our sole discretion, allow you to extend your Annuity Date. We reserve the right, at any time, to not offer any extension to your Annuity Date regardless of whether we may have granted any extensions to you or to any others in the past. Some Broker/Dealers may not allow their clients to extend the Annuity Date beyond age 95.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, you may also be subject to additional restrictions. In order to meet the Code minimum distribution rules, your Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) may begin earlier than your Annuity Date. For instance, under Section 401 of the Code (for Qualified Plans) and Section 408 of the Code (for IRAs), the entire interest under the Contract must be distributed to the Owner/Annuitant not later than the Owner/Annuitant’s Required Beginning Date (“RBD”), or distributions over the life of the Owner/Annuitant (or the Owner/Annuitant and his or her Beneficiary) must begin no later than the RBD. For more information see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Default Annuity Date and Options
 
If you have a Non-Qualified Contract and you do not choose an Annuity Date when you submit your application, your Annuity Date will be your Annuitant’s 95th birthday or your younger Joint Annuitant’s 95th birthday, whichever applies. However some states’ laws may require a different Annuity Date. Certain Qualified Contracts may require distributions to occur at an earlier age.
 
If you have not specified an Annuity Option or do not instruct us otherwise, at your Annuity Date your Net Contract Value, less any charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes, will be annuitized (if this net amount is at least $10,000) as follows:
 
  •  the net amount from a fixed option will be converted into fixed annuity payments and
 
  •  the net amount from your Variable Account Value will be converted into variable annuity payments directed to the Subaccounts proportionate to your Account Value in each.
 
If the net amount is less than $10,000, the entire amount will be distributed. If you have a Non-Qualified Contract, or if you have a Qualified Contract and are not married, your default Annuity Option will be Life with a ten year Period Certain. If you have a Qualified Contract and you are married, your default Annuity Option will be Joint and Survivor Life with survivor payments of 50%; your spouse will automatically be named your Joint Annuitant.


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Choosing Your Annuity Option
 
You should carefully review the Annuity Options with a qualified tax adviser, and, for Qualified Contracts, reference should be made to the terms of the particular plan and the requirements of the Code for pertinent limitations regarding annuity payments, Required Minimum Distributions (“RMDs”), and other matters.
 
You may make three basic decisions about your annuity payments. First, you may choose whether you want those payments to be a fixed-dollar amount and/or a variable-dollar amount. Second, you may choose the form of annuity payments (see Annuity Options below). Third, you may decide how often you want annuity payments to be made (the “frequency” of the payments). You may not change these selections after the Annuity Date.
 
Fixed and Variable Payment Options
 
You may choose fixed annuity payments based on a fixed rate and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the ages set back 10 years, variable annuity payments that vary with the investment results of the Subaccounts you select, or you may choose both, converting one portion of the net amount you annuitize into fixed annuity payments and another portion into variable annuity payments.
 
If you select fixed annuity payments, each periodic annuity payment received will be equal to the initial annuity payment, unless you select a Joint and Survivor Life annuity with reduced survivor payments when the Primary Annuitant dies. Any net amount you convert to fixed annuity payments will be held in our General Account (but not under any fixed option).
 
If you select variable annuity payments, you may choose as many Variable Investment Options as you wish. The amount of the periodic annuity payments will vary with the investment results of the Variable Investment Options selected and may be more or less than a fixed payment option. After the Annuity Date, Annuity Units may be exchanged among available Variable Investment Options up to four times in any twelve-month period. How your Contract converts into variable annuity payments is explained in more detail in THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT section in the SAI. If you choose the Period Certain Only Annuity Option, the variable annuity payment option is not available to you.
 
Annuity Options
 
Four Annuity Options are currently available under the Contract, although additional options may become available in the future. For other Annuity Options see OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS.
 
1.  Life Only.  Periodic payments are made to the designated payee during the Annuitant’s lifetime. Payments stop when the Annuitant dies.
 
2.  Life with Period Certain.  Periodic payments are made to the designated payee during the Annuitant’s lifetime, with payments guaranteed for a specified period. You may choose to have payments guaranteed from 5 through 30 years (in full years only). The guaranteed period may be limited on Qualified Contracts based on your life expectancy.
 
3.  Joint and Survivor Life.  Periodic payments are made to the designated payee during the lifetime of the Primary Annuitant. After the death of the Primary Annuitant, periodic payments will continue to be made during the lifetime of the secondary Annuitant named in the election. You may choose to have the payments to the surviving secondary Annuitant equal 50%, 662/3% or 100% of the original amount payable made during the lifetime of the Primary Annuitant (you must make this election when you choose your Annuity Option). If you elect a reduced payment based on the life of the secondary Annuitant, fixed annuity payments will be equal to 50% or 662/3% of the original fixed payment payable during the lifetime of the Primary Annuitant; variable annuity payments will be determined using 50% or 662/3%, as applicable, of the number of Annuity Units for each Subaccount credited to the Contract as of the date of death of the Primary Annuitant. Payments stop when both Annuitants have died.
 
4.  Period Certain Only.  Periodic payments are made to the designated payee, guaranteed for a specified period. You may choose to have payments guaranteed from 5 through 30 years (in full years only). The guaranteed period may be limited on Qualified Contracts based on your life expectancy.
 
Periodic payment amounts will differ based on the Annuity Option selected. Generally, the longer the possible payment period, the lower the payment amount.
 
Additionally, if variable payments are elected under Annuity Option 2, you may redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments after the Annuity Date. If you elect to redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments in a single sum, we will not make any additional variable annuity payments during the Annuitant’s lifetime or the remaining guaranteed period after the redemption. The amount available upon full redemption would be the present value of any remaining guaranteed variable payments at the assumed investment return. Any applicable withdrawal charge will be deducted from the present value as if you made a full withdrawal, or if applicable, a partial withdrawal. For purposes of calculating the withdrawal charge and Free Withdrawal amount, it will be assumed that the Contract was never converted to provide annuity payments and any prior variable annuity payments in that Contract Year will be treated as if they were partial withdrawals from the Contract (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Withdrawal Charge).


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For example, assume that a Contract was issued with a single investment of $10,000 and in Contract Year 2 the Owner elects to receive variable annuity payments under Annuity Option 2. In Contract Year 3, the Owner elects to make a full redemption of $5,000. The withdrawal charge as a percentage of the Purchase Payments with an age of 3 years is 8%. Assuming the present value of remaining guaranteed variable payments is $5,000, and the Free Withdrawal amount immediately prior to the redemption is $200, the withdrawal charge for the redemption will be $384 (($5,000 – $200) * 8%). No withdrawal charge will be imposed on a redemption if:
 
  •  the Annuity Option is elected as the form of payments of death benefit proceeds, or
 
  •  the Annuitant dies before the period certain has ended and the Beneficiary requests a redemption of the variable annuity payments.
 
Full or partial redemptions of remaining guaranteed variable payments are explained in more detail in the SAI under THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT.
 
If the Annuitant dies before the guaranteed payments under Annuity Options 2 and 4 are completed, we will pay the remainder of the guaranteed payments to the first person among the following who is (1) living; or (2) an entity or corporation entitled to receive the remainder of the guaranteed payments:
 
  •  the Owner;
 
  •  the Joint Owner;
 
  •  the Contingent Owner;
 
  •  the Beneficiary; or
 
  •  the Contingent Beneficiary.
 
If none are living (or if there is no entity or corporation entitled to receive the remainder of the guaranteed payments), we will pay the remainder of the guaranteed payments to the Owner’s estate.
 
If the Owner dies on or after the Annuity Date, but payments have not yet been completed, then distributions of the remaining amounts payable under the Contract must be made at least as rapidly as the method of distribution that was being used at the date of the Owner’s death. All of the Owner’s rights granted by the Contract will be assumed by the first among the following who is (1) living; or (2) an entity or corporation entitled to assume the Owner’s rights granted by the Contract:
 
  •  the Joint Owner;
 
  •  the Contingent Owner;
 
  •  the Beneficiary; or
 
  •  the Contingent Beneficiary.
 
If none are living (or if there is no entity or corporation entitled to assume the Owner’s rights granted by the Contract), all of the Owner’s rights granted by the Contract will be assumed by the Owner’s estate.
 
For Qualified Contracts, please refer to the Choosing Your Annuity Date section in this Prospectus. If your Contract was issued in connection with a Qualified Plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), your spouse’s consent may be required when you seek any distribution under your Contract, unless your Annuity Option is Joint and Survivor Life with survivor payments of at least 50%, and your spouse is your Joint Annuitant.
 
Your Annuity Payments
 
Frequency of Payments
 
You may choose to have annuity payments made monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually. The amount of a variable payment will be determined in each period on the date corresponding to your Annuity Date, and payment will be made on the next succeeding day.
 
Your initial annuity payment must be at least $250. Depending on the net amount you annuitize, this requirement may limit your options regarding the period and/or frequency of annuity payments.
 
Amount of the First Payment
 
Your Contract contains tables that we use to determine the amount of the first annuity payment under your Contract, taking into consideration the annuitized portion of your Net Contract Value at the Annuity Date. This amount will vary, depending on the annuity period and payment frequency you select. This amount will be larger in the case of shorter Period Certain annuities and smaller for longer Period Certain annuities. Similarly, this amount will be greater for a Life Only annuity than for a Joint and Survivor Life annuity, because we will expect to make payments for a shorter period of time on a Life Only annuity. If you do not choose the Period Certain


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Only annuity, this amount will also vary depending on the age of the Annuitant(s) on the Annuity Date and, for some Contracts in some states, the sex of the Annuitant(s).
 
For fixed annuity payments, the guaranteed income factors in our tables are based on an annual interest rate of 3% and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the ages set back 10 years. If you elect a fixed annuity, fixed annuity payments will be based on the periodic income factors in effect for your Contract on the Annuity Date which are at least the guaranteed income factors under the Contract.
 
For variable annuity payments, the tables are based on an assumed annual investment return of 5% and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the ages set back 10 years. If you elect a variable annuity, your initial variable annuity payment will be based on the applicable variable annuity income factors in effect for your Contract on the Annuity Date which are at least the variable annuity income factors under the Contract. You may choose any other annuity option we may offer on the option’s effective date. A higher assumed investment return would mean a larger first variable annuity payment, but subsequent payments would increase only when actual net investment performance exceeds the higher assumed rate and would fall when actual net investment performance is less than the higher assumed rate. A lower assumed rate would mean a smaller first payment and a more favorable threshold for increases and decreases. If the actual net investment performance is a constant 5% annually, annuity payments will be level. The assumed investment return is explained in more detail in the SAI under THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT.
 
DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS
 
Death Benefits
 
Death benefit proceeds may be payable before the Annuity Date on proof of death of the sole surviving Annuitant or of any Contract Owner while the Contract is in force. Any death benefit payable will be calculated on the “Notice Date”, which is the day on which we receive, in proper form, proof of death and instructions regarding payment of death benefit proceeds. If a Contract has multiple recipients, death benefit proceeds will be calculated when we first receive proof of death and instructions, in proper form, from any recipient. The death benefit proceeds still remaining to be paid to other recipients will fluctuate with the performance of the underlying Investment Options.
 
Death Benefit Proceeds
 
Death benefit proceeds will be payable on the Notice Date. Such proceeds will be reduced by any charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes and any Contract Debt. The death benefit proceeds may be payable in a single sum, as an Annuity Option available under the Contract, towards the purchase of any other Annuity Option we then offer, or in any other manner permitted by the IRS and approved by us. The Owner’s spouse may continue the Contract (see Death Benefits – Spousal Continuation). In addition, there may be legal requirements that limit the recipient’s Annuity Options and the timing of any payments. A recipient should consult a qualified tax adviser before making a death benefit election.
 
The death benefit proceeds will be paid to the first among the following who is (1) living; or (2) an entity or corporation entitled to receive the death benefit proceeds, in the following order:
 
  •  Owner,
 
  •  Joint Owner,
 
  •  Contingent Owner,
 
  •  Beneficiary, or
 
  •  Contingent Beneficiary.
 
If none are living (or if there is no entity or corporation entitled to receive the death benefit proceeds), the proceeds will be payable to the Owner’s Estate.
 
Death Benefit Amount
 
The Death Benefit Amount as of any Business Day before the Annuity Date is equal to the greater of:
 
  •  your Contract Value as of that day, or
 
  •  your aggregate Purchase Payments reduced by an amount for each withdrawal, which is calculated by multiplying the aggregate Purchase Payments received before each withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to each withdrawal. The reduction made, when the Contract Value is less than aggregate Purchase Payments made into the Contract, may be greater than the actual amount withdrawn.
 
We calculate the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date and the death benefit will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section above.


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See APPENDIX G: DEATH BENEFIT AMOUNT AND STEPPED-UP DEATH BENEFIT RIDER (SDBR) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS.
 
Spousal Continuation
 
Generally, a sole designated recipient who is the Owner’s spouse may elect to become the Owner (and sole Annuitant if the deceased Owner had been the Annuitant) and continue the Contract until the earliest of the spouse’s death, the death of the Annuitant, or the Annuity Date, except in the case of a Qualified Contract issued under section 403 of the Code. On the Notice Date, if the surviving spouse is deemed to have continued the Contract, we will set the Contract Value equal to the death benefit proceeds that would have been payable to the spouse as the deemed Beneficiary/designated recipient of the death benefit proceeds. This “Add-In Amount” is the difference between the Contract Value and the death benefit proceeds that would have been payable. The Add-In Amount will be added to the Contract Value on the Notice Date. There will not be an adjustment to the Contract Value if the Contract Value is equal to or greater than the death benefit proceeds as of the Notice Date. The Add-In Amount will be allocated among Investment Options in accordance with the current allocation instructions for the Contract and may be, under certain circumstances, considered earnings. The Add-In Amount is not treated as a new Purchase Payment. A Joint or Contingent Owner who is the designated recipient, but not the Owner’s spouse, may not continue the Contract.
 
Example: On the Notice Date, the Owner’s surviving spouse elects to continue the Contract. On that date, the death benefit proceeds were $100,000 and the Contract Value was $85,000. Since the surviving spouse elected to continue the Contract in lieu of receiving the death benefit proceeds, we will increase the Contract Value by an Add-In Amount of $15,000 ($100,000–$85,000=$15,000). If the Contract Value on the Notice Date was $100,000 or higher, then nothing would be added to the Contract Value.
 
Death of Annuitant
 
If a sole surviving Annuitant dies before the Annuity Date, the amount of the death benefit will be equal to the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date and will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section.
 
If there is more than one Annuitant and an Annuitant who is not an Owner dies, no death benefit proceeds will be payable. The designated sole Annuitant will then be the first living person in the following order:
 
  •  a surviving Joint Annuitant, or
 
  •  a surviving Contingent Annuitant.
 
Death of Owner
 
The amount of the death benefit will be the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date and will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section if:
 
  •  a Contract Owner who is an Annuitant dies before the Annuity Date, or
 
  •  a Contract Owner, who is not an Annuitant, and the Annuitant die simultaneously.
 
If a Contract Owner who is not an Annuitant dies before the Annuity Date, the death benefit proceeds will be equal to your Contract Value as of the Notice Date and will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section.
 
Non-Natural Owner
 
If you are a Non-Natural Owner of a Contract other than a Contract issued under a Qualified Plan as defined in Section 401 or 403 of the Code, the Primary Annuitant will be treated as the Owner of the Contract for purposes of the Non-Qualified Contract Distribution Rules. If there are Joint or Contingent Annuitants, the death benefit proceeds will be payable on proof of death of the first annuitant. If there is a change in the Primary Annuitant prior to the Annuity Date, such change will be treated as the death of the Owner. The Death Benefit Amount will be: (a) the Contract Value, if the Non-Natural Owner elects to maintain the Contract and reinvest the Contract Value into the contract in the same amount as immediately prior to the distribution; or (b) the Contract Value, less any annual fee, withdrawal charge and charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes, if the Non-Natural Owner elects a cash distribution and will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefits Proceeds section.
 
Non-Qualified Contract Distribution Rules
 
The Contract is intended to comply with all applicable provisions of Code Section 72(s) and any successor provision, as deemed necessary by us to qualify the Contract as an annuity contract for federal income tax purposes. If an Owner of a Non-Qualified Contract dies before the Annuity Date, distribution of the death benefit proceeds must begin within 1 year after the Owner’s death or complete distribution within 5 years after the Owner’s death. In order to satisfy this requirement, the designated recipient must receive a final lump sum payment by the fifth anniversary of the death of the Contract Owner, or elect to receive an annuity for life or over a period that does not exceed the life expectancy of the designated recipient with annuity payments that start within 1 year after the Owner’s death or, if permitted by the IRS, elect to receive a systematic distribution over a period not exceeding the beneficiary’s life expectancy using a


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method that would be acceptable for purposes of calculating the minimum distribution required under section 401(a)(9) of the Code. If an election to receive an annuity is not made within 60 days of our receipt of proof, in proper form, of the Owner’s death or, if earlier, 60 days (or shorter period as we permit) prior to the first anniversary of the Owner’s death, the lump sum option will be deemed elected, unless otherwise required by law. If the lump sum option is deemed elected, we will consider that deemed election as receipt of instructions regarding payment of the death benefit proceeds. If a Non-Qualified Contract has Joint Owners, this requirement applies to the first Contract Owner to die.
 
The Owner may designate that the Beneficiary will receive death benefit proceeds through annuity payments for life or life with Period Certain. The Owner must designate the payment method in writing in a form acceptable to us. The Owner may revoke the designation only in writing and only in a form acceptable to us. Once the Owner dies, the Beneficiary cannot revoke or modify the Owner’s designation.
 
Qualified Contract Distribution Rules
 
Under Internal Revenue Service regulations and our administrative procedures, if the Contract is owned under a Qualified Plan as defined in Sections 401, 403, 457(b) or Sections 408, or 408A of the Code and the Annuitant dies before the Required Beginning Date, the payment of any death benefit proceeds must be made to the designated recipient in accordance with one of two rules. One rule generally requires the death benefit proceeds to commence distribution by December 31 of the calendar year following the calendar year of the Annuitant’s death and continue over the life of his or her Beneficiary (the “life expectancy method”). The second rule requires distribution of the entire death benefit proceeds no later than December 31 of the calendar year in which the fifth anniversary of the Annuitant’s death falls (the “five-year rule”).
 
However, the life expectancy method and the five-year rule are modified if the sole primary Beneficiary is a surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse elects not to do an eligible rollover to an IRA or another existing eligible plan in his or her name, then he or she will be subject to the five-year rule. However, the surviving spouse may waive the five-year requirement and elect to take distributions over his or her life expectancy. If the surviving spouse elects to defer the commencement of required distributions beyond the first anniversary of the Annuitant’s death, the surviving spouse may defer required distributions until the later of:
 
  •  December 31 of the year following the year the Annuitant died, or
 
  •  December 31 of the year in which the deceased Annuitant would have turned 701/2.
 
Further, under our administrative procedures, if the required distributions election is not received by us in good order by December 31 of the year following the Annuitant’s death or by December 31 of the year in which the Annuitant would have attained age 701/2, the lump sum option will be deemed by us to have been elected, unless otherwise required by law. If the lump sum option is deemed elected, we will treat that deemed election as receipt of instructions regarding payment of death benefit proceeds.
 
If the Annuitant dies after the commencement of RMDs (except in the case of a Roth IRA when RMDs do not apply) but before the Annuitant’s entire interest in the Contract (other than a Roth IRA) has been distributed, the remaining interest in the Contract must be distributed to the designated recipient at least as rapidly as under the distribution method in effect at the time of the Annuitant’s death.
 
Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider (SDBR)
 
This optional Rider offers you the ability to lock in market gains for your beneficiaries with a stepped-up death benefit, which is the highest Contract Value on any previous Contract Anniversary (prior to the Annuitant’s 81st birthday) increased by the amount of additional Purchase Payments and decreased by withdrawals that you make.
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider at the time your application is completed. You may not purchase the SDBR after the Contract Date. The SDBR may only be purchased if the age of each Annuitant is 70 or younger on the Contract Date.
 
How the Rider Works
 
If you purchase the SDBR at the time your application is completed, upon the death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the first Owner who is also an Annuitant, prior to the Annuity Date, the death benefit proceeds will be equal to the greater of (a) or (b) below:
 
  (a)  the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date.
 
The Death Benefit Amount as of any day before the Annuity Date is equal to the greater of:
 
  •  your Contract Value as of that day, or
 
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  withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to each withdrawal. The reduction made, when the Contract Value is less than aggregate Purchase Payments made into the Contract, may be greater than the actual amount withdrawn.
 
  (b)  the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date.
 
The actual Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount is calculated only when death benefit proceeds become payable as a result of the death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the first death of an Owner who is also an Annuitant, prior to the Annuity Date and is determined as follows:
 
First we calculate what the Death Benefit Amount would have been as of your first Contract Anniversary and each subsequent Contract Anniversary that occurs while the Annuitant is living and before the Annuitant reaches his or her 81st birthday (each of these Contract Anniversaries is a “Milestone Date”).
 
We then adjust the Death Benefit Amount for each Milestone Date by:
 
  •  adding the aggregate amount of any Purchase Payments received by us since the Milestone Date, and
 
  •  subtracting an amount for each withdrawal that has occurred since that Milestone Date, which is calculated by multiplying the Death Benefit Amount before the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of each withdrawal that has occurred since that Milestone Date, including any withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal. The reduction made, when the Contract Value is less than aggregate Purchase Payments made into the Contract, may be greater than the actual amount withdrawn.
 
The highest of these adjusted Death Benefit Amounts for each Milestone Date, as of the Notice Date, is your Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount if you purchase the SDBR. Calculation of any actual Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount is only made once death benefit proceeds become payable under your Contract.
 
Any death benefit paid under this Rider will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section above.
 
See APPENDIX G: DEATH BENEFIT AMOUNT AND STEPPED-UP DEATH BENEFIT RIDER (SDBR) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date death benefit proceeds become payable under the Contract,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
The Rider may not otherwise be cancelled.
 
Premier Death Benefit Rider (PDBR)
 
The PDBR is not available for Contracts issued on or after May 1, 2003. All references to the PDBR in this section, the Prospectus, and the Statement of Additional Information do not apply to such Contracts.
 
If you purchased the PDBR at the time your application was completed, upon the death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the first Owner who is also an Annuitant, prior to the Annuity Date, the death benefit proceeds will be equal to the greater of (a) or (b) below:
 
  (a)  the Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date.
 
The Death Benefit Amount as of any day prior to the Annuity Date is equal to the greater of:
 
  •  your Contract Value as of that day, or
 
  •  your aggregate Purchase Payments less an adjusted amount for each withdrawal increased at an effective annual rate of 6% to that day, subject to a maximum of two times the difference between the aggregate Purchase Payments and withdrawals, including any withdrawal charge.
 
The 6% annual rate of growth will take into account the timing of when each Purchase Payment and withdrawal occurred by applying a daily factor of 1.00015965 to each day’s balance. The 6% effective annual rate of growth will stop accruing as of the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary following the date the Annuitant reaches his or her 80th birthday, or
 
  •  the date of death of the sole Annuitant, or
 
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To determine the adjusted amount for each withdrawal we:
 
  •  divide the amount of each withdrawal, including withdrawal charges, by your Contract Value immediately before that withdrawal, and
 
  •  then multiply the result by your Death Benefit Amount immediately before that withdrawal.
 
  (b)  the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount as of the Notice Date.
 
The actual Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Amount is calculated only when death benefit proceeds become payable as a result of the death of the sole Annuitant, or the first death of an Owner who is also an Annuitant, prior to the Annuity Date, and is determined as follows:
 
First, we calculate what the Death Benefit Amount would have been as of the quarterly anniversary following the Contract Date and as of each subsequent quarterly anniversary that occurs while the Annuitant is living and up to and including the Contract Anniversary following the Annuitant’s 65th birthday. Quarterly anniversaries are measured from the Contract Date. After the Contract Anniversary following the Annuitant’s 65th birthday, we calculate what the Death Benefit Amount would have been as of each Contract Anniversary that occurs while the Annuitant is living and before the Annuitant reaches his or her 81st birthday. Each quarterly anniversary and each Contract Anniversary in which a Death Benefit Amount is calculated is referred to as a “Milestone Date”.
 
We then adjust the Death Benefit Amount for each Milestone Date by:
 
  •  adding the aggregate amount of any Purchase Payments received by us since that Milestone Date, and
 
  •  subtracting an amount for each withdrawal that has occurred since that Milestone Date, which is calculated by multiplying the Death Benefit Amount before the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of each withdrawal that has occurred since that Milestone Date, including any withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
The highest of these adjusted Death Benefit Amounts as of the notice date is your Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit if the Rider is purchased. Calculation of any actual Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit is only made once death benefit proceeds become payable under your Contract.
 
Any death benefit paid under this Rider will be paid in accordance with the Death Benefit Proceeds section above.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date death benefit proceeds become payable under the Contract,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
The Rider may not otherwise be cancelled.
 
Earnings Enhancement Guarantee (EEG) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase the EEG Rider on the Contract Date or on the first Contract Anniversary. If you buy the EEG Rider within 60 days after the Contract Date or within 60 days after the first Contract Anniversary, we will make the Effective Date of the EEG Rider coincide with that Contract Date or Contract Anniversary. The EEG Rider is also called the Guaranteed Earnings Enhancement (GEE) Rider and the EEG Amount is called the GEE Amount in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
You may purchase the EEG Rider only if the age of each Annuitant is 75 years or younger on the date of purchase. The date of purchase is the Rider Effective Date as shown in your Contract.
 
How the Rider Works
 
If you purchase the EEG Rider, an Earnings Enhancement Guarantee amount (EEG Amount) is added to the death benefit proceeds when such proceeds become payable as a result of the sole surviving Annuitant’s death or the first death of an Owner who is also an Annuitant.
 
The EEG amount is calculated as follows:
 
If the age of the oldest Annuitant was age 69 or younger on the Effective Date of the Rider, the EEG amount is equal to the lesser of:
 
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  •  40% of Remaining Purchase Payments, excluding any Purchase Payments made in the 12 months prior to the date of death, adjusted for withdrawals.
 
If the age of the oldest Annuitant was age 70 to 75 on the Effective Date of the Rider, the EEG Amount is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  25% of Earnings, or
 
  •  25% of Remaining Purchase Payments, excluding any Purchase Payments made in the 12 months prior to the date of death, adjusted for withdrawals.
 
For purposes of calculating the EEG Amount, Earnings are equal to the Contract Value as of the date of death minus Remaining Purchase Payments. Remaining Purchase Payments is defined as (a) or (b) below:
 
  (a)  If the Rider is effective on the Contract Date, Remaining Purchase Payments are equal to:
 
  •  the Initial Purchase Payments, plus
 
  •  any additional Purchase Payments added, minus
 
  •  the amount that each withdrawal exceeds the amount of Earnings in the Contract immediately prior to such withdrawal. Withdrawals are assumed to be taken from Earnings first, then from Purchase Payments in the order they were received.
 
  (b)  If the Rider is effective after the Contract Date, Remaining Purchase Payments are equal to:
 
  •  the Contract Value on the Effective Date, plus
 
  •  any additional Purchase Payments added since the Effective Date of the Rider, minus
 
  •  the amount that each withdrawal taken after the Effective Date of the Rider exceeds the amount of Earnings in the Contract accumulated since that date. Withdrawals are assumed to be taken first from Earnings accumulated since the Effective Date of the Rider, then from Purchase Payments in the order that they were received.
 
See APPENDIX H: EARNINGS ENHANCEMENT GUARANTEE (EEG) RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS.
 
If the Surviving Spouse of the deceased Owner continues the Contract in accordance with its terms and conditions, then all provisions of the Rider for the Surviving Spouse will be based on the age of the Surviving Spouse on the date of death of the deceased Owner. If the Surviving Spouse is over age 75 on the date of death, the Rider will not be continued for such Surviving Spouse and the benefits and charges provided by the Rider will no longer be applied.
 
Termination
 
Once purchased, the Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date death benefit proceeds become payable under the Contract,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
The Rider may not otherwise be cancelled.
 
WITHDRAWALS
 
Optional Withdrawals
 
You may, on or prior to your Annuity Date, withdraw all or a portion of the amount available under your Contract while the Annuitants are living and your Contract is in force. You may surrender your Contract and make a full withdrawal at any time. If you surrender your Contract it will be terminated as of the Effective Date of the withdrawal. Beginning 30 days after your Contract Date, you also may make partial withdrawals from your Investment Options at any time. Currently, we are not requiring the 30-day waiting period on partial withdrawals, but we reserve the right to require a 30-day waiting period on partial withdrawals in the future. You may request to withdraw a specific dollar amount or a specific percentage of an Account Value or your Net Contract Value. You may choose to make your withdrawal from specified Investment Options. If you do not specify Investment Options, your withdrawal will be made from all of your Investment Options proportionately. Each partial withdrawal must be for $500 or more. Pre-authorized partial withdrawals must be at least $250, except for pre-authorized withdrawals distributed by Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), which must be at least $100. If your partial withdrawal from an Investment Option would leave a remaining Account Value in that Investment Option of less than $500, we also reserve the right, at our option, to transfer that remaining amount to your other Investment Options on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions. If your partial withdrawal leaves you with a Net Contract Value of less than $1,000, or


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if your partial withdrawal request is for an amount exceeding the amount available for withdrawal, as described in the Amount Available for Withdrawal section below, we have the right, at our option, to terminate your Contract and send you the withdrawal proceeds. However, we will not terminate your Contract if you own an optional rider and a partial withdrawal reduces the Net Contract Value to an amount less than $1,000. Partial withdrawals from any fixed option in any Contract Year may be subject to restrictions.
 
See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT.
 
Amount Available for Withdrawal
 
The amount available for withdrawal is your Net Contract Value (Contract Value less Contract Debt) at the end of the Business Day on which your withdrawal request is effective, less any applicable Annual Fee, optional Rider Charges, withdrawal charge, and any charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes. The amount we send to you (your “withdrawal proceeds”) will also reflect any required or requested federal and state income tax withholding. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES and THE GENERAL ACCOUNT. If you own optional Riders, taking a withdrawal before a certain age or a withdrawal that is greater than the allowed annual withdrawal amount under a Rider, may result in adverse consequences such as a reduction in Rider benefits or the failure to receive lifetime withdrawals under the Rider.
 
You assume investment risk on Purchase Payments in the Subaccounts. As a result, the amount available to you for withdrawal from any Subaccount may be more or less than the total Purchase Payments you have allocated to that Subaccount.
 
Withdrawals Free of a Withdrawal Charge
 
Subject to the amount available for withdrawal provisions described above, during a Contract Year you may withdraw free of withdrawal charge amounts up to your “eligible Purchase Payments”. Eligible Purchase Payments include 10% of all Purchase Payments that have an “age” of less than 4 years; plus any remaining portion not withdrawn from the previous Contract Year’s Eligible Purchase Payments that are derived from Purchase Payments which have an “age” of less than 4 years; plus 100% of all Purchase Payments that have an “age” of 4 years or more. For purposes of determining the free withdrawal amounts, withdrawal of mandatory required minimums from certain Qualified Plans are included within the calculations.
 
See Choosing Your Annuity Option – Annuity Options for Free Withdrawal amounts that apply to redemptions after the Annuity Date.
 
Qualified Contracts have special restrictions on withdrawals. For purposes of determining the free withdrawal amounts, withdrawal of mandatory required minimums from certain Qualified Contracts are included within the calculations. For additional information, see Special Restrictions Under Qualified Plans below. For those Contracts issued to a Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT), the amount available for withdrawal free of withdrawal charges during a Contract Year includes all eligible Purchase Payments plus all earnings even if all Purchase Payments have not been deemed withdrawn.
 
Example (Non-CRT)
 
Contract Year 1
 
You make an initial Purchase Payment of $100,000 and make no additional Purchase Payments over the next 3 Contract years. Your free withdrawal amount available in year 1 equals 10% of the total Purchase Payments made (10% of the total Purchase Payments of $100,000 equals $10,000.) If you withdraw $5,000, the remaining $5,000 of the free withdrawal amount not withdrawn in Contract Year 1 will be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
Contract Year 2
 
Your free withdrawal amount for Contract Year 2 is equal to 10% of your total Purchase Payments still subject to the withdrawal charge plus any remaining free withdrawal amounts carried over from the previous Contract Year. (10% of $100,000 plus $5,000 equals $15,000) If no withdrawals are taken, the $15,000 free withdrawal amount not withdrawn in Contract Year 2 will be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
Contract Year 3
 
Your free withdrawal amount for Contract Year 3 is equal to 10% of total Purchase Payments subject to the withdrawal charge plus any remaining free withdrawal amounts carried over from the previous Contract Year. (10% of $100,000 plus $15,000 equals $25,000) If you take a $15,000 withdrawal, the remaining $10,000 of the free withdrawal amount not taken in Contract Year 3 will not be carried over to the next Contract Year because the Purchase Payment will not be subject to the withdrawal charge and the entire amount remaining will be able to be withdrawn free of withdrawal charges.
 
Pre-Authorized Withdrawals
 
If your Contract Value is at least $5,000, you may select the pre-authorized withdrawal option, and you may choose monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual withdrawals. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum Contract Value amount but we reserve the right to enforce the minimum amount in the future. Each withdrawal must be for at least $250, except for withdrawals distributed by Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), which must be at least $100. Each pre-authorized withdrawal is subject to federal income tax on its taxable portion


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and may be subject to a tax penalty of 10% if you have not reached age 591/2. Pre-authorized withdrawals cannot be used to continue the Contract beyond the Annuity Date. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES and THE GENERAL ACCOUNT. Additional information and options are set forth in the SAI.
 
Special Requirements for Full Withdrawals and Payments to Third Party Payees
 
Instructions for a full withdrawal and surrender of your Contract in proper form includes, among other things, a return of the original Contract or a lost contract affidavit. For your convenience, our Withdrawal Request form includes a lost contract affidavit for your use in providing us with your full withdrawal and surrender instructions. If you wish to have a full or partial withdrawal check made payable to a third-party payee, you must provide complete instructions and an original signature is required on the Withdrawal Request form or your withdrawal request instructions. If you wish to withdraw the entire amount available under your Contract, you must either return your Contract to us or sign and submit a Withdrawal Request form or a Lost Contract Affidavit if no Withdrawal Request form is completed.
 
Special Restrictions Under Qualified Plans
 
Qualified Plans may have additional rules regarding withdrawals from a Contract purchased under such a Plan. In general, if your Contract was issued under certain Qualified Plans, you may not withdraw amounts attributable to contributions made pursuant to a salary reduction agreement (as defined in Section 402(g)(3)(A) of the Code) or to transfers from a custodial account (as defined in Section 403(b)(7) of the Code) except in cases of your:
 
  •  severance from employment,
 
  •  death,
 
  •  disability as defined in Section 72(m)(7) of the Code,
 
  •  reaching age 591/2, or
 
  •  hardship as defined for purposes of Section 401 of the Code.
 
These limitations do not affect certain rollovers or exchanges between Qualified Plans, and do not apply to rollovers from these Qualified Plans to an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity. In the case of a 403(b) plan, these limitations do not apply to certain salary reduction contributions made, and investment results earned, prior to dates specified in the Code.
 
Hardship withdrawals under the exception provided above are restricted to amounts attributable to salary reduction contributions, and do not include investment results. This additional restriction does not apply to salary reduction contributions made, or investment results earned, prior to dates specified in the Code.
 
Certain distributions, including rollovers, may be subject to mandatory withholding of 20% for federal income tax and to a tax penalty of 10% if the distribution is not transferred directly to the trustee of another Qualified Plan, or to the custodian of an individual retirement account or issuer of an individual retirement annuity. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES. Distributions may also trigger withholding for state income taxes. The tax and ERISA rules relating to withdrawals from Contracts issued to Qualified Plans are complex. We are not the administrator of any Qualified Plan. You should consult your qualified tax adviser and/or your Plan Administrator before you withdraw any portion of your Contract Value.
 
Effective Date of Withdrawal Requests
 
Withdrawal requests are normally effective on the Business Day we receive them in proper form. If you make Purchase Payments by check and submit a withdrawal request immediately afterwards, payment of your withdrawal proceeds may be delayed until we receive confirmation in our Annuities administrative office that your check has cleared.
 
Tax Consequences of Withdrawals
 
All withdrawals, including pre-authorized withdrawals, will generally have federal income tax consequences, which could include tax penalties. You should consult with a qualified tax adviser before making any withdrawal or selecting the pre-authorized withdrawal option. See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Right to Cancel (“Free Look”)
 
You may return your Contract for cancellation and a refund during your Free Look period. Your Free Look period is usually the 10-day period beginning on the day you receive your Contract, but may vary if required by state law. The amount of your refund may be more or less than the Purchase Payments you have made. If you return your Contract and it is post-marked during the Free Look period, it will be cancelled as of the date we receive your Contract. In most states, you will then receive a refund of your Contract Value, based upon the next determined Accumulated Unit Value (AUV) after we receive your Contract for cancellation, plus a refund of any amount that may have been deducted as Contract fees and charges.


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In some states we are required to refund your Purchase Payments. If your Contract was issued in such a state and you cancel your Contract during the Free Look period, we will return the greater of your Purchase Payments or the Contract Value. In addition, if your Contract was issued as an IRA and you return your Contract within 7 days after you receive it, we will return the greater of your Purchase Payments (less any withdrawals made) or the Contract Value.
 
Your Purchase Payments are allocated to the Investment Options you indicated on your application, unless otherwise required by state law. If state law requires that your Purchase Payments must be allocated to Investment Options different than you requested, we will comply with state requirements. At the end of the Free Look period, we will allocate your Purchase Payments based on your allocation instructions.
 
See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – State Considerations.
 
For replacement business and in some states, the Free Look period may be extended and the amount returned may be different than as otherwise described above. Please consult with your financial professional if you have any questions regarding your state’s Free Look period and the amount of any refund.
 
You will find a complete description of the Free Look period and amount to be refunded that applies to your Contract on the Contract’s cover page, or on a notice that accompanies your Contract.
 
If your Contract is issued in exchange for another annuity contract or a life insurance policy, our administrative procedures may vary, depending on the state in which your Contract is issued.
 
OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS
 
General Information
 
Optional Riders are subject to availability (including state availability). Before purchasing any optional Rider, make sure you understand all of the terms and conditions and consult with your financial professional for advice on whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you. We reserve the right to restrict the purchase of an optional living benefit Rider to only Contract issue in the future.
 
You may purchase an optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available). In addition, if you purchase a Rider within 60 days after the Contract Date or, if available, within 60 days after any Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date will be that Contract Date or Contract Anniversary.
 
Taking a withdrawal before a certain age or a withdrawal that is greater than the allowed annual withdrawal amount under a particular Rider, may result in adverse consequences such as a reduction in Rider benefits or the failure to receive lifetime withdrawals under a Rider.
 
Some optional riders allow for owner elected Resets/Step-Ups. If you elect to Reset/Step-Up, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary (“60 day period”) on which the Reset/Step-Up is effective. We may, at our sole discretion, allow Resets/Step-Ups after the 60 day period. We reserve the right to refuse a Reset/Step-Up request after the 60 day period regardless of whether we may have allowed you or others to Reset/Step-Up in the past. Each Contract Anniversary starts a new 60 day period in which a Reset/Step-Up may be elected.
 
Some broker/dealers may limit their clients from purchasing some optional benefits based upon the client’s age or other factors. You should work with your financial professional to decide whether an optional benefit is appropriate for you.
 
There may be adverse consequences to taking a loan while an optional Rider is in effect. If you have an existing loan on your Contract, you should carefully consider whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you.
 
Investment Allocation Requirements
 
At initial purchase and during the entire time that you own an optional living benefit Rider (except for GIA II), you must allocate your entire Contract Value to an asset allocation program or Investment Options we make available for these Riders. You may allocate your Contract Value according to the following requirements:
 
  •  100% to one allowable Asset Allocation Model, OR
 
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Currently, the allowable Asset Allocation Models and Investment Options are as follows:
 
     
Allowable Asset Allocation Models   Allowable Investment Options
 
Portfolio Optimization Model A
  Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset Fund
Portfolio Optimization Model B
  AllianceBernstein VPS Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio
Portfolio Optimization Model C
  American Funds Asset Allocation
Portfolio Optimization Model D
  BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund
Portfolio Optimization Model E1
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund
Custom Model
  GE Investments Total Return Fund
    Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth
    Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth
    Pacific Dynamix – Growth
    PIMCO Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
    Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation Portfolio
 
1 Portfolio Optimization Model E will no longer be an allowable Asset Allocation Model for any optional living benefit rider with a Rider Effective Date on or after January 1, 2009.
 
You may transfer your entire Contract Value between an allowable Asset Allocation Model and allowable Investment Options, between allowable Asset Allocation Models or between allowable Investment Options, subject to certain transfer limitations. See HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions. Keep in mind that you must allocate your entire Contract Value to either one allowable Asset Allocation Model or among the allowable Investment Options. If you do not allocate your entire Purchase Payment or Contract Value according to the requirements above, your Rider will terminate.
 
Allowable Asset Allocation Models – Portfolio Optimization.  You may transfer your entire Contract Value to a different Portfolio Optimization Model without affecting your Rider. However, if you change the allocation percentages within the Portfolio Optimization Model you have selected, including allocating any subsequent Purchase Payments inconsistent with your Model’s target allocations, you will no longer be participating in the Portfolio Optimization program and your Rider will terminate. See HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Portfolio Optimization for information about the program.
 
Allowable Asset Allocation Models – Custom Model.  You may also make transfers between the Investment Options available under the Custom Model program as long as you follow the Custom Model parameters. However, if you make transfers, subsequent Purchase Payments or change the allocation percentages within your Custom Model and they do not comply with the Custom Model parameters, you will no longer be participating in the Custom Model program and your Rider will terminate. See HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Custom Model for information about the program.
 
Allowable Investment Options.  You may allocate your entire Contract Value among any of the allowable Investment Options listed in the table above.
 
By adding an optional living benefit Rider to your Contract, you agree to the above referenced investment allocation requirements for the entire period that you own a Rider. These requirements may limit the number of Investment Options that are otherwise available to you under your Contract. We reserve the right to add, remove or change allowable asset allocation programs or allowable Investment Options at any time. We may make such a change due to a fund reorganization, fund substitution, or when we believe a change is necessary to protect our ability to provide the guarantees under these riders. If such a change is required, we will provide you with reasonable notice (generally 90 calendar days unless we are required to give less notice) prior to the effective date of such change to allow you to reallocate your Contract Value to maintain your rider benefits. If you do not reallocate your Contract Value your rider will terminate.
 
We will send you written notice in the event any transaction made by you will involuntarily cause the Rider to terminate for failure to invest according to the investment allocation requirements. However, you will have 10 Business Days after the date of our written notice (“10 day period”), to instruct us to take appropriate corrective action to continue participation in an allowable asset allocation program or allowable Investment Options to continue the Rider.
 
Multiple Rider Ownership
 
Only one CoreIncome Advantage 5, CoreProtect Advantage, CoreIncome Advantage, Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint), Foundation 10, Automatic Income Builder, Flexible Lifetime Income (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income (Joint), Lifetime Income Access Plus, Income Access Plus, or Income Access Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time. Only one GIA Plus, GIA 5, or GIA II Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time. Only one GPA 3, GPA 5, or GPA Rider may be owned or in effect at the same time.


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Withdrawal Benefit Rider Exchanges
 
Subject to availability, you may elect to exchange among the following withdrawal benefit Riders:
 
             
FROM     TO     WHEN
 
Income Access
    CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary.
             
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
CoreProtect Advantage
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
CoreIncome Advantage
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Income Access Plus
    Income Access
CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary.
             
Lifetime Income Access Plus
    Income Access
CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary.
             
Flexible Lifetime Income (Single)
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Flexible Lifetime Income (Joint)
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Foundation 10
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single)
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint)
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
             
Automatic Income Builder
    Income Access     On any Contract Anniversary.
     
      CoreIncome Advantage
CoreProtect Advantage
CoreIncome Advantage 5
    On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 3rd Contract Anniversary measured from the Contract issue date.
 
 
When you elect an exchange, you are terminating your existing Rider and purchasing a new Rider. The Initial Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance under the new Rider will be equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Generally, if your Contract Value is lower than the Protected Payment Base under your existing Rider, your election to exchange from one rider to another may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and


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any Annual Credit that may be applied. In other words, your existing protected balances will not carryover to the new Rider. If you elect an exchange, you will be subject to the charge for the new Rider in effect at the time of the exchange. Only one exchange may be elected each Contract Year. In addition, there are withdrawal percentages, annual credit percentages, and lifetime income age requirements that differ between the Riders listed above. Work with your financial professional prior to electing an exchange.
 
Accumulation Benefit Rider Exchanges
 
Subject to availability, you may elect to exchange among the following accumulation benefit Riders:
 
             
FROM     TO     WHEN
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA)
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5)
    Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3)     On any Contract Anniversary.
 
 
When you elect an exchange, you are terminating your existing Rider and purchasing a new Rider. The initial Guaranteed Protection Amount under the new Rider will be equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Generally, if your Contract Value is lower than the Guaranteed Protection Amount under your existing Rider, your election to exchange from one rider to another may result in a reduction in the Guaranteed Protection Amount. In other words, your existing Guaranteed Protection Amount will not carryover to the new Rider. If you elect an exchange, you will be subject to the charge for the new Rider in effect at the time of the exchange. Only one exchange may be elected each Contract Year. In addition, there are Step-Up eligibility requirements that differ between the Riders listed above. Work with your financial professional prior to electing an exchange.
 
Income Benefit Rider Exchanges
 
Subject to availability, you may elect to exchange among the following income benefit Riders:
 
             
FROM     TO     WHEN
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II)
Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5)
    Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus)     On any Contract Anniversary.
 
 
When you elect an exchange, you are terminating your existing Rider and purchasing a new Rider. The Initial Guaranteed Income Base, Withdrawal Base, and Step-Up Value under the new Rider will be equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Your election to exchange to GIA Plus may result in a reduction in the Guaranteed Income Base, Withdrawal Base, Withdrawal Amount and Step-Up Value. In other words, your existing balances will not carryover to the new Rider. If you elect an exchange, you will be subject to the charge for the new Rider in effect at the time of the exchange. Only one exchange may be elected each Contract Year. Work with your financial professional prior to electing an exchange.
 
Optional Riders Not Available for Purchase
 
The Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Joint), Automatic Income Builder, Flexible Lifetime Income (Single), Flexible Lifetime Income (Joint), Foundation 10, Lifetime Income Access Plus, Income Access Plus, GIA 5 and GIA II Riders are no longer available for purchase. If you purchased one of these Riders, you will find more information about the Rider in the SAI or in the Rider attached to your Contract.
 
CoreIncome Advantage 5 Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is available for purchase starting June 1, 2010 (subject to availability). You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available) if the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase, the Contract is not issued as an Inherited IRA or Inherited TSA, and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year.


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If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider, unless withdrawals are guaranteed until the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 65 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.


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Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX A: COREINCOME ADVANTAGE 5 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner).
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of the first death


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  of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before 65 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 65. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than 65 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of Rider charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your financial professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.


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Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only fixed annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only fixed annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 65 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Contract Value or Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse is 65 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.


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The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX A: COREINCOME ADVANTAGE 5 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
CoreProtect Advantage Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available) if the age of each Owner and Annuitant is at least 55 and no greater than 85 years of age on the date of purchase, the Contract is not issued as an Inherited IRA or Inherited TSA, and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Annual Credit Value.
 
Annual Credit Value – One of two values (the other value is the Highest Anniversary Value) that determine the Protected Payment Base prior to the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date.
 
The Annual Credit Value is increased each year by any Annual Credits, plus any subsequent Purchase Payments received from the most recent Contract Anniversary, during the periods described above.
 
The initial Annual Credit Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Highest Anniversary Value – One of two values (the other value is the Annual Credit Value) that determine the Protected Payment Base prior to the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date.
 
On any day after the Rider Effective Date and during the periods described above, the Highest Anniversary Value is equal to:
 
  •  the Highest Anniversary Value as of the prior day, plus
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us on that day.
 
On any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, the Highest Anniversary Value is equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary, or
 
  •  the Highest Anniversary Value immediately prior to that Contract Anniversary.
 
The initial Highest Anniversary Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
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If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The Protected Payment Amount will never be less than zero. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero and will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider, unless withdrawals are guaranteed until the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). The Remaining Protected Balance will never be less than zero. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Adjustment to Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance Using the Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value
 
On each Contract Anniversary, while this Rider is in effect, before the Annuity Date, and before the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be equal to the greater of the Annual Credit Value or the Highest Anniversary Value. An increase to the Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value is not considered an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset and will not result in a change to the annual charge percentage. In addition, once resets become available (after the first withdrawal or 10 Contract Anniversaries as described above), eligibility for the Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value adjustment cannot be reinstated by any Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date and prior to the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
will result in an increase in the Annual Credit Value, Highest Anniversary Value, Protected Payment Base, and Remaining Protected Balance equal to the Purchase Payment Amount.
 
Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date and after the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
will result in an increase in the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance equal to the Purchase Payment Amount.
 
In addition, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.


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How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each contract year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken at age 64 or younger and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for a Highest Anniversary Value feature and for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Annual Credit Value. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The Annual Credit Value or the Highest Anniversary Value (whichever is greater) will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance prior to the earlier of the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date or 10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount.  If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX B: COREPROTECT ADVANTAGE RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
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  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – General Rules – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner).
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of death of an Owner or the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal at age 64 or younger and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 65. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are age 64 or younger when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Annual Credit Value until the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal from the Contract since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
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The Annual Credit is equal to 5% of either:
 
  •  total Purchase Payments if the Rider is purchased on the Contract Issue Date, or
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary Value at the time the Rider is added to the Contract plus any subsequent Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date.
 
Once a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) or 10 Contract Anniversaries has occurred, as measured from the Rider Effective Date, no Annual Credit will be added to the Annual Credit Value. In addition, Annual Credit eligibility cannot be reinstated by any Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset. On each Contract Anniversary, while this Rider is in effect, before the Annuity Date, and after the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election. Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation. You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic). You may, on any Contract Anniversary after the earlier of:
 
  •  the first withdrawal since the Rider Effective Date, or
 
  •  10 Contract Anniversaries from the Rider Effective Date,
 
elect to reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your financial professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only fixed annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only fixed annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
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If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 65 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Contract Value or Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, the Rider will terminate. If the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance are greater than zero and the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect, the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner may elect to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms and the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place, then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse is 65 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of death of an Owner or the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of death of an Owner or the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.


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Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX B: COREPROTECT ADVANTAGE RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
CoreIncome Advantage Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary (if available) if the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase, the Contract is not issued as an Inherited IRA or Inherited TSA, and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to 4% multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  4% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 4% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider, unless withdrawals are guaranteed until the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 65 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date.


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A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX C: COREINCOME ADVANTAGE RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
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  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner).
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (first Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner). If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before 65 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 65. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than 65 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of Rider charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.


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If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your financial professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only fixed annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only fixed annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 65 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Contract Value or Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse is 65 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
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  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 65 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX C: COREINCOME ADVANTAGE RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Income Access Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary if the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase, the Contract is not issued as an Inherited IRA or Inherited TSA, and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn each Contract Year under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  7% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
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Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Step-Up Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Step-Up Date, whichever is later, on which an Automatic Step-Up occurs or you elect to Step-Up the Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, determined as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
This Rider allows for withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. This Rider does not provide lifetime withdrawal benefits. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
The Income Access Rider also provides, on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Effective Date or most recent Step-Up Date, Automatic Annual Step-Ups and Owner-Elected Step-Ups of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. An Automatic Step-Up or Owner-Elected Step-Up will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Step-Up Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under the Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While the Rider is in effect, you may make cumulative withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance equals zero. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
Under your Contract, you may withdraw more than the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year. However, withdrawals of more than the Protected Payment Amount in a Contract Year will cause an immediate adjustment to the Remaining Protected Balance, the Protected Payment Base, and, at the next Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Amount.
 
If a withdrawal does not cause the total amount withdrawn during the Contract Year to exceed the Protected Payment Amount, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) causes the total amount withdrawn during the Contract Year to exceed the Protected Payment Amount, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX D: INCOME ACCESS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess


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withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The Protected Payment Amount will remain unchanged until the next Contract Anniversary, when the Protected Payment Amount for the new Contract Year is determined.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
A withdrawal may not exceed the amount available for withdrawal under the Contract, if such withdrawal would cause the cumulative withdrawals for that Contract Year to exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduce the Contract Value to zero.
 
Except as otherwise provided under the Required Minimum Distributions subsection below, if, immediately after a withdrawal, the cumulative withdrawals for that Contract Year do not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is reduced to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency, as elected by you, but no less frequently than annually, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum or may not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the designated Beneficiary under the series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
On and after August 1, 2005, no adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
If the Contract Value is reduced to zero, RMD withdrawals will cease and any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals in accordance with the terms of the Rider.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Step-Up of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which Step-Up option is used, on and after each Step-Up Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future Step-Up options available on and after the Step-Up Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Step-Up Date. Please discuss with your financial professional your Contract’s maximum Annuity Date when considering Step-Up options. A Step-Up occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are stepped-up to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Step-Up Date.
 
If you want to participate in Automatic Step-Ups, you must make an affirmative election in a form satisfactory to us. Otherwise, you may Step-Up the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as outlined under Owner-Elected Step-Ups (Non-Automatic) below.


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Automatic Step-Up.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically Step-Up the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Step-Up (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Step-Up – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Step-Up is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and any change in the annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Step-Up. Any future Automatic Step-Ups will continue in accordance with the Automatic Step-Up paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective.
 
Automatic Step-Up – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Step-Ups at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Step-Ups, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Step-Ups at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Step-Up paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Step-Ups (Non-Automatic).  On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Step-Up Date, whichever is later, you may elect to Step-Up the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Step-Up.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective. The Step-Up will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the Step-Up. You are strongly advised to work with your financial professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Step-Up. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive any additional Purchase Payments to the Contract, we will immediately increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payment. However, the Protected Payment Amount will remain unchanged until the next Contract Anniversary, when the Protected Payment Amount for the new Contract Year is determined.
 
For purposes of the Income Access Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically end on the earliest of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
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  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, except as otherwise provided in the paragraph below,
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date, or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate on the first death of an Owner or death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract if, at the time of those events, the Contract Value is zero and we are making pre-authorized withdrawals of the Remaining Protected Balance under the provisions of the Rider. If we are making pre-authorized withdrawals, the Contract will terminate on the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day the Remaining Protected Balance is zero.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX D: INCOME ACCESS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 (GPA 3) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase the optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any subsequent Contract Anniversary if:
 
  •  the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase,
 
  •  the date of the purchase is at least 10 years before your selected Annuity Date, and
 
  •  you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
How the Rider Works
 
The Rider will remain in effect, unless otherwise terminated, for a 10-year period (the “Term”) beginning on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
On the last day of the Term, we will add an additional amount to your Contract Value if, on that day, the Contract Value is less than the Guaranteed Protection Amount. The additional amount will be equal to the difference between the Contract Value on the last day of the Term and the Guaranteed Protection Amount. The additional amount added to the Contract Value will be considered earnings and allocated to your Investment Options according to your most recent allocation instructions. Additional Purchase Payments that are not part of the Guaranteed Protection Amount (Purchase Payments made after the first year of a Term and not included in a Step-Up) will not be included in the benefit calculation at the end of Term.
 
The Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to (a) plus (b) minus (c) as indicated below:
 
  (a)   is the Contract Value at the start of the Term,
 
  (b)   is the amount of each subsequent Purchase Payment received during the first year of the Term, and
 
  (c)   is a pro rata adjustment for withdrawals made from the Contract during the Term. The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charges, premium taxes, and/or other taxes, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
For purposes of determining the Contract Value at the start of the Term, if the Effective Date of the Rider is the Contract Date, the Contract Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment. If the Effective Date of the Rider is a Contract Anniversary, the Contract Value is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Any subsequent Purchase Payments received after the first year of a Term are not included in the Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
If, on the last day of the Term, the Contract is annuitized, the first death of an Owner or the death of the last surviving Annuitant occurs (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), or a full withdrawal is made, the Contract Value will reflect any additional amount owed under the Rider before the payment of any annuity or death benefits, or full withdrawal. No additional amount will be made if the Contract Value on the last day of the Term is greater than or equal to the Guaranteed Protection Amount.


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Optional Step-Up in the Guaranteed Protection Amount
 
On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the third (3rd) anniversary of the Effective Date of this Rider and before the Annuity Date, you may elect to increase (“Step-Up”) your Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
If you elect the optional Step-Up, the following conditions will apply:
 
  •  your election of a Step-Up must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective,
 
  •  the Guaranteed Protection Amount will be equal to your Contract Value as of the Effective Date of the Step-Up (“Step-Up Date”),
 
  •  a new 10-year Term will begin as of the Step-Up Date, and
 
  •  you may not elect another Step-Up until on or after the 3rd anniversary of the latest Step-Up Date.
 
We will not permit a Step-Up if the new 10-year Term will extend beyond the Annuity Date.
 
The annual charge percentage may change if you elect a Step-Up, but it will never be more than the maximum annual charge percentage associated with the Rider. If you do not elect any Step-Up of the Guaranteed Protection Amount during the Term of the Rider, your annual charge percentage will remain the same as it was on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies during the Term and the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of the Rider will continue until the end of the Term.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will automatically terminate at the end of the Term, or, if earlier on:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day we receive notification from the Owner to terminate the Rider,
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the last surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated according to the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary. If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center more than 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate the day we receive the request.
 
If the Rider is terminated, you must wait until a Contract Anniversary that is at least one (1) year from the Effective Date of the termination before the Rider may be purchased again (if available).
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX E: GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 3 (GPA 3) AND GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 5 (GPA 5) RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 (GPA 5) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this optional Rider on the Contract Date or on any subsequent Contract Anniversary if:
 
  •  the age of each Annuitant is 85 years or younger on the date of purchase,
 
  •  the date of the purchase is at least 10 years before your selected Annuity Date, and
 
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How the Rider Works
 
The Rider will remain in effect, unless otherwise terminated, for a 10-year period (the “Term”) beginning on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
On the last day of the Term, we will add an additional amount to your Contract Value if, on that day, the Contract Value is less than a specified amount (the “Guaranteed Protection Amount”). The additional amount will be equal to the difference between the Contract Value on the last day of the Term and the Guaranteed Protection Amount. The additional amount added to the Contract Value will be considered earnings and allocated to your Investment Options according to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
The Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to (a) plus (b) minus (c) as indicated below:
 
  (a)  is the Contract Value at the start of the Term,
 
  (b)  is the amount of each subsequent Purchase Payment received during the first year of the Term, and
 
  (c)  is a pro rata adjustment for withdrawals made from the Contract during the Term. The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charges, premium taxes, and/or other taxes, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
For purposes of determining the Contract Value at the start of the Term, if the Effective Date of the Rider is the Contract Date, the Contract Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment. If the Effective Date of the Rider is a Contract Anniversary, the Contract Value is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. Any subsequent Purchase Payments received after the first year of the Term are not included in the Guaranteed Protection Amount. However, the Rider charge will be based on the Contract Value which may include any subsequent Purchase Payments that are not included in the Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
If, on the last day of the Term, the Contract is annuitized, the first death of an Owner or the death of the last surviving Annuitant occurs (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), or a full withdrawal is made, the Contract Value will reflect any additional amount owed under the Rider before the payment of any annuity or death benefits, or full withdrawal. No additional amount will be made if the Contract Value on the last day of the Term is greater than or equal to the Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
Optional Step-Up in the Guaranteed Protection Amount
 
On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the 5th anniversary of the Effective Date of this Rider and before the Annuity Date, you may elect to increase (“Step-Up”) your Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
If you elect the optional Step-Up, the following conditions will apply:
 
  •  your election of a Step-Up must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective,
 
  •  the Guaranteed Protection Amount will be equal to your Contract Value as of the Effective Date of the Step-Up (“Step-Up Date”),
 
  •  a new 10-year Term will begin as of the Step-Up Date, and
 
  •  you may not elect another Step-Up until on or after the 5th anniversary of the latest Step-Up Date.
 
We will not permit a Step-Up if the new 10-year Term will extend beyond the Annuity Date.
 
The Guaranteed Protection Charge (“GPA 5 Charge”) may change if you elect a Step-Up, but it will never be more than the GPA 5 Charge being charged under the then current terms and conditions of the Rider. If you do not elect any Step-Up of the Guaranteed Protection Amount during the lifetime of the Rider, your GPA 5 Charge will remain the same as it was on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies during the Term and the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of the Rider will continue until the end of the Term.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will automatically terminate at the end of the Term, or, if earlier on:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the date any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the date we receive notification from the Owner to terminate the Rider,
 
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  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the last surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated according to the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary. If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center more than 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate the day we receive the request.
 
If the Rider is terminated, you must wait until a Contract Anniversary that is at least 1 year from the Effective Date of the termination before the Rider may be purchased again (if available).
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX E: GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 3 (GPA 3) AND GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 5 (GPA 5) RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
The GPA Rider is only available if the original Effective Date of the Rider is before April 1, 2003.
 
You may purchase this Rider on the Contract Date or on any subsequent Contract Anniversary if:
 
  •  the age of each Annuitant is 80 years or younger on the date of purchase,
 
  •  the date of the purchase is at least 10 years before your selected Annuity Date, and
 
  •  you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
How the Rider Works
 
The Rider will remain in effect, unless otherwise terminated, for a 10-year period (the “Term”) beginning on the Effective Date of the Rider.
 
On the last day of the Term, we will add an additional amount to your Contract Value if, on that day, the Contract Value is less than a specified amount (the “Guaranteed Protection Amount”). The additional amount will be equal to the difference between the Contract Value on the last day of the Term and the Guaranteed Protection Amount. The additional amount added to the Contract Value will be considered earnings and allocated to your Investment Options according to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
The Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to (a) plus (b) minus (c) as indicated below:
 
  (a)  is the Contract Value at the start of the Term,
 
  (b)  is a percentage of each additional Purchase Payment, as determined from the table below, paid to the Contract during the Term,
 
             
 
     Number of Years Since
  Percentage of Purchase Payment
   
     Beginning of Term   Added to Guaranteed Protection Amount    
 
 
1 through 4
    100 %    
5
    90 %    
6
    85 %    
7
    80 %    
8 through 10
    75 %    
 
 
 
  (c)  is a pro rata adjustment for withdrawals made from the Contract during the Term. The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charges, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
For purposes of determining the Contract Value at the start of the Term, if the Effective Date of the Rider is the Contract Date, the Contract Value is equal to the initial Purchase Payment. If the Effective Date of the Rider is a Contract Anniversary, the Contract Value is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary.


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If, on the last day of the Term, the Contract is annuitized, the first death of an Owner or the death of the last surviving Annuitant occurs, or a full withdrawal is made, the Contract Value will reflect any additional amount owed under the Rider before the payment of any annuity or death benefits, or full withdrawal.
 
No additional amount will be made if the Contract Value on the last day of the Term is greater than or equal to the Guaranteed Protection Amount.
 
On or before the end of the Term, you can elect to repurchase the Rider subject to its availability and the then current terms and conditions of the Rider provided:
 
  •  all Annuitant(s) are 80 years or younger at the start of the new Term, and
 
  •  the new Term does not extend beyond your selected Annuity Date.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies during the Term and the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue until the end of the Term. Subject to the terms of the Rider, the surviving spouse may repurchase the Rider for another Term at the then current terms and conditions of the Rider, provided the surviving spouse is age 80 or younger at the start of the new Term and the new Term does not extend beyond the selected Annuity Date. If the surviving spouse elects to not repurchase the Rider, it will automatically terminate the day immediately following the end of the Term.
 
Termination
 
The Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the end of a Term,
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the date any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the date we receive notification from the Owner to terminate this Rider,
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal is made under the Contract,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the last surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (GIA Plus) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
You may purchase this Rider on the Contract Date or on any Contract Anniversary. You may purchase this Rider only if the age of each Annuitant is 80 years or younger on the date of purchase and you allocate your entire Contract Value according to the Investment Allocation Requirements.
 
How the Rider Works
 
You may, prior to the Annuity Date, choose any of the Annuity Options described in your Contract, or you may choose the GIA Plus Annuity Option provided this Rider has been in effect for at least 10 years from its Effective Date. If you choose the GIA Plus Annuity Option, you must choose fixed annuity payments and the entire amount available for annuitization at the time you convert to the GIA Plus Annuity Option must be annuitized. The guaranteed income purchased per $1,000 of the net amount applied to the annuity payments will be based on an effective annual interest rate of 2.0% and the 1996 US Annuity 2000 Mortality Table with the age set back 8 years.
 
Annuity Payments – The annuity payments that may be elected under the GIA Plus Annuity Option are:
 
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  •  Joint and Survivor Life, or
 
  •  20 years or more Period Certain.
 
The Rider contains annuity tables for each GIA Plus Annuity Option available.
 
On the Annuity Date, the Net Amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA Plus Annuity Option will be equal to the greater of the Guaranteed Income Base on that day or the GIA Plus Step-Up Value on that day, less the following:
 
  •  applicable withdrawal charges resulting from the conversion to the GIA Plus Annuity Option,
 
  •  applicable annual charges for expenses related to other optional benefit riders attached to the Contract that are in effect as of the Annuity Date, and
 
  •  charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Premium Taxes.
 
If you elect the GIA Plus Annuity Option, the waiver of withdrawal charges as described in the Contract will not apply. See CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Withdrawal Charge.
 
For information regarding taxation of annuity payments, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Initial Values – The Guaranteed Income Base, GIA Plus Withdrawal Base, GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount and GIA Plus Step-Up Value are values used in determining the Net Amount applied on the Annuity Date to provide payments under the GIA Plus Annuity Option.
 
The initial values are determined on the Rider Effective Date as follows:
 
  •  if this Rider is effective on the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment.
 
  •  if this Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Contract Value on that day.
 
  •  if this Rider is effective on the Contract Date, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base is equal to the total Purchase Payments received in the first 60 days since the Rider Effective Date.
 
  •  if this Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base is equal to the Contract Value on that day plus any Purchase Payments received in the first 60 days since the Rider Effective Date.
 
  •  the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for the Contract Year beginning on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base.
 
  •  the GIA Plus Step-Up Value is equal to the Contract Value on the Rider Effective Date.
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Base and GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount after the Rider Effective Date are recalculated only on each subsequent Contract Anniversary.
 
Subsequent Values – The Guaranteed Income Base, GIA Plus Withdrawal Base, GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount and GIA Plus Step-Up Value after the Rider Effective Date are determined as follows:
 
Limitation on Subsequent Purchase Payments – For purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary from the Effective Date of the Rider to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Guaranteed Income Base – On any day after the Rider Effective Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to:
 
  •  the Guaranteed Income Base on the prior day, multiplied by a daily factor of 1.000133680 which is equivalent to increasing the Guaranteed Income Base at an annual growth rate of 5%, plus
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us on that day, less
 
  •  adjustments for withdrawals made on that day.
 
The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Income Base immediately prior to the withdrawal by the percentage decrease in Contract Value as a result of the withdrawal.
 
However, on each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, if there is at least one withdrawal during the prior Contract Year and the cumulative withdrawals for that Contract Year do not exceed the sum of:
 
  •  the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for that Contract Year, and
 
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the Guaranteed Income Base as of that Contract Anniversary will be reset to equal:
 
  •  the Guaranteed Income Base on the Rider Effective Date or prior Contract Anniversary, whichever is later, increased at an annual growth rate of 5%, plus
 
  •  the amount of any subsequent Purchase Payments received by us during the prior Contract Year, each increased at an annual growth rate of 5% from the effective date of that Purchase Payment, less
 
  •  the amount of cumulative withdrawals during the prior Contract Year.
 
The 5% annual growth rate will stop accruing as of the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary prior to the youngest Annuitant’s 81st birthday, or
 
  •  the day this Rider terminates.
 
GIA Plus Withdrawal Base – On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base is equal to:
 
  •  the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base determined on the Rider Effective Date, plus
 
  •  the amount of any subsequent Purchase Payments received by us after the Rider Effective Date, up through the day immediately prior to that Contract Anniversary.
 
GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount – On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for the Contract Year beginning on that Contract Anniversary is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
GIA Plus Step-Up Value – On any day after the Rider Effective Date, the GIA Plus Step-Up Value is equal to:
 
  •  the GIA Plus Step-Up Value as of the prior day, plus
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us on that day, less
 
  •  adjustment for withdrawals made on that day.
 
The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the GIA Plus Step-Up Value immediately prior to the withdrawal by the percentage decrease in Contract Value as a result of that withdrawal.
 
On any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date and prior to the youngest Annuitant’s 81st birthday, the GIA Plus Step-Up Value is set equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary, or
 
  •  the GIA Plus Step-Up Value immediately prior to that Contract Anniversary.
 
The GIA Plus Step-Up Value will then be adjusted for any Purchase Payments or withdrawals on that Contract Anniversary in accordance with the first paragraph of this subsection.
 
The GIA Plus Step-Up Value on each Contract Anniversary on and after the youngest Annuitant’s 81st birthday is equal to the GIA Plus Step-Up Value immediately prior to the Contract Anniversary preceding that 81st birthday, adjusted for any Purchase Payments and withdrawals since that anniversary.
 
Partial Conversion of Net Contract Value for Annuity Payments – If a portion of the Net Contract Value (Contract Value less Contract Debt) is converted to provide payments under an Annuity Option described in the Contract at any time before you annuitize under the GIA Plus Annuity Option, the amount converted will be considered a “withdrawal” for purposes of determining withdrawal adjustments to the Guaranteed Income Base and GIA Plus Step-Up Value. A withdrawal charge may also apply.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue, unless otherwise terminated.
 
Termination
 
Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day we receive notification from you to terminate the Rider,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),


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  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the terms of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
Upon your request, the Rider may be terminated at any time. If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary. If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center more than 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate the day we receive the request.
 
If the Rider is terminated, you must wait until a Contract Anniversary that is at least 1 year from the Effective Date of the termination before the Rider may be purchased again (if available).
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX F: GUARANTEED INCOME ADVANTAGE PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
PACIFIC LIFE AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
 
Pacific Life
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company is a life insurance company domiciled in Nebraska. Along with our subsidiaries and affiliates, our operations include life insurance, annuity, pension and institutional products, mutual funds, broker-dealer operations, and investment advisory services. At the end of 2009, we had $214.9 billion of individual life insurance in force and total admitted assets of approximately $94.7 billion.
 
We are authorized to conduct our life insurance and annuity business in the District of Columbia and in all states except New York. Our executive office is located at 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California 92660.
 
We were originally organized on January 2, 1868, under the name “Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California” and reincorporated as “Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company” on July 22, 1936. On September 1, 1997, we converted from a mutual life insurance company to a stock life insurance company ultimately controlled by a mutual holding company and were authorized by California regulatory authorities to change our name to Pacific Life Insurance Company. On September 1, 2005, Pacific Life changed from a California corporation to a Nebraska corporation. Pacific Life is a subsidiary of Pacific LifeCorp, a holding company, which, in turn, is a subsidiary of Pacific Mutual Holding Company, a mutual holding company. Under their respective charters, Pacific Mutual Holding Company must always hold at least 51% of the outstanding voting stock of Pacific LifeCorp, and Pacific LifeCorp must always own 100% of the voting stock of Pacific Life. Owners of Pacific Life’s annuity contracts and life insurance policies have certain membership interests in Pacific Mutual Holding Company, consisting principally of the right to vote on the election of the Board of Directors of the mutual holding company and on other matters, and certain rights upon liquidation or dissolutions of the mutual holding company.
 
Our subsidiary, Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD) serves as the principal underwriter (distributor) for the Contracts. PSD is located at 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California 92660. We and PSD enter into selling agreements with broker-dealers, whose financial professionals are authorized by state insurance departments to sell the Contracts.
 
We may provide you with reports of our ratings both as an insurance company and as to our claims-paying ability with respect to our General Account assets.
 
Separate Account A
 
Separate Account A was established on September 7, 1994 as a separate account of ours, and is registered with the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”), as a type of investment company called a “unit investment trust.” We established the Separate Account under the laws of the state of California. The Separate Account is maintained under the laws of the state of Nebraska.
 
Obligations arising under your Contract are our general corporate obligations. We are also the legal owner of the assets in the Separate Account. Assets of the Separate Account attributed to the reserves and other liabilities under the Contract and other contracts issued by us that are supported by the Separate Account may not be charged with liabilities arising from any of our other business; any income, gain or loss (whether or not realized) from the assets of the Separate Account are credited to or charged against the Separate Account without regard to our other income, gain or loss.
 
We may invest money in the Separate Account in order to commence its operations and for other purposes, but not to support contracts other than variable annuity contracts. A portion of the Separate Account’s assets may include accumulations of charges we make against the Separate Account and investment results of assets so accumulated. These additional assets are ours and we may transfer them to our


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General Account at any time; however, before making any such transfer, we will consider any possible adverse impact the transfer might have on the Separate Account. Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to transfer our assets in the Separate Account to our General Account.
 
The Separate Account is not the sole investor in the Funds. Investment in a Fund by other separate accounts in connection with variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts may create conflicts. See the accompanying Prospectus and SAI for the Funds for more information.


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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
 
The table below is designed to help you understand how the Variable Investment Options have performed. It shows the value of a Subaccount Unit at the beginning and end of each period, as well as the number of Subaccount Units at the end of each period. A Subaccount Unit is also called an Accumulation Unit.
 
You should read the table in conjunction with the financial statements for Separate Account A, which are included in its annual report dated as of December 31, 2009.
 
                                                                         
          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
International Value
                                                                       
2009
    $9.59       $12.11       281,827       $9.40       $11.84       67,129       $9.26       $11.65       40,991  
2008
    $18.63       $9.59       368,313       $18.30       $9.40       95,639       $18.05       $9.26       53,034  
2007
    $17.78       $18.63       442,539       $17.50       $18.30       95,854       $17.29       $18.05       51,944  
2006
    $14.35       $17.78       432,800       $14.15       $17.50       103,549       $14.00       $17.29       53,483  
2005
    $13.30       $14.35       485,440       $13.14       $14.15       114,944       $13.02       $14.00       62,355  
2004
    $11.58       $13.30       651,816       $11.47       $13.14       156,656       $11.38       $13.02       86,245  
2003
    $9.20       $11.58       813,819       $9.12       $11.47       204,191       $9.07       $11.38       106,259  
2002
    $10.83       $9.20       861,134       $10.77       $9.12       219,179       $10.72       $9.07       124,578  
2001
    $14.06       $10.83       913,569       $14.01       $10.77       249,388       $13.97       $10.72       135,937  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $16.10       $14.06       830,900       $16.06       $14.01       195,764       $16.04       $13.97       106,837  
 
 
Long/Short Large-Cap
                                                                       
2009
    $6.54       $8.23       183,963       $6.53       $8.20       48,916       $6.52       $8.18       25,208  
05/02/2008-12/31/2008
    $10.16       $6.54       116,890       $10.16       $6.53       36,457       $10.16       $6.52       16,858  
 
 
International Small-Cap
                                                                       
2009
    $5.42       $6.97       135,445       $5.40       $6.92       30,467       $5.37       $6.88       20,315  
2008
    $10.55       $5.42       128,288       $10.51       $5.40       36,240       $10.49       $5.37       17,338  
2007
    $10.21       $10.55       163,716       $10.20       $10.51       39,961       $10.19       $10.49       16,540  
05/05/2006-12/31/2006
    $10.16       $10.21       123,976       $10.16       $10.20       35,464       $10.16       $10.19       16,347  
 
 
Mid-Cap Value
                                                                       
05/01/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.00       $13.11       81,256       $10.00       $13.10       21,341       $10.00       $13.08       11,194  
 
 
Equity Index
                                                                       
2009
    $14.58       $18.17       279,117       $14.29       $17.78       63,293       $14.08       $17.48       44,568  
2008
    $23.61       $14.58       215,611       $23.18       $14.29       48,147       $22.87       $14.08       33,786  
2007
    $22.75       $23.61       191,521       $22.39       $23.18       47,488       $22.12       $22.87       32,491  
2006
    $19.97       $22.75       300,736       $19.69       $22.39       71,870       $19.49       $22.12       39,470  
2005
    $19.35       $19.97       393,877       $19.12       $19.69       96,617       $18.95       $19.49       56,267  
2004
    $17.74       $19.35       485,073       $17.57       $19.12       97,354       $17.44       $18.95       71,606  
2003
    $14.02       $17.74       534,018       $13.91       $17.57       124,056       $13.83       $17.44       77,064  
2002
    $18.32       $14.02       733,827       $18.21       $13.91       179,278       $18.12       $13.83       114,455  
2001
    $21.14       $18.32       963,695       $21.06       $18.21       201,357       $21.00       $18.12       116,049  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $23.64       $21.14       906,008       $23.59       $21.06       162,962       $23.56       $21.00       96,281  
 
 
Small-Cap Index
                                                                       
2009
    $10.83       $13.69       122,859       $10.62       $13.39       29,064       $10.46       $13.17       32,012  
2008
    $16.91       $10.83       128,598       $16.60       $10.62       35,381       $16.38       $10.46       30,874  
2007
    $17.50       $16.91       234,318       $17.22       $16.60       64,248       $17.02       $16.38       47,443  
2006
    $15.06       $17.50       273,979       $14.86       $17.22       74,277       $14.70       $17.02       50,170  
2005
    $14.64       $15.06       387,943       $14.46       $14.86       115,274       $14.33       $14.70       73,029  
2004
    $12.60       $14.64       602,696       $12.48       $14.46       158,210       $12.39       $14.33       101,897  
2003
    $8.72       $12.60       436,575       $8.65       $12.48       67,891       $8.60       $12.39       51,804  
2002
    $11.22       $8.72       396,979       $11.16       $8.65       66,168       $11.11       $8.60       42,546  
2001
    $11.19       $11.22       197,957       $11.14       $11.16       34,152       $11.11       $11.11       29,667  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $11.77       $11.19       150,579       $11.75       $11.14       29,233       $11.73       $11.11       22,881  
 
 
Small-Cap Equity                                                                        
2009
    $10.19       $13.08       76,500       $10.11       $12.96       12,536       $10.06       $12.87       8,770  
2008
    $13.98       $10.19       84,168       $13.91       $10.11       26,911       $13.85       $10.06       10,872  
2007
    $13.37       $13.98       43,756       $13.33       $13.91       10,236       $13.30       $13.85       6,715  
2006
    $11.43       $13.37       18,611       $11.41       $13.33       3,494       $11.40       $13.30       3,363  
05/06/2005-12/31/2005
    $10.15       $11.43       26,517       $10.15       $11.41       18,144       $10.15       $11.40       3,387  
 
 
Equity
                                                                       
2009
    $9.25       $12.33       112,294       $9.07       $12.07       44,328       $8.93       $11.87       19,599  
2008
    $15.93       $9.25       124,384       $15.65       $9.07       60,325       $15.44       $8.93       21,721  
2007
    $15.20       $15.93       154,081       $14.96       $15.65       61,333       $14.79       $15.44       28,230  
2006
    $14.19       $15.20       145,001       $13.99       $14.96       57,484       $13.85       $14.79       21,706  
2005
    $13.51       $14.19       187,465       $13.35       $13.99       73,961       $13.23       $13.85       26,661  
2004
    $13.03       $13.51       245,063       $12.90       $13.35       102,463       $12.80       $13.23       40,202  
2003
    $10.63       $13.03       313,864       $10.54       $12.90       111,821       $10.48       $12.80       52,641  
2002
    $14.66       $10.63       360,139       $14.58       $10.54       138,568       $14.51       $10.48       73,479  
2001
    $19.01       $14.66       543,137       $18.93       $14.58       165,415       $18.88       $14.51       104,893  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $25.76       $19.01       484,381       $25.71       $18.93       138,451       $25.67       $18.88       101,438  
 
 


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          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
American Funds® Asset Allocation
                                                                       
02/06/2009-12/31/2009
    $10.40       $12.82       16,813       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
 
 
American Funds® Growth-Income
                                                                       
2009
    $7.76       $10.01       184,482       $7.70       $9.91       54,419       $7.66       $9.84       25,398  
2008
    $12.71       $7.76       199,819       $12.64       $7.70       63,424       $12.59       $7.66       47,544  
2007
    $12.32       $12.71       292,170       $12.28       $12.64       80,805       $12.25       $12.59       54,569  
2006
    $10.88       $12.32       289,848       $10.87       $12.28       91,440       $10.86       $12.25       54,394  
05/02/2005-12/31/2005
    $10.00       $10.88       222,643       $10.09       $10.87       63,092       $10.09       $10.86       45,705  
 
 
American Funds® Growth
                                                                       
2009
    $7.80       $10.68       107,146       $7.74       $10.58       32,939       $7.70       $10.51       18,274  
2008
    $14.17       $7.80       231,057       $14.10       $7.74       57,025       $14.04       $7.70       31,425  
2007
    $12.84       $14.17       208,319       $12.80       $14.10       47,213       $12.76       $14.04       27,319  
2006
    $11.86       $12.84       345,007       $11.84       $12.80       66,521       $11.83       $12.76       37,211  
05/02/2005-12/31/2005
    $10.00       $11.86       391,809       $10.15       $11.84       80,331       $10.15       $11.83       39,289  
 
 
Large-Cap Value
                                                                       
2009
    $10.08       $12.24       374,765       $9.88       $11.97       116,462       $9.73       $11.78       67,438  
2008
    $15.68       $10.08       372,466       $15.40       $9.88       110,688       $15.19       $9.73       63,731  
2007
    $15.36       $15.68       469,574       $15.11       $15.40       130,492       $14.93       $15.19       72,395  
2006
    $13.24       $15.36       574,809       $13.06       $15.11       153,482       $12.92       $14.93       73,005  
2005
    $12.65       $13.24       591,548       $12.50       $13.06       176,731       $12.39       $12.92       74,031  
2004
    $11.67       $12.65       1,119,531       $11.55       $12.50       279,696       $11.47       $12.39       130,013  
2003
    $9.02       $11.67       1,279,499       $8.95       $11.55       307,299       $8.89       $11.47       150,451  
2002
    $11.87       $9.02       1,323,707       $11.80       $8.95       335,730       $11.75       $8.89       167,731  
2001
    $12.49       $11.87       1,388,991       $12.44       $11.80       343,633       $12.41       $11.75       176,129  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $10.99       $12.49       370,388       $10.97       $12.44       102,960       $10.95       $12.41       54,494  
 
 
Technology
                                                                       
2009
    $3.32       $4.99       45,438       $3.26       $4.90       17,622       $3.22       $4.83       17,083  
2008
    $6.95       $3.32       33,369       $6.86       $3.26       14,366       $6.78       $3.22       14,574  
2007
    $5.73       $6.95       68,498       $5.66       $6.86       19,366       $5.61       $6.78       14,706  
2006
    $5.31       $5.73       52,660       $5.26       $5.66       28,048       $5.22       $5.61       16,470  
2005
    $4.43       $5.31       121,236       $4.39       $5.26       43,871       $4.37       $5.22       14,615  
2004
    $4.33       $4.43       166,976       $4.31       $4.39       43,230       $4.29       $4.37       12,945  
2003
    $3.08       $4.33       386,513       $3.07       $4.31       69,664       $3.06       $4.29       24,553  
2002
    $5.82       $3.08       212,958       $5.81       $3.07       56,113       $5.80       $3.06       8,410  
01/03/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $5.82       144,194       $10.00       $5.81       27,093       $10.00       $5.80       12,078  
 
 
Floating Rate Loan
                                                                       
2009
    $6.78       $8.31       164,621       $6.76       $8.27       34,320       $6.74       $8.23       18,876  
2008
    $9.72       $6.78       139,631       $9.71       $6.76       28,006       $9.70       $6.74       18,781  
05/04/2007-12/31/2007
    $10.00       $9.72       145,211       $10.00       $9.71       25,675       $10.00       $9.70       15,655  
 
 
Small-Cap Growth
                                                                       
2009
    $6.87       $9.99       109,158       $6.73       $9.77       37,284       $6.63       $9.61       12,538  
2008
    $13.17       $6.87       144,647       $12.94       $6.73       47,628       $12.76       $6.63       16,870  
2007
    $11.61       $13.17       155,876       $11.42       $12.94       51,812       $11.29       $12.76       15,796  
2006
    $11.20       $11.61       169,847       $11.05       $11.42       57,679       $10.93       $11.29       14,660  
2005
    $11.07       $11.20       242,385       $10.93       $11.05       80,503       $10.84       $10.93       21,995  
2004
    $9.43       $11.07       177,214       $9.34       $10.93       73,513       $9.27       $10.84       19,432  
2003
    $7.19       $9.43       268,930       $7.13       $9.34       98,752       $7.09       $9.27       31,490  
2002
    $9.73       $7.19       292,942       $9.67       $7.13       123,803       $9.63       $7.09       42,236  
2001
    $11.92       $9.73       248,174       $11.87       $9.67       116,458       $11.84       $9.63       48,382  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $15.31       $11.92       318,263       $15.28       $11.87       115,708       $15.26       $11.84       53,534  
 
 
Short Duration Bond
                                                                       
2009
    $9.91       $10.62       212,708       $9.80       $10.48       43,092       $9.72       $10.37       18,147  
2008
    $10.59       $9.91       213,355       $10.49       $9.80       47,156       $10.42       $9.72       25,960  
2007
    $10.28       $10.59       268,271       $10.21       $10.49       49,499       $10.15       $10.42       28,639  
2006
    $10.00       $10.28       386,818       $9.95       $10.21       74,295       $9.91       $10.15       36,211  
2005
    $9.98       $10.00       461,133       $9.95       $9.95       94,112       $9.92       $9.91       35,010  
2004
    $10.00       $9.98       558,719       $9.99       $9.95       102,805       $9.98       $9.92       51,003  
05/01/2003-12/31/2003
    $10.00       $10.00       575,417       $10.00       $9.99       108,466       $10.00       $9.98       61,377  
 
 
Comstock
                                                                       
2009
    $7.00       $8.89       355,531       $6.89       $8.72       69,663       $6.81       $8.60       36,126  
2008
    $11.24       $7.00       313,713       $11.08       $6.89       77,804       $10.96       $6.81       34,478  
2007
    $11.75       $11.24       485,746       $11.61       $11.08       124,104       $11.50       $10.96       44,232  
2006
    $10.24       $11.75       454,281       $10.14       $11.61       112,897       $10.06       $11.50       31,138  
2005
    $9.95       $10.24       476,710       $9.87       $10.14       98,473       $9.81       $10.06       25,092  
2004
    $8.62       $9.95       444,844       $8.56       $9.87       98,487       $8.52       $9.81       41,297  
2003
    $6.65       $8.62       411,986       $6.62       $8.56       99,377       $6.60       $8.52       51,040  
2002
    $8.66       $6.65       178,686       $8.64       $6.62       48,813       $8.62       $6.60       14,087  
2001
    $9.75       $8.66       238,806       $9.74       $8.64       50,417       $9.74       $8.62       16,437  
10/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $10.00       $9.75       90,168       $10.00       $9.74       10,501       $10.00       $9.74       12,289  
 
 

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          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
Growth LT
                                                                       
2009
    $15.96       $21.61       180,352       $15.65       $21.14       57,309       $15.41       $20.79       32,266  
2008
    $27.42       $15.96       200,977       $26.93       $15.65       65,356       $26.57       $15.41       36,268  
2007
    $24.05       $27.42       239,355       $23.67       $26.93       71,512       $23.28       $26.57       41,334  
2006
    $22.23       $24.05       286,582       $21.92       $23.67       95,000       $21.69       $23.38       48,283  
2005
    $20.93       $22.23       344,276       $20.68       $21.92       116,133       $20.50       $21.69       63,775  
2004
    $19.23       $20.93       490,049       $19.04       $20.68       160,175       $18.89       $20.50       85,910  
2003
    $14.55       $19.23       654,094       $14.44       $19.04       192,592       $14.35       $18.89       110,829  
2002
    $20.78       $14.55       810,772       $20.65       $14.44       251,607       $20.56       $14.35       148,206  
2001
    $29.92       $20.78       964,288       $29.80       $20.65       276,157       $29.71       $20.56       160,026  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $38.74       $29.92       750,217       $38.67       $29.80       193,399       $38.61       $29.71       120,735  
 
 
Focused 30
                                                                       
2009
    $7.30       $10.83       84,140       $7.18       $10.63       21,450       $7.09       $10.48       5,590  
2008
    $14.85       $7.30       110,746       $14.63       $7.18       30,534       $14.48       $7.09       10,086  
2007
    $11.42       $14.85       120,340       $11.28       $14.63       36,106       $11.17       $14.48       4,818  
2006
    $9.36       $11.42       120,620       $9.26       $11.28       31,628       $9.19       $11.17       7,786  
2005
    $7.78       $9.36       129,565       $7.71       $9.26       48,513       $7.66       $9.19       9,743  
2004
    $6.87       $7.78       146,666       $6.82       $7.71       41,799       $6.79       $7.66       8,634  
2003
    $4.90       $6.87       168,514       $4.87       $6.82       44,822       $4.86       $6.79       11,224  
2002
    $7.03       $4.90       169,420       $7.01       $4.87       47,702       $7.00       $4.86       14,780  
2001
    $8.23       $7.03       201,749       $8.23       $7.01       52,538       $8.22       $7.00       22,130  
10/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $10.00       $8.23       164,442       $10.00       $8.23       32,984       $10.00       $8.22       9,916  
 
 
Health Sciences
                                                                       
2009
    $9.07       $11.38       35,091       $8.93       $11.18       11,520       $8.82       $11.03       7,495  
2008
    $12.81       $9.07       47,011       $12.63       $8.93       12,555       $12.50       $8.82       7,331  
2007
    $11.15       $12.81       44,252       $11.02       $12.63       13,739       $10.92       $12.50       6,272  
2006
    $10.46       $11.15       45,957       $10.36       $11.02       15,863       $10.28       $10.92       6,229  
2005
    $9.20       $10.46       68,915       $9.13       $10.36       28,751       $9.07       $10.28       8,500  
2004
    $8.68       $9.20       103,629       $8.62       $9.13       31,711       $8.59       $9.07       7,288  
2003
    $6.88       $8.68       133,145       $6.86       $8.62       39,052       $6.84       $8.59       9,392  
2002
    $9.10       $6.88       119,884       $9.08       $6.86       37,936       $9.07       $6.84       6,760  
01/04/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $9.10       142,534       $10.00       $9.08       34,324       $10.00       $9.07       5,099  
 
 
Mid-Cap Equity
                                                                       
2009
    $13.36       $18.40       192,419       $13.10       $18.00       63,492       $12.90       $17.70       38,259  
2008
    $22.21       $13.36       330,726       $21.82       $13.10       99,604       $21.52       $12.90       57,013  
2007
    $23.02       $22.21       436,675       $22.66       $21.82       126,442       $22.39       $21.52       66,335  
2006
    $20.31       $23.02       521,007       $20.02       $22.66       144,018       $19.81       $22.39       71,384  
2005
    $18.91       $20.31       614,857       $18.69       $20.02       164,149       $18.52       $19.81       77,323  
2004
    $15.33       $18.91       607,665       $15.18       $18.69       164,233       $15.07       $18.52       83,812  
2003
    $12.05       $15.33       751,809       $11.95       $15.18       175,959       $11.88       $15.07       93,481  
2002
    $14.28       $12.05       761,224       $14.19       $11.95       196,209       $14.13       $11.88       105,378  
2001
    $12.78       $14.28       930,516       $12.73       $14.19       216,947       $12.69       $14.13       134,668  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $10.38       $12.78       470,899       $10.36       $12.73       128,673       $10.34       $12.69       82,254  
 
 
International Large-Cap
                                                                       
2009
    $7.29       $9.60       500,115       $7.16       $9.41       146,147       $7.06       $9.27       63,850  
2008
    $11.43       $7.29       556,357       $11.25       $7.16       163,833       $11.12       $7.06       71,690  
2007
    $10.61       $11.43       739,672       $10.46       $11.25       193,861       $10.36       $11.12       80,509  
2006
    $8.47       $10.61       1,136,557       $8.37       $10.46       304,623       $8.30       $10.36       132,848  
2005
    $7.62       $8.47       1,414,421       $7.55       $8.37       373,538       $7.49       $8.30       165,926  
2004
    $6.52       $7.62       1,413,793       $6.47       $7.55       359,616       $6.43       $7.49       194,645  
2003
    $5.06       $6.52       1,555,393       $5.03       $6.47       408,364       $5.01       $6.43       229,704  
2002
    $6.24       $5.06       1,518,975       $6.21       $5.03       432,067       $6.19       $5.01       243,716  
2001
    $7.74       $6.24       1,843,777       $7.72       $6.21       490,702       $7.71       $6.19       327,597  
01/03/2000-12/31/2000
    $10.00       $7.74       1,202,801       $10.00       $7.72       298,948       $10.00       $7.71       218,938  
 
 
Mid-Cap Growth
                                                                       
2009
    $4.97       $7.81       202,681       $4.89       $7.67       68,207       $4.83       $7.56       25,905  
2008
    $9.76       $4.97       231,850       $9.62       $4.89       54,445       $9.52       $4.83       23,186  
2007
    $8.05       $9.76       360,302       $7.96       $9.62       94,520       $7.88       $9.52       27,235  
2006
    $7.49       $8.05       400,185       $7.42       $7.96       88,061       $7.36       $7.88       30,588  
2005
    $6.45       $7.49       292,874       $6.39       $7.42       68,337       $6.36       $7.36       17,528  
2004
    $5.38       $6.45       238,633       $5.34       $6.39       73,408       $5.32       $6.36       13,138  
2003
    $4.18       $5.38       319,433       $4.16       $5.34       46,408       $4.15       $5.32       17,619  
2002
    $8.01       $4.18       202,704       $7.99       $4.16       46,008       $7.98       $4.15       11,911  
01/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $8.01       172,014       $10.00       $7.99       32,020       $10.00       $7.98       13,270  
 
 

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          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
Real Estate
                                                                       
2009
    $19.17       $25.01       65,902       $18.80       $24.47       18,097       $18.52       $24.07       4,758  
2008
    $32.40       $19.17       70,513       $31.83       $18.80       21,292       $31.40       $18.52       4,974  
2007
    $39.20       $32.40       88,243       $38.58       $31.83       26,859       $38.12       $31.40       7,705  
2006
    $28.79       $39.20       124,273       $28.39       $38.58       32,161       $28.09       $38.12       9,318  
2005
    $25.00       $28.79       161,278       $24.70       $28.39       37,051       $24.48       $28.09       13,448  
2004
    $18.42       $25.00       210,162       $18.24       $24.70       47,204       $18.10       $24.48       15,233  
2003
    $13.58       $18.42       268,185       $13.48       $18.24       57,710       $13.39       $18.10       29,940  
2002
    $13.82       $13.58       275,821       $13.74       $13.48       70,497       $13.68       $13.39       46,416  
2001
    $12.91       $13.82       303,119       $12.86       $13.74       79,343       $12.82       $13.68       30,363  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $9.86       $12.91       181,524       $9.84       $12.86       64,951       $9.83       $12.82       27,672  
 
 
Small-Cap Value
                                                                       
2009
    $14.70       $18.43       52,962       $14.53       $18.19       13,756       $14.41       $18.00       7,664  
2008
    $20.76       $14.70       67,473       $20.57       $14.53       20,793       $20.43       $14.41       5,622  
2007
    $20.42       $20.76       85,467       $20.27       $20.57       14,890       $20.16       $20.43       6,456  
2006
    $17.29       $20.42       131,417       $17.20       $20.27       16,915       $17.13       $20.16       7,681  
2005
    $15.43       $17.29       177,632       $15.38       $17.20       27,568       $15.34       $17.13       13,416  
2004
    $12.57       $15.43       205,804       $12.56       $15.38       46,721       $12.55       $15.34       18,016  
05/01/2003-12/31/2003
    $10.00       $12.57       169,825       $10.00       $12.56       38,405       $10.00       $12.55       17,350  
 
 
Multi-Strategy
                                                                       
2009
    $11.01       $13.35       60,345       $10.79       $13.06       11,222       $10.63       $12.85       3,674  
2008
    $20.29       $11.01       64,894       $19.93       $10.79       11,881       $19.66       $10.63       6,584  
2007
    $19.72       $20.29       97,725       $19.41       $19.93       18,645       $19.18       $19.66       6,697  
2006
    $17.90       $19.72       111,991       $17.66       $19.41       34,150       $17.47       $19.18       10,044  
2005
    $17.49       $17.90       138,836       $17.29       $17.66       39,836       $17.13       $17.47       30,025  
2004
    $16.16       $17.49       161,676       $16.00       $17.29       48,801       $15.88       $17.13       35,821  
2003
    $13.29       $16.16       208,960       $13.18       $16.00       66,444       $13.11       $15.88       36,398  
2002
    $15.50       $13.29       235,769       $15.41       $13.18       76,461       $15.34       $13.11       36,624  
2001
    $15.91       $15.50       316,790       $15.84       $15.41       85,642       $15.80       $15.34       43,025  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $16.01       $15.91       249,340       $15.98       $15.84       47,958       $15.95       $15.80       38,460  
 
 
Main Street® Core
                                                                       
2009
    $11.75       $14.99       174,067       $11.52       $14.67       43,506       $11.35       $14.43       26,215  
2008
    $19.50       $11.75       221,913       $19.15       $11.52       64,525       $18.90       $11.35       34,991  
2007
    $18.94       $19.50       308,067       $18.64       $19.15       77,198       $18.42       $18.90       41,748  
2006
    $16.68       $18.94       328,881       $16.45       $18.64       87,481       $16.28       $18.42       45,816  
2005
    $15.96       $16.68       439,048       $15.77       $16.45       121,078       $15.63       $16.28       71,572  
2004
    $14.77       $15.96       429,180       $14.63       $15.77       119,457       $14.52       $15.63       82,894  
2003
    $11.80       $14.77       501,228       $11.71       $14.63       144,049       $11.64       $14.52       97,490  
2002
    $16.71       $11.80       373,550       $16.61       $11.71       142,646       $16.54       $11.64       100,552  
2001
    $18.60       $16.71       486,163       $18.53       $16.61       180,975       $18.47       $16.54       127,795  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $20.22       $18.60       724,450       $20.18       $18.53       202,059       $20.15       $18.47       142,904  
 
 
Emerging Markets
                                                                       
2009
    $14.15       $25.78       93,957       $13.87       $25.22       34,155       $13.66       $24.81       11,353  
2008
    $27.42       $14.15       115,255       $26.94       $13.87       36,739       $26.57       $13.66       14,278  
2007
    $20.90       $27.42       164,648       $20.57       $26.94       48,432       $20.32       $26.57       16,608  
2006
    $17.03       $20.90       232,653       $16.80       $20.57       50,194       $16.62       $20.32       19,030  
2005
    $12.21       $17.03       301,377       $12.06       $16.80       84,168       $11.96       $16.62       31,082  
2004
    $9.20       $12.21       297,245       $9.11       $12.06       75,508       $9.04       $11.96       30,819  
2003
    $5.54       $9.20       234,879       $5.49       $9.11       70,810       $5.46       $9.04       34,134  
2002
    $5.79       $5.54       235,161       $5.76       $5.49       67,149       $5.73       $5.46       26,351  
2001
    $6.43       $5.79       295,240       $6.41       $5.76       85,950       $6.39       $5.73       27,845  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $10.14       $6.43       260,387       $10.12       $6.41       77,814       $10.11       $6.39       25,872  
 
 
Cash Management
(formerly called Money Market)
                                                                       
2009
    $13.41       $13.25       115,342       $13.15       $12.96       19,607       $12.95       $12.75       17,018  
2008
    $13.29       $13.41       341,321       $13.05       $13.15       50,328       $12.88       $12.95       24,489  
2007
    $12.84       $13.29       161,313       $12.63       $13.05       31,427       $12.48       $12.88       25,522  
2006
    $12.43       $12.84       338,432       $12.26       $12.63       30,304       $12.13       $12.48       17,399  
2005
    $12.26       $12.43       232,160       $12.12       $12.26       31,387       $12.01       $12.13       22,445  
2004
    $12.31       $12.26       324,709       $12.19       $12.12       50,417       $12.10       $12.01       23,988  
2003
    $12.39       $12.31       428,766       $12.29       $12.19       93,959       $12.22       $12.10       47,722  
2002
    $12.39       $12.39       888,527       $12.31       $12.29       184,006       $12.26       $12.22       139,002  
2001
    $12.10       $12.39       1,082,193       $12.05       $12.31       250,652       $12.01       $12.26       204,875  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $11.55       $12.10       1,048,076       $11.53       $12.05       181,360       $11.51       $12.01       130,783  
 
 

77


 

                                                                         
          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
High Yield Bond
                                                                       
2009
    $11.89       $16.41       164,563       $11.66       $16.05       25,230       $11.49       $15.79       13,476  
2008
    $15.50       $11.89       132,746       $15.23       $11.66       19,582       $15.02       $11.49       12,625  
2007
    $15.35       $15.50       139,882       $15.11       $15.23       24,986       $14.93       $15.02       13,384  
2006
    $14.22       $15.35       184,224       $14.03       $15.11       29,481       $13.88       $14.93       15,143  
2005
    $14.09       $14.22       232,970       $13.92       $14.03       41,360       $13.80       $13.88       21,235  
2004
    $13.06       $14.09       296,575       $12.93       $13.92       54,682       $12.83       $13.80       29,298  
2003
    $11.01       $13.06       419,312       $10.92       $12.93       69,930       $10.86       $12.83       38,353  
2002
    $11.51       $11.01       329,659       $11.44       $10.92       66,373       $11.39       $10.86       40,330  
2001
    $11.52       $11.51       310,057       $11.47       $11.44       67,597       $11.44       $11.39       44,400  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $12.13       $11.52       197,365       $12.10       $11.47       34,971       $12.09       $11.44       38,549  
 
 
Managed Bond
                                                                       
2009
    $17.45       $20.82       385,560       $17.10       $20.37       78,722       $16.85       $20.03       48,172  
2008
    $18.00       $17.45       431,616       $17.68       $17.10       83,879       $17.44       $16.85       47,886  
2007
    $16.82       $18.00       555,368       $16.55       $17.68       105,505       $16.36       $17.44       58,233  
2006
    $16.27       $16.82       638,238       $16.05       $16.55       104,752       $15.88       $16.36       58,755  
2005
    $16.08       $16.27       747,894       $15.89       $16.05       141,246       $15.75       $15.88       80,020  
2004
    $15.47       $16.08       821,361       $15.32       $15.89       153,519       $15.21       $15.75       124,002  
2003
    $14.77       $15.47       1,045,546       $14.65       $15.32       192,351       $14.57       $15.21       152,563  
2002
    $13.50       $14.77       1,524,391       $13.42       $14.65       273,426       $13.36       $14.57       219,093  
2001
    $12.76       $13.50       1,853,547       $12.71       $13.42       328,780       $12.67       $13.36       229,185  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $11.60       $12.76       931,407       $11.58       $12.71       170,784       $11.56       $12.67       107,675  
 
 
Inflation Managed
                                                                       
2009
    $16.43       $19.57       360,494       $16.10       $19.14       66,402       $15.86       $18.83       33,773  
2008
    $18.37       $16.43       394,834       $18.05       $16.10       76,612       $17.81       $15.86       40,135  
2007
    $16.92       $18.37       527,885       $16.65       $18.05       96,630       $16.45       $17.81       49,760  
2006
    $17.07       $16.92       552,490       $16.83       $16.65       92,646       $16.66       $16.45       50,047  
2005
    $16.88       $17.07       666,691       $16.68       $16.83       108,556       $16.53       $16.66       48,023  
2004
    $15.72       $16.88       727,471       $15.56       $16.68       109,097       $15.45       $16.53       64,305  
2003
    $14.73       $15.72       815,688       $14.61       $15.56       130,364       $14.52       $15.45       71,045  
2002
    $12.94       $14.73       942,533       $12.86       $14.61       135,716       $12.80       $14.52       103,323  
2001
    $12.58       $12.94       703,795       $12.53       $12.86       105,804       $12.49       $12.80       65,875  
05/02/2000-12/31/2000
    $11.41       $12.58       513,300       $11.38       $12.53       79,227       $11.37       $12.49       58,293  
 
 
Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth1                                                                        
2009
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
 
 
Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth1                                                                        
2009
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
 
 
Pacific Dynamix – Growth                                                                        
10/01/2009-12/31/2009
    $11.65       $12.32       8,589       $11.64       $12.30       588       N/A       N/A       N/A  
 
 
Dividend Growth
(formerly called Diversified Research)
                                                                       
2009
    $7.68       $10.02       178,580       $7.54       $9.82       44,214       $7.44       $9.68       32,975  
2008
    $12.77       $7.68       223,585       $12.57       $7.54       65,229       $12.42       $7.44       41,455  
2007
    $12.80       $12.77       321,051       $12.63       $12.57       84,333       $12.49       $12.42       54,081  
2006
    $11.60       $12.80       420,154       $11.46       $12.63       115,032       $11.35       $12.49       81,396  
2005
    $11.17       $11.60       495,109       $11.06       $11.46       124,479       $10.98       $11.35       86,208  
2004
    $10.19       $11.17       502,805       $10.11       $11.06       106,378       $10.05       $10.98       83,583  
2003
    $7.79       $10.19       574,890       $7.74       $10.11       120,430       $7.71       $10.05       89,681  
2002
    $10.42       $7.79       630,716       $10.38       $7.74       141,990       $10.35       $7.71       82,571  
2001
    $10.87       $10.42       663,788       $10.85       $10.38       143,436       $10.83       $10.35       100,919  
01/03/2000-12/31/2000
    $10.00       $10.87       476,150       $10.00       $10.85       122,599       $10.00       $10.83       93,630  
 
 
Large-Cap Growth
                                                                       
2009
    $4.22       $5.84       259,735       $4.15       $5.74       74,217       $4.10       $5.66       64,004  
2008
    $8.64       $4.22       162,310       $8.52       $4.15       55,029       $8.43       $4.10       55,728  
2007
    $7.20       $8.64       239,154       $7.12       $8.52       61,569       $7.05       $8.43       51,291  
2006
    $7.59       $7.20       417,835       $7.52       $7.12       113,835       $7.46       $7.05       79,388  
2005
    $7.48       $7.59       428,833       $7.42       $7.52       127,899       $7.38       $7.46       68,958  
2004
    $7.25       $7.48       938,748       $7.21       $7.42       245,566       $7.17       $7.38       139,357  
2003
    $5.86       $7.25       958,358       $5.84       $7.21       271,162       $5.82       $7.17       134,395  
2002
    $8.03       $5.86       1,103,279       $8.01       $5.84       278,780       $8.00       $5.82       128,787  
01/02/2001-12/31/2001
    $10.00       $8.03       1,166,467       $10.00       $8.01       272,994       $10.00       $8.00       112,661  
 
 
Diversified Bond
                                                                       
2009
    $9.47       $10.65       292,533       $9.41       $10.58       56,721       $9.38       $10.52       28,648  
2008
    $10.41       $9.47       242,296       $10.38       $9.41       55,842       $10.35       $9.38       30,238  
2007
    $10.42       $10.41       334,642       $10.41       $10.38       64,621       $10.40       $10.35       35,437  
05/05/2006-12/31/2006
    $10.01       $10.42       146,789       $10.01       $10.41       31,170       $10.01       $10.40       16,426  
 
 
Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset
(formerly called AIM V.I. PowerShares ETF Allocation)
                                                                       
08/28/2009-12/31/2009
    $13.00       $13.35       474       $12.95       $13.32       2,587       N/A       N/A       N/A  
 
 

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          With Stepped-Up
       
    With Standard Death Benefit     Death Benefit Rider     With Premier Death Benefit Rider  
                Number of
                Number of
                Number of
 
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
                Subaccount
 
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
    AUV at
    AUV
    Units
 
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
    Beginning
    at End
    Outstanding
 
    of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year     of Year     of Year     at End of Year  
   
AllianceBernstein VPS Balanced Wealth Strategy
                                                                       
2009
    $7.07       $8.67       93,280       $7.13       $8.65       5,821       $7.05       $8.62       238  
05/06/2008-12/31/2008
    $10.06       $7.07       68,413       N/A       N/A       N/A       $7.01       $7.05       259  
 
 
BlackRock Global Allocation V.I.
                                                                       
2009
    $7.90       $9.42       158,141       $7.89       $9.39       21,885       $7.88       $9.37       2,528  
05/01/2008-12/31/2008
    $10.00       $7.90       385,760       $9.23       $7.89       4,906       $8.76       $7.88       2,556  
 
 
Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation
                                                                       
2009
    $6.60       $8.47       13,395       $6.59       $8.44       11,174       $6.59       $8.42       1,655  
05/02/2008-12/31/2008
    $10.07       $6.60       20,115       $9.19       $6.59       276       $6.47       $6.59       281  
 
 
GE Investments Total Return2                                                                        
02/20/2009-12/31/2009
    $9.67       $12.51       4,441       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
 
 
Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation                                                                        
07/17/2009-12/31/2009
    $11.13       $12.61       120       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
 
 
 
1 As of December 31, 2009, this Subaccount has not commenced operations.
 
2 All investments in GE Investments Total Return Class 4 were converted to GE Investments Total Return Class 3 on November 20, 2009.

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FEDERAL TAX ISSUES
 
The following summary of federal income tax issues is based on our understanding of current tax laws and regulations, which may be changed by legislative, judicial or administrative action. The summary is general in nature and is not intended as tax advice. Moreover, it does not consider any applicable foreign, state or local tax laws. We do not make any guarantee regarding the tax status, federal, foreign, state or local, of any Contract or any transaction involving the Contracts. Accordingly, you should consult a qualified tax adviser for complete information and advice before purchasing a Contract. Additional tax information is included in the SAI.
 
Diversification Requirements and Investor Control
 
Section 817(h) of the Code provides that the investments underlying a variable annuity must satisfy certain diversification requirements in order for the contract to be treated as an annuity contract and qualify for tax deferral. We believe the underlying Variable Investment Options for the contract meet these requirements. Details on these diversification requirements appear in the Pacific Select Fund SAI.
 
In addition, for a variable annuity contract to qualify for tax deferral, assets in the separate accounts supporting the contract must be considered to be owned by the insurance company and not by the contract owner. Under current U.S. tax law, if a contract owner has excessive control over the investments made by a separate account, or the underlying fund, the contract owner will be taxed currently on income and gains from the account or fund. In other words, in such a case of investor control the contract owner would not derive the tax benefits normally associated with variable annuities. For more information regarding investor control, please refer to the contract SAI.
 
Taxation of Annuities - General Provisions
 
Section 72 of the Code governs the taxation of annuities in general, and we designed the Contracts to meet the requirements of Section 72 of the Code. We believe that, under current law, the Contract will be treated as an annuity for federal income tax purposes if the Contract Owner is a natural person or an agent for a natural person, and that we (as the issuing insurance company), and not the Contract Owner(s), will be treated as the owner of the investments underlying the Contract. Accordingly, no tax should be payable by you as a Contract Owner as a result of any increase in Contract Value until you receive money under your Contract. You should, however, consider how amounts will be taxed when you do receive them. The following discussion assumes that your Contract will be treated as an annuity for federal income tax purposes.
 
Non-Qualified Contracts - General Rules
 
These general rules apply to Non-Qualified Contracts. As discussed below, however, tax rules may differ for Qualified Contracts and you should consult a qualified tax adviser if you are purchasing a Qualified Contract.
 
Taxes Payable
 
A Contract Owner is not taxed on the increases in the value of a Contract until an amount is received or deemed to be received. An amount could be received or deemed to be received, for example, if there is a partial distribution, a lump sum distribution, an Annuity payment or a material change in the Contract. Increases in Contract Value that are received or deemed to be received are taxable to the Contract Owner as ordinary income. Distributions of net investment income or capital gains that each Subaccount receives from its corresponding Portfolio are automatically reinvested in such Portfolio unless we, on behalf of the Separate Account, elect otherwise. As noted above, you will be subject to federal income taxes on the investment income from your Contract only when it is distributed to you.
 
Non-Natural Persons as Owners
 
If a contract is not owned or held by a natural person or as agent for a natural person, the contract generally will not be treated as an “annuity” for tax purposes, meaning that the contract owner will be subject to current tax on annual increases in Contract Value at ordinary income rates unless some other exception applies. Certain entities, such as some trusts, may be deemed to be acting as agents for natural persons. Corporations, including S corps, C corps, LLCs, partnerships and FLPs, and tax exempt entities are non-natural persons that will not be deemed to be acting as agents for natural persons.
 
Addition of Optional Rider or Material Change to Contract
 
The addition of a rider to the Contract, or a material change in the Contract’s provisions, such as a change in Contract ownership or an assignment of the Contract, could cause it to be considered newly issued or entered into for tax purposes, and thus could cause a taxable event or the Contract to lose certain grandfathered tax status. Please contact your tax adviser for more information.
 
Taxes Payable on Withdrawals Prior to the Annuity Date
 
Amounts you withdraw before annuitization, including amounts withdrawn from your Contract Value in connection with partial withdrawals for payment of any charges and fees, will be treated first as taxable income to the extent that your Contract Value exceeds the aggregate of your Purchase Payments reduced by non-taxable amounts previously received (investment in the Contract), and then as non-taxable recovery of your Purchase Payments. Therefore, you include in your gross income the smaller of: a) the amount of the partial


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withdrawal, or b) the amount by which your Contract Value (determined without considering any surrender charge) immediately before you receive the distribution exceeds your investment in the Contract at that time. If at the time of a partial withdrawal your Contract Value does not exceed your investment in the Contract, then the withdrawal will not be includable in gross income and will simply reduce your investment in the Contract. Exceptions to this rule are distributions in full discharge of your Contract (a full surrender) or distributions from contracts issued and investments made before August 14, 1982.
 
The assignment or pledge of (or agreement to assign or pledge) the value of the Contract for a loan will be treated as a withdrawal subject to these rules. You should consult your tax adviser for additional information regarding taking a partial or a full distribution from your Contract.
 
Multiple Contracts (Aggregation Rule)
 
Multiple Non-Qualified Contracts that are issued after October 21, 1988, by us or our affiliates to the same Owner during the same calendar year are treated as one Contract for purposes of determining the taxation of distributions (the amount includible in gross income under Code Section 72(e)) prior to the Annuity Date from any of the Contracts. A Contract received in a tax-free exchange under Code Section 1035 may be treated as a new Contract for this purpose. For Contracts subject to the Aggregation Rule, the values of the Contracts and the investments in the Contracts should be added together to determine the taxation under Code Section 72(e). Withdrawals will be treated first as withdrawals of income until all of the income from all such Contracts is withdrawn. The Treasury Department has specific authority under Code Section 72(e)(11) to issue regulations to prevent the avoidance of the income-out-first rules for withdrawals prior to the Annuity Date through the serial purchase of Contracts or otherwise. As of the date of this Prospectus there are no regulations interpreting these aggregation provisions.
 
10% Tax Penalty Applicable to Certain Withdrawals and Annuity Payments
 
The Code provides that the taxable portion of a withdrawal or other distribution may be subject to a tax penalty equal to 10% of that taxable portion unless the withdrawal is:
 
  •  made on or after the date you reach age 591/2,
 
  •  made by a Beneficiary after your death,
 
  •  attributable to your becoming disabled,
 
  •  any payment made under an immediate annuity,
 
  •  attributable to an investment in the Contract made prior to August 14, 1982, or
 
  •  any distribution that is a part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (Code Section 72(q) payments) made (at least annually) over your life (or life expectancy) or the joint lives (or life expectancies) of you and your designated beneficiary.
 
Additional exceptions may apply to certain Qualified Contracts (see Taxes Payable on Annuity Payments and the applicable Qualified Contracts).
 
Taxes Payable on Optional Rider Charges
 
It is our understanding that the charges relating to any optional death benefit rider are not subject to current taxation and we will not report them as such. However, the IRS may determine that these charges should be treated as partial withdrawals subject to current taxation to the extent of any gain and, if applicable, the 10% tax penalty. We reserve the right to report any optional death benefit rider charges as partial withdrawals if we believe that we would be expected to report them in accordance with IRS regulations.
 
Distributions After the Annuity Date
 
After you annuitize, a portion of each annuity payment you receive under a Contract generally will be treated as a partial recovery of Investments (as used here, “Investments” means the aggregate Purchase Payments less any amounts that were previously received under the Contract but not included in income) and will not be taxable. (In certain circumstances, subsequent modifications to an initially-established payment pattern may result in the imposition of a tax penalty.) The remainder of each annuity payment will be taxed as ordinary income. However, after the full amount of aggregate Investments has been recovered, the full amount of each annuity payment will be taxed as ordinary income. Exactly how an annuity payment is divided into taxable and non-taxable portions depends on the period over which annuity payments are expected to be received, which in turn is governed by the form of annuity selected and, where a lifetime annuity is chosen, by the life expectancy of the Annuitant(s) or payee(s). Such a payment may also be subject to a tax penalty.
 
Same-Sex Spouses
 
Pursuant to Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), same-sex marriages currently are not recognized for purposes of federal law. Therefore, the favorable income-deferral options afforded by federal tax law to an opposite-sex spouse under Internal Revenue Code sections 72(s) and 401(a)(9) are currently NOT available to a same-sex spouse. Same-sex spouses who own or are considering the


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purchase of annuity products that provide benefits based upon status as a spouse should consult a tax advisor. To the extent that an annuity contract or certificate accords to spouses other rights or benefits that are not affected by DOMA, same-sex spouses remain entitled to such rights or benefits to the same extent as any annuity holder’s spouse.
 
Distributions to Beneficiary After Contract Owner’s Death
 
Generally, the same tax rules apply to amounts received by the Beneficiary as those that apply to the Contract Owner, except that the early withdrawal tax penalty does not apply. Thus, any annuity payments or lump sum withdrawal will be divided into taxable and non-taxable portions.
 
If within sixty days after the date on which a lump sum death benefit first becomes payable and the Beneficiary elects to receive annuity or life expectancy payments in lieu of the lump sum death benefit, then the Beneficiary will not be treated for tax purposes as having received the lump sum death benefit in the tax year it first becomes payable. Rather, in that case, the Beneficiary will be taxed on the annuity or life expectancy payments as they are received.
 
If death occurs after the Annuity Date, but before the expiration of a period certain option, the Beneficiary will recover the balance of the Investments as payments are made and may be allowed a deduction on the final tax return for the unrecovered Investments. A lump sum payment taken by the Beneficiary in lieu of remaining monthly annuity payments is not considered an annuity payment for tax purposes. The portion of any lump sum payment to a Beneficiary in excess of aggregate unrecovered Investments would be subject to income tax.
 
Contract Owner’s Estate
 
Generally, any amount payable to a Beneficiary after the Contract Owner’s death, whether before or after the Annuity Date, will be included in the estate of the Contract Owner for federal estate tax purposes. If the inclusion of the value of the Contract triggers a federal estate tax to be paid, the Beneficiary may be able to use a deduction called Income in Respect of Decedent (IRD) in calculating the income taxes payable upon receipt of the death benefit proceeds. In addition, designation of a non-spouse Beneficiary who either is 371/2 or more years younger than a Contract Owner or is a grandchild of a Contract Owner may have Generation Skipping Transfer Tax (GSTT) consequences under section 2601 of the Code. You should consult with a qualified tax advisor if you have questions about federal estate tax, IRD, or GSTT.
 
Gifts of Annuity Contracts
 
Generally, gifts of Non-Qualified Contracts prior to the annuity start date will trigger tax reporting to the donor on the gain on the Contract, with the donee getting a stepped-up basis for the amount included in the donor’s income. The 10% early withdrawal tax penalty and gift tax also may be applicable. This provision does not apply to transfers between spouses or incident to a divorce, or transfers to and from a trust acting as agent for the Owner or the Owner’s spouse.
 
Tax Withholding for Non-Qualified Contracts
 
Unless you elect to the contrary, any amounts you receive under your Contract that are attributable to investment income will be subject to withholding to meet federal income tax obligations. For nonperiodic distributions, you will have the option to provide us with withholding information at the time of your withdrawal request. If you do not provide us with withholding information, we will generally withhold 10% of the taxable distribution amount and remit it to the IRS. For periodic (annuity) payments, the rate of withholding will be determined on the basis of the withholding information you provide to us with your application. If you do not provide us with withholding information, we are required to determine the withholding, from every annuity payment, as if you are a married person with 3 exemptions.
 
Certain states have indicated that pension and annuity withholding will apply to payments made to residents.
 
Please call 1-800-722-4448 with any questions about the required withholding information. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
Tax Withholding for Non-resident Aliens or Non U.S. Persons
 
Taxable distributions to Contract Owners who are non-resident aliens or other non U.S. persons are generally subject to U.S. federal income tax withholding at a 30% rate, unless a lower treaty rate applies. Prospective foreign owners are advised to consult with a tax advisor regarding the U.S., state and foreign tax treatment of a Contract.
 
Exchanges of Non-Qualified Contracts (1035 Exchanges)
 
You may make your initial or an additional Purchase Payment through an exchange of an existing annuity contract or endowment life insurance contract pursuant to Section 1035 of the Code (a 1035 exchange). The exchange can be effected by completing the Transfer/Exchange form, indicating in the appropriate section of the form that you are making a 1035 exchange and submitting any applicable state replacement form. The form is available by calling your Financial professional or by calling our Contract Owner number at


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1-800-722-4448. Financial professionals can call 1-800-722-2333. Once completed, the form should be mailed to us, along with the annuity contract or life insurance policy you are exchanging. If you are making an initial Purchase Payment, a completed Contract application should also be attached.
 
In general terms, Section 1035 of the Code provides that no gain or loss is recognized when you exchange one annuity or life insurance contract for another annuity contract. Transactions under Section 1035, however, may be subject to special rules and may require special procedures and record keeping, particularly if the exchanged annuity contract was issued prior to August 14, 1982. You should consult your tax adviser prior to effecting a 1035 exchange.
 
Partial 1035 Exchanges
 
A partial exchange is the direct transfer of only a portion of an existing annuity’s Contract Value to a new annuity contract. Rev. Proc. 2008-24 adopted the provisions of Notice 2003-51, with some modifications, finalizing the guidelines for partial 1035 exchanges. Under Rev. Proc. 2008-24, the 24 month period is reduced to 12 months, so that a partial exchange will be treated as tax-free under Code Section 1035 if there are no distributions, from either annuity, within 12 months of the partial 1035 exchange. Alternatively, a partial 1035 exchange will be treated as tax-free under Code Section 1035 if the taxpayer demonstrates that any distribution taken within the 12 months is due to a specifically identified condition that occurred between the date of the partial transfer and the distribution (the conditions are death, disability, attaining age 591/2, divorce or loss of employment). Rev Proc. 2008-24 removes the subjective element of Notice 2003-51 (whether the distribution was contemplated at the time of the partial exchange). Also, Rev. Proc. 2008-24 provides that if the partial exchange does not qualify as a tax-free exchange under Code Section 1035, it will be treated as a taxable distribution with a subsequent repurchase, and that if the partial exchange is treated as tax-free under Code Section 1035 and this Rev. Proc., the two contracts will not be aggregated and treated as one contract, but rather will be treated as two separate contracts for tax and penalty purposes.
 
You should consult your tax adviser prior to effecting a partial 1035 exchange.
 
Impact of Federal Income Taxes
 
In general, in the case of Non-Qualified Contracts, if you are an individual and expect to accumulate your Contract Value over a relatively long period of time without making significant withdrawals, there may be federal income tax advantages in purchasing such a Contract. This is because any increase in Contract Value is not subject to current taxation. Income taxes are deferred until the money is withdrawn, at which point taxation occurs only on the gain from the investment in the Contract. With income taxes deferred, you may accumulate more money over the long term through a variable annuity than you may through non-tax-deferred investments. The advantage may be greater if you decide to liquidate your Contract Value in the form of monthly annuity payments after your retirement, or if your tax rate is lower at that time than during the period that you held the Contract, or both.
 
When withdrawals or distributions are taken from the variable annuity, the gain is taxed as ordinary income. This may be a potential disadvantage because money that had been invested in other types of assets may qualify for a more favorable federal tax rate. For example, in 2010 the tax rate applicable both to the sale of capital gain assets held more than 1 year and to the receipt of qualifying dividends by individuals is generally 15% (5% for lower-income individuals). In contrast, an ordinary income tax rate of up to 35% applies to taxable withdrawals on distributions from a variable annuity in 2010. Also, withdrawals or distributions taken from a variable annuity may be subject to a tax penalty equal to 10% of the taxable portion, although exceptions to the tax penalty may apply.
 
An owner of a variable annuity cannot deduct or offset losses on transfers to or from Subaccounts, or at the time of any partial withdrawals. If you surrender your Contract and your Net Contract Value is less than the aggregate of your investments in the Contract (reduced by any previous non-taxable distributions), there may be a deductible ordinary income loss, although the deduction may be limited. Consult with your tax adviser regarding the impact of federal income taxes on your specific situation.
 
Taxes on Pacific Life
 
Although the Separate Account is registered as an investment company, it is not a separate taxpayer for purposes of the Code. The earnings of the Separate Account are taxed as part of our operations. No charge is made against the Separate Account for our federal income taxes (excluding the charge for premium taxes), but we will review, periodically, the question of charges to the Separate Account or your Contract for such taxes. Such a charge may be made in future years for any federal income taxes that would be attributable to the Separate Account or to our operations with respect to your Contract, or attributable, directly or indirectly, to investments in your Contract.
 
Under current law, we may incur state and local taxes (in addition to premium taxes) in several states. At present, these taxes are not significant and they are not charged against the Contract or the Separate Account. If there is a material change in applicable state or local tax laws, the imposition of any such taxes upon us that are attributable to the Separate Account or to our operations with respect to your Contract may result in a corresponding charge against the Separate Account or your Contract.
 
Given the uncertainty of future changes in applicable federal, state or local tax laws, we cannot appropriately describe the effect a tax law change may have on taxes that would be attributable to the Separate Account or your Contract.


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Qualified Contracts - General Rules
 
The Contracts are available to a variety of Qualified Plans and IRAs. Tax restrictions and consequences for Contracts under each type of Qualified Plan and IRAs differ from each other and from those for Non-Qualified Contracts. No attempt is made herein to provide more than general information about the use of the Contract with the various types of Qualified Plans and IRAs. Participants under such Qualified Plans, as well as Contract Owners, Annuitants and Beneficiaries, are cautioned that the rights of any person to any benefits under such Qualified Plans may be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plans themselves or limited by applicable law, regardless of the terms and conditions of the Contract issued in connection therewith.
 
Tax Deferral
 
It is important to know that Qualified Plans such as 401(k)s, as well as IRAs, are already tax-deferred. Therefore, an annuity contract should be used to fund an IRA or Qualified Plan to benefit from the annuity’s features other than tax deferral. The other benefits of using a variable annuity to fund a Qualified Plan or an IRA include the lifetime income options, guaranteed death benefit options and the ability to transfer among Investment Options without sales or withdrawal charges. You should consider if the Contract is a suitable investment if you are investing through a Qualified Plan or IRA.
 
Taxes Payable
 
Generally, amounts received from Qualified Contracts are taxed as ordinary income under Section 72, to the extent that they are not treated as a tax free recovery of contributions. Different rules apply for Roth IRAs. Consult your tax advisor before requesting a distribution from a Qualified Contract.
 
10% Tax Penalty for Early Withdrawals
 
Generally, distributions from IRAs and Qualified Plans that occur before you attain age 591/2 are subject to a 10% tax penalty imposed on the amount of the distribution that is includable in gross income, with certain exceptions. These exceptions include distributions:
 
  •  made to a beneficiary after the owner’s/participant’s death,
 
  •  attributable to the owner/participant becoming disabled under Section 72(m)(7),
 
  •  that are part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (also referred to as SEPPs or 72(t) payments) made (at least annually) over your life (or life expectancy) or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of you and your designated beneficiary,
 
  •  for certain higher education expenses (IRAs only),
 
  •  used to pay for certain health insurance premiums or medical expenses (IRAs only),
 
  •  for costs related to the purchase of your first home (IRAs only), and
 
  •  (except for IRAs) made to an employee after separation from service after reaching age 55 (or age 50 in the case of a qualified public safety employee).
 
Tax Withholding for Qualified Contracts
 
Distributions from a Contract under a Qualified Plan (not including an individual retirement annuity subject to Code Section 408 or Code Section 408A) to an employee, surviving spouse, or former spouse who is an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, in the form of a lump sum settlement or periodic annuity payments for a fixed period of fewer than 10 years are subject to mandatory income tax withholding of 20% of the taxable amount of the distribution, unless:
 
  •  the distributee directs the transfer of such amounts in cash to another Qualified Plan or a traditional IRA, or
 
  •  the payment is a minimum distribution required under the Code.
 
The taxable amount is the amount of the distribution less the amount allocable to after-tax contributions. All other types of taxable distributions are subject to withholding unless the distributee elects not to have withholding apply.
 
Certain states have indicated that pension and annuity withholding will apply to payments made to residents.
 
IRAs and Other Qualified Contracts with Optional Benefit Riders
 
As of the date of this Prospectus, there are special considerations for purchases of any optional living or death benefit riders. IRS regulations state that Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) may generally not invest in life insurance contracts. We believe that these regulations do not prohibit the optional living or death benefit riders from being added to your Contract if it is issued as a Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA or SIMPLE IRA. However, the law is unclear and it is possible that a Contract that has optional living or death benefit riders and is issued as a Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, or SIMPLE IRA could be disqualified and may result in increased taxes to the Owner.


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Similarly, section 401 plans, section 403(b), 457(b) annuities and IRAs (but not Roth IRAs) can only offer incidental death benefits. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) could take the position that the enhanced death benefits provided by optional benefit riders are not incidental. In addition, to the extent that the optional benefit riders alter the timing or the amount of the payment of distributions under a Qualified Contract, the riders cannot be paid out in violation of the minimum distribution rules of the Code.
 
It is our understanding that the charges relating to the optional benefit riders are not subject to current taxation and we will not report them as such. However, the IRS may determine that these charges should be treated as partial withdrawals subject to current income taxation to the extent of any gain and, if applicable, the 10% tax penalty. We reserve the right to report the rider charges as partial withdrawals if we believe that we would be expected to report them in accordance with IRS regulations.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
The regulations provide that you cannot keep assets in Qualified Plans or IRAs indefinitely. Eventually they are required to be distributed; at that time (the Required Beginning Date (RBD)), Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) are the amount that must be distributed each year.
 
Under Section 401 of the Code (for Qualified Plans) and Section 408 of the Code (for IRAs), the entire interest under the Contract must be distributed to the Owner/Annuitant no later than the Owner/Annuitant’s RBD, or distributions over the life of the Owner/Annuitant (or the Owner/Annuitant and his beneficiary) must begin no later than the RBD.
 
The RBD for distributions from a Qualified Contract maintained for an IRA under Section 408 of the Code is generally April 1 of the calendar year following the year in which the Owner/Annuitant reaches age 701/2. The RBD for a Qualified Contract maintained for a qualified retirement or pension plan under Section 401 of the Code or a Section 403(b) annuity is April 1 of the calendar year following the later of the year in which the Owner/Annuitant reaches age 701/2, or, if the plan so provides, the year in which the Owner/Annuitant retires. There is no RBD for a Roth IRA maintained pursuant to Section 408A of the Code.
 
The IRS issued Final and Temporary Regulations on April 17, 2002 (“Final Regulations”). Effective January 1, 2003, the IRS requires that all IRA holders and Qualified Plan Participants (with one exception discussed below) use the Uniform Lifetime Table to calculate their RMDs.
 
The Uniform Lifetime Table is based on a joint life expectancy and uses the IRA owner’s actual age and assumes that the beneficiary is 10 years younger than the IRA owner. Note that under these Final Regulations, the IRA owner does not need to actually have a named beneficiary when they turn age 701/2.
 
The exception noted above is for an IRA owner who has a spouse, who is more than 10 years younger, as the sole beneficiary on the IRA. In that situation, the spouse’s actual age (and life expectancy) will be used in the joint life calculation.
 
If the Owner/Annuitant dies prior to his RBD or complete distribution from the Qualified Contract, the remainder shall be distributed as provided in the “Qualified Contract Distribution Rules” section of this Prospectus. For non-spouse beneficiaries, life expectancy is initially computed by use of the Single Life Table of the Final Regulations (Regulation Section 1.401(a)(9)-9). Subsequent life expectancy shall be calculated by reducing the life expectancy of the Beneficiary by one in each following calendar year.
 
For calendar year 2003 and thereafter, taxpayers (and the underlying Qualified Plan) must rely on the Final and Temporary Regulations (discussed above) for determining RMDs. If any future guidance from the IRS is more restrictive than the guidance in these Final and Temporary Regulations, the future guidance will be issued without retroactive effect.
 
The method of distribution selected must comply with the minimum distribution rules of Code Section 401(a)(9), and the applicable proposed Regulations thereunder.
 
Actuarial Value
 
In accordance with recent changes in laws and regulations, RMDs may be calculated based on the sum of the contract value and the actuarial value of any additional death benefits and benefits from optional riders that you have purchased under the Contract. As a result, RMDs may be larger than if the calculation were based on the contract value only, which may in turn result in an earlier (but not before the required beginning date) distribution under the Contract and an increased amount of taxable income distributed to the contract owner, and a reduction of death benefits and the benefits of any optional riders.
 
RMDs and Annuity Options
 
Under the Final Regulations, for retirement plans that qualify under Section 401 or 408 of the Code, the period elected for receipt of RMDs as annuity payments under Annuity Options 2 and 4 generally may be:
 
  •  no longer than the joint life expectancy of the Annuitant and Beneficiary in the year that the Annuitant reaches age 701/2, and
 
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Under Annuity Option 3, if the Beneficiary is not the Annuitant’s spouse and is more than 10 years younger than the Annuitant, the 662/3% and 100% elections specified below may not be available. The restrictions on options for retirement plans that qualify under Sections 401 and 408 also apply to a retirement plan that qualifies under Section 403(b) with respect to amounts that accrued after December 31, 1986.
 
Loans
 
Certain Owners of Qualified Contracts may borrow against their Contracts. Otherwise loans from us are not permitted. You may request a loan from us, using your Contract Value as your only security if yours is a Qualified Contract that is:
 
  •  not subject to Title 1 of ERISA,
 
  •  issued under Section 403(b) of the Code, and
 
  •  issued under a Plan that permits Loans (a “Loan Eligible Plan”).
 
You may have only one loan outstanding at any time. The minimum loan amount is $1,000, subject to certain state limitations. Your Contract Debt at the effective date of your loan may not exceed the lesser of:
 
  •  50% of the amount available for withdrawal under this Contract (see WITHDRAWALS – Optional Withdrawals – Amount Available for Withdrawal), or
 
  •  $50,000 less your highest outstanding Contract Debt during the 12-month period immediately preceding the effective date of your loan.
 
If your request for a loan is processed, you will be charged interest on your Contract Debt at a fixed annual rate equal to 5%. The amount held in the Loan Account to secure your loan will earn a return equal to an annual rate of 3%. These rates may vary by state.
 
Interest charges accrue on your Contract Debt daily, beginning on the effective date of your loan. Interest earned on the Loan Account Value accrues daily beginning on the day following the effective date of the loan, and those earnings will be transferred once a year to your Investment Options in accordance with your most recent allocation instructions. For more information about loans, including the consequences of loans, loan procedures, loan terms and repayment terms, see the SAI.
 
We may change these loan provisions to reflect changes in the Code or interpretations thereof. We urge you to consult with a qualified tax adviser prior to effecting any loan transaction under your Contract.
 
IRAs and Qualified Plans
 
The following is only a general discussion about types of IRAs and Qualified Plans for which the Contracts are available. We are not the administrator of any Qualified Plan. The plan administrator and/or custodian, whichever is applicable, (but not us) is responsible for all Plan administrative duties including, but not limited to, notification of distribution options, disbursement of Plan benefits, handling any processing and administration of Qualified Plan loans, compliance regulatory requirements and federal and state tax reporting of income/distributions from the Plan to Plan participants and, if applicable, Beneficiaries of Plan participants and IRA contributions from Plan participants. Our administrative duties are limited to administration of the Contract and any disbursements of any Contract benefits to the Owner, Annuitant, or Beneficiary of the Contract, as applicable. Our tax reporting responsibility is limited to federal and state tax reporting of income/distributions to the applicable payee and IRA contributions from the Owner of a Contract, as recorded on our books and records. The Qualified Plan (the plan administrator or the custodian) is required to provide us with information regarding individuals with signatory authority on the Contract(s) owned. If you are purchasing a Qualified Contract, you should consult with your plan administrator and/or a qualified tax adviser. You should also consult with a qualified tax adviser and/or plan administrator before you withdraw any portion of your Contract Value.
 
Individual Retirement Annuities (“IRAs”)
 
In addition to “traditional” IRAs established under Code 408, there are SEP IRAs under Code Section 408(k), Roth IRAs governed by Code Section 408A and SIMPLE IRAs established under Code Section 408(p). Also, Qualified Plans under Section 401, 403(b), or 457(b) of the Code that include after-tax employee contributions may be treated as deemed IRAs subject to the same rules and limitations as traditional IRAs. Contributions to each of these types of IRAs are subject to differing limitations. The following is a very general description of each type of IRA and other Qualified Plans.
 
Traditional IRAs
 
Traditional IRAs are subject to limitations on the amount that may be contributed each year, the persons who may be eligible to contribute, when rollovers are available and when distributions must commence. Depending upon the circumstances of the individual, contributions to a traditional IRA may be made on a deductible or non-deductible basis.


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Annual contributions are generally allowed for persons who have not attained age 701/2 and who have compensation (as defined by the IRS) of at least the contribution amount. Distributions of minimum amounts specified by the Code must commence by April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which you attain age 701/2. Failure to make mandatory minimum distributions may result in imposition of a 50% tax penalty on any difference between the required distribution amount and the amount actually distributed. Additional distribution rules apply after your death.
 
You (or your surviving spouse if you die) may rollover funds (such as proceeds from existing insurance policies, annuity contracts or securities) from certain existing Qualified Plans into your traditional IRA if those funds are in cash. This will require you to liquidate any value accumulated under the existing Qualified Plan. Mandatory withholding of 20% may apply to any rollover distribution from your existing Qualified Plan if the distribution is not transferred directly to your traditional IRA. To avoid this withholding you should have cash transferred directly from the insurance company or plan trustee to your traditional IRA.
 
SIMPLE IRAs
 
The Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees of Small Employers (“SIMPLE Plan”) is a type of IRA established under Code Section 408(p)(2). Depending upon the SIMPLE Plan, employers may make plan contributions into a SIMPLE IRA established by each participant of the SIMPLE Plan. Like other IRAs, a 10% tax penalty is imposed on certain distributions that occur before an employee attains age 591/2. In addition, the tax penalty is increased to 25% for amounts received or rolled to another IRA or Qualified Plan during the 2-year period beginning on the date an employee first participated in a qualified salary reduction arrangement pursuant to a SIMPLE Plan maintained by their employer. Contributions to a SIMPLE IRA will generally include employee salary deferral contributions and employer contributions. Distributions from a SIMPLE IRA may be transferred to another SIMPLE IRA tax free or may be eligible for tax free rollover to a traditional IRA, a 403(b), a 457(b) or other Qualified Plan after the required 2-year period.
 
SEP-IRAs
 
A Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) is an employer sponsored retirement plan under which an employer is allowed to make contributions toward their employees’ retirement, as well as their own retirement (if the employer is self-employed). A SEP is a type of IRA established under Code Section 408(k). Under a SEP, a separate IRA account called a SEP-IRA is set up by or for each eligible employee and the employer makes the contribution to the account. Like other IRAs, a 10% tax penalty is imposed on certain distributions that occur before an employee attains age 591/2.
 
Roth IRAs
 
Section 408A of the Code permits eligible individuals to establish a Roth IRA. Contributions to a Roth IRA are not deductible, but withdrawals of amounts contributed and the earnings thereon that meet certain requirements are not subject to federal income tax. In general, Roth IRAs are subject to limitations on the amount that may be contributed and the persons who may be eligible to contribute and are subject to certain required distribution rules on the death of the Contract Owner. Unlike a traditional IRA, Roth IRAs are not subject to minimum required distribution rules during the Contract Owner’s lifetime. Generally, however, the amount remaining in a Roth IRA must be distributed by the end of the fifth year after the death of the Contract Owner/Annuitant or distributed over the life expectancy of the Designated Beneficiary. The owner of a traditional IRA may convert a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA under certain circumstances. The conversion of a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA will subject the amount of the converted traditional IRA to federal income tax. Anyone considering the purchase of a Qualified Contract as a Roth IRA or a “conversion” Roth IRA should consult with a qualified tax adviser.
 
In accordance with recent changes in laws and regulations, at the time of either a full or partial conversion from a Traditional IRA annuity to a Roth IRA annuity, the determination of the amount to be reported as income will be based on the annuity contract’s “fair market value”, which will include all front-end loads and other non-recurring charges assessed in the 12 months immediately preceding the conversion, and the actuarial present value of any additional contract benefits.
 
Tax Sheltered Annuities (“TSAs”)
 
Employees of certain tax-exempt organizations, such as public schools or hospitals, may defer compensation through an eligible plan under Code Section 403(b). Salary deferral amounts received from employers for these employees are excludable from the employees’ gross income (subject to maximum contribution limits). Distributions under these Contracts must comply with certain limitations as to timing, or result in tax penalties. Distributions from amounts contributed to a TSA pursuant to a salary reduction arrangement, may be made from a TSA only upon attaining age 591/2, severance from employment, death, disability, or financial hardship. Section 403(b) annuity distributions can be rolled over to other Qualified Plans in a manner similar to those permitted by Qualified Plans that are maintained pursuant to Section 401 of the Code.
 
In accordance with Code Section 403(b) and final regulations published on July 26, 2007 (“Final Regulations”), as of January 1, 2009, we are required to provide information regarding loans or hardship distributions from your Contract to your 403(b) employer or an agent of your 403(b) employer, upon request. In addition, prior to processing your request for a loan, a hardship distribution or a rollover, we are required to verify certain information about you with your 403(b) employer (or if applicable, former 403(b) employer).


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Section 457(b) Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans
 
Certain employees of governmental entities or tax exempt employers may defer compensation through an eligible plan under Code section 457(b). Contributions to a Contract of an eligible plan are subject to limitations. Subject to plan provisions and a qualifying triggering event, assets in a Section 457(b) plan established by a governmental entity may be transferred or rolled into an IRA or another Qualified Plan, if the Qualified Plan allows the transfer or rollover. If a rollover to an IRA is completed, the assets become subject to IRA rules, including the 10% penalty on distributions prior to age 591/2. Assets from other plans may be rolled into a governmental 457(b) plan if the 457(b) plan allows the rollover and if the investment provider is able to segregate the assets for tax reporting purposes. Consult both the distributing plan and the receiving plan prior to making this election. Assets in a 457(b) plan set up by a tax exempt employer may not be rolled to a different type of Qualified Plan or IRA at any time.
 
401(k) Plans; Pension and Profit-Sharing Plans
 
Qualified Plans may be established by an employer for certain eligible employees under Section 401 of the Code. These plans may be 401(k) plans, profit-sharing plans, or other pension or retirement plans. Contributions to these plans are subject to limitations. Rollover to other eligible plans may be available. Please consult your Qualified Plans Summary Plan description for more information.
 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
Voting Rights
 
We are the legal owner of the shares of the Portfolios held by the Subaccounts. We may vote on any matter voted on at shareholders’ meetings of the Funds. However, our current interpretation of applicable law requires us to vote the number of shares attributable to your Variable Account Value (your “voting interest”) in accordance with your directions.
 
We will pass proxy materials on to you so that you have an opportunity to give us voting instructions for your voting interest. You may provide your instructions by proxy or in person at the shareholders’ meeting. If there are shares of a Portfolio held by a Subaccount for which we do not receive timely voting instructions, we will vote those shares in the same proportion as all other shares of that Portfolio held by that Subaccount for which we have received timely voting instructions. If we do not receive any voting instructions for the shares in a Separate Account, we will vote the shares in that Separate Account in the same proportion as the total votes for all of our separate accounts for which we’ve received timely instructions. If we hold shares of a Portfolio in our General Account, we will vote such shares in the same proportion as the total votes cast for all of our separate accounts, including Separate Account A. We will vote shares of any Portfolio held by our non-insurance affiliates in the same proportion as the total votes for all separate accounts of ours and our insurance affiliates. As a result of proportional voting, the votes cast by a small number of Contract Owners may determine the outcome of a vote.
 
We may elect, in the future, to vote shares of the Portfolios held in Separate Account A in our own right if we are permitted to do so through a change in applicable federal securities laws or regulations, or in their interpretation.
 
The number of Portfolio shares that form the basis for your voting interest is determined as of the record date set by the Board of Trustees of the Fund. It is equal to:
 
  •  your Contract Value allocated to the Subaccount corresponding to that Portfolio, divided by
 
  •  the net asset value per share of that Portfolio.
 
Fractional votes will be counted. We reserve the right, if required or permitted by a change in federal regulations or their interpretation, to amend how we calculate your voting interest.
 
After your Annuity Date, if you have selected a variable annuity, the voting rights under your Contract will continue during the payout period of your annuity, but the number of shares that form the basis for your voting interest, as described above, will decrease throughout the payout period.
 
Changes to Your Contract
 
Contract Owner(s) and Contingent Owner
 
Transfer of Contract ownership may involve federal income tax and/or gift tax consequences; you should consult a qualified tax adviser before effecting such a transfer. A change to or from joint Contract ownership is considered a transfer of ownership. If your Contract is Non-Qualified, you may change Contract ownership at any time while the Annuitant is living and prior to your Annuity Date. You may name a different Owner or add or remove a Joint Owner or Contingent Owner. A Contract cannot name more than two Contract Owners (either as Joint or Contingent Owners) at any time. Any newly-named Contract Owners, including Joint and/or Contingent Owners, must be under the age of 81 at the time of change or addition. The Contract Owner(s) may make all decisions regarding the Contract, including making allocation decisions and exercising voting rights. Transactions under a Contract with Joint Owners require approval from both Owners.


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If your Contract is Qualified under Code Sections 401 or 457(b), the Qualified Plan must be the sole Owner of the Contract and the ownership cannot be changed unless and until a triggering event has been met under the terms of the Qualified Plan. Upon such event, the ownership can only be changed to the Annuitant. If your Contract is Qualified under Code Sections 408 and 403(b), you must be the sole Owner of the Contract and no changes can be made.
 
Annuitant and Contingent or Joint Annuitant
 
Your sole Annuitant cannot be changed, and Joint Annuitants cannot be added or changed, once your Contract is issued. Certain changes may be permitted in connection with Contingent Annuitants. See ANNUITIZATION – Selecting Your Annuitant. There may be limited exceptions for certain Qualified Contracts.
 
Beneficiaries
 
Your Beneficiary is the person(s) or entity who may receive death benefit proceeds under your Contract or any remaining annuity payments after the Annuity Date if the Annuitant or Owner dies. You may change or remove your Beneficiary or add Beneficiaries at any time prior to the death of the Annuitant or Owner, as applicable. Any change or addition will generally take effect only when we receive all necessary documents, in proper form, at our Service Center and we record the change or addition. Any change or addition will not affect any payment made or any other action taken by us before the change or addition was received and recorded.
 
Spousal consent may be required to change the Beneficiary of an IRA. If you are considering removing a spouse as a Beneficiary, it is recommended that you consult your legal or tax advisor regarding any applicable state or federal laws prior to requesting the change. If you have named your Beneficiary irrevocably, you will need to obtain that Beneficiary’s consent before making any changes. Qualified Contracts may have additional restrictions on naming and changing Beneficiaries. If your Contract was issued in connection with a Qualified Plan subject to Title I of ERISA, contact your Plan Administrator for details. We require that Contracts issued under Code Sections 401 and 457(b) name the Plan as Beneficiary. If you leave no surviving Beneficiary or Contingent Beneficiary, your estate will receive any death benefit proceeds under your Contract.
 
Changes to All Contracts
 
If, in the judgment of our management, continued investment by Separate Account A in one or more of the Portfolios becomes unsuitable or unavailable, we may seek to alter the Variable Investment Options available under the Contracts. We do not expect that a Portfolio will become unsuitable, but unsuitability issues could arise due to changes in investment policies, market conditions, tax laws, or due to marketing or other reasons.
 
Alterations of Variable Investment Options may take differing forms. We reserve the right to substitute shares of any Portfolio that were already purchased under any Contract (or shares that were to be purchased in the future under a Contract) with shares of another Portfolio, shares of another investment company or series of another investment company, or another investment vehicle. Required approvals of the SEC and state insurance regulators will be obtained before any such substitutions are effected, and you will be notified of any planned substitution.
 
We may add new Subaccounts to Separate Account A and any new Subaccounts may invest in Portfolios of a Fund or in other investment vehicles. Availability of any new Subaccounts to existing Contract Owners will be determined at our discretion. We will notify you, and will comply with the filing or other procedures established by applicable state insurance regulators, to the extent required by applicable law. We also reserve the right, after receiving any required regulatory approvals, to do any of the following:
 
  •  cease offering any Subaccount;
 
  •  add or change designated investment companies or their portfolios, or other investment vehicles;
 
  •  add, delete or make substitutions for the securities and other assets that are held or purchased by the Separate Account or any Variable Account;
 
  •  permit conversion or exchanges between portfolios and/or classes of contracts on the basis of Owners’ requests;
 
  •  add, remove or combine Variable Accounts;
 
  •  combine the assets of any Variable Account with any other of our separate accounts or of any of our affiliates;
 
  •  register or deregister Separate Account A or any Variable Account under the 1940 Act;
 
  •  operate any Variable Account as a managed investment company under the 1940 Act, or any other form permitted by law;
 
  •  run any Variable Account under the direction of a committee, board, or other group;
 
  •  restrict or eliminate any voting rights of Owners with respect to any Variable Account or other persons who have voting rights as to any Variable Account;
 
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  •  make any changes necessary to maintain the status of the Contracts as annuities under the Code;
 
  •  make other changes required under federal or state law relating to annuities;
 
  •  suspend or discontinue sale of the Contracts; and
 
  •  comply with applicable law.
 
Inquiries and Submitting Forms and Requests
 
You may reach our service representatives at 1-800-722-4448 between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Pacific time. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
Please send your forms and written requests or questions to:
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company
P.O. Box 2378
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2378
 
If you are submitting a Purchase Payment or other payment by mail, please send it, along with your application if you are submitting one, to the following address:
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company
P.O. Box 2290
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2290
 
If you are using an overnight delivery service to send payments, please send them to the following address:
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company
1299 Farnam Street, 6th Floor, AMF
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
 
The effective date of certain notices or of instructions is determined by the date and time on which we “receive” the notice or instructions. We “receive” this information only when it arrives, in proper form, at the correct mailing address set out above. In those instances when we receive electronic transmission of the information on the application from your financial professional’s broker-dealer firm and our administrative procedures with your broker-dealer so provide, we consider the application to be received on the Business Day we receive the transmission. If the address on your Contract specification pages is different and our administrative procedures with your broker-dealer so provide, in those instances when information regarding your Purchase Payment is electronically transmitted to us by the broker-dealer, we will consider the Purchase Payment to be received by us on the Business Day we receive the transmission of the information. Please call us at 1-800-722-4448 if you have any questions regarding which address you should use. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
We reserve the right to process any Purchase Payment received at an incorrect address when it is received at either the address indicated in your Contract specification pages or the appropriate address indicated in the Prospectus.
 
Purchase Payments after your initial Purchase Payment, loan requests, transfer requests, loan repayments and withdrawal requests we receive before the close of the New York Stock Exchange, which usually closes at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, will normally be effective at the end of the same Business Day that we receive them in “proper form,” unless the transaction or event is scheduled to occur on another day. Generally, whenever you submit any other form, notice or request, your instructions will be effective on the next Business Day after we receive them in “proper form” unless the transaction or event is scheduled to occur on another day. “Proper form” means in a form satisfactory to us and may require, among other things, a signature guarantee or other verification of authenticity. We do not generally require a signature guarantee unless it appears that your signature may have changed over time or the signature does not appear to be yours; or an executed application or confirmation of application, as applicable, in proper form is not received by us; or, to protect you or us. Requests regarding death benefit proceeds must be accompanied by both proof of death and instructions regarding payment satisfactory to us. You should call your financial professional or us if you have questions regarding the required form of a request.
 
Telephone and Electronic Transactions
 
You are automatically entitled to make certain transactions by telephone or, to the extent available, electronically. You may also authorize other people to make certain transaction requests by telephone or, to the extent available, electronically by so indicating on the application or by sending us instructions in writing in a form acceptable to us. We cannot guarantee that you or any other person you authorize will always be able to reach us to complete a telephone or electronic transaction; for example, all telephone lines may be busy or access to our website may be unavailable during certain periods, such as periods of substantial market fluctuations or other drastic economic or market change, or telephones or the Internet may be out of service or unavailable during severe weather conditions or other emergencies. Under these circumstances, you should submit your request in writing (or other form acceptable to us). Transaction instructions we receive by telephone or electronically before the close of the New York Stock Exchange, which usually closes at 4:00 p.m.


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Eastern time, on any Business Day will usually be effective at the end of that day, and we will provide you confirmation of each telephone or electronic transaction.
 
We have established procedures reasonably designed to confirm that instructions communicated by telephone or electronically are genuine. These procedures may require any person requesting a telephone or electronic transaction to provide certain personal identification upon our request. We may also record all or part of any telephone conversation with respect to transaction instructions. We reserve the right to deny any transaction request made by telephone or electronically. You are authorizing us to accept and to act upon instructions received by telephone or electronically with respect to your Contract, and you agree that, so long as we comply with our procedures, neither we, any of our affiliates, nor any Fund, or any of their directors, trustees, officers, employees or agents will be liable for any loss, liability, cost or expense (including attorneys’ fees) in connection with requests that we believe to be genuine. This policy means that so long as we comply with our procedures, you will bear the risk of loss arising out of the telephone or electronic transaction privileges of your Contract. If a Contract has Joint Owners, each Owner may individually make telephone and/or electronic transaction requests.
 
Electronic Information Consent
 
Subject to availability, you may authorize us to provide prospectuses, prospectus supplements, annual and semi-annual reports, quarterly statements and immediate confirmations, proxy solicitation, privacy notice and other notices and documentation in electronic format when available instead of receiving paper copies of these documents by U.S. mail. You may enroll in this service by so indicating on the application, via our Internet website, or by sending us instructions in writing in a form acceptable to us to receive such documents electronically. Not all contract documentation and notifications may be currently available in electronic format. You will continue to receive paper copies of any documents and notifications not available in electronic format by U.S. mail. In addition, you will continue to receive paper copies of annual statements if required by state or federal law. By enrolling in this service, you consent to receive in electronic format any documents added in the future. For jointly owned contracts, both owners are consenting to receive information electronically. Documents will be available on our Internet website. As documents become available, we will notify you of this by sending you an e-mail message that will include instructions on how to retrieve the document. You must have ready access to a computer with Internet access, an active e-mail account to receive this information electronically, and the ability to read and retain it. You may access and print all documents provided through this service.
 
If you plan on enrolling in this service, or are currently enrolled, please note that:
 
  •  We impose no additional charge for electronic delivery, although your Internet provider may charge for Internet access.
 
  •  You must provide a current e-mail address and notify us promptly when your e-mail address changes.
 
  •  You must update any e-mail filters that may prevent you from receiving e-mail notifications from us.
 
  •  You may request a paper copy of the information at any time for no charge, even though you consented to electronic delivery, or if you decide to revoke your consent.
 
  •  For jointly owned contracts, both owners are consenting that the primary owner will receive information electronically. (Only the primary owner will receive e-mail notices.)
 
  •  This election will be effective for all Contracts you currently own or acquire in the future.
 
  •  Electronic delivery will be cancelled if e-mails are returned undeliverable.
 
  •  This consent will remain in effect until you revoke it.
 
We are not required to deliver this information electronically and may discontinue electronic delivery in whole or in part at any time. If you are currently enrolled in this service, please call (800) 722-4448 if you would like to revoke your consent, wish to receive a paper copy of the information above, or need to update your e-mail address.
 
Timing of Payments and Transactions
 
For withdrawals, including exchanges under Code Section 1035 and other Qualified transfers, from the Variable Investment Options or for death benefit payments attributable to your Variable Account Value, we will normally send the proceeds within 7 calendar days after your request is effective or after the Notice Date, as the case may be. We will normally effect periodic annuity payments on the day that corresponds to the Annuity Date and will make payment on the following day. Payments or transfers may be suspended for a longer period under certain extraordinary circumstances. These include: a closing of the New York Stock Exchange other than on a regular holiday or weekend; a trading restriction imposed by the SEC; or an emergency declared by the SEC. Amounts withdrawn or transferred from any fixed-rate General Account Investment Option may be delayed for up to six months after the request is effective. See THE GENERAL ACCOUNT for more details.


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Confirmations, Statements and Other Reports to Contract Owners
 
Confirmations will be sent out for unscheduled Purchase Payments and transfers, loans, loan repayments, unscheduled partial withdrawals, a full withdrawal, optional living benefit rider Automatic or Owner Elected Resets/Step-Ups, and on payment of any death benefit proceeds. Periodically, we will send you a statement that provides certain information pertinent to your Contract. These statements disclose Contract Value, Subaccount values, any fixed option values, fees and charges applied to your Contract Value, transactions made and specific Contract data that apply to your Contract. Confirmations of your transactions under the pre-authorized checking plan, dollar cost averaging, earnings sweep, portfolio rebalancing, and pre-authorized withdrawal options will appear on your quarterly account statements. Your fourth-quarter statement will contain annual information about your Contract Value and transactions. You may also access these statements online.
 
If you suspect an error on a confirmation or quarterly statement, you must notify us in writing as soon as possible to ensure proper accounting to your Contract. When you write, tell us your name, contract number and a description of the suspected error. We assume transactions are accurate unless you notify us otherwise within 30 days of receiving the transaction confirmation or, if the transaction is first confirmed on the quarterly statement, within 30 days of receiving the quarterly statement. All transactions are deemed final and may not be changed after the applicable 30 day period.
 
You will also be sent an annual report for the Separate Account and the Funds and a list of the securities held in each Portfolio of the Funds, as required by the 1940 Act; or more frequently if required by law.
 
Contract Owner Mailings. To help reduce expenses, environmental waste and the volume of mail you receive, only one copy of Contract Owner documents (such as the prospectus, supplements, announcements, and each annual and semi-annual report) may be mailed to Contract Owners who share the same household address (Householding). If you are already participating, you may opt out by contacting us. Please allow 30 calendar days for regular delivery to resume. You may also elect to participate in Householding by writing to us. The current documents are available on our website any time or an individual copy of any of these documents may be requested – see the last page of this Prospectus for more information.
 
Distribution Arrangements
 
PSD, a broker-dealer and our subsidiary, pays various forms of sales compensation to broker-dealers (including other affiliates) that solicit applications for the Contracts. PSD also may reimburse other expenses associated with the promotion and solicitation of applications for the Contracts.
 
We offer the Contracts for sale through broker-dealers that have entered into selling agreements with PSD. Broker-dealers sell the Contracts through their financial professionals. PSD pays compensation to broker-dealers for the promotion and sale of the Contracts. The individual financial professional who sells you a Contract typically will receive a portion of the compensation, under the financial professional’s own arrangement with his or her broker-dealer. Broker-dealers may receive aggregate commissions of up to 4.75% of your aggregate Purchase Payments. Under certain circumstances where PSD pays lower initial commissions, certain broker-dealers that solicit applications for Contracts may be paid an ongoing persistency trail commission (sometimes called a residual) which will take into account, among other things, the Account Value and the length of time Purchase Payments have been held under a Contract. A trail commission is not anticipated to exceed 1.50%, on an annual basis, of the Account Value considered in connection with the trail commission. Certain broker-dealers may also be paid an amount under a persistency program which will be based on assets under management and duration of Contracts. The amount under the persistency program for a financial professional is not expected to exceed .25% of their total assets under management.
 
We may also provide compensation to broker-dealers for providing ongoing service in relation to Contracts that have already been purchased.
 
Additional Compensation and Revenue Sharing
 
To the extent permitted by SEC and FINRA rules and other applicable laws and regulations, selling broker-dealers may receive additional payments in the form of cash, other special compensation or reimbursement of expenses, sometimes called “revenue sharing”. These additional compensation or reimbursement arrangements may include, for example, payments in connection with the firm’s “due diligence” examination of the contracts, payments for providing conferences or seminars, sales or training programs for invited financial professionals and other employees, payments for travel expenses, including lodging, incurred by financial professionals and other employees for such seminars or training programs, seminars for the public, advertising and sales campaigns regarding the Contracts, and payments to assist a firm in connection with its administrative systems, operations and marketing expenses and/or other events or activities sponsored by the firms. Subject to applicable FINRA rules and other applicable laws and regulations, PSD and its affiliates may contribute to, as well as sponsor, various educational programs, sales contests and/or promotions in which participating firms and their salespersons may receive prizes such as merchandise, cash, or other awards. Such additional compensation may give us greater access to financial professionals of the broker-dealers that receive such compensation or may otherwise influence the way that a broker-dealer and financial professional market the Contracts.


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These arrangements may not be applicable to all firms, and the terms of such arrangements may differ between firms. We provide additional information on special compensation or reimbursement arrangements involving selling firms and other financial institutions in the Statement of Additional Information, which is available upon request. Any such compensation will not result in any additional direct charge to you by us.
 
The compensation and other benefits provided by PSD or its affiliates may be more or less than the overall compensation on similar or other products. This may influence your financial professional or broker-dealer to present this Contract over other investment options available in the marketplace. You may ask your financial professional about these differing and divergent interests, how he/she is personally compensated and how his/her broker-dealer is compensated for soliciting applications for the Contract.
 
Service Arrangements
 
We have entered into services agreements with certain Funds, or Fund affiliates, which pay us for administrative and other services, including, but not limited to, certain communications and support services. The fees are based on an annual percentage of average daily net assets of certain Fund portfolios purchased by us at Contract Owner’s instructions. Currently, the fees received do not exceed an annual percentage of 0.30% and each Fund (or Fund affiliate) may not pay the same annual percentage (some may pay significantly less). Because we receive such fees, we may be subject to competing interests in making these Funds available as Investment Options under the Contracts.
 
AllianceBernstein Investments, Inc. pays us for each AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc. portfolio (Class B) held by our separate accounts. BlackRock Distributors, Inc. pays us for each BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc. portfolio (Class III) held by our separate accounts. Franklin Templeton Services, LLC pays us for each Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust portfolio (Class 4) held by our separate accounts. Invesco Advisers, Inc. and its affiliates pay us for each AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds) portfolio (Series II) held by our separate accounts. Pacific Investment Management Company LLC pays us for each PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust portfolio held by our separate accounts. Van Kampen Funds Inc. pays us for each Van Kampen Life Investment Trust portfolio (Class II) held by our separate accounts. GE Investments Funds, Inc. pays us for each GE Investments Funds, Inc. portfolio (Class 3) held by our separate accounts.
 
PSD shall pay American Funds Distributors, Inc. at a rate of 0.16% of Purchase Payments up to $1.5 billion, 0.14% on Purchase Payments on next $1.5 billion and 0.10% on Purchase Payments made in excess, attributable to the Master Funds for certain marketing assistance.
 
Replacement of Life Insurance or Annuities
 
The term “replacement” has a special meaning in the life insurance industry and is described more fully below. Before you make your purchase decision, we want you to understand how a replacement may impact your existing plan of insurance.
 
A policy “replacement” occurs when a new policy or contract is purchased and, in connection with the sale, an existing policy or contract is surrendered, lapsed, forfeited, assigned to the replacing insurer, otherwise terminated, or used in a financed purchase. A “financed purchase” occurs when the purchase of a new life insurance policy or annuity contract involves the use of funds obtained from the values of an existing life insurance policy or annuity contract through withdrawal, surrender or loan.
 
There are circumstances in which replacing your existing life insurance policy or annuity contract can benefit you. As a general rule, however, replacement is not in your best interest. Accordingly, you should make a careful comparison of the costs and benefits of your existing policy or contract and the proposed policy or contract to determine whether replacement is in your best interest.
 
State Considerations
 
Certain Contract features described in this Prospectus may vary or may not be available in your state. The state in which your Contract is issued governs whether or not certain features, Riders, charges or fees are available or will vary under your Contract. These variations are reflected in your Contract and in Riders or Endorsements to your Contract. See your financial professional or contact us for specific information that may be applicable to your state.
 
For Contracts issued in the state of Pennsylvania, any person who knowingly and with intent to defraud any insurance company or other person files an application for insurance or statement of claim containing any materially false information or conceals for the purpose of misleading, information concerning any fact material thereto commits a fraudulent insurance act, which is a crime and subjects such person to criminal and civil penalties.
 
In addition, you understand that benefits and values provided under the Contract may be on a variable basis. Amounts directed into one or more variable Investment Options will reflect the investment experience of those Investment Options. These amounts may increase or decrease and are not guaranteed as to a dollar amount.


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California Applicants Age 60 or Older
 
For residents of the state of California 60 years of age or older, the Free Look period is a 30-day period beginning on the day you receive your Contract. If you are a California applicant age 60 or older and your Contract is delivered or issued for delivery on or after July 1, 2004, you must elect, at the time you apply for your Contract, to receive a return of either your Purchase Payments or your Contract Value proceeds if you exercise your Right to Cancel and return your Contract to us.
 
If you elect to receive the return of Purchase Payments option, the following will apply:
 
  •  We will allocate all or any portion of any Purchase Payment we receive to any available fixed option if you instruct us to do so. We will allocate all or any portion of any Purchase Payment designated for any Variable Investment Option to the Cash Management Subaccount until the Free Look Transfer Date. The Free Look Transfer Date is 30 days from the Contract Date. On the Free Look Transfer Date, we will automatically transfer your Cash Management Subaccount Value according to the instructions on your application, or your most recent instruction, if any. This automatic transfer to the Variable Investment Options according to your initial allocation instruction is excluded from the Transfer limitations. See HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions.
 
  •  If you specifically instruct us to allocate all or any portion of any additional Purchase Payments we receive to any Variable Investment Option other than the Cash Management Subaccount before the Free Look Transfer Date, you will automatically change your election to the return of your Contract Value proceeds option. This will automatically cancel your election of the “return of Purchase Payments” option for the entire Contract.
 
  •  If you request a transfer of all or any portion of your Contract Value from the Cash Management Subaccount to any other Variable Investment Option before the Free Look Transfer Date, you will automatically change your election to the return of your Contract Value proceeds option. This will automatically cancel your election of the “return of Purchase Payments” option for the entire Contract.
 
  •  If you exercise your Right to Cancel, we will send you your Purchase Payments.
 
If you elect the return of Contract Value proceeds option, the following will apply:
 
  •  We will immediately allocate any Purchase Payments we receive to the Investment Options you select on your application or your most recent instructions, if any.
 
  •  If you exercise your Right to Cancel, we will send you your Contract Value proceeds described in the Right to Cancel (“Free Look”) section of this prospectus.
 
  •  Once you elect this option, it may not be changed.
 
For the Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Joint) and Foundation 10 Rider issued in the state of Washington, the annual rider charge is the current charge percentage multiplied by the Contract Value.
 
Financial Statements
 
The statements of assets and liabilities of Separate Account A as of December 31, 2009, the related statements of operations for the periods presented, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the periods presented and the financial highlights for each of the periods presented are incorporated by reference in the Statement of Additional Information from the Annual Report of Separate Account A dated December 31, 2009. Pacific Life’s consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 are contained in the Statement of Additional Information.
 
Rule 12h-7 Representation
 
In reliance on the exemption provided by Rule 12h-7 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“34 Act”), we do not intend to file periodic reports as required under the 34 Act.
 
THE GENERAL ACCOUNT
 
General Information
 
All amounts allocated to a fixed option become part of our General Account. Subject to applicable law, we exercise sole discretion over the investment of General Account assets, and bear the associated investment risk. You will not share in the investment experience of General Account assets. Unlike the Separate Account, the General Account is subject to liabilities arising from any of our other business. Any guarantees provided for under the contract or through optional riders are backed by our financial strength and claims paying ability. You must look to the strength of the insurance company with regard to such guarantees.


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Because of exemptive and exclusionary provisions, interests in the General Account under the Contract are not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the General Account has not been registered as an investment company under the 1940 Act. Any interest you have in a fixed option is not subject to these Acts, and we have been advised that the SEC staff has not reviewed disclosure in this Prospectus relating to any fixed option. This disclosure may, however, be subject to certain provisions of federal securities laws relating to the accuracy and completeness of statements made in prospectuses.
 
Guarantee Terms
 
When you allocate any portion of your Investments or Contract Value to any fixed option, we guarantee you an interest rate (a “Guaranteed Interest Rate”) for a specified period of time (a “Guarantee Term”) of up to one year. Guarantee Terms will be offered at our discretion.
 
Guaranteed Interest Rates for any fixed option may be changed periodically for new allocations. Your allocation will receive the Guaranteed Interest Rate in effect for that fixed option on the effective date of your allocation. All Guaranteed Interest Rates will credit interest daily at a rate that compounds over one year to equal the annual effective rate. The Guaranteed Interest Rate on your fixed option will remain in effect for the Guarantee Term and will never be less than an annual rate of 3%.
 
Withdrawals and Transfers
 
Prior to the Annuity Date, you may withdraw or transfer amounts from any fixed option to one or more of the other Variable Investment Options. No partial withdrawal or transfer may be made from a fixed option within 30 days of the Contract Date. Currently, we are not requiring the 30-day waiting period on partial withdrawals and transfers, but we reserve the right to require the 30-day waiting period on partial withdrawals and transfers in the future. If your withdrawal leaves you with a Net Contract Value of less than $1,000, we have the right, at our option, to terminate your Contract and send you the withdrawal proceeds.
 
Amounts transferred or withdrawn from any fixed option may be delayed, as described under ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – Timing of Payments and Transactions. Any amount delayed, so long as it is held under any fixed option, will continue to earn interest at the Guaranteed Interest Rate then in effect until that Guarantee Term has ended, and the minimum guaranteed interest rate of 3% thereafter, unless state law requires a greater rate be paid.
 
Fixed Option
 
Each allocation (or rollover) you make to the Fixed Option receives a Guarantee Term that begins on the day that allocation or rollover is effective and ends at the end of that Contract Year or, if earlier, on your Annuity Date. At the end of that Contract Year, we will roll over your Fixed Option Value on that day into a new Guarantee Term of one year (or, if shorter, the time remaining until your Annuity Date) at the then current Guaranteed Interest Rate, unless you instruct us otherwise.
 
Example: Your Contract Anniversary is February 1. On February 1 of year 1, you allocate $1,000 to the Fixed Option and receive a Guarantee Term of one year and a Guaranteed Interest Rate of 5%. On August 1, you allocate another $500 to the Fixed Option and receive a Guaranteed Interest Rate of 6%. Through January 31, year 1, your first allocation of $1,000 earns 5% interest and your second allocation of $500 earns 6% interest. On February 1, year 2, a new interest rate may go into effect for your entire Fixed Option Value.
 
Withdrawals and Transfers
 
After the first Contract Anniversary, you may make one transfer or partial withdrawal from your Fixed Option during any Contract Year, except as provided under the dollar cost averaging, earnings sweep and pre-authorized withdrawal programs. You may make one transfer or one partial withdrawal within the 30 days after the end of each Contract Anniversary. Normally, you may transfer or withdraw up to one-third (331/3%) of your Fixed Option Value in any given Contract Year. However, in consecutive Contract Years you may transfer or withdraw up to one-third (331/3%) of your Fixed Option Value in one year; you may transfer or withdraw up to one-half (50%) of your remaining Fixed Option Value in the next year; and you may transfer or withdraw up to the entire amount (100%) of any remaining Fixed Option Value in the third year. In addition, if, as a result of a partial withdrawal or transfer, the Fixed Option Value is less than $500, we have the right, at our option, to transfer the entire remaining amount to your other Investment Options on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
We reserve the right to waive the restrictions that limit transfers from the Fixed Option to one transfer within the 30 days after the end of each Contract Anniversary. We also reserve the right to waive the limitations on the maximum amount you may transfer from the Fixed Option in any given Contract year. Currently, we are not enforcing any of the Fixed Option withdrawal and transfer restrictions. We may process requests for transfers from the Fixed Option that are within the maximum number of allowable transfers among the Investment Options each calendar year; i.e. transfers are limited to 25 for each calendar year.


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TERMS USED IN THIS PROSPECTUS
 
 
Some of the terms we’ve used in this Prospectus may be new to you. We’ve identified them in the Prospectus by capitalizing the first letter of each word. You will find an explanation of what they mean below.
 
If you have any questions, please ask your financial professional or call us at 1-800-722-4448. Financial professionals may call us at 1-800-722-2333.
 
Account Value – The amount of your Contract Value allocated to a specified Variable Investment Option or any fixed option.
 
Annual Fee – A $30.00 fee charged each year on your Contract Anniversary and at the time of a full withdrawal, if your Net Contract Value is less than $50,000 on that date.
 
Annuitant – A person on whose life annuity payments may be determined. An Annuitant’s life may also be used to determine certain increases in death benefits, and to determine the Annuity Date. A Contract may name a single (“sole”) Annuitant or two (“Joint”) Annuitants, and may also name a “Contingent” Annuitant. If you name Joint Annuitants or a Contingent Annuitant, “the Annuitant” means the sole surviving Annuitant, unless otherwise stated.
 
Annuity Date – The date specified in your Contract, or the date you later elect, if any, for the start of annuity payments if the Annuitant (or Joint Annuitants) is (or are) still living and your Contract is in force; or if earlier, the date that annuity payments actually begin.
 
Annuity Option – Any one of the income options available for a series of payments after your Annuity Date.
 
Beneficiary – A person who may have a right to receive the death benefit payable upon the death of the Annuitant or a Contract Owner prior to the Annuity Date, or may have a right to receive remaining guaranteed annuity payments, if any, if the Annuitant dies after the Annuity Date.
 
Business Day – Any day on which the value of an amount invested in a Variable Investment Option is required to be determined, which currently includes each day that the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading and our administrative offices are open. The New York Stock Exchange and our administrative offices are closed on weekends and on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, July Fourth, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, and the Friday before New Year’s Day, July Fourth or Christmas Day if that holiday falls on a Saturday, the Monday following New Year’s Day, July Fourth or Christmas Day if that holiday falls on a Sunday, unless unusual business conditions exist, such as the ending of a monthly or yearly accounting period. In this Prospectus, “day” or “date” means Business Day unless otherwise specified. If any transaction or event called for under a Contract is scheduled to occur on a day that is not a Business Day, such transaction or event will be deemed to occur on the next following Business Day unless otherwise specified. Any systematic pre-authorized transaction scheduled to occur on December 30 or December 31 where that day is not a Business Day will be deemed an order for the last Business Day of the calendar year and will be calculated using the applicable Subaccount Unit Value at the close of that Business Day. Special circumstances such as leap years and months with fewer than 31 days are discussed in the SAI.
 
Code – The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
 
Contingent Annuitant – A person, if named in your Contract, who will become your sole surviving Annuitant if your existing sole Annuitant (or both Joint Annuitants) should die before your Annuity Date.
 
Contingent Owner – A person, if named in your Contract, who will succeed to the rights as a Contract Owner of your Contract if all named Contract Owners die before your Annuity Date.
 
Contract Anniversary – The same date, in each subsequent year, as your Contract Date.
 
Contract Date – The date we issue your Contract. Contract Years, Contract Semi-Annual Periods, Contract Quarters and Contract Months are measured from this date.
 
Contract Debt – As of the end of any given Business Day, the principal amount you have outstanding on any loan under your Contract, plus any accrued and unpaid interest. Loans are only available on certain Qualified Contracts.
 
Contract Owner, Owner, Policyholder, you, or your – Generally, a person who purchases a Contract and makes the Investments. A Contract Owner has all rights in the Contract, including the right to make withdrawals, designate and change beneficiaries, transfer amounts among Investment Options, and designate an Annuity Option. If your Contract names Joint Owners, both Joint Owners are Contract Owners and share all such rights.
 
Contract Value – As of the end of any Business Day, the sum of your Variable Account Value, any fixed option value, the value of any other Investment Option added to the Contract by Rider or Endorsement, and any Loan Account Value.
 
Contract Year – A year that starts on the Contract Date or on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Earnings – As of the end of any Business Day, your Earnings equal your Contract Value less your aggregate Purchase Payments, which are reduced by withdrawals of prior Investments.
 
Fixed Option – If you allocate all or part of your Investments or Contract Value to the Fixed Option, such amounts are held in our General Account and receive the Guaranteed Interest Rate declared periodically, but not less than an annual rate of 3%.
 
Fixed Option Value – The aggregate amount of your Contract Value allocated to the Fixed Option.
 
Fund – Pacific Select Fund, AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds), AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc., BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc., Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, GE Investments Funds, PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, and/or Van Kampen Life Investment Trust.
 
General Account – Our General Account consists of all of our assets other than those assets allocated to Separate Account A or to any of our other separate accounts.
 
Guaranteed Interest Rate – The interest rate guaranteed at the time of allocation (or rollover) for the Guarantee Term on amounts allocated to a fixed option. All Guaranteed Interest Rates are expressed as annual rates and interest is accrued daily. The rate will not be less than an annual rate of 3%.
 
Guarantee Term – The period during which an amount you allocate to any available fixed option earns interest at a Guaranteed Interest Rate. These terms are up to one-year for a fixed option.
 
Investment (“Purchase Payment”) – An amount paid to us by or on behalf of a Contract Owner as consideration for the benefits provided under the Contract.
 
Investment Option – A Subaccount, any fixed option or any other Investment Option added to the Contract by Rider or Endorsement.
 
Joint Annuitant – If your Contract is a Non-Qualified Contract, you may name two Annuitants, called “Joint Annuitants,” in your application for your Contract. Special restrictions apply for Qualified Contracts.
 
Loan Account – The Account in which the amount equal to the principal amount of a loan and any interest accrued is held to secure any Contract Debt.
 
Loan Account Value – The amount, including any interest accrued, held in the Loan Account to secure any Contract Debt.
 
Net Contract Value – Your Contract Value less Contract Debt.
 
Non-Natural Owner – A corporation, trust or other entity that is not a (natural) person.
 
Non-Qualified Contract – A Contract other than a Qualified Contract.
 
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Portfolio – A separate portfolio of a Fund in which a Subaccount invests its assets.
 
Primary Annuitant – The individual that is named in your Contract, the events in the life of whom are of primary importance in affecting the timing or amount of the payout under the Contract.
 
Purchase Payment (“Investment”) – An amount paid to us by or on behalf of a Contract Owner as consideration for the benefits provided under the Contract.
 
Qualified Contract – A Contract that qualifies under the Code as an individual retirement annuity or account (IRA), or form thereof, or a Contract purchased by a Qualified Plan, qualifying for special tax treatment under the Code.
 
Qualified Plan – A retirement plan that receives favorable tax treatment under Section 401, 403, or 457 of the Code.
 
SEC – Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Separate Account A (the “Separate Account”) – A separate account of ours registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
 
Subaccount – An investment division of the Separate Account. Each Subaccount invests its assets in shares of a corresponding Portfolio.
 
Subaccount Annuity Unit – Subaccount Annuity Units (or “Annuity Units”) are used to measure variation in variable annuity payments. To the extent you elect to convert all or some of your Contract Value into variable annuity payments, the amount of each annuity payment (after the first payment) will vary with the value and number of Annuity Units in each Subaccount attributed to any variable annuity payments. At annuitization (after any applicable premium taxes and/or other taxes are paid), the amount annuitized to a variable annuity determines the amount of your first variable annuity payment and the number of Annuity Units credited to your annuity in each Subaccount. The value of Subaccount Annuity Units, like the value of Subaccount Units, is expected to fluctuate daily, as described in the definition of Unit Value.
 
Subaccount Unit – Before your Annuity Date, each time you allocate an amount to a Subaccount, your Contract is credited with a number of Subaccount Units in that Subaccount. These Units are used for accounting purposes to measure your Account Value in that Subaccount. The value of Subaccount Units is expected to fluctuate daily, as described in the definition of Unit Value.
 
Unit Value – The value of a Subaccount Unit (“Subaccount Unit Value”) or Subaccount Annuity Unit (“Subaccount Annuity Unit Value”). Unit Value of any Subaccount is subject to change on any Business Day in much the same way that the value of a mutual fund share changes each day. The fluctuations in value reflect the investment results, expenses of and charges against the Portfolio in which the Subaccount invests its assets. Fluctuations also reflect charges against the Separate Account. Changes in Subaccount Annuity Unit Values also reflect an additional factor that adjusts Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to offset our Annuity Option Table’s implicit assumption of an annual investment return of 5%. The effect of this assumed investment return is explained in detail in the SAI. Unit Value of a Subaccount Unit or Subaccount Annuity Unit on any Business Day is measured as of the close of the New York Stock Exchange on that Business Day, which usually closes at 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, although it occasionally closes earlier.
 
Variable Account Value – The aggregate amount of your Contract Value allocated to all Subaccounts.
 
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CONTENTS OF THE STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
     
PERFORMANCE
   
Total Returns
   
Yields
   
Performance Comparisons and Benchmarks
   
Power of Tax Deferral
   
DISTRIBUTION OF THE CONTRACTS
   
Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD)
   
THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
   
Calculating Subaccount Unit Values
   
Variable Annuity Payment Amounts
   
Redemptions of Remaining Guaranteed Variable Payments Under Option 2
   
Corresponding Dates
   
Age and Sex of Annuitant
   
Systematic Transfer Programs
   
Pre-Authorized Withdrawals
   
Joint Annuitants on Qualified Contracts
   
More on Federal Tax Issues
   
Safekeeping of Assets
   
OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS
   
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single)
   
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Joint)
   
Automatic Income Builder Rider
   
Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single)
   
Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Joint)
   
Foundation 10 Rider
   
Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider
   
Income Access Plus Rider
   
Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5) Rider
   
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II) Rider
   
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
   
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM AND INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
   
APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
   
APPENDIX B: AUTOMATIC INCOME BUILDER RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
   
APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
   
APPENDIX D: FOUNDATION 10 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
   
APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS AND INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
   
     
     
 
         
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Post Office Box 2378
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APPENDIX A:
 
COREINCOME ADVANTAGE 5 RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Rider purchased at Contract issue by a 64-year old.
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of contract Year 2.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $10,350   $207,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment).
 
An automatic reset takes place at the beginning of Contract Year 2, since the Contract Value ($207,000) is higher than the Protected Payment Base ($200,000). This resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $207,000 and the Protected Payment Amount to $10,350 (5% × $207,000). Also, the Protected Payment Amount will now be paid for life.
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.


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Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $10,350   $207,000
Activity
      $5,000   $216,490   $207,000   $5,350   $202,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $216,490   $207,000   $10,350   $202,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $216,490   $216,490   $10,825   $216,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,350):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $202,000 ($207,000 – $5,000) and the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $5,350 ($10,350 -$5,000).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,825 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $10,350   $207,000
Activity
      $25,000   $196,490   $192,655   $0   $182,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $196,490   $192,655   $9,633   $182,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $196,490   $196,490   $9,825   $196,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $25,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($25,000 > $10,350), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $207,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $207,000


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  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,350 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $207,000 = $10,350)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $25,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,350 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $14,650 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $25,000 – $10,350 = $14,650).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $196,490 after the withdrawal plus the $25,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 6.93% ($14,650 ¸ ($221,490 – $10,350); $14,650 ¸ $211,140 = 0.0693 or 6.93%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $192,655 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $207,000 × (1-6.93%); $207,000 × 93.07% = $192,655).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $183,022 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($207,000 – $10,350) × (1-6.93%); $196,650 × 93.07% = $183,022).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $182,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $207,000 – $25,000 = $182,000).
 
Therefore, since $182,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $183,022 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $182,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $192,655 = $9,633), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($25,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006               $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006           $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,910   $0   $88,309
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,910 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,309.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375


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  •  Protected Payment Amount = $1,250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $1,250. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.09% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0309 or 3.09%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,910 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.09%); $100,000 × 96.91% = $96,910).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,309 ((Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $1,250) × (1-3.09%); $91,125 × 96.91% = $88,309).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,309 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,309.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.


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            Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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APPENDIX B:
 
COREPROTECT ADVANTAGE RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s Age = 65 on the Contract Date
 
                                 
                Annual
  Highest
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
    Purchase
      Contract Value
  Credit
  Anniversary
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
    Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Value   Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
Rider Effective Date
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Annual Credit Value = $100,000
  •  Highest Anniversary Value = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s Age = 65 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Each Contract Anniversary referenced in the table represents the first day of the applicable Contract Year.
 
                                 
                Annual
  Highest
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
    Purchase
      Contract Value
  Credit
  Anniversary
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
    Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Value   Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
Rider Effective Date
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
Year 2 Contract Anniversary
          $208,000   $210,000   $208,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Annual Credit Value, Highest Anniversary Value, Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there were no withdrawals during that Contract Year).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to Year 2 Contract Anniversary, an annual credit of $10,000 (5% of total Purchase Payments) is applied to the Annual Credit Value on that Contract Anniversary, increasing it to $210,000. On Year 2 Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are reset to $210,000, which is the greater of Annual Credit Value or Highest Anniversary Value. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $10,500 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).


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In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s Age = 65 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Years 2 and 4.
  •  Each Contract Anniversary referenced in the table represents the first day of the applicable Contract Year.
 
                                 
                Annual
  Highest
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
    Purchase
      Contract Value
  Credit
  Anniversary
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
    Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Value   Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
Rider Effective Date
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
Year 2 Contract Anniversary
          $208,000   $210,000   $208,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
Activity
      $10,500   $205,000           $210,000   $0   $199,500
Year 3 Contract Anniversary
          $205,000   NA   NA   $210,000   $10,500   $199,500
Year 4 Contract Anniversary
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $215,000   NA   NA   $210,000   $10,500   $199,500
Year 4 Contract Anniversary
  (After to Automatic Reset)       $215,000   NA   NA   $215,000   $10,750   $215,000
Activity
      $10,750   $212,000           $215,000   $0   $204,250
Year 5 Contract Anniversary
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $217,000   NA   NA   $215,000   $10,750   $204,250
Year 5 Contract Anniversary
  (After to Automatic Reset)       $217,000   NA   NA   $217,000   $10,850   $217,000
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged;
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $199,500 ($210,000 – $10,500); and
  •  since a withdrawal occurred, the Annual Credit Value and Highest Anniversary Value are no longer applicable.
 
Because at Year 4 Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Year 4 Contract Anniversary – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Year 4 Contract Anniversary – After Automatic Reset). The Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,750 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 4 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,750):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $204,250 ($215,000 – $10,750).
 
Because at Year 5 Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Year 5 Contract Anniversary – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Year 5 Contract Anniversary – After Automatic Reset). The Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,850 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).


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Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s Age = 65 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Each Contract Anniversary referenced in the table represents the first day of the applicable Contract Year.
 
                                 
                Annual
  Highest
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
    Purchase
      Contract Value
  Credit
  Anniversary
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
    Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Value   Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
Rider Effective Date
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
Year 2 Contract Anniversary
          $208,000   $210,000   $208,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
Activity
      $20,000   $195,000           $200,235   $0   $190,000
Year 3 Contract Anniversary
          $195,000   NA   NA   $200,235   $10,011   $190,000
Year 4 Contract Anniversary
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $215,000   NA   NA   $200,235   $10,011   $190,000
Year 4 Contract Anniversary
  (After to Automatic Reset)       $215,000   NA   NA   $215,000   $10,750   $215,000
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $20,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($20,000 > $10,500), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced. Since a withdrawal occurred, the Annual Credit Value and Highest Anniversary Value are no longer applicable.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $215,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $210,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $210,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,500 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $210,000 = $10,500)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $20,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,500 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $9,500 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $20,000 – $10,500 = $9,500).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $215,000, which equals the $195,000 after the withdrawal plus the $20,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 4.65% ($9,500 ¸ ($215,000 – $10,500); $9,500 ¸ $204,500 = 0.0465 or 4.65%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $200,235 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $210,000 × (1-4.65%); $210,000 × 95.35% = $200,235).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $190,223 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($210,000 – $10,500) × (1-4.65%); $199,500 × 95.35% = $190,223).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $190,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $210,000 – $20,000 = $190,000).


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Therefore, since $190,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $190,223 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $190,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $200,235 = $10,011), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($20,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at Year 4 Contract Anniversary, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Year 4 Contract Anniversary – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Year 4 Contract Anniversary – After Automatic Reset). The Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,750 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.
 
This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
              $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 


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On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount − Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 − $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value − Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 − $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 ((Remaining Protected Balance − Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 − $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance − total withdrawal amount; $92,375 − $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.
 


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            Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1, no annual credit will be applied. Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.

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APPENDIX C:
 
COREINCOME ADVANTAGE RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 4% of Protected Payment Base = $4,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Rider purchased at Contract issue by a 64-year old.
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of contract Year 2.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $8,280   $207,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $8,000 (4% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment).
 
An automatic reset takes place at the beginning of Contract Year 2, since the Contract Value ($207,000) is higher than the Protected Payment Base ($200,000). This resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $207,000 and the Protected Payment Amount to $8,280 (4% × $207,000). Also, the Protected Payment Amount will now be paid for life.
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.


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Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $8,280   $207,000
Activity
      $5,000   $216,490   $207,000   $3,280   $202,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $216,490   $207,000   $8,280   $202,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $216,490   $216,490   $8,660   $216,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($8,280):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $202,000 ($207,000 – $5,000) and the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $3,280 ($8,280 -$5,000).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $8,660 (4% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Reset)       $207,000   $207,000   $8,280   $207,000
Activity
      $25,000   $196,490   $190,750   $0   $182,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $196,490   $190,750   $7,630   $182,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $196,490   $196,490   $7,860   $196,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $25,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($25,000 > $8,280), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $207,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $207,000


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  •  Protected Payment Amount = $8,280 (4% × Protected Payment Base; 4% × $207,000 = $8,280)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $25,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $8,280 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $16,720 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $25,000 – $8,280 = $16,720).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $196,490 after the withdrawal plus the $25,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 7.85% ($16,720 ¸ ($221,490 – $8,280); $16,720 ¸ $213,210 = 0.0785 or 7.85%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $190,750 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $207,000 × (1-7.85%); $207,000 × 92.15% = $190,750).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $183,120 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($207,000 – $8,280) × (1-7.85%); $198,720 × 92.15% = $183,120).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $182,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $207,000 – $25,000 = $182,000).
 
Therefore, since $182,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $183,120 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $182,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (4% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (4% of $190,750 = $7,630), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($25,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006               $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $2,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $4,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $2,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $4,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006           $0   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $2,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $4,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $2,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $95,820   $0   $88,274
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $4,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (4% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($4,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $95,820 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,274.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375


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  •  Protected Payment Amount = $250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $250. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $3,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $250 = $3,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 4.18% ($3,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $250); $3,750 ¸ $89,750 = 0.0418 or 4.18%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $95,820 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-4.18%); $100,000 × 95.82% = $95,820).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,274 ((Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $250) × (1-4.18%); $92,125 × 95.82% = $88,274).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,274 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,274.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 4% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.


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            Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $4,000   $96,489   $100,000   $4,000   $96,000
2
  $4,000   $94,384   $100,000   $4,000   $92,000
3
  $4,000   $92,215   $100,000   $4,000   $88,000
4
  $4,000   $89,982   $100,000   $4,000   $84,000
5
  $4,000   $87,681   $100,000   $4,000   $80,000
6
  $4,000   $85,311   $100,000   $4,000   $76,000
7
  $4,000   $82,871   $100,000   $4,000   $72,000
8
  $4,000   $80,357   $100,000   $4,000   $68,000
9
  $4,000   $77,768   $100,000   $4,000   $64,000
10
  $4,000   $75,101   $100,000   $4,000   $60,000
11
  $4,000   $72,354   $100,000   $4,000   $56,000
12
  $4,000   $69,524   $100,000   $4,000   $52,000
13
  $4,000   $66,610   $100,000   $4,000   $48,000
14
  $4,000   $63,608   $100,000   $4,000   $44,000
15
  $4,000   $60,517   $100,000   $4,000   $40,000
16
  $4,000   $57,332   $100,000   $4,000   $36,000
17
  $4,000   $54,052   $100,000   $4,000   $32,000
18
  $4,000   $50,674   $100,000   $4,000   $28,000
19
  $4,000   $47,194   $100,000   $4,000   $24,000
20
  $4,000   $43,610   $100,000   $4,000   $20,000
21
  $4,000   $39,918   $100,000   $4,000   $16,000
22
  $4,000   $36,115   $100,000   $4,000   $12,000
23
  $4,000   $32,199   $100,000   $4,000   $8,000
24
  $4,000   $28,165   $100,000   $4,000   $4,000
25
  $4,000   $24,010   $100,000   $4,000   $0
26
  $4,000   $19,730   $100,000   $4,000   $0
27
  $4,000   $15,322   $100,000   $4,000   $0
28
  $4,000   $10,782   $100,000   $4,000   $0
29
  $4,000   $6,105   $100,000   $4,000   $0
30
  $4,000   $1,288   $100,000   $4,000   $0
31
  $4,000   $0   $100,000   $4,000   $0
32
  $4,000   $0   $100,000   $4,000   $0
33
  $4,000   $0   $100,000   $4,000   $0
34
  $4,000   $0   $100,000   $4,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 4% of Protected Payment Base = $4,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($4,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 4% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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APPENDIX D:
 
INCOME ACCESS RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 7% of Protected Payment Base = $7,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $20,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
Activity
  $20,000       $122,000   $120,000   $7,000   $120,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Step-Up)       $122,000   $120,000   $8,400   $120,000
2
  (After Automatic Step-Up)       $122,000   $122,000   $8,540   $122,000
 
 
Immediately after the $20,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $120,000 ($100,000 + $20,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment remains at $7,000 until the Protected Payment Amount is determined at the Beginning of Contract Year 2.
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 2 – Prior to Automatic Step-Up), an Automatic Step-Up occurred which changes the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at the Beginning of Contract Year 2 – After Automatic Step-Up). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $8,540 (7% of the Stepped-Up Protected Payment Base).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.


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Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $20,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  Automatic Step-Up at the Beginning of Contract Year 2.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
Activity
  $20,000       $122,000   $120,000   $7,000   $120,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Step-Up)       $122,000   $120,000   $8,400   $120,000
2
  (After Automatic Step-Up)       $122,000   $122,000   $8,540   $122,000
Activity
      $8,540   $116,000   $122,000   $8,540   $113,460
3
          $116,000   $122,000   $8,540   $113,460
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($8,540):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $113,460 ($122,000 – $8,540).
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Step-Up at Beginning of Contract Year 2 and 4.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $7,000   $200,000
2
  (Prior to Automatic Step-Up)       $207,000   $200,000   $14,000   $200,000
2
  (After Automatic Step-Up)       $207,000   $207,000   $14,490   $207,000
Activity
      $15,000   $206,490   $206,503   $14,490   $192,000
3
          $206,490   $206,503   $14,455   $192,000
4
  (Prior to Automatic Step-Up)       $220,944   $206,503   $14,455   $192,000
4
  (After Automatic Step-Up)       $220,944   $220,944   $15,466   $220,944
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $15,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($15,000 > $14,490), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $207,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $207,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $14,490 (7% × Protected Payment Base; 7% × $207,000 = $14,490)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal


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A withdrawal of $15,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $14,490 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $510 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $15,000 – $14,490 = $510).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $206,490 after the withdrawal plus the $15,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 0.24% ($510 ¸ ($221,490 – $14,490); $510 ¸ $207,000 = 0.0024 or 0.24%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $206,503 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $207,000 × (1-0.24%); $207,000 × 99.76% = $206,503).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $192,047 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($207,000 – $14,490) × (1-0.24%); $192,510 × 99.76% = $192,047).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $192,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $207,000 – $15,000 = $192,000).
 
Therefore, since $192,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $192,047 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $192,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $14,490, but at the Beginning on Contract Year 3, it is adjusted to $14,455 (7% of the Protected Payment Base (7% of $206,503 = $14,455).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Step-Up), an automatic step-up occurred which step-ups the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Step-Up).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $98,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $98,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $7,000   $90,500
05/01/2008
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $90,500
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $7,000   $96,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $7,000   $96,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $7,000   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $99,140   $7,000   $88,358
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $7,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (7% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($7,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $99,140 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,358.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375
  •  Protected Payment Amount less withdrawals already taken = $7,000 – $3,750 = $3,250


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A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount less withdrawals already taken. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount less withdrawals already taken; $4,000 – ($7,000 – $3,750) = $750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 0.86% ($750 ¸ ($90,000 – $3,250); $750 ¸ $86,750 = 0.0086 or 0.86%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $99,140 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-0.86%); $100,000 × 99.14% = $99,140).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,358 (Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $3,250) × (1-0.86%); $89,125 × 99.14% = $88,358).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,358 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,358.


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APPENDIX E:
 
GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 3 (GPA 3) AND GUARANTEED PROTECTION ADVANTAGE 5 (GPA 5) RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. They have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments and withdrawals made from the Contract Prior to the end of a 10-Year Term effect the values and benefits under this Rider. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $20,000 is received in Contract Year 1 and $10,000 is received in Contract Year 4.
  •  A withdrawal of $10,000 is taken during Contract Year 7.
 
                     
Beginning
  Purchase
          Guaranteed
  Amount
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  Contract
  Protection
  added to the
Year   Received   Amount   Value   Amount   Contract Value
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000    
Activity
  $20,000       $118,119   $120,000    
2
          $117,374   $120,000    
3
          $114,439   $120,000    
4
          $111,578   $120,000    
Activity
  $10,000       $119,480   $120,000    
5
          $118,726   $120,000    
6
          $124,662   $120,000    
Step-Up
(New 10-
Year Term
Begins)
          $124,662   $124,662    
7
          $121,546   $124,662    
Activity
      $10,000   $109,259   $114,209    
8
          $108,570   $114,209    
9
          $105,856   $114,209    
10
          $103,209   $114,209    
11
          $100,629   $114,209    
12
          $98,114   $114,209    
13
          $95,661   $114,209    
14
          $93,269   $114,209    
15
          $90,937   $114,209    
Values at
End of
15th Year
          $88,664
$114,209
  $114,209
$0
 
$25,545
 
 
The Guaranteed Protection Amount is equal to (a) + (b) − (c) as indicated below:
 
  (a)  is the Contract Value at the start of the Term,
  (b)  is the amount of each subsequent Purchase Payment received during the first year of the Term, and
  (c)  is a pro rata adjustment for withdrawals made from the Contract during the Term. The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charges, premium taxes, and/or other taxes, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Guaranteed Protected Amount = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000 ($100,000 + 0 − 0 = $100,000)
 
During Contract Year 1, an additional Purchase Payment of $20,000 was made. Since this Purchase Payment was made during the first Contract Year, the Guaranteed Protection Amount will be increased by $20,000 to $120,000. ($100,000 + $20,000 – 0 = $120,000)


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During Contract Year 4, an additional Purchase Payment of $10,000 was made. However, this Purchase Payment will not increase the Guaranteed Protection Amount because it was not made during the first Contract Year (or first year of the 10-Year Term).
 
On the 6th Contract Anniversary, there was an optional Step-Up elected. The Step-Up will reset the Guaranteed Protection Amount equal to the Contract Value ($124,662) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
During Contract Year 7, a withdrawal of $10,000 was made. This withdrawal will reduce the Guaranteed Protection Amount on a pro rata basis and will result in a new Guaranteed Protection Amount. The pro rata adjustment is $10,453 and was determined by calculating the ratio of the withdrawal to the Contract Value immediately before the withdrawal ($10,000/$119,259 = 0.08385) multiplied by the Guaranteed Protection Amount prior to the withdrawal ($124,662*0.08385 = $10,453). The new Guaranteed Protection Amount (a) + (b) − (c) = $114,209 ($124,662 + 0 − $10,453 = 114,209).
 
At the end of Contract Year 15 (end of the 10-Year Term) the Contract Value ($88,664) is less than the Guaranteed Protection Amount ($114,209). Therefore, $25,545 ($114,209 − $88,664 = $25,545) is added to the Contract Value and the Rider terminates.


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APPENDIX F:
 
GUARANTEED INCOME ADVANTAGE PLUS RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. They have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by the Guaranteed Income Advantage Plus (“GIA Plus”) Rider, and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – The initial values on the Rider Effective Date based on an Initial Purchase Payment of $100,000. The Initial Purchase Payment is assumed to be the Contract Value if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
                                 
                                Remaining
            Contract
              GIA Plus
  Dollar
Beginning
  Purchase
      Value
  Guaranteed
  GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
  Amount of
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  after
  Income
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
  Prior Year’s
Year   Received   Amount   Activity   Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)   GWA
 
1   $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   N/A
 
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payment received during the first Contract Year and its effect on the values and balances under this Rider. This example assumes that no withdrawals have been made.
 
                                 
                                Remaining
            Contract
              GIA Plus
  Dollar
Beginning
  Purchase
      Value
  Guaranteed
  GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
  Amount of
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  after
  Income
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
  Prior Year’s
Year   Received   Amount   Activity   Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)   GWA
 
1   $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   N/A
Activity
  $100,000       $200,742   $201,237   $200,000            
2
          $205,242   $208,717   $205,242   $200,000   $10,000   $5,000
 
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during a Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
The Guaranteed Income Base prior to receipt of the Purchase Payment is assumed to have accumulated to $101,237. This amount is derived by multiplying each day’s Guaranteed Income Base by the daily factor of 1.000133680. As a result of the subsequent Purchase Payment, the Guaranteed Income Base is increased to $201,237 ($101,237 + $100,000). The Guaranteed Income Base will assume to accumulate to $208,717 at the next Contract Anniversary, by multiplying each day’s Guaranteed Income Base immediately after receipt of the subsequent Purchase Payment by the daily factor of 1.000133680.
 
The GIA Plus Step-Up Value prior to receipt of the Purchase Payment is $100,000. As a result of the subsequent Purchase Payment, the GIA Plus Step-Up Value is increased to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). On the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, the Contract Value ($205,242) is greater than the GIA Plus Step-Up Value immediately prior to that Contract Anniversary ($200,000). As a result, the GIA Plus Step-Up Value as of that Contract Anniversary is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary ($205,242).
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2 is equal to the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on the Rider Effective Date ($100,000) plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date ($100,000). As a result of the subsequent Purchase Payment, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2 is equal to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000).
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2 is determined on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, and is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on that Contract Anniversary (5% of $200,000). As a result of the subsequent Purchase Payment, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2 is equal to $10,000.
 
Since no withdrawals were made during Contract Year 1, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 1 ($5,000) becomes the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2.
 
Example #3 – Cumulative withdrawals during Contract Year 2 exceeding the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2; and (b) the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2. The withdrawal is assumed to result in a 10% reduction in the Contract Value.


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                                  Remaining
 
            Contract
              GIA Plus
    Dollar
 
Beginning
  Purchase
      Value
  Guaranteed
  GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
    Amount of
 
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  after
  Income
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
    Prior Year’s
 
Year   Received   Amount   Activity   Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)     GWA  
 
 
1   $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000     $5,000       N/A   
Activity
  $100,000       $200,742   $201,237   $200,000                    
2
          $205,242   $208,717   $205,242   $200,000     $10,000       $5,000  
Activity
      $20,830   $187,468   $192,471   $184,717         -$15,830
= $0
      -$5,000
= $0
 
3
          $190,259   $197,237   $190,259   $200,000     $10,000       $0  
 
 
Since the $20,830 withdrawal exceeded the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2; and (b) the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract’s Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 2, the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3 is zero. Withdrawals are first applied to the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount, if any, until exhausted, then to the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for the current Contract Year, until exhausted.
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3 is determined on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 3, and is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on that Contract Anniversary (5% of $200,000). As a result, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3 is equal to $10,000. The GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for any Contract Year will not be less than zero.
 
Immediately after the withdrawal, the Guaranteed Income Base and the GIA Plus Step-Up Value are reduced by the percentage decrease (10%) in Contract Value as a result of the withdrawal.
 
Since no subsequent Purchase Payments were received during Contract Year 2, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base at the beginning of Contract Year 3 remains unchanged.
 
Example #4 – Cumulative withdrawals during Contract Year 3 not exceeding the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3; and (b) the remaining dollar value of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3.
 
                                         
 
                                  Remaining
 
            Contract
              GIA Plus
    Dollar
 
Beginning
  Purchase
      Value
  Guaranteed
  GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
    Amount of
 
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  after
  Income
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
    Prior Year’s
 
Year   Received   Amount   Activity   Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)     GWA  
 
 
1   $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000     $5,000       N/A   
Activity
  $100,000       $200,742   $201,237   $200,000                    
2
          $205,242   $208,717   $205,242   $200,000     $10,000       $5,000  
Activity
      $20,830   $187,468   $192,471   $184,717         -$15,830
= $0
      -$5,000
= $0
 
3
          $190,259   $197,237   $190,259   $200,000     $10,000       $0  
Activity
      $8,000   $185,092   $193,743   $182,376          -$8,000
= $2,000
       -$0
= $0
 
4
          $187,848   $199,099   $187,848   $200,000     $10,000       $2,000  
 
 
Because cumulative withdrawals for Contract Year 3 did not exceed the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3; and (b) the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3, the Guaranteed Income Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4 is calculated as follows:
 
Guaranteed Income Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 3:
$197,237
 
Increased at an annual rate of 5% to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4:
+ $9,862
 
Reduced by the amount equal to the amount withdrawn in Contract Year 3:
− $8,000
 
Guaranteed Income Base on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4:
$199,099


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Since no subsequent Purchase Payments were received during Contract Year 3, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base at the beginning of Contract Year 4 remains unchanged.
 
The GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 4 is determined on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4, and is equal to 5% of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Base on that Contract Anniversary (5% of $200,000). As a result, the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 4 is equal to $10,000.
 
Because cumulative withdrawals for Contract Year 3 did not exceed the sum of: (a) the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3; and (b) the remaining dollar value of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 3; the dollar amount of the GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contact Year 3 remaining ($2,000) becomes the remaining dollar amount of the prior Contract Year’s GIA Plus Withdrawal Amount for Contract Year 4.
 
Example #5 – Rider values on each Contract Anniversary based on an Initial Purchase Payment of $100,000 paid on the Contract Date. The values further assume that no subsequent Purchase Payments are received and no withdrawals are taken during the first ten (10) Contract Years after the Rider Effective Date. The Initial Purchase Payment is assumed to be the Contract Value if the Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary.
 
                         
                    GIA Plus
   
Beginning
          GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
  Remaining Dollar
of Contract
  Contract Value
  Guaranteed
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
  Amount of
Year   after Activity   Income Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)   Prior Year’s GWA
 
1
  $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   N/A
2
  $103,000   $105,000   $103,000   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
3
  $106,090   $110,250   $106,090   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
4
  $109,273   $115,763   $109,273   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
5
  $112,551   $121,551   $112,551   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
6
  $115,927   $127,628   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
7
  $112,450   $134,010   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
8
  $109,076   $140,710   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
9
  $105,804   $147,746   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
10
  $102,630   $155,133   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
11
  $99,551   $162,889   $115,927   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
 
 
Example #6 – Rider values on each Contract Anniversary based on an Initial Purchase Payment of $100,000 paid on the Contract Date. The values further assume that no subsequent Purchase Payments are received and withdrawals of $5,000 are taken each Contract Year for the first ten (10) Contract Years after the Rider Effective Date. The Initial Purchase Payment is assumed to be the Contract Value if the Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary.
 
                         
                    GIA Plus
   
Beginning
          GIA Plus
  GIA Plus
  Withdrawal
  Remaining Dollar
of Contract
  Contract Value
  Guaranteed
  Step-Up
  Withdrawal
  Amt. (GWA)
  Amount of
Year   after Activity   Income Base (GIB)   Value   Base (GWB)   (5% of GWB)   Prior Year’s GWA
 
1
  $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $100,000   $5,000   N/A
2
  $97,926   $100,000   $97,926   $100,000   $5,000   $0
3
  $95,789   $100,000   $95,789   $100,000   $5,000   $0
4
  $93,588   $100,000   $93,588   $100,000   $5,000   $0
5
  $91,321   $100,000   $91,321   $100,000   $5,000   $0
6
  $88,986   $100,000   $88,986   $100,000   $5,000   $0
7
  $81,392   $100,000   $83,910   $100,000   $5,000   $0
8
  $74,026   $100,000   $78,676   $100,000   $5,000   $0
9
  $66,881   $100,000   $73,280   $100,000   $5,000   $0
10
  $59,950   $100,000   $67,718   $100,000   $5,000   $0
11
  $53,227   $100,000   $61,983   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
Should the Contract annuitize immediately after the Rider has been in effect for at least ten (10) years and the GIA Plus Annuity Option has been elected to provide such payments, the net amount applied on the Annuity Date as a single premium to provide the payments is equal to the greater of:
 
  (a)  the Guaranteed Income Base; or
 
  (b)  the GIA Plus Step-Up Value; less any:
 
  (c)  applicable withdrawal charges resulting from the conversion to the GIA Plus Annuity Option;


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  (d)  applicable annual charges for expenses related to other optional benefit riders attached to the Contract that are in effect as of the Annuity Date; and
 
  (e)  charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes.
 
Under Example #5, the net amount applied on the Annuity Date (the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 11) is equal to the Guaranteed Income Base ($162,889), as it is greater than the GIA Plus Step-Up Value ($115,927) as of the Annuity Date, less the amounts in (c), (d) and (e) above, if any.
 
Under Example #6, the net amount applied on the Annuity Date (the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 11) is equal to the Guaranteed Income Base ($100,000), as it is greater than the GIA Plus Step-Up Value ($61,983) as of the Annuity Date, less the amounts in (c), (d) and (e) above, if any.


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APPENDIX G:
 
DEATH BENEFIT AMOUNT AND STEPPED-UP DEATH BENEFIT RIDER (SDBR) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. They have been provided to assist in understanding the death benefit amount under the Contract and the optional Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments and withdrawals made from the Contract may effect the values and benefits. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to reflect what your actual death benefit proceeds will be or serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Death Benefit Amount
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $25,000 is received in Contract Year 3.
  •  A withdrawal of $35,000 is taken during Contract Year 6.
  •  A withdrawal of $10,000 is taken during Contract Year 11.
 
                 
Beginning
  Purchase
          Return of
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
      Purchase
Year   Received   Amount   Contract Value1   Payments1
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $100,000
3
          $106,090   $100,000
Activity
  $25,000       $133,468   $125,000
4
          $134,458   $125,000
5
          $138,492   $125,000
6
          $142,647   $125,000
Activity
      $35,000   $110,844   $95,000
7
          $111,666   $95,000
8
          $103,850   $95,000
9
          $96,580   $95,000
10           $89,820   $95,000
11
      $10,000   $73,530   $83,629
12
          $68,383   $83,629
13
          $63,596   $83,629
14
Death
Occurs
          $59,144   $83,629
 
1  The greater of the Contract Value or the adjusted Return of Purchase Payments represents the Death Benefit Amount.
 
On the Rider effective date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Return of Purchase Payment = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Contract Value = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
 
During Contract Year 3, an additional Purchase Payment of $25,000 was made. The Return of Purchase Payment amount increased to $125,000. The Contract Value increased to $133,468.
 
During Contract Year 6, a withdrawal of $35,000 was made. This withdrawal reduced the Return of Purchase Payment amount on a pro rata basis to $95,000 and decreased the Contract Value to $110,844. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is calculated as follows:
 
First, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the withdrawal amount divided by the Contract Value prior to the withdrawal ($145,844, which equals the $110,844 Contract Value after the withdrawal plus the $35,000 withdrawal amount). Numerically, the ratio is 24.00% ($35,000 ¸ $145,844 = 0.2400 or 24.00%).
 
Second, determine the new Return of Purchase Payment amount. The Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is $95,000 (Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal × (1-ratio); $125,000 × (1-24.00%); $125,000 × 76.00% = $95,000).


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During Contract Year 11, a withdrawal of $10,000 was made. This withdrawal reduced the Return of Purchase Payment amount on a pro rata basis to $83,629 and decreased the Contract Value to $73,530. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is calculated as follows:
 
First, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the withdrawal amount divided by the Contract Value prior to the withdrawal ($83,530, which equals the $73,530 Contract Value after the withdrawal plus the $10,000 withdrawal amount). Numerically, the ratio is 11.97% ($10,000 ¸ $83,530 = 0.1197 or 11.97%).
 
Second, determine the new Return of Purchase Payment amount. The Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is $83,629 (Return of Purchase Payment prior to the withdrawal × (1-ratio); $95,000 × (1-11.97%); $95,000 × 88.03% = $83,629).
 
During Contract Year 14, death occurs. The Death Benefit Amount will be the Return of Purchase Payments reduced by an amount for each withdrawal ($83,629) because that amount is greater than the Contract Value ($59,144).
 
Using the table above, if death occurred in Contract Year 7, the Death Benefit Amount would be the Contract Value ($111,666) because that amount is greater than the Return of Purchase Payment (reduced by an amount for withdrawals) of $95,000.
 
Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $25,000 is received in Contract Year 3.
  •  A withdrawal of $35,000 is taken during Contract Year 6.
  •  Annual Step-Ups occur on each of the first seven Contract Anniversaries.
 
                     
                    Guaranteed
                    Minimum
Beginning
  Purchase
          Return of
  (Stepped-Up)
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  Contract
  Purchase
  Death Benefit
Year   Received   Amount   Value1   Payments1   Amount
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $100,000   $103,000
3
          $106,090   $100,000   $106,090
Activity
  $25,000       $133,468   $125,000   $131,090
4
          $134,458   $125,000   $134,458
5
          $138,492   $125,000   $138,492
6
          $142,647   $125,000   $142,647
Activity
      $35,000   $110,844   $95,000   $108,412
7
          $111,666   $95,000   $111,666
8
          $103,850   $95,000   $111,666
9
          $96,580   $95,000   $111,666
Death
Occurs
          $89,820   $95,000   $111,666
 
1  The greater of the Contract Value or the adjusted Return of Purchase Payments represents the Death Benefit Amount.
 
On the Rider effective date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Return of Purchase Payment = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Contract Value = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
 
During Contract Year 3, an additional Purchase Payment of $25,000 was made. This results in an increase in the Return of Purchase Payment amount to $125,000. The Contract Value increased to $133,468 and the Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount increased to $131,090.
 
During Contract Year 6, a withdrawal of $35,000 was made. This withdrawal reduced the Return of Purchase Payment amount on a pro rata basis to $95,000 and decreased the Contract Value to $110,844. In addition, the Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount was reduced on a pro rata basis to $108,412. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment and Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount is calculated as follows:
 
First, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the withdrawal amount divided by the Contract Value prior to the withdrawal ($145,844, which equals the $110,844 Contract Value after the withdrawal plus the $35,000 withdrawal amount). Numerically, the ratio is 24.00% ($35,000 ¸ $145,844 = 0.2400 or 24.00%)


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Second, determine the new Return of Purchase Payment amount. The Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Return of Purchase Payment amount is $95,000 (Return of Purchase Payment amount prior to the withdrawal × (1-ratio); $125,000 × (1-24.00%); $125,000 × 76.00% = $95,000).
 
Third, determine the new Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount. The Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount prior to the withdrawal is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount is $108,412 (Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount prior to the withdrawal × (1-ratio); $142,647 × (1-24.00%); $142,647 × 76.00% = $108,412).
 
During Contract Year 9, death occurs. The death benefit proceeds are the greater of the Death Benefit Amount (Contract Value or Return of Purchase Payments adjusted for withdrawals) or the Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount. The Death Benefit Amount is $95,000 because the Return of Purchase Payment Amount ($95,000) is greater than the Contract Value ($89,820). The death benefit proceeds are equal to the Guaranteed Minimum (Stepped-Up) Death Benefit Amount of $111,666 because it is greater than the Death Benefit Amount (Return of Purchase Payments of $95,000).


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APPENDIX H:
 
EARNINGS ENHANCEMENT GUARANTEE (EEG)
RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. They have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments and withdrawals effect the values and benefits under this Rider. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $20,000 is received during Contract Year 3.
  •  A withdrawal of $20,000 is taken during Contract Year 7.
  •  A withdrawal of $10,000 is taken during Contract Year 8.
 
                                 
                        Adjustment to
       
Beginning
  Purchase
              Remaining
  Remaining
       
of Contract
  Payments
  Withdrawal
  Contract
      Purchase
  Purchase
       
Year   Received   Amount   Value   Earnings1   Payments   Payments   40% EEG2   25% EEG3
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000     $0   $0
2
          $103,000   $3,000   $100,000     $1,200   $750
3
          $106,090   $6,090   $100,000     $2,436   $1,523
Activity
  $20,000       $128,468   $8,468   $120,000     $3,387   $2,117
4
          $129,421   $9,421   $120,000     $3,768   $2,355
5
          $133,304   $13,304   $120,000     $5,321   $3,326
6
          $137,303   $17,303   $120,000     $6,921   $4,326
7
          $141,422   $21,422   $120,000     $8,569   $5,355
Activity
      $20,000   $124,592   $4,592   $120,000     $1,837   $1,148
8
          $125,516   $5,516   $120,000     $2,206   $1,379
Activity
      $10,000   $118,330   $0   $118,330   $1,670   $0   $0
9
          $119,208   $878   $118,330     $351   $219
Death at
the
beginning
of year 10
          $126,360   $8,030   $118,330     $3,212   $2,008
 
 
1  For Rider purposes, Earnings are equal to the Contract Value less Remaining Purchase Payments.
 
2  40% EEG amount is applicable if the oldest Annuitant was age 69 or younger on the Rider Effective Date.
 
3  25% EEG amount is applicable if the oldest Annuitant was age 70 to 75 on the Rider Effective Date.
 
On the Rider effective date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Remaining Purchase Payments = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
 
During Contract Year 3, an additional Purchase Payment of $20,000 was made. As a result, the Remaining Purchase Payments increased to $120,000 ($100,000 + $20,000 = $120,000). The Contract Value increased to $128,468.
 
During Contract Year 7, a withdrawal of $20,000 was made. This will cause an adjustment to the Earnings amount on a dollar for dollar basis that results in a balance of $4,592. The $4,592 is the result of taking the Contract Value after the withdrawal less the Remaining Purchase Payments ($124,592 – $120,000 = $4,592). Since there are Earnings remaining after the withdrawal, there is no adjustment to the Remaining Purchase Payments.
 
During Contract Year 8, a withdrawal of $10,000 was made. Assuming the Earnings at the time of the withdrawal were $8,330, the withdrawal exceeds the Earnings. Since the $10,000 withdrawal exceeded the Earnings, an adjustment to the Remaining Purchase Payments will occur. The Remaining Purchase Payments will be reduced by $1,670 which is the difference between the amount of the withdrawal less the Earnings at the time of the withdrawal ($10,000 – $8,330 = $1,670). The Earnings will be reduced to zero.
 
During Contract Year 10 death occurs. The EEG amount added to the death benefit is based on the age of the oldest Annuitant on the Rider Effective Date and the lesser of the Earnings and Remaining Purchase Payments adjusted for withdrawals.


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Assuming the oldest Annuitant was 69 or younger on the Rider Effective Date, the EEG amount added to the death benefit would be $3,212. $3,212 represents 40% of the Earnings ($8,030 × 40% = $3,212) which is less than 40% of the Remaining Purchase Payments adjusted for withdrawals ($118,330 × 40% = $47,332).
 
Assuming the oldest Annuitant was 70 to 75 on the Rider Effective Date, the EEG amount added to the death benefit would be $2,008. $2,008 represents 25% of the Earnings ($8,030 × 25% = $2,008) which is less than 25% of the Remaining Purchase Payments adjusted for withdrawals ($118,330 × 25% = $29,583).


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PACIFIC INNOVATIONS   WHERE TO GO FOR MORE INFORMATION
 
     
The Pacific Innovations variable annuity Contract is offered by Pacific Life Insurance Company, 700 Newport Center Drive. P.O. Box 9000, Newport Beach, California 92660.

If you have any questions about the Contract, please ask your financial professional or contact us.
 
You will find more information about the Pacific Innovations variable annuity contract and Separate Account A in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI) dated May 1, 2010.

The SAI has been filed with the SEC and is considered to be part of this Prospectus because it is incorporated by reference. In this Prospectus, you will find the table of contents for the SAI on page 98.

You can get a copy of the SAI at no charge by calling or writing to us, or by contacting the SEC. The SEC may charge you a fee for this information.
     
     
How to Contact Us
 
Call or write to us at:
Pacific Life Insurance Company
P.O. Box 2378
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2378

Contract Owners: 1-800-722-4448
Financial Professionals: 1-800-722-2333
6 a.m. through 5 p.m. Pacific time

Send Purchase Payments, other payments and application forms to the following address:

By mail
Pacific Life Insurance Company
P.O. Box 2290
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2290

By overnight delivery service
Pacific Life Insurance Company1299 Farnam Street, 6th Floor, AMF
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
     
     
How to Contact the SEC
  Commission’s Public Reference Section
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
1-202-551-8090
Website: www.sec.gov
e-mail: publicinfo@sec.gov
     
     
FINRA Public Disclosure Program
  The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) provides investor protection education through its website and printed materials. The FINRA regulation website address is www.finra.org. An investor brochure that includes information describing the Public Disclosure program may be obtained from FINRA. The FINRA Public Disclosure hotline number is (800) 289-9999. FINRA does not charge a fee for the Public Disclosure program services.
     


 

 
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Pacific Life Insurance Company
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 2378
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2378
 
Visit us at our website: www.PacificLife.com
 
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STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
May 1, 2010
 
PACIFIC INNOVATIONS SELECT
 
SEPARATE ACCOUNT A
 
 
 
Pacific Innovations Select (the “Contract”) is a variable annuity contract offered by Pacific Life Insurance Company (“Pacific Life”).
 
This Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) is not a Prospectus and should be read in conjunction with the Contract’s Prospectus, dated May 1, 2010, and any supplement thereto, which is available without charge upon written or telephone request to Pacific Life. Terms used in this SAI have the same meanings as in the Prospectus, and some additional terms are defined particularly for this SAI. This SAI is incorporated by reference into the Contract’s Prospectus.
 
The Fixed Option is only available for Contracts issued before November 1, 2002. Accordingly, all references to the Fixed Option throughout this SAI are subject to these disclosures.
 
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company
Mailing address: P.O. Box 2378
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2378
 
(800) 722-4448 - Contract Owners
(800) 722-2333 - Financial Professionals


 

 
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PERFORMANCE
 
From time to time, our reports or other communications to current or prospective Contract Owners or our advertising or other promotional material may quote the performance (yield and total return) of a Subaccount. Quoted results are based on past performance and reflect the performance of all assets held in that Subaccount for the stated time period. Quoted results are neither an estimate nor a guarantee of future investment performance, and do not represent the actual experience of amounts invested by any particular Contract Owner.
 
Total Returns
 
A Subaccount may advertise its “average annual total return” over various periods of time. “Total return” represents the average percentage change in value of an investment in the Subaccount from the beginning of a measuring period to the end of that measuring period. “Annualized” total return assumes that the total return achieved for the measuring period is achieved for each full year period. “Average annual” total return is computed in accordance with a standard method prescribed by the SEC, and is also referred to as “standardized return.”
 
Average Annual Total Return
 
To calculate a Subaccount’s average annual total return for a specific measuring period, we first take a hypothetical $1,000 investment in that Subaccount, at its applicable Subaccount Unit Value (the “initial payment”) and we compute the ending redeemable value of that initial payment at the end of the measuring period based on the investment experience of that Subaccount (“full withdrawal value”). The full withdrawal value reflects the effect of all recurring fees and charges applicable to a Contract Owner under the Contract, including the Risk Charge, the asset-based Administrative Fee and the deduction of the applicable withdrawal charge, but does not reflect any charges for applicable premium taxes and/or any other taxes, any optional Rider charge, any non-recurring fees or charges, or any increase in the Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider. The Annual Fee is also taken into account, assuming an average Contract Value of $65,000. The redeemable value is then divided by the initial payment and this quotient is raised to the 365/N power (N represents the number of days in the measuring period), and 1 is subtracted from this result. Average annual total return is expressed as a percentage.
 
T = (ERV/P)(365/N) − 1
 
             
where
  T   =   average annual total return
    ERV   =   ending redeemable value
    P   =   hypothetical initial payment of $1,000
    N   =   number of days
 
Average annual total return figures will be given for recent 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year periods (if applicable), and may be given for other periods as well (such as from commencement of the Subaccount’s operations, or on a year-by-year basis).
 
When considering “average” total return figures for periods longer than one year, it is important to note that the relevant Subaccount’s annual total return for any one year in the period might have been greater or less than the average for the entire period.
 
Aggregate Total Return
 
A Subaccount may use “aggregate” total return figures along with its “average annual” total return figures for various periods; these figures represent the cumulative change in value of an investment in the Subaccount for a specific period. Aggregate total returns may be shown by means of schedules, charts or graphs and may indicate subtotals of the various components of total return. The SEC has not prescribed standard formulas for calculating aggregate total return.
 
Total returns may also be shown for the same periods that do not take into account the withdrawal charge or the Annual Fee.


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Non-Standardized Total Returns
 
We may also calculate non-standardized total returns which may or may not reflect any Annual Fee, withdrawal charges, increases in Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider, charges for premium taxes and/or any other taxes, any charge for an optional Rider, or any non-recurring fees or charges.
 
Standardized return figures will always accompany any non-standardized returns shown.
 
Yields
 
Cash Management Subaccount
 
The “yield” (also called “current yield”) of the Cash Management Subaccount is computed in accordance with a standard method prescribed by the SEC. The net change in the Subaccount’s Unit Value during a seven-day period is divided by the Unit Value at the beginning of the period to obtain a base rate of return. The current yield is generated when the base rate is “annualized” by multiplying it by the fraction 365/7; that is, the base rate of return is assumed to be generated each week over a 365-day period and is shown as a percentage of the investment. The “effective yield” of the Cash Management Subaccount is calculated similarly but, when annualized, the base rate of return is assumed to be reinvested. The effective yield will be slightly higher than the current yield because of the compounding effect of this assumed reinvestment.
 
The formula for effective yield is: [(Base Period Return + 1) (To the power of 365/7)] − 1.
 
Realized capital gains or losses and unrealized appreciation or depreciation of the assets of the underlying Cash Management Portfolio are not included in the yield calculation. Current yield and effective yield do not reflect the deduction of charges for any applicable premium taxes and/or any other taxes, any increase in the Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider, any charges for an optional Rider or any non-recurring fees or charges, but do reflect a deduction for the Annual Fee, the Risk Charge, and the asset-based Administrative Fee and assume an average Contract Value of $65,000.
 
Other Subaccounts
 
“Yield” of the other Subaccounts is computed in accordance with a different standard method prescribed by the SEC. The net investment income (investment income less expenses) per Subaccount Unit earned during a specified one-month or 30-day period is divided by the Subaccount Unit Value on the last day of the specified period. This result is then annualized (that is, the yield is assumed to be generated each month or each 30-day period for a year), according to the following formula, which assumes semi-annual compounding:
 
         
YIELD = 2[(
  a – b
cd
  + 1)6 − 1]
 
             
where:
  a   =   net investment income earned during the period by the Portfolio attributable to the Subaccount.
    b   =   expenses accrued for the period (net of reimbursements).
    c   =   the average daily number of Subaccount Units outstanding during the period that were entitled to receive dividends.
    d   =   the Unit Value of the Subaccount Units on the last day of the period.
 
The yield of each Subaccount reflects the deduction of all recurring fees and charges applicable to the Subaccount, such as the Risk Charge, the asset-based Administrative Fee and the Annual Fee (assuming an average Contract Value of $65,000), but does not reflect any withdrawal charge, charge for applicable premium taxes and/or any other taxes, increase in the Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider, any charges for an optional Rider, or any non-recurring fees or charges.
 
The Subaccounts’ yields will vary from time to time depending upon market conditions, the composition of each Portfolio and operating expenses of the Fund allocated to each Portfolio. Consequently, any given performance quotation should not be considered representative of the Subaccount’s performance in the future. Yield should also be considered relative to changes in Subaccount Unit Values and to the relative risks associated with the investment policies and objectives of the various Portfolios. In addition, because performance will fluctuate, it may not provide a


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basis for comparing the yield of a Subaccount with certain bank deposits or other investments that pay a fixed yield or return for a stated period of time.
 
Performance Comparisons and Benchmarks
 
In advertisements and sales literature, we may compare the performance of some or all of the Subaccounts to the performance of other variable annuity issuers in general and to the performance of particular types of variable annuities investing in mutual funds, or series of mutual funds, with investment objectives similar to each of the Subaccounts. This performance may be presented as averages or rankings compiled by Lipper Analytical Services, Inc. (“Lipper”), or Morningstar, Inc. (“Morningstar”), which are independent services that monitor and rank the performance of variable annuity issuers and mutual funds in each of the major categories of investment objectives on an industry-wide basis. Lipper’s rankings include variable life issuers as well as variable annuity issuers. The performance analyses prepared by Lipper and Morningstar rank such issuers on the basis of total return, assuming reinvestment of dividends and distributions, but do not take sales charges, redemption fees or certain expense deductions at the separate account level into consideration. In addition, Morningstar prepares risk adjusted rankings, which consider the effects of market risk on total return performance. We may also compare the performance of the Subaccounts with performance information included in other publications and services that monitor the performance of insurance company separate accounts or other investment vehicles. These other services or publications may be general interest business publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, and Money.
 
In addition, our reports and communications to Contract Owners, advertisements, or sales literature may compare a Subaccount’s performance to various benchmarks that measure the performance of a pertinent group of securities widely regarded by investors as being representative of the securities markets in general or as being representative of a particular type of security. We may also compare the performance of the Subaccounts with that of other appropriate indices of investment securities and averages for peer universes of funds or data developed by us derived from such indices or averages. Unmanaged indices generally assume the reinvestment of dividends or interest but do not generally reflect deductions for investment management or administrative costs and expenses.
 
Tax Deferred Accumulation
 
In reports or other communications to you or in advertising or sales materials, we may also describe the effects of tax-deferred compounding on the Separate Account’s investment returns or upon returns in general. These effects may be illustrated in charts or graphs and may include comparisons at various points in time of returns under the Contract or in general on a tax-deferred basis with the returns on a taxable basis. Different tax rates may be assumed.
 
In general, individuals who own annuity contracts are not taxed on increases in the value under the annuity contract until some form of distribution is made from the contract. Thus, the annuity contract will benefit from tax deferral during the accumulation period, which generally will have the effect of permitting an investment in an annuity contract to grow more rapidly than a comparable investment under which increases in value are taxed on a current basis. The following chart illustrates this benefit by comparing accumulation under a variable annuity contract with accumulations from an investment on which gains are taxed on a current ordinary income basis.
 
The chart shows accumulations on a single Purchase Payment of $10,000, assuming hypothetical annual returns of 0%, 4% and 8%, compounded annually, and a tax rate of 33%. The values shown for the taxable investment do not include any deduction for management fees or other expenses but assume that taxes are deducted annually from investment returns. The values shown for the variable annuity do not reflect the deduction of contractual expenses such as the Risk Charge (equal to an annual rate of 1.40% of average daily account value), the Administrative Fee (equal to an annual rate of 0.25% of average daily account value), the Annual Fee (equal to $30 per year if your Net Contract Value is less than $50,000), any increase in the Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider (equal to a maximum annual rate of 0.35% of average daily account value); other optional Rider charges (equal to a maximum annual rate of 1.75% of the Protected Payment Base), any charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes, any applicable withdrawal charge, or any underlying Fund expenses.
 
Generally, the withdrawal charge is equal to 7% of the amount withdrawn attributable to Purchase Payments that are less than one year old, 6% of the amount withdrawn attributable to Purchase Payments that are two years old, and 4% of the amount withdrawn attributable to Purchase Payments that are three years old. The age of a Purchase Payment is


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considered 1 year old in the Contract Year we receive it and increases by one year beginning on the day preceding each Contract Anniversary. There is no withdrawal charge on withdrawals of your Earnings, on amounts attributed to Purchase Payments at least four years old, or to the extent that total withdrawals that are free of charge during the Contract Year do not exceed 10% of the sum of your remaining Purchase Payments at the beginning of the Contract Year that have been held under your Contract for less than four years plus additional Purchase Payments applied to your Contract during that Contract Year. If these expenses and fees were taken into account, they would reduce the investment return shown for both the taxable investment and the hypothetical variable annuity contract. In addition, these values assume that you do not surrender the Contract or make any withdrawals until the end of the period shown. The chart assumes a full withdrawal, at the end of the period shown, of all Contract Value and the payment of taxes at the 33% rate on the amount in excess of the Purchase Payments.
 
The rates of return illustrated are hypothetical and are not an estimate or guarantee of performance. Actual tax rates may vary for different assets (e.g. capital gains and qualifying dividend income) and taxpayers from that illustrated. Withdrawals by and distributions to Contract Owners who have not reached age 591/2 may be subject to a tax penalty of 10%.
 
Power of Tax Deferral
 
$10,000 investment at annual rates of return of 0%, 4% and 8%, taxed @ 33%
 
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DISTRIBUTION OF THE CONTRACTS
 
Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD)
 
Pacific Select Distributors, Inc., our subsidiary, acts as the distributor of the Contracts and offers the Contracts on a continuous basis. PSD is located at 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California 92660. PSD is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and is a member of FINRA. We pay PSD for acting as distributor under a Distribution Agreement. We and PSD enter into selling agreements with broker-dealers whose financial professionals are authorized by state insurance departments to solicit applications for the Contracts. The aggregate amount of underwriting commissions paid to PSD for 2009, 2008 and 2007 with regard to this Contract was $147,909,610, $221,990,054 and $271,745,947 respectively, of which $0 was retained.
 
PSD or an affiliate pays various sales compensation to broker-dealers that solicit applications for the Contracts. PSD or an affiliate also may provide reimbursement for other expenses associated with the promotion and solicitation of applications for the Contracts. Your financial professional typically receives a portion of the compensation that is payable to his or her broker-dealer in connection with the Contract, depending on the agreement between your financial professional and his or her firm. Pacific Life is not involved in determining that compensation arrangement, which may present its own incentives or conflicts. You may ask your financial professional how he/she will personally be compensated for the transaction.
 
Under certain circumstances where PSD pays lower initial commissions, certain broker-dealers that solicit applications for Contracts may be paid an ongoing persistency trail commission (sometimes called a residual). The mix of Purchase Payment-based versus trail commissions varies depending upon our agreement with the selling broker-dealer and the commission option selected by your financial professional or broker-dealer. Certain broker-dealers may also be paid an amount under a persistency program which will be based on assets under management and duration of contracts. The amount under the persistency program for a financial professional is not expected to exceed .25% of their total assets under management.
 
In addition to the Purchase Payment-based, trail commissions and persistency program described above, we and/or an affiliate may pay additional cash compensation from our own resources in connection with the promotion and solicitation of applications for the Contracts by some, but not all, broker-dealers. The range of additional cash compensation based on Purchase Payments generally does not exceed 0.40% and trailing compensation based on Account Value generally does not exceed 0.10% on an annual basis. Such additional compensation may give Pacific Life greater access to financial professionals of the broker-dealers that receive such compensation. While this greater access provides the opportunity for training and other educational programs so that your financial professional may serve you better, this additional compensation also may afford Pacific Life a “preferred” status at the recipient broker-dealer and provide some other marketing benefit such as website placement, access to financial professional lists, extra marketing assistance or other heightened visibility and access to the broker-dealer’s sales force that may otherwise influence the way that the broker-dealer and the financial professional market the Contracts.
 
As of December 31, 2009, the following firms have arrangements in effect with the Distributor pursuant to which the firm is entitled to receive a revenue sharing payment:
 
AMCORE Investments Inc., American Portfolios Financial Services Inc., AmTrust Investment Services Inc., Askar Corporation, Bancwest Investment Services Inc., Banc of America Investment Services Inc., C C O Investment Services Corp, Capital Investment Brokerage Inc., Capital Investment Group Inc., C U N A Brokerage Services Inc., C U S O Financial Services LP, Centaurus Financial, Inc., Chevy Chase Financial Services Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Colonial Brokerage Inc., Commonwealth Financial Network, B B V A Compass Investment Solutions Inc., Essex National Securities Inc., F S C Securities Corporation, Fifth Third Securities Inc., Financial Network Investment Corp., First Allied Securities Inc., First Heartland Capital Inc., First Tennessee Brokerage Inc., Geneos Wealth Management Inc., Great American Advisors Inc., I N G Financial Partners Inc., Infinex Investments Inc., Invest Financial Corporation, Investacorp Inc., Investment Centers of America Inc., Investment Professionals Inc., J J B Hilliard, W L Lyons Inc., Jacques Financial L L C, Janney Montgomery Scott Inc., Key Investment Services L L C, L P L Financial Corp., Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., Lincoln Financial Securities Corp., M & T Securities Inc., M Holdings Securities Inc., M M L Investors Services Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Morgan Keegan & Company Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Multi-Financial Securities Corp., Mutual Of Omaha


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Investor Services Inc., NF P Securities Inc., National Planning Corporation, NEXT Financial Group Inc., P N C Investments L L C, Park Avenue Securities LLC., Primevest Financial Services Inc., ProEquities Inc., R B C Capital Markets Corporation, Raymond James & Associates Inc., Raymond James Financial Services Inc., Robert W Baird & Company Inc., Royal Alliance Associates Inc., S I I Investments Inc., Sagepoint Financial Inc., Securian Financial Services Inc., Securities America, Sigma Financial Corp., Signator Investors Inc., Sorrento Pacific Financial L L C, Sterne Agee Financial Services Inc., Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc., Stifel Nicolaus & Company Inc., Suntrust Investment Services Inc., Tower Square Securities Inc., Transamerica Financial Advisors Inc., Triad Advisors Inc., U B S Financial Services Inc., U S Bancorp Investments Inc., Unionbanc Investment Services L L C, United Planners’ Financial Services of America, V S R Financial Services Inc., Vision Investment Services Inc., Securities Financial Network L L C, Wachovia Securities L L C, Walnut Street Securities, Wells Fargo Investments LLC, Wescom Financial Services L L C, Woodbury Financial Services Inc., Zions Direct Inc.
 
We or our affiliates may also pay override payments, expense allowances and reimbursements, bonuses, wholesaler fees, and training and marketing allowances. Such payments may offset the broker-dealer’s expenses in connection with activities that it is required to perform, such as educating personnel and maintaining records. Financial professionals may also receive non-cash compensation such as expense-paid educational or training seminars involving travel within and outside the U.S. or promotional merchandise.
 
All of the compensation described in this section, and other compensation or benefits provided by us or our affiliates, may be more or less than the overall compensation on similar or other products and may influence your financial professional or broker-dealer to present this Contract over other investment options. You may ask your financial professional about these potential conflicts of interests and how he/she and his/her broker-dealer are compensated for selling the Contract.
 
Portfolio Managers of the underlying Portfolios available under this Contract may from time to time bear all or a portion of the expenses of conferences or meetings sponsored by Pacific Life or PSD that are attended by, among others, representatives of PSD, who would receive information and/or training regarding the Fund’s Portfolios and their management by the Portfolio Managers in addition to information respecting the variable annuity and/or life insurance products issued by Pacific Life and its affiliates. Other persons may also attend all or a portion of any such conferences or meetings, including directors, officers and employees of Pacific Life, officers and trustees of Pacific Select Fund, and spouses/guests of the foregoing. The Pacific Select Fund Board of Trustees may hold meetings concurrently with such a conference or meeting. The Pacific Select Fund pays for the expenses of the meetings of its Board of Trustees, including the pro rata share of expenses for attendance by the Trustees at the concurrent conferences or meetings sponsored by Pacific Life or PSD. Additional expenses and promotional items may be paid for by Pacific Life and/or Portfolio Managers. PSD serves as the Pacific Select Fund Distributor.


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THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
 
Calculating Subaccount Unit Values
 
The Unit Value of the Subaccount Units in each Variable Investment Option is computed at the close of the New York Stock Exchange, which is usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on each Business Day. The initial Unit Value of each Subaccount was $10 on the Business Day the Subaccount began operations. At the end of each Business Day, the Unit Value for a Subaccount is equal to:
Y × Z
 
             
where
  (Y)   =   the Unit Value for that Subaccount as of the end of the preceding Business Day; and
    (Z)   =   the Net Investment Factor for that Subaccount for the period (a “valuation period”) between that Business Day and the immediately preceding Business Day.
 
The “Net Investment Factor” for a Subaccount for any valuation period is equal to:
 
(A ¸ B) − C
 
             
where
  (A)   =   the “per share value of the assets” of that Subaccount as of the end of that valuation period, which is equal to: a+b+c
 
             
where
  (a)   =   the net asset value per share of the corresponding Portfolio shares held by that Subaccount as of the end of that valuation period;
    (b)   =   the per share amount of any dividend or capital gain distributions made by the Fund for that Portfolio during that valuation period; and
    (c)   =   any per share charge (a negative number) or credit (a positive number) for any income taxes or other amounts set aside during that valuation period as a reserve for any income and/or any other taxes which we determine to have resulted from the operations of the Subaccount or Contract, and/or any taxes attributable, directly or indirectly, to Investments;
 
             
    (B)   =   the net asset value per share of the corresponding Portfolio shares held by the Subaccount as of the end of the preceding valuation period; and
    (C)   =   a factor that assesses against the Subaccount net assets for each calendar day in the valuation period, the basic Risk Charge plus any applicable increase in the Risk Charge and the Administrative Fee (see the CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS section in the Prospectus).
 
As explained in the Prospectus, the Annual Fee, if applicable, will be charged proportionately against your Investment Options. Assessments against your Variable Investment Options are assessed against your Variable Account Value through the automatic debit of Subaccount Units; the Annual Fee decreases the number of Subaccount Units attributed to your Contract but does not alter the Unit Value for any Subaccount.
 
Variable Annuity Payment Amounts
 
The following steps show how we determine the amount of each variable annuity payment under your Contract.
 
First: Pay Applicable Premium Taxes
 
When you convert your Net Contract Value into annuity payments, you must pay any applicable charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes on your Contract Value (unless applicable law requires those taxes to be paid at a later time). We assess this charge by reducing your Account Value proportionately, relative to your Account Value in each Subaccount and in any fixed option, in an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the charges. The remaining amount of your available Net Contract Value may be used to provide variable annuity payments. Alternatively, your remaining available Net Contract Value may be used to provide fixed annuity payments, or it may be divided to provide both fixed and variable annuity payments. You may also choose to withdraw some or all of your remaining Net Contract Value, less any applicable Annual Fees, any charge for an optional Rider, and/or withdrawal charge, and any charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes without converting this amount into annuity payments.


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Second: The First Variable Payment
 
We begin by referring to your Contract’s Option Table for your Annuity Option (the “Annuity Option Table”). The Annuity Option Table allows us to calculate the dollar amount of the first variable annuity payment under your Contract, based on the amount applied toward the variable annuity. The number that the Annuity Option Table yields will be based on the Annuitant’s age (and, in certain cases, sex) and assumes a 5% rate of return, as described in more detail below.
 
Example:  Assume a man is 65 years of age at his Annuity Date and has selected a lifetime annuity with monthly payments guaranteed for 10 years. According to the Annuity Option Table, this man should receive an initial monthly payment of $5.79 for every $1,000 of his Contract Value (reduced by applicable charges) that he will be using to provide variable payments. Therefore, if his Contract Value after deducting applicable fees and charges is $100,000 on his Annuity Date and he applies this entire amount toward his variable annuity, his first monthly payment will be $579.00.
 
You may choose any other Annuity Option Table that assumes a different rate of return which we offer at the time your Annuity Option is effective.
 
Third: Subaccount Annuity Units
 
For each Subaccount, we use the amount of the first variable annuity payment under your Contract attributed to each Subaccount to determine the number of Subaccount Annuity Units that will form the basis of subsequent payment amounts. First, we use the Annuity Option Table to determine the amount of that first variable payment for each Subaccount. Then, for each Subaccount, we divide that amount of the first variable annuity payment by the value of one Subaccount Annuity Unit (the “Subaccount Annuity Unit Value”) as of the end of the Annuity Date to obtain the number of Subaccount Annuity Units for that particular Subaccount. The number of Subaccount Annuity Units used to calculate subsequent payments under your Contract will not change unless exchanges of Annuity Units are made, (or if the Joint and Survivor Annuity Option is elected and the Primary Annuitant dies first) but the value of those Annuity Units will change daily, as described below.
 
Fourth: The Subsequent Variable Payments
 
The amount of each subsequent variable annuity payment will be the sum of the amounts payable based on each Subaccount. The amount payable based on each Subaccount is equal to the number of Subaccount Annuity Units for that Subaccount multiplied by their Subaccount Annuity Unit Value at the end of the Business Day in each payment period you elected that corresponds to the Annuity Date.
 
Each Subaccount’s Subaccount Annuity Unit Value, like its Subaccount Unit Value, changes each day to reflect the net investment results of the underlying investment vehicle, as well as the assessment of the Risk Charge at an annual rate of 1.40% and the Administrative Fee at an annual rate of 0.25%. In addition, the calculation of Subaccount Annuity Unit Value incorporates an additional factor; as discussed in more detail below, this additional factor adjusts Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to correct for the Option Table’s implicit assumed annual investment return on amounts applied but not yet used to furnish annuity benefits. Any increase in your Risk Charge for an optional death benefit rider is not charged on and after the Annuity Date.
 
Different Subaccounts may be selected for your Contract before and after your Annuity Date, subject to any restrictions we may establish. Currently, you may exchange Subaccount Annuity Units in any Subaccount for Subaccount Annuity Units in any other Subaccount(s) up to four times in any twelve month period after your Annuity Date. The number of Subaccount Annuity Units in any Subaccount may change due to such exchanges. Exchanges following your Annuity Date will be made by exchanging Subaccount Annuity Units of equivalent aggregate value, based on their relative Subaccount Annuity Unit Values.
 
Understanding the “Assumed Investment Return” Factors
 
The Annuity Option Table incorporates a number of implicit assumptions in determining the amount of your first variable annuity payment. As noted above, the numbers in the Annuity Option Table reflect certain actuarial assumptions based on the Annuitant’s age, and, in some cases, the Annuitant’s sex. In addition, these numbers assume


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that the amount of your Contract Value that you convert to a variable annuity will have a positive net investment return of 5% each year during the payout of your annuity; thus 5% is referred to as an “assumed investment return.”
 
The Subaccount Annuity Unit Value for a Subaccount will increase only to the extent that the investment performance of that Subaccount exceeds the Risk Charge, the Administrative Fee, and the assumed investment return. The Subaccount Annuity Unit Value for any Subaccount will generally be less than the Subaccount Unit Value for that same Subaccount, and the difference will be the amount of the assumed investment return factor.
 
Example: Assume the net investment performance of a Subaccount is at a rate of 5.00% per year (after deduction of the 1.40% Risk Charge and the 0.25% Administrative Fee). The Subaccount Unit Value for that Subaccount would increase at a rate of 5.00% per year, but the Subaccount Annuity Unit Value would not increase (or decrease) at all. The net investment factor for that 5% return [1.05] is then divided by the factor for the 5% assumed investment return [1.05] and 1 is subtracted from the result to determine the adjusted rate of change in Subaccount Annuity Unit Value:
 
     
1.05
1.05
  = 1; 1 − 1 = 0; 0 × 100% = 0%.
 
If the net investment performance of a Subaccount’s assets is at a rate less than 5.00% per year, the Subaccount Annuity Unit Value will decrease, even if the Subaccount Unit Value is increasing.
 
Example: Assume the net investment performance of a Subaccount is at a rate of 2.60% per year (after deduction of the 1.40% Risk Charge and the 0.25% Administrative Fee). The Subaccount Unit Value for that Subaccount would increase at a rate of 2.60% per year, but the Subaccount Annuity Unit Value would decrease at a rate of 2.29% per year. The net investment factor for that 2.6% return [1.026] is then divided by the factor for the 5% assumed investment return [1.05] and 1 is subtracted from the result to determine the adjusted rate of change in Subaccount Annuity Unit Value:
 
     
1.026
1.05
  = 0.9771; 0.9771 − 1 = −0.0229; −0.0229 × 100% = −2.29%.
 
The assumed investment return will always cause increases in Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to be somewhat less than if the assumption had not been made, will cause decreases in Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to be somewhat greater than if the assumption had not been made, and will (as shown in the example above) sometimes cause a decrease in Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to take place when an increase would have occurred if the assumption had not been made. If we had assumed a higher investment return in our Annuity Option tables, it would produce annuities with larger first payments, but the increases in subaccount annuity payments would be smaller and the decreases in subsequent annuity payments would be greater; a lower assumed investment return would produce annuities with smaller first payments, and the increases in subsequent annuity payments would be greater and the decreases in subsequent annuity payments would be smaller.
 
Redemptions of Remaining Guaranteed Variable Payments Under Options 2 and 4
 
If variable payments are elected under Annuity Options 2 and 4, you may redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments after the Annuity Date. Also, under Option 4, partial redemptions of remaining guaranteed variable payments after the Annuity Date are available. If you elect to redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments in a single sum, we will not make any additional variable annuity payments during the Annuitant’s lifetime or the remaining guaranteed period after the redemption. The amount available upon full redemption would be the present value of any remaining guaranteed variable payments at the assumed investment return. Any applicable withdrawal charge will be deducted from the present value as if you made a full withdrawal, or if applicable, a partial withdrawal. For purposes of calculating the withdrawal charge and Free Withdrawal amount, it will be assumed that the Contract was never converted to provide annuity payments and any prior variable annuity payments in that Contract Year will be treated as if they were partial withdrawals from the Contract (see the CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS—Withdrawal Charge section in the Prospectus). For example, assume that a Contract was issued with a single investment of $10,000 and in Contract Year 2 the Owner elects to receive variable annuity payments under Annuity Option 4. In Contract Year 3, the Owner elects to make a partial redemption of $5,000. The withdrawal charge as a percentage of the Purchase Payments with an age of 3 years is 4%. Assuming the Free Withdrawal amount


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immediately prior to the partial redemption is $200, the withdrawal charge for the partial redemption will be $192 (($5,000 − $200) * 4%). No withdrawal charge will be imposed on a redemption if:
 
  •  the Annuity Option is elected as the form of payments of death benefit proceeds, or
 
  •  the Annuitant dies before the period certain has ended and the Beneficiary requests a redemption of the variable annuity payments.
 
The variable payment amount we use in calculating the present value is determined by summing an amount for each Subaccount, which we calculate by multiplying your Subaccount Annuity Units by the Annuity Unit Value next computed after we receive your redemption request. This variable payment amount is then discounted at the assumed investment return from each future Annuity Payment date that falls within the payment guaranteed period. The sum of these discounted remaining variable payment amounts is the present value of remaining guaranteed variable payments.
 
If you elect to redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments in a single sum, we will not make any additional variable annuity payments during the remaining guaranteed period after the redemption.
 
If you elect to redeem a portion of the remaining guaranteed variable payments in a single sum, we will reduce the number of Annuity Units for each Subaccount by the same percentage as the partial redemption value bears to the amount available upon a full redemption.
 
Redemption of remaining guaranteed variable payments will not affect the amount of any fixed annuity payments.
 
Corresponding Dates
 
If any transaction or event under your Contract is scheduled to occur on a “corresponding date” that does not exist in a given calendar period, the transaction or event will be deemed to occur on the following Business Day. In addition, as stated in the Prospectus, any event scheduled to occur on a day that is not a Business Day will occur on the next succeeding Business Day.
 
Example: If your Contract is issued on February 29 in year 1 (a leap year), your Contract Anniversary in years 2, 3 and 4 will be on March 1.
 
Example: If your Annuity Date is July 31 and you select monthly annuity payments, the payments received will be based on valuations made on July 31, August 31, October 1 (for September), October 31, December 1 (for November), December 31, January 31, March 1 (for February), March 31, May 1 (for April), May 31 and July 1 (for June).
 
Age and Sex of Annuitant
 
The Contracts generally provide for sex-distinct annuity income factors in the case of life annuities. Statistically, females tend to have longer life expectancies than males; consequently, if the amount of annuity payments is based on life expectancy, they will ordinarily be higher if an annuitant is male than if an annuitant is female. Certain states’ regulations prohibit sex-distinct annuity income factors, and Contracts issued in those states will use unisex factors. In addition, Contracts issued in connection with Qualified Plans are required to use unisex factors.
 
We may require proof of your Annuitant’s age and sex before or after commencing annuity payments. If the age or sex (or both) of your Annuitant are incorrectly stated in your Contract, we will correct the amount payable to equal the amount that the annuitized portion of the Contract Value under that Contract would have purchased for your Annuitant’s correct age and sex. If we make the correction after annuity payments have started, and we have made overpayments based on the incorrect information, we will deduct the amount of the overpayment, with interest at 3% a year, from any payments due then or later; if we have made underpayments, we will add the amount, with interest at 3% a year, of the underpayments to the next payment we make after we receive proof of the correct age and/or sex.
 
Additionally, we may require proof of the Annuitant’s or Owner’s age before any payments associated with the Death Benefit provisions of your Contract are made. If the age or sex of the Annuitant is incorrectly stated in your Contract, we will base any payment associated with the Death Benefit provisions on your Contract on the Annuitant’s or Owner’s correct age or sex.


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Systematic Transfer Programs
 
The fixed option(s) are not available in connection with portfolio rebalancing. If you are using the earnings sweep, you may also use portfolio rebalancing only if you selected the Cash Management Subaccount, or, for Contracts issued before November 1, 2002, the Fixed Option as your sweep option. You may not use dollar cost averaging, DCA Plus, and the earnings sweep at the same time. Only portfolio rebalancing is available after you annuitize. The systematic transfer options are subject to the same requirements and restrictions as non-systematic transfers. In addition, no fixed option(s) may be used as the target Investment Option under any systematic transfer program.
 
Dollar Cost Averaging
 
When you request dollar cost averaging, you are authorizing us to make periodic reallocations of your Contract Value without waiting for any further instruction from you. You may request to begin or stop dollar cost averaging at any time prior to your Annuity Date; the effective date of your request will be the day we receive notice from you in a form satisfactory to us. Your request may specify the date on which you want your first transfer to be made. Your first transfer may not be made until 30 days after your Contract Date, and if you specify an earlier date, your first transfer will be delayed until one calendar month after the date you specify. If you request dollar cost averaging on your application for your Contract and you fail to specify a date for your first transfer, your first transfer will be made one period after your Contract Date (that is, if you specify monthly transfers, the first transfer will occur 30 days after your Contract Date; quarterly transfers, 90 days after your Contract Date; semi-annual transfers, 180 days after your Contract Date; and if you specify annual transfers, the first transfer will occur on your Contract Anniversary). If you stop dollar cost averaging, you must wait 30 days before you may begin this option again. Currently, we are not enforcing the 30 day waiting period but we reserve the right to enforce such waiting period in the future.
 
Your request to begin dollar cost averaging must specify the Investment Option you wish to transfer money from (your “source account”). You may choose any one Investment Option as your source account. The Account Value of your source account must be at least $5,000 for you to begin dollar cost averaging. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum Account Value but we reserve the right to enforce such minimum amounts in the future.
 
Your request to begin dollar cost averaging must also specify the amount and frequency of your transfers. You may choose monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual transfers. The amount of your transfers may be specified as a dollar amount or a percentage of your source Account Value; however, each transfer must be at least $250. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum transfer amount but we reserve the right to enforce such minimum amounts in the future. Dollar cost averaging transfers are not subject to the same requirements and limitations as other transfers.
 
Finally, your request must specify the Variable Investment Option(s) you wish to transfer amounts to (your “target account(s)”). If you select more than one target account, your dollar cost averaging request must specify how transferred amounts should be allocated among the target accounts. Your source account may not also be a target account.
 
Your dollar cost averaging transfers will continue until the earlier of:
 
  •  your request to stop dollar cost averaging is effective, or
 
  •  your source Account Value is zero, or
 
  •  your Annuity Date.
 
If, as a result of a dollar cost averaging transfer, your source Account Value falls below any minimum Account Value we may establish, we have the right, at our option, to transfer that remaining Account Value to your target account(s) on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions. We may change, terminate or suspend the dollar cost averaging option at any time.
 
Portfolio Rebalancing
 
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For example, you could specify that 30% of your Contract Value should be in the Equity Index Subaccount, 40% in the Managed Bond Subaccount, and 30% in the Growth LT Subaccount.
 
Over time, the variations in each Subaccount’s investment results will shift this balance of these Subaccount Value allocations. If you elect the portfolio rebalancing feature, we will automatically transfer your Subaccount Value back to the percentages you specify.
 
You may choose to have rebalances made quarterly, semi-annually or annually. Only portfolio rebalancing is available after you annuitize.
 
Procedures for selecting portfolio rebalancing are generally the same as those discussed in detail above for selecting dollar cost averaging: You may make your request at any time prior to your Annuity Date and it will be effective when we receive it in a form satisfactory to us. If you stop portfolio rebalancing, you must wait 30 days to begin again. Currently, we are not enforcing the 30-day waiting period but we reserve the right to enforce such waiting period in the future. If you specify a date fewer than 30 days after your Contract Date, your first rebalance will be delayed one month, and if you request rebalancing on your application but do not specify a date for the first rebalance, it will occur one period after your Contract Date, as described above under Dollar Cost Averaging. We may change, terminate or suspend the portfolio rebalancing feature at any time.
 
Earnings Sweep
 
An earnings sweep automatically transfers the earnings from the Fixed Option (if available) or the Cash Management Subaccount (the “sweep option”) to one or more other Variable Investment Options (your “target option(s)”). The Account Value of your sweep option will be required to be at least $5,000 when you elect the earnings sweep. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum Account Value but we reserve the right to enforce such minimum amounts in the future.
 
You may choose to have earnings sweeps occur monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually until you annuitize. At each earnings sweep, we will automatically transfer your accumulated earnings attributable to your sweep option for the previous period proportionately to your target option(s). That is, if you select a monthly earnings sweep, we will transfer the sweep option earnings from the preceding month; if you select a semi-annual earnings sweep, we will transfer the sweep option earnings accumulated over the preceding 6 months. Earnings sweep transfers are not subject to the same requirements and limitations as other transfers.
 
To determine the earnings, we take the change in the sweep option’s Account Value during the sweep period, add any withdrawals or transfers out of the sweep option Account that occurred during the sweep period, and subtract any allocations to the sweep option Account during the sweep period. The result of this calculation represents the “total earnings” for the sweep period.
 
If, during the sweep period, you withdraw or transfer amounts from the sweep option Account, we assume that earnings are withdrawn or transferred before any other Account Value. Therefore, your “total earnings” for the sweep period will be reduced by any amounts withdrawn or transferred during the sweep option period. The remaining earnings are eligible for the sweep transfer.
 
Procedures for selecting the earnings sweep are generally the same as those discussed in detail above for selecting dollar cost averaging and portfolio rebalancing: You may make your request at any time and it will be effective when we receive it in a form satisfactory to us. If you stop the earnings sweep, you must wait 30 days to begin again. Currently, we are not enforcing the 30-day waiting period but we reserve the right to enforce such waiting period in the future. If you specify a date fewer than 30 days after your Contract Date, your first earnings sweep will be delayed one month, and if you request the earnings sweep on your application but do not specify a date for the first sweep, it will occur one period after your Contract Date, as described above under Dollar Cost Averaging.
 
If, as a result of an earnings sweep transfer, your source Account Value falls below $500, we have the right, at our option, to transfer that remaining Account Value to your target account(s) on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions. We may change, terminate or suspend the earnings sweep option at any time.


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Pre-Authorized Withdrawals
 
You may specify a dollar amount for your pre-authorized withdrawals, or you may specify a percentage of your Contract Value or an Account Value. You may direct us to make your pre-authorized withdrawals from one or more specific Investment Options. If you do not give us these specific instructions, amounts will be deducted proportionately from your Account Value in each Investment Option.
 
Procedures for selecting pre-authorized withdrawals are generally the same as those discussed in detail above for selecting dollar cost averaging, portfolio rebalancing, and earnings sweeps: You may make your request at any time and it will be effective when we receive it in a form satisfactory to us. If you stop the pre-authorized withdrawals, you must wait 30 days to begin again. Currently, we are not enforcing the 30-day waiting period but we reserve the right to enforce such waiting period in the future.
 
If your pre-authorized withdrawals cause your Account Value in any Investment Option to fall below $500, we have the right, at our option, to transfer that remaining Account Value to your other Investment Options on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions. If your pre-authorized withdrawals cause your Contract Value to fall below $1,000, we may, at our option, terminate your Contract and send you the remaining withdrawal proceeds.
 
Pre-authorized withdrawals are subject to the same withdrawal charges as are other withdrawals, and each withdrawal is subject to any applicable charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes, to federal income tax on its taxable portion, and, if you have not reached age 591/2, may be subject to a 10% federal tax penalty.
 
Joint Annuitants on Qualified Contracts
 
On your Annuity Date, if your Contract was issued in connection with a Qualified Plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), and you change your marital status after your Contract Date, you may be permitted to add a Joint Annuitant and to change your Joint Annuitant. Generally speaking, you may be permitted to add a new spouse as a Joint Annuitant, and you may be permitted to remove a Joint Annuitant who is no longer your spouse.
 
More on Federal Tax Issues
 
Section 817(h) of the Code provides that the investments underlying a variable annuity must satisfy certain diversification requirements. Details on these diversification requirements appear in the Pacific Select Fund SAI. We believe the underlying Variable Investment Options for the Contract meet these requirements. On March 7, 2008, the Treasury Department issued Final Regulations under Section 817(h). These Final Regulations do not provide guidance concerning the extent to which you may direct your investments to particular divisions of a separate account. Such guidance may be included in regulations or revenue rulings under Section 817(d) relating to the definition of a variable contract. We reserve the right to make such changes as we deem necessary or appropriate to ensure that your Contract continues to qualify as an annuity for tax purposes. Any such changes will apply uniformly to affected Contract Owners and will be made with such notice to affected Contract Owners as is feasible under the circumstances.
 
For a variable life insurance contract or a variable annuity contract to qualify for tax deferral, assets in the separate accounts supporting the contract must be considered to be owned by the insurance company and not by the contract owner. Under current U.S. tax law, if a contract owner has excessive control over the investments made by a separate account, or the underlying fund, the contract owner will be taxed currently on income and gains from the account or fund. In other words, in such a case of “investor control” the contract owner would not derive the tax benefits normally associated with variable life insurance or variable annuities.
 
Generally, according to the IRS, there are two ways that impermissible investor control may exist. The first relates to the design of the contract or the relationship between the contract and a separate account or underlying fund. For example, at various times, the IRS has focused on, among other factors, the number and type of investment choices available pursuant to a given variable contract, whether the contract offers access to funds that are available to the general public, the number of transfers that a contract owner may make from one investment option to another, and the degree to which a contract owner may select or control particular investments.


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With respect to this first aspect of investor control, we believe that the design of our contracts and the relationship between our contracts and the Portfolios satisfy the current view of the IRS on this subject, such that the investor control doctrine should not apply. However, because of some uncertainty with respect to this subject and because the IRS may issue further guidance on this subject, we reserve the right to make such changes as we deem necessary or appropriate to reduce the risk that your contract might not qualify as a life insurance contract or as an annuity for tax purposes.
 
The second way that impermissible investor control might exist concerns your actions. Under the IRS pronouncements, you may not select or control particular investments, other than choosing among broad investment choices such as selecting a particular Portfolio. You may not select or direct the purchase or sale of a particular investment of a Separate Account, a Subaccount (or Variable Investment Option), or a Portfolio. All investment decisions concerning the Separate Accounts and the Subaccounts must be made by us, and all investment decisions concerning the underlying Portfolios must be made by the portfolio manager for such Portfolio in his or her sole and absolute discretion, and not by the contract owner. Furthermore, under the IRS pronouncements, you may not enter into an agreement or arrangement with a portfolio manager of a Portfolio or communicate directly or indirectly with such a portfolio manager or any related investment officers concerning the selection, quality, or rate of return of any specific investment or group of investments held by a Portfolio, and you may not enter into any such agreement or arrangement or have any such communication with us or PLFA.
 
Finally, the IRS may issue additional guidance on the investor control doctrine, which might further restrict your actions or features of the variable contract. Such guidance could be applied retroactively. If any of the rules outlined above are not complied with, the IRS may seek to tax you currently on income and gains from a Portfolio such that you would not derive the tax benefits normally associated with variable life insurance or variable annuities. Although highly unlikely, such an event may have an adverse impact on the fund and other variable contracts. We urge you to consult your own tax adviser with respect to the application of the investor control doctrine.
 
Loans
 
Certain Owners of Qualified Contracts may borrow against their Contracts. Otherwise loans from us are not permitted. You may request a loan from us, using your Contract Value as your only security if your Qualified Contract is:
 
  •  not subject to Title 1 of ERISA,
 
  •  issued under Section 403(b) of the Code, and
 
  •  permits loans under its terms (a “Loan Eligible Plan”).
 
You will be charged interest on your Contract Debt at a fixed annual rate equal to 5%. The amount held in the Loan Account to secure your loan will earn a return equal to an annual rate of 3%. This loan rate may vary by state.
 
Interest charges accrue on your Contract Debt daily, beginning on the effective date of your loan. Interest earned on the Loan Account Value accrue daily beginning on the day following the effective date of the loan, and those earnings will be transferred once a year to your Investment Options in accordance with your most recent allocation instructions.
 
We may change these loan provisions to reflect changes in the Code or interpretations thereof.
 
Tax and Legal Matters
 
The tax and ERISA rules relating to Contract loans are complex and in many cases unclear. For these reasons, and because the rules vary depending on the individual circumstances, these loans are processed by your Plan Administrator. We urge you to consult with a qualified tax adviser prior to effecting any loan transaction under your Contract.
 
Generally, interest paid on your loan under a 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity will be considered non-deductible “personal interest” under Section 163(h) of the Code, to the extent the loan comes from and is secured by your pre-tax contributions, even if the proceeds of your loan are used to acquire your principal residence.


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Loan Procedures
 
Your loan request must be submitted on our Non-ERISA TSA Application and Loan Agreement Form. You may submit a loan request 30 days after your Contract Date and before your Annuity Date. However, before requesting a new loan, you must wait 30 days after the last payment of a previous loan. If approved, your loan will usually be effective as of the end of the Business Day on which we receive all necessary documentation in proper form. We will normally forward proceeds of your loan to you within 7 calendar days after the effective date of your loan.
 
In order to secure your loan, on the effective date of your loan, we will transfer an amount equal to the principal amount of your loan into an account called the “Loan Account.” The Loan Account is held under the General Account. To make this transfer, we will transfer amounts proportionately from your Investment Options based on your Account Value in each Investment Option.
 
As your loan is repaid, a portion, corresponding to the amount of the repayment of any amount then held as security for your loan, will be transferred from the Loan Account back into your Investment Options relative to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
A transfer from the Loan Account back into your Investment Options following a loan repayment is not considered a transfer under the transfer limitations as stated in the HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions section in the Prospectus.
 
Loan Terms
 
You may have only one loan outstanding at any time. The minimum loan amount is $1,000, subject to certain state limitations. Your Contract Debt at the effective date of your loan may not exceed the lesser of:
 
  •  50% of the amount available for withdrawal under this Contract (see the WITHDRAWALS – Optional Withdrawals – Amount Available for Withdrawal in the Prospectus), or
 
  •  $50,000 less your highest outstanding Contract Debt during the 12-month period immediately preceding the effective date of your loan.
 
You should refer to the terms of your particular Loan Eligible Plan for any additional loan restrictions. If you have other loans outstanding pursuant to other Loan Eligible Plans, the amount you may borrow may be further restricted. We are not responsible for making any determination (including loan amounts permitted) or any interpretation with respect to your Loan Eligible Plan.
 
If you purchase any optional living benefit rider (including any and all previous, current, and future versions), there may be adverse consequences to taking a loan while an optional living benefit rider is in effect. If you have an existing loan on your Contract, you should carefully consider whether an optional living benefit rider is appropriate for you.
 
Repayment Terms
 
Your loan, including principal and accrued interest, generally must be repaid in quarterly installments. An installment will be due in each quarter on the date corresponding to the effective date of your loan, beginning with the first such date following the effective date of your loan. See the Qualified Contracts – Loans section in the Prospectus.
 
Example: On May 1, we receive your loan request, and your loan is effective. Your first quarterly payment will be due on August 1.
 
Adverse tax consequences may result if you fail to meet the repayment requirements for your loan. You must repay principal and interest of any loan in substantially equal payments over the term of the loan. Generally, the term of the loan will be 5 years from the effective date of the loan. However, if you have certified to us that your loan proceeds are to be used to acquire a principal residence for yourself, you may request a loan term of 30 years. In either case, however, you must repay your loan prior to your Annuity Date. If you elect to annuitize (or withdraw) your Net Contract Value while you have an outstanding loan, we will deduct any Contract Debt from your Contract Value at the time of the annuitization (or withdrawal) to repay the Contract Debt.


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You may prepay your entire loan at any time. If you do so, we will bill you for any unpaid interest that has accrued through the date of payoff. Your loan will be considered repaid only when the interest due has been paid. Subject to any necessary approval of state insurance authorities, while you have Contract Debt outstanding, we will treat all payments you send us as Investments unless you specifically indicate that your payment is a loan repayment or include your loan payment notice with your payment. To the extent allowed by law, any loan repayments in excess of the amount then due will be applied to the principal balance of your loan. Such repayments will not change the due dates or the periodic repayment amount due for future periods. If a loan repayment is in excess of the principal balance of your loan, any excess repayment will be refunded to you. Repayments we receive that are less than the amount then due will be returned to you, unless otherwise required by law.
 
If we have not received your full payment by its due date, we will declare the entire remaining loan balance in default. At that time, we will send written notification of the amount needed to bring the loan back to a current status. You will have 60 days from the date on which the loan was declared in default (the “grace period”) to make the required payment.
 
If the required payment is not received by the end of the grace period, the defaulted loan balance plus accrued interest and any withdrawal charge will be withdrawn from your Contract Value, if amounts under your Contract are eligible for distribution. In order for an amount to be eligible for distribution from a TSA funded by salary reductions you must meet one of five triggering events. The triggering events are:
 
  •  attainment of age 591/2,
 
  •  severance from employment,
 
  •  death,
 
  •  disability, and
 
  •  financial hardship (with respect to contributions only, not income or earnings on these contributions).
 
If those amounts are not eligible for distribution, the defaulted loan balance plus accrued interest and any withdrawal charge will be considered a Deemed Distribution and will be withdrawn when such Contract Values become eligible. In either case, the Distribution or the Deemed Distribution will be considered a currently taxable event, and may be subject to federal tax withholding, the withdrawal charge and may be subject to a 10% federal tax penalty.
 
If there is a Deemed Distribution under your Contract and to the extent allowed by law, any future withdrawals will first be applied as repayment of the defaulted Contract Debt, including accrued interest and charges for applicable taxes. Any amounts withdrawn and applied as repayment of Contract Debt will first be withdrawn from your Loan Account, and then from your Investment Options on a proportionate basis relative to the Account Value in each Investment Option. If you have an outstanding loan that is in default, the defaulted Contract Debt will be considered a withdrawal for the purpose of calculating any Death Benefit Amount and/or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit.
 
The terms of any such loan are intended to qualify for the exception in Code Section 72(p)(2) so that the distribution of the loan proceeds will not constitute a distribution that is taxable to you. To that end, these loan provisions will be interpreted to ensure and maintain such tax qualification, despite any other provisions to the contrary. Subject to any regulatory approval, we reserve the right to amend your Contract to reflect any clarifications that may be needed or are appropriate to maintain such tax qualification or to conform any terms of our loan arrangement with you to any applicable changes in the tax qualification requirements. We will send you a copy of any such amendment. If you refuse such an amendment, it may result in adverse tax consequences to you.
 
Safekeeping of Assets
 
We are responsible for the safekeeping of the assets of the Separate Account. These assets are held separate and apart from the assets of our General Account and our other separate accounts.


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OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS
 
General Information
 
Some optional riders allow for owner elected Resets/Step-Ups. If you elect to Reset/Step-Up, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary (“60 day period”) on which the Reset/Step-Up is effective. We may, at our sole discretion, allow Resets/Step-Ups after the 60 day period. We reserve the right to refuse a Reset/Step-Up request after the 60 day period regardless of whether we may have allowed you or others to Reset/Step-Up in the past. Each Contract Anniversary starts a new 60 day period in which a Reset/Step-Up may be elected.
 
Taking a withdrawal before a certain age or a withdrawal that is greater than the allowed annual withdrawal amount under a particular Rider, may result in adverse consequences such as a reduction in Rider benefits or the failure to receive lifetime withdrawals under a Rider.
 
There may be adverse consequences to taking a loan while an optional Rider is in effect. If you have an existing loan on your Contract, you should carefully consider whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you.
 
Investment Allocation Requirements
 
At initial purchase and during the entire time that you own an optional living benefit Rider (except for GIA II and GIA), you must allocate your entire Contract Value to an asset allocation program or Investment Options we make available for these Riders. You may allocate your Contract Value according to the following requirements:
 
  •  100% to one allowable Asset Allocation Model, OR
 
  •  100% among allowable Investment Options.
 
You may also use the DCA Plus program to transfer amounts to an Asset Allocation Model or among the Investment Options listed below. Currently, the allowable Asset Allocation Models and Investment Options are as follows:
 
     
Allowable Asset Allocation Models   Allowable Investment Options
 
Portfolio Optimization Model A
  Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset Fund
Portfolio Optimization Model B
  AllianceBernstein VPS Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio
Portfolio Optimization Model C
  American Funds Asset Allocation
Portfolio Optimization Model D
  BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund
Portfolio Optimization Model E1
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund
Custom Model
  GE Investments Total Return Fund
    Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth
    Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth
    Pacific Dynamix – Growth
    PIMCO Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
    Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation Portfolio
 
1 Portfolio Optimization Model E will no longer be an allowable Asset Allocation Model for any optional living benefit rider with a Rider Effective Date on or after January 1, 2009.
 
You may transfer your entire Contract Value between an allowable Asset Allocation Model and allowable Investment Options, between allowable Asset Allocation Models or between allowable Investment Options, subject to certain transfer limitations. See the HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions section of the Prospectus. Keep in mind that you must allocate your entire Contract Value to either one allowable Asset Allocation Model or among the allowable Investment Options. If you do not allocate your entire Purchase Payment or Contract Value according to the requirements above, your Rider will terminate.


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Allowable Asset Allocation Models – Portfolio Optimization.  You may transfer your entire Contract Value to a different Portfolio Optimization Model without affecting your Rider. However, if you change the allocation percentages within the Portfolio Optimization Model you have selected, including allocating any subsequent Purchase Payments inconsistent with your Model’s target allocations, you will no longer be participating in the Portfolio Optimization program and your Rider will terminate. See the HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Portfolio Optimization section of the Prospectus for information about the program.
 
Allowable Asset Allocation Models – Custom Model.  You may also make transfers between the Investment Options available under the Custom Model program as long as you follow the Custom Model parameters. However, if you make transfers, subsequent Purchase Payments or change the allocation percentages within your Custom Model and they do not comply with the Custom Model parameters, you will no longer be participating in the Custom Model program and your Rider will terminate. See the HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Custom Model section of the Prospectus for information about the program.
 
Allowable Investment Options.  You may allocate your entire Contract Value among any of the allowable Investment Options listed in the table above.
 
By adding an optional living benefit Rider to your Contract, you agree to the above referenced investment allocation requirements for the entire period that you own a Rider. These requirements may limit the number of Investment Options that are otherwise available to you under your Contract. We reserve the right to add, remove or change allowable asset allocation programs or allowable Investment Options at any time. We may make such a change due to a fund reorganization, fund substitution, or when we believe a change is necessary to protect our ability to provide the guarantees under these riders. If such a change is required, we will provide you with reasonable notice (generally 90 calendar days unless we are required to give less notice) prior to the effective date of such change to allow you to reallocate your Contract Value to maintain your rider benefits. If you do not reallocate your Contract Value your rider will terminate.
 
We will send you written notice in the event any transaction made by you will involuntarily cause the Rider to terminate for failure to allocate your entire Contract Value to an asset allocation program or Investment Options we make available for these Riders. However, you will have 10 Business Days after the date of our written notice (“10 day period”), to instruct us to take appropriate corrective action to continue participation in an allowable asset allocation program or allowable Investment Options to continue the Rider.
 
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single)
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year.


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If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The Protected Payment Amount will never be less than zero. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to the applicable withdrawal percentage (based on the Owner’s age at the time of purchase) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero and will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The Remaining Protected Balance will never be less than zero. The initial Remaining Protected Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each contract year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 591/2 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount), then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than Protected Payment


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Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal Percentage
 
The withdrawal percentage is determined according to the table below based on the oldest Owner’s age (or youngest Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) at Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. The withdrawal percentages are as follows:
 
         
Age
  Withdrawal Percentage
 
Before 591/2
    5.0 %
591/2 - 74
    5.0 %
75 and older
    6.0 %
 
If you purchase the Rider before you reach 75 years of age, a Reset is required to receive the higher withdrawal percentage once you are 75 years of age.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount.  If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
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Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – General Rules – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
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  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 591/2 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 591/2. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 591/2 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 5% (7% if your Rider Effective Date is before January 1, 2009) of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless an Automatic Reset or Owner Elected Reset occurs. If such a Reset occurs, your eligibility for the Annual Credit will be reinstated as of the Reset Date.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Annual Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset. On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date and after any annual credit is applied, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied,


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is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election. Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation. You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic). You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
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Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If an election to reset is made, whether by an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset, then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. The withdrawal percentage will be determined based on the age of the surviving spouse and the new withdrawal percentage may be higher or lower than what the withdrawal percentage was prior to death. In addition, if the surviving spouse is 591/2 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base and withdrawal percentage) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or


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  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Joint)
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Designated Lives (each a “Designated Life”) – Designated Lives must be natural persons who are each other’s spouses on the Rider Effective Date. Designated Lives will remain unchanged while this Rider is in effect.
 
To be eligible for lifetime benefits, a Designated Life must:
 
  •  be the Owner (or the Annuitant, in the case of a custodial owned IRA or TSA),
 
  •  remain the Spouse of the other Designated Life and be the first in line of succession, as determined under the Contract, for payment of any death benefit.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year. The Protected Payment Amount will never be less than zero. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to the applicable withdrawal percentage (based on the youngest Designated Life’s age at the time of purchase) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero and will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The Remaining Protected Balance will never be less than zero. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Spouse – The Owner’s spouse who is treated as the Owner’s spouse pursuant to federal law.


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Surviving Spouse – The surviving spouse of a deceased Owner.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, on each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount), then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal Percentage
 
The withdrawal percentage is determined according to the table below based on youngest Designated Life’s age at Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. The withdrawal percentages are as follows:
 
         
Age
  Withdrawal Percentage
 
591/2 - 74
    5.0 %
75 and older
    6.0 %
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.


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If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. Immediately following the withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – General Rules – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  the payments of the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the surviving Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the death of the


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surviving Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
  •  if a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection, and
 
  •  any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 5% (7% if your Rider Effective Date is before January 1, 2009) of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset occurs. If such a Reset occurs, your eligibility for the Annual Credit will be reinstated as of the Reset Date.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Annual Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset. On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date and after any Annual Credit is applied, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).


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Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election. Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation. You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic). You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.


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Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the Surviving Spouse (who is also a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits) elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the Surviving Spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Rider terminates.
 
The Surviving Spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place, whether by an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset, the withdrawal percentage may change and will be determined based on the age of the Surviving Spouse. However, the withdrawal percentage will never be lower than the withdrawal percentage in effect at the time of death.
 
The Surviving Spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Ownership and Beneficiary Changes
 
Changes to the Contract Owner, Annuitant and/or Beneficiary designations and changes in marital status, including a dissolution of marriage, may adversely affect the benefits of this Rider. A particular change may make a Designated Life ineligible to receive lifetime income benefits under this Rider. As a result, the Rider may remain in effect and you may pay for benefits that you will not receive. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional and consider your options prior to making any Owner, Annuitant and/or Beneficiary changes to your Contract.
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day of death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  upon the death of the first Designated Life, if a death benefit is payable and a Surviving Spouse who chooses to continue the Contract is not a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  upon the death of the first Designated Life, if a death benefit is payable and the Contract is not continued by a Surviving Spouse who is a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  if both Designated Lives are Joint Owners and there is a change in marital status, the Rider will terminate upon the death of the first Designated Life who is a Contract Owner,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day that neither Designated Life is an Owner (or Annuitant, in the case of a custodial owned IRA or TSA),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day that the Contract is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day of death of:
 
  •  all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits, or
 
  •  the first Designated Life who is a Contract Owner if both Designated Lives are Joint Owners and there is a change in marital status,
 
if, at the time of these events, the Contract Value is zero and we are making pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider will terminate when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero, see Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance subsection.


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Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Automatic Income Builder Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to the applicable withdrawal percentage (based on the Owner’s age at the time of purchase) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The Protected Payment Amount will never be less than zero.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero and will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The Remaining Protected Balance will never be less than zero. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
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after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 591/2 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). If you are older than 591/2 and if you delay taking withdrawals, this Rider also provides the potential to receive a 0.10% increase in the withdrawal percentage per year, which can increase the percentage that you may withdraw each Contract Year without reducing your Protected Payment Base. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal Percentage
 
On or prior to the date of the first withdrawal (measured from the later of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date) the withdrawal percentage is determined as follows based on the oldest Owner’s age (or youngest Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
If your Rider Effective Date is on or after January 1, 2009, the following Withdrawal Percentages will apply:
 
     
Age
  Withdrawal Percentage
 
Before 591/2
  4.0%
591/2 - 69
  4.0%
70 - 84
  5.0%
85 and older
  6.0%
 
If your Rider Effective Date is before January 1, 2009, the following Withdrawal Percentages will apply:
 
     
Age
  Withdrawal Percentage
 
Before 591/2
  5.0%
591/2 - 69
  5.0%
70 - 84
  6.0%
85 and older
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If the first withdrawal (measured from the later of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date) is taken on or after age 591/2, the withdrawal percentage will automatically increase according to the table above based on age as of the most recent Contract Anniversary.
 
If the first withdrawal (measured from the later of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date) is taken prior to age 591/2, the withdrawal percentage will be 4.0% (5.0% if your Rider Effective Date is before January 1, 2009) until the Remaining Protected Balance is depleted and will remain unchanged unless a Reset occurs. If an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs and your first withdrawal after that Reset is taken on or after age 591/2, the withdrawal percentage will be the withdrawal percentage that corresponds to the age at the time of the first withdrawal.
 
There is an opportunity for an increase in the withdrawal percentage. The withdrawal percentage in the table above will increase by 0.10% for each Rider year a withdrawal is not taken beginning on the later of the Contract Anniversary following the Owner’s age 591/2 or the Rider Effective Date. In addition, the increase in the withdrawal percentage will still be included as you reach a new age band (for example, if your first withdrawal is taken after age 591/2 and at age 69 your withdrawal percentage is 4.4%, then your withdrawal percentage would be 5.4% the Contract Anniversary immediately after you turn 70). However, once a withdrawal is taken (including an RMD Withdrawal), regardless of the Owner’s age when the withdrawal is taken, no further increase in the withdrawal percentage will be available and eligibility for the increase cannot be reinstated with a Reset.
 
The withdrawal percentage, including any 0.10% increase, will not be reduced as a result of a Reset.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. Immediately following the withdrawal the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX B: AUTOMATIC INCOME BUILDER RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,


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  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduces the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 591/2 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 591/2. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and


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Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 591/2 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued, except that eligibility for the increase in the withdrawal percentage cannot be reinstated with a Reset once a withdrawal is taken. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset. On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election. Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above. If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation. You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries. If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic). You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.


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Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 591/2 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. The withdrawal percentage will be determined based on the age of the surviving spouse and the new withdrawal percentage may be higher or lower than what the withdrawal percentage was prior to death. In addition, if the surviving spouse is 591/2 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base and withdrawal percentage) for life.
 
Any 0.10% increase to the withdrawal percentage previously added will apply but no further increases to the withdrawal percentage will be added.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,


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  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
If this Rider is terminated as a result of having any portion of the Contract Value no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements, you must wait until a Contract Anniversary that is at least one (1) year from the Effective Date of termination before this Rider may be purchased again (if available).
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX B: AUTOMATIC INCOME BUILDER RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single)
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.


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The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 591/2 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount) then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.


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If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contact Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or


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  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
  •  the payments of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to 5% of the Protected Payment Base each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 591/2 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 591/2. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 591/2 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.


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The Annual Credit is equal to 6% of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset occurs. If such a Reset occurs, your eligibility for the Annual Credit will be reinstated as of the Reset Date.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Annual Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in effect in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract


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Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 591/2 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. In addition, if the surviving spouse is 591/2 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base and withdrawal percentage) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,


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  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract if the Contract is Non-Qualified,
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Joint)
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Designated Lives (each a “Designated Life”) – Designated Lives must be natural persons who are each other’s spouses on the Rider Effective Date. Designated Lives will remain unchanged while this Rider is in effect.
 
To be eligible for lifetime benefits, a Designated Life must:
 
  •  be the Owner (or the Annuitant, in the case of a custodial owned IRA or TSA), or
 
  •  remain the Spouse of the other Designated Life and be the first in line of succession, as determined under the Contract, for payment of any death benefit.


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Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Spouse – The Owner’s spouse who is treated as the Owner’s spouse pursuant to federal law.
 
Surviving Spouse – The surviving spouse of a deceased Owner.
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits. This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, on each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount) then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.


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If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. Immediately following the withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount (or is an RMD withdrawal) and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
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  •  the payments of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the surviving Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the death of the surviving Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
  •  if a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection, and
 
  •  any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 6% of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset occurs. If such a Reset occurs, your eligibility for the Annual Credit will be reinstated as of the Reset Date.
 
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Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Annual Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in effect in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.


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Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the Surviving Spouse (who is also a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits) elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the Surviving Spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the day of the death of such Surviving Spouse. The Surviving Spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries.
 
The Surviving Spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Ownership and Beneficiary Changes
 
Changes to the Contract Owner, Annuitant and/or Beneficiary designations and changes in marital status, including a dissolution of marriage, may adversely affect the benefits of this Rider. A particular change may make a Designated Life ineligible to receive lifetime income benefits under this Rider. As a result, the Rider may remain in effect and you may pay for benefits that you will not receive. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional and consider your options prior to making any Owner, Annuitant and/or Beneficiary changes to your Contract.
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day of death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  upon the death of the first Designated Life, if a death benefit is payable and a Surviving Spouse who chooses to continue the Contract is not a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  upon the death of the first Designated Life, if a death benefit is payable and the Contract is not continued by a Surviving Spouse who is a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  if both Designated Lives are Joint Owners and there is a change in marital status, the Rider will terminate upon the death of the first Designated Life who is a Contract Owner,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day that neither Designated Life is an Owner (or Annuitant, in the case of a custodial owned IRA or TSA),
 
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  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day of death of:
 
  •  all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits, or
 
  •  the first Designated Life who is a Contract Owner if both Designated Lives are Joint Owners and there is a change in marital status,
 
if, at the time of these events, the Contract Value is zero and we are making pre-authorized withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base. In this case, the Rider will terminate when the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, see Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance subsection.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Foundation 10 Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Maximum Credit Base – An amount equal to 200% of the Remaining Protected Balance as of the Rider Effective Date and any subsequent Purchase Payments made during the first year that the Rider is in effect plus 100% of all subsequent Purchase Payments made after the first year.


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Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 591/2 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance if no withdrawals are taken. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount) then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans section in the Prospectus.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain


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unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX D: FOUNDATION 10 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section in the Prospectus.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions section in the Prospectus.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
  •  the payments of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
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  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduces the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to 5% of the Protected Payment Base each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 591/2 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 591/2. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 591/2 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date,
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date, and
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is less than the Maximum Credit Base.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 10% of the total of:
 
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  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. In addition, Annual Credit eligibility cannot be reinstated by any Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued, except that eligibility for the Annual Credit cannot be reinstated with a Reset. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
If a withdrawal is taken, the Annual Credit will no longer be applied and cannot be restarted with an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset. In addition, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset will not start a new 10 year period for Annual Credit eligibility.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges). A Reset does not begin a new 10 year period for the Annual Credit to be applied.
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above. If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract


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Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 591/2 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero. If the Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse is 591/2 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base and withdrawal percentage) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see the DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits in the Prospectus).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
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  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract if the Contract is Non-Qualified,
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX D: FOUNDATION 10 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS to this SAI. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
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Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Income Access Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Income Access Credit is referred to as Annual Credit in the Contract’s Rider.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, on which you elect to Reset the Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, determined as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 65 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Income Access Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets and Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Income Access Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Income Access Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans section in the Prospectus.


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Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount.  If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER & INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section in the Prospectus.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD withdrawal amount.
 
See the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions section in the Prospectus.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.


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  •  the payments of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and may not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to 5% of the Protected Payment Base each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 65 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 65. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 65 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Income Access Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 5 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
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  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Income Access Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless a reset occurs.
 
The Income Access Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Income Access Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
If you want to participate in Automatic Resets, you must make an affirmative election in a form satisfactory to us. Otherwise, you may reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as outlined under Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic) below.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Income Access Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see the CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges section in the Prospectus).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and any change in the annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in effect in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Income Access Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.


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Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 65 and no Resets have occurred.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero. The surviving spouse may elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary. If a reset occurs at age 65 or older, then the provisions of this Rider will continue for the surviving spouse.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
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  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER & INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS to this SAI. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Income Access Plus Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn each Contract Year under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.


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Income Access Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Income Access Credit is referred to as Annual Credit in the Contract’s Rider.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, on which you elect to Reset the Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, determined as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider allows for withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Income Access Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. This Rider does not provide lifetime withdrawal benefits. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets and Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Income Access Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Income Access Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans section in the Prospectus.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance equals zero. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.


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Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount.  If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) causes the total amount withdrawn during the Contract Year to exceed the Protected Payment Amount, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER & INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section in the Prospectus.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero. The payments will be made under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency, as elected by you, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and may not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under the series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
On and after August 1, 2005, no adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
If the Contract Value is reduced to zero, RMD withdrawals will cease and any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals in accordance with the terms of the Rider.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD withdrawal amount.
 
See the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions section in the Prospectus.


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Income Access Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, an Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is prior to the 6th Contract Anniversary, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Income Access Credit is equal to 6% of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Income Access Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless you elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance.
 
The Income Access Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Income Access Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date. Please discuss with your financial professional your Contract’s maximum Annuity Date when considering reset options.
 
If you want to participate in Automatic Resets, you must make an affirmative election in a form satisfactory to us. Otherwise, you may reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as outlined under Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic) below.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Income Access Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see the CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges section in the Prospectus).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and any change in the annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in effect in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
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Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Income Access Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue, unless otherwise terminated.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, except as otherwise provided in the paragraph below, or
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
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The Rider and the Contract will not terminate on the first death of an Owner or death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract if, at the time of those events, the Contract Value is zero and we are making pre-authorized withdrawals of the Remaining Protected Balance under the provisions of the Rider. If we are making pre-authorized withdrawals, the Contract and the Rider will terminate on the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day the Remaining Protected Balance is zero.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER & INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS to this SAI. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
How the Rider Works
 
If you purchased the optional GIA 5 Rider, you may choose any of the Annuity Options described in your Contract, or you may choose the GIA 5 Annuity Option provided this Rider has been in effect for at least 10 years from the later of its Effective Date or the most recent Step-Up Date. You must choose fixed annuity payments under this GIA 5 Annuity Option. The guaranteed income purchased per $1,000 of the net amount applied to the annuity payments will be based on an annual interest rate of 2.5% and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the age set back 10 years. The net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA 5 Annuity Option will be based on the Net Guaranteed Income Base, which is described below.
 
Net Guaranteed Income Base – The amount applied on the Annuity Date as a single premium to provide annuity payments under the GIA 5 Annuity Option. The Net Guaranteed Income Base is equal to:
 
  •  the Guaranteed Income Base as of the Annuity Date, less
 
  •  any applicable withdrawal charge resulting from the conversion to the GIA 5 Annuity Option, less
 
  •  any Contract Debt, and less
 
  •  any charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes.
 
Guaranteed Income Base – If you purchase the GIA 5 Rider on the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is initially set on the Effective Date of the Rider. If the Rider is effective on the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Initial Purchase Payment. If the Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The Guaranteed Income Base on any Business Day after the Effective Date is the Guaranteed Income Base on the prior Business Day, increased by any additions on that day as a result of any:
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us, plus
 
  •  increases at an annual growth rate of 5%, plus
 
  •  additional amounts as a result of a Step-Up in the Guaranteed Income Base
 
and decreased by any deductions on that day as a result of any:
 
  •  adjustments for withdrawals.
 
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Any portion of the Net Contract Value converted to provide payments under an Annuity Option, as described in the Contract, will be considered a “withdrawal” for purposes of determining any adjustment to the Guaranteed Income Base.
 
The 5% annual growth rate will take into account the timing of when each Purchase Payment and withdrawal occurred. This is accomplished by applying a daily factor of 1.000133681 to each day’s Guaranteed Income Base balance. The 5% annual growth rate will stop accruing as of the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary following the day the youngest Annuitant reaches his or her 80th birthday, or
 
  •  the day the GIA 5 Rider terminates.
 
Election of Step-Up – On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Effective Date of this Rider and before the Annuity Date, you may elect to increase the Guaranteed Income Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value as of the Step-Up Date. A Step-Up will begin a new 10-year period before you may elect to have any annuity payments made under the GIA 5 Annuity Option.
 
The Guaranteed Income Advantage Charge (“GIA 5 Charge”) may change if you elect a Step-Up in the Guaranteed Income Base. However, the GIA 5 Charge will never exceed the GIA 5 Charge then being offered for this same benefit under newly issued riders and will not be more than a maximum charge of 0.75%. If the Guaranteed Income Base is never stepped-up, the GIA 5 Charge established on the Effective Date of this Rider is guaranteed not to change.
 
Your Step-Up election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective.
 
Once a Step-Up has been elected and is in effect, another Step-Up may not be elected until on or after the fifth (5th) anniversary of the latest Step-Up Date. We will provide you with written confirmation of your Step-Up election.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA 5) Annuity Option
 
The annuity payments that may be elected under the GIA 5 Annuity Option are:
 
  •  Life Only,
 
  •  Life with 10 years or more Period Certain,
 
  •  Joint and Survivor Life, or
 
  •  15 years or more Period Certain.
 
If you elect the GIA 5 Annuity Option, the waiver of withdrawal charges as described in the Contract will not apply. We will reduce the net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA 5 Annuity Option by any remaining withdrawal charges. The Rider contains annuity tables for each GIA 5 Annuity Option available.
 
For information regarding taxation of annuity payments, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section of the Prospectus.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue, unless otherwise terminated.
 
Termination
 
The GIA 5 Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
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  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the terms of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
How the Rider Works
 
If you purchased the optional GIA II Rider, you may choose any of the Annuity Options described in your Contract, or you may choose the GIA II Annuity Option provided this Rider has been in effect for at least 10 years from the later of its Effective Date or the most recent Step-Up Date. You must choose fixed annuity payments under this GIA II Annuity Option. The guaranteed income purchased per $1,000 of the net amount applied to the annuity payments will be based on an annual interest rate of 2.5% and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the age set back 10 years. The net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA II Annuity Option will be based on the Net Guaranteed Income Base, which is described below. The Rider contains annuity tables for each GIA II Annuity Option available.
 
Net Guaranteed Income Base – The amount applied on the Annuity Date as a single premium to provide annuity payments under the GIA II Annuity Option. The Net Guaranteed Income Base is equal to:
 
  •  the Guaranteed Income Base as of the Annuity Date, less
 
  •  any applicable withdrawal charge resulting from the conversion to the GIA II Annuity Option, less
 
  •  any Contract Debt, and less
 
  •  any charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes.
 
Guaranteed Income Base – If you purchase the GIA II Rider, the Guaranteed Income Base is initially set on the Effective Date of the Rider. If the Rider is effective on the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment. If the Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The Guaranteed Income Base on any Business Day after the Effective Date is the Guaranteed Income Base on the prior Business Day, increased by any additions on that day as a result of any:
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us, plus
 
  •  increases at an annual growth rate of 5%, plus
 
  •  additional amounts as a result of a Step-Up in the Guaranteed Income Base
 
and decreased by any deductions on that day as a result of any:
 
  •  adjustments for withdrawals.
 
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Any portion of the Net Contract Value converted to provide payments under an Annuity Option, as described in the Contract, will be considered a “withdrawal” for purposes of determining any adjustment to the Guaranteed Income Base.
 
The 5% annual growth rate will take into account the timing of when each Purchase Payment and withdrawal occurred. This is accomplished by applying a daily factor of 1.000133681 to each day’s Guaranteed Income Base balance.
 
The 5% annual growth rate will stop accruing as of the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary following the day the youngest Annuitant reaches his or her 80th birthday, or
 
  •  the day the GIA II Rider terminates.
 
Election of Step-Up – On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Effective Date of this Rider and before the Annuity Date, you may elect to increase the Guaranteed Income Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value as of the Step-Up Date. A Step-Up will begin a new 10-year period before you may elect to have any annuity payments made under the GIA II Annuity Option.
 
The Guaranteed Income Advantage Charge (“GIA II Charge”) may change if you elect a Step-Up in the Guaranteed Income Base. However, the GIA II Charge will never exceed the GIA II Charge then being offered for this same benefit under newly issued riders and will not be more than a maximum charge of 1.00%. If the Guaranteed Income Base is never stepped-up, the GIA II Charge established on the Effective Date of this Rider is guaranteed not to change.
 
Your Step-Up election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective.
 
Once a Step-Up has been elected and is in effect, another Step-Up may not be elected until on or after the fifth (5th) anniversary of the latest Step-Up Date. We will provide you with written confirmation of your Step-Up election.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II) Annuity Option
 
The annuity payments that may be elected under the GIA II Annuity Option are:
 
  •  Life Only,
 
  •  Life with 10 years or more Period Certain,
 
  •  Joint and Survivor Life, or
 
  •  15 years or more Period Certain.
 
If you elect the GIA II Annuity Option, the waiver of withdrawal charges as described in the Contract will not apply. We will reduce the net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA II Annuity Option by any remaining withdrawal charges. The Rider contains annuity tables for each GIA II Annuity Option available.
 
For information regarding taxation of annuity payments, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section in the Prospectus.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue, unless otherwise terminated.
 
Termination
 
The GIA II Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day we receive notification from you to terminate the Rider,
 
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  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the terms of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
How the Rider Works
 
If you purchased the GIA Rider, you may choose any of the Annuity Options described in your Contract, or you may choose the GIA Annuity Option if 10 years have passed since the GIA Rider was purchased and the GIA Rider is still in effect. You must choose fixed annuity payments under this GIA Annuity Option. The GIA Rider is only available for purchase until the date the GIA Plus Rider becomes available in your state.
 
The guaranteed income purchased per $1,000 of the net amount applied to the annuity payments will be based on an annual interest rate of 2.5% and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the age set back 10 years. The net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA Annuity Option will be based on the higher of the Guaranteed Income Base or the Enhanced Income Base, which are described below.
 
  1.  Guaranteed Income Base – If you purchase the GIA Rider on the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Purchase Payments less an adjustment for each withdrawal, increased at a 5% effective annual rate of interest. We calculate the adjustment for each withdrawal by multiplying the Guaranteed Income Base prior to a withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including applicable withdrawal charges, to the Contract Value immediately prior to withdrawal.
 
If you purchase the GIA Rider on a Contract Anniversary after the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Contract Value on the date the GIA Rider is purchased, plus all Purchase Payments made after the GIA Rider is purchased, less an adjustment for each withdrawal occurring after the GIA Rider was purchased, increased at a 5% effective annual rate of interest. We calculate the adjustment for each withdrawal by multiplying the Guaranteed Income Base prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including applicable withdrawal charges, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
The effective annual rate of interest will take into account the timing of when each Purchase Payment and withdrawal occurred. We accomplish this by applying a daily factor of 1.000133681 to each day’s Guaranteed Income Base balance. The 5% effective annual rate of interest will stop accruing as of the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary following the date the youngest Annuitant reaches his or her 80th birthday,
 
  •  a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal under the Contract,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant,
 
  •  any termination of the Contract in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the Annuity Date, or
 
  •  termination of the GIA Rider.
 
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additional Purchase Payments added to the Contract, any applicable state premium tax, and any outstanding Contract Debt.
 
  2.  Enhanced Income Base – The Enhanced Income Base is equal to your Net Contract Value on the Annuity Date plus an additional 15% of the amount equal to:
 
  •  the Net Contract Value on the Annuity Date, less
 
  •  the sum of all Purchase Payments applied to the Contract in the 12 months prior to the Annuity Date.
 
On the Annuity Date, the net amount we apply to the annuity payments will be the Enhanced Income Base reduced by any withdrawal charges and any applicable state premium tax.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA) Annuity Option
 
The annuity payments that may be elected under the GIA Annuity Option are:
 
  •  Life Only,
 
  •  Life with 10 years or more Period Certain,
 
  •  Joint and Survivor Life, or
 
  •  15 years or more Period Certain.
 
If you elect the GIA Annuity Option, the waiver of withdrawal charges as described in the Contract will not apply. We will reduce the net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA Annuity Option by any remaining withdrawal charges. The Rider contains annuity tables for each GIA Annuity Option available.
 
For information regarding taxation of annuity payments, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section in the Prospectus.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while the Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue, unless otherwise terminated.
 
Termination
 
The GIA Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the date a full withdrawal of the amount available for withdrawal under the Contract,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the terms of the Contract,
 
  •  the Annuity Date, or
 
  •  termination of the GIA Rider.
 
You may terminate the GIA Rider on any Contract Anniversary.
 
If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary.
 
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
The statements of assets and liabilities of Separate Account A as of December 31, 2009, the related statements of operations for the periods presented, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the periods presented and the


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financial highlights for each of the periods presented are incorporated by reference in this Statement of Additional Information from the Annual Report of Separate Account A dated December 31, 2009. Pacific Life’s consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 are attached. These financial statements should be considered only as bearing on the ability of Pacific Life to meet its obligations under the Contracts and not as bearing on the investment performance of the assets held in the Separate Account.
 
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
AND INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
 
The financial statements of Separate Account A of Pacific Life Insurance Company as of December 31, 2009 and for each of the periods presented have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, 695 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report included in the Annual Report of Separate Account A dated December 31, 2009, which is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.
 
The consolidated financial statements of Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, 695 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, independent auditors, as stated in their report appearing herein.


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APPENDIX A:
 
FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT)
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Examples 1 through 5 apply to the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single) and (Joint) Riders.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Youngest Owner’s Age = 74 on the Contract Date
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Youngest Owner’s Age = 74 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  No Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $10,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there were no withdrawals during that Contract Year).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, an annual credit of $10,000 (5% of the initial Remaining Protected Balance plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the


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Rider Effective Date) is applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $210,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $10,500 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Youngest Owner’s Age = 74 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Years 2, 3 and 4.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 4 and 5.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $10,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
Activity
      $10,500   $209,000       $210,000   $0   $199,500
3
          $209,000   $0   $210,000   $10,500   $199,500
Activity
      $10,500   $214,845       $210,000   $0   $189,000
4
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $214,845   $0   $210,000   $10,500   $189,000
4
  (After Automatic Reset)       $214,845   $0   $214,845   $12,890   $214,845
Activity
      $12,890   $216,994       $214,845   $0   $201,955
5
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $216,994   $0   $214,845   $12,890   $201,955
5
  (After Automatic Reset)       $216,994   $0   $216,994   $13,019   $216,994
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $199,500 ($210,000 −$10,500).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $189,000 ($199,500 −$10,500).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset). Additionally, the reset took place after the Owner reached age 75. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $12,890 (6% of the reset Protected Payment Base).


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As the withdrawal during Contract Year 4 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($12,890):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $201,955 ($214,845 −$12,890).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 5, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 5 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 5 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $13,019 (6% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Since withdrawals occurred during Contract Years 2, 3 and 4, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 5, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Youngest Owner’s Age = 74 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Year 3.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $10,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
Activity
      $15,000   $206,490       $205,527   $0   $195,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $206,490   $0   $205,527   $10,276   $195,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $206,490   $0   $206,490   $12,389   $206,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $15,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($15,000 > $10,500), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $210,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $210,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,500 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $210,000 = $10,500)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $15,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,500 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $4,500 (total withdrawal amount − Protected Payment Amount; $15,000 − $10,500 = $4,500).


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Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value − Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $206,490 after the withdrawal plus the $15,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 2.13% ($4,500 ¸ ($221,490 − $10,500); $4,500 ¸ $210,990 = 0.0213 or 2.13%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $205,527 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $210,000 × (1-2.13%); $210,000 × 97.87% = $205,527).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $195,250 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal − Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($210,000 − $10,500) × (1-2.13%); $199,500 × 97.87% = $195,250).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $195,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal − total withdrawal amount; $210,000 − $15,000 = $195,000).
 
Therefore, since $195,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $195,250 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $195,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $205,527 = $10,276), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($15,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). Additionally, the reset took place after the Owner reached age 75. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $12,389 (6% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Since withdrawals occurred during Contract Year 2, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 3, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
              $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the


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Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount − Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 − $1,250=$2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value − Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 − $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 ((Remaining Protected Balance − Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 − $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance − total withdrawal amount; $92,375 − $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
This example applies to the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single) only.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
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                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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Example #7 – Lifetime Income.
 
This example applies to the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Joint) Only.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.
  •  All Designated Lives remain eligible for lifetime income benefits while the Rider is in effect.
 
                         
                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
Activity (Death of first
Designated Life)
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000


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Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
During Contract Year 13, the death of the first Designated Life occurred. Withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (5% of the Protected Payment Base) will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance were reduced to zero) until the Rider terminates.
 
If there was a change in Owner, Beneficiary or marital status prior to the death of the first Designated Life that resulted in the surviving Designated Life (spouse) to become ineligible for lifetime income benefits, then the lifetime income benefits under the Rider would not continue for the surviving Designated Life and the Rider would terminate upon the death of the first Designated Life.


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APPENDIX B:
 
AUTOMATIC INCOME BUILDER RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 68
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = Withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base = 4% × $100,000 = $4,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 68
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $207,000   $200,000   $8,200   $200,000
2
  After Automatic Reset       $207,000   $207,000   $8,487   $207,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000   $307,000   $12,587   $307,000
3
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $321,490   $307,000   $15,964   $307,000
3
  After Automatic Reset       $321,490   $321,490   $16,717   $321,490
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 +


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$100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $8,000 (4.0% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, the withdrawal percentage is increased to 4.1%. Additionally, because at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 2 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 2 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $8,487 (4.1% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $307,000 ($207,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $12,587 (4.1% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment.
 
Since the Owner reached age 70 and no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the withdrawal percentage is increased to 5.2%. Additionally, because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $16,717 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 68
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 3.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Years 2, 3 and 4.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $207,000   $200,000   $8,200   $200,000
2
  After Automatic Reset       $207,000   $207,000   $8,487   $207,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000   $307,000   $12,587   $307,000
3
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $321,490   $307,000   $15,964   $307,000
3
  After Automatic Reset       $321,490   $321,490   $16,717   $321,490
Activity
      $16,717   $327,277   $321,490   $0   $304,773
4
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $327,277   $321,490   $16,717   $304,773
4
  After Automatic Reset       $327,277   $327,277   $17,018   $327,277
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Years 1 and 2, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
At the Beginning of Contract Year 3, since the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic


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Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $16,717 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($16,717):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $304,773 ($321,490 − $16,717).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 3, the withdrawal percentage will no longer increase as a result of delaying withdrawals.
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $17,018 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 68
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 3.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2, 3 and 4.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $207,000   $200,000   $8,200   $200,000
2
  After Automatic Reset       $207,000   $207,000   $8,487   $207,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000   $307,000   $12,587   $307,000
3
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $321,490   $307,000   $15,964   $307,000
3
  After Automatic Reset       $321,490   $321,490   $16,717   $321,490
Activity
      $30,000   $313,994   $308,437   $0   $291,490
4
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $313,994   $308,437   $16,038   $291,490
4
  After Automatic Reset       $313,994   $313,994   $16,327   $313,994
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Years 1 and 2, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Since the Owner reached age 70 and no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the withdrawal percentage is increased to 5.2%. Additionally, because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $16,717 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($16,717), the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $308,437 and the Remaining Protected Balance is


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reduced to $291,490. The reduction in the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance is calculated as follows:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $13,283 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $30,000 − $16,717 = $13,283).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $343,994, which equals the $313,994 after the withdrawal plus the $30,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 4.06% ($13,283 ¸ ($343,994 − $16,717); $13,283 ¸ $327,277 = 0.0406 or 4.06%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $308,437 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $321,490 × (1-4.06%); $321,490 × 95.94% = $308,437).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount and then multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $292,399 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($321,490 − $16,717) × (1-4.06%); $304,773 × 95.94% = $292,399).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $291,490 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $321,490 − $30,000 = $291,490).
 
Therefore, since $291,490 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $292,399 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $291,490.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 3, the withdrawal percentage will no longer increase as a result of delaying withdrawals.
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $16,327 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining


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Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 − $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 − $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base x (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount and then multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 ((Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) x (1-ratio); ($92,375 − $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 − $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 65
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Withdrawals, are taken each Contract Year:
  •  Equal to 4% of the Protected Payment Base in Contract Years 1-5 (age 65-69)
  •  Equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base in Contract Years 6-20 (age 70-84)
  •  Equal to 6% of the Protected Payment Base in Contract Years 21-35 (age 85-99)
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.


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            Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $4,000   $99,000   $100,000   $4,000   $96,000
2
  $4,000   $97,970   $100,000   $4,000   $92,000
3
  $4,000   $96,909   $100,000   $4,000   $88,000
4
  $4,000   $95,816   $100,000   $4,000   $84,000
5
  $4,000   $94,691   $100,000   $4,000   $80,000
6
  $5,000   $92,532   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
7
  $5,000   $90,308   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
8
  $5,000   $88,017   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
9
  $5,000   $85,657   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
10
  $5,000   $83,227   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
11
  $5,000   $80,724   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
12
  $5,000   $78,146   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
13
  $5,000   $75,490   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
14
  $5,000   $72,755   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
15
  $5,000   $69,937   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
16
  $5,000   $67,035   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
17
  $5,000   $64,046   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
18
  $5,000   $60,968   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
19
  $5,000   $57,797   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
20
  $5,000   $54,531   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
21
  $6,000   $50,167   $100,000   $6,000   $0
22
  $6,000   $45,672   $100,000   $6,000   $0
23
  $6,000   $41,042   $100,000   $6,000   $0
24
  $6,000   $36,273   $100,000   $6,000   $0
25
  $6,000   $31,361   $100,000   $6,000   $0
26
  $6,000   $26,302   $100,000   $6,000   $0
27
  $6,000   $21,091   $100,000   $6,000   $0
28
  $6,000   $15,724   $100,000   $6,000   $0
29
  $6,000   $10,196   $100,000   $6,000   $0
30
  $6,000   $4,501   $100,000   $6,000   $0
31
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
32
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
33
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
34
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
35
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 4% of Protected Payment Base = $4,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal: (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
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Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 4%, 5% and 6% of the Protected Payment Base, respectively, will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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APPENDIX C:
 
FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT)
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Examples 1 through 5 apply to the Flexible Lifetime Income (Single) and (Joint) Riders
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  No Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $12,000   $212,000   $10,600   $212,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, an annual credit of $12,000 (6% of the initial Remaining Protected Balance plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date) is applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract


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Anniversary, increasing both to $212,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $10,600 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Years 2, 3 and 4.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 4 and 5.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $12,000   $212,000   $10,600   $212,000
Activity
      $10,600   $210,890       $212,000       $201,400
3
          $210,890   $0   $212,000   $10,600   $201,400
Activity
      $10,600   $215,052       $212,000       $190,800
4
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $215,052   $0   $212,000   $10,600   $190,800
4
  (After Automatic Reset)       $215,052   $0   $215,052   $10,752   $215,052
Activity
      $10,600   $219,506       $215,052   $152   $204,452
5
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $219,506   $0   $215,052   $10,752   $204,452
5
  (After Automatic Reset)       $219,506   $0   $219,506   $10,975   $219,506
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,600):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $201,400 ($212,000 – $10,600).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,600):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $190,800 ($201,400 – $10,600).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,752 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 4 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,600):
 
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  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $204,452 ($215,052 − $10,600); and
  •  the Protected Payment Amount is reduced to $152 (5% of the Protected Payment Base less cumulative withdrawals (5% × $215,052 − $10,600 = $152).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 5, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 5 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 5 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,975 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Since withdrawals occurred during Contract Years 2, 3 and 4, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a Reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 5, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Year 4.
 
                             
Beginning
          Contract
      Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $12,000   $212,000   $10,600   $212,000
Activity
      $15,000   $206,490       $207,590   $0   $197,000
3
          $206,490   $0   $207,590   $10,379   $197,000
4
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $220,944   $0   $207,590   $10,379   $197,000
4
  (After Automatic Reset)       $220,944   $0   $220,944   $11,047   $220,944
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $15,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($15,000 > $10,600), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $212,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $212,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,600 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $212,000 = $10,600)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $15,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,600 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $4,400 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $15,000 – $10,600 = $4,400).
 
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the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $206,490 after the withdrawal plus the $15,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 2.08% ($4,400 ¸ ($221,490 – $10,600); $4,400 ¸ $210,890 = 0.0208 or 2.08%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $207,590 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $212,000 × (1-2.08%); $212,000 × 97.92% = $207,590).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,210 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($212,000 – $10,600) × (1-2.08%); $201,400 × 97.92% = $197,210).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $212,000 – $15,000 = $197,000).
 
Therefore, since $197,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $197,210 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $207,590 = $10,379), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($15,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 2, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 4, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006               $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006           $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the


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Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $1,250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $1,250 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 (Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
This example applies to the Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single) only.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.


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                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1 and no Resets occurred, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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Example #7 – Lifetime Income.
 
This example applies to the Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Joint) only.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.
  •  All Designated Lives remain eligible for lifetime income benefits while the Rider is in effect.
 
                         
                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
 Activity (Death of first Designated Life)
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000


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Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
During Contract Year 13, the death of the first Designated Life occurred. Withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (5% of the Protected Payment Base) will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance were reduced to zero) until the death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits.
 
If there was a change in Owner, Beneficiary or marital status prior to the death of the first Designated Life that resulted in the surviving Designated Life (spouse) to become ineligible for lifetime income benefits, then the lifetime income benefits under the Rider would not continue for the surviving Designated Life and the Rider would terminate upon the death of the first Designated Life.


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APPENDIX D:
 
FOUNDATION 10 RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                                 
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
   
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Maximum
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Credit Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
  •  Maximum Credit Base = 200% of the Initial Purchase Payment = $200,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Year 10.
 
                                 
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
   
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Maximum
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Credit Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000   $400,000
2
          $207,000   $20,000   $220,000   $11,000   $220,000   $400,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000       $320,000   $16,000   $320,000   $500,000
3
          $321,490   $30,000   $350,000   $17,500   $350,000   $500,000
4
          $343,994   $30,000   $380,000   $19,000   $380,000   $500,000
5
          $368,073   $30,000   $410,000   $20,500   $410,000   $500,000
6
          $393,839   $30,000   $440,000   $22,000   $440,000   $500,000
7
          $421,407   $30,000   $470,000   $23,500   $470,000   $500,000
8
          $450,906   $30,000   $500,000   $25,000   $500,000   $500,000
9
          $482,469   $0   $500,000   $25,000   $500,000   $500,000
10
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $516,242   $0   $500,000   $25,000   $500,000   $500,000
10
  After Automatic Reset       $516,242   $0   $516,242   $25,812   $516,242   $500,000
 


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Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). Since the subsequent Purchase Payment is received in Contract Year 1, the Maximum Credit Base is increased by 200% of the Purchase Payment, to $400,000. The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there were no withdrawals during that Contract Year).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, an annual credit of $20,000 (10% of the initial Remaining Protected Balance plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date) is applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $220,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $11,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $320,000 ($220,000 + $100,000). Since the subsequent Purchase Payment is received in Contract Year 2, the Maximum Credit Base is increased by 100% of the Purchase Payment, to $500,000. The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $16,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there were no withdrawals during that Contract Year).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, an annual credit of $30,000 (10% of the initial Remaining Protected Balance plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date) is applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $350,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $17,500 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
An Annual Credit is no longer applied after the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance reach the Maximum Credit Base of $500,000 in Contract Year 8.
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 10, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 10 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 10 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $25,812 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Years 3 and 4.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Year 6.
 


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Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
   
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Maximum
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Credit Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000   $400,000
2
          $207,000   $20,000   $220,000   $11,000   $220,000   $400,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000       $320,000   $16,000   $320,000   $500,000
3
          $321,490   $30,000   $350,000   $17,500   $350,000   $500,000
Activity
      $17,500   $326,494       $350,000   $0   $332,500   $500,000
4
          $326,494   $0   $350,000   $17,500   $332,500   $500,000
Activity
      $17,500   $331,848       $350,000   $0   $315,000   $500,000
5
          $331,848   $0   $350,000   $17,500   $315,000   $500,000
6
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $355,077   $0   $350,000   $17,500   $315,000   $500,000
6
  After Automatic Reset       $355,077   $0   $355,077   $17,753   $355,077   $500,000
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($17,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $332,500 ($350,000 – $17,500).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 4 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($17,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $315,000 ($332,500 – $17,500).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 6, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 6 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 6 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $17,753 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 3, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 3.
 

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Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
  Maximum
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Credit
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000   $400,000
2
          $207,000   $20,000   $220,000   $11,000   $220,000   $400,000
Activity
  $100,000       $321,490       $320,000   $16,000   $320,000   $500,000
3
          $321,490   $30,000   $350,000   $17,500   $350,000   $500,000
Activity
      $25,000   $318,994       $341,985   $0   $324,885   $500,000
4
          $318,994   $0   $341,985   $17,099   $324,885   $500,000
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $25,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 3 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($25,000 > $17,500), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $343,994
  •  Protected Payment Base = $350,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $350,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $17,500 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $350,000 = $17,500)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $25,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $17,500 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $7,500 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $25,000 – $17,500 = $7,500).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $343,994, which equals the $318,994 after the withdrawal plus the $25,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 2.29% ($7,500 ¸ ($343,994 – $17,500); $7,500 ¸ $326,494 = 0.0229 or 2.29%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $341,985 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $350,000 × (1-2.29%); $350,000 × 97.71% = $341,985).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $324,885 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($350,000 – $17,500) × (1-2.29%); $332,500 × 97.71% = $324,885).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $325,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $350,000 – $25,000 = $325,000).

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Therefore, since $324,885 (proportionate method) is less than $325,000 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $324,885.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $341,985 = $17,099), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($25,000), but not less than zero).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 3, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 4, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #5 – Annual Credit & Resets.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments received.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
 
                                 
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
  Maximum
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Credit
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
2
          $107,000   $10,000   $110,000   $5,500   $110,000   $200,000
3
          $125,000   $10,000   $125,000   $6,250   $125,000   $200,000
4
          $120,000   $12,500   $137,500   $6,875   $137,500   $200,000
5
          $190,000   $12,500   $190,000   $9,500   $190,000   $200,000
6
          $180,000   $19,000   $209,000   $10,450   $209,000   $200,000
7
          $240,000   $0   $240,000   $12,000   $240,000   $200,000
8
          $220,000   $0   $240,000   $12,000   $240,000   $200,000
9
          $250,000   $0   $250,000   $12,500   $250,000   $200,000
 
 
On the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, an Annual Credit of $10,000 (10% of the Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
An Annual Credit of $10,000 would have been applied on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 3, but an Automatic Reset takes place instead, resetting the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $125,000.
 
On the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4, an Annual Credit of $12,500 (10% of the Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
An Annual Credit of $12,500 would have been applied on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 5, but an Automatic Reset took place instead, resetting the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $190,000.
 
On the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6, an Annual Credit of $19,000 (10% of the Remaining Protected Balance) is added, increasing the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $209,000. Annual Credits will no longer be added since the Maximum Credit Base of $200,000 has been reached.
 
Example #6 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
The effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
              $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the


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Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $1,250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $1,250 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 (Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #7 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.
 


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                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.

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APPENDIX E:

LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER &
INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Examples 1 through 5 apply to the Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider and the Income Access Plus Rider.
 
Example #1 – Income Access Credit; No Subsequent Purchase Payments; No Withdrawals; No Reset in Remaining Protected Balance.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  No Reset of the Remaining Protected Balance.
 
                             
Beginning
          Contract
  Income
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Access
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000       $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $6,000   $106,000   $5,300   $106,000
3
          $106,090   $6,000   $112,000   $5,600   $112,000
4
          $109,273   $6,000   $118,000   $5,900   $118,000
5
          $112,551   $6,000   $124,000   $6,200   $124,000
6
          $115,927   $6,000   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
7
          $119,405   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
8
          $122,987   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
9
          $126,677   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
10
          $130,477   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
11
          $134,392   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6, an Income Access Credit of $6,000 (6% of initial Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on each Contract Anniversary up to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6. As a result, on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are equal to $130,000 and the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $6,500 (5% of $130,000).
 
No Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary after the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6, as no reset in the Remaining Protected Balance was assumed.


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In addition to the Initial Purchase Payment, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payment.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $50,000 is received during Contract Year 2.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
 
                             
Beginning
              Income
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Access
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000       $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $6,000   $106,000   $5,300   $106,000
Activity
  $50,000       $154,534       $156,000   $7,800   $156,000
3
          $156,834   $9,000   $165,000   $8,250   $165,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, an Income Access Credit of $6,000 (6% of Initial Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $106,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $5,300 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
Immediately after the $50,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $156,000 ($106,000 + $50,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $7,800 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there are no withdrawals during that Contract Year).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 3, an Income Access Credit of $9,000 (6% of Initial Remaining Protected Balance plus 6% of the $50,000 subsequent Purchase Payment) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $165,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $8,250 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
Example #3 – Withdrawal Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  A withdrawal of $5,000 is taken during Contract Year 2.
 


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Beginning
              Income
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Access
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000       $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $6,000   $106,000   $5,300   $106,000
Activity
      $5,000   $99,534       $106,000   $300   $101,000
3
          $101,016   $0   $106,000   $5,300   $101,000
4
          $104,046   $0   $106,000   $5,300   $101,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, an Income Access Credit of $6,000 (6% of Initial Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $106,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $5,300 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
Because the $5,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,300):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged;
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $101,000 ($106,000 − $5,000); and
  •  the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $300 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $106,000 = $5,300), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($5,000)).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 2, no Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Year 4.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $12,000   $212,000   $10,600   $212,000
Activity
      $15,000   $206,490       $207,590   $0   $197,000
3
          $206,490   $0   $207,590   $10,379   $197,000
4
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $220,944   $0   $207,590   $10,379   $197,000
4
  (After Automatic Reset)       $220,944   $0   $220,944   $11,047   $220,944
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $15,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($15,000 > $10,600), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.

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The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $212,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $212,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,600 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $212,000 = $10,600)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $15,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,600 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $4,400 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $15,000 – $10,600 = $4,400).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $206,490 after the withdrawal plus the $15,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 2.08% ($4,400 ¸ ($221,490 – $10,600); $4,400 ¸ $210,890 = 0.0208 or 2.08%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $207,590 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $212,000 × (1-2.08%); $212,000 × 97.92% = $207,590).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,210 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($212,000 – $10,600) × (1-2.08%); $201,400 × 97.92% = $197,210).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $212,000 – $15,000 = $197,000).
 
Therefore, since $197,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $197,210 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $207,590 = $10,379), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($15,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 2, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 4, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.


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Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
The effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.
 
This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining


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Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $1,250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $1,250 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 (Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example 6 applies to the Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider only.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.


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  •  No Reset in the Remaining Protected Balance is assumed during the life of the Rider.
 
                         
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Payment Base   Payment Amount   Protected Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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Form No. 1801-10A


 

     
(LOGO)
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT
Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of financial condition of Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
As discussed in Notes 1 and 9 to the consolidated financial statements, the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been retrospectively adjusted to give effect of comparative information as a result of the aircraft leasing company transfer.
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, in 2009, the Company changed its method of accounting and reporting for other than temporary impairments of debt and equity securities.
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, in 2009, the Company adopted new guidance requiring retrospective application and presentation requirements for noncontrolling interest (previously known as minority interest).
(LOGO)
March 4, 2010
      Member of
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
 
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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
                 
    December 31,
    2009   2008
    (In Millions)
ASSETS
               
Investments:
               
Fixed maturity securities available for sale, at estimated fair value
  $ 26,039     $ 21,942  
Equity securities available for sale, at estimated fair value
    278       216  
Mortgage loans
    6,577       5,622  
Policy loans
    6,509       6,920  
Other investments
    2,007       2,052  
 
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
    41,410       36,752  
Cash and cash equivalents
    1,919       3,397  
Restricted cash
    221       227  
Deferred policy acquisition costs
    4,806       5,012  
Aircraft leasing portfolio, net
    5,304       4,999  
Other assets
    2,253       3,276  
Separate account assets
    52,564       41,505  
 
TOTAL ASSETS
  $ 108,477     $ 95,168  
 
 
               
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
               
Liabilities:
               
Policyholder account balances
  $ 33,984     $ 32,670  
Future policy benefits
    7,403       9,841  
Short-term debt
    105       150  
Long-term debt
    5,632       4,459  
Other liabilities
    1,872       1,863  
Separate account liabilities
    52,564       41,505  
 
TOTAL LIABILITIES
    101,560       90,488  
 
 
               
Commitments and contingencies (Note 21)
               
 
               
Stockholder’s Equity:
               
Common stock — $50 par value; 600,000 shares authorized, issued and outstanding
    30       30  
Paid-in capital
    982       782  
Retained earnings
    6,037       5,426  
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
    (363 )     (1,802 )
 
Total Stockholder’s Equity
    6,686       4,436  
Noncontrolling interest
    231       244  
 
TOTAL EQUITY
    6,917       4,680  
 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
  $ 108,477     $ 95,168  
 
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)
REVENUES
                       
Policy fees and insurance premiums
  $ 2,275     $ 1,997     $ 1,780  
Net investment income
    1,862       1,994       2,120  
Net realized investment gain (loss)
    153       (749 )     69  
Other than temporary impairments, consisting of $641 in total, net of $330 recognized in other comprehensive income (loss) for the year ended December 31, 2009
    (311 )     (580 )     (98 )
Realized investment gain on interest in PIMCO
            109          
Investment advisory fees
    208       255       327  
Aircraft leasing revenue
    578       571       535  
Other income
    137       167       147  
 
TOTAL REVENUES
    4,902       3,764       4,880  
 
 
                       
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                       
Interest credited to policyholder account balances
    1,253       1,234       1,266  
Policy benefits paid or provided
    1,226       1,206       855  
Commission expenses
    691       715       690  
Operating and other expenses
    1,246       1,178       1,235  
 
TOTAL BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
    4,416       4,333       4,046  
 
 
                       
INCOME (LOSS) FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS BEFORE PROVISION (BENEFIT) FOR INCOME TAXES
    486       (569 )     834  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    44       (315 )     129  
 
 
                       
INCOME (LOSS) FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS
    442       (254 )     705  
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
    (20 )     (6 )     11  
 
 
                       
Net income (loss)
    422       (260 )     716  
Less: net (income) loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest from continuing operations
    14       3       (38 )
 
 
                       
NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE COMPANY
  $ 436       ($257 )   $ 678  
 
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY
                                                                 
                                                         
                            Accumulated Other                    
                            Comprehensive Income (Loss)                    
                            Unrealized                            
                            Gain (Loss) On                            
                            Derivatives                            
                            and Securities             Total              
    Common     Paid-in     Retained     Available for     Other,     Stockholder’s     Noncontrolling     Total  
    Stock     Capital     Earnings     Sale, Net     Net     Equity     Interest     Equity  
    (In Millions)  
BALANCES, JANUARY 1, 2007
  $ 30     $ 780     $ 5,379     $ 445     $ 62     $ 6,696     $ 107     $ 6,803  
Comprehensive income (loss):
                                                               
Net income
                    678                       678       38       716  
Other comprehensive loss, net
                            (300 )     (16 )     (316 )             (316 )
Total comprehensive income
                                            362               400  
Cumulative effect of adoption of new accounting principle, net of tax
                    (29 )                     (29 )             (29 )
Contributions, net, received by noncontrolling interest
                                                    69       69  
Other equity adjustment
            1                               1               1  
 
BALANCES, DECEMBER 31, 2007
    30       781       6,028       145       46       7,030       214       7,244  
Comprehensive loss:
                                                               
Net loss
                    (257 )                     (257 )     (3 )     (260 )
Other comprehensive loss, net
                            (1,896 )     (97 )     (1,993 )             (1,993 )
Total comprehensive loss
                                            (2,250 )             (2,253 )
Dividend to parent
                    (345 )                     (345 )             (345 )
Contributions, net, received by noncontrolling interest
                                                    33       33  
Other equity adjustment
            1                               1               1  
 
BALANCES, DECEMBER 31, 2008
    30       782       5,426       (1,751 )     (51 )     4,436       244       4,680  
Cumulative effect of adoption of new accounting principle, net of tax
                    175       (170 )             5               5  
 
REVISED BALANCES, DECEMBER 31, 2008
    30       782       5,601       (1,921 )     (51 )     4,441       244       4,685  
Comprehensive income (loss):
                                                               
Net income (loss)
                    436                       436       (14 )     422  
Other comprehensive income (loss)
                            1,562       47       1,609       (7 )     1,602  
Total comprehensive income
                                            2,045               2,024  
Contribution from parent
            200                               200               200  
Contributions, net, received by noncontrolling interest
                                                    8       8  
 
BALANCES, DECEMBER 31, 2009
  $ 30     $ 982     $ 6,037       ($359 )     ($4 )   $ 6,686     $ 231     $ 6,917  
 
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
                         
    Years Ended December 31,
    2009     2008     2007  
            (In Millions)          
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
                       
Net income (loss) excluding discontinued operations
  $ 442       ($254 )   $ 705  
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) excluding discontinued operations to net cash provided by operating activities:
                       
Net accretion on fixed maturity securities
    (142 )     (144 )     (150 )
Depreciation and amortization
    281       259       255  
Deferred income taxes
    451       (511 )     86  
Net realized investment (gain) loss
    (153 )     749       (69 )
Other than temporary impairments
    311       580       98  
Realized investment gain on interest in PIMCO
            (109 )        
Net change in deferred policy acquisition costs
    (202 )     (175 )     (302 )
Interest credited to policyholder account balances
    1,253       1,234       1,266  
Change in future policy benefits and other insurance liabilities
    111       1,182       666  
Other operating activities, net
    85       (337 )     (33 )
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES BEFORE DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
    2,437       2,474       2,522  
Net cash used in operating activities of discontinued operations
    (27 )     (18 )     (71 )
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES
    2,410       2,456       2,451  
 
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
                       
Fixed maturity and equity securities available for sale:
                       
Purchases
    (5,507 )     (2,730 )     (5,885 )
Sales
    1,463       2,084       2,041  
Maturities and repayments
    2,542       2,136       2,718  
Repayments of mortgage loans
    406       470       439  
Fundings of mortgage loans and real estate
    (1,434 )     (1,665 )     (1,658 )
Change in policy loans
    411       (510 )     (342 )
Sale of interest in PIMCO
            288          
Change in restricted cash
    6       7       60  
Purchases of derivative instruments
    (20 )     (12 )     (17 )
Terminations of derivative instruments
    20       84       (41 )
Proceeds from nonhedging derivative settlements
    64       728       2  
Payments for nonhedging derivative settlements
    (1,540 )     (89 )     (43 )
Change in collateral received or pledged
    (1,226 )     1,056       17  
Purchases of and advance payments on aircraft leasing portfolio
    (561 )     (694 )     (646 )
Other investing activities, net
    42       (323 )     67  
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY (USED IN) INVESTING ACTIVITIES BEFORE DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
    (5,334 )     830       (3,288 )
Net cash provided by investing activities of discontinued operations
            7       76  
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY (USED IN) INVESTING ACTIVITIES
    (5,334 )     837       (3,212 )
 
(Continued)
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
                         
    Years Ended December 31,
(Continued)   2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
                       
Policyholder account balances:
                       
Deposits
  $ 8,003     $ 7,320     $ 6,876  
Withdrawals
    (7,972 )     (7,602 )     (7,131 )
Net change in short-term debt
    (45 )     50       100  
Issuance of long-term debt
    1,692       335       1,013  
Payments of long-term debt
    (433 )     (381 )     (913 )
Contribution from (dividend to) parent
    200       (345 )        
Other financing activities, net
    1       33       69  
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY (USED IN) FINANCING ACTIVITIES
    1,446       (590 )     14  
 
 
                       
Net change in cash and cash equivalents
    (1,478 )     2,703       (747 )
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year
    3,397       694       1,441  
 
 
                       
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF YEAR
  $ 1,919     $ 3,397     $ 694  
 
 
                       
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION
                       
Income taxes paid (received), net
    ($143 )     ($20 )   $ 67  
Interest paid
  $ 146     $ 195     $ 272  
 
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1.   ORGANIZATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 
    ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
 
    Pacific Life Insurance Company (Pacific Life) was established in 1868 and is domiciled in the State of Nebraska as a stock life insurance company. Pacific Life is an indirect subsidiary of Pacific Mutual Holding Company (PMHC), a Nebraska mutual holding company, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific LifeCorp, an intermediate Delaware stock holding company. PMHC and Pacific LifeCorp were organized pursuant to consent received from the California Department of Insurance and the implementation of a plan of conversion to form a mutual holding company structure in 1997 (the Conversion).
 
    Pacific Life transferred its legal domicile from the State of California to the State of Nebraska effective September 1, 2005. PMHC transferred its state of legal domicile from the State of California to the State of Nebraska, effective June 29, 2007, to reunite PMHC and Pacific Life under one regulatory authority.
 
    Effective December 31, 2009, Pacific LifeCorp contributed its 100% stock ownership of Aviation Capital Group Corp. (ACG) to Pacific Life (Note 9). ACG is engaged in the acquisition and leasing of commercial jet aircraft. These financial statements and the accompanying footnotes have been prepared by combining the previously separate financial statements of Pacific Life and ACG as if the two entities had been combined as of the beginning of 2007, the first period presented in these consolidated financial statements. This retrospective treatment is prescribed by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP) whenever a transfer between entities under common control is effected.
 
    Pacific Life and its subsidiaries and affiliates have primary business operations consisting of life insurance, individual annuities, mutual funds, pension and institutional products, and aircraft leasing.
 
    BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION
 
    The accompanying consolidated financial statements of Pacific Life and its subsidiaries (the Company) have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and include the accounts of Pacific Life and its majority owned and controlled subsidiaries and variable interest entities (VIEs) in which the Company was determined to be the primary beneficiary. Noncontrolling interest is primarily comprised of private equity funds (Note 4). All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
 
    Pacific Life prepares its regulatory financial statements in accordance with statutory accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the Nebraska Department of Insurance (NE DOI), which is a comprehensive basis of accounting other than U.S. GAAP (Note 2). These consolidated financial statements materially differ from those filed with regulatory authorities.
 
    The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
    In developing these estimates, management makes subjective and complex judgments that are inherently uncertain and subject to material change as facts and circumstances develop. Management has identified the following estimates as significant, as they involve a higher degree of judgment and are subject to a significant degree of variability:
    The fair value of investments in the absence of quoted market values
 
    Investment impairments
 
    Application of the consolidation rules to certain investments
 
    The fair value of and accounting for derivatives
 
    Aircraft valuation and impairment
 
    The capitalization and amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs (DAC)
 
    The liability for future policyholder benefits
 
    Accounting for income taxes and the valuation of deferred income tax assets and liabilities and unrecognized tax benefits
 
    Accounting for reinsurance transactions

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    Litigation and other contingencies
    Certain reclassifications have been made to the 2008 and 2007 consolidated financial statements to conform to the 2009 financial statement presentation. The most significant conforming reclassification was retrospectively adjusting the consolidated financial statements and respective notes to reflect the ACG transfer.
 
    RECENTLY ADOPTED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
 
    Effective September 30, 2009, the Company adopted the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (Codification) as the single source of authoritative U.S. GAAP. The Codification does not create new accounting and reporting guidance, rather it reorganized then-existing U.S. GAAP pronouncements into approximately 90 Topics within a consistent structure. All guidance in the Codification carries an equal level of authority. After the effective date of the Codification, all nongrandfathered accounting literature not included in the Codification is superseded and deemed nonauthoritative. Adoption of the Codification also changed how the Company references U.S. GAAP in its consolidated financial statements.
 
    In April 2009, the FASB issued additional guidance under the Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic. This update relates to determining fair values when there is no active market or where the price inputs being used represent distressed sales. The Company early adopted this guidance on March 31, 2009. This update provides additional guidance for estimating fair value when the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability have significantly decreased. Also included is guidance on identifying circumstances that indicate a transaction is not orderly. The adoption of this guidance resulted in an increase of $436 million to the estimated fair value and a resulting decrease of $436 million to gross unrealized investment loss of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) as of March 31, 2009. As of December 31, 2009, the year to date effect of this adoption was an increase of $214 million to the estimated fair value and a decrease of $214 million to the gross unrealized investment loss of RMBS. See Note 14 for information on the Company’s fair value measurements and expanded disclosures.
 
    In April 2009, the FASB issued additional guidance under the Codification’s Investments – Debt and Equity Securities Topic. For debt securities, this guidance replaces the management assertion that it has the intent and ability to hold an impaired debt security until recovery with the requirement that management assert if it either has the intent to sell the debt security or if it is more likely than not the entity will be required to sell the debt security before recovery of its amortized cost basis. If management intends to sell the debt security or it is more likely than not the entity will be required to sell the debt security before recovery of its amortized cost basis, an other than temporary impairment (OTTI) shall be recognized in earnings equal to the entire difference between the debt security’s amortized cost basis and its fair value at the reporting date. After the recognition of an OTTI, the debt security is accounted for as if it had been purchased on the measurement date of the OTTI, with an amortized cost basis equal to the previous amortized cost basis less the OTTI recognized in earnings. The update also changes the presentation in the financial statements of non credit related impairment amounts for instruments within its scope. When the entity asserts it does not have the intent to sell the security and it is more likely than not it will not have to sell the security before recovery of its amortized cost basis, only the credit related impairment losses are to be recognized in earnings and non credit losses are to be recognized in other comprehensive income (OCI). Additionally, this update provides for enhanced presentation and disclosure of OTTIs of debt and equity securities in the consolidated financial statements. The Company early adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2009, resulting in an after tax decrease to OCI of $170 million, including an after tax DAC impact of $5 million, and an after tax increase to retained earnings of $175 million.
 
    Effective January 1, 2009, the FASB issued additional guidance to the Codification’s Consolidation Topic. This guidance improves the relevance, comparability and transparency of the financial information that a company provides in its consolidated financial statements by establishing accounting and reporting standards for the noncontrolling interest in a subsidiary and for the deconsolidation of a subsidiary. As a result of the adoption of this guidance, which required retrospective application of presentation requirements, total equity as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, increased by $244 million and $214 million, respectively, representing the noncontrolling interest, and other liabilities and total liabilities as of December 31, 2008 and 2007 decreased by $244 million and $214 million, respectively, as a result of reclassifying noncontrolling interest (previously known as minority interest) to equity.
 
    Effective January 1, 2007, the FASB issued additional guidance to the Codification’s Financial Services – Insurance Topic. This guidance governs the accounting for DAC on internal replacements on insurance and investment contracts. This guidance defines an internal replacement as a modification in product benefits, features, rights, or coverages that occur by the exchange of a contract for a new contract, or by amendment, endorsement, or rider to a contract, or by the election of a feature or coverage within a contract. The adoption of this guidance resulted in a reduction to DAC and the Company recorded a cumulative effect adjustment of $29 million, after tax, which was recorded as a reduction to retained earnings during the year ended December 31, 2007.

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    INVESTMENTS
 
    Fixed maturity and equity securities available for sale are reported at estimated fair value, with unrealized gains and losses, net of adjustments related to DAC, future policy benefits and deferred income taxes, recorded as a component of OCI. For mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities included in fixed maturity securities available for sale, the Company recognizes income using a constant effective yield based on anticipated prepayments and the estimated economic life of the securities. When estimates of prepayments change, the effective yield is recalculated to reflect actual payments to date and anticipated future payments. For fixed rate securities, the net investment in the securities is adjusted to the amount that would have existed had the new effective yield been applied since the acquisition of the securities. These adjustments are reflected in net investment income. Trading securities are reported at estimated fair value with changes in estimated fair value included in net realized investment gain (loss).
 
    Investment income consists primarily of interest and dividends, net investment income from partnership interests, prepayment fees on fixed maturity securities and mortgage loans, and income from certain derivatives. Interest is recognized on an accrual basis and dividends are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Amortization of premium and accretion of discount on fixed maturity securities is recorded using the effective interest method.
 
    The Company’s available for sale securities are regularly assessed for OTTIs. If a decline in the estimated fair value of an available for sale security is deemed to be other than temporary, the OTTI is recorded equal to the difference between the estimated fair value and net carrying amount of the security. If the OTTI for a debt security is attributable to both credit and other factors, then the OTTI is bifurcated and the non credit related portion is recorded to OCI while the credit portion is recorded as a net realized investment loss. If the OTTI is related to credit factors only, it is recorded as a net realized investment loss.
 
    The evaluation of OTTIs is a quantitative and qualitative process subject to significant estimates and management judgment. The Company has rigorous controls and procedures in place to monitor securities and identify those that are subject to greater analysis for OTTIs. The Company has an investment impairment committee comprised of investment and accounting professionals that reviews and evaluates securities for potential OTTIs at least on a quarterly basis.
 
    In evaluating whether a decline in value is other than temporary, the Company considers many factors including, but not limited to, the following: the extent and duration of the decline in value; the reasons for the decline (credit event, currency, or interest-rate related, including spread widening); the ability and intent to hold the investment for a period of time to allow for a recovery of value; and the financial condition of and near-term prospects of the issuer.
 
    Analysis of the probability that all cash flows will be collected under the contractual terms of a fixed maturity security and determination as to whether the Company does not intend to sell the security and that it is more likely than not that the Company will not be required to sell the security before recovery of the investment were key factors in determining whether a fixed maturity security is other than temporarily impaired.
 
    For mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, scrutiny was placed on the performance of the underlying collateral and projected future cash flows. In projecting future cash flows, the Company incorporates inputs from third-party sources and applies reasonable judgment in developing assumptions used to estimate the probability and timing of collecting all contractual cash flows.
 
    In evaluating investment grade perpetual preferred securities, which do not have final contractual cash flows, the Company applied OTTI considerations used for debt securities, placing emphasis on the probability that all cash flows will be collected under the contractual terms of the security and the Company’s intent and ability to hold the security to allow for a recovery of value. Perpetual preferred securities are reported as equity securities as they are structured in equity form, but have significant debt-like characteristics, including periodic dividends, call features, and credit ratings and pricing similar to debt securities. The SEC Issues Letter Clarifying Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Guidance for Perpetual Preferred Securities issued on October 15, 2008 states that if an investor holds a perpetual preferred security with an estimated fair value below cost that is not attributable to the credit deterioration of the issuer, then the investor would not be required to recognize an OTTI by asserting that it has the intent and ability to continue holding the security for a sufficient period to allow for an anticipated recovery in market value.
 
    Realized gains and losses on investment transactions are determined on a specific identification basis and are included in net realized investment gain (loss).
 
    Mortgage loans on real estate are carried at their unpaid principal balance, net of deferred origination fees and write-downs. Mortgage loans are considered to be impaired when management estimates that based upon current information and events, it is probable that the Company will not be able to collect amounts due according to the contractual terms of the mortgage loan

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    agreement. For mortgage loans deemed to be impaired, a write-down is taken for the difference between the carrying amount and the Company’s estimate of the present value of the expected future cash flows discounted at the current market rate and recorded in net realized investment gain (loss). As of December 31, 2009, two loans totaling $8 million were considered impaired, however no valuation allowance was necessary as the fair value of the collateral was greater than the carrying amount of the related loans. The Company had no write-downs during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007. Policy loans are stated at unpaid principal balances.
 
    Other investments primarily consist of partnership and joint ventures, real estate investments, derivative instruments, non-marketable equity securities, and low income housing related investments qualifying for tax credits (LIHTC). Partnership and joint venture interests where the Company does not have a controlling interest or majority ownership are recorded under the cost or equity method of accounting depending on the equity ownership position. Real estate investments are carried at depreciated cost, net of write-downs, or, for real estate acquired in satisfaction of debt, estimated fair value less estimated selling costs at the date of acquisition, if lower than the related unpaid balance.
 
    Investments in LIHTC are recorded under either the effective interest method, if they meet certain requirements, including a projected positive yield based solely on guaranteed credits, or are recorded under the equity method if these certain requirements are not met. For investments in LIHTC recorded under the effective interest method, the amortization of the original investment and the tax credits are recorded in the provision (benefit) for income taxes. For investments in LIHTC recorded under the equity method, the amortization of the initial investment is included in net investment income, and the related tax credits are recorded in the provision (benefit) for income taxes (Note 18). The amortization recorded in net investment income was $3 million, $5 million and $20 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
 
    All derivatives, whether designated in hedging relationships or not, are required to be recorded at estimated fair value. If the derivative is designated as a cash flow hedge, the effective portion of changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative is recorded in OCI and recognized in earnings when the hedged item affects earnings. If the derivative is designated as a fair value hedge, the changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative and the hedged item are recognized in net realized investment gain (loss). The change in value of the hedged item associated with the risk being hedged is reflected as an adjustment to the carrying amount of the hedged item. For derivative instruments not designated as hedges, the change in estimated fair value of the derivative is recorded in net realized investment gain (loss). Estimated fair value exposure is calculated based on the aggregate estimated fair value of all derivative instruments with each counterparty, net of collateral received, in accordance with legally enforceable counterparty master netting agreements (Note 10).
 
    The periodic cash flows for all hedging derivatives are recorded consistent with the hedged item on an accrual basis. For derivatives that are hedging securities, these amounts are included in net investment income. For derivatives that are hedging liabilities, these amounts are included in interest credited to policyholder account balances. For derivatives not designated as hedging instruments, the periodic cash flows are reflected in net realized investment gain (loss) on an accrual basis. Upon termination of a cash flow hedging relationship, the accumulated amount in OCI is amortized into net investment income or interest credited to policyholder account balances over the remaining life of the hedged item. Upon termination of a fair value hedging relationship, the accumulated adjustment to the carrying value of the hedged item is amortized into net investment income, interest expense or interest credited to policyholder account balances over its remaining life.
 
    CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
 
    Cash and cash equivalents include all investments with an original maturity of three months or less. The Company entered into a series of Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) pass-through dollar roll transactions during the fourth quarter of 2008. The Company purchased FNMA pass through securities and was contractually obligated to resell the same or substantially the same securities within 30 days of purchase. The Company classified these dollar roll transactions as short-term secured loans and reported them as cash and cash equivalents. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the loans amounted to zero and $403 million, respectively. The fair values of the securities held in connection with the secured lending were zero and $410 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
    RESTRICTED CASH
 
    Restricted cash primarily consists of security deposits, commitment fees, maintenance reserve payments, supplemental rental payments and rental payments received from certain lessees related to the aircraft leasing business.

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    DEFERRED POLICY ACQUISITION COSTS
 
    The costs of acquiring new insurance business, principally commissions, medical examinations, underwriting, policy issue and other expenses, all of which vary with and are primarily associated with the production of new business, are deferred and recorded as an asset commonly referred to as DAC. DAC related to internally replaced contracts (as defined in the Codification’s Financial Services – Insurance Topic), is immediately written off to expense and any new deferrable expenses associated with the replacement are deferred if the contract modification substantially changes the contract. However, if the contract modification does not substantially change the contract, the existing DAC asset remains in place and any acquisition costs associated with the modification are immediately expensed. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the carrying value of DAC was $4.8 billion and $5.0 billion, respectively (Note 7).
 
    For universal life (UL), variable annuities and other investment-type contracts, acquisition costs are amortized through earnings in proportion to the present value of estimated gross profits (EGPs) from projected investment, mortality and expense margins, and surrender charges over the estimated lives of the contracts. Actual gross margins or profits may vary from management’s estimates, which can increase or decrease the rate of DAC amortization. DAC related to traditional policies is amortized through earnings over the premium-paying period of the related policies in proportion to premium revenues recognized, using assumptions and estimates consistent with those used in computing policy reserves. DAC related to certain unrealized components in OCI, primarily unrealized gains and losses on securities available for sale, is recorded directly to equity through OCI.
 
    Significant assumptions in the development of EGPs include investment returns, surrender and lapse rates, rider utilization, interest spreads, and mortality margins. The Company’s long-term assumption for the underlying separate account investment return ranges up to 8.0%.
 
    A change in the assumptions utilized to develop EGPs results in a change to amounts expensed in the reporting period in which the change was made by adjusting the DAC balance to the level DAC would have been had the EGPs been calculated using the new assumptions over the entire amortization period. In general, favorable experience variances result in increased expected future profitability and may lower the rate of DAC amortization, whereas unfavorable experience variances result in decreased expected future profitability and may increase the rate of DAC amortization. All critical assumptions utilized to develop EGPs are evaluated at least annually and necessary revisions are made to certain assumptions to the extent that actual or anticipated experience necessitates such a prospective change (Note 7).
 
    The Company defers sales inducements and amortizes them over the life of the policy using the same methodology and assumptions used to amortize DAC. The Company offers a sales inducement to the policyholder where the policyholder receives a bonus credit, typically ranging from 0.5% to 8.0% of each deposit. The capitalized sales inducement balance included in the DAC asset was $583 million and $552 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
    AIRCRAFT LEASING PORTFOLIO
 
    Aircraft are recorded at cost, which includes certain acquisition costs, less accumulated depreciation. Major improvements to aircraft are capitalized when incurred. The Company evaluates carrying values of aircraft based upon changes in market and other physical and economic conditions and will record impairment losses to recognize a loss in the value of the aircraft when management believes that, based on estimated future cash flows, the recoverability of the Company’s investment in an aircraft is unlikely (Note 9). The Company had four and two non-earning aircraft in the portfolio as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
    GOODWILL FROM ACQUISITIONS
 
    Goodwill represents the excess of costs over the fair value of net assets acquired. Goodwill is not amortized but is reviewed for impairment at least annually or more frequently if events occur or circumstances indicate that the goodwill might be impaired. Goodwill from acquisitions, included in other assets, totaled $43 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. There were no goodwill impairment write-downs from continuing operations during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.
 
    POLICYHOLDER ACCOUNT BALANCES
 
    Policyholder account balances on UL and investment-type contracts, such as funding agreements, annuity and deposit liabilities and guaranteed interest contracts (GICs), are valued using the retrospective deposit method and are equal to accumulated account values, which consist of deposits received, plus interest credited, less withdrawals and assessments (Note 11). Interest credited to these contracts primarily ranged from 0.2% to 9.0%.

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    FUTURE POLICY BENEFITS
 
    Annuity reserves, which primarily consist of group retirement and structured settlement annuities, are equal to the present value of estimated future payments using pricing assumptions, as applicable, for interest rates, mortality, morbidity, retirement age and expenses (Note 11). Interest rates used in establishing such liabilities ranged from 1.6% to 11.3%.
    The Company offers a rider on certain variable annuity contracts that guarantees net principal over a ten-year holding period, as well as riders on certain variable annuity contracts that guarantee a minimum withdrawal benefit over specified periods, subject to certain restrictions. These variable annuity guaranteed living benefits (GLBs) are considered embedded derivatives and are recorded in future policy benefits (Note 11).
    Policy charges assessed against policyholders that represent compensation to the Company for services to be provided in future periods, or unearned revenue reserves (URR), are recognized in revenue over the expected life of the contract using the same methods and assumptions used to amortize DAC. Unearned revenue related to certain unrealized components in OCI, primarily unrealized gains and losses on securities available for sale, is recorded directly to equity through OCI.
    Life insurance reserves are valued using the net level premium method on the basis of actuarial assumptions appropriate at policy issue. Mortality and persistency assumptions are generally based on the Company’s experience, which, together with interest and expense assumptions, include a margin for possible unfavorable deviations. Interest rate assumptions ranged from 3.0% to 9.3%. Future dividends for participating business are provided for in the liability for future policy benefits.
    As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, participating experience rated policies paying dividends represent less than 1% of direct life insurance in force.
    Estimates of future policy benefit reserves and liabilities are continually reviewed and, as experience develops, are adjusted as necessary. Such changes in estimates are included in earnings for the period in which such changes occur.
    REINSURANCE
 
    The Company has ceded reinsurance agreements with other insurance companies to limit potential losses, reduce exposure arising from larger risks, provide additional capacity for future growth, and assumed reinsurance agreements intended to offset reinsurance costs. As part of a strategic alliance, the Company also reinsures risks associated with policies written by an independent producer group through modified coinsurance and yearly renewable term arrangements with this producer group’s reinsurance company.
    All assets associated with business reinsured on a modified coinsurance basis remain with, and under the control of, the Company. As part of its risk management process, the Company routinely evaluates its reinsurance programs and may change retention limits, reinsurers or other features at any time.
    Reinsurance accounting is utilized for ceded transactions when risk transfer provisions have been met. To meet risk transfer requirements, a reinsurance contract must include insurance risk, consisting of both underwriting and timing risk, and a reasonable possibility of a significant loss to the reinsurer.
    Reinsurance premiums ceded and reinsurance recoveries on benefits and claims incurred are deducted from their respective revenue and benefit and expense accounts. Prepaid reinsurance premiums, included in other assets, are premiums that are paid in advance for future coverage. Reinsurance recoverables, included in other assets, include balances due from reinsurance companies for paid and unpaid losses. Amounts receivable and payable are offset for account settlement purposes for contracts where the right of offset exists. See Note 16.
    REVENUES, BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
 
    Insurance premiums, annuity contracts with life contingencies and traditional life and term insurance contracts, are recognized as revenue when due. Benefits and expenses are matched against such revenues to recognize profits over the lives of the contracts. This matching is accomplished by providing for liabilities for future policy benefits, expenses of contract administration and the amortization of DAC and URR.
    Receipts for UL and investment-type contracts are reported as deposits to either policyholder account balances or separate account liabilities, and are not included in revenue. Policy fees consist of mortality charges, surrender charges and expense

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    charges that have been earned and assessed against related account values during the period. The timing of policy fee revenue recognition is determined based on the nature of the fees. Benefits and expenses include policy benefits and claims incurred in the period that are in excess of related policyholder account balances, interest credited to policyholder account balances, expenses of contract administration and the amortization of DAC.
    Investment advisory fees are primarily fees earned from Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC (PLFA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Life formed in 2007, which serves as the investment advisor for the Pacific Select Fund, an investment vehicle provided to the Company’s variable universal life (VUL) and variable annuity contract holders, and the Pacific Life Funds, the investment vehicle for the Company’s mutual fund products. These fees are based upon the net asset value of the underlying portfolios, and are recorded as earned. Related subadvisory expense is included in operating and other expenses and recorded when incurred.
    Aircraft leases, which are structured as triple net leases, are accounted for as operating leases. Aircraft leasing revenue is recognized ratably over the terms of the lease agreements. ACG has four capital leases, which are accounted for under the provisions in the Codification’s Leases Topic. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, capital leases in the amount of $8 million and $11 million, respectively, are classified in other assets.
    DEPRECIATION AND AMORTIZATION
 
    Aircraft and certain other assets are depreciated or amortized using the straight-line method over estimated useful lives, which range from three to 40 years. Depreciation and amortization of aircraft under operating leases and certain other assets are included in operating and other expenses. Depreciation of investment real estate is computed using the straight-line method over estimated useful lives, which range from five to 30 years. Depreciation of investment real estate is included in net investment income.
    INCOME TAXES
 
    Pacific Life and its includable subsidiaries are included in the consolidated Federal income tax return of PMHC. Pacific Life and its wholly owned, Arizona domiciled life insurance subsidiary, Pacific Life & Annuity Company (PL&A), and Pacific Alliance Reinsurance Company of Vermont (PAR Vermont), a Vermont-based life reinsurance company wholly owned by Pacific Life, are taxed as life insurance companies for Federal income tax purposes. Pacific Life’s non-insurance subsidiaries are either included in PMHC’s combined California franchise tax return or, if necessary, file separate state tax returns. Companies included in the consolidated Federal income tax return of PMHC and/or the combined California franchise tax return of PMHC are allocated tax expense or benefit based principally on the effect of including their operations in PMHC’s returns under a tax sharing agreement. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years the differences are expected to be recovered or settled.
    CONTINGENCIES
 
    Each reporting cycle the Company evaluates all identified contingent matters on an individual basis. A loss is recorded if probable and reasonably estimable. The Company establishes reserves for these contingencies at the best estimate, or, if no one number within the range of possible losses is more probable than any other, the Company records an estimated reserve at the low end of the range of losses. See Note 21.
    SEPARATE ACCOUNTS
 
    Separate accounts primarily include variable annuity and life contracts, as well as other guaranteed and non-guaranteed accounts. Separate account assets are recorded at estimated fair value and represent legally segregated contract holder funds. A separate account liability is recorded equal to the amount of separate account assets. Deposits to separate accounts, investment income and realized and unrealized gains and losses on the separate account assets accrue directly to contract holders and, accordingly, are not reflected in the consolidated statements of operations or cash flows. Amounts charged to the separate account for mortality, surrender and expense charges are included in revenues as policy fees.
    For separate account funding agreements in which the Company provides a guarantee of principal and interest to the contract holder and bears all the risks and rewards of the investments underlying the separate account, the related investments and liabilities are recognized as investments and liabilities in the consolidated statements of financial condition. Revenue and expenses are recognized within the respective revenue, and benefit and expense lines in the consolidated statements of operations.

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    FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
 
    The estimated fair value of financial instruments, disclosed in Notes 8, 10 and 14, has been determined using available market information and appropriate valuation methodologies. However, considerable judgment is often required to interpret market data to develop the estimates of fair value. Accordingly, the estimates presented may not be indicative of the amounts the Company could realize in a current market exchange. The use of different market assumptions and/or estimation methodologies could have a significant effect on the estimated fair value amounts.
2.   STATUTORY FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND DIVIDEND RESTRICTIONS
    STATUTORY ACCOUNTING PRACTICES
 
    Pacific Life prepares its regulatory statutory financial statements in accordance with statutory accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the NE DOI, which is a comprehensive basis of accounting other than U.S. GAAP. Statutory accounting practices primarily differ from U.S. GAAP by charging policy acquisition costs to expense as incurred, recognizing certain policy fees as revenue when billed, establishing future policy benefit liabilities using different actuarial assumptions, reporting surplus notes as surplus instead of debt, as well as valuing investments and certain assets and accounting for deferred income taxes on a different basis.
    As of December 31, 2009, Pacific Life had one permitted practice approved by the NE DOI that differed from statutory accounting practices adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). This permitted practice relates to the valuation of certain statutory separate account assets that are carried at book value instead of estimated fair value. Pacific Life’s statutory capital and surplus as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 did not reflect unrealized losses of $29 million and $88 million, respectively, with regards to this permitted practice. Pacific Life had a second permitted practice with a financial statement filing date of December 31, 2008 that expired on December 30, 2009. This permitted practice allowed Pacific Life to apply the revised version of Actuarial Guideline 39 (AG 39) for variable annuity reserves that is contained in the final recommendations submitted by the Capital & Surplus Relief Working Group to the Executive Committee of the NAIC. This permitted practice resulted in lowering statutory reserves by $442 million as of December 31, 2008.
    In addition, Pacific Life uses a NE DOI prescribed accounting practice for certain synthetic GIC reserves that differs from statutory accounting practices adopted by the NAIC. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, this NE DOI prescribed accounting practice resulted in statutory reserves of $20 million and $12 million, respectively, as opposed to statutory reserves of zero and $640 million, respectively, using statutory accounting practices adopted by the NAIC.
    STATUTORY NET INCOME (LOSS) AND SURPLUS
 
    Statutory net income (loss) of Pacific Life was $652 million, ($1,529) million and $362 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. Statutory capital and surplus of Pacific Life was $5,006 million and $3,136 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
    RISK-BASED CAPITAL
 
    Risk-based capital is a method developed by the NAIC to measure the minimum amount of capital appropriate for an insurance company to support its overall business operations in consideration of its size and risk profile. The formulas for determining the amount of risk-based capital specify various weighting factors that are applied to financial balances or various levels of activity based on the perceived degree of risk. Additionally, certain risks are required to be measured using actuarial cash flow modeling techniques, subject to formulaic minimums. The adequacy of a company’s actual capital is measured by a comparison to the risk-based capital results. Companies below minimum risk-based capital requirements are classified within certain levels, each of which requires specified corrective action. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, Pacific Life, PL&A and PAR Vermont exceeded the minimum risk-based capital requirements.
    DIVIDEND RESTRICTIONS
 
    The payment of dividends by Pacific Life to Pacific LifeCorp is subject to restrictions set forth in the State of Nebraska insurance laws. These laws require (i) notification to the NE DOI for the declaration and payment of any dividend and (ii) approval by the NE DOI for accumulated dividends within the preceding twelve months that exceed the greater of 10% of statutory policyholder surplus

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    as of the preceding December 31 or statutory net gain from operations for the preceding twelve months ended December 31. Generally, these restrictions pose no short-term liquidity concerns for Pacific LifeCorp. Based on these restrictions and 2009 statutory results, Pacific Life could pay $629 million in dividends in 2010 to Pacific LifeCorp without prior approval from the NE DOI, subject to the notification requirement.
    No dividends were paid during 2009 and 2007. During the year ended December 31, 2008, Pacific Life paid a cash dividend to Pacific LifeCorp of $345 million.
    The maximum amount of ordinary dividends that can be paid by PL&A to Pacific Life without restriction cannot exceed the lesser of 10% of statutory surplus as regards to policyholders, or the statutory net gain from operations. Based on this limitation and 2009 statutory results, PL&A could pay $23 million in dividends to Pacific Life in 2010 without prior regulatory approval. No dividends were paid during 2009, 2008 and 2007.
    OTHER
 
    The Company has reinsurance contracts in place with a reinsurer whose financial stability has been deteriorating. In January 2009, the reinsurer’s domiciliary state regulator issued an order of supervision, which requires the regulator’s consent to any transaction outside the normal course of business. The Company will continue to monitor the events surrounding this reinsurer and evaluate its options to deal with any further deterioration of this reinsurer’s financial condition. As of December 31, 2009, statutory reserves ceded to this reinsurer amounted to approximately $162 million.
3.   CLOSED BLOCK
    In connection with the Conversion, an arrangement known as a closed block (the Closed Block) was established, for dividend purposes only, for the exclusive benefit of certain individual life insurance policies that had an experience based dividend scale for 1997. The Closed Block was designed to give reasonable assurance to holders of the Closed Block policies that policy dividends will not change solely as a result of the Conversion.
    Assets that support the Closed Block, which are primarily included in fixed maturity securities and policy loans, amounted to $285 million and $278 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Liabilities allocated to the Closed Block, which are primarily included in future policy benefits, amounted to $307 million and $311 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The net contribution to income from the Closed Block was $4 million, $1 million and $1 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

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4.   VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES
    The following table presents, as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the total assets and maximum exposure to loss relating to VIEs, which the Company (i) has consolidated because it is the primary beneficiary or (ii) holds a significant variable interest, but has not consolidated because it is not the primary beneficiary:
                                 
    Primary Beneficiary     Not Primary Beneficiary  
            Maximum             Maximum  
    Total     Exposure to     Total     Exposure to  
    Assets     Loss     Assets     Loss  
         
    (In Millions)
December 31, 2009:
                               
Aircraft securitizations
  $ 2,642     $ 218  (1)   $ 371          
Private equity funds
    239       30                  
Asset-backed securities
                    1,910     $ 103  
         
Total
  $ 2,881     $ 248     $ 2,281     $ 103  
         
December 31, 2008:
                               
Aircraft securitizations
  $ 2,777     $ 145  (1)   $ 427          
Private equity funds
    236       30                  
Asset-backed securities
                    3,816     $ 93  
         
Total
  $ 3,013     $ 175     $ 4,243     $ 93  
         
 
(1)   Excludes contingent purchase obligations (Note 21) totaling $100 million and $50 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
    AIRCRAFT SECURITIZATIONS
 
    ACG has sponsored three financial asset securitizations secured by interests in aircraft. ACG serves as the remarketing agent and provides various aircraft related services in all three securitizations for a fee. This fee is eliminated for the two consolidated securitizations and is included in other income as earned for the unconsolidated securitization.
    In 2005, ACG sponsored a securitization transaction whereby ACG Trust III acquired 74 of ACG’s aircraft through a private placement note offering in the amount of $1,860 million. ACG receives all of the expected residual return from ACG Trust III. Therefore, ACG was determined to be the primary beneficiary of this VIE and ACG Trust III is consolidated into the consolidated financial statements of the Company. These private placement notes are the obligation of ACG Trust III and represent debt that is non-recourse to the Company (Note 13). Non-recourse debt consolidated from ACG Trust III was $1,309 million and $1,445 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the maximum exposure to loss, based on carrying value, was $130 million and $72 million, respectively. Consolidated assets are reported in aircraft leasing portfolio, net, restricted cash and other assets. Consolidated liabilities are reported in long-term debt and other liabilities.
    In 2003, ACG sponsored a securitization transaction whereby Aviation Capital Group Trust II (ACG Trust II) acquired 37 of ACG’s aircraft through a private placement note offering in the amount of $1,027 million. ACG owns 100% of the equity of ACG Trust II and absorbs any losses in the trust up to ACG’s equity interest. Therefore, ACG was determined to be the primary beneficiary of this VIE and ACG Trust II is consolidated into the consolidated financial statements of the Company. These private placement notes are the obligation of ACG Trust II and represent debt that is non-recourse to the Company (Note 13). Non-recourse debt consolidated from ACG Trust II was $666 million and $728 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the maximum exposure to loss, based on carrying value, was $88 million and $73 million, respectively. Consolidated assets are reported in aircraft leasing portfolio, net, restricted cash and other assets. Consolidated liabilities are reported in long-term debt and other liabilities.
    In 2000, ACG sponsored a financial asset securitization of aircraft to Aviation Capital Group Trust (Aviation Trust). ACG and Pacific Life are beneficial interest holders in Aviation Trust. Aviation Trust is not consolidated as the Company is not the primary beneficiary. The carrying value is comprised of beneficial interests issued by Aviation Trust. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the maximum exposure to loss, based on carrying value, was zero.

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    PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS
 
    Private equity funds (the Funds) are three limited partnerships that invest in private equity investments for outside investors, where the Company is the general partner. The Company provides investment management services to the Funds for a fee and receives carried interest based upon the performance of the Funds and is a VIE due to the lack of control by the other equity investors. The Company has not guaranteed the performance, liquidity or obligations of the Funds, and the Company’s maximum exposure to loss is equal to the carrying amounts of its retained interest. VIE debt consolidated from the Funds was $2 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. Consolidated assets are reported in other investments and cash and cash equivalents and consolidated liabilities are reported in long-term debt.
    ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES
 
    As part of the Company’s investment strategy, the Company purchases primarily investment grade beneficial interests issued from bankruptcy-remote special purpose entities (SPEs), which are collateralized by financial assets including corporate debt. The Company has not guaranteed the performance, liquidity or obligations of the SPEs, and the Company’s maximum exposure to loss is limited to its carrying value of the beneficial interests in the SPEs. The Company has no liabilities related to these VIEs. The Company has determined that it is not the primary beneficiary of these entities as the Company does not absorb a majority of the expected losses or receive a majority of the expected residual return. The Company does not consolidate these entities. The investments are reported as fixed maturity securities available for sale and had a net carrying amount of $103 million and $93 million at December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. During the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company recorded OTTIs of $60 million and $117 million, respectively, related to these securities.
    FUTURE ACCOUNTING CHANGE
 
    Effective January 1, 2010, the Company will change the methodology it employs to determine if an entity is a VIE and, once identified, if a VIE should be included in the consolidated financial statements. The new methodology will place more emphasis on the Company’s ability to direct the activities that most significantly impact the entity’s financial performance. The Company will examine anew all entities previously identified as VIEs. The Company does not expect this change to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
5.   INTEREST IN PIMCO
    As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned a beneficial economic interest in Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO) through Allianz Global Investors of America LLC (interest in PIMCO). PIMCO offers investment products through managed accounts and institutional, retail and offshore mutual funds. The interest in PIMCO was reported at estimated fair value, as determined by a contractual put and call option price, with changes in estimated fair value reported as a component of OCI, net of taxes.
    During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company exercised a put option and sold all of its remaining interest in PIMCO to Allianz of America, Inc., a subsidiary of Allianz SE, for $288 million. The Company recognized a pre-tax gain of $109 million for the year ended December 31, 2008.
6.   DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
    The Company’s broker-dealer operations and group insurance business have been reflected as discontinued operations in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. Discontinued operations do not include the operations of Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD), a wholly owned broker-dealer subsidiary of Pacific Life, which primarily serves as the underwriter/distributor of registered investment-related products and services, principally variable life and variable annuity contracts issued by the Company, and mutual funds.
    In March 2007, the Company classified its broker-dealer subsidiaries, other than PSD, as held for sale. On June 20, 2007, a transaction closed whereby the Company sold certain of these broker-dealer subsidiaries to an unrelated third-party. Proceeds from the sale included cash of $53 million and a common stock interest in the buyer’s parent of $57 million. A pre-tax gain of $54 million was recognized from this sale during the year ended December 31, 2007. On December 31, 2007, a transaction closed whereby the Company sold another one of its broker-dealer subsidiaries to subsidiary management. The Company incurred a pre-tax loss of $1 million from this transaction during the year ended December 31, 2007. As of December 31, 2007, one broker-dealer

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    subsidiary remained classified as held for sale. On March 31, 2008, a transaction closed whereby the Company sold this held for sale subsidiary to an unrelated third-party. The Company recognized an insignificant pre-tax gain from this transaction during the year ended December 31, 2008.
 
    Operating results of discontinued operations were as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
     
    (In Millions)
Revenues
          $ 13     $ 276  
Benefits and expenses
  $ 31       22       300  
     
Loss from discontinued operations
    (31 )     (9 )     (24 )
Benefit from income taxes
    (11 )     (3 )     (8 )
     
Loss from discontinued operations, net of taxes
    (20 )     (6 )     (16 )
     
 
                       
Net gain on sale of discontinued operations
                    53  
Provision for income taxes
                    26  
     
Net gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes
                    27  
     
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
    ($20 )     ($6 )   $ 11  
     
    Assets and liabilities from discontinued operations are included in other assets and other liabilities, respectively. Assets related to discontinued operations were zero and $6 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Liabilities related to discontinued operations were zero and $13 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
7.   DEFERRED POLICY ACQUISITION COSTS
    Components of DAC are as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
     
    (In Millions)
Balance, January 1
  $ 5,012     $ 4,481     $ 4,248  
Cumulative pre-tax effect of adoption of new accounting principle (Note 1)
    7               (45 )
Additions:
                       
Capitalized during the year
    777       752       852  
Amortization:
                       
Allocated to commission expenses
    (446 )     (444 )     (432 )
Allocated to operating expenses
    (129 )     (133 )     (118 )
     
Total amortization
    (575 )     (577 )     (550 )
Allocated to OCI
    (415 )     356       (24 )
     
Balance, December 31
  $ 4,806     $ 5,012     $ 4,481  
     
    During the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, the Company revised certain assumptions to develop EGPs for its products subject to DAC amortization (Note 1). This resulted in increases in DAC amortization expense of $23 million and $20 million for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and a decrease in DAC amortization expense of $12 million for the year ended December 31, 2007. The revised EGPs also resulted in an immaterial decrease in URR amortization for the year ended December 31, 2009, increased URR amortization of $2 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, and decreased URR amortization of $15 million for the year ended December 31, 2007.

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8.   INVESTMENTS
    The net carrying amount, gross unrealized gains and losses, and estimated fair value of fixed maturity and equity securities available for sale are shown below. The net carrying amount represents amortized cost adjusted for credit related OTTIs and changes in the estimated fair value of fixed maturity securities attributable to the hedged risk in a fair value hedge. See Note 14 for information on the Company’s fair value measurement and disclosure.
                                 
    Net              
    Carrying     Gross Unrealized     Estimated  
    Amount     Gains     Losses     Fair Value  
     
    (In Millions)
December 31, 2009:
                               
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
  $ 105     $ 10             $ 115  
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    633       12     $ 46       599  
Foreign governments
    389       42               431  
Corporate securities
    17,256       905       308       17,853  
RMBS
    6,133       105       1,078       5,160  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    1,160       42       23       1,179  
Collateralized debt obligations
    118       27       33       112  
Other asset-backed securities
    562       45       17       590  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
  $ 26,356     $ 1,188     $ 1,505     $ 26,039  
     
 
                               
Perpetual preferred securities
  $ 324     $ 6     $ 55     $ 275  
Other equity securities
    1       2               3  
     
 
                               
Total equity securities
  $ 325     $ 8     $ 55     $ 278  
     
                                 
    Net              
    Carrying     Gross Unrealized     Estimated  
    Amount     Gains     Losses     Fair Value  
     
    (In Millions)
December 31, 2008:
                               
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
  $ 98     $ 19             $ 117  
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    512       5     $ 148       369  
Foreign governments
    211       41       7       245  
Corporate securities
    15,828       307       1,618       14,517  
RMBS
    6,133       105       1,306       4,932  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    1,191       15       106       1,100  
Collateralized debt obligations
    126               2       124  
Other asset-backed securities
    615       32       109       538  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
  $ 24,714     $ 524     $ 3,296     $ 21,942  
     
 
                               
Perpetual preferred securities
  $ 385     $ 3     $ 174     $ 214  
Other equity securities
    2                       2  
     
 
                               
Total equity securities
  $ 387     $ 3     $ 174     $ 216  
     

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    The Company has investments in perpetual preferred securities that are issued primarily by European and U.S. banks. The net carrying amount and estimated fair value of the available for sale perpetual preferred securities was $451 million and $391 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2009. Included in these amounts are perpetual preferred securities carried in trusts with a net carrying amount and estimated fair value of $127 million and $116 million, respectively, that are held in fixed maturities and included in the tables above in corporate securities. Perpetual preferred securities reported as equity securities available for sale are presented in the tables above as perpetual preferred securities.
    The net carrying amount and estimated fair value of fixed maturity securities available for sale as of December 31, 2009, by contractual repayment date of principal, are shown below. Expected maturities may differ from contractual maturities as borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.
                                 
    Net              
    Carrying     Gross Unrealized     Estimated  
    Amount     Gains     Losses     Fair Value  
     
    (In Millions)
Due in one year or less
  $ 1,825     $ 68     $ 25     $ 1,868  
Due after one year through five years
    5,235       288       54       5,469  
Due after five years through ten years
    7,210       366       135       7,441  
Due after ten years
    4,113       247       140       4,220  
     
 
    18,383       969       354       18,998  
Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities
    7,973       219       1,151       7,041  
     
Total
  $ 26,356     $ 1,188     $ 1,505     $ 26,039  
     

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    The following tables present the number of investments, estimated fair value and gross unrealized losses on investments where the estimated fair value has declined and remained continuously below the net carrying amount for less than twelve months and for twelve months or greater. Included in the tables are gross unrealized losses for fixed maturity securities available for sale and other securities, which include equity securities available for sale, cost method investments, and non-marketable securities.
                         
    Total  
                    Gross  
            Estimated     Unrealized  
    Number     Fair Value     Losses  
            (In Millions)  
December 31, 2009:
                       
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    27     $ 383     $ 46  
Corporate securities
    442       4,539       308  
RMBS
    307       3,844       1,078  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    19       339       23  
Collateralized debt obligations
    6       61       33  
Other asset-backed securities
    24       205       17  
           
Total fixed maturity securities
    825       9,371       1,505  
           
Perpetual preferred securities
    18       195       55  
Other securities
    31       97       26  
           
Total other securities
    49       292       81  
           
Total
    874     $ 9,663     $ 1,586  
           
                                                 
    Less than 12 Months     12 Months or Greater  
                    Gross                     Gross  
            Estimated     Unrealized             Estimated     Unrealized  
    Number     Fair Value     Losses     Number     Fair Value     Losses  
            (In Millions)             (In Millions)  
December 31, 2009:
                                               
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    11     $ 116     $ 6       16     $ 267     $ 40  
Corporate securities
    182       1,766       50       260       2,773       258  
RMBS
    53       498       94       254       3,346       984  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    6       100       5       13       239       18  
Collateralized debt obligations
    5       59       32       1       2       1  
Other asset-backed securities
                            24       205       17  
                     
Total fixed maturity securities
    257       2,539       187       568       6,832       1,318  
                     
Perpetual preferred securities
                            18       195       55  
Other securities
    16       54       9       15       43       17  
                     
Total other securities
    16       54       9       33       238       72  
                     
Total
    273     $ 2,593     $ 196       601     $ 7,070     $ 1,390  
                     

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    Total  
                    Gross  
            Estimated     Unrealized  
    Number     Fair Value     Losses  
            (In Millions)  
December 31, 2008:
                       
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    32     $ 276     $ 148  
Foreign governments
    5       66       7  
Corporate securities
    956       9,674       1,618  
RMBS
    342       3,693       1,306  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    45       796       106  
Collateralized debt obligations
    5       2       2  
Other asset-backed securities
    43       326       109  
           
Total fixed maturity securities
    1,428       14,833       3,296  
           
Perpetual preferred securities
    30       197       174  
Other securities
    24       95       28  
           
Total other securities
    54       292       202  
           
Total
    1,482     $ 15,125     $ 3,498  
           
                                                 
    Less than 12 Months     12 Months or Greater  
                    Gross                     Gross  
            Estimated     Unrealized             Estimated     Unrealized  
    Number     Fair Value     Losses     Number     Fair Value     Losses  
            (In Millions)             (In Millions)  
December 31, 2008:
                                               
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    29     $ 254     $ 144       3     $ 22     $ 4  
Foreign governments
    5       66       7                          
Corporate securities
    655       6,692       805       301       2,982       813  
RMBS
    145       2,229       699       197       1,464       607  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    31       569       74       14       227       32  
Collateralized debt obligations
    4       1       2       1       1          
Other asset-backed securities
    25       203       47       18       123       62  
                     
Total fixed maturity securities
    894       10,014       1,778       534       4,819       1,518  
                     
Perpetual preferred securities
    7       29       16       23       168       158  
Other securities
    18       89       27       6       6       1  
                     
Total other securities
    25       118       43       29       174       159  
                     
Total
    919     $ 10,132     $ 1,821       563     $ 4,993     $ 1,677  
                     
    The Company has evaluated fixed maturity and other securities with gross unrealized losses and determined that the unrealized losses are temporary and that the Company does not intend to sell the securities and it is more likely than not that the Company will not be required to sell the securities before recovery of their net carrying amounts.
 
    Prime mortgages are loans made to borrowers with strong credit histories, whereas sub-prime mortgage lending is the origination of residential mortgage loans to customers with weak credit profiles. Alt-A mortgage lending is the origination of residential mortgage loans to customers who have good credit ratings, but have limited documentation for their source of income or some other standard input used to underwrite the mortgage loan. The slowing U.S. housing market, greater use of affordability mortgage

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    products and relaxed underwriting standards by some originators for these loans has led to higher delinquency and loss rates, especially within the 2007 and 2006 vintage years.
    The table below illustrates the breakdown of non-agency RMBS and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) by investment rating from independent rating agencies and vintage year of the underlying collateral as of December 31, 2009.
                                                                         
    Net             Rating as % of     Vintage Breakdown  
    Carrying     Estimated     Net Carrying     2004 and                                
Rating   Amount     Fair Value     Amount     Prior     2005     2006     2007     2008     2009  
    ($ In Millions)                                                          
Prime RMBS:
                                                                       
AAA
  $ 960     $ 878       29 %     21 %     7 %     1 %                        
AA
    320       279       9 %     4 %     2 %     3 %                        
A
    252       208       8 %     1 %     2 %     3 %     2 %                
BAA
    525       402       16 %     2 %     7 %     6 %     1 %                
BA and below
    1,264       893       38 %             8 %     18 %     12 %                
         
Total
  $ 3,321     $ 2,660       100 %     28 %     26 %     31 %     15 %     0 %     0 %
         
 
                                                                       
Alt-A RMBS:
                                                                       
AAA
  $ 58     $ 52       6 %     6 %                                        
AA
    13       16       1 %     1 %                                        
A
    13       9       1 %     1 %                                        
BAA
    24       23       3 %             1 %     2 %                        
BA and below
    843       556       89 %             10 %     27 %     52 %                
         
Total
  $ 951     $ 656       100 %     8 %     11 %     29 %     52 %     0 %     0 %
         
 
                                                                       
Sub-prime RMBS:
                                                                       
AAA
  $ 230     $ 179       52 %     52 %                                        
AA
    97       73       22 %     22 %                                        
A
    21       13       5 %     5 %                                        
BAA
    42       32       9 %             9 %                                
BA and below
    53       37       12 %     1 %     9 %     1 %     1 %                
         
Total
  $ 443     $ 334       100 %     80 %     18 %     1 %     1 %     0 %     0 %
         
 
                                                                       
CMBS:
                                                                       
AAA
  $ 1,017     $ 1,054       88 %     65 %     3 %             15 %     1 %     4 %
AA
    66       61       6 %     4 %                                     2 %
A
    37       32       3 %     3 %                                        
BAA
    28       22       2 %                             2 %                
BA
    12       10       1 %     1 %                                        
         
Total
  $ 1,160     $ 1,179       100 %     73 %     3 %     0 %     17 %     1 %     6 %
         
    As of December 31, 2009, the Company has received advances of $1.5 billion from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Topeka and has issued funding agreements to the FHLB of Topeka. Funding agreements are used as an alternative source of funds for the Company’s spread lending business and the funding agreement liabilities are included in general account policyholder account balances. Assets with an estimated fair value of $1.8 billion as of December 31, 2009 are in a custodial account pledged as collateral for the funding agreements. The Company is required to purchase stock in FHLB of Topeka each time it receives an advance. As of December 31, 2009, the Company holds $76 million of FHLB of Topeka stock.
 
    PL&A is a member of FHLB of San Francisco. As of December 31, 2009, no assets are pledged as collateral. As of December 31, 2009, the Company holds $25 million of FHLB of San Francisco stock.

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    The Company had a securities lending program administered by one of the largest U.S. financial institutions specializing in securities lending and short-term fixed-income asset management. This securities lending program was terminated in February 2009. Securities loaned were zero as of December 31, 2008.
 
    Major categories of investment income and related investment expense are summarized as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Fixed maturity securities
  $ 1,448     $ 1,467     $ 1,492  
Equity securities
    20       23       26  
Mortgage loans
    297       289       248  
Real estate
    92       86       68  
Policy loans
    229       223       209  
Partnerships and joint ventures
    (78 )     21       170  
Other
    12       21       44  
     
Gross investment income
    2,020       2,130       2,257  
Investment expense
    158       136       137  
     
Net investment income
  $ 1,862     $ 1,994     $ 2,120  
     
    The components of net realized investment gain (loss) are as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Fixed maturity securities:
                       
Gross gains on sales
  $ 35     $ 100     $ 117  
Gross losses on sales
    (18 )     (37 )     (23 )
Other
    12       4       20  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
    29       67       114  
     
 
                       
Equity securities:
                       
Gross gains on sales
                    5  
Gross losses on sales
    (11 )                
Other
    2       1          
     
Total equity securities
    (9 )     1       5  
     
 
                       
Trading securities
    20       (22 )     (1 )
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives
    2,211       (2,775 )     (222 )
Variable annuity GLB policy fees
    147       108       78  
Variable annuity derivatives — interest rate swaps
    (104 )     402          
Variable annuity derivatives — total return swaps
    (1,542 )     646       13  
Equity put options
    (672 )     853       31  
Synthetic GIC policy fees
    25       15          
Other derivatives
    45       (62 )     (11 )
Other
    3       18       62  
     
Total
  $ 153       ($749 )   $ 69  
     

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    As a result of the significant disruption in the housing, financial and credit markets, the OTTI charges recorded during the year ended December 31, 2009 were primarily related to the Company’s exposure to RMBS, certain structured securities and direct exposure to corporate securities. The table below summarizes the OTTIs by security type (In Millions):
                         
    Recorded in     Included in        
    Earnings     OCI     Total  
     
Year ended December 31, 2009:
                       
Corporate securities
  $ 63 (1)   $ 2     $ 65  
RMBS
    116       315       431  
Collateralized debt obligations
    66       13       79  
Perpetual preferred securities
    26               26  
Other investments
    40               40  
     
Total OTTIs
  $ 311     $ 330     $ 641  
     
 
                       
Year ended December 31, 2008:
                       
Corporate securities
  $ 70                  
RMBS
    227                  
Collateralized debt obligations
    156                  
Other asset-backed securities
    1                  
Perpetual preferred securities
    68                  
Other equity securities
    58                  
 
                     
Total OTTIs
  $ 580                  
 
                     
 
(1)   Included are $29 million of OTTI recorded in earnings on perpetual preferred securities carried in trusts.
    In accordance with additional guidance under the Codification’s Investments – Debt and Equity Securities Topic effective January 1, 2009, the Company began recording the credit loss portion of OTTI adjustments in earnings and the portion related to other factors in OCI. The table below details the amount of OTTIs attributable to credit losses recorded in earnings for which a portion was recognized in OCI (In Millions):
         
Cumulative credit loss, January 1, 2009
  $ 88  
Additions for credit impairments recognized on:
       
Securities not previously other than temporarily impaired
    48  
Securities previously other than temporarily impaired
    106  
 
     
Total additions
    154  
 
       
Reductions for credit impairments previously recognized on:
       
Securities that matured or were sold
    (40 )
Securities due to an increase in expected cash flows and time value of cash flows
    (2 )
 
     
Total subtractions
    (42 )
 
     
Cumulative credit loss, December 31, 2009
  $ 200  
 
     

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    The table below presents separately the gross unrealized losses on investments for which OTTI has been recorded in earnings in current or prior periods and the gross unrealized losses on temporarily impaired investments for which no OTTI has been recorded.
                         
    Gross Unrealized Losses  
    OTTI     Non-OTTI        
    Investments     Investments     Total  
    (In Millions)  
December 31, 2009:
                       
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
          $ 46     $ 46  
Corporate securities
  $ 2       306       308  
RMBS
    328       750       1,078  
CMBS
            23       23  
Collateralized debt obligations
    32       1       33  
Other asset-backed securities
            17       17  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
  $ 362     $ 1,143     $ 1,505  
     
 
                       
Perpetual preferred securities
          $ 55     $ 55  
     
Total equity securities
          $ 55     $ 55  
     
    The change in unrealized gain (loss) on investments in available for sale and trading securities is as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Available for sale securities:
                       
Fixed maturity
  $ 2,455       ($3,269 )     ($211 )
Equity
    124       (143 )     (49 )
     
Total available for sale securities
  $ 2,579       ($3,412 )     ($260 )
     
 
                       
Trading securities
  $ 26       ($19 )     ($2 )
     
    Trading securities totaled $206 million and $114 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The cumulative unrealized gains (losses) on trading securities held as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 were $7 million and ($19) million, respectively.
 
    As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, fixed maturity securities of $12 million were on deposit with state insurance departments to satisfy regulatory requirements.
 
    Mortgage loans totaled $6,577 million and $5,622 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Mortgage loans are collateralized by commercial real estate properties primarily located throughout the U.S. As of December 31, 2009, $1,122 million, $963 million, $785 million, $554 million and $369 million were located in California, Washington, Florida, Texas and Maryland, respectively. As of December 31, 2009, $543 million was located in Canada. There were no defaults during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008, and 2007. The Company did not have any mortgage loans with accrued interest more than 180 days past due as of December 31, 2009 or 2008. As of December 31, 2009, mortgage loan investments with one commercial sponsor exceeded 10% of stockholder’s equity. The carrying value of these investments was $725 million as of December 31, 2009.
 
    Investments in real estate totaled $574 million and $459 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. There were no real estate write-downs during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.

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9.   AIRCRAFT LEASING PORTFOLIO, NET
 
    Aircraft leasing portfolio, net, consisted of the following:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Aircraft consolidated from VIEs
  $ 3,081     $ 3,099  
Other aircraft
    3,217       2,667  
     
 
    6,298       5,766  
Accumulated depreciation
    994       767  
     
Aircraft leasing portfolio, net
  $ 5,304     $ 4,999  
     
    As of December 31, 2009, domestic and foreign future minimum rentals scheduled to be received under the noncancelable portion of operating leases are as follows (In Millions):
                                                 
    2010     2011     2012     2013     2014     Thereafter  
Domestic
  $ 23     $ 19     $ 15     $ 13     $ 13     $ 28  
Foreign
    526       448       369       274       214       390  
     
Total operating leases
  $ 549     $ 467     $ 384     $ 287     $ 227     $ 418  
     
    As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, aircraft with a carrying amount of $4,954 million and $4,366 million, respectively, were assigned as collateral to secure debt (Notes 4 and 13).
 
    There were no impairments recorded during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.
 
    During the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, ACG recognized pre-tax gains on the sale of aircraft of zero, zero and $18 million, respectively, which are included in other income.
 
    In December 2007, ACG sold its entire ownership interest in an unconsolidated affiliate. The transaction resulted in a pre-tax gain of $17 million, which is included in net realized investment gain (loss) for the year ended December 31, 2007.
 
10.   DERIVATIVES AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
 
    The Company primarily utilizes derivative instruments to manage its exposure to interest rate risk, foreign currency risk, credit risk, and equity risk. Derivative instruments are also used to manage the duration mismatch of assets and liabilities. The Company utilizes a variety of derivative instruments including swaps, foreign exchange forward contracts, caps, floors and options. In addition, certain insurance products offered by the Company contain features that are accounted for as derivatives.
 
    Accounting for derivatives and hedging activities requires companies to recognize all derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities at fair value in the consolidated statements of financial condition. In accordance with accounting for derivatives and hedging activities, the Company applies hedge accounting by designating derivative instruments as either fair value or cash flow hedges on the date the Company enters into a derivative contract. The Company formally documents at inception all relationships between hedging instruments and hedged items, as well as its risk management objectives and strategy for undertaking various hedge transactions. In this documentation, the Company specifically identifies the asset, liability, firm commitment, or forecasted transaction that has been designated as a hedged item and states how the hedging instrument is expected to hedge the risks related to the hedged item. The Company formally assesses and measures effectiveness of its hedging relationships both at the hedge inception and on an ongoing basis in accordance with its risk management policy.
 
    DERIVATIVES DESIGNATED AS CASH FLOW HEDGES
 
    The Company primarily uses foreign currency interest rate swaps, forward starting interest rate swaps and interest rate swaps to manage its exposure to variability in cash flows due to changes in foreign currencies and the benchmark interest rate. These cash

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    flows include those associated with existing assets and liabilities, as well as the forecasted interest cash flows related to anticipated investment purchases and liability issuances. Such anticipated investment purchases and liability issuances are considered probable to occur and are generally completed within 22 years of the inception of the hedge.
    Foreign currency interest rate swap agreements are used to convert a fixed or floating rate, foreign-denominated asset or liability to a U.S. dollar fixed rate asset or liability. The foreign currency interest rate swaps involve the exchange of an initial principal amount in two currencies, and the agreement to re-exchange the currencies at a future date at an agreed exchange rate. There are also periodic exchanges of interest payments in the two currencies at specified intervals, calculated using agreed upon rates and the exchanged principal amounts. The main currencies that the Company hedges are the Euro, British Pound, and Canadian Dollar.
 
    Forward starting interest rate swaps are used to hedge the variability in the future interest receipts or payments stemming from the anticipated purchase of fixed rate securities or issuance of fixed rate liabilities due to changes in benchmark interest rates. These derivatives are predominantly used to lock in interest rate levels to match future cash flow characteristics of assets and liabilities. Forward starting interest rate swaps involve the exchange, at specified intervals, of interest payments resulting from the difference between fixed and floating rate interest amounts calculated by reference to an underlying notional amount to begin at a specified date in the future for a specified period of time. Generally, no cash is exchanged at the outset of the contract and no principal payments are made by either party. The notional amounts of the contracts do not represent future cash requirements, as the Company intends to close out open positions prior to their effective dates.
 
    Interest rate swap agreements are used to convert a floating rate asset or liability to a fixed rate to hedge the variability of cash flows of the hedged asset or liability due to changes in benchmark interest rates. These derivatives are predominantly used to better match the cash flow characteristics of certain assets and liabilities. These agreements involve the exchange, at specified intervals, of interest payments resulting from the difference between fixed rate and floating rate interest amounts calculated by reference to an underlying notional amount. Generally, no cash is exchanged at the outset of the contract and no principal payments are made by either party.
 
    When a derivative is designated as a cash flow hedge, the effective portion of changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative is recorded in OCI and recognized in earnings when the hedged item affects earnings, and the ineffective portion of changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative is recorded in net realized investment gain (loss). For the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, the Company had net losses of zero, zero and $21 million, respectively, reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI) to earnings resulting from the discontinuance of cash flow hedges due to forecasted transactions that were no longer probable of occurring. Over the next twelve months, the Company anticipates that $24 million of deferred losses on derivative instruments in AOCI will be reclassified to earnings. For the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, all of the Company’s hedged forecasted transactions were determined to be probable of occurring.
 
    The Company had the following outstanding derivatives designated as cash flow hedges:
                 
    Notional Amount  
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
  $ 5,099     $ 6,488  
Forward starting interest rate swaps
    1,060       1,535  
Interest rate swaps
    3,910       4,384  
    Notional amount represents a standard of measurement of the volume of derivatives. Notional amount is not a quantification of market risk or credit risk and is not recorded on the consolidated statements of financial condition. Notional amounts generally represent those amounts used to calculate contractual cash flows to be exchanged and are not paid or received, except for certain contracts such as currency swaps.

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    DERIVATIVES DESIGNATED AS FAIR VALUE HEDGES
    Interest rate swap agreements are used to convert a fixed rate asset or liability to a floating rate to hedge the changes in estimated fair value of the hedged asset or liability due to changes in benchmark interest rates. These derivatives are used primarily to closely match the duration of the assets supporting specific liabilities.
    When a derivative is designated as a fair value hedge, the changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative and the hedged item are recognized in net realized investment gain (loss). The change in value of the hedged item associated with the risk being hedged is reflected as an adjustment to the carrying amount of the hedged item. For the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, hedge ineffectiveness related to designated fair value hedges reflected in net realized investment gain (loss) was $5 million, ($1) million and zero, respectively. No component of the hedging instrument’s estimated fair value is excluded from the determination of effectiveness.
    The Company had the following outstanding derivatives designated as fair value hedges:
                 
    Notional Amount  
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
  $ 13     $ 18  
Interest rate swaps
    1,658       1,264  
    DERIVATIVES NOT DESIGNATED AS HEDGING INSTRUMENTS
    The Company has certain insurance and reinsurance contracts that are considered to have embedded derivatives. When it is determined that the embedded derivative possesses economic and risk characteristics that are not clearly and closely related to those of the host contract and that a separate instrument with the same terms would qualify as a derivative instrument, it is separated from the host contract and accounted for as a stand-alone derivative. The changes in the estimated fair value of the derivatives not designated as hedging instruments and the periodic cash flows are recognized in net realized investment gain (loss).
    The Company offers a rider on certain variable annuity contracts that guarantees net principal over a ten-year holding period, as well as riders on certain variable annuity contracts that guarantee a minimum withdrawal benefit over specified periods, subject to certain restrictions. These variable annuity GLBs are considered embedded derivatives and are recorded in future policy benefits.
    GLBs on variable annuity contracts issued between January 1, 2007 and March 31, 2009 are partially covered by reinsurance. These reinsurance arrangements are used to offset a portion of the Company’s exposure to the GLBs for the lives of the host variable annuity contracts issued. The ceded portion of the GLBs is considered an embedded derivative and is recorded in other assets or other liabilities as either a reinsurance recoverable or reinsurance payable.
    The Company employs hedging strategies (variable annuity derivatives) to mitigate equity risk associated with the GLBs not covered by reinsurance. The Company utilizes total return swaps based upon the S&P 500 Index (S&P 500) primarily to economically hedge the equity risk of the mortality and expense fees in its variable annuity products. These contracts provide periodic payments to the Company in exchange for the total return of the S&P 500 in the form of a payment or receipt, depending on whether the return relative to the index on trade date is positive or negative, respectively. Payments are recognized in realized investment loss and receipts are recognized in realized investment gain. The Company has used interest rate swaps to hedge fluctuations in the valuation of GLBs as a result of changes in risk free rates. These agreements involved the exchange, at specified intervals, of interest payments resulting from the difference between fixed rate and floating rate interest amounts calculated by reference to an underlying notional amount.
    The Company also uses equity put options to hedge equity and credit risks. These equity put options involve the exchange of periodic fixed rate payments for the return, at the end of the option agreement, of the equity index below a specified strike price. Generally, no cash is exchanged at the outset of the contract and no principal payments are made by either party.
    The Company offers equity indexed universal life insurance products, which credits the total return of the S&P 500 to the policy cash value. A policyholder may allocate the policy’s net accumulated value to one or a combination of the following: fixed return account, one year indexed account capped at 12%, or a five year indexed account.

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    The Company utilizes one year European style S&P 500 call options to hedge the annual exposure of the indexed life insurance product’s index growth rate for the one year indexed account. The Company also purchases five year European style S&P 500 Asian call options to hedge the five year exposure of the indexed life insurance product’s index growth rate for the five year indexed account.
    The Company issues synthetic GICs to Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) qualified defined contribution employee benefit plans (ERISA Plan). The ERISA Plan uses the contracts in its stable value fixed income option. The Company receives a fee for providing book value accounting for the ERISA Plan stable value fixed income option. The Company does not manage the assets underlying synthetic GICs. In the event that plan participant elections exceed the estimated fair value of the assets or if the contract is terminated and at the end of the termination period the book value under the contract exceeds the estimated fair value of the assets, then the Company is required to pay the ERISA Plan the difference between book value and estimated fair value. The Company mitigates the investment risk through pre-approval and monitoring of the investment guidelines, requiring high quality investments and adjustments to the plan crediting rates to compensate for unrealized losses in the portfolios.
    The Company uses credit default swaps in combination with cash instruments to reproduce the investment characteristics of certain investments. Credit default swaps involve the receipt or payment of fixed amounts at specific intervals in exchange for the assumption of or protection from potential credit events associated with the underlying security. The Company writes credit default swaps for which a payment is delivered if the underlying security of the derivative defaults. The maximum potential amounts of future payments under credit default swaps were $50 million and $95 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the fair value of credit derivatives sold by the Company was ($17) million and ($38) million, respectively. The terms for these instruments range from five to seven years.
    The Company had the following outstanding derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
                 
    Notional Amount  
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives
  $ 36,408     $ 33,455  
Variable annuity derivatives — interest rate swaps
            2,150  
Variable annuity derivatives — total return swaps
    4,456       2,437  
Variable annuity GLB reinsurance contracts
    14,878       13,274  
Equity put options
    5,267       5,173  
Synthetic GICs
    23,993       23,856  
Interest rate swaps
    178       535  
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
    398       460  
Other
    1,021       849  
    CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENT IMPACT
    Derivative instruments are recorded in the Company’s consolidated statements of financial condition at fair value and are presented as assets or liabilities determined by calculating the net position for each derivative counterparty by legal entity, taking into account income accruals and net cash collateral.

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    The following table summarizes the gross asset or liability derivative fair value and excludes the impact of offsetting asset and liability positions held with the same counterparty, cash collateral payables and receivables and income accruals. See Note 14.
                                 
    Asset Derivatives     Liability Derivatives  
    Estimated Fair Value     Estimated Fair Value  
    December 31,     December 31,  
    2009     2008     2009     2008  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
                               
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
  $ 177     $ 308  (1)   $ 230     $ 87  (1)
 
    69       146  (5)     154       423  (5)
Forward starting interest rate swap agreements
    34       88  (1)             23  (1)
 
    8       232  (5)             45  (5)
Interest rate swaps
    32       32  (1)     106       124  (1)
 
    13       72  (5)     152       337  (5)
         
Total derivatives designated as hedging instruments
    333       878       642       1,039  
         
 
                               
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
                               
Variable annuity derivatives — interest rate swaps
            232  (1)                
 
            140  (5)                
Variable annuity derivatives — total return swaps
    6          (1)     60       33  (1)
 
            55  (5)     4       53  (5)
Equity put options
    329       350  (1)     16          (1)
 
    41       587  (5)     14          (5)
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
    21       1  (1)                
 
            15  (5)             13  (5)
Interest rate swaps
    9       18  (1)     2       3  (1)
 
    1       11  (5)             39  (5)
Other
    18       2  (1)     23       1  (1)
 
    26       11  (5)             38  (5)
Embedded derivatives:
                               
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives (including reinsurance contracts)
    52       429  (2)     754       3,342  (3)
Synthetic GICs
                            3  (3)
Other
                    44       8  (4)
         
Total derivatives not designated as hedging instruments
    503       1,851       917       3,533  
         
Total derivatives
  $ 836     $ 2,729     $ 1,559     $ 4,572  
         
 
    Location on the consolidated statements of financial condition:
     
(1)   Other investments
 
(2)   Other assets
 
(3)   Future policy benefits
 
(4)   Policyholder account balances
 
(5)   Other liabilities

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    Net cash collateral received from counterparties was $237 million and $1,392 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. This unrestricted cash collateral is included in cash and cash equivalents and the obligation to return it is netted against the estimated fair value of derivatives in other investments or other liabilities. Net cash collateral pledged to counterparties was $137 million and $66 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. A receivable representing the right to call this collateral back from the counterparty is netted against the estimated fair value of derivatives in other investments or other liabilities. If the net estimated fair value exposure to the counterparty is positive, the amount is reflected in other investments, whereas, if the net estimated fair value exposure to the counterparty is negative, the estimated fair value is included in future policy benefits or other liabilities, depending on the nature of the derivative.
    As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company had also accepted collateral consisting of various securities with an estimated fair value of $14 million and $147 million, respectively, which are held in separate custodial accounts. The Company is permitted by contract to sell or repledge this collateral and as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, zero and $15 million, respectively, of the collateral had been repledged. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company provided collateral in the form of various securities of zero and $17 million, respectively, which are included in fixed maturity securities. The counterparties are permitted by contract to sell or repledge this collateral.
    The following table summarizes amounts recorded in net realized investment gain (loss) for derivatives designated as fair value hedges. Gains and losses include the changes in estimated fair value of the derivatives and the hedged items, and amounts realized on terminations. The net of the amounts presented for each year represent the ineffective portion of the hedge. The amounts presented do not include the periodic net coupon settlements of the derivatives or the coupon income (expense) related to the hedged item.
                                                 
    Gain (Loss)     Gain (Loss)  
    Recognized in     Recognized in  
    Income on Derivatives     Income on Hedged Items  
    Years Ended     Years Ended  
    December 31,     December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007     2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Derivatives in fair value hedges:
                                               
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
            ($1 )     ($1 )           $ 1     $ 2  
Interest rate swaps
  $ 97       (135 )     (56 )     ($93 )     134       56  
         
Total
  $ 97       ($136 )     ($57 )     ($93 )   $ 135     $ 58  
         

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    The following table summarizes amounts recorded in the consolidated financial statements for derivatives designated as cash flow hedges. Gain and losses include the changes in estimated fair value of the derivatives and amounts realized on terminations. The amounts presented do not include the periodic net coupon settlements of the derivatives.
                                                                         
    Gain (Loss)     Gain (Loss)     Gain (Loss)  
    Recognized in     Reclassified from     Recognized in Income  
    OCI on Derivatives     AOCI into Income     on Derivatives  
    (Effective Portion)     (Effective Portion)     (Ineffective Portion)  
    Years Ended     Years Ended     Years Ended  
    December 31,     December 31,     December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007     2009     2008     2007     2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Derivatives in cash flow hedges:
                                                                       
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
  $ 42     $ 66       ($97 )     ($104 )     ($368 )     ($3 ) (1)                   $ 1   (1)
 
                            9       14       18   (3)                        
Forward starting interest rate swaps
    (254 )     336       33               4           (1)     ($1 )   $ 3       (2 ) (1)
 
                                            (1 ) (2)                        
 
                            (11 )     (1 )     (1 ) (3)                        
Interest rate swaps
    66       (146 )     (83 )     9               (1 ) (1)     9       (7 )       (1)
 
                                    2       3   (2)                        
 
                            (18 )             (3 ) (3)                        
Futures
                            1       3       4   (2)                        
 
                                    (1 )     (1 ) (3)                        
             
Total
    ($146 )   $ 256       ($147 )     ($114 )     ($347 )   $ 15     $ 8       ($4 )     ($1 )
             
 
    Location on the consolidated statements of operations:
 
(1)   Net realized investment gain (loss)
 
(2)   Net investment income
 
(3)   Interest credited to policyholder account balances

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    The following table summarizes amounts recorded in the consolidated financial statements for derivatives not designated as hedging instruments. Gains and losses include the changes in estimated fair value of the derivatives and amounts realized on terminations. The amounts presented do not include the periodic net coupon settlements of ($1,476) million, $639 million and ($41) million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, which are recorded in net realized investment gain (loss).
                         
    Amount of Gain (Loss)  
    Recognized in  
    Income on Derivatives  
    Years Ended  
    December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
            (In Millions)          
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
                       
Variable annuity derivatives — interest rate swaps
    ($168 )   $ 386           (1)
Variable annuity derivatives — total return swaps
    (102 )     (55 )   $ 28   (1)
Equity put options
    (580 )     927       55   (1)
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
    (8 )     12       (2 ) (1)
 
    (1 )     (1 )       (2)
Interest rate swaps
            (8 )     2   (1)
 
    (1 )     (9 )         (2)
Other
    44       (56 )         (1)
Embedded derivatives:
                       
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives (including reinsurance contracts)
    2,211       (2,775 )     (222 ) (1)
Other embedded derivatives
    (14 )     13       1   (1)
     
Total
  $ 1,381       ($1,566 )     ($138 )
     
 
    Location on the consolidated statements of operations:
 
(1)   Net realized investment gain (loss)
 
(2)   Interest credited to policyholder account balances
    CREDIT EXPOSURE AND CREDIT RISK RELATED CONTINGENT FEATURES
    Credit exposure is measured on a counterparty basis as the net positive aggregate estimated fair value, net of collateral received, if any. The credit exposure for over the counter derivatives as of December 31, 2009 was $126 million. The maximum exposure to any single counterparty was $41 million at December 31, 2009.
    For all derivative contracts, excluding embedded derivative contracts such as variable annuity GLBs and synthetic GICs, the Company enters into master agreements that may include a termination event clause associated with Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength ratings assigned by certain independent rating agencies. If Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength rating falls below a specified level, as defined within each counterparty master agreement or, in most cases, if one of the rating agencies ceases to provide an insurer financial strength rating, the counterparty can terminate the master agreement with payment due based on the estimated fair value of the underlying derivatives. As of December 31, 2009, Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength ratings were above the specified level.
    If Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength rating were to fall below the next investment grade from its current standing, the counterparties to the derivative instruments could request immediate and ongoing full overnight collateralization on derivative instruments in net liability positions. The aggregate fair value of all derivative instruments with credit risk related contingent features that are in a liability position on December 31, 2009, is $232 million for which the Company has posted collateral of $137 million in the normal course of business. If certain of Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength ratings were to fall one notch as of December 31, 2009, the Company would have been required to post an additional $14 million of collateral to its counterparties.
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    counterparty is reviewed to evaluate its financial stability before entering into each agreement and throughout the period that the financial instrument is owned. All of the Company’s credit exposure from derivative contracts is with investment grade counterparties. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company has incurred losses of $4 million, included in net realized investment gain (loss), on derivative instruments due to counterparty default related to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Special Finance. These losses were a result of the termination of all remaining open positions with Lehman counterparties.
11.   POLICYHOLDER LIABILITIES
    POLICYHOLDER ACCOUNT BALANCES
 
    The detail of the liability for policyholder account balances is as follows:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Universal life
  $ 19,298     $ 18,729  
Annuity and deposit liabilities
    7,109       4,515  
Funding agreements
    5,240       7,890  
GICs
    2,337       1,536  
     
Total
  $ 33,984     $ 32,670  
     
    FUTURE POLICY BENEFITS
    The detail of the liability for future policy benefits is as follows:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Annuity reserves
  $ 4,960     $ 4,455  
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives
    754       3,342  
URR
    734       925  
Life insurance
    365       360  
Closed Block liabilities
    306       311  
Policy benefits payable
    260       433  
Other
    24       15  
     
Total
  $ 7,403     $ 9,841  
     
12.   SEPARATE ACCOUNTS AND VARIABLE ANNUITY GUARANTEED BENEFIT FEATURES
    The Company issues variable annuity contracts through separate accounts for which investment income and investment gains and losses accrue directly to, and investment risk is borne by, the contract holder (traditional variable annuities). These contracts also include various types of guaranteed minimum death benefit (GMDB) and GLB features. For a discussion of certain GLBs accounted for as embedded derivatives, see Note 9.
    The GMDBs provide a specified minimum return upon death. Many of these death benefits are spousal, whereby a death benefit will be paid upon death of the first spouse. The survivor has the option to terminate the contract or continue it and have the death benefit paid into the contract and a second death benefit paid upon the survivor’s death. The GMDB features include those where the Company contractually guarantees to the contract holder either (a) return of no less than total deposits made to the contract less any partial withdrawals (return of net deposits), (b) the highest contract value on any contract anniversary date through age 80 minus any payments or withdrawals following the contract anniversary (anniversary contract value), or (c) the highest of contract

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value on certain specified dates or total deposits made to the contract less any partial withdrawals plus a minimum return (minimum return).
The guaranteed minimum income benefit (GMIB) is a GLB that provides the contract holder with a guaranteed annuitization value after 10 years. Annuitization value is generally based on deposits adjusted for withdrawals plus a minimum return. In general, the GMIB requires contract holders to invest in an approved asset allocation strategy.
Information in the event of death on the various GMDB features outstanding was as follows (the Company’s variable annuity contracts with guarantees may offer more than one type of guarantee in each contract; therefore, the amounts listed are not mutually exclusive):
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    ($ In Millions)  
Return of net deposits
               
Separate account value
  $ 46,884     $ 36,672  
Net amount at risk (1)
    4,017       11,557  
Average attained age of contract holders
  61 years   61 years
 
               
Anniversary contract value
               
Separate account value
  $ 16,483     $ 13,465  
Net amount at risk (1)
    2,541       5,750  
Average attained age of contract holders
  63 years   62 years
 
               
Minimum return
               
Separate account value
  $ 1,241     $ 1,107  
Net amount at risk (1)
    620       898  
Average attained age of contract holders
  65 years   64 years
 
(1)   Represents the amount of death benefit in excess of the current account balance as of December 31.
Information regarding GMIB features outstanding is as follows:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    ($ In Millions)  
Separate account value
  $ 2,675     $ 2,230  
Average attained age of contract holders
  58 years   57 years
The determination of GMDB and GMIB liabilities is based on models that involve a range of scenarios and assumptions, including those regarding expected market rates of return and volatility, contract surrender rates and mortality experience. The following table summarizes the GMDB and GMIB liabilities, which are recorded in future policy benefits, and changes in these liabilities, which are reflected in policy benefits paid or provided:
                                 
    December 31,     December 31,  
    2009     2008     2009     2008  
    GMDB     GMIB  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Balance, beginning of year
  $ 119     $ 48     $ 62     $ 24  
Changes in reserves
    (11 )     119       (23 )     38  
Benefits paid
    (108 )     (48 )     (1 )        
         
Balance, end of year
  $ 0     $ 119     $ 38     $ 62  
         

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Reinsurance recoverables related to GMDB reserves totaled zero and $3 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, which are included with other reinsurance receivables in other assets. Reinsurance recoverables related to GMIB reserves are not significant.
Variable annuity contracts with guarantees were invested in separate account investment options as follows:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Asset type
               
Domestic equity
  $ 25,760     $ 17,927  
International equity
    6,728       5,476  
Bonds
    13,775       12,182  
Money market
    621       1,087  
     
Total separate account value
  $ 46,884     $ 36,672  
     
13.   DEBT
Debt consists of the following:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Short-term debt:
               
Credit facility recourse only to ACG
  $ 105     $ 150  
     
Total short-term debt
  $ 105     $ 150  
     
 
               
Long-term debt:
               
Surplus notes
  $ 1,150     $ 150  
Fair value adjustment for derivatives and hedging activities
    (13 )     55  
Non-recourse long-term debt:
               
Debt recourse only to ACG
    1,636       1,271  
ACG non-recourse debt
    761       687  
Other non-recourse debt
    121       121  
ACG VIE debt (Note 4)
    1,975       2,173  
Other VIE debt (Note 4)
    2       2  
     
Total long-term debt
  $ 5,632     $ 4,459  
     
SHORT-TERM DEBT
ACG has a revolving credit agreement with a bank for a $105 million borrowing facility, which was entered into in May 2009. Interest is at variable rates and the facility matures in April 2010. The amount outstanding as of December 31, 2009 was $105 million, bearing an interest rate of 4.8%. As of and during the year ended December 31, 2009, ACG was in compliance with the debt covenants related to this facility. This credit facility is recourse only to ACG.
ACG had a revolving credit agreement with a bank for a $150 million borrowing facility, which was entered into in April 2008. The amount outstanding as of December 31, 2008 was $150 million, bearing an interest rate of 2.3%. This credit facility matured and was repaid in May 2009.

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Pacific Life maintains a $700 million commercial paper program. There was no commercial paper debt outstanding as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. In addition, Pacific Life has a bank revolving credit facility of $400 million maturing in 2012 that serves as a back-up line of credit for the commercial paper program. This facility had no debt outstanding as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. As of and during the year ended December 31, 2009, Pacific Life was in compliance with the debt covenants related to this facility.
PL&A maintains a $40 million reverse repurchase line of credit with a commercial bank. These borrowings are at variable rates of interest based on collateral and market conditions. There was no debt outstanding in connection with this line of credit as of December 31, 2009 and 2008.
Pacific Life is a member of the FHLB of Topeka. Pacific Life has approval from the FHLB of Topeka to advance amounts up to 40% of Pacific Life’s statutory general account assets provided it has available collateral and is in compliance with debt covenant restrictions and insurance laws and regulations. There was no debt outstanding with the FHLB of Topeka as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. The Company had $127 million and $1.0 billion of additional funding capacity from eligible collateral as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
PL&A is a member of the FHLB of San Francisco. PL&A is eligible to borrow from the FHLB of San Francisco amounts based on a percentage of statutory capital and surplus and could borrow up to amounts of $102 million. Of this amount, half, or $51 million, can be borrowed for terms other than overnight, out to a maximum term of nine months. These borrowings are at variable rates of interest, collateralized by certain mortgage loan and government securities. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, PL&A had no debt outstanding with the FHLB of San Francisco.
LONG-TERM DEBT
In June 2009, Pacific Life issued $1.0 billion of surplus notes at a fixed interest rate of 9.25%, maturing on June 15, 2039. Interest is payable semiannually on June 15 and December 15. Pacific Life may redeem the 9.25% surplus notes at its option, subject to the approval of the Nebraska Director of Insurance for such optional redemption. The 9.25% surplus notes are unsecured and subordinated to all present and future senior indebtedness and policy claims of Pacific Life. All future payments of interest and principal on the 9.25% surplus notes can be made only with the prior approval of the Nebraska Director of Insurance. The Company entered into interest rate swaps converting $650 million of these surplus notes to variable rate notes based upon the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR). The interest rate swaps were designated as fair value hedges of these surplus notes and the changes in fair value of the hedged surplus notes associated with changes in interest rates are reflected as an adjustment to their carrying amount. This adjustment to the carrying amount of the surplus notes, which decreased long-term debt by $35 million as of December 31, 2009, is offset by a fair value adjustment which has also been recorded for the interest rate swap derivative instruments.
Pacific Life has $150 million of surplus notes outstanding at a fixed interest rate of 7.9%, maturing on December 30, 2023. Interest is payable semiannually on June 30 and December 30. The 7.9% surplus notes may not be redeemed at the option of Pacific Life or any holder of the surplus notes. The 7.9% surplus notes are unsecured and subordinated to all present and future senior indebtedness and policy claims of Pacific Life. All future payments of interest and principal on the 7.9% surplus notes can be made only with the prior approval of the Nebraska Director of Insurance. The Company entered into interest rate swaps converting these surplus notes to variable rate notes based upon the LIBOR. The interest rate swaps were designated as fair value hedges of these surplus notes and the changes in fair value of the hedged surplus notes associated with changes in interest rates are reflected as an adjustment to their carrying amount. This adjustment to the carrying amount of the surplus notes, which increased long-term debt by $22 million and $55 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, is offset by a fair value adjustment which has also been recorded for the interest rate swap derivative instruments.
ACG enters into various term loans with third-parties. Interest on these loans is payable monthly, quarterly or semi-annually and ranged from 0.3% to 6.8% as of December 31, 2009 and from 1.7% to 6.8% as of December 31, 2008. As of December 31, 2009, $1,636 million was outstanding on these loans with maturities ranging from 2010 to 2021. Principal payments due over the next twelve months are $297 million. As of December 31, 2008, $1,271 million was outstanding on these loans. These loans are recourse only to ACG.
ACG enters into various acquisition facilities and bank loans to acquire aircraft. Interest on these facilities and loans accrues at variable rates, is payable monthly and ranged from 1.6% to 3.2% as of December 31, 2009 and from 2.0% to 3.0% as of December 31, 2008. As of December 31, 2009, $761 million was outstanding on these facilities and loans with maturities ranging from 2010

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to 2014. As of December 31, 2008, $687 million was outstanding on these facilities and loans. These facilities and loans are non-recourse to the Company.
ACG had a loan with Pacific Asset Funding, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific LifeCorp, for $50 million, which was entered into in April 2009. Interest was at variable rates and the loan was repaid in November 2009.
Certain subsidiaries of Pacific Asset Holding LLC (PAH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Life, entered into various term loans with third-parties. Interest on these loans accrues at fixed rates, is payable monthly and ranged from 5.8% to 6.2% as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, there was $87 million outstanding on these loans with maturities ranging from 2010 to 2012. Principal payments due over the next twelve months are $32 million. All of these loans are secured by real estate properties and are non-recourse to the Company.
Certain subsidiaries of PAH also entered into various property improvement loans with third-parties for a maximum loan balance of $43 million. Interest on these loans accrues at variable rates, is payable monthly and ranged from 1.4% and 2.0% as of December 31, 2009 and 2.6% to 3.6% as of December 31, 2008. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, there was $34 million outstanding on these loans with maturities ranging from 2010 to 2011. Principal payments due over the next twelve months are $26 million. All of these loans are secured by real estate properties and are non-recourse to the Company.
14.   FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs of valuation methods used to measure fair value for financial assets and financial liabilities that are carried at fair value. The hierarchy consists of the following three levels that are prioritized based on observable and unobservable inputs.
  Level 1    Unadjusted quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets. Level 1 financial instruments would include securities that are traded in an active exchange market.
  Level 2     Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments on inactive markets; and model-derived valuations for which all significant inputs are observable market data. Level 2 instruments include most corporate debt securities and U.S. government and agency mortgage-backed securities that are valued by models using inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data.
  Level 3    Valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs are unobservable. Level 3 instruments include less liquid securities for which significant inputs are not observable in the market, such as highly structured securities and variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives that require significant management assumptions or estimation in the fair value measurement.
    This hierarchy requires the use of observable market data when available.

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The following tables present, by fair value hierarchy level, the Company’s financial assets and liabilities that are carried at fair value as of December 31, 2009 and 2008.
                                                 
                            Gross              
                            Derivatives     Netting        
    Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Fair Value     Adjustments (1)     Total  
                    (In Millions)                  
December 31, 2009:
                                               
Assets:
                                               
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
          $ 109     $ 6                     $ 115  
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
            565       34                       599  
Foreign governments
            323       108                       431  
Corporate securities
            15,566       2,287                       17,853  
RMBS
            1,510       3,650                       5,160  
CMBS
            852       327                       1,179  
Collateralized debt obligations
            8       104                       112  
Other asset-backed securities
            355       235                       590  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
            19,288       6,751                       26,039  
     
 
                                               
Perpetual preferred securities
            205       70                       275  
Other equity securities
  $ 3                                       3  
     
Total equity securities
    3       205       70                       278  
     
 
                                               
Trading securities (2)
    92       85       29                       206  
Cash equivalents
    1,714                                       1,714  
Other investments
                    163                       163  
Derivatives
            369       467     $ 836       ($595 )     241  
Separate account assets (3)
    52,305       116       101                       52,522  
     
Total
  $ 54,114     $ 20,063     $ 7,581     $ 836       ($595 )   $ 81,163  
     
 
                                               
Liabilities:
                                               
Derivatives
          $ 645     $ 914     $ 1,559       ($595 )   $ 964  
     
Total
          $ 645     $ 914     $ 1,559       ($595 )   $ 964  
     

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                            Gross              
                            Derivatives     Netting        
    Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Fair Value     Adjustments (1)     Total  
    (In Millions)  
December 31, 2008:
                                               
Assets:
                                               
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
          $ 117                             $ 117  
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
            369                               369  
Foreign governments
            223     $ 22                       245  
Corporate securities
            12,274       2,243                       14,517  
RMBS
            1,577       3,355                       4,932  
CMBS
            899       201                       1,100  
Collateralized debt obligations
            20       104                       124  
Other asset-backed securities
            328       210                       538  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
            15,807       6,135                       21,942  
     
 
                                               
Perpetual preferred securities
            202       12                       214  
Other equity securities
            2                               2  
     
Total equity securities
            204       12                       216  
     
 
                                               
Trading securities (2)
            17       97                       114  
Cash equivalents
  $ 2,597                                       2,597  
Other investments
                    150                       150  
Derivatives
            1,294       1,435     $ 2,729       ($656 )     2,073  
Separate account assets (3)
    41,145       275       61                       41,481  
     
Total
  $ 43,742     $ 17,597     $ 7,890     $ 2,729       ($656 )   $ 68,573  
     
 
                                               
Liabilities:
                                               
Derivatives
          $ 1,095     $ 3,477     $ 4,572       ($656 )   $ 3,916  
     
Total
          $ 1,095     $ 3,477     $ 4,572       ($656 )   $ 3,916  
     
 
(1)   Netting adjustments represent the impact of offsetting asset and liability positions held with the same counterparty as permitted by guidance for offsetting in the Codification’s Derivatives and Hedging Topic.
 
(2)   Trading securities are presented in other investments in the consolidated statements of financial condition.
 
(3)   Separate account assets are measured at fair value. Investment performance related to separate account assets is offset by corresponding amounts credited to contract holders whose liability is reflected in the separate account liabilities. Separate account liabilities are measured to equal the fair value of separate account assets as prescribed by guidance in the Codification’s Financial Services – Insurance Topic for accounting and reporting of certain non traditional long-duration contracts and separate accounts. Separate account assets as presented in the table above differ from the amounts presented in the consolidated statements of financial condition because cash and receivables for securities are not subject to the guidance under the Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic.
FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENT
The Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell the asset or paid to transfer the liability at the measurement date. This “exit price” notion is a market-based measurement that requires a focus on the value that market participants would assign for an asset or liability.

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The following section describes the valuation methodologies used by the Company to measure various types of financial instruments at fair value.
FIXED MATURITY, EQUITY AND TRADING SECURITIES
The fair values of fixed maturity securities available for sale, equity securities available for sale and trading securities are determined by management after considering external pricing sources and internal valuation techniques.
For publicly traded securities with sufficient trading volume, prices are obtained from third-party pricing services. For structured or complex securities that are traded infrequently, prices are obtained from independent brokers or are valued internally using various valuation techniques. Such techniques include matrix model pricing and internally developed models, which incorporate observable market data, where available. Matrix model pricing measures fair value using cash flows, which are discounted using observable market yield curves provided by a major independent data service. The matrix model determines the discount yield based upon significant factors that include the security’s weighted average life and rating.
Where matrix model pricing is not used, particularly for RMBS and other asset-backed securities, other internally derived valuation models are utilized. The inputs used to measure fair value in the internal valuations include, but are not limited to, benchmark yields, issuer spreads, bids, offers, reported trades, and estimated projected cash flows that incorporate significant inputs such as defaults and delinquency rates, severity, subordination, vintage and prepayment speeds.
For non-agency RMBS backed by prime, sub-prime and Alt-A collateral, the Company has determined that there has been a significant decrease in the volume and level of transaction activity indicating the need for a valuation technique not solely based on observable transactions and/or quoted market prices. As permitted by guidance in the Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic beginning March 31, 2009, the Company determines the estimated fair value for these assets utilizing an internally developed weighting of valuations derived from internal pricing models and independent pricing services. This approach utilizes multiple valuation techniques incorporating an income approach (maximizing the use of relevant observable inputs and minimizing the use of unobservable inputs) and a market approach (based on data provided by independent pricing services) producing a result more representative of an investment’s fair value as compared to a single valuation technique. The income approach incorporates cash flows for each investment adjusted for expected losses assuming various interest rate and housing price-level scenarios. The adjusted cash flows are discounted using a risk premium that market participants would demand given the risk in the modeled cash flows. The risk premium utilized is reflective of an orderly transaction between market participants under current market conditions and includes considerations such as liquidity and structure risk. These internally generated prices are then reviewed in conjunction with prices obtained from multiple independent pricing services. The internally generated prices are weighted with the prices obtained from independent pricing services, with consideration given to the relative range of values that are most representative of fair value under current conditions. These securities have been classified as Level 3 financial assets.
Prices obtained from independent third-parties are generally evaluated based on the inputs indicated above. The Company’s management analyzes and evaluates these prices and determines whether they are reasonable estimates of fair value. Management’s analysis may include, but is not limited to, review of third-party pricing methodologies and inputs, analysis of recent trades, and development of internal models utilizing observable market data of comparable securities. Based on this analysis, prices received from third-parties may be adjusted if the Company determines that there is a more appropriate fair value based on available market information.
Most securities priced by a major independent third-party service have been classified as Level 2, as management has verified that the inputs used in determining their fair values are market observable and appropriate. Other externally priced securities for which fair value measurement inputs are not sufficiently transparent, such as securities valued based on broker quotations, have been classified as Level 3. Internally valued securities, including adjusted prices received from independent third-parties, where significant management assumptions have been utilized in determining fair value, have been classified as Level 3.
CASH EQUIVALENTS
Cash equivalents include, but are not limited to, corporate discount notes and money market mutual funds. The fair value of cash equivalents is measured at amortized cost due to the short-term, highly liquid nature of these securities, which have original maturities of three months or less. These investments are classified as Level 1.

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OTHER INVESTMENTS
Other investments include non-marketable equity securities that do not have readily determinable fair values. Certain significant inputs used in determining the fair value of these equities are based on management assumptions or contractual terms with another party that cannot be readily observable in the market. These investments are classified as Level 3 assets.
DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS
Derivative instruments are reported at fair value using pricing valuation models, which utilize market data inputs or independent broker quotations. Excluding embedded derivatives, as of December 31, 2009, 99% of derivatives based upon notional values were priced by valuation models, which utilize independent market data. The remaining derivatives were priced by broker quotations. The derivatives are valued using mid-market inputs that are predominantly observable in the market. Inputs used to value derivatives include, but are not limited to, interest swap rates, foreign currency forward and spot rates, credit spreads and correlations, interest and equity volatility and equity index levels. In accordance with the Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic, a credit valuation analysis was performed for all derivative positions to measure the risk that one of the counterparties to the transaction will be unable to perform under the contractual terms (nonperformance risk), and was determined to be immaterial as of December 31, 2009.
The Company performs a monthly analysis on derivative valuations, which includes both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Examples of procedures performed include, but are not limited to, review of pricing statistics and trends, analyzing the impacts of changes in the market environment, and review of changes in market value for each derivative including those derivatives priced by brokers.
Derivative instruments classified as Level 2 primarily include interest rate, currency and certain credit default swaps. The derivative valuations are determined using pricing models with inputs that are observable in the market or can be derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data.
Derivative instruments classified as Level 3 include complex derivatives, such as equity options and swaps and certain credit default swaps. Also included in Level 3 classification for derivatives are embedded derivatives in certain insurance and reinsurance contracts. These derivatives are valued using pricing models, which utilize both observable and unobservable inputs and, to a lesser extent, broker quotations. A derivative instrument containing Level 1 or Level 2 inputs will be classified as a Level 3 financial instrument in its entirety if it has at least one significant Level 3 input.
The Company utilizes derivative instruments to manage the risk associated with certain assets and liabilities. However, the derivative instrument may not be classified within the same fair value hierarchy level as the associated assets and liabilities. Therefore, the realized and unrealized gains and losses on derivatives reported in Level 3 may not reflect the offsetting impact of the realized and unrealized gains and losses of the associated assets and liabilities.
VARIABLE ANNUITY GLB EMBEDDED DERIVATIVES
Fair values for variable annuity GLB and related reinsurance embedded derivatives are calculated based upon significant unobservable inputs using internally developed models because active, observable markets do not exist for those items. As a result, variable annuity GLB and related reinsurance embedded derivatives are categorized as Level 3. Below is a description of the Company’s fair value methodologies for these embedded derivatives.
The Company’s fair value is calculated as an aggregation of fair value and additional risk margins including, Behavior Risk Margin, Mortality Risk Margin and Credit Standing Adjustment. The resulting aggregation is reconciled or calibrated, if necessary, to market information that is, or may be, available to the Company, but may not be observable by other market participants, including reinsurance discussions and transactions. Each of the components described below are unobservable in the market place and requires subjectivity by the Company in determining their value.
    Behavior Risk Margin: This component adds a margin that market participants would require for the risk that the Company’s assumptions about policyholder behavior used in the fair value model could differ from actual experience.
 
    Mortality Risk Margin: This component adds a margin in mortality assumptions, both for decrements for policyholders with GLBs, and for expected payout lifetimes in guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits.

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    Credit Standing Adjustment: This component makes an adjustment that market participants would make to reflect the chance that GLB obligations or the GLB reinsurance recoverables will not be fulfilled (nonperformance risk).
SEPARATE ACCOUNT ASSETS
Separate account assets are primarily invested in mutual funds, but also have investments in fixed maturity and short-term securities. Separate account assets are valued in the same manner, and using the same pricing sources and inputs, as the fixed maturity and equity securities available for sale of the Company. Mutual funds are included in Level 1. Most fixed maturity securities are included in Level 2. Level 3 assets include any investments where fair value is based on management assumptions or obtained from independent third-parties and fair value measurement inputs are not sufficiently transparent.
LEVEL 3 RECONCILIATION
The tables below present reconciliations of the beginning and ending balances of the Level 3 financial assets and liabilities that have been measured at fair value on a recurring basis using significant unobservable inputs.
                                                         
                                    Purchases,              
            Total Gains or Losses     Transfers     Sales,             Unrealized  
                            In and/or     Issuances,             Gains  
    January 1,     Included in     Included in     Out of     and     December 31,     (Losses)  
    2009     Earnings     OCI     Level 3     Settlements     2009     Still Held (1)  
                            (In Millions)                  
Assets:
                                                       
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
                          $ 6             $ 6          
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
                    ($3 )     7     $ 30       34          
Foreign governments
  $ 22     $ 2       5       71       8       108          
Corporate securities
    2,243       (28 )     644       (974 )     402       2,287       ($5 )
RMBS
    3,355       (115 )     437       427       (454 )     3,650          
CMBS
    201       1       26       60       39       327          
Collateralized debt obligations
    104       (67 )     71               (4 )     104          
Other asset-backed securities
    210       2       10       42       (29 )     235          
 
                                         
Total fixed maturity securities
    6,135       (205 )     1,190       (361 )     (8 )     6,751       (5 )
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Perpetual preferred securities
    12       (17 )     12       (5 )     68       70          
Other equity securities
            1       4       (28 )     23                  
 
                                         
Total equity securities
    12       (16 )     16       (33 )     91       70          
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Trading securities
    97                       (51 )     (17 )     29       2  
Other investments
    150               24               (11 )     163          
Derivatives, net
    (2,042 )     1,504       1               90       (447 )     1,597  
Separate account assets (2)
    61       6               20       14       101       12  
 
                                         
Total
  $ 4,413     $ 1,289     $ 1,231       ($425 )   $ 159     $ 6,667     $ 1,606  
 
                                         

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                                    Purchases,              
                            Transfers     Sales,             Unrealized  
            Total Gains or Losses     In and/or     Issuances,             Gains  
    January 1,     Included in     Included in     Out of     and     December 31,     (Losses)  
    2008     Earnings     OCI     Level 3     Settlements     2008     Still Held (1)  
    (In Millions)  
Assets:
                                                       
Foreign governments
  $ 32               ($7 )           ($3 )   $ 22          
Corporate securities
    1,505     $ 2       (329 )   $ 733       332       2,243     ($16 )
RMBS
    431       (1 )     (168 )     3,025       68       3,355          
CMBS
    434               (40 )     (141 )     (52 )     201          
Collateralized debt obligations
    230       (90 )     (35 )             (1 )     104          
Other asset-backed securities
    242       (4 )     (16 )     (11 )     (1 )     210          
 
                                         
Total fixed maturity securities
    2,874       (93 )     (595 )     3,606       343       6,135       (16 )
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Perpetual preferred securities
    46       (33 )                     (1 )     12          
Other equity securities
    4       (4 )                                        
 
                                         
Total equity securities
    50       (37 )                     (1 )     12          
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Trading securities
    47       (12 )             10       52       97       (11 )
Other investments
    460       105       (133 )             (282 )     150          
Derivatives, net
    (103 )     (1,945 )     2               4       (2,042 )     (1,822 )
Separate account assets(2)
    11       (5 )             46       9       61       (25 )
 
                                         
Total
  $ 3,339     ($1,987 )   ($726 )   $ 3,662     $ 125     $ 4,413     ($1,874 )
 
                                         
 
(1)   Represents the net amount of total gains or losses for the period, recorded in earnings, attributable to the change in unrealized gains (losses) relating to assets and liabilities classified as Level 3 that are still held as of December 31, 2009 and 2008.
 
(2)   The realized/unrealized gains (losses) included in net income (loss) for separate account assets are offset by an equal amount for separate account liabilities, which results in a net zero impact on net income (loss) for the Company.
The Company did not have any nonfinancial assets or liabilities measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis resulting from impairments as of December 31, 2009. The Company has not made any changes in the valuation methodologies for nonfinancial assets and liabilities.

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    The carrying amount and estimated fair value of the Company’s financial instruments that are not carried at fair value under the Codification’s Financial Instruments Topic are as follows:
                                 
    December 31, 2009     December 31, 2008  
    Carrying     Estimated     Carrying     Estimated  
    Amount     Fair Value     Amount     Fair Value  
    (In Millions)  
Assets:
                               
Mortgage loans
  $ 6,577     $ 6,660     $ 5,622     $ 5,645  
Policy loans
    6,509       6,509       6,920       6,920  
Other invested assets
    196       185       305       334  
Restricted cash
    221       221       227       227  
Liabilities:
                               
Funding agreements and GICs (1)
    7,572       8,093       9,419       10,136  
Annuity and deposit liabilities
    7,109       7,109       4,515       4,515  
Short-term debt
    105       105       150       150  
Long-term debt
    5,632       5,806       4,459       4,373  
 
(1)   Balance excludes embedded derivatives that are included in the fair value hierarchy level tables above.
    The following methods and assumptions were used to estimate the fair value of these financial instruments as of December 31, 2009 and 2008:
 
    MORTGAGE LOANS
 
    The estimated fair value of the mortgage loan portfolio is determined by discounting the estimated future cash flows, using current rates that are applicable to similar credit quality, property type and average maturity of the composite portfolio.
 
    POLICY LOANS
 
    The carrying amounts of policy loans are a reasonable estimate of their fair values because interest rates are generally variable and based on current market rates.
 
    OTHER INVESTED ASSETS
 
    Included in other invested assets are private equity investments in which the estimated fair value of private equity investments is based on the ownership percentage of the underlying equity of the investments.
 
    RESTRICTED CASH
 
    The carrying values approximate fair values due to the short-term maturities of these instruments.
 
    FUNDING AGREEMENTS AND GICs
 
    The fair value of funding agreements and GICs is estimated using the rates currently offered for deposits of similar remaining maturities.
 
    ANNUITY AND DEPOSIT LIABILITIES
 
    The estimated fair value of annuity and deposit liabilities approximates carrying value and primarily includes policyholder deposits and accumulated credited interest. The estimated fair value of deposit liabilities with no defined maturities is the amount payable on demand.

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    DEBT
 
    The carrying amount of short-term debt is a reasonable estimate of its fair value because the interest rates are variable and based on current market rates. The estimated fair value of long-term debt is based on market quotes, except for VIE debt and non-recourse debt, for which the carrying amounts are reasonable estimates of their fair values because the interest rate approximates current market rates.
 
15.   OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
 
    The Company displays comprehensive income (loss) and its components on the consolidated statements of equity. The disclosure of the gross components of other comprehensive income (loss) and related taxes are as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Unrealized gain (loss) on derivatives and securities available for sale, net:
                       
Gross holding gain (loss):
                       
Securities available for sale
  $ 2,601       ($3,870 )     ($239 )
Derivatives
    (146 )     256       (147 )
Income tax (expense) benefit
    (861 )     1,269       135  
Reclassification adjustment — realized (gain) loss:
                       
Sale of securities available for sale
    251       458       (21 )
Derivatives
    25       (4 )     (15 )
Income tax expense (benefit)
    (98 )     (159 )     12  
Allocation of holding (gain) loss to DAC
    (415 )     356       (24 )
Allocation of holding (gain) loss to future policy benefits
    85       (119 )     (15 )
Income tax expense (benefit)
    113       (83 )     14  
Cumulative effect of adoption of new accounting principle
    (263 )                
Income tax expense
    93                  
     
Unrealized gain (loss) on derivatives and securities available for sale, net
    1,385       (1,896 )     (300 )
     
 
                       
Other, net:
                       
Holding gain (loss) on interest in PIMCO and other security
    22       (24 )     5  
Income tax (expense) benefit
    (8 )     9       (1 )
Reclassification of realized gain on sale of interest in PIMCO
            (109 )        
Income tax on realized gain
            42          
     
Net unrealized gain (loss) on interest in PIMCO and other security
    14       (82 )     4  
Cumulative effect of adoption of new accounting principle, net of tax
                    (20 )
Other, net of tax
    33       (15 )        
     
Other, net
    47       (97 )     (16 )
     
Total other comprehensive income (loss), net
  $ 1,432       ($1,993 )     ($316 )
     

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16.   REINSURANCE
 
    Certain no lapse guarantee rider (NLGR) benefits of Pacific Life’s UL insurance products are subject to Actuarial Guideline 38 (AG 38) statutory reserving requirements. AG 38 results in additional statutory reserves on UL products with NLGRs issued after June 30, 2005. U.S. GAAP benefit reserves for such riders are based on guidance in the Codification’s Financial Services – Insurance Topic for accounting and reporting of certain non traditional long-duration contracts and separate accounts. Substantially all the U.S. GAAP benefit reserves relating to NLGRs issued after June 30, 2005 are ceded from Pacific Life to Pacific Alliance Reinsurance Ltd. (PAR Bermuda), a Bermuda-based life reinsurance company wholly owned by Pacific LifeCorp and PAR Vermont under reinsurance agreements. Funded reserves and irrevocable letters of credit (LOC) held in trust accounts with Pacific Life as beneficiary provide security for statutory reserve credits taken by Pacific Life. Pacific LifeCorp guarantees the obligations of PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont under the LOC agreement.
 
    The Company entered into treaties to reinsure a portion of new variable annuity business under modified coinsurance arrangements and certain variable annuity living and death benefit riders under coinsurance agreements. Effective January 1, 2008, the quota share on these variable annuity reinsurance treaties was increased from a total of 39% to 45%. Additionally, effective January 1, 2008, the Company recaptured a portion of the variable annuity business ceded during 2007. Effective January 1, 2009, all but one reinsurance treaty terminated for new business, reducing the quota share to 15%. The final treaty terminated for new business issued after March 31, 2009. Variable annuity business ceded prior to these dates continues to be reinsured.
 
    Reinsurance receivables and payables generally include amounts related to claims, reserves and reserve related items. Reinsurance receivables were $404 million and $839 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Reinsurance payables were $37 million and $38 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
    The ceding of risk does not discharge the Company from its primary obligations to contract owners. To the extent that the assuming companies become unable to meet their obligations under reinsurance contracts, the Company remains contingently liable. Each reinsurer is reviewed to evaluate its financial stability before entering into each reinsurance contract and throughout the period that the reinsurance contract is in place.
 
    The components of insurance premiums presented in the consolidated statements of operations are as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Direct premiums
  $ 666     $ 410     $ 271  
Reinsurance ceded (1)
    (323 )     (291 )     (274 )
Reinsurance assumed
    60  (2)     53       53  
     
Insurance premiums
  $ 403     $ 172     $ 50  
     
 
(1)   Included are $21 million, $13 million and $12 million of reinsurance ceded to PAR Bermuda for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
 
(2)   Included are $4 million of assumed premiums from Pacific Life Re, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific LifeCorp.

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17.   EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
 
    PENSION PLANS
 
    Prior to December 31, 2007, Pacific Life provided a defined benefit pension plan (ERP) covering all eligible employees of the Company. Certain subsidiaries did not participate in this plan. The full-benefit vesting period for all participants was five years. Pacific Life’s funding policy was to contribute amounts to the plan sufficient to meet the minimum funding requirements set forth in ERISA, plus such additional amounts as was determined appropriate. All such contributions were made to a tax-exempt trust.
 
    The Company amended the ERP to terminate effective December 31, 2007. In anticipation of the final settlement of the defined benefit pension plan, the plan’s investment strategy was revised and the mutual fund investments were sold, transferred to a separate account group annuity contract managed by the Company and invested primarily in fixed income investments to better match the expected duration of the liabilities.
 
    In September 2009, the Company received regulatory approval to commence the final termination of the ERP and payment of plan benefits to the participants. The Company completed the final distribution of plan assets to participants in December 2009. The Company recognized settlement costs of $5 million in 2008 and recognized the final settlement costs for the ERP totaling $72 million in 2009.
 
    Pacific Life also maintains supplemental employee retirement plans (SERPs) for certain eligible employees. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the projected benefit obligation was $37 million and $32 million, respectively. The fair value of plan assets as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 was zero. The net periodic benefit expense of the SERPs was $4 million, $5 million and $6 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
 
    The following table sets forth the benefit obligations, plan assets and funded status of the defined benefit plans:
                                 
    December 31, 2009     December 31, 2008  
    ERP     SERP     ERP     SERP  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Defined benefit plans:
                               
Benefit obligation, end of year
          $ 37     $ 198     $ 32  
Fair value of plan assets, end of year
  $ 26               242          
         
Over (under) funded status, end of year
  $ 26       ($37 )   $ 44       ($32 )
         
    The Company incurred a net pension expense of $79 million, $8 million and $9 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, as detailed in the following table:
                                                 
    Year Ended     Year Ended     Year Ended  
    December 31, 2009     December 31, 2008     December 31, 2007  
    ERP     SERP     ERP     SERP     ERP     SERP  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Components of the net periodic pension expense:
                                               
Service cost — benefits earned during the year
          $ 2             $ 2             $ 2  
Interest cost on projected benefit obligation
  $ 12       2     $ 12       2     $ 14       2  
Expected return on plan assets
    (12 )             (14 )             (16 )        
Settlement costs
    72               5               4          
Amortization of net obligations and prior service cost
    3                       1       2       1  
             
Net periodic pension expense
  $ 75     $ 4     $ 3     $ 5     $ 4     $ 5  
             

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    Significant plan assumptions:
                                 
    December 31, 2009     December 31, 2008  
    ERP     SERP     ERP     SERP  
Weighted-average assumptions used to determine benefit obligations:
                               
Discount rate
    6.35 %     6.30 %     6.35 %     6.30 %
Salary rate
    N/A       4.50 %     N/A       4.50 %
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
Weighted-average assumptions used to determine the ERP’s net periodic benefit expense:
                       
Discount rate
    6.30 %     6.25 %     5.75 %
Expected long-term return on plan assets
    N/A       5.25 %     6.13 %
    The salary rate used to determine the net periodic benefit expense for the SERP was 4.5% for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.
 
    Pacific Life expects to contribute $3 million to the SERP in 2010. The expected benefit payments are as follows for the years ending December 31 (In Millions):
                     
2010   2011   2012   2013   2014   2015-2019
$3
  $3   $3   $3   $3   $15
    RETIREMENT INCENTIVE SAVINGS PLAN
 
    Pacific Life provides a Retirement Incentive Savings Plan (RISP) covering all eligible employees of Pacific LifeCorp and certain of its subsidiaries. The RISP matches 75% of each employee’s contributions, up to a maximum of 6% of eligible employee compensation in cash. Contributions made by the Company to the RISP amounted to $26 million, $29 million and $25 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, and are included in operating expenses.
 
    POSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS
 
    Pacific Life provides a defined benefit health care plan and a defined benefit life insurance plan (the Plans) that provide postretirement benefits for all eligible retirees and their dependents. Generally, qualified employees may become eligible for these benefits if they have reached normal retirement age, have been covered under Pacific Life’s policy as an active employee for a minimum continuous period prior to the date retired, and have an employment date before January 1, 1990. The Plans contain cost-sharing features such as deductibles and coinsurance, and require retirees to make contributions, which can be adjusted annually. Pacific Life’s commitment to qualified employees who retire after April 1, 1994 is limited to specific dollar amounts. Pacific Life reserves the right to modify or terminate the Plans at any time. As in the past, the general policy is to fund these benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis.
 
    The net periodic postretirement benefit cost for each of the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 was $1 million. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the accumulated benefit obligation was $19 million and $18 million, respectively. The fair value of the plan assets as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 was zero.
 
    The discount rate used in determining the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation was 5.50% and 6.35% for 2009 and 2008, respectively.

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    Benefit payments for the year ended December 31, 2009 amounted to $3 million. The expected benefit payments are as follows for the years ending December 31 (In Millions):
                     
2010   2011   2012   2013   2014   2015-2019
$3   $4   $4   $4   $4   $24
    OTHER PLANS
 
    The Company has deferred compensation plans that permit eligible employees to defer portions of their compensation and earn interest on the deferred amounts. The interest rate is determined annually. The compensation that has been deferred has been accrued and the primary expense related to this plan, other than compensation, is interest on the deferred amounts. The Company also has performance-based incentive compensation plans for its employees.
 
18.   INCOME TAXES
 
    The provision (benefit) for income taxes is as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
            (In Millions)          
Current
    ($407 )   $ 196     $ 43  
Deferred
    451       (511 )     86  
         
Provision (benefit) for income taxes from continuing operations
    44       (315 )     129  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes on discontinued operations
    (11 )     (3 )     18  
     
Total
  $ 33       ($318 )   $ 147  
     
    A reconciliation of the provision (benefit) for income taxes from continuing operations based on the Federal corporate statutory tax rate of 35% to the provision (benefit) for income taxes from continuing operations reflected in the consolidated financial statements is as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
            (In Millions)          
Provision (benefit) for income taxes at the statutory rate
  $ 170       ($199 )   $ 292  
Separate account dividends received deduction
    (93 )     (107 )     (103 )
Low income housing and foreign tax credits
    (19 )     (31 )     (33 )
Other
    (14 )     22       (27 )
         
Provision (benefit) for income taxes from continuing operations
  $ 44       ($315 )   $ 129  
     
    Upon adoption of new guidance to the Codification’s Income Taxes Topic relating to the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes on January 1, 2007, the Company had unrecognized tax benefits of $32 million, which relate entirely to an uncertain tax position regarding refund claims for the impact of short-term capital gains on computing separate account Dividends Received Deductions (DRD).
    During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company’s tax contingency related to the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes increased by $402 million for a tax position for which there was uncertainty about the timing, but not the deductibility, of certain tax deductions. Since the benefits of the tax position were not being claimed on an original return and the Company did not receive cash, interest or penalties were not accrued. Due to the nature of deferred tax accounting, the tax position does not have an impact on the annual effective tax rate.

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    The $434 million tax contingency related to the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes was decreased by $420 million as a result of events that occurred during the year ended December 31, 2009. The Company effectively settled $18 million of the gross uncertain tax position related to DRD, which resulted in the realization of $9 million of tax benefits. The Company also resolved the uncertain tax accounting position on certain tax deductions resulting in a $402 million decrease. The provision for income taxes from continuing operations has also been reduced by $10 million for additional interest income resulting from favorable tax settlements.
    A reconciliation of the changes in the unrecognized tax benefits is as follows (In Millions):
         
Balance at January 1, 2007
  $ 32  
Additions and deletions  
       
 
     
Balance at December 31, 2007
    32  
Additions and deletions
    402  
 
     
Balance at December 31, 2008
    434  
Additions and deletions
    (420 )
 
     
Balance at December 31, 2009
  $ 14  
 
     
    Depending on the outcome of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits, approximately $7 million of the unrecognized DRD tax benefits may be realized during the next twelve months. All realized tax benefits and related interest are recorded as a discrete item that will impact the effective tax rate in the accounting period in which the uncertain tax position is ultimately settled.
    During the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, the Company paid an immaterial amount of interest and penalties to state tax authorities.

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    The net deferred tax (liability) asset, included in other liabilities and other assets as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, is comprised of the following tax effected temporary differences:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Deferred tax assets:
               
Policyholder reserves
  $ 724     $ 1,274  
Investment valuation
    283       271  
Tax net operating loss carryforward
    249       168  
Tax credit carryforward
    214       122  
Deferred compensation
    45       42  
Maintenance reserves
    38       46  
Dividends to policyholders
    8       8  
Other
    25       27  
     
Total deferred tax assets
    1,586       1,958  
       
 
               
Deferred tax liabilities:
               
DAC
    (1,313 )     (1,222 )
Depreciation
    (563 )     (458 )
Reinsurance
    (77 )     (74 )
Hedging
    (44 )     (14 )
Partnership income
    (28 )     (65 )
Retirement benefits
            (18 )
Other
    (41 )     (43 )
     
Total deferred tax liabilities
    (2,066 )     (1,894 )
       
 
               
Net deferred tax asset (liability) from continuing operations
    (480 )     64  
Unrealized loss on derivatives and securities available for sale
    101       947  
Unrealized loss on interest in PIMCO and other security
            8  
Deferred taxes on cumulative changes in accounting principles
    120       27  
Minimum pension liability and other adjustments
    (10 )     8  
     
Net deferred tax asset (liability)
    ($269 )   $ 1,054  
     
    The tax net operating loss carryforwards relate to Federal tax losses incurred in 1998 through 2008 with a 20-year carryforward for non-life losses and a 15-year carryforward for life losses, and California tax losses incurred in 2004 through 2008 with a ten-year carryforward.
    The Codification’s Income Taxes Topic requires the reduction of deferred tax assets by a valuation allowance if, based on the weight of available evidence, it is more likely than not that a portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Based on management’s assessment, it is more likely than not that the Company’s deferred tax assets will be realized through future taxable income and the reversal of deferred tax liabilities.
    The Company files income tax returns in U.S. Federal and various state jurisdictions. The Company is under continuous audit by the IRS and is audited periodically by some state taxing authorities. The IRS has completed audits of the Company’s tax returns through the tax years ended December 31, 2005 and has commenced audits for tax years 2006, 2007 and 2008. The State of California recently concluded audits for tax years 2003 and 2004 without a material assessment. The Company does not expect the Federal and state audits to result in any material assessments.

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19.   SEGMENT INFORMATION
 
    The Company has four operating segments: Life Insurance, Investment Management, Annuities & Mutual Funds and Aircraft Leasing. These segments are managed separately and have been identified based on differences in products and services offered. All other activity is included in the Corporate and Other segment.
 
    The Life Insurance segment provides a broad range of life insurance products through multiple distribution channels operating in the upper income and corporate markets. Principal products include UL, VUL, survivor life, interest sensitive whole life, corporate-owned life insurance and traditional products such as whole life and term life. Distribution channels include regional life offices, marketing organizations, broker-dealer firms, wirehouses and M Financial, an association of independently owned and operated insurance and financial producers.
 
    The Investment Management segment provides investment and insurance products to institutional investors, pension fund sponsors and structured settlement annuitants, primarily through its home office marketing team and other intermediaries. The segment’s principal products include GICs, synthetic GICs, funding agreement-backed notes issued to institutional investors via medium-term note programs or to the FHLB of Topeka, as well as structured settlement annuities issued in conjunction with personal injury awards and group retirement annuities sold to pension plans.
 
    The Annuities & Mutual Funds segment’s principle products include variable and fixed annuities, and mutual funds, and are offered through multiple distribution sources. Distribution channels include independent planners, financial institutions and national/regional wirehouses.
 
    The Aircraft Leasing segment (Note 9) offers aircraft leasing to the airline industry throughout the world and provides brokerage and asset management services to other third-parties.
 
    The Corporate and Other segment primarily includes investment income, expenses and assets not attributable to the operating segments, and the operations of certain subsidiaries that do not qualify as operating segments. The Corporate and Other segment also includes the interest in PIMCO and the elimination of intersegment transactions. Discontinued operations (Note 6) are also included in the Corporate and Other segment.
 
    The Company uses the same accounting policies and procedures to measure segment net income (loss) and assets as it uses to measure its consolidated net income (loss) and assets. Net investment income and net realized investment gain (loss) are allocated based on invested assets purchased and held as is required for transacting the business of that segment. Overhead expenses are allocated based on services provided. Interest expense is allocated based on the short-term borrowing needs of the segment and is included in net investment income. The provision (benefit) for income taxes is allocated based on each segment’s actual tax provision (benefit).
 
    The operating segments, excluding Aircraft Leasing, are allocated equity based on formulas determined by management and receive a fixed interest rate of return on interdivision debentures supporting the allocated equity. The debenture amount is reflected as investment expense in net investment income in the Corporate and Other segment and as investment income in the operating segments.
 
    The Company generates substantially all of its revenues and net income from customers located in the U.S. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company had foreign investments with an estimated fair value of $7.2 billion and $5.8 billion, respectively. Aircraft leased to foreign customers were $5.0 billion and $4.8 billion as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Revenues derived from any customer did not exceed 10% of consolidated total revenues for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.

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    The following is segment information as of and for the year ended December 31, 2009:
                                                 
                    Annuities                    
    Life     Investment     & Mutual     Aircraft     Corporate        
    Insurance     Management     Funds     Leasing     and Other     Total  
REVENUES   (In Millions)  
Policy fees and insurance premiums
  $ 1,063     $ 628     $ 581             $ 3     $ 2,275  
Net investment income
    892       759       278     $ 1       (68 )     1,862  
Net realized investment gain (loss)
            55       313       7       (222 )     153  
OTTIs
    (63 )     (176 )     (16 )             (56 )     (311 )
Investment advisory fees
    18               190                       208  
Aircraft leasing revenue
                            578               578  
Other income
    10               112       13       2       137  
     
Total revenues
    1,920       1,266       1,458       599       (341 )     4,902  
               
 
                                               
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                                               
Interest credited
    681       379       193                       1,253  
Policy benefits
    363       903       (40 )                     1,226  
Commission expenses
    353       18       320                       691  
Operating expenses
    290       26       273       59       134       782  
Depreciation of aircraft
                            227               227  
Interest expense
                            182       55       237  
     
Total benefits and expenses
    1,687       1,326       746       468       189       4,416  
               
 
                                               
Income (loss) from continuing operations before provision (benefit) for income taxes
    233       (60 )     712       131       (530 )     486  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    66       (24 )     151       39       (188 )     44  
               
 
                                               
Income (loss) from continuing operations
    167       (36 )     561       92       (342 )     442  
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
                                    (20 )     (20 )
     
Net income (loss)
    167       (36 )     561       92       (362 )     422  
Less: net (income) loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest from continuing operations
                            (9 )     23       14  
     
Net income (loss) attributable to the Company
  $ 167       ($36 )   $ 561     $ 83       ($339 )   $ 436  
     
 
                                               
Total assets
  $ 28,589     $ 13,256     $ 57,903     $ 6,091     $ 2,638     $ 108,477  
DAC
    1,865       59       2,882                       4,806  
Separate account assets
    5,590       67       46,907                       52,564  
Policyholder and contract liabilities
    21,133       12,526       7,728                       41,387  
Separate account liabilities
    5,590       67       46,907                       52,564  

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    The following is segment information as of and for the year ended December 31, 2008:
                                                 
                    Annuities                    
    Life     Investment     & Mutual     Aircraft     Corporate        
    Insurance     Management     Funds     Leasing     and Other     Total  
REVENUES   (In Millions)  
Policy fees and insurance premiums
  $ 943     $ 363     $ 691                     $ 1,997  
Net investment income
    855       876       178             $ 85       1,994  
Net realized investment gain (loss)
    24       51       (768 )             (56 )     (749 )
OTTIs
    (69 )     (398 )     (30 )     ($3 )     (80 )     (580 )
Realized investment gain on interest in PIMCO
                                    109       109  
Investment advisory fees
    22               233                       255  
Aircraft leasing revenue
                            571               571  
Other income
    11               117       38       1       167  
               
Total revenues
    1,786       892       421       606       59       3,764  
               
 
                                               
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                                               
Interest credited
    661       440       133                       1,234  
Policy benefits
    372       684       150                       1,206  
Commission expenses
    268       18       429                       715  
Operating expenses
    263       34       317       40       78       732  
Depreciation of aircraft
                            208               208  
Interest expense
                            221       17       238  
               
Total benefits and expenses
    1,564       1,176       1,029       469       95       4,333  
               
 
                                               
Income (loss) from continuing operations before provision (benefit) for income taxes
    222       (284 )     (608 )     137       (36 )     (569 )
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    61       (103 )     (329 )     48       8       (315 )
               
 
                                               
Income (loss) from continuing operations
    161       (181 )     (279 )     89       (44 )     (254 )
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
                                    (6 )     (6 )
               
Net income (loss)
    161       (181 )     (279 )     89       (50 )     (260 )
Less: net (income) loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest from continuing operations
                            (8 )     11       3  
               
Net income (loss) attributable to the Company
  $ 161       ($181 )     ($279 )   $ 81       ($39 )     ($257 )
     
 
                                               
Total assets
  $ 26,695     $ 15,155     $ 45,285     $ 5,400     $ 2,633     $ 95,168  
DAC
    2,118       64       2,830                       5,012  
Separate account assets
    4,525       284       36,696                       41,505  
Policyholder and contract liabilities
    20,786       14,099       7,626                       42,511  
Separate account liabilities
    4,525       284       36,696                       41,505  

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    The following is segment information for the year ended December 31, 2007:
                                                 
                    Annuities                    
    Life     Investment     & Mutual     Aircraft     Corporate        
    Insurance     Management     Funds     Leasing     and Other     Total  
REVENUES                   (In Millions)                  
Policy fees and insurance premiums
  $ 777     $ 224     $ 779                     $ 1,780  
Net investment income
    803       905       186     $ 9     $ 217       2,120  
Net realized investment gain (loss)
    4       115       (99 )     17       32       69  
OTTIs
    (3 )     (95 )                             (98 )
Investment advisory fees
    29               298                       327  
Aircraft leasing revenue
                            535               535  
Other income
    9               84       50       4       147  
               
Total revenues
    1,619       1,149       1,248       611       253       4,880  
               
 
                                               
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                                               
Interest credited
    618       504       144                       1,266  
Policy benefits
    308       535       12                       855  
Commission expenses
    209       11       470                       690  
Operating expenses
    252       34       346       49       88       769  
Depreciation of aircraft
                            189               189  
Interest expense
                            261       16       277  
               
Total benefits and expenses
    1,387       1,084       972       499       104       4,046  
               
 
                                               
Income from continuing operations before provision (benefit) for income taxes
    232       65       276       112       149       834  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    58       12       (6 )     32       33       129  
               
 
                                               
Income from continuing operations
    174       53       282       80       116       705  
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
                                    11       11  
               
Net income
    174       53       282       80       127       716  
Less: net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest from continuing operations
                            (2 )     (36 )     (38 )
               
Net income attributable to the Company
  $ 174     $ 53     $ 282     $ 78     $ 91     $ 678  
     
20.   TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES
 
    PLFA serves as the investment adviser for the Pacific Select Fund, an investment vehicle provided to the Company’s variable life insurance policyholders and variable annuity contract owners, and the Pacific Life Funds, the investment vehicle for the Company’s mutual fund products. Prior to May 1, 2007, Pacific Life served in this capacity. Investment advisory and other fees are based primarily upon the net asset value of the underlying portfolios. These fees, included in investment advisory fees and other income, amounted to $244 million, $287 million and $337 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. In addition, Pacific Life provides certain support services to the Pacific Select Fund, the Pacific Life Funds and other affiliates based on an allocation of actual costs. These fees amounted to $9 million, $7 million and $7 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
 
    In addition, effective May 1, 2007, a service plan adopted by the Pacific Select Fund went into effect whereby the fund pays PSD, as distributor of the fund, a service fee in connection with services rendered or procured to or for shareholders of the fund or their variable contract owners. These services may include, but are not limited to, payment of compensation to broker-dealers, including

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    PSD itself, and other financial institutions and organizations, which assist in providing any of the services. For the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, PSD received $86 million and $100 million, respectively, in service fees from the Pacific Select Fund, which are recorded in other income. For the period May 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007, PSD received $74 million in service fees from the Pacific Select Fund, which are also recorded in other income. The service fees were allocated to the operating segments, primarily the Annuities & Mutual Funds segment (Note 19).
 
    As discussed in Note 16, NLGR benefits are reinsured with PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont.
 
    ACG has derivative swap contracts with Pacific LifeCorp as the counterparty. The notional amounts total $2.0 billion and $1.8 billion as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The estimated fair values of the derivatives were net liabilities of $48 million and $106 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
21.   COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
 
    COMMITMENTS
 
    The Company has outstanding commitments to make investments primarily in mortgage loans, limited partnerships and other investments, as follows (In Millions):
         
Years Ending December 31:        
2010
  $ 1,005  
2011 through 2014
    494  
2015 and thereafter
    91  
 
   
Total
  $ 1,590  
 
   
    The Company leases office facilities under various operating leases, which in most, but not all cases, are noncancelable. Rent expense, which is included in operating and other expenses, in connection with these leases was $8 million, $10 million and $13 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. In connection with the sale of a block of business in 2005, PL&A is contingently liable until March 31, 2013 for certain future rent and expense obligations, not to exceed $15 million, related to an office lease that has been assigned to the buyer. Aggregate minimum future commitments are as follows (In Millions):
         
Years Ending December 31:        
2010
  $ 8  
2011 through 2014
    20  
2015 and thereafter
    2  
 
   
Total
  $ 30  
 
   
    As of December 31, 2009, ACG has commitments with major aircraft manufacturers to purchase aircraft at an estimated delivery price of $6,370 million with delivery from 2010 through 2017. Such purchase commitments may be funded:
    up to $635 million in less than one year,
 
    an additional $2,325 million in one to three years,
 
    an additional $2,116 million in three to five years, and
 
    an additional $1,021 million thereafter.
    As of December 31, 2009, deposits related to these agreements totaled $273 million and are included in other assets.
 
    In connection with an acquisition in 2005, ACG assumed residual value support agreements with expiration dates ranging from 2011 to 2015. The gross remaining residual value exposure under these agreements was $99 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. As of December 31, 2009, the Company has estimated that it has no measurable liability under the remaining residual value guarantee agreements.

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    In connection with the reinsurance of NLGR benefits from Pacific Life to PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont (Note 16), PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont entered into a three year letter of credit agreement with a group of banks in April 2009. This agreement allows for the issuance of letters of credit with an expiration date of March 2012 to PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont for up to a combined total amount of $650 million. As of December 31, 2009, a $340 million letter of credit had been issued from this facility for PAR Bermuda. In addition, a letter of credit issued for PAR Vermont totaled $52 million as of December 31, 2009. Pacific LifeCorp guarantees the obligations of PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont under the letter of credit agreement.
 
    CONTINGENCIES — LITIGATION
 
    During the year ended December 31, 2007, Pacific Life settled a national class action lawsuit, Cooper v. Pacific Life, for a combination of cash distributions and contract credits to owners of qualified annuity contracts who purchased their contracts between August 19, 1998, and April 30, 2002, or paid premium payments during that time period. Pacific Life strongly disagreed with the claims in the lawsuit. The settlement is not considered an admission or concession with respect to any claims made in the lawsuit and did not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position. Initial distributions were made to eligible class members in the first quarter of 2008 with subsequent annual distributions for four years thereafter.
 
    The Company is a respondent in a number of other legal proceedings, some of which involve allegations for extra-contractual damages. Although the Company is confident of its position in these matters, success is not a certainty and it is possible that in any case a judge or jury could rule against the Company. In the opinion of management, the outcome of such proceedings is not likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position. The Company believes adequate provision has been made in its consolidated financial statements for all probable and estimable losses for litigation claims against the Company.
 
    CONTINGENCIES — IRS REVENUE RULING
 
    On August 16, 2007, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2007-54, which provided the IRS’ interpretation of tax law regarding the computation of the DRD. On September 25, 2007, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2007-61, which suspended Revenue Ruling 2007-54 and indicated the IRS would address the proper interpretation of tax law in a regulation project that is on the IRS’ priority guidance plan. Although no guidance has been issued, if the IRS ultimately adopts the interpretation contained in Revenue Ruling 2007-54, the Company could lose a substantial amount of DRD tax benefits, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
 
    CONTINGENCIES — OTHER
 
    In connection with the sale of certain broker-dealer subsidiaries (Note 6), certain indemnifications triggered by breaches of representations, warranties or covenants were provided by the Company. Also, included in the indemnifications is indemnification for certain third-party claims arising from the normal operation of these broker-dealers prior to the closing and within the nine month period following the sale. The Company believes adequate provision has been made in its consolidated financial statements for all probable and estimable losses for litigation claims against the Company.
 
    In the course of its business, the Company provides certain indemnifications related to other dispositions, acquisitions, investments, lease agreements or other transactions that are triggered by, among other things, breaches of representations, warranties or covenants provided by the Company. These obligations are typically subject to time limitations that vary in duration, including contractual limitations and those that arise by operation of law, such as applicable statutes of limitation. Because the amounts of these types of indemnifications often are not explicitly stated, the overall maximum amount of the obligation under such indemnifications cannot be reasonably estimated. The Company has not historically made material payments for these types of indemnifications. The estimated maximum potential amount of future payments under these obligations is not determinable due to the lack of a stated maximum liability for certain matters, and therefore, no related liability has been recorded. Management believes that judgments, if any, against the Company related to such matters are not likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
 
    Most of the jurisdictions in which the Company is admitted to transact business require life insurance companies to participate in guaranty associations, which are organized to pay contractual benefits owed pursuant to insurance policies issued by insolvent life insurance companies. These associations levy assessments, up to prescribed limits, on all member companies in a particular state based on the proportionate share of premiums written by member companies in the lines of business in which the insolvent insurer operated. The Company has not received notification of any insolvency that is expected to result in a material guaranty fund assessment.

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    In relation to the ACG Trust II securitization (Note 4), Pacific Life is contingently obligated to purchase certain notes from ACG Trust II to cover shortfalls in amounts due to the holders of the notes, up to certain levels as specified under the related agreements. As of December 31, 2009, the maximum potential amount of this future investment commitment was $100 million.
 
    The Asset Purchase Agreements of Aviation Trust, ACG Trust II and ACG Trust III (Note 4) provide that Pacific LifeCorp will guarantee the performance of certain obligations of ACG, as well as provide certain indemnifications, and that Pacific Life will assume certain obligations of ACG arising from the breach of certain representations and warranties under the Asset Purchase Agreements. Management believes that obligations, if any, related to these guarantees are not likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The financial debt obligations of Aviation Trust, ACG Trust II and ACG Trust III are non-recourse to the Company and are not guaranteed by the Company.
 
    In connection with the operations of certain subsidiaries, Pacific Life has made commitments to provide for additional capital funding as may be required.
 
    See Note 10 for discussion of contingencies related to derivative instruments.
 
    See Note 18 for discussion of other contingencies related to income taxes.
 
22.   SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
 
    The Company has evaluated events subsequent to December 31, 2009 and through March 4, 2010, the date the consolidated financial statements were available to be issued. The Company has not evaluated subsequent events after that date for presentation in these consolidated financial statements.
 
    As of January 1, 2010, the Board of Directors of Pacific LifeCorp and Pacific Life authorized a cash capital contribution to ACG in the amount of $350 million, which could be made up to March 31, 2010.
 
    Effective January 1, 2010, the Investment Management segment’s products were moved into other segments of the Company. Structured settlement and group retirement annuities were moved to the Annuities & Mutual Fund segment and the other institutional investment products became part of the Corporate and Other segment.

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STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
May 1, 2010
 
PACIFIC INNOVATIONS
 
SEPARATE ACCOUNT A
 
 
 
Pacific Innovations (the “Contract”) is a variable annuity contract offered by Pacific Life Insurance Company (“Pacific Life”).
 
This Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) is not a Prospectus and should be read in conjunction with the Contract’s Prospectus, dated May 1, 2010, and any supplement thereto, which is available without charge upon written or telephone request to Pacific Life. Terms used in this SAI have the same meanings as in the Prospectus, and some additional terms are defined particularly for this SAI. This SAI is incorporated by reference into the Contract’s Prospectus.
 
 
Pacific Life Insurance Company
Mailing address: P.O. Box 2378
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-2378
 
(800) 722-4448 - Contract Owners
(800) 722-2333 - Financial Professionals


 

 
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PERFORMANCE
 
From time to time, our reports or other communications to current or prospective Contract Owners or our advertising or other promotional material may quote the performance (yield and total return) of a Subaccount. Quoted results are based on past performance and reflect the performance of all assets held in that Subaccount for the stated time period. Quoted results are neither an estimate nor a guarantee of future investment performance, and do not represent the actual experience of amounts invested by any particular Contract Owner.
 
Total Returns
 
A Subaccount may advertise its “average annual total return” over various periods of time. “Total return” represents the average percentage change in value of an investment in the Subaccount from the beginning of a measuring period to the end of that measuring period. “Annualized” total return assumes that the total return achieved for the measuring period is achieved for each full year period. “Average annual” total return is computed in accordance with a standard method prescribed by the SEC, and is also referred to as “standardized return.”
 
Average Annual Total Return
 
To calculate a Subaccount’s average annual total return for a specific measuring period, we first take a hypothetical $1,000 investment in that Subaccount, at its applicable Subaccount Unit Value (the “initial payment”) and we compute the ending redeemable value of that initial payment at the end of the measuring period based on the investment experience of that Subaccount (“full withdrawal value”). The full withdrawal value reflects the effect of all recurring fees and charges applicable to a Contract Owner under the Contract, including the Risk Charge, the asset-based Administrative Fee and the deduction of the applicable withdrawal charge, but does not reflect any charges for applicable premium taxes and/or any other taxes, any optional Rider charge, any non-recurring fees or charges, or any increase in the Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider. The Annual Fee is also taken into account, assuming an average Contract Value of $65,000. The redeemable value is then divided by the initial payment and this quotient is raised to the 365/N power (N represents the number of days in the measuring period), and 1 is subtracted from this result. Average annual total return is expressed as a percentage.
 
T = (ERV/P)(365/N) − 1
 
             
where
  T   =   average annual total return
    ERV   =   ending redeemable value
    P   =   hypothetical initial payment of $1,000
    N   =   number of days
 
Average annual total return figures will be given for recent 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year periods (if applicable), and may be given for other periods as well (such as from commencement of the Subaccount’s operations, or on a year-by-year basis).
 
When considering “average” total return figures for periods longer than one year, it is important to note that the relevant Subaccount’s annual total return for any one year in the period might have been greater or less than the average for the entire period.
 
Aggregate Total Return
 
A Subaccount may use “aggregate” total return figures along with its “average annual” total return figures for various periods; these figures represent the cumulative change in value of an investment in the Subaccount for a specific period. Aggregate total returns may be shown by means of schedules, charts or graphs and may indicate subtotals of the various components of total return. The SEC has not prescribed standard formulas for calculating aggregate total return.
 
Total returns may also be shown for the same periods that do not take into account the withdrawal charge or the Annual Fee.


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Non-Standardized Total Returns
 
We may also calculate non-standardized total returns which may or may not reflect any Annual Fee, withdrawal charges, increases in Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider, charges for premium taxes and/or any other taxes, any charge for an optional Rider, or any non-recurring fees or charges.
 
Standardized return figures will always accompany any non-standardized returns shown.
 
Yields
 
Cash Management Subaccount
 
The “yield” (also called “current yield”) of the Cash Management Subaccount is computed in accordance with a standard method prescribed by the SEC. The net change in the Subaccount’s Unit Value during a seven-day period is divided by the Unit Value at the beginning of the period to obtain a base rate of return. The current yield is generated when the base rate is “annualized” by multiplying it by the fraction 365/7; that is, the base rate of return is assumed to be generated each week over a 365-day period and is shown as a percentage of the investment. The “effective yield” of the Cash Management Subaccount is calculated similarly but, when annualized, the base rate of return is assumed to be reinvested. The effective yield will be slightly higher than the current yield because of the compounding effect of this assumed reinvestment.
 
The formula for effective yield is: [(Base Period Return + 1) (To the power of 365/7)] − 1.
 
Realized capital gains or losses and unrealized appreciation or depreciation of the assets of the underlying Cash Management Portfolio are not included in the yield calculation. Current yield and effective yield do not reflect the deduction of charges for any applicable premium taxes and/or any other taxes, any increase in the Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider, any charges for an optional Rider or any non-recurring fees or charges, but do reflect a deduction for the Annual Fee, the Risk Charge, and the asset-based Administrative Fee and assume an average Contract Value of $65,000.
 
Other Subaccounts
 
“Yield” of the other Subaccounts is computed in accordance with a different standard method prescribed by the SEC. The net investment income (investment income less expenses) per Subaccount Unit earned during a specified one-month or 30-day period is divided by the Subaccount Unit Value on the last day of the specified period. This result is then annualized (that is, the yield is assumed to be generated each month or each 30-day period for a year), according to the following formula, which assumes semi-annual compounding:
 
         
YIELD = 2[(
  a – b
cd
  + 1)6 − 1]
 
             
where:
  a   =   net investment income earned during the period by the Portfolio attributable to the Subaccount.
    b   =   expenses accrued for the period (net of reimbursements).
    c   =   the average daily number of Subaccount Units outstanding during the period that were entitled to receive dividends.
    d   =   the Unit Value of the Subaccount Units on the last day of the period.
 
The yield of each Subaccount reflects the deduction of all recurring fees and charges applicable to the Subaccount, such as the Risk Charge, the asset-based Administrative Fee and the Annual Fee (assuming an average Contract Value of $65,000), but does not reflect any withdrawal charge, charge for applicable premium taxes and/or any other taxes, increase in the Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider, any charges for an optional Rider, or any non-recurring fees or charges.
 
The Subaccounts’ yields will vary from time to time depending upon market conditions, the composition of each Portfolio and operating expenses of the Fund allocated to each Portfolio. Consequently, any given performance quotation should not be considered representative of the Subaccount’s performance in the future. Yield should also be considered relative to changes in Subaccount Unit Values and to the relative risks associated with the investment policies and objectives of the various Portfolios. In addition, because performance will fluctuate, it may not provide a


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basis for comparing the yield of a Subaccount with certain bank deposits or other investments that pay a fixed yield or return for a stated period of time.
 
Performance Comparisons and Benchmarks
 
In advertisements and sales literature, we may compare the performance of some or all of the Subaccounts to the performance of other variable annuity issuers in general and to the performance of particular types of variable annuities investing in mutual funds, or series of mutual funds, with investment objectives similar to each of the Subaccounts. This performance may be presented as averages or rankings compiled by Lipper Analytical Services, Inc. (“Lipper”), or Morningstar, Inc. (“Morningstar”), which are independent services that monitor and rank the performance of variable annuity issuers and mutual funds in each of the major categories of investment objectives on an industry-wide basis. Lipper’s rankings include variable life issuers as well as variable annuity issuers. The performance analyses prepared by Lipper and Morningstar rank such issuers on the basis of total return, assuming reinvestment of dividends and distributions, but do not take sales charges, redemption fees or certain expense deductions at the separate account level into consideration. In addition, Morningstar prepares risk adjusted rankings, which consider the effects of market risk on total return performance. We may also compare the performance of the Subaccounts with performance information included in other publications and services that monitor the performance of insurance company separate accounts or other investment vehicles. These other services or publications may be general interest business publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, and Money.
 
In addition, our reports and communications to Contract Owners, advertisements, or sales literature may compare a Subaccount’s performance to various benchmarks that measure the performance of a pertinent group of securities widely regarded by investors as being representative of the securities markets in general or as being representative of a particular type of security. We may also compare the performance of the Subaccounts with that of other appropriate indices of investment securities and averages for peer universes of funds or data developed by us derived from such indices or averages. Unmanaged indices generally assume the reinvestment of dividends or interest but do not generally reflect deductions for investment management or administrative costs and expenses.
 
Tax Deferred Accumulation
 
In reports or other communications to you or in advertising or sales materials, we may also describe the effects of tax-deferred compounding on the Separate Account’s investment returns or upon returns in general. These effects may be illustrated in charts or graphs and may include comparisons at various points in time of returns under the Contract or in general on a tax-deferred basis with the returns on a taxable basis. Different tax rates may be assumed.
 
In general, individuals who own annuity contracts are not taxed on increases in the value under the annuity contract until some form of distribution is made from the contract. Thus, the annuity contract will benefit from tax deferral during the accumulation period, which generally will have the effect of permitting an investment in an annuity contract to grow more rapidly than a comparable investment under which increases in value are taxed on a current basis. The following chart illustrates this benefit by comparing accumulation under a variable annuity contract with accumulations from an investment on which gains are taxed on a current ordinary income basis.
 
The chart shows accumulations on a single Purchase Payment of $10,000, assuming hypothetical annual returns of 0%, 4% and 8%, compounded annually, and a tax rate of 33%. The values shown for the taxable investment do not include any deduction for management fees or other expenses but assume that taxes are deducted annually from investment returns. The values shown for the variable annuity do not reflect the deduction of contractual expenses such as the Risk Charge (equal to an annual rate of 1.25% of average daily Account Value), the Administrative Fee (equal to an annual rate of 0.15% of average daily Account Value), the Annual Fee (equal to $30 per year if your Net Contract Value is less than $50,000), any increase in the Risk Charge for an optional Death Benefit Rider (equal to a maximum annual rate of 0.35% of average daily Account Value); other optional Rider charges (equal to a maximum annual rate of 1.75% of the Protected Payment Base), a charge for premium taxes and/or any other taxes, any applicable withdrawal charge, or any underlying Fund expenses.
 
Generally, the withdrawal charge is equal to 9% of the amount withdrawn attributable to Purchase Payments that are less than one year old, 8% of the amount withdrawn attributable to Purchase Payments that are two years old, and 8% of the amount withdrawn attributable to Purchase Payments that are three years old. The age of the Purchase Payments


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is considered 1 year old in the Contract Year we receive it and increases by one year beginning on the day preceding each Contract Anniversary. During a Contract Year, you may withdraw free of withdrawal charge amounts up to your “Eligible Purchase Payments”. Eligible Purchase Payments include 10% annually of total Purchase Payments that have an “age” of less than four years, plus any remaining portion not withdrawn from the previous Contract Year’s Eligible Purchase Payments that are derived from Purchase Payments which have an “age” of less than four years, plus 100% of all Purchase Payments that have an “age” of four years or more. Once all Purchase Payments have been deemed withdrawn, any withdrawal will be deemed a withdrawal of your Earnings and will be free of the withdrawal charge. If these expenses and fees were taken into account, they would reduce the investment return shown for both the taxable investment and the hypothetical variable annuity contract. In addition, these values assume that you do not surrender the Contract or make any withdrawals until the end of the period shown. The chart assumes a full withdrawal, at the end of the period shown, of all Contract Value and the payment of taxes at the 33% rate on the amount in excess of the Purchase Payments.
 
The rates of return illustrated are hypothetical and are not an estimate or guarantee of performance. Actual tax rates may vary for different assets (e.g. capital gains and qualifying dividend income) and taxpayers from that illustrated. Withdrawals by and distributions to Contract Owners who have not reached age 591/2 may be subject to a tax penalty of 10%.
 
Power of Tax Deferral
 
$10,000 investment at annual rates of 0%, 4% and 8%, taxed @ 33%
 
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DISTRIBUTION OF THE CONTRACTS
 
Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD)
 
Pacific Select Distributors, Inc., our subsidiary, acts as the distributor of the Contracts and offers the Contracts on a continuous basis. PSD is located at 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California 92660. PSD is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and is a member of FINRA. We pay PSD for acting as distributor under a Distribution Agreement. We and PSD enter into selling agreements with broker-dealers whose financial professionals are authorized by state insurance departments to solicit applications for the Contracts. The aggregate amount of underwriting commissions paid to PSD for 2009, 2008 and 2007 with regard to this Contract was $1,293,918, $1,677,783 and $2,218,707 respectively, of which $0 was retained.
 
PSD or an affiliate pays various sales compensation to broker-dealers that solicit applications for the Contracts. PSD or an affiliate also may provide reimbursement for other expenses associated with the promotion and solicitation of applications for the Contracts. Your financial professional typically receives a portion of the compensation that is payable to his or her broker-dealer in connection with the Contract, depending on the agreement between your financial professional and his or her firm. Pacific Life is not involved in determining that compensation arrangement, which may present its own incentives or conflicts. You may ask your financial professional how he/she will personally be compensated for the transaction.
 
Under certain circumstances where PSD pays lower initial commissions, certain broker-dealers that solicit applications for Contracts may be paid an ongoing persistency trail commission (sometimes called a residual). The mix of Purchase Payment-based versus trail commissions varies depending upon our agreement with the selling broker-dealer and the commission option selected by your financial professional or broker-dealer. Certain broker-dealers may also be paid an amount under a persistency program which will be based on assets under management and duration of contracts. The amount under the persistency program for a financial professional is not expected to exceed .25% of their total assets under management.
 
In addition to the Purchase Payment-based, trail commissions and persistency program described above, we and/or an affiliate may pay additional cash compensation from our own resources in connection with the promotion and solicitation of applications for the Contracts by some, but not all, broker-dealers. The range of additional cash compensation based on Purchase Payments generally does not exceed 0.40% and trailing compensation based on Account Value generally does not exceed 0.10% on an annual basis. Such additional compensation may give Pacific Life greater access to financial professionals of the broker-dealers that receive such compensation. While this greater access provides the opportunity for training and other educational programs so that your financial professional may serve you better, this additional compensation also may afford Pacific Life a “preferred” status at the recipient broker-dealer and provide some other marketing benefit such as website placement, access to financial professional lists, extra marketing assistance or other heightened visibility and access to the broker-dealer’s sales force that may otherwise influence the way that the broker-dealer and the financial professional market the Contracts.
 
As of December 31, 2009, the following firms have arrangements in effect with the Distributor pursuant to which the firm is entitled to receive a revenue sharing payment:
 
AMCORE Investments Inc., American Portfolios Financial Services Inc., AmTrust Investment Services Inc., Askar Corporation, Bancwest Investment Services Inc., Banc of America Investment Services Inc., C C O Investment Services Corp, Capital Investment Brokerage Inc., Capital Investment Group Inc., C U N A Brokerage Services Inc., C U S O Financial Services LP, Centaurus Financial, Inc., Chevy Chase Financial Services Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Colonial Brokerage Inc., Commonwealth Financial Network, B B V A Compass Investment Solutions Inc., Essex National Securities Inc., F S C Securities Corporation, Fifth Third Securities Inc., Financial Network Investment Corp., First Allied Securities Inc., First Heartland Capital Inc., First Tennessee Brokerage Inc., Geneos Wealth Management Inc., Great American Advisors Inc., I N G Financial Partners Inc., Infinex Investments Inc., Invest Financial Corporation, Investacorp Inc., Investment Centers of America Inc., Investment Professionals Inc., J J B Hilliard, W L Lyons Inc., Jacques Financial L L C, Janney Montgomery Scott Inc., Key Investment Services L L C, L P L Financial Corp., Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., Lincoln Financial Securities Corp., M & T Securities Inc., M Holdings Securities Inc., M M L Investors Services Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Morgan Keegan & Company Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Multi-Financial Securities Corp., Mutual Of Omaha


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Investor Services Inc., NF P Securities Inc., National Planning Corporation, NEXT Financial Group Inc., P N C Investments L L C, Park Avenue Securities LLC., Primevest Financial Services Inc., ProEquities Inc., R B C Capital Markets Corporation, Raymond James & Associates Inc., Raymond James Financial Services Inc., Robert W Baird & Company Inc., Royal Alliance Associates Inc., S I I Investments Inc., Sagepoint Financial Inc., Securian Financial Services Inc., Securities America, Sigma Financial Corp., Signator Investors Inc., Sorrento Pacific Financial L L C, Sterne Agee Financial Services Inc., Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc., Stifel Nicolaus & Company Inc., Suntrust Investment Services Inc., Tower Square Securities Inc., Transamerica Financial Advisors Inc., Triad Advisors Inc., U B S Financial Services Inc., U S Bancorp Investments Inc., Unionbanc Investment Services L L C, United Planners’ Financial Services of America, V S R Financial Services Inc., Vision Investment Services Inc., Securities Financial Network L L C, Wachovia Securities L L C, Walnut Street Securities, Wells Fargo Investments LLC, Wescom Financial Services L L C, Woodbury Financial Services Inc., Zions Direct Inc.
 
We or our affiliates may also pay override payments, expense allowances and reimbursements, bonuses, wholesaler fees, and training and marketing allowances. Such payments may offset the broker-dealer’s expenses in connection with activities that it is required to perform, such as educating personnel and maintaining records. Financial professionals may also receive non-cash compensation such as expense-paid educational or training seminars involving travel within and outside the U.S. or promotional merchandise.
 
All of the compensation described in this section, and other compensation or benefits provided by us or our affiliates, may be more or less than the overall compensation on similar or other products and may influence your financial professional or broker-dealer to present this Contract over other investment options. You may ask your financial professional about these potential conflicts of interests and how he/she and his/her broker-dealer are compensated for selling the Contract.
 
Portfolio Managers of the underlying Portfolios available under this Contract may from time to time bear all or a portion of the expenses of conferences or meetings sponsored by Pacific Life or PSD that are attended by, among others, representatives of PSD, who would receive information and/or training regarding the Fund’s Portfolios and their management by the Portfolio Managers in addition to information respecting the variable annuity and/or life insurance products issued by Pacific Life and its affiliates. Other persons may also attend all or a portion of any such conferences or meetings, including directors, officers and employees of Pacific Life, officers and trustees of Pacific Select Fund, and spouses/guests of the foregoing. The Pacific Select Fund Board of Trustees may hold meetings concurrently with such a conference or meeting. The Pacific Select Fund pays for the expenses of the meetings of its Board of Trustees, including the pro rata share of expenses for attendance by the Trustees at the concurrent conferences or meetings sponsored by Pacific Life or PSD. Additional expenses and promotional items may be paid for by Pacific Life and/or Portfolio Managers. PSD serves as the Pacific Select Fund Distributor.


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THE CONTRACTS AND THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
 
Calculating Subaccount Unit Values
 
The Unit Value of the Subaccount Units in each Variable Investment Option is computed at the close of the New York Stock Exchange, which is usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on each Business Day. The initial Unit Value of each Subaccount was $10 on the Business Day the Subaccount began operations. At the end of each Business Day, the Unit Value for a Subaccount is equal to:
Y × Z
 
             
where
  (Y)   =   the Unit Value for that Subaccount as of the end of the preceding Business Day; and
    (Z)   =   the Net Investment Factor for that Subaccount for the period (a “valuation period”) between that Business Day and the immediately preceding Business Day.
 
The “Net Investment Factor” for a Subaccount for any valuation period is equal to:
 
(A ¸ B) − C
 
             
where
  (A)   =   the “per share value of the assets” of that Subaccount as of the end of that valuation period, which is equal to: a+b+c
 
             
where
  (a)   =   the net asset value per share of the corresponding Portfolio shares held by that Subaccount as of the end of that valuation period;
    (b)   =   the per share amount of any dividend or capital gain distributions made by the Fund for that Portfolio during that valuation period; and
    (c)   =   any per share charge (a negative number) or credit (a positive number) for any income taxes or other amounts set aside during that valuation period as a reserve for any income and/or any other taxes which we determine to have resulted from the operations of the Subaccount or Contract, and/or any taxes attributable, directly or indirectly, to Investments;
 
             
    (B)   =   the net asset value per share of the corresponding Portfolio shares held by the Subaccount as of the end of the preceding valuation period; and
    (C)   =   a factor that assesses against the Subaccount net assets for each calendar day in the valuation period, the basic Risk Charge plus any applicable increase in the Risk Charge and the Administrative Fee (see the CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS section in the Prospectus).
 
As explained in the Prospectus, the Annual Fee, if applicable, will be charged proportionately against your Investment Options. Assessments against your Variable Investment Options are assessed against your Variable Account Value through the automatic debit of Subaccount Units; the Annual Fee decreases the number of Subaccount Units attributed to your Contract but does not alter the Unit Value for any Subaccount.
 
Variable Annuity Payment Amounts
 
The following steps show how we determine the amount of each variable annuity payment under your Contract.
 
First: Pay Applicable Premium Taxes
 
When you convert your Net Contract Value into annuity payments, you must pay any applicable charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes on your Contract Value (unless applicable law requires those taxes to be paid at a later time). We assess this charge by reducing your Account Value proportionately, relative to your Account Value in each Subaccount and in any fixed option, in an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the charges. The remaining amount of your available Net Contract Value may be used to provide variable annuity payments. Alternatively, your remaining available Net Contract Value may be used to provide fixed annuity payments, or it may be divided to provide both fixed and variable annuity payments. You may also choose to withdraw some or all of your remaining Net Contract Value, less any applicable Annual Fees, any charge for an optional Rider, and/or withdrawal charge, and any charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes without converting this amount into annuity payments.


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Second: The First Variable Payment
 
We begin by referring to your Contract’s Option Table for your Annuity Option (the “Annuity Option Table”). The Annuity Option Table allows us to calculate the dollar amount of the first variable annuity payment under your Contract, based on the amount applied toward the variable annuity. The number that the Annuity Option Table yields will be based on the Annuitant’s age (and, in certain cases, sex) and assumes a 5% rate of return, as described in more detail below.
 
Example:  Assume a man is 65 years of age at his Annuity Date and has selected a lifetime annuity with monthly payments guaranteed for 10 years. According to the Annuity Option Table, this man should receive an initial monthly payment of $5.79 for every $1,000 of his Contract Value (reduced by applicable charges) that he will be using to provide variable payments. Therefore, if his Contract Value after deducting applicable fees and charges is $100,000 on his Annuity Date and he applies this entire amount toward his variable annuity, his first monthly payment will be $579.00.
 
You may choose any other Annuity Option Table that assumes a different rate of return which we offer at the time your Annuity Option is effective.
 
Third: Subaccount Annuity Units
 
For each Subaccount, we use the amount of the first variable annuity payment under your Contract attributed to each Subaccount to determine the number of Subaccount Annuity Units that will form the basis of subsequent payment amounts. First, we use the Annuity Option Table to determine the amount of that first variable payment for each Subaccount. Then, for each Subaccount, we divide that amount of the first variable annuity payment by the value of one Subaccount Annuity Unit (the “Subaccount Annuity Unit Value”) as of the end of the Annuity Date to obtain the number of Subaccount Annuity Units for that particular Subaccount. The number of Subaccount Annuity Units used to calculate subsequent payments under your Contract will not change unless exchanges of Annuity Units are made, (or if the Joint and Survivor Annuity Option is elected and the Primary Annuitant dies first) but the value of those Annuity Units will change daily, as described below.
 
Fourth: The Subsequent Variable Payments
 
The amount of each subsequent variable annuity payment will be the sum of the amounts payable based on each Subaccount. The amount payable based on each Subaccount is equal to the number of Subaccount Annuity Units for that Subaccount multiplied by their Subaccount Annuity Unit Value at the end of the Business Day in each payment period you elected that corresponds to the Annuity Date.
 
Each Subaccount’s Subaccount Annuity Unit Value, like its Subaccount Unit Value, changes each day to reflect the net investment results of the underlying investment vehicle, as well as the assessment of the Risk Charge at an annual rate of 1.25% and the Administrative Fee at an annual rate of 0.15%. In addition, the calculation of Subaccount Annuity Unit Value incorporates an additional factor; as discussed in more detail below, this additional factor adjusts Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to correct for the Option Table’s implicit assumed annual investment return on amounts applied but not yet used to furnish annuity benefits. Any increase in your Risk Charge for an optional death benefit rider is not charged on and after the Annuity Date.
 
Different Subaccounts may be selected for your Contract before and after your Annuity Date, subject to any restrictions we may establish. Currently, you may exchange Subaccount Annuity Units in any Subaccount for Subaccount Annuity Units in any other Subaccount(s) up to four times in any twelve month period after your Annuity Date. The number of Subaccount Annuity Units in any Subaccount may change due to such exchanges. Exchanges following your Annuity Date will be made by exchanging Subaccount Annuity Units of equivalent aggregate value, based on their relative Subaccount Annuity Unit Values.
 
Understanding the “Assumed Investment Return” Factors
 
The Annuity Option Table incorporates a number of implicit assumptions in determining the amount of your first variable annuity payment. As noted above, the numbers in the Annuity Option Table reflect certain actuarial assumptions based on the Annuitant’s age, and, in some cases, the Annuitant’s sex. In addition, these numbers assume


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that the amount of your Contract Value that you convert to a variable annuity will have a positive net investment return of 5% each year during the payout of your annuity; thus 5% is referred to as an “assumed investment return.”
 
The Subaccount Annuity Unit Value for a Subaccount will increase only to the extent that the investment performance of that Subaccount exceeds the Risk Charge, the Administrative Fee, and the assumed investment return. The Subaccount Annuity Unit Value for any Subaccount will generally be less than the Subaccount Unit Value for that same Subaccount, and the difference will be the amount of the assumed investment return factor.
 
Example: Assume the net investment performance of a Subaccount is at a rate of 5.00% per year (after deduction of the 1.25% Risk Charge and the 0.15% Administrative Fee). The Subaccount Unit Value for that Subaccount would increase at a rate of 5.00% per year, but the Subaccount Annuity Unit Value would not increase (or decrease) at all. The net investment factor for that 5% return [1.05] is then divided by the factor for the 5% assumed investment return [1.05] and 1 is subtracted from the result to determine the adjusted rate of change in Subaccount Annuity Unit Value:
 
     
1.05
1.05
  = 1; 1 − 1 = 0; 0 × 100% = 0%.
 
If the net investment performance of a Subaccount’s assets is at a rate less than 5.00% per year, the Subaccount Annuity Unit Value will decrease, even if the Subaccount Unit Value is increasing.
 
Example: Assume the net investment performance of a Subaccount is at a rate of 2.60% per year (after deduction of the 1.25% Risk Charge and the 0.15% Administrative Fee). The Subaccount Unit Value for that Subaccount would increase at a rate of 2.60% per year, but the Subaccount Annuity Unit Value would decrease at a rate of 2.29% per year. The net investment factor for that 2.6% return [1.026] is then divided by the factor for the 5% assumed investment return [1.05] and 1 is subtracted from the result to determine the adjusted rate of change in Subaccount Annuity Unit Value:
 
     
1.026
1.05
  = 0.9771; 0.9771 − 1 = −0.0229; −0.0229 × 100% = −2.29%.
 
The assumed investment return will always cause increases in Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to be somewhat less than if the assumption had not been made, will cause decreases in Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to be somewhat greater than if the assumption had not been made, and will (as shown in the example above) sometimes cause a decrease in Subaccount Annuity Unit Values to take place when an increase would have occurred if the assumption had not been made. If we had assumed a higher investment return in our Annuity Option tables, it would produce annuities with larger first payments, but the increases in subaccount annuity payments would be smaller and the decreases in subsequent annuity payments would be greater; a lower assumed investment return would produce annuities with smaller first payments, and the increases in subsequent annuity payments would be greater and the decreases in subsequent annuity payments would be smaller.
 
Redemptions of Remaining Guaranteed Variable Payments Under Option 2
 
If variable payments are elected under Annuity Option 2, you may redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments after the Annuity Date. If you elect to redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments in a single sum, we will not make any additional variable annuity payments during the Annuitant’s lifetime or the remaining guaranteed period after the redemption. The amount available upon full redemption would be the present value of any remaining guaranteed variable payments at the assumed investment return. Any applicable withdrawal charge will be deducted from the present value as if you made a full withdrawal, or if applicable, a partial withdrawal. For purposes of calculating the withdrawal charge and Free Withdrawal amount, it will be assumed that the Contract was never converted to provide annuity payments and any prior variable annuity payments in that Contract Year will be treated as if they were partial withdrawals from the Contract (see the CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Withdrawal Charge section in the Prospectus). For example, assume that a Contract was issued with a single investment of $10,000 and in Contract Year 2 the Owner elects to receive variable annuity payments under Annuity Option 2. In Contract Year 3, the Owner elects to make a full redemption of remaining guaranteed variable payments. The withdrawal charge as a percentage of the Purchase Payments with an age of 3 years is 8%. Assuming the present value of remaining guaranteed variable payments is $5,000, and the Free Withdrawal amount immediately prior to the redemption is


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$200, the withdrawal charge for the redemption will be $384 (($5,000 – $200) * 8%). No withdrawal charge will be imposed on a redemption if:
 
  •  the Annuity Option is elected as the form of payments of death benefit proceeds, or
 
  •  the Annuitant dies before the period certain has ended and the Beneficiary requests a redemption of the variable annuity payments.
 
The variable payment amount we use in calculating the present value is determined by summing an amount for each Subaccount, which we calculate by multiplying your Subaccount Annuity Units by the Annuity Unit Value next computed after we receive your redemption request. This variable payment amount is then discounted at the assumed investment return from each future Annuity Payment date that falls within the payment guaranteed period. The sum of these discounted remaining variable payment amounts is the present value of remaining guaranteed variable payments.
 
If you elect to redeem all remaining guaranteed variable payments in a single sum, we will not make any additional variable annuity payments during the remaining guaranteed period after the redemption.
 
If you elect to redeem a portion of the remaining guaranteed variable payments in a single sum, we will reduce the number of Annuity Units for each Subaccount by the same percentage as the partial redemption value bears to the amount available upon a full redemption.
 
Redemption of remaining guaranteed variable payments will not affect the amount of any fixed annuity payments.
 
Corresponding Dates
 
If any transaction or event under your Contract is scheduled to occur on a “corresponding date” that does not exist in a given calendar period, the transaction or event will be deemed to occur on the following Business Day. In addition, as stated in the Prospectus, any event scheduled to occur on a day that is not a Business Day will occur on the next succeeding Business Day.
 
Example: If your Contract is issued on February 29 in year 1 (a leap year), your Contract Anniversary in years 2, 3 and 4 will be on March 1.
 
Example: If your Annuity Date is July 31 and you select monthly annuity payments, the payments received will be based on valuations made on July 31, August 31, October 1 (for September), October 31, December 1 (for November), December 31, January 31, March 1 (for February), March 31, May 1 (for April), May 31 and July 1 (for June).
 
Age and Sex of Annuitant
 
The Contracts generally provide for sex-distinct annuity income factors in the case of life annuities. Statistically, females tend to have longer life expectancies than males; consequently, if the amount of annuity payments is based on life expectancy, they will ordinarily be higher if an annuitant is male than if an annuitant is female. Certain states’ regulations prohibit sex-distinct annuity income factors, and Contracts issued in those states will use unisex factors. In addition, Contracts issued in connection with Qualified Plans are required to use unisex factors.
 
We may require proof of your Annuitant’s age and sex before or after commencing annuity payments. If the age or sex (or both) of your Annuitant are incorrectly stated in your Contract, we will correct the amount payable to equal the amount that the annuitized portion of the Contract Value under that Contract would have purchased for your Annuitant’s correct age and sex. If we make the correction after annuity payments have started, and we have made overpayments based on the incorrect information, we will deduct the amount of the overpayment, with interest at 3% a year, from any payments due then or later; if we have made underpayments, we will add the amount, with interest at 3% a year, of the underpayments to the next payment we make after we receive proof of the correct age and/or sex.
 
Additionally, we may require proof of the Annuitant’s or Owner’s age before any payments associated with the Death Benefit provisions of your Contract are made. If the age or sex of the Annuitant is incorrectly stated in your Contract, we will base any payment associated with the Death Benefit provisions on your Contract on the Annuitant’s or Owner’s correct age or sex.


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Systematic Transfer Programs
 
The fixed option(s) are not available in connection with portfolio rebalancing. If you are using the earnings sweep, you may also use portfolio rebalancing only if you selected the Cash Management Subaccount, or, the Fixed Option as your sweep option. You may not use dollar cost averaging and the earnings sweep at the same time. Only portfolio rebalancing is available after you annuitize. The systematic transfer options are subject to the same requirements and restrictions as non-systematic transfers. In addition, no fixed option(s) may be used as the target Investment Option under any systematic transfer program.
 
Dollar Cost Averaging
 
When you request dollar cost averaging, you are authorizing us to make periodic reallocations of your Contract Value without waiting for any further instruction from you. You may request to begin or stop dollar cost averaging at any time prior to your Annuity Date; the effective date of your request will be the day we receive notice from you in a form satisfactory to us. Your request may specify the date on which you want your first transfer to be made. Your first transfer may not be made until 30 days after your Contract Date, and if you specify an earlier date, your first transfer will be delayed until one calendar month after the date you specify. If you request dollar cost averaging on your application for your Contract and you fail to specify a date for your first transfer, your first transfer will be made one period after your Contract Date (that is, if you specify monthly transfers, the first transfer will occur 30 days after your Contract Date; quarterly transfers, 90 days after your Contract Date; semi-annual transfers, 180 days after your Contract Date; and if you specify annual transfers, the first transfer will occur on your Contract Anniversary). If you stop dollar cost averaging, you must wait 30 days before you may begin this option again. Currently, we are not enforcing the 30 day waiting period but we reserve the right to enforce such waiting period in the future.
 
Your request to begin dollar cost averaging must specify the Investment Option you wish to transfer money from (your “source account”). You may choose any one Investment Option as your source account. The Account Value of your source account must be at least $5,000 for you to begin dollar cost averaging. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum Account Value but we reserve the right to enforce such minimum amounts in the future.
 
Your request to begin dollar cost averaging must also specify the amount and frequency of your transfers. You may choose monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual transfers. The amount of your transfers may be specified as a dollar amount or a percentage of your source Account Value; however, each transfer must be at least $250. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum transfer amount but we reserve the right to enforce such minimum amounts in the future. Dollar cost averaging transfers are not subject to the same requirements and limitations as other transfers.
 
Finally, your request must specify the Variable Investment Option(s) you wish to transfer amounts to (your “target account(s)”). If you select more than one target account, your dollar cost averaging request must specify how transferred amounts should be allocated among the target accounts. Your source account may not also be a target account.
 
Your dollar cost averaging transfers will continue until the earlier of:
 
  •  your request to stop dollar cost averaging is effective, or
 
  •  your source Account Value is zero, or
 
  •  your Annuity Date.
 
If, as a result of a dollar cost averaging transfer, your source Account Value falls below any minimum Account Value we may establish, we have the right, at our option, to transfer that remaining Account Value to your target account(s) on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions. We may change, terminate or suspend the dollar cost averaging option at any time.
 
Portfolio Rebalancing
 
Portfolio rebalancing allows you to maintain the percentage of your Contract Value allocated to each Variable Investment Option at a pre-set level prior to annuitization.


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For example, you could specify that 30% of your Contract Value should be in the Equity Index Subaccount, 40% in the Managed Bond Subaccount, and 30% in the Growth LT Subaccount.
 
Over time, the variations in each Subaccount’s investment results will shift this balance of these Subaccount Value allocations. If you elect the portfolio rebalancing feature, we will automatically transfer your Subaccount Value back to the percentages you specify.
 
You may choose to have rebalances made quarterly, semi-annually or annually. Only portfolio rebalancing is available after you annuitize.
 
Procedures for selecting portfolio rebalancing are generally the same as those discussed in detail above for selecting dollar cost averaging: You may make your request at any time prior to your Annuity Date and it will be effective when we receive it in a form satisfactory to us. If you stop portfolio rebalancing, you must wait 30 days to begin again. Currently, we are not enforcing the 30-day waiting period but we reserve the right to enforce such waiting period in the future. If you specify a date fewer than 30 days after your Contract Date, your first rebalance will be delayed one month, and if you request rebalancing on your application but do not specify a date for the first rebalance, it will occur one period after your Contract Date, as described above under Dollar Cost Averaging. We may change, terminate or suspend the portfolio rebalancing feature at any time.
 
Earnings Sweep
 
An earnings sweep automatically transfers the earnings from the Fixed Option or the Cash Management Subaccount (the “sweep option”) to one or more other Variable Investment Options (your “target option(s)”). The Account Value of your sweep option will be required to be at least $5,000 when you elect the earnings sweep. Currently, we are not enforcing the minimum Account Value but we reserve the right to enforce such minimum amounts in the future.
 
You may choose to have earnings sweeps occur monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually until you annuitize. At each earnings sweep, we will automatically transfer your accumulated earnings attributable to your sweep option for the previous period proportionately to your target option(s). That is, if you select a monthly earnings sweep, we will transfer the sweep option earnings from the preceding month; if you select a semi-annual earnings sweep, we will transfer the sweep option earnings accumulated over the preceding 6 months. Earnings sweep transfers are not subject to the same requirements and limitations as other transfers.
 
To determine the earnings, we take the change in the sweep option’s Account Value during the sweep period, add any withdrawals or transfers out of the sweep option Account that occurred during the sweep period, and subtract any allocations to the sweep option Account during the sweep period. The result of this calculation represents the “total earnings” for the sweep period.
 
If, during the sweep period, you withdraw or transfer amounts from the sweep option Account, we assume that earnings are withdrawn or transferred before any other Account Value. Therefore, your “total earnings” for the sweep period will be reduced by any amounts withdrawn or transferred during the sweep option period. The remaining earnings are eligible for the sweep transfer.
 
Procedures for selecting the earnings sweep are generally the same as those discussed in detail above for selecting dollar cost averaging and portfolio rebalancing: You may make your request at any time and it will be effective when we receive it in a form satisfactory to us. If you stop the earnings sweep, you must wait 30 days to begin again. Currently, we are not enforcing the 30-day waiting period but we reserve the right to enforce such waiting period in the future. If you specify a date fewer than 30 days after your Contract Date, your first earnings sweep will be delayed one month, and if you request the earnings sweep on your application but do not specify a date for the first sweep, it will occur one period after your Contract Date, as described above under Dollar Cost Averaging.
 
If, as a result of an earnings sweep transfer, your source Account Value falls below $500, we have the right, at our option, to transfer that remaining Account Value to your target account(s) on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions. We may change, terminate or suspend the earnings sweep option at any time.


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Pre-Authorized Withdrawals
 
You may specify a dollar amount for your pre-authorized withdrawals, or you may specify a percentage of your Contract Value or an Account Value. You may direct us to make your pre-authorized withdrawals from one or more specific Investment Options. If you do not give us these specific instructions, amounts will be deducted proportionately from your Account Value in each Investment Option.
 
Procedures for selecting pre-authorized withdrawals are generally the same as those discussed in detail above for selecting dollar cost averaging, portfolio rebalancing, and earnings sweeps: You may make your request at any time and it will be effective when we receive it in a form satisfactory to us. If you stop the pre-authorized withdrawals, you must wait 30 days to begin again. Currently, we are not enforcing the 30-day waiting period but we reserve the right to enforce such waiting period in the future.
 
If your pre-authorized withdrawals cause your Account Value in any Investment Option to fall below $500, we have the right, at our option, to transfer that remaining Account Value to your other Investment Options on a proportionate basis relative to your most recent allocation instructions. If your pre-authorized withdrawals cause your Contract Value to fall below $1,000, we may, at our option, terminate your Contract and send you the remaining withdrawal proceeds.
 
Pre-authorized withdrawals are subject to the same withdrawal charges as are other withdrawals, and each withdrawal is subject to any applicable charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes, to federal income tax on its taxable portion, and, if you have not reached age 591/2, may be subject to a 10% federal tax penalty.
 
Joint Annuitants on Qualified Contracts
 
On your Annuity Date, if your Contract was issued in connection with a Qualified Plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), and you change your marital status after your Contract Date, you may be permitted to add a Joint Annuitant and to change your Joint Annuitant. Generally speaking, you may be permitted to add a new spouse as a Joint Annuitant, and you may be permitted to remove a Joint Annuitant who is no longer your spouse.
 
More on Federal Tax Issues
 
Section 817(h) of the Code provides that the investments underlying a variable annuity must satisfy certain diversification requirements. Details on these diversification requirements appear in the Pacific Select Fund SAI. We believe the underlying Variable Investment Options for the Contract meet these requirements. On March 7, 2008, the Treasury Department issued Final Regulations under Section 817(h). These Final Regulations do not provide guidance concerning the extent to which you may direct your investments to particular divisions of a separate account. Such guidance may be included in regulations or revenue rulings under Section 817(d) relating to the definition of a variable contract. We reserve the right to make such changes as we deem necessary or appropriate to ensure that your Contract continues to qualify as an annuity for tax purposes. Any such changes will apply uniformly to affected Contract Owners and will be made with such notice to affected Contract Owners as is feasible under the circumstances.
 
For a variable life insurance contract or a variable annuity contract to qualify for tax deferral, assets in the separate accounts supporting the contract must be considered to be owned by the insurance company and not by the contract owner. Under current U.S. tax law, if a contract owner has excessive control over the investments made by a separate account, or the underlying fund, the contract owner will be taxed currently on income and gains from the account or fund. In other words, in such a case of “investor control” the contract owner would not derive the tax benefits normally associated with variable life insurance or variable annuities.
 
Generally, according to the IRS, there are two ways that impermissible investor control may exist. The first relates to the design of the contract or the relationship between the contract and a separate account or underlying fund. For example, at various times, the IRS has focused on, among other factors, the number and type of investment choices available pursuant to a given variable contract, whether the contract offers access to funds that are available to the general public, the number of transfers that a contract owner may make from one investment option to another, and the degree to which a contract owner may select or control particular investments.


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With respect to this first aspect of investor control, we believe that the design of our contracts and the relationship between our contracts and the Portfolios satisfy the current view of the IRS on this subject, such that the investor control doctrine should not apply. However, because of some uncertainty with respect to this subject and because the IRS may issue further guidance on this subject, we reserve the right to make such changes as we deem necessary or appropriate to reduce the risk that your contract might not qualify as a life insurance contract or as an annuity for tax purposes.
 
The second way that impermissible investor control might exist concerns your actions. Under the IRS pronouncements, you may not select or control particular investments, other than choosing among broad investment choices such as selecting a particular Portfolio. You may not select or direct the purchase or sale of a particular investment of a Separate Account, a Subaccount (or Variable Investment Option), or a Portfolio. All investment decisions concerning the Separate Accounts and the Subaccounts must be made by us, and all investment decisions concerning the underlying Portfolios must be made by the portfolio manager for such Portfolio in his or her sole and absolute discretion, and not by the contract owner. Furthermore, under the IRS pronouncements, you may not enter into an agreement or arrangement with a portfolio manager of a Portfolio or communicate directly or indirectly with such a portfolio manager or any related investment officers concerning the selection, quality, or rate of return of any specific investment or group of investments held by a Portfolio, and you may not enter into any such agreement or arrangement or have any such communication with us or PLFA.
 
Finally, the IRS may issue additional guidance on the investor control doctrine, which might further restrict your actions or features of the variable contract. Such guidance could be applied retroactively. If any of the rules outlined above are not complied with, the IRS may seek to tax you currently on income and gains from a Portfolio such that you would not derive the tax benefits normally associated with variable life insurance or variable annuities. Although highly unlikely, such an event may have an adverse impact on the fund and other variable contracts. We urge you to consult your own tax adviser with respect to the application of the investor control doctrine.
 
Loans
 
Certain Owners of Qualified Contracts may borrow against their Contracts. Otherwise loans from us are not permitted. You may request a loan from us, using your Contract Value as your only security if your Qualified Contract is:
 
  •  not subject to Title 1 of ERISA,
 
  •  issued under Section 403(b) of the Code, and
 
  •  permits loans under its terms (a “Loan Eligible Plan”).
 
You will be charged interest on your Contract Debt at a fixed annual rate equal to 5%. The amount held in the Loan Account to secure your loan will earn a return equal to an annual rate of 3%. This loan rate may vary by state.
 
Interest charges accrue on your Contract Debt daily, beginning on the effective date of your loan. Interest earned on the Loan Account Value accrue daily beginning on the day following the effective date of the loan, and those earnings will be transferred once a year to your Investment Options in accordance with your most recent allocation instructions.
 
We may change these loan provisions to reflect changes in the Code or interpretations thereof.
 
Tax and Legal Matters
 
The tax and ERISA rules relating to Contract loans are complex and in many cases unclear. For these reasons, and because the rules vary depending on the individual circumstances, these loans are processed by your Plan Administrator. We urge you to consult with a qualified tax adviser prior to effecting any loan transaction under your Contract.
 
Generally, interest paid on your loan under a 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity will be considered non-deductible “personal interest” under Section 163(h) of the Code, to the extent the loan comes from and is secured by your pre-tax contributions, even if the proceeds of your loan are used to acquire your principal residence.


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Loan Procedures
 
Your loan request must be submitted on our Non-ERISA TSA Application and Loan Agreement Form. You may submit a loan request 30 days after your Contract Date and before your Annuity Date. However, before requesting a new loan, you must wait 30 days after the last payment of a previous loan. If approved, your loan will usually be effective as of the end of the Business Day on which we receive all necessary documentation in proper form. We will normally forward proceeds of your loan to you within 7 calendar days after the effective date of your loan.
 
In order to secure your loan, on the effective date of your loan, we will transfer an amount equal to the principal amount of your loan into an account called the “Loan Account.” The Loan Account is held under the General Account. To make this transfer, we will transfer amounts proportionately from your Investment Options based on your Account Value in each Investment Option.
 
As your loan is repaid, a portion, corresponding to the amount of the repayment of any amount then held as security for your loan, will be transferred from the Loan Account back into your Investment Options relative to your most recent allocation instructions.
 
A transfer from the Loan Account back into your Investment Options following a loan repayment is not considered a transfer under the transfer limitations as stated in the HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions section in the Prospectus.
 
Loan Terms
 
You may have only one loan outstanding at any time. The minimum loan amount is $1,000, subject to certain state limitations. Your Contract Debt at the effective date of your loan may not exceed the lesser of:
 
  •  50% of the amount available for withdrawal under this Contract (see the WITHDRAWALS – Optional Withdrawals – Amount Available for Withdrawal in the Prospectus), or
 
  •  $50,000 less your highest outstanding Contract Debt during the 12-month period immediately preceding the effective date of your loan.
 
You should refer to the terms of your particular Loan Eligible Plan for any additional loan restrictions. If you have other loans outstanding pursuant to other Loan Eligible Plans, the amount you may borrow may be further restricted. We are not responsible for making any determination (including loan amounts permitted) or any interpretation with respect to your Loan Eligible Plan.
 
If you purchase any optional living benefit rider (including any and all previous, current, and future versions), there may be adverse consequences to taking a loan while an optional living benefit rider is in effect. If you have an existing loan on your Contract, you should carefully consider whether an optional living benefit rider is appropriate for you.
 
Repayment Terms
 
Your loan, including principal and accrued interest, generally must be repaid in quarterly installments. An installment will be due in each quarter on the date corresponding to the effective date of your loan, beginning with the first such date following the effective date of your loan. See the Qualified Contracts – Loans section in the Prospectus.
 
Example: On May 1, we receive your loan request, and your loan is effective. Your first quarterly payment will be due on August 1.
 
Adverse tax consequences may result if you fail to meet the repayment requirements for your loan. You must repay principal and interest of any loan in substantially equal payments over the term of the loan. Generally, the term of the loan will be 5 years from the effective date of the loan. However, if you have certified to us that your loan proceeds are to be used to acquire a principal residence for yourself, you may request a loan term of 30 years. In either case, however, you must repay your loan prior to your Annuity Date. If you elect to annuitize (or withdraw) your Net Contract Value while you have an outstanding loan, we will deduct any Contract Debt from your Contract Value at the time of the annuitization (or withdrawal) to repay the Contract Debt.


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You may prepay your entire loan at any time. If you do so, we will bill you for any unpaid interest that has accrued through the date of payoff. Your loan will be considered repaid only when the interest due has been paid. Subject to any necessary approval of state insurance authorities, while you have Contract Debt outstanding, we will treat all payments you send us as Investments unless you specifically indicate that your payment is a loan repayment or include your loan payment notice with your payment. To the extent allowed by law, any loan repayments in excess of the amount then due will be applied to the principal balance of your loan. Such repayments will not change the due dates or the periodic repayment amount due for future periods. If a loan repayment is in excess of the principal balance of your loan, any excess repayment will be refunded to you. Repayments we receive that are less than the amount then due will be returned to you, unless otherwise required by law.
 
If we have not received your full payment by its due date, we will declare the entire remaining loan balance in default. At that time, we will send written notification of the amount needed to bring the loan back to a current status. You will have 60 days from the date on which the loan was declared in default (the “grace period”) to make the required payment.
 
If the required payment is not received by the end of the grace period, the defaulted loan balance plus accrued interest and any withdrawal charge will be withdrawn from your Contract Value, if amounts under your Contract are eligible for distribution. In order for an amount to be eligible for distribution from a TSA funded by salary reductions you must meet one of five triggering events. The triggering events are:
 
  •  attainment of age 591/2,
 
  •  severance from employment,
 
  •  death,
 
  •  disability, and
 
  •  financial hardship (with respect to contributions only, not income or earnings on these contributions).
 
If those amounts are not eligible for distribution, the defaulted loan balance plus accrued interest and any withdrawal charge will be considered a Deemed Distribution and will be withdrawn when such Contract Values become eligible. In either case, the Distribution or the Deemed Distribution will be considered a currently taxable event, and may be subject to federal tax withholding, the withdrawal charge and may be subject to a 10% federal tax penalty.
 
If there is a Deemed Distribution under your Contract and to the extent allowed by law, any future withdrawals will first be applied as repayment of the defaulted Contract Debt, including accrued interest and charges for applicable taxes. Any amounts withdrawn and applied as repayment of Contract Debt will first be withdrawn from your Loan Account, and then from your Investment Options on a proportionate basis relative to the Account Value in each Investment Option. If you have an outstanding loan that is in default, the defaulted Contract Debt will be considered a withdrawal for the purpose of calculating any Death Benefit Amount and/or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit.
 
The terms of any such loan are intended to qualify for the exception in Code Section 72(p)(2) so that the distribution of the loan proceeds will not constitute a distribution that is taxable to you. To that end, these loan provisions will be interpreted to ensure and maintain such tax qualification, despite any other provisions to the contrary. Subject to any regulatory approval, we reserve the right to amend your Contract to reflect any clarifications that may be needed or are appropriate to maintain such tax qualification or to conform any terms of our loan arrangement with you to any applicable changes in the tax qualification requirements. We will send you a copy of any such amendment. If you refuse such an amendment, it may result in adverse tax consequences to you.
 
Safekeeping of Assets
 
We are responsible for the safekeeping of the assets of the Separate Account. These assets are held separate and apart from the assets of our General Account and our other separate accounts.


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OTHER OPTIONAL RIDERS
 
General Information
 
Some optional riders allow for owner elected Resets/Step-Ups. If you elect to Reset/Step-Up, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary (“60 day period”) on which the Reset/Step-Up is effective. We may, at our sole discretion, allow Resets/Step-Ups after the 60 day period. We reserve the right to refuse a Reset/Step-Up request after the 60 day period regardless of whether we may have allowed you or others to Reset/Step-Up in the past. Each Contract Anniversary starts a new 60 day period in which a Reset/Step-Up may be elected.
 
Taking a withdrawal before a certain age or a withdrawal that is greater than the allowed annual withdrawal amount under a particular Rider, may result in adverse consequences such as a reduction in Rider benefits or the failure to receive lifetime withdrawals under a Rider.
 
There may be adverse consequences to taking a loan while an optional Rider is in effect. If you have an existing loan on your Contract, you should carefully consider whether an optional Rider is appropriate for you.
 
Investment Allocation Requirements
 
At initial purchase and during the entire time that you own an optional living benefit Rider (except for GIA II), you must allocate your entire Contract Value to an asset allocation program or Investment Options we make available for these Riders. You may allocate your Contract Value according to the following requirements:
 
  •  100% to one allowable Asset Allocation Model, OR
 
  •  100% among allowable Investment Options.
 
Currently, the allowable Asset Allocation Models and Investment Options are as follows:
 
     
Allowable Asset Allocation Models   Allowable Investment Options
 
Portfolio Optimization Model A
  Invesco V.I. Global Multi-Asset Fund
Portfolio Optimization Model B
  AllianceBernstein VPS Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio
Portfolio Optimization Model C
  American Funds Asset Allocation
Portfolio Optimization Model D
  BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund
Portfolio Optimization Model E1
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund
Custom Model
  GE Investments Total Return Fund
    Pacific Dynamix – Conservative Growth
    Pacific Dynamix – Moderate Growth
    Pacific Dynamix – Growth
    PIMCO Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
    Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation Portfolio
 
1 Portfolio Optimization Model E will no longer be an allowable Asset Allocation Model for any optional living benefit rider with a Rider Effective Date on or after January 1, 2009.
 
You may transfer your entire Contract Value between an allowable Asset Allocation Model and allowable Investment Options, between allowable Asset Allocation Models or between allowable Investment Options, subject to certain transfer limitations. See the HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Transfers and Market-timing Restrictions section of the Prospectus. Keep in mind that you must allocate your entire Contract Value to either one allowable Asset Allocation Model or among the allowable Investment Options. If you do not allocate your entire Purchase Payment or Contract Value according to the requirements above, your Rider will terminate.
 
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percentages within the Portfolio Optimization Model you have selected, including allocating any subsequent Purchase Payments inconsistent with your Model’s target allocations, you will no longer be participating in the Portfolio Optimization program and your Rider will terminate. See the HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Portfolio Optimization section of the Prospectus for information about the program.
 
Allowable Asset Allocation Models – Custom Model.  You may also make transfers between the Investment Options available under the Custom Model program as long as you follow the Custom Model parameters. However, if you make transfers, subsequent Purchase Payments or change the allocation percentages within your Custom Model and they do not comply with the Custom Model parameters, you will no longer be participating in the Custom Model program and your Rider will terminate. See the HOW YOUR PURCHASE PAYMENTS ARE ALLOCATED – Custom Model section of the Prospectus for information about the program.
 
Allowable Investment Options.  You may allocate your entire Contract Value among any of the allowable Investment Options listed in the table above.
 
By adding an optional living benefit Rider to your Contract, you agree to the above referenced investment allocation requirements for the entire period that you own a Rider. These requirements may limit the number of Investment Options that are otherwise available to you under your Contract. We reserve the right to add, remove or change allowable asset allocation programs or allowable Investment Options at any time. We may make such a change due to a fund reorganization, fund substitution, or when we believe a change is necessary to protect our ability to provide the guarantees under these riders. If such a change is required, we will provide you with reasonable notice (generally 90 calendar days unless we are required to give less notice) prior to the effective date of such change to allow you to reallocate your Contract Value to maintain your rider benefits. If you do not reallocate your Contract Value your rider will terminate.
 
We will send you written notice in the event any transaction made by you will involuntarily cause the Rider to terminate for failure to allocate your entire Contract Value to an asset allocation program or Investment Options we make available for these Riders. However, you will have 10 Business Days after the date of our written notice (“10 day period”), to instruct us to take appropriate corrective action to continue participation in an allowable asset allocation program or allowable Investment Options to continue the Rider.
 
Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single)
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
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The Protected Payment Amount will never be less than zero. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to the applicable withdrawal percentage (based on the Owner’s age at the time of purchase) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero and will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The Remaining Protected Balance will never be less than zero. The initial Remaining Protected Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each contract year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 591/2 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount), then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under


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the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal Percentage
 
The withdrawal percentage is determined according to the table below based on the oldest Owner’s age (or youngest Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) at Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. The withdrawal percentages are as follows:
 
         
Age
  Withdrawal Percentage
 
Before 591/2
    5.0 %
591/2 - 74
    5.0 %
75 and older
    6.0 %
 
If you purchase the Rider before you reach 75 years of age, a Reset is required to receive the higher withdrawal percentage once you are 75 years of age.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount.  If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
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  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – General Rules – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 591/2 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 591/2. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and


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Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 591/2 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 5% (7% if your Rider Effective Date is before January 1, 2009) of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless an Automatic Reset or Owner Elected Reset occurs. If such a Reset occurs, your eligibility for the Annual Credit will be reinstated as of the Reset Date.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Annual Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset. On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date and after any annual credit is applied, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election. Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.


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Automatic Reset – Future Participation. You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic). You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 591/2 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
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the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. The withdrawal percentage will be determined based on the age of the surviving spouse and the new withdrawal percentage may be higher or lower than what the withdrawal percentage was prior to death. In addition, if the surviving spouse is 591/2 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base and withdrawal percentage) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.


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Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Joint)
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Designated Lives (each a “Designated Life”) – Designated Lives must be natural persons who are each other’s spouses on the Rider Effective Date. Designated Lives will remain unchanged while this Rider is in effect.
 
To be eligible for lifetime benefits, a Designated Life must:
 
  •  be the Owner (or the Annuitant, in the case of a custodial owned IRA or TSA),
 
  •  remain the Spouse of the other Designated Life and be the first in line of succession, as determined under the Contract, for payment of any death benefit.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year. The Protected Payment Amount will never be less than zero. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to the applicable withdrawal percentage (based on the youngest Designated Life’s age at the time of purchase) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero and will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The Remaining Protected Balance will never be less than zero. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Spouse – The Owner’s spouse who is treated as the Owner’s spouse pursuant to federal law.
 
Surviving Spouse – The surviving spouse of a deceased Owner.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).


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In addition, on each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount), then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal Percentage
 
The withdrawal percentage is determined according to the table below based on youngest Designated Life’s age at Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. The withdrawal percentages are as follows:
 
         
Age
  Withdrawal Percentage
 
591/2 - 74
    5.0 %
75 and older
    6.0 %
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. Immediately following the withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE


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CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – General Rules – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  the payments of the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the surviving Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the death of the surviving Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.


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Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
  •  if a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection, and
 
  •  any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 5% (7% if your Rider Effective Date is before January 1, 2009) of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset occurs. If such a Reset occurs, your eligibility for the Annual Credit will be reinstated as of the Reset Date.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Annual Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset. On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date and after any Annual Credit is applied, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election. Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.


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If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation. You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic). You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the Surviving Spouse (who is also a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits) elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the Surviving Spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Rider terminates.
 
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percentage may change and will be determined based on the age of the Surviving Spouse. However, the withdrawal percentage will never be lower than the withdrawal percentage in effect at the time of death.
 
The Surviving Spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Ownership and Beneficiary Changes
 
Changes to the Contract Owner, Annuitant and/or Beneficiary designations and changes in marital status, including a dissolution of marriage, may adversely affect the benefits of this Rider. A particular change may make a Designated Life ineligible to receive lifetime income benefits under this Rider. As a result, the Rider may remain in effect and you may pay for benefits that you will not receive. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional and consider your options prior to making any Owner, Annuitant and/or Beneficiary changes to your Contract.
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day of death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  upon the death of the first Designated Life, if a death benefit is payable and a Surviving Spouse who chooses to continue the Contract is not a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  upon the death of the first Designated Life, if a death benefit is payable and the Contract is not continued by a Surviving Spouse who is a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  if both Designated Lives are Joint Owners and there is a change in marital status, the Rider will terminate upon the death of the first Designated Life who is a Contract Owner,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day that neither Designated Life is an Owner (or Annuitant, in the case of a custodial owned IRA or TSA),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day that the Contract is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day of death of:
 
  •  all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits, or
 
  •  the first Designated Life who is a Contract Owner if both Designated Lives are Joint Owners and there is a change in marital status,
 
if, at the time of these events, the Contract Value is zero and we are making pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider will terminate when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero, see Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance subsection.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX A: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.


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Automatic Income Builder Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to the applicable withdrawal percentage (based on the Owner’s age at the time of purchase) multiplied by the Protected Payment Base.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year.
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  the withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The Protected Payment Amount will never be less than zero.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero and will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The Remaining Protected Balance will never be less than zero. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 591/2 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). If you are older than 591/2 and if you delay taking withdrawals, this Rider also provides the potential to receive a 0.10% increase in the withdrawal percentage per year, which can increase the percentage that you may withdraw each Contract Year without


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reducing your Protected Payment Base. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.
 
Withdrawal Percentage
 
On or prior to the date of the first withdrawal (measured from the later of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date) the withdrawal percentage is determined as follows based on the oldest Owner’s age (or youngest Annuitant in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
If your Rider Effective Date is on or after January 1, 2009, the following Withdrawal Percentages will apply:
 
     
Age
  Withdrawal Percentage
 
Before 591/2
  4.0%
591/2 - 69
  4.0%
70 - 84
  5.0%
85 and older
  6.0%
 
If your Rider Effective Date is before January 1, 2009, the following Withdrawal Percentages will apply:
 
     
Age
  Withdrawal Percentage
 
Before 591/2
  5.0%
591/2 - 69
  5.0%
70 - 84
  6.0%
85 and older
  7.0%
 
If the first withdrawal (measured from the later of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date) is taken on or after age 591/2, the withdrawal percentage will automatically increase according to the table above based on age as of the most recent Contract Anniversary.
 
If the first withdrawal (measured from the later of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date) is taken prior to age 591/2, the withdrawal percentage will be 4.0% (5.0% if your Rider Effective Date is before January 1, 2009) until the Remaining Protected Balance is depleted and will remain unchanged unless a Reset occurs. If an Automatic Reset


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or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs and your first withdrawal after that Reset is taken on or after age 591/2, the withdrawal percentage will be the withdrawal percentage that corresponds to the age at the time of the first withdrawal.
 
There is an opportunity for an increase in the withdrawal percentage. The withdrawal percentage in the table above will increase by 0.10% for each Rider year a withdrawal is not taken beginning on the later of the Contract Anniversary following the Owner’s age 591/2 or the Rider Effective Date. In addition, the increase in the withdrawal percentage will still be included as you reach a new age band (for example, if your first withdrawal is taken after age 591/2 and at age 69 your withdrawal percentage is 4.4%, then your withdrawal percentage would be 5.4% the Contract Anniversary immediately after you turn 70). However, once a withdrawal is taken (including an RMD Withdrawal), regardless of the Owner’s age when the withdrawal is taken, no further increase in the withdrawal percentage will be available and eligibility for the increase cannot be reinstated with a Reset.
 
The withdrawal percentage, including any 0.10% increase, will not be reduced as a result of a Reset.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. Immediately following the withdrawal the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX B: AUTOMATIC INCOME BUILDER RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.


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Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduces the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 591/2 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 591/2. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 591/2 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
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Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued, except that eligibility for the increase in the withdrawal percentage cannot be reinstated with a Reset once a withdrawal is taken. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset. On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election. Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above. If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation. You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries. If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic). You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.


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Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 591/2 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. The withdrawal percentage will be determined based on the age of the surviving spouse and the new withdrawal percentage may be higher or lower than what the withdrawal percentage was prior to death. In addition, if the surviving spouse is 591/2 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base and withdrawal percentage) for life.
 
Any 0.10% increase to the withdrawal percentage previously added will apply but no further increases to the withdrawal percentage will be added.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
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  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
If this Rider is terminated as a result of having any portion of the Contract Value no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements, you must wait until a Contract Anniversary that is at least one (1) year from the Effective Date of termination before this Rider may be purchased again (if available).
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX B: AUTOMATIC INCOME BUILDER RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single)
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.


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Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 591/2 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount) then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.


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Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contact Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
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  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to 5% of the Protected Payment Base each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 591/2 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 591/2. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 591/2 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 6% of the total of:
 
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  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset occurs. If such a Reset occurs, your eligibility for the Annual Credit will be reinstated as of the Reset Date.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Annual Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in effect in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.


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Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 591/2 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate. If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. In addition, if the surviving spouse is 591/2 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base and withdrawal percentage) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
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  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract if the Contract is Non-Qualified,
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Joint)
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Designated Lives (each a “Designated Life”) – Designated Lives must be natural persons who are each other’s spouses on the Rider Effective Date. Designated Lives will remain unchanged while this Rider is in effect.
 
To be eligible for lifetime benefits, a Designated Life must:
 
  •  be the Owner (or the Annuitant, in the case of a custodial owned IRA or TSA), or
 
  •  remain the Spouse of the other Designated Life and be the first in line of succession, as determined under the Contract, for payment of any death benefit.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.


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Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Spouse – The Owner’s spouse who is treated as the Owner’s spouse pursuant to federal law.
 
Surviving Spouse – The surviving spouse of a deceased Owner.
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits. This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, on each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount) then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans.


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Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. Immediately following the withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see FEDERAL TAX ISSUES.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount (or is an RMD withdrawal) and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  the payments of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
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  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the surviving Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the death of the surviving Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
  •  if a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection, and
 
  •  any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 6% of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless an Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset occurs. If such a Reset occurs, your eligibility for the Annual Credit will be reinstated as of the Reset Date.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Annual Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when


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the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in effect in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this Reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
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If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the Surviving Spouse (who is also a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits) elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the Surviving Spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the day of the death of such Surviving Spouse. The Surviving Spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries.
 
The Surviving Spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Ownership and Beneficiary Changes
 
Changes to the Contract Owner, Annuitant and/or Beneficiary designations and changes in marital status, including a dissolution of marriage, may adversely affect the benefits of this Rider. A particular change may make a Designated Life ineligible to receive lifetime income benefits under this Rider. As a result, the Rider may remain in effect and you may pay for benefits that you will not receive. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional and consider your options prior to making any Owner, Annuitant and/or Beneficiary changes to your Contract.
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day of death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  upon the death of the first Designated Life, if a death benefit is payable and a Surviving Spouse who chooses to continue the Contract is not a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  upon the death of the first Designated Life, if a death benefit is payable and the Contract is not continued by a Surviving Spouse who is a Designated Life eligible for lifetime benefits,
 
  •  if both Designated Lives are Joint Owners and there is a change in marital status, the Rider will terminate upon the death of the first Designated Life who is a Contract Owner,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day that neither Designated Life is an Owner (or Annuitant, in the case of a custodial owned IRA or TSA),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day of death of:
 
  •  all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits, or
 
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if, at the time of these events, the Contract Value is zero and we are making pre-authorized withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base. In this case, the Rider will terminate when the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, see Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance subsection.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX C: FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT) SAMPLE CALCULATIONS. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Foundation 10 Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Annual Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
Maximum Credit Base – An amount equal to 200% of the Remaining Protected Balance as of the Rider Effective Date and any subsequent Purchase Payments made during the first year that the Rider is in effect plus 100% of all subsequent Purchase Payments made after the first year.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
 
Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
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Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 591/2 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Annual Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance if no withdrawals are taken. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, beginning with the first (1st) anniversary of the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
 
If applicable, an Annual Credit is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance prior to any Automatic Reset. If the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary is greater than the Protected Payment Base (which includes the Annual Credit amount) then the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be automatically reset to equal the Contract Value.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Annual Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Annual Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans section in the Prospectus.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX D: FOUNDATION 10 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a


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withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section in the Prospectus.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD Withdrawal amount.
 
See the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions section in the Prospectus.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
  •  the payments of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.


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Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduces the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was younger than age 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to 5% of the Protected Payment Base each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 591/2 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 591/2. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 591/2 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the withdrawal will be treated as an excess withdrawal and the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Annual Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date,
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 10 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date, and
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is less than the Maximum Credit Base.
 
The Annual Credit is equal to 10% of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date, or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Annual Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Annual Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. In addition, Annual Credit eligibility cannot be reinstated by any Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset.
 
The Annual Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued, except that eligibility for the Annual Credit cannot be reinstated with a Reset. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of


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annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
If a withdrawal is taken, the Annual Credit will no longer be applied and cannot be restarted with an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset. In addition, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset will not start a new 10 year period for Annual Credit eligibility.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Annual Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges). A Reset does not begin a new 10 year period for the Annual Credit to be applied.
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above. If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  You may, on any Contract Anniversary, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. An Owner-Elected Reset may be elected while Automatic Resets are in effect. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. The reset will be based on the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Annual Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.


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Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 591/2 and no Resets have occurred.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero. If the Remaining Protected Balance is zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate.
 
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse. If the surviving spouse is 591/2 when a reset occurs, the surviving spouse may take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (based on the new Protected Payment Base and withdrawal percentage) for life.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see the DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits in the Prospectus).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract if the Contract is Non-Qualified,
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.


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The Rider will not terminate the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was younger than 591/2 when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX D: FOUNDATION 10 RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS to this SAI. The examples are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Income Access Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Income Access Credit is referred to as Annual Credit in the Contract’s Rider.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, on which you elect to Reset the Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, determined as of that Contract Anniversary.


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Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider guarantees you can withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). Lifetime withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount may continue after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. If a withdrawal was taken before age 65 and there was no subsequent Reset, the Rider will terminate once the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Income Access Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets and Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Income Access Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Income Access Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans section in the Prospectus.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year. If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount.  If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected


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Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER & INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section in the Prospectus.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD withdrawal amount.
 
See the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions section in the Prospectus.
 
Depletion of Contract Value
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider, after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
  •  the payments of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and may not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, there is no death benefit, however, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency (at least annually) then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving


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Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance
 
If a withdrawal (including an RMD Withdrawal) reduced the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
 
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
 
  •  was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate, or
 
  •  was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to 5% of the Protected Payment Base each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant. If an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset occurs, the Remaining Protected Balance will be reinstated to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
Before your Remaining Protected Balance is zero, if you took your first withdrawal before age 65 and you would like to be eligible for lifetime payments under the Rider, an Automatic or Owner-Elected Reset must occur and your first withdrawal after that Reset must be taken on or after age 65. See the Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance subsection of this Rider. If you are younger than age 65 when the Remaining Protected Balance is zero and Contract Value remains, the Rider will terminate and there is no opportunity for a Reset.
 
If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) made from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid according to the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
 
Income Access Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date, an Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
  •  no withdrawals have occurred after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  that Contract Anniversary is within the first 5 Contract Anniversaries, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Income Access Credit is equal to 6% of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Income Access Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless a reset occurs.
 
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Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Income Access Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date.
 
If you want to participate in Automatic Resets, you must make an affirmative election in a form satisfactory to us. Otherwise, you may reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as outlined under Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic) below.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Income Access Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see the CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges section in the Prospectus).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and any change in the annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in effect in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this reset.
 
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Income Access Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.


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Annuitization
 
If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
 
  •  the Life Only annual payment amount based on the terms of your Contract, or
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
 
The annuity payments described in this subsection are available to you even if your first withdrawal was taken prior to age 65 and no Resets have occurred.
 
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in your Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of your Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments. Work with your financial professional to determine if you should annuitize your Contract before the maximum Annuity Date or stay in the accumulation phase and continue to take withdrawals under the Rider.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero. The surviving spouse may elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary. If a reset occurs at age 65 or older, then the provisions of this Rider will continue for the surviving spouse.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract,
 
  •  the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is Non-Qualified (excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts),
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date (see the Annuitization subsection for additional information), or
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
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under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later. In this case, the Rider will terminate the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate the day the Contract Value is zero and you begin taking pre-authorized withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base. In this case, the Rider and the Contract will terminate:
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, or
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner), was age 64 or younger when the first withdrawal was taken under the Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER & INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS to this SAI. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Income Access Plus Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
Rider Terms
 
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9) (“Section 401(a)(9)”) and related Code provisions in effect as of the Rider Effective Date.
 
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn each Contract Year under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year, or
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
 
The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to 5% of the initial Protected Payment Base.
 
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider. The initial Protected Payment Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The initial Remaining Protected Balance is equal to the initial Purchase Payment, if the Rider Effective Date is on the Contract Date, or the Contract Value, if the Rider Effective Date is on a Contract Anniversary.
 
Income Access Credit – An amount added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Income Access Credit is referred to as Annual Credit in the Contract’s Rider.
 
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, on which you elect to Reset the Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, determined as of that Contract Anniversary.


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Rider Effective Date – The date the guarantees and charges for the Rider become effective. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of the Contract Date, the Rider Effective Date is the Contract Date. If the Rider is purchased within 60 days of a Contract Anniversary, the Rider Effective Date is the date of that Contract Anniversary.
 
How the Rider Works
 
On any day, this Rider allows for withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero (0). This Rider also provides for an amount (an “Income Access Credit”) to be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. This Rider does not provide lifetime withdrawal benefits. Once the Rider is purchased, you cannot request a termination of the Rider (see the Termination subsection of this Rider for more information).
 
In addition, on any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Rider provides for Automatic Annual Resets and Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary.
 
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance may change over time. The addition of an Income Access Credit will increase the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Income Access Credit. An Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset will increase or decrease the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance depending on the Contract Value on the Reset Date. A withdrawal that is less than or equal to the Protected Payment Amount will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the withdrawal and will not change the Protected Payment Base. If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn. For withdrawals that are greater than the Protected Payment Amount, see the Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount subsection.
 
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract. Withdrawals under this Rider are not annuity payouts. Annuity payouts generally receive a more favorable tax treatment than other withdrawals.
 
If your Contract is a Qualified Contract, including a TSA/403(b) Contract, you are subject to restrictions on withdrawals you may take prior to a triggering event (e.g. reaching age 591/2, separation from service, disability) and you should consult your tax or legal advisor prior to purchasing this optional guarantee, the primary benefit of which is guaranteeing withdrawals. For additional information regarding withdrawals and triggering events, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – IRAs and Qualified Plans section in the Prospectus.
 
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount
 
While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each Contract Year, regardless of market performance, until the Remaining Protected Balance equals zero. Any portion of the Protected Payment Amount not withdrawn during a Contract Year may not be carried over to the next Contract Year.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. The Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount immediately following the withdrawal.
 
Withdrawals Exceeding the Protected Payment Amount.  If a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) causes the total amount withdrawn during the Contract Year to exceed the Protected Payment Amount, we will (immediately following the excess withdrawal) reduce the Protected Payment Base on a proportionate basis for the amount in excess of the Protected Payment Amount. We will reduce the Remaining Protected Balance either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount. (See example 4 in APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER & INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS for a numerical example of the adjustments to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining


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Protected Balance as a result of an excess withdrawal.) If a withdrawal is greater than the Protected Payment Amount and the Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base, both the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by an amount that is greater than the excess amount withdrawn.
 
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
 
For information regarding taxation of withdrawals, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section in the Prospectus.
 
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
 
  •  5% of the Protected Payment Base will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero. The payments will be made under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency, as elected by you, but no less frequently than annually,
 
  •  no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract,
 
  •  any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and may not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option, and
 
  •  the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
 
If the Owner or sole surviving Annuitant dies and the Contract Value is zero as of the date of death, any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid to the Beneficiary under the series of pre-authorized withdrawals and payment frequency then in effect at the time of the Owner’s or sole surviving Annuitant’s death. If, however, the Remaining Protected Balance would be paid over a period that exceeds the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the pre-authorized withdrawal amount will be adjusted so that the withdrawal payments will be paid over a period that does not exceed the Beneficiary’s life expectancy.
 
Required Minimum Distributions
 
On and after August 1, 2005, no adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base as a result of a withdrawal that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided:
 
  •  such withdrawal (an “RMD Withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect at that time,
 
  •  you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen,
 
  •  the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only, and
 
  •  only RMD withdrawals are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
 
If the Contract Value is reduced to zero, RMD withdrawals will cease and any Remaining Protected Balance will be paid under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals in accordance with the terms of the Rider.
 
Immediately following an RMD Withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD withdrawal amount.
 
See the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES – Qualified Contracts – Required Minimum Distributions section in the Prospectus.
 
Income Access Credit
 
On each Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, an Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance, as of that Contract Anniversary, if:
 
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  •  that Contract Anniversary is prior to the 6th Contract Anniversary, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
 
The Income Access Credit is equal to 6% of the total of:
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance on the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, and
 
  •  the cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date or most recent Reset Date, whichever is later,
 
as of the Contract Anniversary on which the Income Access Credit is added.
 
Once a withdrawal has occurred, including an RMD Withdrawal, no Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal, unless you elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance.
 
The Income Access Credit is not added to your Contract Value.
 
Reset of Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance
 
Regardless of which reset option is used, on and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. Eligibility for any Income Access Credit, the limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of annual Charges and any future reset options available on and after the Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date. A reset occurs when the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are changed to an amount equal to the Contract Value as of the Reset Date. Please discuss with your financial professional your Contract’s maximum Annuity Date when considering reset options.
 
If you want to participate in Automatic Resets, you must make an affirmative election in a form satisfactory to us. Otherwise, you may reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance as outlined under Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic) below.
 
Automatic Reset.  On each Contract Anniversary while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value, if the Protected Payment Base, after any Income Access Credit is applied, is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any Automatic Reset (see the CHARGES, FEES AND DEDUCTIONS – Optional Rider Charges section in the Prospectus).
 
Automatic Reset – Opt-Out Election.  Within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary on which an Automatic Reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and any change in the annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the Automatic Reset. Any future Automatic Resets will continue in effect in accordance with the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same 60 day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
 
Automatic Reset – Future Participation.  You may elect not to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
 
If you previously elected not to participate in Automatic Resets, you may re-elect to participate in future Automatic Resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset paragraph above.
 
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic).  On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value. The annual charge percentage may change as a result of this reset.


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If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. Your election of this option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and any Income Access Credit that may be applied. Generally, the reduction will occur when your Contract Value is less than the Protected Payment Base as of the Contract Anniversary you elected the reset. You are strongly advised to work with your investment professional prior to electing an Owner-Elected Reset. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
 
Subsequent Purchase Payments
 
If we receive additional Purchase Payments after the Rider Effective Date, we will increase the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payments. However, for purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict additional Purchase Payments that result in a total of all Purchase Payments received on or after the later of the first (1st) Contract Anniversary or most recent Reset Date to exceed $100,000 without our prior approval. This provision only applies if the Contract to which this Rider is attached, permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue, unless otherwise terminated.
 
The surviving spouse may elect to receive any death benefit proceeds instead of continuing the Contract and Rider (see DEATH BENEFITS AND OPTIONAL DEATH BENEFIT RIDERS – Death Benefits).
 
Termination
 
You cannot request a termination of the Rider. Except as otherwise provided below, the Rider will automatically terminate on the earliest of:
 
  •  the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract, except as otherwise provided in the paragraph below, or
 
  •  the day you exchange this Rider for another withdrawal benefit Rider,
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
  •  the day the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
 
The Rider and the Contract will not terminate on the first death of an Owner or death of the sole surviving Annuitant, or the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract if, at the time of those events, the Contract Value is zero and we are making pre-authorized withdrawals of the Remaining Protected Balance under the provisions of the Rider. If we are making pre-authorized withdrawals, the Contract and the Rider will terminate on the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day the Remaining Protected Balance is zero.


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Sample Calculations
 
Hypothetical sample calculations are in the attached APPENDIX E: LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER & INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER SAMPLE CALCULATIONS to this SAI. The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 (GIA 5) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
How the Rider Works
 
If you purchased the optional GIA 5 Rider, you may choose any of the Annuity Options described in your Contract, or you may choose the GIA 5 Annuity Option provided this Rider has been in effect for at least 10 years from the later of its Effective Date or the most recent Step-Up Date. You must choose fixed annuity payments under this GIA 5 Annuity Option. The guaranteed income purchased per $1,000 of the net amount applied to the annuity payments will be based on an annual interest rate of 2.5% and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the age set back 10 years. The net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA 5 Annuity Option will be based on the Net Guaranteed Income Base, which is described below.
 
Net Guaranteed Income Base – The amount applied on the Annuity Date as a single premium to provide annuity payments under the GIA 5 Annuity Option. The Net Guaranteed Income Base is equal to:
 
  •  the Guaranteed Income Base as of the Annuity Date, less
 
  •  any applicable withdrawal charge resulting from the conversion to the GIA 5 Annuity Option, less
 
  •  any Contract Debt, and less
 
  •  any charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes.
 
Guaranteed Income Base – If you purchase the GIA 5 Rider on the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is initially set on the Effective Date of the Rider. If the Rider is effective on the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Initial Purchase Payment. If the Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The Guaranteed Income Base on any Business Day after the Effective Date is the Guaranteed Income Base on the prior Business Day, increased by any additions on that day as a result of any:
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us, plus
 
  •  increases at an annual growth rate of 5%, plus
 
  •  additional amounts as a result of a Step-Up in the Guaranteed Income Base
 
and decreased by any deductions on that day as a result of any:
 
  •  adjustments for withdrawals.
 
The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Income Base prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
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The 5% annual growth rate will take into account the timing of when each Purchase Payment and withdrawal occurred. This is accomplished by applying a daily factor of 1.000133681 to each day’s Guaranteed Income Base balance. The 5% annual growth rate will stop accruing as of the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary following the day the youngest Annuitant reaches his or her 80th birthday, or
 
  •  the day the GIA 5 Rider terminates.
 
Election of Step-Up – On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Effective Date of this Rider and before the Annuity Date, you may elect to increase the Guaranteed Income Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value as of the Step-Up Date. A Step-Up will begin a new 10-year period before you may elect to have any annuity payments made under the GIA 5 Annuity Option.
 
The Guaranteed Income Advantage Charge (“GIA 5 Charge”) may change if you elect a Step-Up in the Guaranteed Income Base. However, the GIA 5 Charge will never exceed the GIA 5 Charge then being offered for this same benefit under newly issued riders and will not be more than a maximum charge of 0.75%. If the Guaranteed Income Base is never stepped-up, the GIA 5 Charge established on the Effective Date of this Rider is guaranteed not to change.
 
Your Step-Up election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective.
 
Once a Step-Up has been elected and is in effect, another Step-Up may not be elected until on or after the fifth (5th) anniversary of the latest Step-Up Date. We will provide you with written confirmation of your Step-Up election.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA 5) Annuity Option
 
The annuity payments that may be elected under the GIA 5 Annuity Option are:
 
  •  Life Only,
 
  •  Life with 10 years or more Period Certain,
 
  •  Joint and Survivor Life, or
 
  •  15 years or more Period Certain.
 
If you elect the GIA 5 Annuity Option, the waiver of withdrawal charges as described in the Contract will not apply. We will reduce the net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA 5 Annuity Option by any remaining withdrawal charges. The Rider contains annuity tables for each GIA 5 Annuity Option available.
 
For information regarding taxation of annuity payments, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section of the Prospectus.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue, unless otherwise terminated.
 
Termination
 
The GIA 5 Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer allocated according to the Investment Allocation Requirements,
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day we receive notification from you to terminate the GIA 5 Rider,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
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  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the terms of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.
 
If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II) Rider
 
Purchasing the Rider
 
This Rider is no longer available for purchase.
 
How the Rider Works
 
If you purchased the optional GIA II Rider, you may choose any of the Annuity Options described in your Contract, or you may choose the GIA II Annuity Option provided this Rider has been in effect for at least 10 years from the later of its Effective Date or the most recent Step-Up Date. You must choose fixed annuity payments under this GIA II Annuity Option. The guaranteed income purchased per $1,000 of the net amount applied to the annuity payments will be based on an annual interest rate of 2.5% and the 1983a Annuity Mortality Table with the age set back 10 years. The net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA II Annuity Option will be based on the Net Guaranteed Income Base, which is described below. The Rider contains annuity tables for each GIA II Annuity Option available.
 
Net Guaranteed Income Base – The amount applied on the Annuity Date as a single premium to provide annuity payments under the GIA II Annuity Option. The Net Guaranteed Income Base is equal to:
 
  •  the Guaranteed Income Base as of the Annuity Date, less
 
  •  any applicable withdrawal charge resulting from the conversion to the GIA II Annuity Option, less
 
  •  any Contract Debt, and less
 
  •  any charge for premium taxes and/or other taxes.
 
Guaranteed Income Base – If you purchase the GIA II Rider, the Guaranteed Income Base is initially set on the Effective Date of the Rider. If the Rider is effective on the Contract Date, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the initial Purchase Payment. If the Rider is effective on a Contract Anniversary, the Guaranteed Income Base is equal to the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The Guaranteed Income Base on any Business Day after the Effective Date is the Guaranteed Income Base on the prior Business Day, increased by any additions on that day as a result of any:
 
  •  Purchase Payments received by us, plus
 
  •  increases at an annual growth rate of 5%, plus
 
  •  additional amounts as a result of a Step-Up in the Guaranteed Income Base
 
and decreased by any deductions on that day as a result of any:
 
  •  adjustments for withdrawals.
 
The adjustment for each withdrawal is calculated by multiplying the Guaranteed Income Base prior to the withdrawal by the ratio of the amount of the withdrawal, including any applicable withdrawal charge, to the Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.
 
Any portion of the Net Contract Value converted to provide payments under an Annuity Option, as described in the Contract, will be considered a “withdrawal” for purposes of determining any adjustment to the Guaranteed Income Base.
 
The 5% annual growth rate will take into account the timing of when each Purchase Payment and withdrawal occurred. This is accomplished by applying a daily factor of 1.000133681 to each day’s Guaranteed Income Base balance.


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The 5% annual growth rate will stop accruing as of the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary following the day the youngest Annuitant reaches his or her 80th birthday, or
 
  •  the day the GIA II Rider terminates.
 
Election of Step-Up – On any Contract Anniversary beginning with the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Effective Date of this Rider and before the Annuity Date, you may elect to increase the Guaranteed Income Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value as of the Step-Up Date. A Step-Up will begin a new 10-year period before you may elect to have any annuity payments made under the GIA II Annuity Option.
 
The Guaranteed Income Advantage Charge (“GIA II Charge”) may change if you elect a Step-Up in the Guaranteed Income Base. However, the GIA II Charge will never exceed the GIA II Charge then being offered for this same benefit under newly issued riders and will not be more than a maximum charge of 1.00%. If the Guaranteed Income Base is never stepped-up, the GIA II Charge established on the Effective Date of this Rider is guaranteed not to change.
 
Your Step-Up election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within 60 days after the Contract Anniversary on which the Step-Up is effective.
 
Once a Step-Up has been elected and is in effect, another Step-Up may not be elected until on or after the fifth (5th) anniversary of the latest Step-Up Date. We will provide you with written confirmation of your Step-Up election.
 
Guaranteed Income Advantage II (GIA II) Annuity Option
 
The annuity payments that may be elected under the GIA II Annuity Option are:
 
  •  Life Only,
 
  •  Life with 10 years or more Period Certain,
 
  •  Joint and Survivor Life, or
 
  •  15 years or more Period Certain.
 
If you elect the GIA II Annuity Option, the waiver of withdrawal charges as described in the Contract will not apply. We will reduce the net amount applied to the annuity payments under the GIA II Annuity Option by any remaining withdrawal charges. The Rider contains annuity tables for each GIA II Annuity Option available.
 
For information regarding taxation of annuity payments, see the FEDERAL TAX ISSUES section in the Prospectus.
 
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract
 
If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, then the provisions of this Rider will continue, unless otherwise terminated.
 
Termination
 
The GIA II Rider will remain in effect until the earlier of:
 
  •  the Contract Anniversary immediately following the day we receive notification from you to terminate the Rider,
 
  •  the date of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (except as provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract subsection),
 
  •  for Contracts with a Non-Natural Owner, the date of the first death of an Annuitant, including Primary, Joint and Contingent Annuitants,
 
  •  the date the Contract is terminated in accordance with the terms of the Contract, or
 
  •  the Annuity Date.


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If your request to terminate the Rider is received at our Service Center within 60 days after a Contract Anniversary, the Rider will terminate on that Contract Anniversary.
 
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
The statements of assets and liabilities of Separate Account A as of December 31, 2009, the related statements of operations for the periods presented, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the periods presented and the financial highlights for each of the periods presented are incorporated by reference in this Statement of Additional Information from the Annual Report of Separate Account A dated December 31, 2009. Pacific Life’s consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 are attached. These financial statements should be considered only as bearing on the ability of Pacific Life to meet its obligations under the Contracts and not as bearing on the investment performance of the assets held in the Separate Account.
 
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
AND INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
 
The financial statements of Separate Account A of Pacific Life Insurance Company as of December 31, 2009 and for each of the periods presented have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, 695 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report included in the Annual Report of Separate Account A dated December 31, 2009, which is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.
 
The consolidated financial statements of Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, 695 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, independent auditors, as stated in their report appearing herein.


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APPENDIX A:
 
FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME PLUS RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT)
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Examples 1 through 5 apply to the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus (Single) and (Joint) Riders.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Youngest Owner’s Age = 74 on the Contract Date
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Youngest Owner’s Age = 74 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  No Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $10,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there were no withdrawals during that Contract Year).


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Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, an annual credit of $10,000 (5% of the initial Remaining Protected Balance plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date) is applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $210,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $10,500 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Youngest Owner’s Age = 74 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Years 2, 3 and 4.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 4 and 5.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $10,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
Activity
      $10,500   $209,000       $210,000   $0   $199,500
3
          $209,000   $0   $210,000   $10,500   $199,500
Activity
      $10,500   $214,845       $210,000   $0   $189,000
4
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $214,845   $0   $210,000   $10,500   $189,000
4
  (After Automatic Reset)       $214,845   $0   $214,845   $12,890   $214,845
Activity
      $12,890   $216,994       $214,845   $0   $201,955
5
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $216,994   $0   $214,845   $12,890   $201,955
5
  (After Automatic Reset)       $216,994   $0   $216,994   $13,019   $216,994
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $199,500 ($210,000 −$10,500).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $189,000 ($199,500 −$10,500).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset). Additionally,


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the reset took place after the Owner reached age 75. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $12,890 (6% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 4 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($12,890):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $201,955 ($214,845 −$12,890).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 5, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 5 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 5 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $13,019 (6% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Since withdrawals occurred during Contract Years 2, 3 and 4, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 5, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Youngest Owner’s Age = 74 on the Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Year 3.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $10,000   $210,000   $10,500   $210,000
Activity
      $15,000   $206,490       $205,527   $0   $195,000
3
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $206,490   $0   $205,527   $10,276   $195,000
3
  (After Automatic Reset)       $206,490   $0   $206,490   $12,389   $206,490
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $15,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($15,000 > $10,500), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $210,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $210,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,500 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $210,000 = $10,500)
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A withdrawal of $15,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,500 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $4,500 (total withdrawal amount − Protected Payment Amount; $15,000 − $10,500 = $4,500).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value − Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $206,490 after the withdrawal plus the $15,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 2.13% ($4,500 ¸ ($221,490 − $10,500); $4,500 ¸ $210,990 = 0.0213 or 2.13%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $205,527 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $210,000 × (1-2.13%); $210,000 × 97.87% = $205,527).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $195,250 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal − Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($210,000 − $10,500) × (1-2.13%); $199,500 × 97.87% = $195,250).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $195,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal − total withdrawal amount; $210,000 − $15,000 = $195,000).
 
Therefore, since $195,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $195,250 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $195,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $205,527 = $10,276), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($15,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). Additionally, the reset took place after the Owner reached age 75. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $12,389 (6% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Since withdrawals occurred during Contract Year 2, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 3, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
              $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the


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Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount − Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 − $1,250=$2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value − Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 − $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 ((Remaining Protected Balance − Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 − $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance − total withdrawal amount; $92,375 − $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
This example applies to the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Single) only.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
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                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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Example #7 – Lifetime Income.
 
This example applies to the Flexible Lifetime Income Plus Rider (Joint) Only.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.
  •  All Designated Lives remain eligible for lifetime income benefits while the Rider is in effect.
 
                         
                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
Activity (Death of first
Designated Life)
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000


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Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
During Contract Year 13, the death of the first Designated Life occurred. Withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (5% of the Protected Payment Base) will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance were reduced to zero) until the Rider terminates.
 
If there was a change in Owner, Beneficiary or marital status prior to the death of the first Designated Life that resulted in the surviving Designated Life (spouse) to become ineligible for lifetime income benefits, then the lifetime income benefits under the Rider would not continue for the surviving Designated Life and the Rider would terminate upon the death of the first Designated Life.


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APPENDIX B:
 
AUTOMATIC INCOME BUILDER RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 68
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = Withdrawal percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base = 4% × $100,000 = $4,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 68
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Years 2 and 3.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $207,000   $200,000   $8,200   $200,000
2
  After Automatic Reset       $207,000   $207,000   $8,487   $207,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000   $307,000   $12,587   $307,000
3
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $321,490   $307,000   $15,964   $307,000
3
  After Automatic Reset       $321,490   $321,490   $16,717   $321,490
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 +


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$100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $8,000 (4.0% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, the withdrawal percentage is increased to 4.1%. Additionally, because at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 2 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 2 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $8,487 (4.1% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $307,000 ($207,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $12,587 (4.1% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment.
 
Since the Owner reached age 70 and no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the withdrawal percentage is increased to 5.2%. Additionally, because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $16,717 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 68
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 3.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Years 2, 3 and 4.
 
                         
Beginning
              Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $207,000   $200,000   $8,200   $200,000
2
  After Automatic Reset       $207,000   $207,000   $8,487   $207,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000   $307,000   $12,587   $307,000
3
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $321,490   $307,000   $15,964   $307,000
3
  After Automatic Reset       $321,490   $321,490   $16,717   $321,490
Activity
      $16,717   $327,277   $321,490   $0   $304,773
4
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $327,277   $321,490   $16,717   $304,773
4
  After Automatic Reset       $327,277   $327,277   $17,018   $327,277
 


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For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Years 1 and 2, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
At the Beginning of Contract Year 3, since the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $16,717 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($16,717):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
 
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $304,773 ($321,490 − $16,717).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 3, the withdrawal percentage will no longer increase as a result of delaying withdrawals.
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $17,018 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 68
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 3.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 2, 3 and 4.
 
                         
Beginning
          Contract
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $100,000   $4,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000   $200,000   $8,000   $200,000
2
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $207,000   $200,000   $8,200   $200,000
2
  After Automatic Reset       $207,000   $207,000   $8,487   $207,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000   $307,000   $12,587   $307,000
3
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $321,490   $307,000   $15,964   $307,000
3
  After Automatic Reset       $321,490   $321,490   $16,717   $321,490
Activity
      $30,000   $313,994   $308,437   $0   $291,490
4
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $313,994   $308,437   $16,038   $291,490
4
  After Automatic Reset       $313,994   $313,994   $16,327   $313,994
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Years 1 and 2, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Since the Owner reached age 70 and no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the withdrawal percentage is increased to 5.2%. Additionally, because at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 3 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at


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Beginning of Contract Year 3 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $16,717 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($16,717), the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $308,437 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $291,490. The reduction in the Protected Payment Base and the Remaining Protected Balance is calculated as follows:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $13,283 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $30,000 − $16,717 = $13,283).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $343,994, which equals the $313,994 after the withdrawal plus the $30,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 4.06% ($13,283 ¸ ($343,994 − $16,717); $13,283 ¸ $327,277 = 0.0406 or 4.06%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $308,437 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $321,490 × (1-4.06%); $321,490 × 95.94% = $308,437).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount and then multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $292,399 ((Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($321,490 − $16,717) × (1-4.06%); $304,773 × 95.94% = $292,399).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $291,490 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $321,490 − $30,000 = $291,490).
 
Therefore, since $291,490 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $292,399 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $291,490.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 3, the withdrawal percentage will no longer increase as a result of delaying withdrawals.
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $16,327 (5.2% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 

                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount


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of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced by the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 − $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 − $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base x (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount and then multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 ((Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) x (1-ratio); ($92,375 − $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 − $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  Owner’s age on Rider Effective Date = 65
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Withdrawals, are taken each Contract Year:
  •  Equal to 4% of the Protected Payment Base in Contract Years 1-5 (age 65-69)
  •  Equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base in Contract Years 6-20 (age 70-84)
  •  Equal to 6% of the Protected Payment Base in Contract Years 21-35 (age 85-99)
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.


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            Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $4,000   $99,000   $100,000   $4,000   $96,000
2
  $4,000   $97,970   $100,000   $4,000   $92,000
3
  $4,000   $96,909   $100,000   $4,000   $88,000
4
  $4,000   $95,816   $100,000   $4,000   $84,000
5
  $4,000   $94,691   $100,000   $4,000   $80,000
6
  $5,000   $92,532   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
7
  $5,000   $90,308   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
8
  $5,000   $88,017   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
9
  $5,000   $85,657   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
10
  $5,000   $83,227   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
11
  $5,000   $80,724   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
12
  $5,000   $78,146   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
13
  $5,000   $75,490   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
14
  $5,000   $72,755   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
15
  $5,000   $69,937   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
16
  $5,000   $67,035   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
17
  $5,000   $64,046   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
18
  $5,000   $60,968   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
19
  $5,000   $57,797   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
20
  $5,000   $54,531   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
21
  $6,000   $50,167   $100,000   $6,000   $0
22
  $6,000   $45,672   $100,000   $6,000   $0
23
  $6,000   $41,042   $100,000   $6,000   $0
24
  $6,000   $36,273   $100,000   $6,000   $0
25
  $6,000   $31,361   $100,000   $6,000   $0
26
  $6,000   $26,302   $100,000   $6,000   $0
27
  $6,000   $21,091   $100,000   $6,000   $0
28
  $6,000   $15,724   $100,000   $6,000   $0
29
  $6,000   $10,196   $100,000   $6,000   $0
30
  $6,000   $4,501   $100,000   $6,000   $0
31
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
32
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
33
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
34
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
35
  $6,000   $0   $100,000   $6,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 4% of Protected Payment Base = $4,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal: (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
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Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 4%, 5% and 6% of the Protected Payment Base, respectively, will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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APPENDIX C:
 
FLEXIBLE LIFETIME INCOME RIDER (SINGLE AND JOINT)
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Examples 1 through 5 apply to the Flexible Lifetime Income (Single) and (Joint) Riders
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  No Automatic Resets or Owner-Elected Resets.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $12,000   $212,000   $10,600   $212,000
 
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, an annual credit of $12,000 (6% of the initial Remaining Protected Balance plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date) is applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract


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Anniversary, increasing both to $212,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $10,600 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Years 2, 3 and 4.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Years 4 and 5.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $12,000   $212,000   $10,600   $212,000
Activity
      $10,600   $210,890       $212,000       $201,400
3
          $210,890   $0   $212,000   $10,600   $201,400
Activity
      $10,600   $215,052       $212,000       $190,800
4
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $215,052   $0   $212,000   $10,600   $190,800
4
  (After Automatic Reset)       $215,052   $0   $215,052   $10,752   $215,052
Activity
      $10,600   $219,506       $215,052   $152   $204,452
5
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $219,506   $0   $215,052   $10,752   $204,452
5
  (After Automatic Reset)       $219,506   $0   $219,506   $10,975   $219,506
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 2 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,600):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $201,400 ($212,000 – $10,600).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,600):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $190,800 ($201,400 – $10,600).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,752 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 4 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($10,600):
 
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  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $204,452 ($215,052 − $10,600); and
  •  the Protected Payment Amount is reduced to $152 (5% of the Protected Payment Base less cumulative withdrawals (5% × $215,052 − $10,600 = $152).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 5, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 5 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 5 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $10,975 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Since withdrawals occurred during Contract Years 2, 3 and 4, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a Reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 5, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Resets at Beginning of Contract Year 4.
 
                             
Beginning
          Contract
      Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $12,000   $212,000   $10,600   $212,000
Activity
      $15,000   $206,490       $207,590   $0   $197,000
3
          $206,490   $0   $207,590   $10,379   $197,000
4
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $220,944   $0   $207,590   $10,379   $197,000
4
  (After Automatic Reset)       $220,944   $0   $220,944   $11,047   $220,944
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $15,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($15,000 > $10,600), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $212,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $212,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,600 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $212,000 = $10,600)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $15,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,600 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $4,400 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $15,000 – $10,600 = $4,400).


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Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $206,490 after the withdrawal plus the $15,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 2.08% ($4,400 ¸ ($221,490 – $10,600); $4,400 ¸ $210,890 = 0.0208 or 2.08%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $207,590 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $212,000 × (1-2.08%); $212,000 × 97.92% = $207,590).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,210 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($212,000 – $10,600) × (1-2.08%); $201,400 × 97.92% = $197,210).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $212,000 – $15,000 = $197,000).
 
Therefore, since $197,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $197,210 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $207,590 = $10,379), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($15,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an Automatic Reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 2, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 4, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
This is an example of the effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006               $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, each contract year the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006           $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the


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Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $1,250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $1,250 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 (Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
This example applies to the Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Single) only.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.


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                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1 and no Resets occurred, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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Example #7 – Lifetime Income.
 
This example applies to the Flexible Lifetime Income Rider (Joint) only.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.
  •  All Designated Lives remain eligible for lifetime income benefits while the Rider is in effect.
 
                         
                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
 Activity (Death of first Designated Life)
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000


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Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
During Contract Year 13, the death of the first Designated Life occurred. Withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount (5% of the Protected Payment Base) will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance were reduced to zero) until the death of all Designated Lives eligible for lifetime benefits.
 
If there was a change in Owner, Beneficiary or marital status prior to the death of the first Designated Life that resulted in the surviving Designated Life (spouse) to become ineligible for lifetime income benefits, then the lifetime income benefits under the Rider would not continue for the surviving Designated Life and the Rider would terminate upon the death of the first Designated Life.


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APPENDIX D:
 
FOUNDATION 10 RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Example #1 – Setting of Initial Values.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
 
                                 
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
   
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Maximum
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Credit Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
  •  Maximum Credit Base = 200% of the Initial Purchase Payment = $200,000
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payments.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Year 10.
 
                                 
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
   
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Maximum
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Credit Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000   $400,000
2
          $207,000   $20,000   $220,000   $11,000   $220,000   $400,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000       $320,000   $16,000   $320,000   $500,000
3
          $321,490   $30,000   $350,000   $17,500   $350,000   $500,000
4
          $343,994   $30,000   $380,000   $19,000   $380,000   $500,000
5
          $368,073   $30,000   $410,000   $20,500   $410,000   $500,000
6
          $393,839   $30,000   $440,000   $22,000   $440,000   $500,000
7
          $421,407   $30,000   $470,000   $23,500   $470,000   $500,000
8
          $450,906   $30,000   $500,000   $25,000   $500,000   $500,000
9
          $482,469   $0   $500,000   $25,000   $500,000   $500,000
10
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $516,242   $0   $500,000   $25,000   $500,000   $500,000
10
  After Automatic Reset       $516,242   $0   $516,242   $25,812   $516,242   $500,000
 


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Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 1, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $200,000 ($100,000 + $100,000). Since the subsequent Purchase Payment is received in Contract Year 1, the Maximum Credit Base is increased by 200% of the Purchase Payment, to $400,000. The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $10,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there were no withdrawals during that Contract Year).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 2, an annual credit of $20,000 (10% of the initial Remaining Protected Balance plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date) is applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $220,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $11,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
Immediately after the $100,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $320,000 ($220,000 + $100,000). Since the subsequent Purchase Payment is received in Contract Year 2, the Maximum Credit Base is increased by 100% of the Purchase Payment, to $500,000. The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $16,000 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there were no withdrawals during that Contract Year).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the Beginning of Contract Year 3, an annual credit of $30,000 (10% of the initial Remaining Protected Balance plus cumulative Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date) is applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $350,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $17,500 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
An Annual Credit is no longer applied after the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance reach the Maximum Credit Base of $500,000 in Contract Year 8.
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 10, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 10 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 10 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $25,812 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
In addition to Purchase Payments, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #3 – Withdrawals Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  A withdrawal equal to or less than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Years 3 and 4.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Year 6.
 


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Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
   
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Maximum
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Credit Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000   $400,000
2
          $207,000   $20,000   $220,000   $11,000   $220,000   $400,000
Activity
  $100,000       $307,000       $320,000   $16,000   $320,000   $500,000
3
          $321,490   $30,000   $350,000   $17,500   $350,000   $500,000
Activity
      $17,500   $326,494       $350,000   $0   $332,500   $500,000
4
          $326,494   $0   $350,000   $17,500   $332,500   $500,000
Activity
      $17,500   $331,848       $350,000   $0   $315,000   $500,000
5
          $331,848   $0   $350,000   $17,500   $315,000   $500,000
6
  Prior to Automatic Reset       $355,077   $0   $350,000   $17,500   $315,000   $500,000
6
  After Automatic Reset       $355,077   $0   $355,077   $17,753   $355,077   $500,000
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 3 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($17,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $332,500 ($350,000 – $17,500).
 
As the withdrawal during Contract Year 4 did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($17,500):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $315,000 ($332,500 – $17,500).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 6, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 6 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 6 – After Automatic Reset). As a result, the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $17,753 (5% of the reset Protected Payment Base).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 3, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Years 1 and 2.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 3.
 

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Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
  Maximum
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Credit
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000   $400,000
2
          $207,000   $20,000   $220,000   $11,000   $220,000   $400,000
Activity
  $100,000       $321,490       $320,000   $16,000   $320,000   $500,000
3
          $321,490   $30,000   $350,000   $17,500   $350,000   $500,000
Activity
      $25,000   $318,994       $341,985   $0   $324,885   $500,000
4
          $318,994   $0   $341,985   $17,099   $324,885   $500,000
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.
 
Because the $25,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 3 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($25,000 > $17,500), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $343,994
  •  Protected Payment Base = $350,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $350,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $17,500 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $350,000 = $17,500)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $25,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $17,500 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $7,500 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $25,000 – $17,500 = $7,500).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $343,994, which equals the $318,994 after the withdrawal plus the $25,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 2.29% ($7,500 ¸ ($343,994 – $17,500); $7,500 ¸ $326,494 = 0.0229 or 2.29%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $341,985 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $350,000 × (1-2.29%); $350,000 × 97.71% = $341,985).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $324,885 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($350,000 – $17,500) × (1-2.29%); $332,500 × 97.71% = $324,885).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $325,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $350,000 – $25,000 = $325,000).

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Therefore, since $324,885 (proportionate method) is less than $325,000 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $324,885.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $341,985 = $17,099), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($25,000), but not less than zero).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 3, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 4, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #5 – Annual Credit & Resets.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments received.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
 
                                 
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
  Maximum
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
  Credit
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance   Base
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000   $200,000
2
          $107,000   $10,000   $110,000   $5,500   $110,000   $200,000
3
          $125,000   $10,000   $125,000   $6,250   $125,000   $200,000
4
          $120,000   $12,500   $137,500   $6,875   $137,500   $200,000
5
          $190,000   $12,500   $190,000   $9,500   $190,000   $200,000
6
          $180,000   $19,000   $209,000   $10,450   $209,000   $200,000
7
          $240,000   $0   $240,000   $12,000   $240,000   $200,000
8
          $220,000   $0   $240,000   $12,000   $240,000   $200,000
9
          $250,000   $0   $250,000   $12,500   $250,000   $200,000
 
 
On the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, an Annual Credit of $10,000 (10% of the Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
An Annual Credit of $10,000 would have been applied on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 3, but an Automatic Reset takes place instead, resetting the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $125,000.
 
On the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 4, an Annual Credit of $12,500 (10% of the Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
 
An Annual Credit of $12,500 would have been applied on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 5, but an Automatic Reset took place instead, resetting the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $190,000.
 
On the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6, an Annual Credit of $19,000 (10% of the Remaining Protected Balance) is added, increasing the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $209,000. Annual Credits will no longer be added since the Maximum Credit Base of $200,000 has been reached.
 
Example #6 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
The effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.


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This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
              $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
Contract
Anniversary
                       
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Contract
Anniversary
                       
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
Contract
Anniversary
                       
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 
 
On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the


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Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $1,250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $1,250 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 (Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example #7 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  Owner is age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Automatic Reset or Owner-Elected Reset is assumed during the life of the Rider.
 


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                Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 591/2 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.

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APPENDIX E:

LIFETIME INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER &
INCOME ACCESS PLUS RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS
 
The examples provided are based on certain hypothetical assumptions and are for example purposes only. Where Contract Value is reflected, the examples do not assume any specific return percentage. The examples have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. There may be minor differences in the calculations due to rounding. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns nor are they a reflection of how your Contract will actually perform.
 
Examples 1 through 5 apply to the Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider and the Income Access Plus Rider.
 
Example #1 – Income Access Credit; No Subsequent Purchase Payments; No Withdrawals; No Reset in Remaining Protected Balance.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
  •  No Reset of the Remaining Protected Balance.
 
                             
Beginning
          Contract
  Income
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Value after
  Access
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000       $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $6,000   $106,000   $5,300   $106,000
3
          $106,090   $6,000   $112,000   $5,600   $112,000
4
          $109,273   $6,000   $118,000   $5,900   $118,000
5
          $112,551   $6,000   $124,000   $6,200   $124,000
6
          $115,927   $6,000   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
7
          $119,405   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
8
          $122,987   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
9
          $126,677   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
10
          $130,477   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
11
          $134,392   $0   $130,000   $6,500   $130,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6, an Income Access Credit of $6,000 (6% of initial Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on each Contract Anniversary up to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6. As a result, on the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are equal to $130,000 and the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $6,500 (5% of $130,000).
 
No Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary after the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 6, as no reset in the Remaining Protected Balance was assumed.


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In addition to the Initial Purchase Payment, the Contract Value is further subject to increases and/or decreases during each Contract Year as a result of additional amounts credited, charges, fees and other deductions, and increases and/or decreases in the investment performance of the Variable Account.
 
Example #2 – Subsequent Purchase Payment.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $50,000 is received during Contract Year 2.
  •  No withdrawals taken.
 
                             
Beginning
              Income
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Access
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000       $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $6,000   $106,000   $5,300   $106,000
Activity
  $50,000       $154,534       $156,000   $7,800   $156,000
3
          $156,834   $9,000   $165,000   $8,250   $165,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, an Income Access Credit of $6,000 (6% of Initial Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $106,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $5,300 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
Immediately after the $50,000 subsequent Purchase Payment during Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the Purchase Payment amount to $156,000 ($106,000 + $50,000). The Protected Payment Amount after the Purchase Payment is equal to $7,800 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the Purchase Payment since there are no withdrawals during that Contract Year).
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 3, an Income Access Credit of $9,000 (6% of Initial Remaining Protected Balance plus 6% of the $50,000 subsequent Purchase Payment) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $165,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $8,250 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
Example #3 – Withdrawal Not Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.
  •  A withdrawal of $5,000 is taken during Contract Year 2.
 


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Beginning
              Income
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Access
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000       $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
2
          $103,000   $6,000   $106,000   $5,300   $106,000
Activity
      $5,000   $99,534       $106,000   $300   $101,000
3
          $101,016   $0   $106,000   $5,300   $101,000
4
          $104,046   $0   $106,000   $5,300   $101,000
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Since no withdrawal occurred prior to the Contract Anniversary at the beginning of Contract Year 2, an Income Access Credit of $6,000 (6% of Initial Remaining Protected Balance) is added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on that Contract Anniversary, increasing both to $106,000. As a result, the Protected Payment Amount on that Contract Anniversary is equal to $5,300 (5% of the Protected Payment Base on that Contract Anniversary).
 
Because the $5,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,300):
 
  •  the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged;
  •  the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal to $101,000 ($106,000 − $5,000); and
  •  the Protected Payment Amount is equal to $300 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $106,000 = $5,300), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($5,000)).
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 2, no Income Access Credit will be added to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Example #4 – Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  A subsequent Purchase Payment of $100,000 is received during Contract Year 1.
  •  A withdrawal greater than the Protected Payment Amount is taken during Contract Year 2.
  •  Automatic Reset at Beginning of Contract Year 4.
 
                             
Beginning
                  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
of Contract
  Purchase
      Contract Value
  Annual
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   after Activity   Credit   Base   Amount   Balance
 
1
  $100,000       $100,000   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
Activity
  $100,000       $200,000       $200,000   $10,000   $200,000
2
          $207,000   $12,000   $212,000   $10,600   $212,000
Activity
      $15,000   $206,490       $207,590   $0   $197,000
3
          $206,490   $0   $207,590   $10,379   $197,000
4
  (Prior to Automatic Reset)       $220,944   $0   $207,590   $10,379   $197,000
4
  (After Automatic Reset)       $220,944   $0   $220,944   $11,047   $220,944
 
 
For an explanation of the values and activities at the start of and during Contract Year 1, refer to Examples #1 and #2.

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Because the $15,000 withdrawal during Contract Year 2 exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($15,000 > $10,600), the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance immediately after the withdrawal are reduced.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $221,490
  •  Protected Payment Base = $212,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $212,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $10,600 (5% × Protected Payment Base; 5% × $212,000 = $10,600)
  •  No withdrawals were taken prior to the excess withdrawal
 
A withdrawal of $15,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $10,600 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $4,400 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $15,000 – $10,600 = $4,400).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). The Contract Value prior to the withdrawal was $221,490, which equals the $206,490 after the withdrawal plus the $15,000 withdrawal amount. Numerically, the ratio is 2.08% ($4,400 ¸ ($221,490 – $10,600); $4,400 ¸ $210,890 = 0.0208 or 2.08%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $207,590 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $212,000 × (1-2.08%); $212,000 × 97.92% = $207,590).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,210 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($212,000 – $10,600) × (1-2.08%); $201,400 × 97.92% = $197,210).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,000 (Remaining Protected Balance immediately before the withdrawal – total withdrawal amount; $212,000 – $15,000 = $197,000).
 
Therefore, since $197,000 (total withdrawal amount method) is less than $197,210 (proportionate method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $197,000.
 
The Protected Payment Amount immediately after the withdrawal is equal to $0 (5% of the Protected Payment Base after the withdrawal (5% of $207,590 = $10,379), less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year ($15,000), but not less than zero).
 
Because at the Beginning of Contract Year 4, the Protected Payment Base was less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – Prior to Automatic Reset), an automatic reset occurred which resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value (see balances at Beginning of Contract Year 4 – After Automatic Reset).


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Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 2, annual credits are not applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal. Since a reset occurred at the beginning of Contract Year 4, eligibility for the annual credit will again apply.
 
Example #5 – RMD Withdrawals.
 
The effect of cumulative RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year that exceed the Protected Payment Amount established for that Contract Year and its effect on the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. The Annual RMD Amount is based on the entire interest of your Contract as of the previous year-end.
 
This table assumes quarterly withdrawals of only the Annual RMD Amount during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount for the Calendar Year is $7,500 and the Contract Anniversary is May 1 of each year.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $98,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $96,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $94,375
12/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $0   $92,500
01/01/2008
          $8,000            
03/15/2008
  $2,000           $100,000   $0   $90,500
05/01/2008
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $90,500
 
 
Since the RMD Amount for 2008 increases to $8,000, the quarterly withdrawals of the RMD Amount increase to $2,000, as shown by the RMD withdrawal on March 15, 2008. Because all withdrawals during the Contract Year were RMD Withdrawals, there is no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base for exceeding the Protected Payment Amount. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance equal to the amount of each withdrawal. In addition, the Protected Payment Amount is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal until the Protected Payment Amount is zero.
 
This chart assumes quarterly withdrawals of the Annual RMD Amount and other non-RMD Withdrawals during the Contract Year. The calculated Annual RMD amount and Contract Anniversary are the same as above.
 
                         
            Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Activity
  RMD
  Non-RMD
  RMD
  Payment
  Payment
  Protected
Date   Withdrawal   Withdrawal   Amount   Base   Amount   Balance
 
05/01/2006
Contract
Anniversary
          $0   $100,000   $5,000   $100,000
01/01/2007
          $7,500            
03/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $98,125
04/01/2007
      $2,000       $100,000   $1,125   $96,125
05/01/2007
Contract
Anniversary
              $100,000   $5,000   $96,125
06/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $3,125   $94,250
09/15/2007
  $1,875           $100,000   $1,250   $92,375
11/15/2007
      $4,000       $96,900   $0   $88,300
 


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On 3/15/07 there was an RMD Withdrawal of $1,875 and on 4/1/07 a non-RMD Withdrawal of $2,000. Because the total withdrawals during the Contract Year (5/1/06 through 4/30/07) did not exceed the Protected Payment Amount of $5,000 there was no adjustment to the Protected Payment Base. The only effect is a reduction in the Remaining Protected Balance and the Protected Payment Amount equal to the amount of each withdrawal. On 5/1/07, the Protected Payment Amount was re-calculated (5% of the Protected Payment Base) as of that Contract Anniversary.
 
On 11/15/07, there was a non-RMD Withdrawal ($4,000) that caused the cumulative withdrawals during the Contract Year ($7,750) to exceed the Protected Payment Amount ($5,000). As the withdrawal exceeded the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($1,250), and assuming the Contract Value was $90,000 immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $96,900 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $88,300.
 
The Values shown below are based on the following assumptions immediately before the excess withdrawal:
 
  •  Contract Value = $90,000
  •  Protected Payment Base = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = $92,375
  •  Protected Payment Amount = $1,250
 
A withdrawal of $4,000 was taken, which exceeds the Protected Payment Amount of $1,250 for the Contract Year. The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reduced based on the following calculation:
 
First, determine the excess withdrawal amount. The excess withdrawal amount is the total withdrawal amount less the Protected Payment Amount. Numerically, the excess withdrawal amount is $2,750 (total withdrawal amount – Protected Payment Amount; $4,000 – $1,250 = $2,750).
 
Second, determine the ratio for the proportionate reduction. The ratio is the excess withdrawal amount determined above divided by (Contract Value – Protected Payment Amount). Numerically, the ratio is 3.10% ($2,750 ¸ ($90,000 – $1,250); $2,750 ¸ $88,750 = 0.0310 or 3.10%).
 
Third, determine the new Protected Payment Base. The Protected Payment Base will be reduced on a proportionate basis. The Protected Payment Base is multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, the new Protected Payment Base is $96,900 (Protected Payment Base × (1-ratio); $100,000 × (1-3.10%); $100,000 × 96.90% = $96,900).
 
Fourth, determine the new Remaining Protected Balance. The Remaining Protected Balance is reduced either on a proportionate basis or by the total withdrawal amount, whichever results in the lower Remaining Protected Balance amount.
 
To determine the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the Protected Payment Amount multiplied by 1 less the ratio determined above. Numerically, after the proportionate reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300 (Remaining Protected Balance – Protected Payment Amount) × (1-ratio); ($92,375 – $1,250) × (1-3.10%); $91,125 × 96.90% = $88,300).
 
To determine the total withdrawal amount reduction, the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount. Numerically, after the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the total withdrawal amount, the Remaining Protected Balance is $88,375 (Remaining Protected Balance – total withdrawal amount; $92,375 – $4,000 = $88,375).
 
Therefore, since $88,300 (proportionate method) is less than $88,375 (total withdrawal amount method) the new Remaining Protected Balance is $88,300.
 
Example 6 applies to the Lifetime Income Access Plus Rider only.
 
Example #6 – Lifetime Income.
 
The values shown below are based on the following assumptions:
 
  •  Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Rider Effective Date = Contract Date
  •  No subsequent Purchase Payments are received.


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  •  Owner is age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken.
  •  Withdrawals, each equal to 5% of the Protected Payment Base are taken each Contract Year.
  •  No Reset in the Remaining Protected Balance is assumed during the life of the Rider.
 
                         
Contract
      End of Year
  Annual
  Protected
  Protected
  Remaining
Year   Withdrawal   Contract Value   Credit   Payment Base   Payment Amount   Protected Balance
 
1
  $5,000   $96,489   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $95,000
2
  $5,000   $94,384   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $90,000
3
  $5,000   $92,215   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $85,000
4
  $5,000   $89,982   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $80,000
5
  $5,000   $87,681   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $75,000
6
  $5,000   $85,311   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $70,000
7
  $5,000   $82,871   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $65,000
8
  $5,000   $80,357   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $60,000
9
  $5,000   $77,768   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $55,000
10
  $5,000   $75,101   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $50,000
11
  $5,000   $72,354   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $45,000
12
  $5,000   $69,524   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $40,000
13
  $5,000   $66,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $35,000
14
  $5,000   $63,608   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $30,000
15
  $5,000   $60,517   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $25,000
16
  $5,000   $57,332   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $20,000
17
  $5,000   $54,052   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $15,000
18
  $5,000   $50,674   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $10,000
19
  $5,000   $47,194   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $5,000
20
  $5,000   $43,610   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
21
  $5,000   $39,918   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
22
  $5,000   $36,115   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
23
  $5,000   $32,199   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
24
  $5,000   $28,165   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
25
  $5,000   $24,010   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
26
  $5,000   $19,730   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
27
  $5,000   $15,322   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
28
  $5,000   $10,782   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
29
  $5,000   $6,105   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
30
  $5,000   $1,288   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
31
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
32
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
33
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
34
  $5,000   $0   $0   $100,000   $5,000   $0
 
 
On the Rider Effective Date, the initial values are set as follows:
 
  •  Protected Payment Base = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Remaining Protected Balance = Initial Purchase Payment = $100,000
  •  Protected Payment Amount = 5% of Protected Payment Base = $5,000
 
Because the amount of each withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal ($5,000): (a) the Protected Payment Base remains unchanged; and (b) the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced by the amount of each withdrawal.
 
Since a withdrawal occurred during Contract Year 1, no annual credit will be applied to the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance on any Contract Anniversary following the withdrawal.
 
Since it was assumed that the Owner was age 65 or older when the first withdrawal was taken, withdrawals of 5% of the Protected Payment Base will continue to be paid each year (even after the Contract Value and Remaining Protected Balance have been reduced to zero) until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant (death of any Annuitant for Non-Natural Owners), whichever occurs first.


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Form No. 1618-10A


 

     
(LOGO)
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT
Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of financial condition of Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
As discussed in Notes 1 and 9 to the consolidated financial statements, the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been retrospectively adjusted to give effect of comparative information as a result of the aircraft leasing company transfer.
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, in 2009, the Company changed its method of accounting and reporting for other than temporary impairments of debt and equity securities.
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, in 2009, the Company adopted new guidance requiring retrospective application and presentation requirements for noncontrolling interest (previously known as minority interest).
(LOGO)
March 4, 2010
      Member of
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
 
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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
                 
    December 31,
    2009   2008
    (In Millions)
ASSETS
               
Investments:
               
Fixed maturity securities available for sale, at estimated fair value
  $ 26,039     $ 21,942  
Equity securities available for sale, at estimated fair value
    278       216  
Mortgage loans
    6,577       5,622  
Policy loans
    6,509       6,920  
Other investments
    2,007       2,052  
 
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
    41,410       36,752  
Cash and cash equivalents
    1,919       3,397  
Restricted cash
    221       227  
Deferred policy acquisition costs
    4,806       5,012  
Aircraft leasing portfolio, net
    5,304       4,999  
Other assets
    2,253       3,276  
Separate account assets
    52,564       41,505  
 
TOTAL ASSETS
  $ 108,477     $ 95,168  
 
 
               
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
               
Liabilities:
               
Policyholder account balances
  $ 33,984     $ 32,670  
Future policy benefits
    7,403       9,841  
Short-term debt
    105       150  
Long-term debt
    5,632       4,459  
Other liabilities
    1,872       1,863  
Separate account liabilities
    52,564       41,505  
 
TOTAL LIABILITIES
    101,560       90,488  
 
 
               
Commitments and contingencies (Note 21)
               
 
               
Stockholder’s Equity:
               
Common stock — $50 par value; 600,000 shares authorized, issued and outstanding
    30       30  
Paid-in capital
    982       782  
Retained earnings
    6,037       5,426  
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
    (363 )     (1,802 )
 
Total Stockholder’s Equity
    6,686       4,436  
Noncontrolling interest
    231       244  
 
TOTAL EQUITY
    6,917       4,680  
 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
  $ 108,477     $ 95,168  
 
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)
REVENUES
                       
Policy fees and insurance premiums
  $ 2,275     $ 1,997     $ 1,780  
Net investment income
    1,862       1,994       2,120  
Net realized investment gain (loss)
    153       (749 )     69  
Other than temporary impairments, consisting of $641 in total, net of $330 recognized in other comprehensive income (loss) for the year ended December 31, 2009
    (311 )     (580 )     (98 )
Realized investment gain on interest in PIMCO
            109          
Investment advisory fees
    208       255       327  
Aircraft leasing revenue
    578       571       535  
Other income
    137       167       147  
 
TOTAL REVENUES
    4,902       3,764       4,880  
 
 
                       
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                       
Interest credited to policyholder account balances
    1,253       1,234       1,266  
Policy benefits paid or provided
    1,226       1,206       855  
Commission expenses
    691       715       690  
Operating and other expenses
    1,246       1,178       1,235  
 
TOTAL BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
    4,416       4,333       4,046  
 
 
                       
INCOME (LOSS) FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS BEFORE PROVISION (BENEFIT) FOR INCOME TAXES
    486       (569 )     834  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    44       (315 )     129  
 
 
                       
INCOME (LOSS) FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS
    442       (254 )     705  
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
    (20 )     (6 )     11  
 
 
                       
Net income (loss)
    422       (260 )     716  
Less: net (income) loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest from continuing operations
    14       3       (38 )
 
 
                       
NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE COMPANY
  $ 436       ($257 )   $ 678  
 
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY
                                                                 
                                                         
                            Accumulated Other                    
                            Comprehensive Income (Loss)                    
                            Unrealized                            
                            Gain (Loss) On                            
                            Derivatives                            
                            and Securities             Total              
    Common     Paid-in     Retained     Available for     Other,     Stockholder’s     Noncontrolling     Total  
    Stock     Capital     Earnings     Sale, Net     Net     Equity     Interest     Equity  
    (In Millions)  
BALANCES, JANUARY 1, 2007
  $ 30     $ 780     $ 5,379     $ 445     $ 62     $ 6,696     $ 107     $ 6,803  
Comprehensive income (loss):
                                                               
Net income
                    678                       678       38       716  
Other comprehensive loss, net
                            (300 )     (16 )     (316 )             (316 )
Total comprehensive income
                                            362               400  
Cumulative effect of adoption of new accounting principle, net of tax
                    (29 )                     (29 )             (29 )
Contributions, net, received by noncontrolling interest
                                                    69       69  
Other equity adjustment
            1                               1               1  
 
BALANCES, DECEMBER 31, 2007
    30       781       6,028       145       46       7,030       214       7,244  
Comprehensive loss:
                                                               
Net loss
                    (257 )                     (257 )     (3 )     (260 )
Other comprehensive loss, net
                            (1,896 )     (97 )     (1,993 )             (1,993 )
Total comprehensive loss
                                            (2,250 )             (2,253 )
Dividend to parent
                    (345 )                     (345 )             (345 )
Contributions, net, received by noncontrolling interest
                                                    33       33  
Other equity adjustment
            1                               1               1  
 
BALANCES, DECEMBER 31, 2008
    30       782       5,426       (1,751 )     (51 )     4,436       244       4,680  
Cumulative effect of adoption of new accounting principle, net of tax
                    175       (170 )             5               5  
 
REVISED BALANCES, DECEMBER 31, 2008
    30       782       5,601       (1,921 )     (51 )     4,441       244       4,685  
Comprehensive income (loss):
                                                               
Net income (loss)
                    436                       436       (14 )     422  
Other comprehensive income (loss)
                            1,562       47       1,609       (7 )     1,602  
Total comprehensive income
                                            2,045               2,024  
Contribution from parent
            200                               200               200  
Contributions, net, received by noncontrolling interest
                                                    8       8  
 
BALANCES, DECEMBER 31, 2009
  $ 30     $ 982     $ 6,037       ($359 )     ($4 )   $ 6,686     $ 231     $ 6,917  
 
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
                         
    Years Ended December 31,
    2009     2008     2007  
            (In Millions)          
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
                       
Net income (loss) excluding discontinued operations
  $ 442       ($254 )   $ 705  
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) excluding discontinued operations to net cash provided by operating activities:
                       
Net accretion on fixed maturity securities
    (142 )     (144 )     (150 )
Depreciation and amortization
    281       259       255  
Deferred income taxes
    451       (511 )     86  
Net realized investment (gain) loss
    (153 )     749       (69 )
Other than temporary impairments
    311       580       98  
Realized investment gain on interest in PIMCO
            (109 )        
Net change in deferred policy acquisition costs
    (202 )     (175 )     (302 )
Interest credited to policyholder account balances
    1,253       1,234       1,266  
Change in future policy benefits and other insurance liabilities
    111       1,182       666  
Other operating activities, net
    85       (337 )     (33 )
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES BEFORE DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
    2,437       2,474       2,522  
Net cash used in operating activities of discontinued operations
    (27 )     (18 )     (71 )
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES
    2,410       2,456       2,451  
 
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
                       
Fixed maturity and equity securities available for sale:
                       
Purchases
    (5,507 )     (2,730 )     (5,885 )
Sales
    1,463       2,084       2,041  
Maturities and repayments
    2,542       2,136       2,718  
Repayments of mortgage loans
    406       470       439  
Fundings of mortgage loans and real estate
    (1,434 )     (1,665 )     (1,658 )
Change in policy loans
    411       (510 )     (342 )
Sale of interest in PIMCO
            288          
Change in restricted cash
    6       7       60  
Purchases of derivative instruments
    (20 )     (12 )     (17 )
Terminations of derivative instruments
    20       84       (41 )
Proceeds from nonhedging derivative settlements
    64       728       2  
Payments for nonhedging derivative settlements
    (1,540 )     (89 )     (43 )
Change in collateral received or pledged
    (1,226 )     1,056       17  
Purchases of and advance payments on aircraft leasing portfolio
    (561 )     (694 )     (646 )
Other investing activities, net
    42       (323 )     67  
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY (USED IN) INVESTING ACTIVITIES BEFORE DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
    (5,334 )     830       (3,288 )
Net cash provided by investing activities of discontinued operations
            7       76  
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY (USED IN) INVESTING ACTIVITIES
    (5,334 )     837       (3,212 )
 
(Continued)
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
                         
    Years Ended December 31,
(Continued)   2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
                       
Policyholder account balances:
                       
Deposits
  $ 8,003     $ 7,320     $ 6,876  
Withdrawals
    (7,972 )     (7,602 )     (7,131 )
Net change in short-term debt
    (45 )     50       100  
Issuance of long-term debt
    1,692       335       1,013  
Payments of long-term debt
    (433 )     (381 )     (913 )
Contribution from (dividend to) parent
    200       (345 )        
Other financing activities, net
    1       33       69  
 
NET CASH PROVIDED BY (USED IN) FINANCING ACTIVITIES
    1,446       (590 )     14  
 
 
                       
Net change in cash and cash equivalents
    (1,478 )     2,703       (747 )
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year
    3,397       694       1,441  
 
 
                       
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF YEAR
  $ 1,919     $ 3,397     $ 694  
 
 
                       
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION
                       
Income taxes paid (received), net
    ($143 )     ($20 )   $ 67  
Interest paid
  $ 146     $ 195     $ 272  
 
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1.   ORGANIZATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 
    ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
 
    Pacific Life Insurance Company (Pacific Life) was established in 1868 and is domiciled in the State of Nebraska as a stock life insurance company. Pacific Life is an indirect subsidiary of Pacific Mutual Holding Company (PMHC), a Nebraska mutual holding company, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific LifeCorp, an intermediate Delaware stock holding company. PMHC and Pacific LifeCorp were organized pursuant to consent received from the California Department of Insurance and the implementation of a plan of conversion to form a mutual holding company structure in 1997 (the Conversion).
 
    Pacific Life transferred its legal domicile from the State of California to the State of Nebraska effective September 1, 2005. PMHC transferred its state of legal domicile from the State of California to the State of Nebraska, effective June 29, 2007, to reunite PMHC and Pacific Life under one regulatory authority.
 
    Effective December 31, 2009, Pacific LifeCorp contributed its 100% stock ownership of Aviation Capital Group Corp. (ACG) to Pacific Life (Note 9). ACG is engaged in the acquisition and leasing of commercial jet aircraft. These financial statements and the accompanying footnotes have been prepared by combining the previously separate financial statements of Pacific Life and ACG as if the two entities had been combined as of the beginning of 2007, the first period presented in these consolidated financial statements. This retrospective treatment is prescribed by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP) whenever a transfer between entities under common control is effected.
 
    Pacific Life and its subsidiaries and affiliates have primary business operations consisting of life insurance, individual annuities, mutual funds, pension and institutional products, and aircraft leasing.
 
    BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION
 
    The accompanying consolidated financial statements of Pacific Life and its subsidiaries (the Company) have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and include the accounts of Pacific Life and its majority owned and controlled subsidiaries and variable interest entities (VIEs) in which the Company was determined to be the primary beneficiary. Noncontrolling interest is primarily comprised of private equity funds (Note 4). All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
 
    Pacific Life prepares its regulatory financial statements in accordance with statutory accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the Nebraska Department of Insurance (NE DOI), which is a comprehensive basis of accounting other than U.S. GAAP (Note 2). These consolidated financial statements materially differ from those filed with regulatory authorities.
 
    The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
    In developing these estimates, management makes subjective and complex judgments that are inherently uncertain and subject to material change as facts and circumstances develop. Management has identified the following estimates as significant, as they involve a higher degree of judgment and are subject to a significant degree of variability:
    The fair value of investments in the absence of quoted market values
 
    Investment impairments
 
    Application of the consolidation rules to certain investments
 
    The fair value of and accounting for derivatives
 
    Aircraft valuation and impairment
 
    The capitalization and amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs (DAC)
 
    The liability for future policyholder benefits
 
    Accounting for income taxes and the valuation of deferred income tax assets and liabilities and unrecognized tax benefits
 
    Accounting for reinsurance transactions

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    Litigation and other contingencies
    Certain reclassifications have been made to the 2008 and 2007 consolidated financial statements to conform to the 2009 financial statement presentation. The most significant conforming reclassification was retrospectively adjusting the consolidated financial statements and respective notes to reflect the ACG transfer.
 
    RECENTLY ADOPTED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
 
    Effective September 30, 2009, the Company adopted the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (Codification) as the single source of authoritative U.S. GAAP. The Codification does not create new accounting and reporting guidance, rather it reorganized then-existing U.S. GAAP pronouncements into approximately 90 Topics within a consistent structure. All guidance in the Codification carries an equal level of authority. After the effective date of the Codification, all nongrandfathered accounting literature not included in the Codification is superseded and deemed nonauthoritative. Adoption of the Codification also changed how the Company references U.S. GAAP in its consolidated financial statements.
 
    In April 2009, the FASB issued additional guidance under the Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic. This update relates to determining fair values when there is no active market or where the price inputs being used represent distressed sales. The Company early adopted this guidance on March 31, 2009. This update provides additional guidance for estimating fair value when the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability have significantly decreased. Also included is guidance on identifying circumstances that indicate a transaction is not orderly. The adoption of this guidance resulted in an increase of $436 million to the estimated fair value and a resulting decrease of $436 million to gross unrealized investment loss of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) as of March 31, 2009. As of December 31, 2009, the year to date effect of this adoption was an increase of $214 million to the estimated fair value and a decrease of $214 million to the gross unrealized investment loss of RMBS. See Note 14 for information on the Company’s fair value measurements and expanded disclosures.
 
    In April 2009, the FASB issued additional guidance under the Codification’s Investments – Debt and Equity Securities Topic. For debt securities, this guidance replaces the management assertion that it has the intent and ability to hold an impaired debt security until recovery with the requirement that management assert if it either has the intent to sell the debt security or if it is more likely than not the entity will be required to sell the debt security before recovery of its amortized cost basis. If management intends to sell the debt security or it is more likely than not the entity will be required to sell the debt security before recovery of its amortized cost basis, an other than temporary impairment (OTTI) shall be recognized in earnings equal to the entire difference between the debt security’s amortized cost basis and its fair value at the reporting date. After the recognition of an OTTI, the debt security is accounted for as if it had been purchased on the measurement date of the OTTI, with an amortized cost basis equal to the previous amortized cost basis less the OTTI recognized in earnings. The update also changes the presentation in the financial statements of non credit related impairment amounts for instruments within its scope. When the entity asserts it does not have the intent to sell the security and it is more likely than not it will not have to sell the security before recovery of its amortized cost basis, only the credit related impairment losses are to be recognized in earnings and non credit losses are to be recognized in other comprehensive income (OCI). Additionally, this update provides for enhanced presentation and disclosure of OTTIs of debt and equity securities in the consolidated financial statements. The Company early adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2009, resulting in an after tax decrease to OCI of $170 million, including an after tax DAC impact of $5 million, and an after tax increase to retained earnings of $175 million.
 
    Effective January 1, 2009, the FASB issued additional guidance to the Codification’s Consolidation Topic. This guidance improves the relevance, comparability and transparency of the financial information that a company provides in its consolidated financial statements by establishing accounting and reporting standards for the noncontrolling interest in a subsidiary and for the deconsolidation of a subsidiary. As a result of the adoption of this guidance, which required retrospective application of presentation requirements, total equity as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, increased by $244 million and $214 million, respectively, representing the noncontrolling interest, and other liabilities and total liabilities as of December 31, 2008 and 2007 decreased by $244 million and $214 million, respectively, as a result of reclassifying noncontrolling interest (previously known as minority interest) to equity.
 
    Effective January 1, 2007, the FASB issued additional guidance to the Codification’s Financial Services – Insurance Topic. This guidance governs the accounting for DAC on internal replacements on insurance and investment contracts. This guidance defines an internal replacement as a modification in product benefits, features, rights, or coverages that occur by the exchange of a contract for a new contract, or by amendment, endorsement, or rider to a contract, or by the election of a feature or coverage within a contract. The adoption of this guidance resulted in a reduction to DAC and the Company recorded a cumulative effect adjustment of $29 million, after tax, which was recorded as a reduction to retained earnings during the year ended December 31, 2007.

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    INVESTMENTS
 
    Fixed maturity and equity securities available for sale are reported at estimated fair value, with unrealized gains and losses, net of adjustments related to DAC, future policy benefits and deferred income taxes, recorded as a component of OCI. For mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities included in fixed maturity securities available for sale, the Company recognizes income using a constant effective yield based on anticipated prepayments and the estimated economic life of the securities. When estimates of prepayments change, the effective yield is recalculated to reflect actual payments to date and anticipated future payments. For fixed rate securities, the net investment in the securities is adjusted to the amount that would have existed had the new effective yield been applied since the acquisition of the securities. These adjustments are reflected in net investment income. Trading securities are reported at estimated fair value with changes in estimated fair value included in net realized investment gain (loss).
 
    Investment income consists primarily of interest and dividends, net investment income from partnership interests, prepayment fees on fixed maturity securities and mortgage loans, and income from certain derivatives. Interest is recognized on an accrual basis and dividends are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Amortization of premium and accretion of discount on fixed maturity securities is recorded using the effective interest method.
 
    The Company’s available for sale securities are regularly assessed for OTTIs. If a decline in the estimated fair value of an available for sale security is deemed to be other than temporary, the OTTI is recorded equal to the difference between the estimated fair value and net carrying amount of the security. If the OTTI for a debt security is attributable to both credit and other factors, then the OTTI is bifurcated and the non credit related portion is recorded to OCI while the credit portion is recorded as a net realized investment loss. If the OTTI is related to credit factors only, it is recorded as a net realized investment loss.
 
    The evaluation of OTTIs is a quantitative and qualitative process subject to significant estimates and management judgment. The Company has rigorous controls and procedures in place to monitor securities and identify those that are subject to greater analysis for OTTIs. The Company has an investment impairment committee comprised of investment and accounting professionals that reviews and evaluates securities for potential OTTIs at least on a quarterly basis.
 
    In evaluating whether a decline in value is other than temporary, the Company considers many factors including, but not limited to, the following: the extent and duration of the decline in value; the reasons for the decline (credit event, currency, or interest-rate related, including spread widening); the ability and intent to hold the investment for a period of time to allow for a recovery of value; and the financial condition of and near-term prospects of the issuer.
 
    Analysis of the probability that all cash flows will be collected under the contractual terms of a fixed maturity security and determination as to whether the Company does not intend to sell the security and that it is more likely than not that the Company will not be required to sell the security before recovery of the investment were key factors in determining whether a fixed maturity security is other than temporarily impaired.
 
    For mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, scrutiny was placed on the performance of the underlying collateral and projected future cash flows. In projecting future cash flows, the Company incorporates inputs from third-party sources and applies reasonable judgment in developing assumptions used to estimate the probability and timing of collecting all contractual cash flows.
 
    In evaluating investment grade perpetual preferred securities, which do not have final contractual cash flows, the Company applied OTTI considerations used for debt securities, placing emphasis on the probability that all cash flows will be collected under the contractual terms of the security and the Company’s intent and ability to hold the security to allow for a recovery of value. Perpetual preferred securities are reported as equity securities as they are structured in equity form, but have significant debt-like characteristics, including periodic dividends, call features, and credit ratings and pricing similar to debt securities. The SEC Issues Letter Clarifying Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Guidance for Perpetual Preferred Securities issued on October 15, 2008 states that if an investor holds a perpetual preferred security with an estimated fair value below cost that is not attributable to the credit deterioration of the issuer, then the investor would not be required to recognize an OTTI by asserting that it has the intent and ability to continue holding the security for a sufficient period to allow for an anticipated recovery in market value.
 
    Realized gains and losses on investment transactions are determined on a specific identification basis and are included in net realized investment gain (loss).
 
    Mortgage loans on real estate are carried at their unpaid principal balance, net of deferred origination fees and write-downs. Mortgage loans are considered to be impaired when management estimates that based upon current information and events, it is probable that the Company will not be able to collect amounts due according to the contractual terms of the mortgage loan

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    agreement. For mortgage loans deemed to be impaired, a write-down is taken for the difference between the carrying amount and the Company’s estimate of the present value of the expected future cash flows discounted at the current market rate and recorded in net realized investment gain (loss). As of December 31, 2009, two loans totaling $8 million were considered impaired, however no valuation allowance was necessary as the fair value of the collateral was greater than the carrying amount of the related loans. The Company had no write-downs during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007. Policy loans are stated at unpaid principal balances.
 
    Other investments primarily consist of partnership and joint ventures, real estate investments, derivative instruments, non-marketable equity securities, and low income housing related investments qualifying for tax credits (LIHTC). Partnership and joint venture interests where the Company does not have a controlling interest or majority ownership are recorded under the cost or equity method of accounting depending on the equity ownership position. Real estate investments are carried at depreciated cost, net of write-downs, or, for real estate acquired in satisfaction of debt, estimated fair value less estimated selling costs at the date of acquisition, if lower than the related unpaid balance.
 
    Investments in LIHTC are recorded under either the effective interest method, if they meet certain requirements, including a projected positive yield based solely on guaranteed credits, or are recorded under the equity method if these certain requirements are not met. For investments in LIHTC recorded under the effective interest method, the amortization of the original investment and the tax credits are recorded in the provision (benefit) for income taxes. For investments in LIHTC recorded under the equity method, the amortization of the initial investment is included in net investment income, and the related tax credits are recorded in the provision (benefit) for income taxes (Note 18). The amortization recorded in net investment income was $3 million, $5 million and $20 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
 
    All derivatives, whether designated in hedging relationships or not, are required to be recorded at estimated fair value. If the derivative is designated as a cash flow hedge, the effective portion of changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative is recorded in OCI and recognized in earnings when the hedged item affects earnings. If the derivative is designated as a fair value hedge, the changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative and the hedged item are recognized in net realized investment gain (loss). The change in value of the hedged item associated with the risk being hedged is reflected as an adjustment to the carrying amount of the hedged item. For derivative instruments not designated as hedges, the change in estimated fair value of the derivative is recorded in net realized investment gain (loss). Estimated fair value exposure is calculated based on the aggregate estimated fair value of all derivative instruments with each counterparty, net of collateral received, in accordance with legally enforceable counterparty master netting agreements (Note 10).
 
    The periodic cash flows for all hedging derivatives are recorded consistent with the hedged item on an accrual basis. For derivatives that are hedging securities, these amounts are included in net investment income. For derivatives that are hedging liabilities, these amounts are included in interest credited to policyholder account balances. For derivatives not designated as hedging instruments, the periodic cash flows are reflected in net realized investment gain (loss) on an accrual basis. Upon termination of a cash flow hedging relationship, the accumulated amount in OCI is amortized into net investment income or interest credited to policyholder account balances over the remaining life of the hedged item. Upon termination of a fair value hedging relationship, the accumulated adjustment to the carrying value of the hedged item is amortized into net investment income, interest expense or interest credited to policyholder account balances over its remaining life.
 
    CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
 
    Cash and cash equivalents include all investments with an original maturity of three months or less. The Company entered into a series of Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) pass-through dollar roll transactions during the fourth quarter of 2008. The Company purchased FNMA pass through securities and was contractually obligated to resell the same or substantially the same securities within 30 days of purchase. The Company classified these dollar roll transactions as short-term secured loans and reported them as cash and cash equivalents. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the loans amounted to zero and $403 million, respectively. The fair values of the securities held in connection with the secured lending were zero and $410 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
    RESTRICTED CASH
 
    Restricted cash primarily consists of security deposits, commitment fees, maintenance reserve payments, supplemental rental payments and rental payments received from certain lessees related to the aircraft leasing business.

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    DEFERRED POLICY ACQUISITION COSTS
 
    The costs of acquiring new insurance business, principally commissions, medical examinations, underwriting, policy issue and other expenses, all of which vary with and are primarily associated with the production of new business, are deferred and recorded as an asset commonly referred to as DAC. DAC related to internally replaced contracts (as defined in the Codification’s Financial Services – Insurance Topic), is immediately written off to expense and any new deferrable expenses associated with the replacement are deferred if the contract modification substantially changes the contract. However, if the contract modification does not substantially change the contract, the existing DAC asset remains in place and any acquisition costs associated with the modification are immediately expensed. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the carrying value of DAC was $4.8 billion and $5.0 billion, respectively (Note 7).
 
    For universal life (UL), variable annuities and other investment-type contracts, acquisition costs are amortized through earnings in proportion to the present value of estimated gross profits (EGPs) from projected investment, mortality and expense margins, and surrender charges over the estimated lives of the contracts. Actual gross margins or profits may vary from management’s estimates, which can increase or decrease the rate of DAC amortization. DAC related to traditional policies is amortized through earnings over the premium-paying period of the related policies in proportion to premium revenues recognized, using assumptions and estimates consistent with those used in computing policy reserves. DAC related to certain unrealized components in OCI, primarily unrealized gains and losses on securities available for sale, is recorded directly to equity through OCI.
 
    Significant assumptions in the development of EGPs include investment returns, surrender and lapse rates, rider utilization, interest spreads, and mortality margins. The Company’s long-term assumption for the underlying separate account investment return ranges up to 8.0%.
 
    A change in the assumptions utilized to develop EGPs results in a change to amounts expensed in the reporting period in which the change was made by adjusting the DAC balance to the level DAC would have been had the EGPs been calculated using the new assumptions over the entire amortization period. In general, favorable experience variances result in increased expected future profitability and may lower the rate of DAC amortization, whereas unfavorable experience variances result in decreased expected future profitability and may increase the rate of DAC amortization. All critical assumptions utilized to develop EGPs are evaluated at least annually and necessary revisions are made to certain assumptions to the extent that actual or anticipated experience necessitates such a prospective change (Note 7).
 
    The Company defers sales inducements and amortizes them over the life of the policy using the same methodology and assumptions used to amortize DAC. The Company offers a sales inducement to the policyholder where the policyholder receives a bonus credit, typically ranging from 0.5% to 8.0% of each deposit. The capitalized sales inducement balance included in the DAC asset was $583 million and $552 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
    AIRCRAFT LEASING PORTFOLIO
 
    Aircraft are recorded at cost, which includes certain acquisition costs, less accumulated depreciation. Major improvements to aircraft are capitalized when incurred. The Company evaluates carrying values of aircraft based upon changes in market and other physical and economic conditions and will record impairment losses to recognize a loss in the value of the aircraft when management believes that, based on estimated future cash flows, the recoverability of the Company’s investment in an aircraft is unlikely (Note 9). The Company had four and two non-earning aircraft in the portfolio as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
    GOODWILL FROM ACQUISITIONS
 
    Goodwill represents the excess of costs over the fair value of net assets acquired. Goodwill is not amortized but is reviewed for impairment at least annually or more frequently if events occur or circumstances indicate that the goodwill might be impaired. Goodwill from acquisitions, included in other assets, totaled $43 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. There were no goodwill impairment write-downs from continuing operations during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.
 
    POLICYHOLDER ACCOUNT BALANCES
 
    Policyholder account balances on UL and investment-type contracts, such as funding agreements, annuity and deposit liabilities and guaranteed interest contracts (GICs), are valued using the retrospective deposit method and are equal to accumulated account values, which consist of deposits received, plus interest credited, less withdrawals and assessments (Note 11). Interest credited to these contracts primarily ranged from 0.2% to 9.0%.

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    FUTURE POLICY BENEFITS
 
    Annuity reserves, which primarily consist of group retirement and structured settlement annuities, are equal to the present value of estimated future payments using pricing assumptions, as applicable, for interest rates, mortality, morbidity, retirement age and expenses (Note 11). Interest rates used in establishing such liabilities ranged from 1.6% to 11.3%.
    The Company offers a rider on certain variable annuity contracts that guarantees net principal over a ten-year holding period, as well as riders on certain variable annuity contracts that guarantee a minimum withdrawal benefit over specified periods, subject to certain restrictions. These variable annuity guaranteed living benefits (GLBs) are considered embedded derivatives and are recorded in future policy benefits (Note 11).
    Policy charges assessed against policyholders that represent compensation to the Company for services to be provided in future periods, or unearned revenue reserves (URR), are recognized in revenue over the expected life of the contract using the same methods and assumptions used to amortize DAC. Unearned revenue related to certain unrealized components in OCI, primarily unrealized gains and losses on securities available for sale, is recorded directly to equity through OCI.
    Life insurance reserves are valued using the net level premium method on the basis of actuarial assumptions appropriate at policy issue. Mortality and persistency assumptions are generally based on the Company’s experience, which, together with interest and expense assumptions, include a margin for possible unfavorable deviations. Interest rate assumptions ranged from 3.0% to 9.3%. Future dividends for participating business are provided for in the liability for future policy benefits.
    As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, participating experience rated policies paying dividends represent less than 1% of direct life insurance in force.
    Estimates of future policy benefit reserves and liabilities are continually reviewed and, as experience develops, are adjusted as necessary. Such changes in estimates are included in earnings for the period in which such changes occur.
    REINSURANCE
 
    The Company has ceded reinsurance agreements with other insurance companies to limit potential losses, reduce exposure arising from larger risks, provide additional capacity for future growth, and assumed reinsurance agreements intended to offset reinsurance costs. As part of a strategic alliance, the Company also reinsures risks associated with policies written by an independent producer group through modified coinsurance and yearly renewable term arrangements with this producer group’s reinsurance company.
    All assets associated with business reinsured on a modified coinsurance basis remain with, and under the control of, the Company. As part of its risk management process, the Company routinely evaluates its reinsurance programs and may change retention limits, reinsurers or other features at any time.
    Reinsurance accounting is utilized for ceded transactions when risk transfer provisions have been met. To meet risk transfer requirements, a reinsurance contract must include insurance risk, consisting of both underwriting and timing risk, and a reasonable possibility of a significant loss to the reinsurer.
    Reinsurance premiums ceded and reinsurance recoveries on benefits and claims incurred are deducted from their respective revenue and benefit and expense accounts. Prepaid reinsurance premiums, included in other assets, are premiums that are paid in advance for future coverage. Reinsurance recoverables, included in other assets, include balances due from reinsurance companies for paid and unpaid losses. Amounts receivable and payable are offset for account settlement purposes for contracts where the right of offset exists. See Note 16.
    REVENUES, BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
 
    Insurance premiums, annuity contracts with life contingencies and traditional life and term insurance contracts, are recognized as revenue when due. Benefits and expenses are matched against such revenues to recognize profits over the lives of the contracts. This matching is accomplished by providing for liabilities for future policy benefits, expenses of contract administration and the amortization of DAC and URR.
    Receipts for UL and investment-type contracts are reported as deposits to either policyholder account balances or separate account liabilities, and are not included in revenue. Policy fees consist of mortality charges, surrender charges and expense

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    charges that have been earned and assessed against related account values during the period. The timing of policy fee revenue recognition is determined based on the nature of the fees. Benefits and expenses include policy benefits and claims incurred in the period that are in excess of related policyholder account balances, interest credited to policyholder account balances, expenses of contract administration and the amortization of DAC.
    Investment advisory fees are primarily fees earned from Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC (PLFA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Life formed in 2007, which serves as the investment advisor for the Pacific Select Fund, an investment vehicle provided to the Company’s variable universal life (VUL) and variable annuity contract holders, and the Pacific Life Funds, the investment vehicle for the Company’s mutual fund products. These fees are based upon the net asset value of the underlying portfolios, and are recorded as earned. Related subadvisory expense is included in operating and other expenses and recorded when incurred.
    Aircraft leases, which are structured as triple net leases, are accounted for as operating leases. Aircraft leasing revenue is recognized ratably over the terms of the lease agreements. ACG has four capital leases, which are accounted for under the provisions in the Codification’s Leases Topic. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, capital leases in the amount of $8 million and $11 million, respectively, are classified in other assets.
    DEPRECIATION AND AMORTIZATION
 
    Aircraft and certain other assets are depreciated or amortized using the straight-line method over estimated useful lives, which range from three to 40 years. Depreciation and amortization of aircraft under operating leases and certain other assets are included in operating and other expenses. Depreciation of investment real estate is computed using the straight-line method over estimated useful lives, which range from five to 30 years. Depreciation of investment real estate is included in net investment income.
    INCOME TAXES
 
    Pacific Life and its includable subsidiaries are included in the consolidated Federal income tax return of PMHC. Pacific Life and its wholly owned, Arizona domiciled life insurance subsidiary, Pacific Life & Annuity Company (PL&A), and Pacific Alliance Reinsurance Company of Vermont (PAR Vermont), a Vermont-based life reinsurance company wholly owned by Pacific Life, are taxed as life insurance companies for Federal income tax purposes. Pacific Life’s non-insurance subsidiaries are either included in PMHC’s combined California franchise tax return or, if necessary, file separate state tax returns. Companies included in the consolidated Federal income tax return of PMHC and/or the combined California franchise tax return of PMHC are allocated tax expense or benefit based principally on the effect of including their operations in PMHC’s returns under a tax sharing agreement. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years the differences are expected to be recovered or settled.
    CONTINGENCIES
 
    Each reporting cycle the Company evaluates all identified contingent matters on an individual basis. A loss is recorded if probable and reasonably estimable. The Company establishes reserves for these contingencies at the best estimate, or, if no one number within the range of possible losses is more probable than any other, the Company records an estimated reserve at the low end of the range of losses. See Note 21.
    SEPARATE ACCOUNTS
 
    Separate accounts primarily include variable annuity and life contracts, as well as other guaranteed and non-guaranteed accounts. Separate account assets are recorded at estimated fair value and represent legally segregated contract holder funds. A separate account liability is recorded equal to the amount of separate account assets. Deposits to separate accounts, investment income and realized and unrealized gains and losses on the separate account assets accrue directly to contract holders and, accordingly, are not reflected in the consolidated statements of operations or cash flows. Amounts charged to the separate account for mortality, surrender and expense charges are included in revenues as policy fees.
    For separate account funding agreements in which the Company provides a guarantee of principal and interest to the contract holder and bears all the risks and rewards of the investments underlying the separate account, the related investments and liabilities are recognized as investments and liabilities in the consolidated statements of financial condition. Revenue and expenses are recognized within the respective revenue, and benefit and expense lines in the consolidated statements of operations.

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    FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
 
    The estimated fair value of financial instruments, disclosed in Notes 8, 10 and 14, has been determined using available market information and appropriate valuation methodologies. However, considerable judgment is often required to interpret market data to develop the estimates of fair value. Accordingly, the estimates presented may not be indicative of the amounts the Company could realize in a current market exchange. The use of different market assumptions and/or estimation methodologies could have a significant effect on the estimated fair value amounts.
2.   STATUTORY FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND DIVIDEND RESTRICTIONS
    STATUTORY ACCOUNTING PRACTICES
 
    Pacific Life prepares its regulatory statutory financial statements in accordance with statutory accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the NE DOI, which is a comprehensive basis of accounting other than U.S. GAAP. Statutory accounting practices primarily differ from U.S. GAAP by charging policy acquisition costs to expense as incurred, recognizing certain policy fees as revenue when billed, establishing future policy benefit liabilities using different actuarial assumptions, reporting surplus notes as surplus instead of debt, as well as valuing investments and certain assets and accounting for deferred income taxes on a different basis.
    As of December 31, 2009, Pacific Life had one permitted practice approved by the NE DOI that differed from statutory accounting practices adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). This permitted practice relates to the valuation of certain statutory separate account assets that are carried at book value instead of estimated fair value. Pacific Life’s statutory capital and surplus as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 did not reflect unrealized losses of $29 million and $88 million, respectively, with regards to this permitted practice. Pacific Life had a second permitted practice with a financial statement filing date of December 31, 2008 that expired on December 30, 2009. This permitted practice allowed Pacific Life to apply the revised version of Actuarial Guideline 39 (AG 39) for variable annuity reserves that is contained in the final recommendations submitted by the Capital & Surplus Relief Working Group to the Executive Committee of the NAIC. This permitted practice resulted in lowering statutory reserves by $442 million as of December 31, 2008.
    In addition, Pacific Life uses a NE DOI prescribed accounting practice for certain synthetic GIC reserves that differs from statutory accounting practices adopted by the NAIC. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, this NE DOI prescribed accounting practice resulted in statutory reserves of $20 million and $12 million, respectively, as opposed to statutory reserves of zero and $640 million, respectively, using statutory accounting practices adopted by the NAIC.
    STATUTORY NET INCOME (LOSS) AND SURPLUS
 
    Statutory net income (loss) of Pacific Life was $652 million, ($1,529) million and $362 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. Statutory capital and surplus of Pacific Life was $5,006 million and $3,136 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
    RISK-BASED CAPITAL
 
    Risk-based capital is a method developed by the NAIC to measure the minimum amount of capital appropriate for an insurance company to support its overall business operations in consideration of its size and risk profile. The formulas for determining the amount of risk-based capital specify various weighting factors that are applied to financial balances or various levels of activity based on the perceived degree of risk. Additionally, certain risks are required to be measured using actuarial cash flow modeling techniques, subject to formulaic minimums. The adequacy of a company’s actual capital is measured by a comparison to the risk-based capital results. Companies below minimum risk-based capital requirements are classified within certain levels, each of which requires specified corrective action. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, Pacific Life, PL&A and PAR Vermont exceeded the minimum risk-based capital requirements.
    DIVIDEND RESTRICTIONS
 
    The payment of dividends by Pacific Life to Pacific LifeCorp is subject to restrictions set forth in the State of Nebraska insurance laws. These laws require (i) notification to the NE DOI for the declaration and payment of any dividend and (ii) approval by the NE DOI for accumulated dividends within the preceding twelve months that exceed the greater of 10% of statutory policyholder surplus

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    as of the preceding December 31 or statutory net gain from operations for the preceding twelve months ended December 31. Generally, these restrictions pose no short-term liquidity concerns for Pacific LifeCorp. Based on these restrictions and 2009 statutory results, Pacific Life could pay $629 million in dividends in 2010 to Pacific LifeCorp without prior approval from the NE DOI, subject to the notification requirement.
    No dividends were paid during 2009 and 2007. During the year ended December 31, 2008, Pacific Life paid a cash dividend to Pacific LifeCorp of $345 million.
    The maximum amount of ordinary dividends that can be paid by PL&A to Pacific Life without restriction cannot exceed the lesser of 10% of statutory surplus as regards to policyholders, or the statutory net gain from operations. Based on this limitation and 2009 statutory results, PL&A could pay $23 million in dividends to Pacific Life in 2010 without prior regulatory approval. No dividends were paid during 2009, 2008 and 2007.
    OTHER
 
    The Company has reinsurance contracts in place with a reinsurer whose financial stability has been deteriorating. In January 2009, the reinsurer’s domiciliary state regulator issued an order of supervision, which requires the regulator’s consent to any transaction outside the normal course of business. The Company will continue to monitor the events surrounding this reinsurer and evaluate its options to deal with any further deterioration of this reinsurer’s financial condition. As of December 31, 2009, statutory reserves ceded to this reinsurer amounted to approximately $162 million.
3.   CLOSED BLOCK
    In connection with the Conversion, an arrangement known as a closed block (the Closed Block) was established, for dividend purposes only, for the exclusive benefit of certain individual life insurance policies that had an experience based dividend scale for 1997. The Closed Block was designed to give reasonable assurance to holders of the Closed Block policies that policy dividends will not change solely as a result of the Conversion.
    Assets that support the Closed Block, which are primarily included in fixed maturity securities and policy loans, amounted to $285 million and $278 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Liabilities allocated to the Closed Block, which are primarily included in future policy benefits, amounted to $307 million and $311 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The net contribution to income from the Closed Block was $4 million, $1 million and $1 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

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4.   VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES
    The following table presents, as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the total assets and maximum exposure to loss relating to VIEs, which the Company (i) has consolidated because it is the primary beneficiary or (ii) holds a significant variable interest, but has not consolidated because it is not the primary beneficiary:
                                 
    Primary Beneficiary     Not Primary Beneficiary  
            Maximum             Maximum  
    Total     Exposure to     Total     Exposure to  
    Assets     Loss     Assets     Loss  
         
    (In Millions)
December 31, 2009:
                               
Aircraft securitizations
  $ 2,642     $ 218  (1)   $ 371          
Private equity funds
    239       30                  
Asset-backed securities
                    1,910     $ 103  
         
Total
  $ 2,881     $ 248     $ 2,281     $ 103  
         
December 31, 2008:
                               
Aircraft securitizations
  $ 2,777     $ 145  (1)   $ 427          
Private equity funds
    236       30                  
Asset-backed securities
                    3,816     $ 93  
         
Total
  $ 3,013     $ 175     $ 4,243     $ 93  
         
 
(1)   Excludes contingent purchase obligations (Note 21) totaling $100 million and $50 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
    AIRCRAFT SECURITIZATIONS
 
    ACG has sponsored three financial asset securitizations secured by interests in aircraft. ACG serves as the remarketing agent and provides various aircraft related services in all three securitizations for a fee. This fee is eliminated for the two consolidated securitizations and is included in other income as earned for the unconsolidated securitization.
    In 2005, ACG sponsored a securitization transaction whereby ACG Trust III acquired 74 of ACG’s aircraft through a private placement note offering in the amount of $1,860 million. ACG receives all of the expected residual return from ACG Trust III. Therefore, ACG was determined to be the primary beneficiary of this VIE and ACG Trust III is consolidated into the consolidated financial statements of the Company. These private placement notes are the obligation of ACG Trust III and represent debt that is non-recourse to the Company (Note 13). Non-recourse debt consolidated from ACG Trust III was $1,309 million and $1,445 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the maximum exposure to loss, based on carrying value, was $130 million and $72 million, respectively. Consolidated assets are reported in aircraft leasing portfolio, net, restricted cash and other assets. Consolidated liabilities are reported in long-term debt and other liabilities.
    In 2003, ACG sponsored a securitization transaction whereby Aviation Capital Group Trust II (ACG Trust II) acquired 37 of ACG’s aircraft through a private placement note offering in the amount of $1,027 million. ACG owns 100% of the equity of ACG Trust II and absorbs any losses in the trust up to ACG’s equity interest. Therefore, ACG was determined to be the primary beneficiary of this VIE and ACG Trust II is consolidated into the consolidated financial statements of the Company. These private placement notes are the obligation of ACG Trust II and represent debt that is non-recourse to the Company (Note 13). Non-recourse debt consolidated from ACG Trust II was $666 million and $728 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the maximum exposure to loss, based on carrying value, was $88 million and $73 million, respectively. Consolidated assets are reported in aircraft leasing portfolio, net, restricted cash and other assets. Consolidated liabilities are reported in long-term debt and other liabilities.
    In 2000, ACG sponsored a financial asset securitization of aircraft to Aviation Capital Group Trust (Aviation Trust). ACG and Pacific Life are beneficial interest holders in Aviation Trust. Aviation Trust is not consolidated as the Company is not the primary beneficiary. The carrying value is comprised of beneficial interests issued by Aviation Trust. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the maximum exposure to loss, based on carrying value, was zero.

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    PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS
 
    Private equity funds (the Funds) are three limited partnerships that invest in private equity investments for outside investors, where the Company is the general partner. The Company provides investment management services to the Funds for a fee and receives carried interest based upon the performance of the Funds and is a VIE due to the lack of control by the other equity investors. The Company has not guaranteed the performance, liquidity or obligations of the Funds, and the Company’s maximum exposure to loss is equal to the carrying amounts of its retained interest. VIE debt consolidated from the Funds was $2 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. Consolidated assets are reported in other investments and cash and cash equivalents and consolidated liabilities are reported in long-term debt.
    ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES
 
    As part of the Company’s investment strategy, the Company purchases primarily investment grade beneficial interests issued from bankruptcy-remote special purpose entities (SPEs), which are collateralized by financial assets including corporate debt. The Company has not guaranteed the performance, liquidity or obligations of the SPEs, and the Company’s maximum exposure to loss is limited to its carrying value of the beneficial interests in the SPEs. The Company has no liabilities related to these VIEs. The Company has determined that it is not the primary beneficiary of these entities as the Company does not absorb a majority of the expected losses or receive a majority of the expected residual return. The Company does not consolidate these entities. The investments are reported as fixed maturity securities available for sale and had a net carrying amount of $103 million and $93 million at December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. During the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company recorded OTTIs of $60 million and $117 million, respectively, related to these securities.
    FUTURE ACCOUNTING CHANGE
 
    Effective January 1, 2010, the Company will change the methodology it employs to determine if an entity is a VIE and, once identified, if a VIE should be included in the consolidated financial statements. The new methodology will place more emphasis on the Company’s ability to direct the activities that most significantly impact the entity’s financial performance. The Company will examine anew all entities previously identified as VIEs. The Company does not expect this change to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
5.   INTEREST IN PIMCO
    As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned a beneficial economic interest in Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO) through Allianz Global Investors of America LLC (interest in PIMCO). PIMCO offers investment products through managed accounts and institutional, retail and offshore mutual funds. The interest in PIMCO was reported at estimated fair value, as determined by a contractual put and call option price, with changes in estimated fair value reported as a component of OCI, net of taxes.
    During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company exercised a put option and sold all of its remaining interest in PIMCO to Allianz of America, Inc., a subsidiary of Allianz SE, for $288 million. The Company recognized a pre-tax gain of $109 million for the year ended December 31, 2008.
6.   DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
    The Company’s broker-dealer operations and group insurance business have been reflected as discontinued operations in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. Discontinued operations do not include the operations of Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD), a wholly owned broker-dealer subsidiary of Pacific Life, which primarily serves as the underwriter/distributor of registered investment-related products and services, principally variable life and variable annuity contracts issued by the Company, and mutual funds.
    In March 2007, the Company classified its broker-dealer subsidiaries, other than PSD, as held for sale. On June 20, 2007, a transaction closed whereby the Company sold certain of these broker-dealer subsidiaries to an unrelated third-party. Proceeds from the sale included cash of $53 million and a common stock interest in the buyer’s parent of $57 million. A pre-tax gain of $54 million was recognized from this sale during the year ended December 31, 2007. On December 31, 2007, a transaction closed whereby the Company sold another one of its broker-dealer subsidiaries to subsidiary management. The Company incurred a pre-tax loss of $1 million from this transaction during the year ended December 31, 2007. As of December 31, 2007, one broker-dealer

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    subsidiary remained classified as held for sale. On March 31, 2008, a transaction closed whereby the Company sold this held for sale subsidiary to an unrelated third-party. The Company recognized an insignificant pre-tax gain from this transaction during the year ended December 31, 2008.
 
    Operating results of discontinued operations were as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
     
    (In Millions)
Revenues
          $ 13     $ 276  
Benefits and expenses
  $ 31       22       300  
     
Loss from discontinued operations
    (31 )     (9 )     (24 )
Benefit from income taxes
    (11 )     (3 )     (8 )
     
Loss from discontinued operations, net of taxes
    (20 )     (6 )     (16 )
     
 
                       
Net gain on sale of discontinued operations
                    53  
Provision for income taxes
                    26  
     
Net gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes
                    27  
     
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
    ($20 )     ($6 )   $ 11  
     
    Assets and liabilities from discontinued operations are included in other assets and other liabilities, respectively. Assets related to discontinued operations were zero and $6 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Liabilities related to discontinued operations were zero and $13 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
7.   DEFERRED POLICY ACQUISITION COSTS
    Components of DAC are as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
     
    (In Millions)
Balance, January 1
  $ 5,012     $ 4,481     $ 4,248  
Cumulative pre-tax effect of adoption of new accounting principle (Note 1)
    7               (45 )
Additions:
                       
Capitalized during the year
    777       752       852  
Amortization:
                       
Allocated to commission expenses
    (446 )     (444 )     (432 )
Allocated to operating expenses
    (129 )     (133 )     (118 )
     
Total amortization
    (575 )     (577 )     (550 )
Allocated to OCI
    (415 )     356       (24 )
     
Balance, December 31
  $ 4,806     $ 5,012     $ 4,481  
     
    During the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, the Company revised certain assumptions to develop EGPs for its products subject to DAC amortization (Note 1). This resulted in increases in DAC amortization expense of $23 million and $20 million for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and a decrease in DAC amortization expense of $12 million for the year ended December 31, 2007. The revised EGPs also resulted in an immaterial decrease in URR amortization for the year ended December 31, 2009, increased URR amortization of $2 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, and decreased URR amortization of $15 million for the year ended December 31, 2007.

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8.   INVESTMENTS
    The net carrying amount, gross unrealized gains and losses, and estimated fair value of fixed maturity and equity securities available for sale are shown below. The net carrying amount represents amortized cost adjusted for credit related OTTIs and changes in the estimated fair value of fixed maturity securities attributable to the hedged risk in a fair value hedge. See Note 14 for information on the Company’s fair value measurement and disclosure.
                                 
    Net              
    Carrying     Gross Unrealized     Estimated  
    Amount     Gains     Losses     Fair Value  
     
    (In Millions)
December 31, 2009:
                               
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
  $ 105     $ 10             $ 115  
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    633       12     $ 46       599  
Foreign governments
    389       42               431  
Corporate securities
    17,256       905       308       17,853  
RMBS
    6,133       105       1,078       5,160  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    1,160       42       23       1,179  
Collateralized debt obligations
    118       27       33       112  
Other asset-backed securities
    562       45       17       590  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
  $ 26,356     $ 1,188     $ 1,505     $ 26,039  
     
 
                               
Perpetual preferred securities
  $ 324     $ 6     $ 55     $ 275  
Other equity securities
    1       2               3  
     
 
                               
Total equity securities
  $ 325     $ 8     $ 55     $ 278  
     
                                 
    Net              
    Carrying     Gross Unrealized     Estimated  
    Amount     Gains     Losses     Fair Value  
     
    (In Millions)
December 31, 2008:
                               
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
  $ 98     $ 19             $ 117  
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    512       5     $ 148       369  
Foreign governments
    211       41       7       245  
Corporate securities
    15,828       307       1,618       14,517  
RMBS
    6,133       105       1,306       4,932  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    1,191       15       106       1,100  
Collateralized debt obligations
    126               2       124  
Other asset-backed securities
    615       32       109       538  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
  $ 24,714     $ 524     $ 3,296     $ 21,942  
     
 
                               
Perpetual preferred securities
  $ 385     $ 3     $ 174     $ 214  
Other equity securities
    2                       2  
     
 
                               
Total equity securities
  $ 387     $ 3     $ 174     $ 216  
     

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    The Company has investments in perpetual preferred securities that are issued primarily by European and U.S. banks. The net carrying amount and estimated fair value of the available for sale perpetual preferred securities was $451 million and $391 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2009. Included in these amounts are perpetual preferred securities carried in trusts with a net carrying amount and estimated fair value of $127 million and $116 million, respectively, that are held in fixed maturities and included in the tables above in corporate securities. Perpetual preferred securities reported as equity securities available for sale are presented in the tables above as perpetual preferred securities.
    The net carrying amount and estimated fair value of fixed maturity securities available for sale as of December 31, 2009, by contractual repayment date of principal, are shown below. Expected maturities may differ from contractual maturities as borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.
                                 
    Net              
    Carrying     Gross Unrealized     Estimated  
    Amount     Gains     Losses     Fair Value  
     
    (In Millions)
Due in one year or less
  $ 1,825     $ 68     $ 25     $ 1,868  
Due after one year through five years
    5,235       288       54       5,469  
Due after five years through ten years
    7,210       366       135       7,441  
Due after ten years
    4,113       247       140       4,220  
     
 
    18,383       969       354       18,998  
Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities
    7,973       219       1,151       7,041  
     
Total
  $ 26,356     $ 1,188     $ 1,505     $ 26,039  
     

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    The following tables present the number of investments, estimated fair value and gross unrealized losses on investments where the estimated fair value has declined and remained continuously below the net carrying amount for less than twelve months and for twelve months or greater. Included in the tables are gross unrealized losses for fixed maturity securities available for sale and other securities, which include equity securities available for sale, cost method investments, and non-marketable securities.
                         
    Total  
                    Gross  
            Estimated     Unrealized  
    Number     Fair Value     Losses  
            (In Millions)  
December 31, 2009:
                       
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    27     $ 383     $ 46  
Corporate securities
    442       4,539       308  
RMBS
    307       3,844       1,078  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    19       339       23  
Collateralized debt obligations
    6       61       33  
Other asset-backed securities
    24       205       17  
           
Total fixed maturity securities
    825       9,371       1,505  
           
Perpetual preferred securities
    18       195       55  
Other securities
    31       97       26  
           
Total other securities
    49       292       81  
           
Total
    874     $ 9,663     $ 1,586  
           
                                                 
    Less than 12 Months     12 Months or Greater  
                    Gross                     Gross  
            Estimated     Unrealized             Estimated     Unrealized  
    Number     Fair Value     Losses     Number     Fair Value     Losses  
            (In Millions)             (In Millions)  
December 31, 2009:
                                               
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    11     $ 116     $ 6       16     $ 267     $ 40  
Corporate securities
    182       1,766       50       260       2,773       258  
RMBS
    53       498       94       254       3,346       984  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    6       100       5       13       239       18  
Collateralized debt obligations
    5       59       32       1       2       1  
Other asset-backed securities
                            24       205       17  
                     
Total fixed maturity securities
    257       2,539       187       568       6,832       1,318  
                     
Perpetual preferred securities
                            18       195       55  
Other securities
    16       54       9       15       43       17  
                     
Total other securities
    16       54       9       33       238       72  
                     
Total
    273     $ 2,593     $ 196       601     $ 7,070     $ 1,390  
                     

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    Total  
                    Gross  
            Estimated     Unrealized  
    Number     Fair Value     Losses  
            (In Millions)  
December 31, 2008:
                       
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    32     $ 276     $ 148  
Foreign governments
    5       66       7  
Corporate securities
    956       9,674       1,618  
RMBS
    342       3,693       1,306  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    45       796       106  
Collateralized debt obligations
    5       2       2  
Other asset-backed securities
    43       326       109  
           
Total fixed maturity securities
    1,428       14,833       3,296  
           
Perpetual preferred securities
    30       197       174  
Other securities
    24       95       28  
           
Total other securities
    54       292       202  
           
Total
    1,482     $ 15,125     $ 3,498  
           
                                                 
    Less than 12 Months     12 Months or Greater  
                    Gross                     Gross  
            Estimated     Unrealized             Estimated     Unrealized  
    Number     Fair Value     Losses     Number     Fair Value     Losses  
            (In Millions)             (In Millions)  
December 31, 2008:
                                               
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
    29     $ 254     $ 144       3     $ 22     $ 4  
Foreign governments
    5       66       7                          
Corporate securities
    655       6,692       805       301       2,982       813  
RMBS
    145       2,229       699       197       1,464       607  
Commercial mortgage-backed securities
    31       569       74       14       227       32  
Collateralized debt obligations
    4       1       2       1       1          
Other asset-backed securities
    25       203       47       18       123       62  
                     
Total fixed maturity securities
    894       10,014       1,778       534       4,819       1,518  
                     
Perpetual preferred securities
    7       29       16       23       168       158  
Other securities
    18       89       27       6       6       1  
                     
Total other securities
    25       118       43       29       174       159  
                     
Total
    919     $ 10,132     $ 1,821       563     $ 4,993     $ 1,677  
                     
    The Company has evaluated fixed maturity and other securities with gross unrealized losses and determined that the unrealized losses are temporary and that the Company does not intend to sell the securities and it is more likely than not that the Company will not be required to sell the securities before recovery of their net carrying amounts.
 
    Prime mortgages are loans made to borrowers with strong credit histories, whereas sub-prime mortgage lending is the origination of residential mortgage loans to customers with weak credit profiles. Alt-A mortgage lending is the origination of residential mortgage loans to customers who have good credit ratings, but have limited documentation for their source of income or some other standard input used to underwrite the mortgage loan. The slowing U.S. housing market, greater use of affordability mortgage

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    products and relaxed underwriting standards by some originators for these loans has led to higher delinquency and loss rates, especially within the 2007 and 2006 vintage years.
    The table below illustrates the breakdown of non-agency RMBS and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) by investment rating from independent rating agencies and vintage year of the underlying collateral as of December 31, 2009.
                                                                         
    Net             Rating as % of     Vintage Breakdown  
    Carrying     Estimated     Net Carrying     2004 and                                
Rating   Amount     Fair Value     Amount     Prior     2005     2006     2007     2008     2009  
    ($ In Millions)                                                          
Prime RMBS:
                                                                       
AAA
  $ 960     $ 878       29 %     21 %     7 %     1 %                        
AA
    320       279       9 %     4 %     2 %     3 %                        
A
    252       208       8 %     1 %     2 %     3 %     2 %                
BAA
    525       402       16 %     2 %     7 %     6 %     1 %                
BA and below
    1,264       893       38 %             8 %     18 %     12 %                
         
Total
  $ 3,321     $ 2,660       100 %     28 %     26 %     31 %     15 %     0 %     0 %
         
 
                                                                       
Alt-A RMBS:
                                                                       
AAA
  $ 58     $ 52       6 %     6 %                                        
AA
    13       16       1 %     1 %                                        
A
    13       9       1 %     1 %                                        
BAA
    24       23       3 %             1 %     2 %                        
BA and below
    843       556       89 %             10 %     27 %     52 %                
         
Total
  $ 951     $ 656       100 %     8 %     11 %     29 %     52 %     0 %     0 %
         
 
                                                                       
Sub-prime RMBS:
                                                                       
AAA
  $ 230     $ 179       52 %     52 %                                        
AA
    97       73       22 %     22 %                                        
A
    21       13       5 %     5 %                                        
BAA
    42       32       9 %             9 %                                
BA and below
    53       37       12 %     1 %     9 %     1 %     1 %                
         
Total
  $ 443     $ 334       100 %     80 %     18 %     1 %     1 %     0 %     0 %
         
 
                                                                       
CMBS:
                                                                       
AAA
  $ 1,017     $ 1,054       88 %     65 %     3 %             15 %     1 %     4 %
AA
    66       61       6 %     4 %                                     2 %
A
    37       32       3 %     3 %                                        
BAA
    28       22       2 %                             2 %                
BA
    12       10       1 %     1 %                                        
         
Total
  $ 1,160     $ 1,179       100 %     73 %     3 %     0 %     17 %     1 %     6 %
         
    As of December 31, 2009, the Company has received advances of $1.5 billion from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Topeka and has issued funding agreements to the FHLB of Topeka. Funding agreements are used as an alternative source of funds for the Company’s spread lending business and the funding agreement liabilities are included in general account policyholder account balances. Assets with an estimated fair value of $1.8 billion as of December 31, 2009 are in a custodial account pledged as collateral for the funding agreements. The Company is required to purchase stock in FHLB of Topeka each time it receives an advance. As of December 31, 2009, the Company holds $76 million of FHLB of Topeka stock.
 
    PL&A is a member of FHLB of San Francisco. As of December 31, 2009, no assets are pledged as collateral. As of December 31, 2009, the Company holds $25 million of FHLB of San Francisco stock.

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    The Company had a securities lending program administered by one of the largest U.S. financial institutions specializing in securities lending and short-term fixed-income asset management. This securities lending program was terminated in February 2009. Securities loaned were zero as of December 31, 2008.
 
    Major categories of investment income and related investment expense are summarized as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Fixed maturity securities
  $ 1,448     $ 1,467     $ 1,492  
Equity securities
    20       23       26  
Mortgage loans
    297       289       248  
Real estate
    92       86       68  
Policy loans
    229       223       209  
Partnerships and joint ventures
    (78 )     21       170  
Other
    12       21       44  
     
Gross investment income
    2,020       2,130       2,257  
Investment expense
    158       136       137  
     
Net investment income
  $ 1,862     $ 1,994     $ 2,120  
     
    The components of net realized investment gain (loss) are as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Fixed maturity securities:
                       
Gross gains on sales
  $ 35     $ 100     $ 117  
Gross losses on sales
    (18 )     (37 )     (23 )
Other
    12       4       20  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
    29       67       114  
     
 
                       
Equity securities:
                       
Gross gains on sales
                    5  
Gross losses on sales
    (11 )                
Other
    2       1          
     
Total equity securities
    (9 )     1       5  
     
 
                       
Trading securities
    20       (22 )     (1 )
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives
    2,211       (2,775 )     (222 )
Variable annuity GLB policy fees
    147       108       78  
Variable annuity derivatives — interest rate swaps
    (104 )     402          
Variable annuity derivatives — total return swaps
    (1,542 )     646       13  
Equity put options
    (672 )     853       31  
Synthetic GIC policy fees
    25       15          
Other derivatives
    45       (62 )     (11 )
Other
    3       18       62  
     
Total
  $ 153       ($749 )   $ 69  
     

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    As a result of the significant disruption in the housing, financial and credit markets, the OTTI charges recorded during the year ended December 31, 2009 were primarily related to the Company’s exposure to RMBS, certain structured securities and direct exposure to corporate securities. The table below summarizes the OTTIs by security type (In Millions):
                         
    Recorded in     Included in        
    Earnings     OCI     Total  
     
Year ended December 31, 2009:
                       
Corporate securities
  $ 63 (1)   $ 2     $ 65  
RMBS
    116       315       431  
Collateralized debt obligations
    66       13       79  
Perpetual preferred securities
    26               26  
Other investments
    40               40  
     
Total OTTIs
  $ 311     $ 330     $ 641  
     
 
                       
Year ended December 31, 2008:
                       
Corporate securities
  $ 70                  
RMBS
    227                  
Collateralized debt obligations
    156                  
Other asset-backed securities
    1                  
Perpetual preferred securities
    68                  
Other equity securities
    58                  
 
                     
Total OTTIs
  $ 580                  
 
                     
 
(1)   Included are $29 million of OTTI recorded in earnings on perpetual preferred securities carried in trusts.
    In accordance with additional guidance under the Codification’s Investments – Debt and Equity Securities Topic effective January 1, 2009, the Company began recording the credit loss portion of OTTI adjustments in earnings and the portion related to other factors in OCI. The table below details the amount of OTTIs attributable to credit losses recorded in earnings for which a portion was recognized in OCI (In Millions):
         
Cumulative credit loss, January 1, 2009
  $ 88  
Additions for credit impairments recognized on:
       
Securities not previously other than temporarily impaired
    48  
Securities previously other than temporarily impaired
    106  
 
     
Total additions
    154  
 
       
Reductions for credit impairments previously recognized on:
       
Securities that matured or were sold
    (40 )
Securities due to an increase in expected cash flows and time value of cash flows
    (2 )
 
     
Total subtractions
    (42 )
 
     
Cumulative credit loss, December 31, 2009
  $ 200  
 
     

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    The table below presents separately the gross unrealized losses on investments for which OTTI has been recorded in earnings in current or prior periods and the gross unrealized losses on temporarily impaired investments for which no OTTI has been recorded.
                         
    Gross Unrealized Losses  
    OTTI     Non-OTTI        
    Investments     Investments     Total  
    (In Millions)  
December 31, 2009:
                       
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
          $ 46     $ 46  
Corporate securities
  $ 2       306       308  
RMBS
    328       750       1,078  
CMBS
            23       23  
Collateralized debt obligations
    32       1       33  
Other asset-backed securities
            17       17  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
  $ 362     $ 1,143     $ 1,505  
     
 
                       
Perpetual preferred securities
          $ 55     $ 55  
     
Total equity securities
          $ 55     $ 55  
     
    The change in unrealized gain (loss) on investments in available for sale and trading securities is as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Available for sale securities:
                       
Fixed maturity
  $ 2,455       ($3,269 )     ($211 )
Equity
    124       (143 )     (49 )
     
Total available for sale securities
  $ 2,579       ($3,412 )     ($260 )
     
 
                       
Trading securities
  $ 26       ($19 )     ($2 )
     
    Trading securities totaled $206 million and $114 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The cumulative unrealized gains (losses) on trading securities held as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 were $7 million and ($19) million, respectively.
 
    As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, fixed maturity securities of $12 million were on deposit with state insurance departments to satisfy regulatory requirements.
 
    Mortgage loans totaled $6,577 million and $5,622 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Mortgage loans are collateralized by commercial real estate properties primarily located throughout the U.S. As of December 31, 2009, $1,122 million, $963 million, $785 million, $554 million and $369 million were located in California, Washington, Florida, Texas and Maryland, respectively. As of December 31, 2009, $543 million was located in Canada. There were no defaults during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008, and 2007. The Company did not have any mortgage loans with accrued interest more than 180 days past due as of December 31, 2009 or 2008. As of December 31, 2009, mortgage loan investments with one commercial sponsor exceeded 10% of stockholder’s equity. The carrying value of these investments was $725 million as of December 31, 2009.
 
    Investments in real estate totaled $574 million and $459 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. There were no real estate write-downs during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.

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9.   AIRCRAFT LEASING PORTFOLIO, NET
 
    Aircraft leasing portfolio, net, consisted of the following:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Aircraft consolidated from VIEs
  $ 3,081     $ 3,099  
Other aircraft
    3,217       2,667  
     
 
    6,298       5,766  
Accumulated depreciation
    994       767  
     
Aircraft leasing portfolio, net
  $ 5,304     $ 4,999  
     
    As of December 31, 2009, domestic and foreign future minimum rentals scheduled to be received under the noncancelable portion of operating leases are as follows (In Millions):
                                                 
    2010     2011     2012     2013     2014     Thereafter  
Domestic
  $ 23     $ 19     $ 15     $ 13     $ 13     $ 28  
Foreign
    526       448       369       274       214       390  
     
Total operating leases
  $ 549     $ 467     $ 384     $ 287     $ 227     $ 418  
     
    As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, aircraft with a carrying amount of $4,954 million and $4,366 million, respectively, were assigned as collateral to secure debt (Notes 4 and 13).
 
    There were no impairments recorded during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.
 
    During the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, ACG recognized pre-tax gains on the sale of aircraft of zero, zero and $18 million, respectively, which are included in other income.
 
    In December 2007, ACG sold its entire ownership interest in an unconsolidated affiliate. The transaction resulted in a pre-tax gain of $17 million, which is included in net realized investment gain (loss) for the year ended December 31, 2007.
 
10.   DERIVATIVES AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
 
    The Company primarily utilizes derivative instruments to manage its exposure to interest rate risk, foreign currency risk, credit risk, and equity risk. Derivative instruments are also used to manage the duration mismatch of assets and liabilities. The Company utilizes a variety of derivative instruments including swaps, foreign exchange forward contracts, caps, floors and options. In addition, certain insurance products offered by the Company contain features that are accounted for as derivatives.
 
    Accounting for derivatives and hedging activities requires companies to recognize all derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities at fair value in the consolidated statements of financial condition. In accordance with accounting for derivatives and hedging activities, the Company applies hedge accounting by designating derivative instruments as either fair value or cash flow hedges on the date the Company enters into a derivative contract. The Company formally documents at inception all relationships between hedging instruments and hedged items, as well as its risk management objectives and strategy for undertaking various hedge transactions. In this documentation, the Company specifically identifies the asset, liability, firm commitment, or forecasted transaction that has been designated as a hedged item and states how the hedging instrument is expected to hedge the risks related to the hedged item. The Company formally assesses and measures effectiveness of its hedging relationships both at the hedge inception and on an ongoing basis in accordance with its risk management policy.
 
    DERIVATIVES DESIGNATED AS CASH FLOW HEDGES
 
    The Company primarily uses foreign currency interest rate swaps, forward starting interest rate swaps and interest rate swaps to manage its exposure to variability in cash flows due to changes in foreign currencies and the benchmark interest rate. These cash

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    flows include those associated with existing assets and liabilities, as well as the forecasted interest cash flows related to anticipated investment purchases and liability issuances. Such anticipated investment purchases and liability issuances are considered probable to occur and are generally completed within 22 years of the inception of the hedge.
    Foreign currency interest rate swap agreements are used to convert a fixed or floating rate, foreign-denominated asset or liability to a U.S. dollar fixed rate asset or liability. The foreign currency interest rate swaps involve the exchange of an initial principal amount in two currencies, and the agreement to re-exchange the currencies at a future date at an agreed exchange rate. There are also periodic exchanges of interest payments in the two currencies at specified intervals, calculated using agreed upon rates and the exchanged principal amounts. The main currencies that the Company hedges are the Euro, British Pound, and Canadian Dollar.
 
    Forward starting interest rate swaps are used to hedge the variability in the future interest receipts or payments stemming from the anticipated purchase of fixed rate securities or issuance of fixed rate liabilities due to changes in benchmark interest rates. These derivatives are predominantly used to lock in interest rate levels to match future cash flow characteristics of assets and liabilities. Forward starting interest rate swaps involve the exchange, at specified intervals, of interest payments resulting from the difference between fixed and floating rate interest amounts calculated by reference to an underlying notional amount to begin at a specified date in the future for a specified period of time. Generally, no cash is exchanged at the outset of the contract and no principal payments are made by either party. The notional amounts of the contracts do not represent future cash requirements, as the Company intends to close out open positions prior to their effective dates.
 
    Interest rate swap agreements are used to convert a floating rate asset or liability to a fixed rate to hedge the variability of cash flows of the hedged asset or liability due to changes in benchmark interest rates. These derivatives are predominantly used to better match the cash flow characteristics of certain assets and liabilities. These agreements involve the exchange, at specified intervals, of interest payments resulting from the difference between fixed rate and floating rate interest amounts calculated by reference to an underlying notional amount. Generally, no cash is exchanged at the outset of the contract and no principal payments are made by either party.
 
    When a derivative is designated as a cash flow hedge, the effective portion of changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative is recorded in OCI and recognized in earnings when the hedged item affects earnings, and the ineffective portion of changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative is recorded in net realized investment gain (loss). For the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, the Company had net losses of zero, zero and $21 million, respectively, reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI) to earnings resulting from the discontinuance of cash flow hedges due to forecasted transactions that were no longer probable of occurring. Over the next twelve months, the Company anticipates that $24 million of deferred losses on derivative instruments in AOCI will be reclassified to earnings. For the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, all of the Company’s hedged forecasted transactions were determined to be probable of occurring.
 
    The Company had the following outstanding derivatives designated as cash flow hedges:
                 
    Notional Amount  
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
  $ 5,099     $ 6,488  
Forward starting interest rate swaps
    1,060       1,535  
Interest rate swaps
    3,910       4,384  
    Notional amount represents a standard of measurement of the volume of derivatives. Notional amount is not a quantification of market risk or credit risk and is not recorded on the consolidated statements of financial condition. Notional amounts generally represent those amounts used to calculate contractual cash flows to be exchanged and are not paid or received, except for certain contracts such as currency swaps.

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    DERIVATIVES DESIGNATED AS FAIR VALUE HEDGES
    Interest rate swap agreements are used to convert a fixed rate asset or liability to a floating rate to hedge the changes in estimated fair value of the hedged asset or liability due to changes in benchmark interest rates. These derivatives are used primarily to closely match the duration of the assets supporting specific liabilities.
    When a derivative is designated as a fair value hedge, the changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative and the hedged item are recognized in net realized investment gain (loss). The change in value of the hedged item associated with the risk being hedged is reflected as an adjustment to the carrying amount of the hedged item. For the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, hedge ineffectiveness related to designated fair value hedges reflected in net realized investment gain (loss) was $5 million, ($1) million and zero, respectively. No component of the hedging instrument’s estimated fair value is excluded from the determination of effectiveness.
    The Company had the following outstanding derivatives designated as fair value hedges:
                 
    Notional Amount  
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
  $ 13     $ 18  
Interest rate swaps
    1,658       1,264  
    DERIVATIVES NOT DESIGNATED AS HEDGING INSTRUMENTS
    The Company has certain insurance and reinsurance contracts that are considered to have embedded derivatives. When it is determined that the embedded derivative possesses economic and risk characteristics that are not clearly and closely related to those of the host contract and that a separate instrument with the same terms would qualify as a derivative instrument, it is separated from the host contract and accounted for as a stand-alone derivative. The changes in the estimated fair value of the derivatives not designated as hedging instruments and the periodic cash flows are recognized in net realized investment gain (loss).
    The Company offers a rider on certain variable annuity contracts that guarantees net principal over a ten-year holding period, as well as riders on certain variable annuity contracts that guarantee a minimum withdrawal benefit over specified periods, subject to certain restrictions. These variable annuity GLBs are considered embedded derivatives and are recorded in future policy benefits.
    GLBs on variable annuity contracts issued between January 1, 2007 and March 31, 2009 are partially covered by reinsurance. These reinsurance arrangements are used to offset a portion of the Company’s exposure to the GLBs for the lives of the host variable annuity contracts issued. The ceded portion of the GLBs is considered an embedded derivative and is recorded in other assets or other liabilities as either a reinsurance recoverable or reinsurance payable.
    The Company employs hedging strategies (variable annuity derivatives) to mitigate equity risk associated with the GLBs not covered by reinsurance. The Company utilizes total return swaps based upon the S&P 500 Index (S&P 500) primarily to economically hedge the equity risk of the mortality and expense fees in its variable annuity products. These contracts provide periodic payments to the Company in exchange for the total return of the S&P 500 in the form of a payment or receipt, depending on whether the return relative to the index on trade date is positive or negative, respectively. Payments are recognized in realized investment loss and receipts are recognized in realized investment gain. The Company has used interest rate swaps to hedge fluctuations in the valuation of GLBs as a result of changes in risk free rates. These agreements involved the exchange, at specified intervals, of interest payments resulting from the difference between fixed rate and floating rate interest amounts calculated by reference to an underlying notional amount.
    The Company also uses equity put options to hedge equity and credit risks. These equity put options involve the exchange of periodic fixed rate payments for the return, at the end of the option agreement, of the equity index below a specified strike price. Generally, no cash is exchanged at the outset of the contract and no principal payments are made by either party.
    The Company offers equity indexed universal life insurance products, which credits the total return of the S&P 500 to the policy cash value. A policyholder may allocate the policy’s net accumulated value to one or a combination of the following: fixed return account, one year indexed account capped at 12%, or a five year indexed account.

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    The Company utilizes one year European style S&P 500 call options to hedge the annual exposure of the indexed life insurance product’s index growth rate for the one year indexed account. The Company also purchases five year European style S&P 500 Asian call options to hedge the five year exposure of the indexed life insurance product’s index growth rate for the five year indexed account.
    The Company issues synthetic GICs to Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) qualified defined contribution employee benefit plans (ERISA Plan). The ERISA Plan uses the contracts in its stable value fixed income option. The Company receives a fee for providing book value accounting for the ERISA Plan stable value fixed income option. The Company does not manage the assets underlying synthetic GICs. In the event that plan participant elections exceed the estimated fair value of the assets or if the contract is terminated and at the end of the termination period the book value under the contract exceeds the estimated fair value of the assets, then the Company is required to pay the ERISA Plan the difference between book value and estimated fair value. The Company mitigates the investment risk through pre-approval and monitoring of the investment guidelines, requiring high quality investments and adjustments to the plan crediting rates to compensate for unrealized losses in the portfolios.
    The Company uses credit default swaps in combination with cash instruments to reproduce the investment characteristics of certain investments. Credit default swaps involve the receipt or payment of fixed amounts at specific intervals in exchange for the assumption of or protection from potential credit events associated with the underlying security. The Company writes credit default swaps for which a payment is delivered if the underlying security of the derivative defaults. The maximum potential amounts of future payments under credit default swaps were $50 million and $95 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the fair value of credit derivatives sold by the Company was ($17) million and ($38) million, respectively. The terms for these instruments range from five to seven years.
    The Company had the following outstanding derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
                 
    Notional Amount  
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives
  $ 36,408     $ 33,455  
Variable annuity derivatives — interest rate swaps
            2,150  
Variable annuity derivatives — total return swaps
    4,456       2,437  
Variable annuity GLB reinsurance contracts
    14,878       13,274  
Equity put options
    5,267       5,173  
Synthetic GICs
    23,993       23,856  
Interest rate swaps
    178       535  
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
    398       460  
Other
    1,021       849  
    CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENT IMPACT
    Derivative instruments are recorded in the Company’s consolidated statements of financial condition at fair value and are presented as assets or liabilities determined by calculating the net position for each derivative counterparty by legal entity, taking into account income accruals and net cash collateral.

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    The following table summarizes the gross asset or liability derivative fair value and excludes the impact of offsetting asset and liability positions held with the same counterparty, cash collateral payables and receivables and income accruals. See Note 14.
                                 
    Asset Derivatives     Liability Derivatives  
    Estimated Fair Value     Estimated Fair Value  
    December 31,     December 31,  
    2009     2008     2009     2008  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
                               
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
  $ 177     $ 308  (1)   $ 230     $ 87  (1)
 
    69       146  (5)     154       423  (5)
Forward starting interest rate swap agreements
    34       88  (1)             23  (1)
 
    8       232  (5)             45  (5)
Interest rate swaps
    32       32  (1)     106       124  (1)
 
    13       72  (5)     152       337  (5)
         
Total derivatives designated as hedging instruments
    333       878       642       1,039  
         
 
                               
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
                               
Variable annuity derivatives — interest rate swaps
            232  (1)                
 
            140  (5)                
Variable annuity derivatives — total return swaps
    6          (1)     60       33  (1)
 
            55  (5)     4       53  (5)
Equity put options
    329       350  (1)     16          (1)
 
    41       587  (5)     14          (5)
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
    21       1  (1)                
 
            15  (5)             13  (5)
Interest rate swaps
    9       18  (1)     2       3  (1)
 
    1       11  (5)             39  (5)
Other
    18       2  (1)     23       1  (1)
 
    26       11  (5)             38  (5)
Embedded derivatives:
                               
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives (including reinsurance contracts)
    52       429  (2)     754       3,342  (3)
Synthetic GICs
                            3  (3)
Other
                    44       8  (4)
         
Total derivatives not designated as hedging instruments
    503       1,851       917       3,533  
         
Total derivatives
  $ 836     $ 2,729     $ 1,559     $ 4,572  
         
 
    Location on the consolidated statements of financial condition:
     
(1)   Other investments
 
(2)   Other assets
 
(3)   Future policy benefits
 
(4)   Policyholder account balances
 
(5)   Other liabilities

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    Net cash collateral received from counterparties was $237 million and $1,392 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. This unrestricted cash collateral is included in cash and cash equivalents and the obligation to return it is netted against the estimated fair value of derivatives in other investments or other liabilities. Net cash collateral pledged to counterparties was $137 million and $66 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. A receivable representing the right to call this collateral back from the counterparty is netted against the estimated fair value of derivatives in other investments or other liabilities. If the net estimated fair value exposure to the counterparty is positive, the amount is reflected in other investments, whereas, if the net estimated fair value exposure to the counterparty is negative, the estimated fair value is included in future policy benefits or other liabilities, depending on the nature of the derivative.
    As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company had also accepted collateral consisting of various securities with an estimated fair value of $14 million and $147 million, respectively, which are held in separate custodial accounts. The Company is permitted by contract to sell or repledge this collateral and as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, zero and $15 million, respectively, of the collateral had been repledged. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company provided collateral in the form of various securities of zero and $17 million, respectively, which are included in fixed maturity securities. The counterparties are permitted by contract to sell or repledge this collateral.
    The following table summarizes amounts recorded in net realized investment gain (loss) for derivatives designated as fair value hedges. Gains and losses include the changes in estimated fair value of the derivatives and the hedged items, and amounts realized on terminations. The net of the amounts presented for each year represent the ineffective portion of the hedge. The amounts presented do not include the periodic net coupon settlements of the derivatives or the coupon income (expense) related to the hedged item.
                                                 
    Gain (Loss)     Gain (Loss)  
    Recognized in     Recognized in  
    Income on Derivatives     Income on Hedged Items  
    Years Ended     Years Ended  
    December 31,     December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007     2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Derivatives in fair value hedges:
                                               
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
            ($1 )     ($1 )           $ 1     $ 2  
Interest rate swaps
  $ 97       (135 )     (56 )     ($93 )     134       56  
         
Total
  $ 97       ($136 )     ($57 )     ($93 )   $ 135     $ 58  
         

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    The following table summarizes amounts recorded in the consolidated financial statements for derivatives designated as cash flow hedges. Gain and losses include the changes in estimated fair value of the derivatives and amounts realized on terminations. The amounts presented do not include the periodic net coupon settlements of the derivatives.
                                                                         
    Gain (Loss)     Gain (Loss)     Gain (Loss)  
    Recognized in     Reclassified from     Recognized in Income  
    OCI on Derivatives     AOCI into Income     on Derivatives  
    (Effective Portion)     (Effective Portion)     (Ineffective Portion)  
    Years Ended     Years Ended     Years Ended  
    December 31,     December 31,     December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007     2009     2008     2007     2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Derivatives in cash flow hedges:
                                                                       
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
  $ 42     $ 66       ($97 )     ($104 )     ($368 )     ($3 ) (1)                   $ 1   (1)
 
                            9       14       18   (3)                        
Forward starting interest rate swaps
    (254 )     336       33               4           (1)     ($1 )   $ 3       (2 ) (1)
 
                                            (1 ) (2)                        
 
                            (11 )     (1 )     (1 ) (3)                        
Interest rate swaps
    66       (146 )     (83 )     9               (1 ) (1)     9       (7 )       (1)
 
                                    2       3   (2)                        
 
                            (18 )             (3 ) (3)                        
Futures
                            1       3       4   (2)                        
 
                                    (1 )     (1 ) (3)                        
             
Total
    ($146 )   $ 256       ($147 )     ($114 )     ($347 )   $ 15     $ 8       ($4 )     ($1 )
             
 
    Location on the consolidated statements of operations:
 
(1)   Net realized investment gain (loss)
 
(2)   Net investment income
 
(3)   Interest credited to policyholder account balances

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    The following table summarizes amounts recorded in the consolidated financial statements for derivatives not designated as hedging instruments. Gains and losses include the changes in estimated fair value of the derivatives and amounts realized on terminations. The amounts presented do not include the periodic net coupon settlements of ($1,476) million, $639 million and ($41) million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, which are recorded in net realized investment gain (loss).
                         
    Amount of Gain (Loss)  
    Recognized in  
    Income on Derivatives  
    Years Ended  
    December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
            (In Millions)          
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
                       
Variable annuity derivatives — interest rate swaps
    ($168 )   $ 386           (1)
Variable annuity derivatives — total return swaps
    (102 )     (55 )   $ 28   (1)
Equity put options
    (580 )     927       55   (1)
Foreign currency interest rate swaps
    (8 )     12       (2 ) (1)
 
    (1 )     (1 )       (2)
Interest rate swaps
            (8 )     2   (1)
 
    (1 )     (9 )         (2)
Other
    44       (56 )         (1)
Embedded derivatives:
                       
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives (including reinsurance contracts)
    2,211       (2,775 )     (222 ) (1)
Other embedded derivatives
    (14 )     13       1   (1)
     
Total
  $ 1,381       ($1,566 )     ($138 )
     
 
    Location on the consolidated statements of operations:
 
(1)   Net realized investment gain (loss)
 
(2)   Interest credited to policyholder account balances
    CREDIT EXPOSURE AND CREDIT RISK RELATED CONTINGENT FEATURES
    Credit exposure is measured on a counterparty basis as the net positive aggregate estimated fair value, net of collateral received, if any. The credit exposure for over the counter derivatives as of December 31, 2009 was $126 million. The maximum exposure to any single counterparty was $41 million at December 31, 2009.
    For all derivative contracts, excluding embedded derivative contracts such as variable annuity GLBs and synthetic GICs, the Company enters into master agreements that may include a termination event clause associated with Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength ratings assigned by certain independent rating agencies. If Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength rating falls below a specified level, as defined within each counterparty master agreement or, in most cases, if one of the rating agencies ceases to provide an insurer financial strength rating, the counterparty can terminate the master agreement with payment due based on the estimated fair value of the underlying derivatives. As of December 31, 2009, Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength ratings were above the specified level.
    If Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength rating were to fall below the next investment grade from its current standing, the counterparties to the derivative instruments could request immediate and ongoing full overnight collateralization on derivative instruments in net liability positions. The aggregate fair value of all derivative instruments with credit risk related contingent features that are in a liability position on December 31, 2009, is $232 million for which the Company has posted collateral of $137 million in the normal course of business. If certain of Pacific Life’s insurer financial strength ratings were to fall one notch as of December 31, 2009, the Company would have been required to post an additional $14 million of collateral to its counterparties.
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    counterparty is reviewed to evaluate its financial stability before entering into each agreement and throughout the period that the financial instrument is owned. All of the Company’s credit exposure from derivative contracts is with investment grade counterparties. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company has incurred losses of $4 million, included in net realized investment gain (loss), on derivative instruments due to counterparty default related to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Special Finance. These losses were a result of the termination of all remaining open positions with Lehman counterparties.
11.   POLICYHOLDER LIABILITIES
    POLICYHOLDER ACCOUNT BALANCES
 
    The detail of the liability for policyholder account balances is as follows:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Universal life
  $ 19,298     $ 18,729  
Annuity and deposit liabilities
    7,109       4,515  
Funding agreements
    5,240       7,890  
GICs
    2,337       1,536  
     
Total
  $ 33,984     $ 32,670  
     
    FUTURE POLICY BENEFITS
    The detail of the liability for future policy benefits is as follows:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Annuity reserves
  $ 4,960     $ 4,455  
Variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives
    754       3,342  
URR
    734       925  
Life insurance
    365       360  
Closed Block liabilities
    306       311  
Policy benefits payable
    260       433  
Other
    24       15  
     
Total
  $ 7,403     $ 9,841  
     
12.   SEPARATE ACCOUNTS AND VARIABLE ANNUITY GUARANTEED BENEFIT FEATURES
    The Company issues variable annuity contracts through separate accounts for which investment income and investment gains and losses accrue directly to, and investment risk is borne by, the contract holder (traditional variable annuities). These contracts also include various types of guaranteed minimum death benefit (GMDB) and GLB features. For a discussion of certain GLBs accounted for as embedded derivatives, see Note 9.
    The GMDBs provide a specified minimum return upon death. Many of these death benefits are spousal, whereby a death benefit will be paid upon death of the first spouse. The survivor has the option to terminate the contract or continue it and have the death benefit paid into the contract and a second death benefit paid upon the survivor’s death. The GMDB features include those where the Company contractually guarantees to the contract holder either (a) return of no less than total deposits made to the contract less any partial withdrawals (return of net deposits), (b) the highest contract value on any contract anniversary date through age 80 minus any payments or withdrawals following the contract anniversary (anniversary contract value), or (c) the highest of contract

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value on certain specified dates or total deposits made to the contract less any partial withdrawals plus a minimum return (minimum return).
The guaranteed minimum income benefit (GMIB) is a GLB that provides the contract holder with a guaranteed annuitization value after 10 years. Annuitization value is generally based on deposits adjusted for withdrawals plus a minimum return. In general, the GMIB requires contract holders to invest in an approved asset allocation strategy.
Information in the event of death on the various GMDB features outstanding was as follows (the Company’s variable annuity contracts with guarantees may offer more than one type of guarantee in each contract; therefore, the amounts listed are not mutually exclusive):
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    ($ In Millions)  
Return of net deposits
               
Separate account value
  $ 46,884     $ 36,672  
Net amount at risk (1)
    4,017       11,557  
Average attained age of contract holders
  61 years   61 years
 
               
Anniversary contract value
               
Separate account value
  $ 16,483     $ 13,465  
Net amount at risk (1)
    2,541       5,750  
Average attained age of contract holders
  63 years   62 years
 
               
Minimum return
               
Separate account value
  $ 1,241     $ 1,107  
Net amount at risk (1)
    620       898  
Average attained age of contract holders
  65 years   64 years
 
(1)   Represents the amount of death benefit in excess of the current account balance as of December 31.
Information regarding GMIB features outstanding is as follows:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    ($ In Millions)  
Separate account value
  $ 2,675     $ 2,230  
Average attained age of contract holders
  58 years   57 years
The determination of GMDB and GMIB liabilities is based on models that involve a range of scenarios and assumptions, including those regarding expected market rates of return and volatility, contract surrender rates and mortality experience. The following table summarizes the GMDB and GMIB liabilities, which are recorded in future policy benefits, and changes in these liabilities, which are reflected in policy benefits paid or provided:
                                 
    December 31,     December 31,  
    2009     2008     2009     2008  
    GMDB     GMIB  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Balance, beginning of year
  $ 119     $ 48     $ 62     $ 24  
Changes in reserves
    (11 )     119       (23 )     38  
Benefits paid
    (108 )     (48 )     (1 )        
         
Balance, end of year
  $ 0     $ 119     $ 38     $ 62  
         

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Reinsurance recoverables related to GMDB reserves totaled zero and $3 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, which are included with other reinsurance receivables in other assets. Reinsurance recoverables related to GMIB reserves are not significant.
Variable annuity contracts with guarantees were invested in separate account investment options as follows:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Asset type
               
Domestic equity
  $ 25,760     $ 17,927  
International equity
    6,728       5,476  
Bonds
    13,775       12,182  
Money market
    621       1,087  
     
Total separate account value
  $ 46,884     $ 36,672  
     
13.   DEBT
Debt consists of the following:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Short-term debt:
               
Credit facility recourse only to ACG
  $ 105     $ 150  
     
Total short-term debt
  $ 105     $ 150  
     
 
               
Long-term debt:
               
Surplus notes
  $ 1,150     $ 150  
Fair value adjustment for derivatives and hedging activities
    (13 )     55  
Non-recourse long-term debt:
               
Debt recourse only to ACG
    1,636       1,271  
ACG non-recourse debt
    761       687  
Other non-recourse debt
    121       121  
ACG VIE debt (Note 4)
    1,975       2,173  
Other VIE debt (Note 4)
    2       2  
     
Total long-term debt
  $ 5,632     $ 4,459  
     
SHORT-TERM DEBT
ACG has a revolving credit agreement with a bank for a $105 million borrowing facility, which was entered into in May 2009. Interest is at variable rates and the facility matures in April 2010. The amount outstanding as of December 31, 2009 was $105 million, bearing an interest rate of 4.8%. As of and during the year ended December 31, 2009, ACG was in compliance with the debt covenants related to this facility. This credit facility is recourse only to ACG.
ACG had a revolving credit agreement with a bank for a $150 million borrowing facility, which was entered into in April 2008. The amount outstanding as of December 31, 2008 was $150 million, bearing an interest rate of 2.3%. This credit facility matured and was repaid in May 2009.

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Pacific Life maintains a $700 million commercial paper program. There was no commercial paper debt outstanding as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. In addition, Pacific Life has a bank revolving credit facility of $400 million maturing in 2012 that serves as a back-up line of credit for the commercial paper program. This facility had no debt outstanding as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. As of and during the year ended December 31, 2009, Pacific Life was in compliance with the debt covenants related to this facility.
PL&A maintains a $40 million reverse repurchase line of credit with a commercial bank. These borrowings are at variable rates of interest based on collateral and market conditions. There was no debt outstanding in connection with this line of credit as of December 31, 2009 and 2008.
Pacific Life is a member of the FHLB of Topeka. Pacific Life has approval from the FHLB of Topeka to advance amounts up to 40% of Pacific Life’s statutory general account assets provided it has available collateral and is in compliance with debt covenant restrictions and insurance laws and regulations. There was no debt outstanding with the FHLB of Topeka as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. The Company had $127 million and $1.0 billion of additional funding capacity from eligible collateral as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
PL&A is a member of the FHLB of San Francisco. PL&A is eligible to borrow from the FHLB of San Francisco amounts based on a percentage of statutory capital and surplus and could borrow up to amounts of $102 million. Of this amount, half, or $51 million, can be borrowed for terms other than overnight, out to a maximum term of nine months. These borrowings are at variable rates of interest, collateralized by certain mortgage loan and government securities. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, PL&A had no debt outstanding with the FHLB of San Francisco.
LONG-TERM DEBT
In June 2009, Pacific Life issued $1.0 billion of surplus notes at a fixed interest rate of 9.25%, maturing on June 15, 2039. Interest is payable semiannually on June 15 and December 15. Pacific Life may redeem the 9.25% surplus notes at its option, subject to the approval of the Nebraska Director of Insurance for such optional redemption. The 9.25% surplus notes are unsecured and subordinated to all present and future senior indebtedness and policy claims of Pacific Life. All future payments of interest and principal on the 9.25% surplus notes can be made only with the prior approval of the Nebraska Director of Insurance. The Company entered into interest rate swaps converting $650 million of these surplus notes to variable rate notes based upon the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR). The interest rate swaps were designated as fair value hedges of these surplus notes and the changes in fair value of the hedged surplus notes associated with changes in interest rates are reflected as an adjustment to their carrying amount. This adjustment to the carrying amount of the surplus notes, which decreased long-term debt by $35 million as of December 31, 2009, is offset by a fair value adjustment which has also been recorded for the interest rate swap derivative instruments.
Pacific Life has $150 million of surplus notes outstanding at a fixed interest rate of 7.9%, maturing on December 30, 2023. Interest is payable semiannually on June 30 and December 30. The 7.9% surplus notes may not be redeemed at the option of Pacific Life or any holder of the surplus notes. The 7.9% surplus notes are unsecured and subordinated to all present and future senior indebtedness and policy claims of Pacific Life. All future payments of interest and principal on the 7.9% surplus notes can be made only with the prior approval of the Nebraska Director of Insurance. The Company entered into interest rate swaps converting these surplus notes to variable rate notes based upon the LIBOR. The interest rate swaps were designated as fair value hedges of these surplus notes and the changes in fair value of the hedged surplus notes associated with changes in interest rates are reflected as an adjustment to their carrying amount. This adjustment to the carrying amount of the surplus notes, which increased long-term debt by $22 million and $55 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, is offset by a fair value adjustment which has also been recorded for the interest rate swap derivative instruments.
ACG enters into various term loans with third-parties. Interest on these loans is payable monthly, quarterly or semi-annually and ranged from 0.3% to 6.8% as of December 31, 2009 and from 1.7% to 6.8% as of December 31, 2008. As of December 31, 2009, $1,636 million was outstanding on these loans with maturities ranging from 2010 to 2021. Principal payments due over the next twelve months are $297 million. As of December 31, 2008, $1,271 million was outstanding on these loans. These loans are recourse only to ACG.
ACG enters into various acquisition facilities and bank loans to acquire aircraft. Interest on these facilities and loans accrues at variable rates, is payable monthly and ranged from 1.6% to 3.2% as of December 31, 2009 and from 2.0% to 3.0% as of December 31, 2008. As of December 31, 2009, $761 million was outstanding on these facilities and loans with maturities ranging from 2010

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to 2014. As of December 31, 2008, $687 million was outstanding on these facilities and loans. These facilities and loans are non-recourse to the Company.
ACG had a loan with Pacific Asset Funding, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific LifeCorp, for $50 million, which was entered into in April 2009. Interest was at variable rates and the loan was repaid in November 2009.
Certain subsidiaries of Pacific Asset Holding LLC (PAH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Life, entered into various term loans with third-parties. Interest on these loans accrues at fixed rates, is payable monthly and ranged from 5.8% to 6.2% as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, there was $87 million outstanding on these loans with maturities ranging from 2010 to 2012. Principal payments due over the next twelve months are $32 million. All of these loans are secured by real estate properties and are non-recourse to the Company.
Certain subsidiaries of PAH also entered into various property improvement loans with third-parties for a maximum loan balance of $43 million. Interest on these loans accrues at variable rates, is payable monthly and ranged from 1.4% and 2.0% as of December 31, 2009 and 2.6% to 3.6% as of December 31, 2008. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, there was $34 million outstanding on these loans with maturities ranging from 2010 to 2011. Principal payments due over the next twelve months are $26 million. All of these loans are secured by real estate properties and are non-recourse to the Company.
14.   FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs of valuation methods used to measure fair value for financial assets and financial liabilities that are carried at fair value. The hierarchy consists of the following three levels that are prioritized based on observable and unobservable inputs.
  Level 1    Unadjusted quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets. Level 1 financial instruments would include securities that are traded in an active exchange market.
  Level 2     Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments on inactive markets; and model-derived valuations for which all significant inputs are observable market data. Level 2 instruments include most corporate debt securities and U.S. government and agency mortgage-backed securities that are valued by models using inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data.
  Level 3    Valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs are unobservable. Level 3 instruments include less liquid securities for which significant inputs are not observable in the market, such as highly structured securities and variable annuity GLB embedded derivatives that require significant management assumptions or estimation in the fair value measurement.
    This hierarchy requires the use of observable market data when available.

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The following tables present, by fair value hierarchy level, the Company’s financial assets and liabilities that are carried at fair value as of December 31, 2009 and 2008.
                                                 
                            Gross              
                            Derivatives     Netting        
    Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Fair Value     Adjustments (1)     Total  
                    (In Millions)                  
December 31, 2009:
                                               
Assets:
                                               
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
          $ 109     $ 6                     $ 115  
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
            565       34                       599  
Foreign governments
            323       108                       431  
Corporate securities
            15,566       2,287                       17,853  
RMBS
            1,510       3,650                       5,160  
CMBS
            852       327                       1,179  
Collateralized debt obligations
            8       104                       112  
Other asset-backed securities
            355       235                       590  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
            19,288       6,751                       26,039  
     
 
                                               
Perpetual preferred securities
            205       70                       275  
Other equity securities
  $ 3                                       3  
     
Total equity securities
    3       205       70                       278  
     
 
                                               
Trading securities (2)
    92       85       29                       206  
Cash equivalents
    1,714                                       1,714  
Other investments
                    163                       163  
Derivatives
            369       467     $ 836       ($595 )     241  
Separate account assets (3)
    52,305       116       101                       52,522  
     
Total
  $ 54,114     $ 20,063     $ 7,581     $ 836       ($595 )   $ 81,163  
     
 
                                               
Liabilities:
                                               
Derivatives
          $ 645     $ 914     $ 1,559       ($595 )   $ 964  
     
Total
          $ 645     $ 914     $ 1,559       ($595 )   $ 964  
     

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                            Gross              
                            Derivatives     Netting        
    Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Fair Value     Adjustments (1)     Total  
    (In Millions)  
December 31, 2008:
                                               
Assets:
                                               
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
          $ 117                             $ 117  
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
            369                               369  
Foreign governments
            223     $ 22                       245  
Corporate securities
            12,274       2,243                       14,517  
RMBS
            1,577       3,355                       4,932  
CMBS
            899       201                       1,100  
Collateralized debt obligations
            20       104                       124  
Other asset-backed securities
            328       210                       538  
     
Total fixed maturity securities
            15,807       6,135                       21,942  
     
 
                                               
Perpetual preferred securities
            202       12                       214  
Other equity securities
            2                               2  
     
Total equity securities
            204       12                       216  
     
 
                                               
Trading securities (2)
            17       97                       114  
Cash equivalents
  $ 2,597                                       2,597  
Other investments
                    150                       150  
Derivatives
            1,294       1,435     $ 2,729       ($656 )     2,073  
Separate account assets (3)
    41,145       275       61                       41,481  
     
Total
  $ 43,742     $ 17,597     $ 7,890     $ 2,729       ($656 )   $ 68,573  
     
 
                                               
Liabilities:
                                               
Derivatives
          $ 1,095     $ 3,477     $ 4,572       ($656 )   $ 3,916  
     
Total
          $ 1,095     $ 3,477     $ 4,572       ($656 )   $ 3,916  
     
 
(1)   Netting adjustments represent the impact of offsetting asset and liability positions held with the same counterparty as permitted by guidance for offsetting in the Codification’s Derivatives and Hedging Topic.
 
(2)   Trading securities are presented in other investments in the consolidated statements of financial condition.
 
(3)   Separate account assets are measured at fair value. Investment performance related to separate account assets is offset by corresponding amounts credited to contract holders whose liability is reflected in the separate account liabilities. Separate account liabilities are measured to equal the fair value of separate account assets as prescribed by guidance in the Codification’s Financial Services – Insurance Topic for accounting and reporting of certain non traditional long-duration contracts and separate accounts. Separate account assets as presented in the table above differ from the amounts presented in the consolidated statements of financial condition because cash and receivables for securities are not subject to the guidance under the Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic.
FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENT
The Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell the asset or paid to transfer the liability at the measurement date. This “exit price” notion is a market-based measurement that requires a focus on the value that market participants would assign for an asset or liability.

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The following section describes the valuation methodologies used by the Company to measure various types of financial instruments at fair value.
FIXED MATURITY, EQUITY AND TRADING SECURITIES
The fair values of fixed maturity securities available for sale, equity securities available for sale and trading securities are determined by management after considering external pricing sources and internal valuation techniques.
For publicly traded securities with sufficient trading volume, prices are obtained from third-party pricing services. For structured or complex securities that are traded infrequently, prices are obtained from independent brokers or are valued internally using various valuation techniques. Such techniques include matrix model pricing and internally developed models, which incorporate observable market data, where available. Matrix model pricing measures fair value using cash flows, which are discounted using observable market yield curves provided by a major independent data service. The matrix model determines the discount yield based upon significant factors that include the security’s weighted average life and rating.
Where matrix model pricing is not used, particularly for RMBS and other asset-backed securities, other internally derived valuation models are utilized. The inputs used to measure fair value in the internal valuations include, but are not limited to, benchmark yields, issuer spreads, bids, offers, reported trades, and estimated projected cash flows that incorporate significant inputs such as defaults and delinquency rates, severity, subordination, vintage and prepayment speeds.
For non-agency RMBS backed by prime, sub-prime and Alt-A collateral, the Company has determined that there has been a significant decrease in the volume and level of transaction activity indicating the need for a valuation technique not solely based on observable transactions and/or quoted market prices. As permitted by guidance in the Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic beginning March 31, 2009, the Company determines the estimated fair value for these assets utilizing an internally developed weighting of valuations derived from internal pricing models and independent pricing services. This approach utilizes multiple valuation techniques incorporating an income approach (maximizing the use of relevant observable inputs and minimizing the use of unobservable inputs) and a market approach (based on data provided by independent pricing services) producing a result more representative of an investment’s fair value as compared to a single valuation technique. The income approach incorporates cash flows for each investment adjusted for expected losses assuming various interest rate and housing price-level scenarios. The adjusted cash flows are discounted using a risk premium that market participants would demand given the risk in the modeled cash flows. The risk premium utilized is reflective of an orderly transaction between market participants under current market conditions and includes considerations such as liquidity and structure risk. These internally generated prices are then reviewed in conjunction with prices obtained from multiple independent pricing services. The internally generated prices are weighted with the prices obtained from independent pricing services, with consideration given to the relative range of values that are most representative of fair value under current conditions. These securities have been classified as Level 3 financial assets.
Prices obtained from independent third-parties are generally evaluated based on the inputs indicated above. The Company’s management analyzes and evaluates these prices and determines whether they are reasonable estimates of fair value. Management’s analysis may include, but is not limited to, review of third-party pricing methodologies and inputs, analysis of recent trades, and development of internal models utilizing observable market data of comparable securities. Based on this analysis, prices received from third-parties may be adjusted if the Company determines that there is a more appropriate fair value based on available market information.
Most securities priced by a major independent third-party service have been classified as Level 2, as management has verified that the inputs used in determining their fair values are market observable and appropriate. Other externally priced securities for which fair value measurement inputs are not sufficiently transparent, such as securities valued based on broker quotations, have been classified as Level 3. Internally valued securities, including adjusted prices received from independent third-parties, where significant management assumptions have been utilized in determining fair value, have been classified as Level 3.
CASH EQUIVALENTS
Cash equivalents include, but are not limited to, corporate discount notes and money market mutual funds. The fair value of cash equivalents is measured at amortized cost due to the short-term, highly liquid nature of these securities, which have original maturities of three months or less. These investments are classified as Level 1.

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OTHER INVESTMENTS
Other investments include non-marketable equity securities that do not have readily determinable fair values. Certain significant inputs used in determining the fair value of these equities are based on management assumptions or contractual terms with another party that cannot be readily observable in the market. These investments are classified as Level 3 assets.
DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS
Derivative instruments are reported at fair value using pricing valuation models, which utilize market data inputs or independent broker quotations. Excluding embedded derivatives, as of December 31, 2009, 99% of derivatives based upon notional values were priced by valuation models, which utilize independent market data. The remaining derivatives were priced by broker quotations. The derivatives are valued using mid-market inputs that are predominantly observable in the market. Inputs used to value derivatives include, but are not limited to, interest swap rates, foreign currency forward and spot rates, credit spreads and correlations, interest and equity volatility and equity index levels. In accordance with the Codification’s Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Topic, a credit valuation analysis was performed for all derivative positions to measure the risk that one of the counterparties to the transaction will be unable to perform under the contractual terms (nonperformance risk), and was determined to be immaterial as of December 31, 2009.
The Company performs a monthly analysis on derivative valuations, which includes both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Examples of procedures performed include, but are not limited to, review of pricing statistics and trends, analyzing the impacts of changes in the market environment, and review of changes in market value for each derivative including those derivatives priced by brokers.
Derivative instruments classified as Level 2 primarily include interest rate, currency and certain credit default swaps. The derivative valuations are determined using pricing models with inputs that are observable in the market or can be derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data.
Derivative instruments classified as Level 3 include complex derivatives, such as equity options and swaps and certain credit default swaps. Also included in Level 3 classification for derivatives are embedded derivatives in certain insurance and reinsurance contracts. These derivatives are valued using pricing models, which utilize both observable and unobservable inputs and, to a lesser extent, broker quotations. A derivative instrument containing Level 1 or Level 2 inputs will be classified as a Level 3 financial instrument in its entirety if it has at least one significant Level 3 input.
The Company utilizes derivative instruments to manage the risk associated with certain assets and liabilities. However, the derivative instrument may not be classified within the same fair value hierarchy level as the associated assets and liabilities. Therefore, the realized and unrealized gains and losses on derivatives reported in Level 3 may not reflect the offsetting impact of the realized and unrealized gains and losses of the associated assets and liabilities.
VARIABLE ANNUITY GLB EMBEDDED DERIVATIVES
Fair values for variable annuity GLB and related reinsurance embedded derivatives are calculated based upon significant unobservable inputs using internally developed models because active, observable markets do not exist for those items. As a result, variable annuity GLB and related reinsurance embedded derivatives are categorized as Level 3. Below is a description of the Company’s fair value methodologies for these embedded derivatives.
The Company’s fair value is calculated as an aggregation of fair value and additional risk margins including, Behavior Risk Margin, Mortality Risk Margin and Credit Standing Adjustment. The resulting aggregation is reconciled or calibrated, if necessary, to market information that is, or may be, available to the Company, but may not be observable by other market participants, including reinsurance discussions and transactions. Each of the components described below are unobservable in the market place and requires subjectivity by the Company in determining their value.
    Behavior Risk Margin: This component adds a margin that market participants would require for the risk that the Company’s assumptions about policyholder behavior used in the fair value model could differ from actual experience.
 
    Mortality Risk Margin: This component adds a margin in mortality assumptions, both for decrements for policyholders with GLBs, and for expected payout lifetimes in guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits.

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    Credit Standing Adjustment: This component makes an adjustment that market participants would make to reflect the chance that GLB obligations or the GLB reinsurance recoverables will not be fulfilled (nonperformance risk).
SEPARATE ACCOUNT ASSETS
Separate account assets are primarily invested in mutual funds, but also have investments in fixed maturity and short-term securities. Separate account assets are valued in the same manner, and using the same pricing sources and inputs, as the fixed maturity and equity securities available for sale of the Company. Mutual funds are included in Level 1. Most fixed maturity securities are included in Level 2. Level 3 assets include any investments where fair value is based on management assumptions or obtained from independent third-parties and fair value measurement inputs are not sufficiently transparent.
LEVEL 3 RECONCILIATION
The tables below present reconciliations of the beginning and ending balances of the Level 3 financial assets and liabilities that have been measured at fair value on a recurring basis using significant unobservable inputs.
                                                         
                                    Purchases,              
            Total Gains or Losses     Transfers     Sales,             Unrealized  
                            In and/or     Issuances,             Gains  
    January 1,     Included in     Included in     Out of     and     December 31,     (Losses)  
    2009     Earnings     OCI     Level 3     Settlements     2009     Still Held (1)  
                            (In Millions)                  
Assets:
                                                       
U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. government authorities and agencies
                          $ 6             $ 6          
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
                    ($3 )     7     $ 30       34          
Foreign governments
  $ 22     $ 2       5       71       8       108          
Corporate securities
    2,243       (28 )     644       (974 )     402       2,287       ($5 )
RMBS
    3,355       (115 )     437       427       (454 )     3,650          
CMBS
    201       1       26       60       39       327          
Collateralized debt obligations
    104       (67 )     71               (4 )     104          
Other asset-backed securities
    210       2       10       42       (29 )     235          
 
                                         
Total fixed maturity securities
    6,135       (205 )     1,190       (361 )     (8 )     6,751       (5 )
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Perpetual preferred securities
    12       (17 )     12       (5 )     68       70          
Other equity securities
            1       4       (28 )     23                  
 
                                         
Total equity securities
    12       (16 )     16       (33 )     91       70          
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Trading securities
    97                       (51 )     (17 )     29       2  
Other investments
    150               24               (11 )     163          
Derivatives, net
    (2,042 )     1,504       1               90       (447 )     1,597  
Separate account assets (2)
    61       6               20       14       101       12  
 
                                         
Total
  $ 4,413     $ 1,289     $ 1,231       ($425 )   $ 159     $ 6,667     $ 1,606  
 
                                         

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                                    Purchases,              
                            Transfers     Sales,             Unrealized  
            Total Gains or Losses     In and/or     Issuances,             Gains  
    January 1,     Included in     Included in     Out of     and     December 31,     (Losses)  
    2008     Earnings     OCI     Level 3     Settlements     2008     Still Held (1)  
    (In Millions)  
Assets:
                                                       
Foreign governments
  $ 32               ($7 )           ($3 )   $ 22          
Corporate securities
    1,505     $ 2       (329 )   $ 733       332       2,243     ($16 )
RMBS
    431       (1 )     (168 )     3,025       68       3,355          
CMBS
    434               (40 )     (141 )     (52 )     201          
Collateralized debt obligations
    230       (90 )     (35 )             (1 )     104          
Other asset-backed securities
    242       (4 )     (16 )     (11 )     (1 )     210          
 
                                         
Total fixed maturity securities
    2,874       (93 )     (595 )     3,606       343       6,135       (16 )
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Perpetual preferred securities
    46       (33 )                     (1 )     12          
Other equity securities
    4       (4 )                                        
 
                                         
Total equity securities
    50       (37 )                     (1 )     12          
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Trading securities
    47       (12 )             10       52       97       (11 )
Other investments
    460       105       (133 )             (282 )     150          
Derivatives, net
    (103 )     (1,945 )     2               4       (2,042 )     (1,822 )
Separate account assets(2)
    11       (5 )             46       9       61       (25 )
 
                                         
Total
  $ 3,339     ($1,987 )   ($726 )   $ 3,662     $ 125     $ 4,413     ($1,874 )
 
                                         
 
(1)   Represents the net amount of total gains or losses for the period, recorded in earnings, attributable to the change in unrealized gains (losses) relating to assets and liabilities classified as Level 3 that are still held as of December 31, 2009 and 2008.
 
(2)   The realized/unrealized gains (losses) included in net income (loss) for separate account assets are offset by an equal amount for separate account liabilities, which results in a net zero impact on net income (loss) for the Company.
The Company did not have any nonfinancial assets or liabilities measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis resulting from impairments as of December 31, 2009. The Company has not made any changes in the valuation methodologies for nonfinancial assets and liabilities.

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    The carrying amount and estimated fair value of the Company’s financial instruments that are not carried at fair value under the Codification’s Financial Instruments Topic are as follows:
                                 
    December 31, 2009     December 31, 2008  
    Carrying     Estimated     Carrying     Estimated  
    Amount     Fair Value     Amount     Fair Value  
    (In Millions)  
Assets:
                               
Mortgage loans
  $ 6,577     $ 6,660     $ 5,622     $ 5,645  
Policy loans
    6,509       6,509       6,920       6,920  
Other invested assets
    196       185       305       334  
Restricted cash
    221       221       227       227  
Liabilities:
                               
Funding agreements and GICs (1)
    7,572       8,093       9,419       10,136  
Annuity and deposit liabilities
    7,109       7,109       4,515       4,515  
Short-term debt
    105       105       150       150  
Long-term debt
    5,632       5,806       4,459       4,373  
 
(1)   Balance excludes embedded derivatives that are included in the fair value hierarchy level tables above.
    The following methods and assumptions were used to estimate the fair value of these financial instruments as of December 31, 2009 and 2008:
 
    MORTGAGE LOANS
 
    The estimated fair value of the mortgage loan portfolio is determined by discounting the estimated future cash flows, using current rates that are applicable to similar credit quality, property type and average maturity of the composite portfolio.
 
    POLICY LOANS
 
    The carrying amounts of policy loans are a reasonable estimate of their fair values because interest rates are generally variable and based on current market rates.
 
    OTHER INVESTED ASSETS
 
    Included in other invested assets are private equity investments in which the estimated fair value of private equity investments is based on the ownership percentage of the underlying equity of the investments.
 
    RESTRICTED CASH
 
    The carrying values approximate fair values due to the short-term maturities of these instruments.
 
    FUNDING AGREEMENTS AND GICs
 
    The fair value of funding agreements and GICs is estimated using the rates currently offered for deposits of similar remaining maturities.
 
    ANNUITY AND DEPOSIT LIABILITIES
 
    The estimated fair value of annuity and deposit liabilities approximates carrying value and primarily includes policyholder deposits and accumulated credited interest. The estimated fair value of deposit liabilities with no defined maturities is the amount payable on demand.

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    DEBT
 
    The carrying amount of short-term debt is a reasonable estimate of its fair value because the interest rates are variable and based on current market rates. The estimated fair value of long-term debt is based on market quotes, except for VIE debt and non-recourse debt, for which the carrying amounts are reasonable estimates of their fair values because the interest rate approximates current market rates.
 
15.   OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
 
    The Company displays comprehensive income (loss) and its components on the consolidated statements of equity. The disclosure of the gross components of other comprehensive income (loss) and related taxes are as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Unrealized gain (loss) on derivatives and securities available for sale, net:
                       
Gross holding gain (loss):
                       
Securities available for sale
  $ 2,601       ($3,870 )     ($239 )
Derivatives
    (146 )     256       (147 )
Income tax (expense) benefit
    (861 )     1,269       135  
Reclassification adjustment — realized (gain) loss:
                       
Sale of securities available for sale
    251       458       (21 )
Derivatives
    25       (4 )     (15 )
Income tax expense (benefit)
    (98 )     (159 )     12  
Allocation of holding (gain) loss to DAC
    (415 )     356       (24 )
Allocation of holding (gain) loss to future policy benefits
    85       (119 )     (15 )
Income tax expense (benefit)
    113       (83 )     14  
Cumulative effect of adoption of new accounting principle
    (263 )                
Income tax expense
    93                  
     
Unrealized gain (loss) on derivatives and securities available for sale, net
    1,385       (1,896 )     (300 )
     
 
                       
Other, net:
                       
Holding gain (loss) on interest in PIMCO and other security
    22       (24 )     5  
Income tax (expense) benefit
    (8 )     9       (1 )
Reclassification of realized gain on sale of interest in PIMCO
            (109 )        
Income tax on realized gain
            42          
     
Net unrealized gain (loss) on interest in PIMCO and other security
    14       (82 )     4  
Cumulative effect of adoption of new accounting principle, net of tax
                    (20 )
Other, net of tax
    33       (15 )        
     
Other, net
    47       (97 )     (16 )
     
Total other comprehensive income (loss), net
  $ 1,432       ($1,993 )     ($316 )
     

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16.   REINSURANCE
 
    Certain no lapse guarantee rider (NLGR) benefits of Pacific Life’s UL insurance products are subject to Actuarial Guideline 38 (AG 38) statutory reserving requirements. AG 38 results in additional statutory reserves on UL products with NLGRs issued after June 30, 2005. U.S. GAAP benefit reserves for such riders are based on guidance in the Codification’s Financial Services – Insurance Topic for accounting and reporting of certain non traditional long-duration contracts and separate accounts. Substantially all the U.S. GAAP benefit reserves relating to NLGRs issued after June 30, 2005 are ceded from Pacific Life to Pacific Alliance Reinsurance Ltd. (PAR Bermuda), a Bermuda-based life reinsurance company wholly owned by Pacific LifeCorp and PAR Vermont under reinsurance agreements. Funded reserves and irrevocable letters of credit (LOC) held in trust accounts with Pacific Life as beneficiary provide security for statutory reserve credits taken by Pacific Life. Pacific LifeCorp guarantees the obligations of PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont under the LOC agreement.
 
    The Company entered into treaties to reinsure a portion of new variable annuity business under modified coinsurance arrangements and certain variable annuity living and death benefit riders under coinsurance agreements. Effective January 1, 2008, the quota share on these variable annuity reinsurance treaties was increased from a total of 39% to 45%. Additionally, effective January 1, 2008, the Company recaptured a portion of the variable annuity business ceded during 2007. Effective January 1, 2009, all but one reinsurance treaty terminated for new business, reducing the quota share to 15%. The final treaty terminated for new business issued after March 31, 2009. Variable annuity business ceded prior to these dates continues to be reinsured.
 
    Reinsurance receivables and payables generally include amounts related to claims, reserves and reserve related items. Reinsurance receivables were $404 million and $839 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Reinsurance payables were $37 million and $38 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
    The ceding of risk does not discharge the Company from its primary obligations to contract owners. To the extent that the assuming companies become unable to meet their obligations under reinsurance contracts, the Company remains contingently liable. Each reinsurer is reviewed to evaluate its financial stability before entering into each reinsurance contract and throughout the period that the reinsurance contract is in place.
 
    The components of insurance premiums presented in the consolidated statements of operations are as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
    (In Millions)  
Direct premiums
  $ 666     $ 410     $ 271  
Reinsurance ceded (1)
    (323 )     (291 )     (274 )
Reinsurance assumed
    60  (2)     53       53  
     
Insurance premiums
  $ 403     $ 172     $ 50  
     
 
(1)   Included are $21 million, $13 million and $12 million of reinsurance ceded to PAR Bermuda for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
 
(2)   Included are $4 million of assumed premiums from Pacific Life Re, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific LifeCorp.

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17.   EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
 
    PENSION PLANS
 
    Prior to December 31, 2007, Pacific Life provided a defined benefit pension plan (ERP) covering all eligible employees of the Company. Certain subsidiaries did not participate in this plan. The full-benefit vesting period for all participants was five years. Pacific Life’s funding policy was to contribute amounts to the plan sufficient to meet the minimum funding requirements set forth in ERISA, plus such additional amounts as was determined appropriate. All such contributions were made to a tax-exempt trust.
 
    The Company amended the ERP to terminate effective December 31, 2007. In anticipation of the final settlement of the defined benefit pension plan, the plan’s investment strategy was revised and the mutual fund investments were sold, transferred to a separate account group annuity contract managed by the Company and invested primarily in fixed income investments to better match the expected duration of the liabilities.
 
    In September 2009, the Company received regulatory approval to commence the final termination of the ERP and payment of plan benefits to the participants. The Company completed the final distribution of plan assets to participants in December 2009. The Company recognized settlement costs of $5 million in 2008 and recognized the final settlement costs for the ERP totaling $72 million in 2009.
 
    Pacific Life also maintains supplemental employee retirement plans (SERPs) for certain eligible employees. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the projected benefit obligation was $37 million and $32 million, respectively. The fair value of plan assets as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 was zero. The net periodic benefit expense of the SERPs was $4 million, $5 million and $6 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
 
    The following table sets forth the benefit obligations, plan assets and funded status of the defined benefit plans:
                                 
    December 31, 2009     December 31, 2008  
    ERP     SERP     ERP     SERP  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Defined benefit plans:
                               
Benefit obligation, end of year
          $ 37     $ 198     $ 32  
Fair value of plan assets, end of year
  $ 26               242          
         
Over (under) funded status, end of year
  $ 26       ($37 )   $ 44       ($32 )
         
    The Company incurred a net pension expense of $79 million, $8 million and $9 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, as detailed in the following table:
                                                 
    Year Ended     Year Ended     Year Ended  
    December 31, 2009     December 31, 2008     December 31, 2007  
    ERP     SERP     ERP     SERP     ERP     SERP  
    (In Millions)     (In Millions)     (In Millions)  
Components of the net periodic pension expense:
                                               
Service cost — benefits earned during the year
          $ 2             $ 2             $ 2  
Interest cost on projected benefit obligation
  $ 12       2     $ 12       2     $ 14       2  
Expected return on plan assets
    (12 )             (14 )             (16 )        
Settlement costs
    72               5               4          
Amortization of net obligations and prior service cost
    3                       1       2       1  
             
Net periodic pension expense
  $ 75     $ 4     $ 3     $ 5     $ 4     $ 5  
             

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    Significant plan assumptions:
                                 
    December 31, 2009     December 31, 2008  
    ERP     SERP     ERP     SERP  
Weighted-average assumptions used to determine benefit obligations:
                               
Discount rate
    6.35 %     6.30 %     6.35 %     6.30 %
Salary rate
    N/A       4.50 %     N/A       4.50 %
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
Weighted-average assumptions used to determine the ERP’s net periodic benefit expense:
                       
Discount rate
    6.30 %     6.25 %     5.75 %
Expected long-term return on plan assets
    N/A       5.25 %     6.13 %
    The salary rate used to determine the net periodic benefit expense for the SERP was 4.5% for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.
 
    Pacific Life expects to contribute $3 million to the SERP in 2010. The expected benefit payments are as follows for the years ending December 31 (In Millions):
                     
2010   2011   2012   2013   2014   2015-2019
$3
  $3   $3   $3   $3   $15
    RETIREMENT INCENTIVE SAVINGS PLAN
 
    Pacific Life provides a Retirement Incentive Savings Plan (RISP) covering all eligible employees of Pacific LifeCorp and certain of its subsidiaries. The RISP matches 75% of each employee’s contributions, up to a maximum of 6% of eligible employee compensation in cash. Contributions made by the Company to the RISP amounted to $26 million, $29 million and $25 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, and are included in operating expenses.
 
    POSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS
 
    Pacific Life provides a defined benefit health care plan and a defined benefit life insurance plan (the Plans) that provide postretirement benefits for all eligible retirees and their dependents. Generally, qualified employees may become eligible for these benefits if they have reached normal retirement age, have been covered under Pacific Life’s policy as an active employee for a minimum continuous period prior to the date retired, and have an employment date before January 1, 1990. The Plans contain cost-sharing features such as deductibles and coinsurance, and require retirees to make contributions, which can be adjusted annually. Pacific Life’s commitment to qualified employees who retire after April 1, 1994 is limited to specific dollar amounts. Pacific Life reserves the right to modify or terminate the Plans at any time. As in the past, the general policy is to fund these benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis.
 
    The net periodic postretirement benefit cost for each of the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 was $1 million. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the accumulated benefit obligation was $19 million and $18 million, respectively. The fair value of the plan assets as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 was zero.
 
    The discount rate used in determining the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation was 5.50% and 6.35% for 2009 and 2008, respectively.

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    Benefit payments for the year ended December 31, 2009 amounted to $3 million. The expected benefit payments are as follows for the years ending December 31 (In Millions):
                     
2010   2011   2012   2013   2014   2015-2019
$3   $4   $4   $4   $4   $24
    OTHER PLANS
 
    The Company has deferred compensation plans that permit eligible employees to defer portions of their compensation and earn interest on the deferred amounts. The interest rate is determined annually. The compensation that has been deferred has been accrued and the primary expense related to this plan, other than compensation, is interest on the deferred amounts. The Company also has performance-based incentive compensation plans for its employees.
 
18.   INCOME TAXES
 
    The provision (benefit) for income taxes is as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
            (In Millions)          
Current
    ($407 )   $ 196     $ 43  
Deferred
    451       (511 )     86  
         
Provision (benefit) for income taxes from continuing operations
    44       (315 )     129  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes on discontinued operations
    (11 )     (3 )     18  
     
Total
  $ 33       ($318 )   $ 147  
     
    A reconciliation of the provision (benefit) for income taxes from continuing operations based on the Federal corporate statutory tax rate of 35% to the provision (benefit) for income taxes from continuing operations reflected in the consolidated financial statements is as follows:
                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007  
            (In Millions)          
Provision (benefit) for income taxes at the statutory rate
  $ 170       ($199 )   $ 292  
Separate account dividends received deduction
    (93 )     (107 )     (103 )
Low income housing and foreign tax credits
    (19 )     (31 )     (33 )
Other
    (14 )     22       (27 )
         
Provision (benefit) for income taxes from continuing operations
  $ 44       ($315 )   $ 129  
     
    Upon adoption of new guidance to the Codification’s Income Taxes Topic relating to the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes on January 1, 2007, the Company had unrecognized tax benefits of $32 million, which relate entirely to an uncertain tax position regarding refund claims for the impact of short-term capital gains on computing separate account Dividends Received Deductions (DRD).
    During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company’s tax contingency related to the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes increased by $402 million for a tax position for which there was uncertainty about the timing, but not the deductibility, of certain tax deductions. Since the benefits of the tax position were not being claimed on an original return and the Company did not receive cash, interest or penalties were not accrued. Due to the nature of deferred tax accounting, the tax position does not have an impact on the annual effective tax rate.

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    The $434 million tax contingency related to the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes was decreased by $420 million as a result of events that occurred during the year ended December 31, 2009. The Company effectively settled $18 million of the gross uncertain tax position related to DRD, which resulted in the realization of $9 million of tax benefits. The Company also resolved the uncertain tax accounting position on certain tax deductions resulting in a $402 million decrease. The provision for income taxes from continuing operations has also been reduced by $10 million for additional interest income resulting from favorable tax settlements.
    A reconciliation of the changes in the unrecognized tax benefits is as follows (In Millions):
         
Balance at January 1, 2007
  $ 32  
Additions and deletions  
       
 
     
Balance at December 31, 2007
    32  
Additions and deletions
    402  
 
     
Balance at December 31, 2008
    434  
Additions and deletions
    (420 )
 
     
Balance at December 31, 2009
  $ 14  
 
     
    Depending on the outcome of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits, approximately $7 million of the unrecognized DRD tax benefits may be realized during the next twelve months. All realized tax benefits and related interest are recorded as a discrete item that will impact the effective tax rate in the accounting period in which the uncertain tax position is ultimately settled.
    During the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, the Company paid an immaterial amount of interest and penalties to state tax authorities.

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    The net deferred tax (liability) asset, included in other liabilities and other assets as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, is comprised of the following tax effected temporary differences:
                 
    December 31,  
    2009     2008  
    (In Millions)  
Deferred tax assets:
               
Policyholder reserves
  $ 724     $ 1,274  
Investment valuation
    283       271  
Tax net operating loss carryforward
    249       168  
Tax credit carryforward
    214       122  
Deferred compensation
    45       42  
Maintenance reserves
    38       46  
Dividends to policyholders
    8       8  
Other
    25       27  
     
Total deferred tax assets
    1,586       1,958  
       
 
               
Deferred tax liabilities:
               
DAC
    (1,313 )     (1,222 )
Depreciation
    (563 )     (458 )
Reinsurance
    (77 )     (74 )
Hedging
    (44 )     (14 )
Partnership income
    (28 )     (65 )
Retirement benefits
            (18 )
Other
    (41 )     (43 )
     
Total deferred tax liabilities
    (2,066 )     (1,894 )
       
 
               
Net deferred tax asset (liability) from continuing operations
    (480 )     64  
Unrealized loss on derivatives and securities available for sale
    101       947  
Unrealized loss on interest in PIMCO and other security
            8  
Deferred taxes on cumulative changes in accounting principles
    120       27  
Minimum pension liability and other adjustments
    (10 )     8  
     
Net deferred tax asset (liability)
    ($269 )   $ 1,054  
     
    The tax net operating loss carryforwards relate to Federal tax losses incurred in 1998 through 2008 with a 20-year carryforward for non-life losses and a 15-year carryforward for life losses, and California tax losses incurred in 2004 through 2008 with a ten-year carryforward.
    The Codification’s Income Taxes Topic requires the reduction of deferred tax assets by a valuation allowance if, based on the weight of available evidence, it is more likely than not that a portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Based on management’s assessment, it is more likely than not that the Company’s deferred tax assets will be realized through future taxable income and the reversal of deferred tax liabilities.
    The Company files income tax returns in U.S. Federal and various state jurisdictions. The Company is under continuous audit by the IRS and is audited periodically by some state taxing authorities. The IRS has completed audits of the Company’s tax returns through the tax years ended December 31, 2005 and has commenced audits for tax years 2006, 2007 and 2008. The State of California recently concluded audits for tax years 2003 and 2004 without a material assessment. The Company does not expect the Federal and state audits to result in any material assessments.

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19.   SEGMENT INFORMATION
 
    The Company has four operating segments: Life Insurance, Investment Management, Annuities & Mutual Funds and Aircraft Leasing. These segments are managed separately and have been identified based on differences in products and services offered. All other activity is included in the Corporate and Other segment.
 
    The Life Insurance segment provides a broad range of life insurance products through multiple distribution channels operating in the upper income and corporate markets. Principal products include UL, VUL, survivor life, interest sensitive whole life, corporate-owned life insurance and traditional products such as whole life and term life. Distribution channels include regional life offices, marketing organizations, broker-dealer firms, wirehouses and M Financial, an association of independently owned and operated insurance and financial producers.
 
    The Investment Management segment provides investment and insurance products to institutional investors, pension fund sponsors and structured settlement annuitants, primarily through its home office marketing team and other intermediaries. The segment’s principal products include GICs, synthetic GICs, funding agreement-backed notes issued to institutional investors via medium-term note programs or to the FHLB of Topeka, as well as structured settlement annuities issued in conjunction with personal injury awards and group retirement annuities sold to pension plans.
 
    The Annuities & Mutual Funds segment’s principle products include variable and fixed annuities, and mutual funds, and are offered through multiple distribution sources. Distribution channels include independent planners, financial institutions and national/regional wirehouses.
 
    The Aircraft Leasing segment (Note 9) offers aircraft leasing to the airline industry throughout the world and provides brokerage and asset management services to other third-parties.
 
    The Corporate and Other segment primarily includes investment income, expenses and assets not attributable to the operating segments, and the operations of certain subsidiaries that do not qualify as operating segments. The Corporate and Other segment also includes the interest in PIMCO and the elimination of intersegment transactions. Discontinued operations (Note 6) are also included in the Corporate and Other segment.
 
    The Company uses the same accounting policies and procedures to measure segment net income (loss) and assets as it uses to measure its consolidated net income (loss) and assets. Net investment income and net realized investment gain (loss) are allocated based on invested assets purchased and held as is required for transacting the business of that segment. Overhead expenses are allocated based on services provided. Interest expense is allocated based on the short-term borrowing needs of the segment and is included in net investment income. The provision (benefit) for income taxes is allocated based on each segment’s actual tax provision (benefit).
 
    The operating segments, excluding Aircraft Leasing, are allocated equity based on formulas determined by management and receive a fixed interest rate of return on interdivision debentures supporting the allocated equity. The debenture amount is reflected as investment expense in net investment income in the Corporate and Other segment and as investment income in the operating segments.
 
    The Company generates substantially all of its revenues and net income from customers located in the U.S. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company had foreign investments with an estimated fair value of $7.2 billion and $5.8 billion, respectively. Aircraft leased to foreign customers were $5.0 billion and $4.8 billion as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Revenues derived from any customer did not exceed 10% of consolidated total revenues for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.

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    The following is segment information as of and for the year ended December 31, 2009:
                                                 
                    Annuities                    
    Life     Investment     & Mutual     Aircraft     Corporate        
    Insurance     Management     Funds     Leasing     and Other     Total  
REVENUES   (In Millions)  
Policy fees and insurance premiums
  $ 1,063     $ 628     $ 581             $ 3     $ 2,275  
Net investment income
    892       759       278     $ 1       (68 )     1,862  
Net realized investment gain (loss)
            55       313       7       (222 )     153  
OTTIs
    (63 )     (176 )     (16 )             (56 )     (311 )
Investment advisory fees
    18               190                       208  
Aircraft leasing revenue
                            578               578  
Other income
    10               112       13       2       137  
     
Total revenues
    1,920       1,266       1,458       599       (341 )     4,902  
               
 
                                               
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                                               
Interest credited
    681       379       193                       1,253  
Policy benefits
    363       903       (40 )                     1,226  
Commission expenses
    353       18       320                       691  
Operating expenses
    290       26       273       59       134       782  
Depreciation of aircraft
                            227               227  
Interest expense
                            182       55       237  
     
Total benefits and expenses
    1,687       1,326       746       468       189       4,416  
               
 
                                               
Income (loss) from continuing operations before provision (benefit) for income taxes
    233       (60 )     712       131       (530 )     486  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    66       (24 )     151       39       (188 )     44  
               
 
                                               
Income (loss) from continuing operations
    167       (36 )     561       92       (342 )     442  
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
                                    (20 )     (20 )
     
Net income (loss)
    167       (36 )     561       92       (362 )     422  
Less: net (income) loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest from continuing operations
                            (9 )     23       14  
     
Net income (loss) attributable to the Company
  $ 167       ($36 )   $ 561     $ 83       ($339 )   $ 436  
     
 
                                               
Total assets
  $ 28,589     $ 13,256     $ 57,903     $ 6,091     $ 2,638     $ 108,477  
DAC
    1,865       59       2,882                       4,806  
Separate account assets
    5,590       67       46,907                       52,564  
Policyholder and contract liabilities
    21,133       12,526       7,728                       41,387  
Separate account liabilities
    5,590       67       46,907                       52,564  

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    The following is segment information as of and for the year ended December 31, 2008:
                                                 
                    Annuities                    
    Life     Investment     & Mutual     Aircraft     Corporate        
    Insurance     Management     Funds     Leasing     and Other     Total  
REVENUES   (In Millions)  
Policy fees and insurance premiums
  $ 943     $ 363     $ 691                     $ 1,997  
Net investment income
    855       876       178             $ 85       1,994  
Net realized investment gain (loss)
    24       51       (768 )             (56 )     (749 )
OTTIs
    (69 )     (398 )     (30 )     ($3 )     (80 )     (580 )
Realized investment gain on interest in PIMCO
                                    109       109  
Investment advisory fees
    22               233                       255  
Aircraft leasing revenue
                            571               571  
Other income
    11               117       38       1       167  
               
Total revenues
    1,786       892       421       606       59       3,764  
               
 
                                               
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                                               
Interest credited
    661       440       133                       1,234  
Policy benefits
    372       684       150                       1,206  
Commission expenses
    268       18       429                       715  
Operating expenses
    263       34       317       40       78       732  
Depreciation of aircraft
                            208               208  
Interest expense
                            221       17       238  
               
Total benefits and expenses
    1,564       1,176       1,029       469       95       4,333  
               
 
                                               
Income (loss) from continuing operations before provision (benefit) for income taxes
    222       (284 )     (608 )     137       (36 )     (569 )
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    61       (103 )     (329 )     48       8       (315 )
               
 
                                               
Income (loss) from continuing operations
    161       (181 )     (279 )     89       (44 )     (254 )
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
                                    (6 )     (6 )
               
Net income (loss)
    161       (181 )     (279 )     89       (50 )     (260 )
Less: net (income) loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest from continuing operations
                            (8 )     11       3  
               
Net income (loss) attributable to the Company
  $ 161       ($181 )     ($279 )   $ 81       ($39 )     ($257 )
     
 
                                               
Total assets
  $ 26,695     $ 15,155     $ 45,285     $ 5,400     $ 2,633     $ 95,168  
DAC
    2,118       64       2,830                       5,012  
Separate account assets
    4,525       284       36,696                       41,505  
Policyholder and contract liabilities
    20,786       14,099       7,626                       42,511  
Separate account liabilities
    4,525       284       36,696                       41,505  

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    The following is segment information for the year ended December 31, 2007:
                                                 
                    Annuities                    
    Life     Investment     & Mutual     Aircraft     Corporate        
    Insurance     Management     Funds     Leasing     and Other     Total  
REVENUES                   (In Millions)                  
Policy fees and insurance premiums
  $ 777     $ 224     $ 779                     $ 1,780  
Net investment income
    803       905       186     $ 9     $ 217       2,120  
Net realized investment gain (loss)
    4       115       (99 )     17       32       69  
OTTIs
    (3 )     (95 )                             (98 )
Investment advisory fees
    29               298                       327  
Aircraft leasing revenue
                            535               535  
Other income
    9               84       50       4       147  
               
Total revenues
    1,619       1,149       1,248       611       253       4,880  
               
 
                                               
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                                               
Interest credited
    618       504       144                       1,266  
Policy benefits
    308       535       12                       855  
Commission expenses
    209       11       470                       690  
Operating expenses
    252       34       346       49       88       769  
Depreciation of aircraft
                            189               189  
Interest expense
                            261       16       277  
               
Total benefits and expenses
    1,387       1,084       972       499       104       4,046  
               
 
                                               
Income from continuing operations before provision (benefit) for income taxes
    232       65       276       112       149       834  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    58       12       (6 )     32       33       129  
               
 
                                               
Income from continuing operations
    174       53       282       80       116       705  
Discontinued operations, net of taxes
                                    11       11  
               
Net income
    174       53       282       80       127       716  
Less: net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest from continuing operations
                            (2 )     (36 )     (38 )
               
Net income attributable to the Company
  $ 174     $ 53     $ 282     $ 78     $ 91     $ 678  
     
20.   TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES
 
    PLFA serves as the investment adviser for the Pacific Select Fund, an investment vehicle provided to the Company’s variable life insurance policyholders and variable annuity contract owners, and the Pacific Life Funds, the investment vehicle for the Company’s mutual fund products. Prior to May 1, 2007, Pacific Life served in this capacity. Investment advisory and other fees are based primarily upon the net asset value of the underlying portfolios. These fees, included in investment advisory fees and other income, amounted to $244 million, $287 million and $337 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. In addition, Pacific Life provides certain support services to the Pacific Select Fund, the Pacific Life Funds and other affiliates based on an allocation of actual costs. These fees amounted to $9 million, $7 million and $7 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
 
    In addition, effective May 1, 2007, a service plan adopted by the Pacific Select Fund went into effect whereby the fund pays PSD, as distributor of the fund, a service fee in connection with services rendered or procured to or for shareholders of the fund or their variable contract owners. These services may include, but are not limited to, payment of compensation to broker-dealers, including

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    PSD itself, and other financial institutions and organizations, which assist in providing any of the services. For the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, PSD received $86 million and $100 million, respectively, in service fees from the Pacific Select Fund, which are recorded in other income. For the period May 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007, PSD received $74 million in service fees from the Pacific Select Fund, which are also recorded in other income. The service fees were allocated to the operating segments, primarily the Annuities & Mutual Funds segment (Note 19).
 
    As discussed in Note 16, NLGR benefits are reinsured with PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont.
 
    ACG has derivative swap contracts with Pacific LifeCorp as the counterparty. The notional amounts total $2.0 billion and $1.8 billion as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The estimated fair values of the derivatives were net liabilities of $48 million and $106 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
21.   COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
 
    COMMITMENTS
 
    The Company has outstanding commitments to make investments primarily in mortgage loans, limited partnerships and other investments, as follows (In Millions):
         
Years Ending December 31:        
2010
  $ 1,005  
2011 through 2014
    494  
2015 and thereafter
    91  
 
   
Total
  $ 1,590  
 
   
    The Company leases office facilities under various operating leases, which in most, but not all cases, are noncancelable. Rent expense, which is included in operating and other expenses, in connection with these leases was $8 million, $10 million and $13 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. In connection with the sale of a block of business in 2005, PL&A is contingently liable until March 31, 2013 for certain future rent and expense obligations, not to exceed $15 million, related to an office lease that has been assigned to the buyer. Aggregate minimum future commitments are as follows (In Millions):
         
Years Ending December 31:        
2010
  $ 8  
2011 through 2014
    20  
2015 and thereafter
    2  
 
   
Total
  $ 30  
 
   
    As of December 31, 2009, ACG has commitments with major aircraft manufacturers to purchase aircraft at an estimated delivery price of $6,370 million with delivery from 2010 through 2017. Such purchase commitments may be funded:
    up to $635 million in less than one year,
 
    an additional $2,325 million in one to three years,
 
    an additional $2,116 million in three to five years, and
 
    an additional $1,021 million thereafter.
    As of December 31, 2009, deposits related to these agreements totaled $273 million and are included in other assets.
 
    In connection with an acquisition in 2005, ACG assumed residual value support agreements with expiration dates ranging from 2011 to 2015. The gross remaining residual value exposure under these agreements was $99 million as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. As of December 31, 2009, the Company has estimated that it has no measurable liability under the remaining residual value guarantee agreements.

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    In connection with the reinsurance of NLGR benefits from Pacific Life to PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont (Note 16), PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont entered into a three year letter of credit agreement with a group of banks in April 2009. This agreement allows for the issuance of letters of credit with an expiration date of March 2012 to PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont for up to a combined total amount of $650 million. As of December 31, 2009, a $340 million letter of credit had been issued from this facility for PAR Bermuda. In addition, a letter of credit issued for PAR Vermont totaled $52 million as of December 31, 2009. Pacific LifeCorp guarantees the obligations of PAR Bermuda and PAR Vermont under the letter of credit agreement.
 
    CONTINGENCIES — LITIGATION
 
    During the year ended December 31, 2007, Pacific Life settled a national class action lawsuit, Cooper v. Pacific Life, for a combination of cash distributions and contract credits to owners of qualified annuity contracts who purchased their contracts between August 19, 1998, and April 30, 2002, or paid premium payments during that time period. Pacific Life strongly disagreed with the claims in the lawsuit. The settlement is not considered an admission or concession with respect to any claims made in the lawsuit and did not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position. Initial distributions were made to eligible class members in the first quarter of 2008 with subsequent annual distributions for four years thereafter.
 
    The Company is a respondent in a number of other legal proceedings, some of which involve allegations for extra-contractual damages. Although the Company is confident of its position in these matters, success is not a certainty and it is possible that in any case a judge or jury could rule against the Company. In the opinion of management, the outcome of such proceedings is not likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position. The Company believes adequate provision has been made in its consolidated financial statements for all probable and estimable losses for litigation claims against the Company.
 
    CONTINGENCIES — IRS REVENUE RULING
 
    On August 16, 2007, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2007-54, which provided the IRS’ interpretation of tax law regarding the computation of the DRD. On September 25, 2007, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2007-61, which suspended Revenue Ruling 2007-54 and indicated the IRS would address the proper interpretation of tax law in a regulation project that is on the IRS’ priority guidance plan. Although no guidance has been issued, if the IRS ultimately adopts the interpretation contained in Revenue Ruling 2007-54, the Company could lose a substantial amount of DRD tax benefits, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
 
    CONTINGENCIES — OTHER
 
    In connection with the sale of certain broker-dealer subsidiaries (Note 6), certain indemnifications triggered by breaches of representations, warranties or covenants were provided by the Company. Also, included in the indemnifications is indemnification for certain third-party claims arising from the normal operation of these broker-dealers prior to the closing and within the nine month period following the sale. The Company believes adequate provision has been made in its consolidated financial statements for all probable and estimable losses for litigation claims against the Company.
 
    In the course of its business, the Company provides certain indemnifications related to other dispositions, acquisitions, investments, lease agreements or other transactions that are triggered by, among other things, breaches of representations, warranties or covenants provided by the Company. These obligations are typically subject to time limitations that vary in duration, including contractual limitations and those that arise by operation of law, such as applicable statutes of limitation. Because the amounts of these types of indemnifications often are not explicitly stated, the overall maximum amount of the obligation under such indemnifications cannot be reasonably estimated. The Company has not historically made material payments for these types of indemnifications. The estimated maximum potential amount of future payments under these obligations is not determinable due to the lack of a stated maximum liability for certain matters, and therefore, no related liability has been recorded. Management believes that judgments, if any, against the Company related to such matters are not likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
 
    Most of the jurisdictions in which the Company is admitted to transact business require life insurance companies to participate in guaranty associations, which are organized to pay contractual benefits owed pursuant to insurance policies issued by insolvent life insurance companies. These associations levy assessments, up to prescribed limits, on all member companies in a particular state based on the proportionate share of premiums written by member companies in the lines of business in which the insolvent insurer operated. The Company has not received notification of any insolvency that is expected to result in a material guaranty fund assessment.

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    In relation to the ACG Trust II securitization (Note 4), Pacific Life is contingently obligated to purchase certain notes from ACG Trust II to cover shortfalls in amounts due to the holders of the notes, up to certain levels as specified under the related agreements. As of December 31, 2009, the maximum potential amount of this future investment commitment was $100 million.
 
    The Asset Purchase Agreements of Aviation Trust, ACG Trust II and ACG Trust III (Note 4) provide that Pacific LifeCorp will guarantee the performance of certain obligations of ACG, as well as provide certain indemnifications, and that Pacific Life will assume certain obligations of ACG arising from the breach of certain representations and warranties under the Asset Purchase Agreements. Management believes that obligations, if any, related to these guarantees are not likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The financial debt obligations of Aviation Trust, ACG Trust II and ACG Trust III are non-recourse to the Company and are not guaranteed by the Company.
 
    In connection with the operations of certain subsidiaries, Pacific Life has made commitments to provide for additional capital funding as may be required.
 
    See Note 10 for discussion of contingencies related to derivative instruments.
 
    See Note 18 for discussion of other contingencies related to income taxes.
 
22.   SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
 
    The Company has evaluated events subsequent to December 31, 2009 and through March 4, 2010, the date the consolidated financial statements were available to be issued. The Company has not evaluated subsequent events after that date for presentation in these consolidated financial statements.
 
    As of January 1, 2010, the Board of Directors of Pacific LifeCorp and Pacific Life authorized a cash capital contribution to ACG in the amount of $350 million, which could be made up to March 31, 2010.
 
    Effective January 1, 2010, the Investment Management segment’s products were moved into other segments of the Company. Structured settlement and group retirement annuities were moved to the Annuities & Mutual Fund segment and the other institutional investment products became part of the Corporate and Other segment.

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PART II

Part C: OTHER INFORMATION

     Item 24. Financial Statements and Exhibits

  (a)   Financial Statements
 
      Part A: None
 
      Part B:

  (1)   Registrant’s Financial Statements

Audited Financial Statements dated as of December 31, 2009 and for each of the periods presented which are incorporated by reference from the 2009 Annual Report include the following for Separate Account A:

Statements of Assets and Liabilities
Statements of Operations
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
Notes to Financial Statements
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

  (2)   Depositor’s Financial Statements

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements dated as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009, included in Part B include the following for Pacific Life:

Independent Auditors’ Report
Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Consolidated Statements of Stockholder’s Equity
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

  (b)   Exhibits

                 
    1.     (a)   Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Depositor authorizing establishment of Separate Account A and Memorandum establishing Separate Account A.1
 
               
          (b)   Memorandum Establishing Two New Variable Accounts—Aggressive Equity and Emerging Markets Portfolios.1
 
               
          (c)   Resolution of the Board of Directors of Pacific Life Insurance Company authorizing conformity to the terms of the current Bylaws.1

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  2.   Not applicable
                 
    3.     (a)   Distribution Agreement between Pacific Mutual Life and Pacific Select Distributors, Inc (PSD)1
 
               
          (b)   Form of Selling Agreement between Pacific Life, PSD and Various Broker-Dealers20
                         
    4.     (a)     (1 )   Pacific Innovations—Individual Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract (Form No. 10-12600)1
 
                       
                (2 )   Pacific Innovations Select—Individual Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract (Form No. 10-10300)11

  (b)  Qualified Pension Plan Rider (Form No. R90-PEN-V)1
 
  (c) (1) 403(b) Tax-Sheltered Annuity Rider10
 
    (2) 403(b) Tax-Sheltered Annuity Rider (Form No. 20-1156)27
 
  (d)  Section 457 Plan Rider (Form No. 24-123799)1
 
  (e)  Individual Retirement Annuity Rider (Form No. 20-18900)11
 
  (f)  Roth Individual Retirement Annuity Rider (Form No. 20-19000)11
 
  (g)  SIMPLE Individual Retirement Annuity Rider (Form No. 20-19100)11
 
  (h)  Qualified Retirement Plan Rider10

                 
  (i)     (1 )   Pacific Innovations—Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-12601)1
 
               
        (2 )   Pacific Innovations Select—Stepped-Up Death Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-13500)5
 
               
  (j)     (1 )   Premier Death Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-12602)1
 
               
        (2 )   Premier Death Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-18000)11

  (k)   Guaranteed Earnings Enhancement (EEG) Rider (Form No. 20-14900)6
 
  (l)   Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA) Rider (Form No. 20-15100)8
 
  (m)   Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA) Rider (Form No. 20-16200)9
 
  (n)   Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 Rider (Form No. 20-19500)14

                 
  (o)     (1 )   Income Access Rider (Form No. 20-19800)12
 
               
        (2 )   Income Access Rider (Form No. 20-1104)15
 
               
        (3 )   Income Access Endorsement (Form No. 15-1122)18
        (4 )   Excess Withdrawal Endorsement (Form No. 15-1152C)25

  (p)   Pacific Innovations Select—DCA Plus Fixed Option Rider (Form No. 20-1103)14
 
  (q)   Guaranteed Income Advantage II Rider (Form No. 20-1109)15
 
  (r)   Guaranteed Income Advantage 5 Rider (Form No. 20-1102)15
 
  (s)   Guaranteed Income Annuity Rider (Form No. 20-1118)16
 
  (t)   (1)   Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-1119); also Known as Income Access Plus Rider16
 
      (2)   Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit Endorsement (Form No. 15-1123)18
      (3)   Excess Withdrawal Endorsement (Form No. 15-1152E)26
 
  (u)   (1)   Enhanced Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-1120)19
      (2)   Excess Withdrawal Endorsement (Form No. 15-1152A)26
 
  (v)   (1)   5% Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-1131)21
      (2)   Excess Withdrawal Endorsement (Form No. 15-1152)25
 
  (w)   (1)   Joint Life 5% Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-1135)22
      (2)   Excess Withdrawal Endorsement (Form No. 15-1152B)25
 
  (x)   Guaranteed Protection Advantage 3 Rider (Form No. 20-1145)23
 
  (y)   (1)   Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit II Rider (Form No. 20-1146)23
      (2)   Excess Withdrawal Endorsement (Form No. 15-1152)25
 
  (z)   Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit III Rider (Form No. 20-1153)25
 
  (aa)   Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-1154)25
 
  (bb)   Joint Life Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-1155)25
 
  (cc)   Core Withdrawal Benefit Rider (Form No. 20-1162)28
 
  (dd)   Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit IV Rider (Form No. 20-1176)29
 
  (ee)   Core Withdrawal Benefit II Rider (Form No. 20-1178)

                         
    5.     (a)     (1 )   Pacific Innovations—Variable Annuity Application (Form No. 25-12610)4
 
                       
                (2 )   Pacific Innovations Select—Variable Annuity Application (Form No. 25-10350)20

  (b)   Variable Annuity PAC APP1
 
  (c)   Application/Confirmation Form2
 
  (d)   Guaranteed Income Advantage (GIA) Rider Request (Form No. 1209-1A)9
 
  (e)   Guaranteed Earnings Enhancement (EEG) Rider Request Application6
 
  (f)   Guaranteed Protection Advantage (GPA) Rider Request (Form No. 55-16600)9
 
  (g)   Guaranteed Protection Advantage 5 Rider Request Form (Form No. 2311-BA)12
 
  (h)   Income Access Rider Request Form (Form No. 2315-3A)12
 
  (i)   Portfolio Optimization Rider Request Form (Form No. 2311-5A)16
 
  (j)   Portfolio Optimization Enrollment/Rider Request Form (Form No. 2150-5B)17
 
  (k)   Portfolio Optimization Enrollment/Rider Request Form (Form No. 2150-6B)20

                 
    6.     (a)   Pacific Life’s Articles of Incorporation1
 
               
          (b)   By-laws of Pacific Life1
 
               
          (c)   Pacific Life’s Restated Articles of Incorporation20
 
               
          (d)   By-laws of Pacific Life As Amended September 1, 200520

  7.   Form of Reinsurance Agreement24

                 
    8.     (a)   Pacific Select Fund Participation Agreement7
 
               
          (b)   Addendum to the Pacific Select Fund Participation Agreement (to add the Strategic Value and Focused 30 Portfolios)7
 
               
          (c)   Addendum to the Pacific Select Fund Participation Agreement (to add nine new Portfolios)7
 
               
          (d)   Addendum to the Pacific Select Fund Participation Agreement (to add the Equity Income and Research Portfolios)10
 
               
          (e)   Fund Participation Agreement Between Pacific Life Insurance Company, Pacific Select Distributors Inc., American Funds Insurance Services, American Funds Distributors, and Capital Research and Management Company.17
 
               
          (f)   Form of Exhibit B to the Pacific Select Fund Participation Agreement (to add International Small-Cap and Diversified Bond)20
 
          (g)   Form of AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc. Participation Agreement25
 
          (h)   Form of BlackRock Variable Series Fund, Inc. Participation Agreement25
 
              (1)    Amendment to Participation Agreement
 
          (i)   Form of Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust Participation Agreement25
 
              (1)     First Amendment to Participation Agreement
 
          (j)   Form of AllianceBernstein Investments, Inc. Administrative Services Agreement25
 
          (k)   Form of BlackRock Distributors, Inc. Administrative Services Agreement25
 
              (1)    Amendment to Administrative Services Agreement
 
          (l)   Form of Franklin Templeton Services, LLC Administrative Services Agreement25
 
              (1)     First Amendment to Administrative Services Agreement
 
          (m)   Form of AIM Variable Insurance Funds Participation Agreement27
 
          (n)   Form of Invesco Aim Distributors, Inc. Distribution Services Agreement27
 
          (o)   Form of Invesco Aim Advisors, Inc. Administrative Services Agreement27
 
          (p)   Form of GE Investments Funds, Inc. Participation Agreement27
 
              (1)    Amendment to Participation Agreement
 
          (q)   Form of GE Investment Distributors, Inc. Distribution and Services Agreement (Amendment and Restated)
 
          (r)   Form of Van Kampen Life Investment Trust Participation Agreement27
 
          (s)   Form of Van Kampen Funds, Inc. Shareholder Service Agreement27
 
          (t)   Form of Van Kampen Asset Management Administrative Services Letter Agreement27
 
          (u)   Form of GE Investments Funds, Inc. Investor Services Agreement
 
              (1)    First Amendment to Investor Services Agreement
 
          (v)   Form of PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust Participation Agreement
 
          (w)   Form of Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC Selling Agreement
 
          (x)   Form of PIMCO LLC Services Agreement
 

  9   Opinion and Consent of legal officer of Pacific Life as to the legality of Contracts being registered.1

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  10.   Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm and Consent of Independent Auditors
 
  11.   Not applicable
 
  12.   Not applicable
 
  13.   Powers of Attorney30
 
1   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000912057-99-009849 filed on December 17, 1999 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
2   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000912057-00-015739 filed on March 31, 2000 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
3   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000912057-00-018010 filed on April 14, 2000 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
4   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000912057-00-052614 filed on December 7, 2000 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
5   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000912057-00-055027 filed on December 28, 2000 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
6   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-93059 Accession No. 0000912057-01-007165 filed on March 2, 2001 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
7   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000912057-01-510459 filed on April 25, 2001 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
8   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0001017062-01-500247 filed on May 10, 2001 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
9   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000898430-01-503115 filed on October 25, 2001 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
10   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0001017062-02-000788 filed on April 30, 2002 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
11   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0001017062-02-002149 filed on December 19, 2002 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
12   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0001017062-03-000460 filed on March 18, 2003 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
13   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0001017062-03-000934 filed on April 25, 2003 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
14   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0001193125-03-099264 filed on December 24, 2003 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
15   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0001193125-04-031276 filed on February 27, 2004 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
16   Included in Registrant’s Form N4/A, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-04-000882 filed on October 15, 2004 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
17   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-05-000253 filed on April 19, 2005 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
18   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-05-000439 filed on June 15, 2005 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
19   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-05-000569 filed on August 2, 2005 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
20   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-06-000525 filed on April 17, 2006 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
21   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-06-001250 filed on October 19, 2006 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
22   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-07-000441 filed on April 16, 2007 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
23   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-141135, Accession No. 0000892569-07-001521 filed on December 12, 2007 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
24   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-08-000617 filed on April 21, 2008 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
25   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-136597, Accession No. 0000892569-08-000961 filed on July 2, 2008 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
26   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-08-001264 filed on September 11, 2008 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
27   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000892569-08-001554 filed on December 4, 2008 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
28   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-136597, Accession No. 0000892569-09-000061 filed on February 9, 2009 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
29   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/A, File No. 333-136597, Accession No. 0000950123-09-050719 filed on October 16, 2009 and incorporated by reference herein.
 
30   Included in Registrant’s Form N-4/B, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000950123-09-070785 filed on December 15, 2009 and incorporated by reference herein.

Item 25. Directors and Officers of Pacific Life

     
    Positions and Offices
Name and Address   with Pacific Life
James T. Morris
  Director, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
 
Khanh T. Tran
  Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
 
Sharon A. Cheever
  Director, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
 
Audrey L. Milfs
  Director, Vice President and Secretary
 
   
Edward R. Byrd
  Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
 
Brian D. Klemens
  Vice President and Controller
 
   
Dewey P. Bushaw
  Executive Vice President
 
Denis P. Kalscheur
  Senior Vice President and Treasurer

The address for each of the persons listed above is as follows:

700 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660

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Item 26. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with Pacific Life or Separate Account A.
     The following is an explanation of the organization chart of Pacific Life’s subsidiaries:
Pacific Life is a Nebraska Stock Life Insurance Company wholly-owned by Pacific LifeCorp (a Delaware Stock Holding Company), which is, in turn, 100% owned by Pacific Mutual Holding Company (a Nebraska Mutual Insurance Holding Company).

PACIFIC LIFE, SUBSIDIARIES & AFFILIATED ENTERPRISES
LEGAL STRUCTURE
                 
    Jurisdiction of     Percentage of  
    Incorporation or     Ownership by its  
    Organization     Immediate Parent  
Pacific Mutual Holding Company
  Nebraska        
Pacific LifeCorp
  Delaware     100  
Pacific Life Insurance Company
  Nebraska     100  
Pacific Life & Annuity Company
  Arizona     100  
Pacific Select Distributors, Inc.
  California     100  
Pacific Select, LLC
  Delaware     100  
Pacific Asset Holding LLC
  Delaware     100  
Pacific TriGuard Partners LLC #
  Delaware     100  
Grayhawk Golf Holdings, LLC
  Delaware     95  
Grayhawk Golf L.L.C.
  Arizona     100  
Las Vegas Golf I, LLC
  Delaware     100  
Angel Park Golf, LLC
  Nevada     100  
CW Atlanta, LLC
  Delaware     100  
City Walk Towers, LLC
  Delaware     100  
Kierland One, LLC
  Delaware     100  
Kinzie Member, LLC
  Delaware     100  
Parcel B Owner LLC
  Delaware     88  
Kinzie Parcel A Member, LLC
  Delaware     100  
Parcel A Owner LLC
  Delaware     90  
PL/KBS Fund Member, LLC
  Delaware     100  
KBS/PL Properties, L.P. #
  Delaware     99.9  
Wildflower Member, LLC
  Delaware     100  
Epoch-Wildflower, LLC
  Florida     99  
Confederation Life Insurance and Annuity Company
  Georgia     100  
Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC +
  Delaware     100  
Pacific Alliance Reinsurance Company of Vermont
  Vermont     100  
Pacific Mezzanine Associates L.L.C.
  Delaware     67  
Pacific Mezzanine Investors L.L.C. #
  Delaware     100  
Aviation Capital Group Corp.
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition Corporation V
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 41 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 42 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 4063 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 4084 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 29677 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG International Ltd.
  Bermuda     100  
ACG Acquisition Ireland III Limited
  Ireland     100  
ACG Acquisition Ireland IV Ltd.
  Ireland     100  
ACG Acquisition Ireland V Ltd.
  Ireland     100  
ACG Investment Capital Partners LLC
  Delaware     50  
ACG Acquisition VI LLC
  Nevada     50  
ACG Acquisition XIX LLC
  Delaware     20  
ACG XIX Holding LLC
  Delaware     100  
Aviation Capital Group Trust
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition XV LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition XX LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition Ireland Limited
  Ireland     100  
ACG Acquisition Labuan Ltd.
  Labuan     100  
ACG Acquisitions Sweden AB
  Sweden     100  
ACG Acquisition (Bermuda) Ltd.
  Bermuda     100  
ACG Acquisition XXI LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Trust 2004 -1 Holding LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Funding Trust 2004-1
  Delaware     100  
ACG 2004-1 Bermuda Limited
  Bermuda     100  
ACG Acquisition 30746 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition Ireland 2004-1 Limited
  Ireland     100  
ACG Trust II Holding LLC
  Delaware     100  
Aviation Capital Group Trust II
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition XXV LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 37 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 38 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition Ireland II Limited
  Ireland     100  
ACG Acquisition (Bermuda) II Ltd.
  Bermuda     100  
ACG Acquisition XXIX LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition XXX LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 31 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 32 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 33 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 34 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 36 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 39 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACGFS LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 35 LLC
  Delaware     100  
Boullioun Aviation Services Inc.
  Washington     100  
Boullioun Aviation Services (International) Inc.
  Washington     100  
Boullioun Aircraft Holding Company, Inc.
  Washington     100  
Boullioun Portfolio Finance III LLC
  Nevada     100  
ACG Funding 2005-1 Holding LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Funding Trust 2005-1
  Delaware     100  
ACG III Holding LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Trust III
  Delaware     100  
RAIN I LLC
  Delaware     100  
RAIN II LLC
  Delaware     100  
RAIN III LLC
  Delaware     100  
RAIN IV LLC
  Delaware     100  
RAIN V LLC
  Delaware     100  
RAIN VI LLC
  Delaware     100  
RAIN VII LLC
  Delaware     100  
RAIN VIII LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 30271 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 30286 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 30744 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 30745 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 30289 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 30293 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 1176 LLC
  Delaware     100  
0168 Statutory Trust
  Connecticut     100  
0179 Statutory Trust
  Connecticut     100  
Bellevue Aircraft Leasing Limited
  Ireland     100  
Rainier Aircraft Leasing (Ireland) Limited
  Ireland     100  
ACG Acquisition (Cyprus) Ltd.
  Cyprus     100  
ACG Acquisition (Bermuda) III Ltd.
  Bermuda     100  
ACG 2006-ECA LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 2692 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG ECA-2006 Ireland Limited
  Ireland     100  
ACG Acquisition 2987 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition 3141 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Acquisition Aruba NV
  Aruba     100  
ACG Trust 2006-1 Holding LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Funding Trust 2006-1
  Delaware     100  
ACG Capital Partners LLC
  Delaware     50  
Bellevue Coastal Leasing LLC
  Washington     100  
ACG Capital Partners Ireland Limited
  Ireland     100  
ACG Acquisition 30288 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACGCP Acquisition 979 LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Trust 2009-1 Holding LLC
  Delaware     100  
ACG Funding Trust 2009-1
  Delaware     100  
College Savings Bank
  New Jersey     100  
Pacific Asset Funding, LLC
  Delaware     100  
PL Trading Company, LLC
  Delaware     100  
Pacific Life Trade Services, Limited
  Hong Kong     100  
Pacific Life & Annuity Services, Inc.
  Colorado     100  
Bella Sera Holdings, LLC
  Delaware     100  
Pacific Life Re Holdings LLC
  Delaware     100  
Pacific Life Re Holdings Limited
  U.K.     100  
Pacific Life Re Services Limited
  U.K.     100  
Pacific Life Re Limited
  U.K.     100  
Pacific Alliance Reinsurance Ltd.
  Bermuda     100  
 
#   Abbreviated structure
 
+   A Division of Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC does business as Pacific Asset Management


 

Item 27. Number of Contractholders

                 
  (1) Pacific Innovations – Approximately       1,063   Qualified
          983   Non Qualified
 
               
  (2) Pacific Innovations Select – Approximately       95,868   Qualified
          58,315   Non Qualified
 
               

Item 28. Indemnification

  (a)   The Distribution Agreement between Pacific Life and Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD) provides substantially as follows:

      Pacific Life hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless PSD and its officers and directors, and employees for any expenses (including legal expenses), losses, claims, damages, or liabilities incurred by reason of any untrue statement or representation of a material fact or any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated to make other statements not misleading, if made in reliance on any prospectus, registration statement, post-effective amendment thereof, or sales materials supplied or approved by Pacific Life or the Separate Account. Pacific Life shall reimburse each such person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, liability, damage, or claim. However, in no case shall Pacific Life be required to indemnify for any expenses, losses, claims, damages, or liabilities which have resulted from the willful misfeasance, bad faith, negligence, misconduct, or wrongful act of PSD.
 
      PSD hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Pacific Life, its officers, directors, and employees, and the Separate Account for any expenses, losses, claims, damages, or liabilities arising out of or based upon any of the following in connection with the offer or sale of the contracts: (1) except for such statements made in reliance on any prospectus, registration statement or sales material supplied or approved by Pacific Life or the Separate Account, any untrue or alleged untrue statement or representation is made; (2) any failure to deliver a currently effective prospectus; (3) the use of any unauthorized sales literature by any officer, employee or agent of PSD or Broker; (4) any willful misfeasance, bad faith, negligence, misconduct or wrongful act. PSD shall reimburse each such person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, liability, damage, or claim.

  (b)   The Form of Selling Agreement between Pacific Life, Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (PSD) and Various Broker-Dealers and Agency (Selling Entities) provides substantially as follows:

      Pacific Life and PSD agree to indemnify and hold harmless Selling Entities, their officers, directors, agents and employees, against any and all losses, claims, damages, or liabilities to which they may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the Investment Company Act of 1940, or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated or necessary to make the statements made not misleading in the registration statement for the Contracts or for the shares of Pacific Select Fund (the “Fund”) filed pursuant to the Securities Act, or any prospectus included as a part thereof, as from time to time amended and supplemented, or in any advertisement or sales literature provided by Pacific Life and PSD.

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      Selling Entities agree to, jointly and severally, hold harmless and indemnify Pacific Life and PSD and any of their respective affiliates, employees, officers, agents and directors (collectively, “Indemnified Persons”) against any and all claims, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, losses occasioned by any rescission of any Contract pursuant to a “free look” provision or by any return of initial purchase payment in connection with an incomplete application), including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses and any loss attributable to the investment experience under a Contract, that any Indemnified Person may incur from liabilities resulting or arising out of or based upon (a) any untrue or alleged untrue statement other than statements contained in the registration statement or prospectus relating to any Contract, (b) (i) any inaccurate or misleading, or allegedly inaccurate or misleading sales material used in connection with any marketing or solicitation relating to any Contract, other than sales material provided preprinted by Pacific Life or PSD, and (ii) any use of any sales material that either has not been specifically approved in writing by Pacific Life or PSD or that, although previously approved in writing by Pacific Life or PSD, has been disapproved, in writing by either of them, for further use, or (c) any act or omission of a Subagent, director, officer or employee of Selling Entities, including, without limitation, any failure of Selling Entities or any Subagent to be registered as required as a broker/dealer under the 1934 Act, or licensed in accordance with the rules of any applicable SRO or insurance regulator.
 

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Item 29. Principal Underwriters

  (a)   PSD also acts as principal underwriter for Pacific Select Variable Annuity Separate Account, Separate Account B, Pacific Corinthian Variable Separate Account, Pacific Select Separate Account, Pacific Select Exec Separate Account, COLI Separate Account, COLI II Separate Account, COLI III Separate Account, COLI IV Separate Account, COLI V Separate Account, Separate Account A of Pacific Life & Annuity Company, Pacific Select Exec Separate Account of Pacific Life & Annuity Company, Separate Account I of Pacific Life Insurance Company, Separate Account I of Pacific Life & Annuity Company.
 
  (b)   For information regarding PSD, reference is made to Form B-D, SEC File No. 8-15264, which is herein incorporated by reference.
 
  (c)   PSD retains no compensation or net discounts or commissions from the Registrant.

Item 30. Location of Accounts and Records

      The accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Registrant pursuant to Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the rules under that section will be maintained by Pacific Life at 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California 92660.

Item 31. Management Services

      Not applicable

Item 32. Undertakings

      The registrant hereby undertakes:

  (a)   to file a post-effective amendment to this registration statement as frequently as is necessary to ensure that the audited financial statements in this registration statement are never more than 16 months old for so long as payments under the variable annuity contracts may be accepted, unless otherwise permitted.
 
  (b)   to include either (1) as a part of any application to purchase a contract offered by the prospectus, a space that an applicant can check to request a Statement of Additional Information, or (2) a post card or similar written communication affixed to or included in the prospectus that the applicant can remove to send for a Statement of Additional Information, or (3) to deliver a Statement of Additional Information with the Prospectus.
 
  (c)   to deliver any Statement of Additional Information and any financial statements required to be made available under this Form promptly upon written or oral request.

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Additional Representations

     (a) The Registrant and its Depositor are relying upon American Council of Life Insurance, SEC No-Action Letter, SEC Ref. No. 1P-6-88 (November 28, 1988) with respect to annuity contracts offered as funding vehicles for retirement plans meeting the requirements of Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, and the provisions of paragraphs (1)-(4) of this letter have been complied with.

     (b) The Registrant and its Depositor are relying upon Rule 6c-7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 with respect to annuity contracts offered as funding vehicles to participants in the Texas Optional Retirement Program, and the provisions of Paragraphs (a)-(d) of the Rule have been complied with.

     (c) REPRESENTATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 26(f) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940: Pacific Life Insurance Company and Registrant represent that the fees and charges to be deducted under the Variable Annuity Contract (“Contract”) described in the prospectus contained in this registration statement are, in the aggregate, reasonable in relation to the services rendered, the expenses expected to be incurred, and the risks assumed in connection with the Contract.

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SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets the requirements of Securities Act Rule 485(b) for effectiveness of this Registration Statement and has caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized in the City of Newport Beach, and the State of California on this 19th day of April, 2010.

         
    SEPARATE ACCOUNT A
    (Registrant)
 
       
 
       
  By:   PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
 
       
  By:    
     
 
      James T. Morris*
      Director, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
 
       
 
       
  By:   PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE
      COMPANY
      (Depositor)
 
       
  By:    
     
 
      James T. Morris*
      Director, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

         
Signature
  Title
  Date
 

James T. Morris*
  Director, Chairman, President
and Chief Executive Officer
  April 19, 2010    
 

Khanh T. Tran*
  Director, Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
  April 19, 2010    
 

Sharon A. Cheever*
  Director, Senior Vice President
and General Counsel
  April 19, 2010    
 

Audrey L. Milfs*
  Director, Vice President and
Secretary
  April 19, 2010    
 

Edward R. Byrd*
  Senior Vice President and
Chief Accounting Officer
  April 19, 2010    
 

Brian D. Klemens*
  Vice President and Controller   April 19, 2010    
 

Dewey P. Bushaw*
  Executive Vice President   April 19, 2010    
 

Denis P. Kalscheur*
  Senior Vice President and Treasurer   April 19, 2010    
*By: /s/ SHARON A. CHEEVER

Sharon A. Cheever
as attorney-in-fact
      April 19, 2010    

(Powers of Attorney are contained in Post-Effective Amendment No. 39 of the Registration Statement filed on Form N-4 for Separate Account A, File No. 333-93059, Accession No. 0000950123-09-070785, filed on December 15, 2009, as Exhibit 13).

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(PACIFIC LIFE LOGO)
CORE WITHDRAWAL BENEFIT II RIDER
Pacific Life Insurance Company, a stock company, has issued this Rider as a part of the annuity Contract to which it is attached.
All provisions of the Contract that do not conflict with this Rider apply to this Rider. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Rider and the provisions of the Contract, the provisions of this Rider shall prevail over the provisions of the Contract.
The numeric examples contained in this Rider are based on certain assumptions. They have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time.
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Definition of Terms – Unless redefined below, the terms defined in the Contract will have the same meaning when used in this Rider. For purposes of this Rider, the following definitions apply:
Annual RMD Amount – The amount required to be distributed each Calendar Year for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect on the Rider Effective Date.
Protected Payment Amount – The maximum amount that can be withdrawn under this Rider without reducing the Protected Payment Base.
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is age [65] or older when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset occurred, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to [5.0%] multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year.
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) is younger than age [65] when the first withdrawal was taken or the most recent reset occurred, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount on any day after the Rider Effective Date is equal to the lesser of:
  (a)   [5.0%] multiplied by the Protected Payment Base as of that day, less cumulative withdrawals during that Contract Year; or
 
  (b)   the Remaining Protected Balance as of that day.
The Protected Payment Amount will never be less than zero.
Protected Payment Base – An amount used to determine the Protected Payment Amount. The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero and will remain unchanged except as otherwise described under the provisions of this Rider.
Remaining Protected Balance – The amount available for future withdrawals made under this Rider. The Remaining Protected Balance will never be less than zero.
Quarterly Rider Anniversary – Every three month anniversary of the Rider Effective Date.
Reset Date – Any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date on which an Automatic Reset or an Owner-Elected Reset occurs.
For purposes of this Rider, the term “withdrawal” includes any applicable withdrawal charges and charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes, if applicable. Amounts withdrawn under this Rider will reduce the Contract Value by the amount withdrawn and will be subject to the same conditions, limitations, restrictions and all other fees, charges and deductions, if applicable, as withdrawals otherwise made under the provisions of the Contract.
Core Withdrawal Benefit II Rider – You have purchased a Core Withdrawal Benefit II Rider. Subject to the terms and conditions described herein, this Rider:
  (a)   allows for withdrawals up to the Protected Payment Amount without any adjustment to the Protected Payment Base, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates as specified in the Termination of Rider provision of this Rider;
 
  (b)   allows for withdrawals for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect on the Rider Effective Date, regardless of the amount, without any adjustment to the Protected Payment Base, subject to certain conditions as described herein;
 
  (c)   provides for Automatic Annual Resets or Owner-Elected Resets of the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance.
     
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This Rider may be purchased and added to the Contract on the Contract Issue Date or Contract Anniversary, if available, provided that on the Rider Effective Date: (a) the age of each Annuitant is [85] years or younger; (b) the Contract is not issued as an Inherited IRA or Inherited TSA; and (c) the entire Contract Value is invested according to the investment allocation requirements applicable to this Rider.
Annual Charge – An annual charge for expenses related to this Rider will be deducted on a quarterly basis. The annual charge is equal to 0.60% (0.15% quarterly) and will not exceed a maximum annual charge percentage of 1.20% (0.30% quarterly).
The charge is deducted, in arrears, on each Quarterly Rider Anniversary that this Rider remains in effect. The charge is equal to the quarterly charge percentage multiplied by the Protected Payment Base on the day the charge is deducted. The charge will be deducted from the variable Investment Options on a proportionate basis relative to the Account Value in each such variable Investment Option. Any portion of the annual charge will not be deducted from the DCA Plus fixed account (if available under the Contract).
The annual charge percentage established on the Rider Effective Date will not change, except as otherwise described in the provisions of this Rider.
If this Rider terminates on a Quarterly Rider Anniversary, the entire charge for the prior Quarterly Rider Anniversary will be deducted from the Contract Value on that Quarterly Rider Anniversary.
If the Rider terminates prior to a Quarterly Rider Anniversary, we will prorate the charge. The prorated amount will be based on the Protected Payment Base as of the day the Rider terminates. Such prorated amount will be deducted from the Contract Value on the earlier of the day the Contract terminates or the Quarterly Rider Anniversary immediately following the day the Rider terminates.
We will waive the charge for the current quarter in the following cases:
  (a)   if the Rider terminates as a result of the death of an Owner or sole surviving Annuitant;
 
  (b)   upon full annuitization of the Contract;
 
  (c)   after the Contract Value is zero.
Any portion of the annual charge we deduct from any of our fixed-rate General Account Investment Options (if available under the Contract) will not be greater than the annual interest credited in excess of that option’s minimum guaranteed interest rate.
Change in Annual Charge – The annual charge percentage, and corresponding deduction, may change as a result of any automatic reset or Owner-elected reset. The annual charge percentage will never exceed the annual charge percentage then in effect for new issues of this same rider. If we are no longer issuing this rider, any change in the annual charge percentage will not result in an annual charge percentage that exceeds the maximum annual charge percentage specified in the Annual Charge provision.
If the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are never reset, the annual charge percentage established on the Rider Effective Date is guaranteed not to change.
Initial Values – The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are initially determined on the Rider Effective Date. On the Rider Effective Date, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are equal to the Initial Purchase Payment or, if effective on a Contract Anniversary, the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary. The initial Protected Payment Amount on the Rider Effective Date is equal to [5.0%] multiplied by the Protected Payment Base.
Subsequent Purchase Payments – Purchase Payments received after the Rider Effective Date will result in an increase in the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance by the amount of the Purchase Payment.
Limitation on Subsequent Purchase Payments – For purposes of this Rider, in no event may any Purchase Payment received on or after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, result in the total of all Purchase Payments received since that Contract Anniversary to exceed $100,000, without our prior approval.
     
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This provision only applies if the Contract permits Purchase Payments after the first (1st) Contract Anniversary, measured from the Contract Date.
For purposes of this Rider, we reserve the right to restrict subsequent Purchase Payments.
Withdrawal of Protected Payment Amount – While this Rider is in effect, you may withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount without any adjustment to the Protected Payment Base, regardless of market performance, until the Rider terminates as specified in the Termination of Rider provision of this Rider.
If a withdrawal does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, the Protected Payment Base will remain unchanged. Immediately following the withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the withdrawal amount.
Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount – Except as otherwise provided under the Withdrawals to Satisfy Required Minimum Distribution provision of this Rider, if a withdrawal exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to that withdrawal, we will reduce the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance. This adjustment will occur immediately following the withdrawal according to the following calculation:
  (a)   Determine excess withdrawal amount (“A”) where A equals total withdrawal amount minus the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal;
 
  (b)   Determine ratio for proportionate reduction (“B”) where B equals A divided by (Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal minus Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal);
 
  (c)   Determine the new Protected Payment Base which equals (Protected Payment Base immediately prior to the withdrawal) multiplied by (1 minus B). The Protected Payment Base will never be less than zero;
 
  (d)   Determine the new Remaining Protected Balance which equals the lesser of:
  1.   (Remaining Protected Balance immediately prior to the withdrawal minus the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal) multiplied by (1 minus B); or
 
  2.   The Remaining Protected Balance immediately prior to the withdrawal minus the total withdrawal amount.
The amount available for withdrawal under the Contract must be sufficient to support any withdrawal that would otherwise exceed the Protected Payment Amount.
Withdrawals to Satisfy Required Minimum Distribution – No adjustment will be made to the Protected Payment Base if a withdrawal made under this Rider exceeds the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal, provided that such withdrawal (herein referred to as an “RMD withdrawal”) is for purposes of satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9) and related Code provisions in effect on the Rider Effective Date, and further subject to the following:
  (a)   you have authorized us to calculate and make periodic distribution of the Annual RMD Amount for the Calendar Year required based on the payment frequency you have chosen;
 
  (b)   the Annual RMD Amount is based on this Contract only; and
 
  (c)   no withdrawals (other than RMD withdrawals) are made from the Contract during the Contract Year.
Immediately following an RMD withdrawal, the Remaining Protected Balance will decrease by the RMD withdrawal amount.
Depletion of Contract Value – If a withdrawal (including an RMD withdrawal) does not exceed the Protected Payment Amount immediately prior to the withdrawal and reduces the Contract Value to zero, the following will apply:
     
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  (a)   if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
  (i)   was younger than age [65] when the first withdrawal was taken under this Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero; or
 
  (ii)   was age [65] or older when the first withdrawal was taken under this Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, the Protected Payment Amount will be paid each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
      The payments under subparagraphs (a)(i) and (a)(ii) above will be made under a series of pre-authorized withdrawals under a payment frequency, as elected by the Owner, but no less frequently than annually;
 
  (b)   no additional Purchase Payments will be accepted under the Contract;
 
  (c)   any Remaining Protected Balance will not be available for payment in a lump sum and will not be applied to provide payments under an Annuity Option; and
 
  (d)   the Contract will cease to provide any death benefit.
Depletion of Remaining Protected Balance – If a withdrawal reduces the Remaining Protected Balance to zero and Contract Value remains, the following will apply:
If the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner):
  (a)   was younger than age [65] when the first withdrawal was taken under this Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, this Rider will terminate; or
 
  (b)   was age [65] or older when the first withdrawal was taken under this Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, you may elect to withdraw up to the Protected Payment Amount each year until the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant.
If a withdrawal made under subparagraph (b) (except an RMD withdrawal) taken from the Contract exceeds the Protected Payment Amount, the Protected Payment Base will be reduced according to the Withdrawals Exceeding Protected Payment Amount provision of this Rider.
Any death benefit proceeds to be paid to the Beneficiary from remaining Contract Value will be paid as described under the Death Benefit provisions of the Contract.
Automatic Reset – On each Contract Anniversary while this rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date, we will automatically reset the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance if the Protected Payment Base is less than the Contract Value on that Contract Anniversary.
The Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance will be reset to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value.
The annual charge percentage may change as a result of any automatic reset. (See Change in Annual Charge provision). We will provide you with written confirmation of each automatic reset.
Automatic Reset — Opt-Out Election – If you are within [sixty (60)] days after a Contract Anniversary on which an automatic reset is effective, you have the option to reinstate the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, Protected Payment Amount and the annual charge percentage to their respective amounts immediately before the automatic reset.
If you elect this option, your opt-out election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within the same [sixty (60)] day period after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective.
Any future automatic resets will continue in effect in accordance with the Automatic Reset provision of this Rider.
     
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Automatic Reset – Future Participation – You may elect not to participate in future automatic resets at any time. Your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center, while this rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries.
If you previously elected not to participate in automatic resets, you may re-elect to participate in future automatic resets at any time. Your election to resume participation must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center while this Rider is in effect and before the Annuity Date. Such election will be effective for future Contract Anniversaries as described in the Automatic Reset provision.
Owner-Elected Resets (Non-Automatic) – You may, on any Contract Anniversary after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later, elect to reset the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value as of that Contract Anniversary. The annual charge percentage may change if you elect this reset option. (See Change in Annual Charge provision).
On each Reset Date we will set the Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Base to an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Value as of that Reset Date.
If you elect this option, your election must be received, in a form satisfactory to us, at our Service Center within [sixty (60)] days after the Contract Anniversary on which the reset is effective. This option may result in a reduction in the Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance, and Protected Payment Amount. We will provide you with written confirmation of your election.
Application of Rider Provisions – On and after each Reset Date, the provisions of this Rider shall apply in the same manner as they applied when the Rider was originally issued. The limitations and restrictions on Purchase Payments and withdrawals, the deduction of quarterly charges and any future reset options available on and after each Reset Date, will again apply and will be measured from that Reset Date.
Annuitization – If you annuitize the Contract at the maximum Annuity Date specified in the Contract and this Rider is still in effect at the time of your election and a Life Only fixed annuity option is chosen, the annuity payments will be equal to the greater of:
  (a)   the Life Only fixed annual payment amount calculated based on the Net Contract Value at the maximum Annuity Date, less any charges for premium taxes and/or other taxes, and the Life Only fixed annuity rates based on the greater of our current income factors in effect for the Contract on the maximum Annuity Date; or our guaranteed income factors; or
 
  (b)   the Protected Payment Amount in effect at the maximum Annuity Date.
If you annuitize the Contract at any time prior to the maximum Annuity Date specified in the Contract, your annuity payments will be determined in accordance with the terms of the Contract. The Protected Payment Base, Remaining Protected Balance and Protected Payment Amount under this Rider will not be used in determining any annuity payments.
Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract – If the Owner dies while this Rider is in effect and if the surviving spouse of the deceased Owner elects to continue the Contract in accordance with its terms, the surviving spouse may continue to take withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount under this Rider, until the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero. If the Contract Value or Remaining Protected Balance is at zero when the Owner dies, this Rider will terminate.
The surviving spouse may elect any of the reset options available under this Rider for subsequent Contract Anniversaries. If a reset takes place, then the provisions of this Rider will continue in full force and in effect for the surviving spouse.
     
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Termination of Rider – Except as otherwise provided under the Continuation of Rider if Surviving Spouse Continues Contract provision of this Rider, this Rider will automatically terminate upon the earliest to occur of one of the following events:
  (a)   the day any portion of the Contract Value is no longer invested according to the investment allocation requirements applicable to this Rider;
 
  (b)   the day the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to zero;
 
  (c)   the day of the first death of an Owner or the date of death of the sole surviving Annuitant;
 
  (d)   the day the Contract is terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Contract;
 
  (e)   the day we are notified of a change in ownership of the Contract to a non-spouse Owner if the Contract is non-qualified, excluding changes in ownership to or from certain trusts; or
 
  (f)   the Annuity Date;
 
  (g)   the day that the Contract Value is reduced to zero as a result of a withdrawal (except an RMD withdrawal) that exceeds the Protected Payment Amount.
This Rider will not terminate under subparagraph (b) above if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age [65] or older when the first withdrawal was taken under this Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
This Rider and the Contract will not terminate under subparagraph (d) above if at the time of this event, the Contract Value is zero and we are making pre-authorized withdrawals of the Protected Payment Amount. In this case, the Rider and Contract will terminate under:
  (i)   subparagraph (b) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was younger than age [65] when the first withdrawal was taken under this Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later; or
 
  (ii)   subparagraph (c) if the oldest Owner (or youngest Annuitant, in the case of a Non-Natural Owner) was age [65] or older when the first withdrawal was taken under this Rider after the Rider Effective Date or the most recent Reset Date, whichever is later.
Rider Effective Date – This Rider is effective on the Contract Date, unless a later date is shown below.
     Rider Effective Date: [Date]
All other terms and conditions of the Contract remain unchanged by this Rider.
PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
     
(SIGNATURE)
  (SIGNATURE)
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer   Secretary
     
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CORE WITHDRAWAL BENEFIT II RIDER
SAMPLE CALCULATIONS – For Illustration Purposes Only
The numeric examples shown in this section are based on certain assumptions. They have been provided to assist in understanding the benefits provided by this Rider and to demonstrate how Purchase Payments received and withdrawals made from the Contract prior to the Annuity Date affect the values and benefits under this Rider over an extended period of time. These examples are not intended to serve as projections of future investment returns.
The values shown in Examples 1 through 4 are based on the following assumptions:
    Rider purchased at Contract issue by a 64-year old
 
    Automatic resets are shown if applicable
 
    Investment returns are random
Example 1: Setting of Initial Values
                                                 
                    Contract   Protected   Remaining   Protected
Contract   Purchase           Value After   Payment   Protected   Payment
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Transaction   Base   Balance   Amount
Beginning of Year 1
  $ 100,000             $ 100,000     $ 100,000     $ 100,000     $ 5,000  
Example 2: Subsequent Purchase Payment
                                                 
                    Contract   Protected   Remaining   Protected
Contract   Purchase           Value After   Payment   Protected   Payment
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Transaction   Base   Balance   Amount
Beginning of Year 1
  $ 100,000             $ 100,000     $ 100,000     $ 100,000     $ 5,000  
Activity
  $ 100,000             $ 200,000     $ 200,000     $ 200,000     $ 10,000  
Beginning of Year 2
                  $ 207,000     $ 207,000     $ 207,000     $ 10,350  
    Since a subsequent purchase payment of $100,000 was made in the first Contract Year, the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance are increased by the amount of the purchase payment and the Protected Payment Amount is adjusted to equal 5% of the new Protected Payment Base.
 
    An automatic Reset takes place at the beginning of Contract Year 2, since the Contract Value ($207,000) is higher than the Protected Payment Base ($200,000). This resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $207,000. Also, the Protected Payment Amount increases to $10,350 (5% x $207,000).
     
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Example 3: Compliant Withdrawals
                                                 
                    Contract   Protected   Remaining   Protected
Contract   Purchase           Value After   Payment   Protected   Payment
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Transaction   Base   Balance   Amount
Beginning of Year 1
  $ 100,000             $ 100,000     $ 100,000     $ 100,000     $ 5,000  
Activity
  $ 100,000             $ 200,000     $ 200,000     $ 200,000     $ 10,000  
Beginning of Year 2
                  $ 207,000     $ 207,000     $ 207,000     $ 10,350  
Activity
          $ 5,000     $ 204,000     $ 207,000     $ 202,000     $ 5,350  
Beginning of Year 3
                  $ 205,000     $ 207,000     $ 202,000     $ 10,350  
Beginning of Year 4
                  $ 215,000     $ 215,000     $ 215,000     $ 10,750  
    Since a compliant withdrawal takes place in Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base remains the same ($207,000) and the Remaining Protected Balance ($202,000) is reduced by the amount of the withdrawal ($5,000).
 
    At the beginning of Contract Year 3, a Reset does not take place since the Contract Value ($205,000) is less than the Protected Payment Base ($207,000). The Protected Payment Base ($207,000) and the Remaining Protected Balance ($202,000) remain the same and the Protected Payment Amount is reset to $10,350 (5% x 207,000).
 
    An automatic Reset takes place at the beginning of Contract Year 4, since the Contract Value ($215,000) is higher than the Protected Payment Base ($207,000). This resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $215,000. Also, the Protected Payment Amount increases to $10,750 (5% x $215,000).
Example 4: Non-Compliant Withdrawals
                                                 
                    Contract   Protected   Remaining   Protected
Contract   Purchase           Value After   Payment   Protected   Payment
Year   Payment   Withdrawal   Transaction   Base   Balance   Amount
Beginning of Year 1
  $ 100,000             $ 100,000     $ 100,000     $ 100,000     $ 5,000  
Activity
  $ 100,000             $ 200,000     $ 200,000     $ 200,000     $ 10,000  
Beginning of Year 2
                  $ 207,000     $ 207,000     $ 207,000     $ 10,350  
Activity
          $ 20,000     $ 182,000     $ 196,567     $ 186,739     $ 0  
Beginning of Year 3
                  $ 192,000     $ 196,567     $ 186,739     $ 9,828  
Beginning of Year 4
                  $ 215,000     $ 215,000     $ 215,000     $ 10,750  
    Due to the non-compliant w/d of $20,000 made in Contract Year 2, the Protected Payment Base is reduced to $196,567 and the Remaining Protected Balance is reduced to $186,739.
  o   A = $9,650 = ($20,000 – $10,350)
 
  o   B = 0.0504 = $9,650/($202,000 – $10,350)
 
  o   PPB = $196,567 = $207,000 x (1 – 0.0504)
 
  o   RPB = $186,739 = lesser of:
  §   $186,739 = ($207,000 – $10,350) x (1 – 0.0504); or
 
  §   $187,000 = ($207,000 – $20,000)
  o   At the beginning of Contract Year 3, the Protected Payment Amount is reset to $9,828 (5% x $196,567)
    An automatic Reset takes place at the beginning of Contract Year 4, since the Contract Value ($215,000) is higher than the Protected Payment Base ($196,567). This resets the Protected Payment Base and Remaining Protected Balance to $215,000. Also, the Protected Payment Amount increases to $10,750 (5% x $215,000).
     
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AMENDMENT THREE TO FUND PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
     This amendment dated as of April 1, 2010, and effective as of May 1, 2010, to the Fund Participation Agreement dated February 4, 2005 (the “Agreement”), as amended June 22, 2007 (“Amendment One”) and March 31, 2008 (“Amendment Two”) by and between Pacific Life Insurance Company (the “Company”) and BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc. (the “Fund”) is hereby amended as follows:
1. Underwriter
2. Schedule A
    WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to update Schedule A of the Agreement;
    WHEREAS, any capitalized terms set forth in this Amendment that are not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Agreement.
    NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto hereby amend the Agreement as follows:
1.   References to “Underwriter” shall mean “BlackRock Investments, LLC (“BRIL”) a broker-dealer registered as such under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the successor Underwriter to the Fund.
 
2.   Schedule A to the Agreement, as amended, is deleted in its entirety and replaced by Schedule A attached hereto.
To the extent that provisions of the Agreement and this Amendment are in conflict, the terms of this Amendment shall control. Except to the extent amended by this Amendment, the Agreement shall remain unchanged and in full force and effect, and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects as amended hereby.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused this Amendment to be executed in its name and behalf by its duly authorized representative as of the date specified above.
             
    PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
Anthony J. Dufault
   
 
  Title:   Assistant Vice President    
 
           
 
  Attest:        
 
     
 
Audrey L. Milfs, Corporate Secretary
   
 
           
    BLACKROCK VARIABLE SERIES FUNDS, INC.    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:        
 
           
    BLACKROCK INVESTMENTS, LLC    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:        

 


 

SCHEDULE A
The following registered and unregistered separate accounts of Pacific Life Insurance Company that offer portfolios of the BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc. through its variable contracts or variable polices are:
Pacific Select Exec Separate Account
Pacific COLI Separate Account
Pacific COLI Separate Account II
Pacific COLI Separate Account III
Pacific COLI Separate Account IV
Pacific COLI Separate Account V
Separate Account I
Separate Account A
Pacific Select Variable Annuity Separate Account

 

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Amendment No. 1 to Participation Agreement
Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust
Franklin/Templeton Distributors, Inc.
Pacific Life Insurance Company
Pacific Select Distributors, Inc.
     Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust (the “Trust”), Franklin/Templeton Distributors, Inc. (the “Underwriter,” and together with the Trust, “we” or “us”), Pacific Life Insurance Company (the “Company” or “you”), and Pacific Select Distributors, Inc., your distributor, on your behalf and on behalf of certain Accounts, have previously entered into a Participation Agreement dated May 1, 2008 (the “Agreement”). The parties now desire to amend the Agreement by this amendment (the “Amendment”).
     Except as modified hereby, all other terms and conditions of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. Unless otherwise indicated, the terms defined in the Agreement shall have the same meaning in this Amendment.
A M E N D M E N T
     For good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties agree to amend the Agreement as follows:
1.   Schedules B, C and F of the Agreement are deleted and replaced in their entirety with the Schedules B, C and F attached hereto, respectively.
 
2.   All other terms and provisions of the Agreement not amended herein shall remain in full force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has caused its duly authorized officers to execute this Amendment effective as of May 1, 2010.
             
The Trust:   Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust    
 
           
Only on behalf of each Portfolio listed on
Schedule C of the Agreement.
  By:        
 
     
 
   
    Name:    
    Title: Vice President    


 

             
The Underwriter:   Franklin/Templeton Distributors, Inc.    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
           
    Name:    
    Title: Senior Vice President    
 
           
The Company:   Pacific Life Insurance Company    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
           
    Name:    
    Title: Assistant Vice President    
 
    Attest:    
 
           
 
      Corporate Secretary    
 
           
The Distributor:   Pacific Select Distributors, Inc.    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
           
    Name:    
    Title: Vice President & Chief Financial Officer    
 
           
 
  Attest:        
 
           
 
      Corporate Secretary    

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Schedule B
Accounts of the Company
     
    SEC Registration
Name of Account   Yes/No
Separate Account A of Pacific Life Insurance Company
  Yes
 
   
Pacific Select Variable Annuity Separate Account of Pacific Life Insurance Company
  Yes
 
   
Pacific Select Exec Separate Account of Pacific Life Insurance Company
  Yes
 
   
Pacific COLI Separate Account
  No
Pacific COLI Separate Account II
  No
Pacific COLI Separate Account III
  No
Pacific COLI Separate Account IV
  No
Pacific COLI Separate Account V
  No
Separate Account I of Pacific Life Insurance Company
  No

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Schedule C
Available Portfolios and Classes of Shares of the Trust
Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4
Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2
Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2
Mutual Global Discovery Securities Fund — Class 2
In addition to portfolios and classes of shares listed above, any additional Portfolios and classes of shares other than Class 3 shares are included in this Schedule C listing provided that:
  (1)   the General Counsel of Franklin Templeton Investments receives from a person authorized by you a written notice in the form attached (which may be electronic mail or sent by electronic mail) (“Notice”) identifying this Agreement as provided in the Notice and specifying: (i) the names and classes of shares of additional Portfolios that you propose to offer as investment options of the Separate Accounts under the Contracts; and (ii) the date that you propose to begin offering Separate Account interests investing in the additional Portfolios under the Contracts; and
 
  (2)   we do not within ten (10) Business Days following receipt of the Notice send you a writing (which may be electronic mail) objecting to your offering such Separate Accounts investing in the additional Portfolios and classes of shares under the Contracts.
Provided that we do not object as provided above, your Notice shall amend, supplement and become a part of this Schedule C and the Agreement.

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Form of Notice Pursuant to Schedule C of Participation Agreement
To:   General Counsel c/o
Linda Lai (Llai@frk.com;) or Kevin Kirchoff (kkircho@frk.com)
Fax: 650 525-7059
Franklin Templeton Investments
1 Franklin Parkway,
Bldg. 920, 2nd Floor
San Mateo, CA 94403
With respect to the following agreement(s) (collectively, the “Agreement”)
(please reproduce and complete table for multiple agreements):
 
Date of Participation Agreement:
 
Insurance Company(ies):
 
Insurance Company Distributor(s):
As provided by Schedule C of the Agreement, this Notice proposes to Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, and Franklin/Templeton Distributors, Inc. the addition as of the offering date(s) listed below of the following Portfolios as additional investment options listed on Schedule C:
         
Names and Classes of Shares of Additional Portfolios      
Listing of current classes for your reference:
       
Class 1 (no 12b-1 fee);
       
Class 2 (12b-1 fee of 25 bps); or
       
     Class 4 (12b-1 fee of 35 bps).
  Offering Date(s)
Name and title of authorized person of insurance company:
Contact Information:

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Schedule F
Rule 12b-1 Plans of the Trust
Compensation
     Each Class 2 or Class 4 Portfolio named or referenced on Schedule C of this Agreement may make payments at a rate stated in its prospectus pursuant to the terms and conditions of its Rule 12b-1 distribution plan.
Agreement Provisions
     If the Company, on behalf of any Account, purchases Trust Portfolio shares (“Eligible Shares”) that are subject to a Rule 12b-1 plan adopted under the 1940 Act (the “Plan”), the Company, on behalf of its Distributor, may participate in the Plan.
     To the extent the Company or its affiliates, agents or designees (collectively “you”) provide any activity or service that is primarily intended to assist in the promotion, distribution or account servicing of Eligible Shares (“Rule 12b-1 Services”) or variable contracts offering Eligible Shares, the Underwriter, the Trust or their affiliates (collectively, “we”) may pay you a Rule 12b-1 fee. “Rule 12b-1 Services” may include, but are not limited to, printing of prospectuses and reports used for sales purposes, preparing and distributing sales literature and related expenses, advertisements, education of dealers and their representatives, and similar distribution-related expenses, furnishing personal services to owners of Contracts which may invest in Eligible Shares (“Contract Owners”), education of Contract Owners, answering routine inquiries regarding a Portfolio, coordinating responses to Contract Owner inquiries regarding the Portfolios, maintaining such accounts or providing such other enhanced services as a Trust Portfolio or Contract may require, or providing other services eligible for service fees as defined under FINRA rules.
     Your acceptance of such compensation is your acknowledgment that eligible services have been rendered. All Rule 12b-1 fees, shall be based on the value of Eligible Shares owned by the Company on behalf of its Accounts, and shall be calculated on the basis and at the rates set forth in the compensation provision stated above. The aggregate annual fees paid pursuant to each Plan shall not exceed the amounts stated as the “annual maximums” in the Portfolio’s prospectus, unless an increase is approved by shareholders as provided in the Plan. These maximums shall be a specified percent of the value of a Portfolio’s net assets attributable to Eligible Shares owned by the Company on behalf of its Accounts (determined in the same manner as the Portfolio uses to compute its net assets as set forth in its effective Prospectus). The Rule 12b-1 fee will be paid to you within thirty (30) days after the end of the three-month periods ending in January, April, July and October.
     You shall furnish us with such information as shall reasonably be requested by the Trust’s Boards of Trustees (“Trustees”) with respect to the Rule 12b-1 fees paid to you pursuant to the Plans. We shall furnish to the Trustees, for their review on a quarterly basis, a written report of the amounts expended under the Plans and the purposes for which such expenditures were made.

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     The Plans and provisions of any agreement relating to such Plans must be approved annually by a vote of the Trustees, including the Trustees who are not interested persons of the Trust and who have no financial interest in the Plans or any related agreement (“Disinterested Trustees”). Each Plan may be terminated at any time by the vote of a majority of the Disinterested Trustees, or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding shares as provided in the Plan, on sixty (60) days’ written notice, without payment of any penalty, or as provided in the Plan. Continuation of the Plans is also conditioned on Disinterested Trustees being ultimately responsible for selecting and nominating any new Disinterested Trustees. Under Rule 12b-1, the Trustees have a duty to request and evaluate, and persons who are party to any agreement related to a Plan have a duty to furnish, such information as may reasonably be necessary to an informed determination of whether the Plan or any agreement should be implemented or continued. Under Rule 12b-1, the Trust is permitted to implement or continue Plans or the provisions of any agreement relating to such Plans from year-to-year only if, based on certain legal considerations, the Trustees are able to conclude that the Plans will benefit each affected Trust Portfolio and class. Absent such yearly determination, the Plans must be terminated as set forth above. In the event of the termination of the Plans for any reason, the provisions of this Schedule F relating to the Plans will also terminate. You agree that your selling agreements with persons or entities through whom you intend to distribute Contracts will provide that compensation paid to such persons or entities may be reduced if a Portfolio’s Plan is no longer effective or is no longer applicable to such Portfolio or class of shares available under the Contracts.
     Any obligation assumed by the Trust pursuant to this Agreement shall be limited in all cases to the assets of the Trust and no person shall seek satisfaction thereof from shareholders of the Trust. You agree to waive payment of any amounts payable to you by Underwriter under a Plan until such time as the Underwriter has received such fee from the Trust.
     The provisions of the Plans shall control over the provisions of the Participation Agreement, including this Schedule F, in the event of any inconsistency. You agree to provide complete disclosure as required by all applicable statutes, rules and regulations of all rule 12b-1 fees received from us in the prospectus of the Contracts.

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SECOND AMENDMENT TO ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGREEMENT
     THIS SECOND AMENDMENT is dated as of April 01, 2010 and effective as of May 01, 2010, by and between BlackRock Investments, LLC, (“BRIL”), which replaced BlackRock Investments, Inc. (“BII”) and BlackRock Distributors, Inc. (“BDI”) as distributor for the BlackRock-advised Funds, and Pacific Life Insurance Company (“the Insurer”) relating to the Administrative Services Agreement, dated March 25th 2006 (the “Agreement”) and assigned and amended as of September 29, 2006 (the “First Amendment”).
          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the forgoing mutual promises set forth below, the Parties agree as follows:
     1. Parties to the Agreement.
     All references to “BlackRock Investments, Inc.” are hereby replaced with references to “BlackRock Investments, LLC”.
AMENDMENT
For good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties agree to amend the Agreement as follows:
Administrative Expense Payments
Section 1 is deleted and replaced with the following:
1. 1. Administration Expense Payments.
  (a)   BAL or its affiliates and/or, if approved by the Fund Board, the Funds shall pay the Insurer an annual fee equal to basis points (%) of the average daily net assets of the equity portfolios (excluding index portfolios) that are held in Separate Accounts of Insurer.
 
  (b)   BAL shall calculate the payment contemplated by this Section 1 at the end of each calendar quarter (“Quarterly Payment”). BAL will submit such payment to Insurer within a reasonable time period following the end of the quarter for which such fees are payable.
 
      Insurer will provide payment instructions (Wire/Check/ACH), account numbers, billing contact information, and other relevant information (as agreed to by the parties) (“Account Data”) and will notify BAL within five business days of any changes in the Account Data. Insurer will also notify BAL or its designee of any new accounts within five business days following the set up of any new accounts. If Insurer does not notify BAL of changes to Account Data or new accounts within the 5 business days, the fees on such accounts may be subject to nonpayment.
 
      The parties acknowledge and agree that the assets and/or accounts covered under the terms of this Agreement, as amended, will not be subject to fees or any additional payment arrangements with BAL or its affiliates for services, sub-transfer agency, sub-accounting, networking services or for any similar services, other than as described herein. Insurer

 


 

      represents and warrants that they are not invoicing BAL or its affiliates for duplicative fees as described in the preceding sentence.
 
      Insurer shall have sixty (60) days from the earlier of (a) receipt of the invoice prepared by BAL or (b) from date payment is made by BAL, to request in writing additions or adjustments. After each sixty (60) day reconciliation period, any requested adjustments or payments will be at the discretion of BAL.
 
  (c)   Insurer and BAL each hereby represent that the fees paid pursuant to this Agreement, as amended, are reasonable in relation to the services it provides and reasonably similar to fees it receives for equivalent services provided to other parties. From time to time, the parties shall review the Quarterly Payment to determine whether it exceeds or is reasonably expected to exceed the incurred and anticipated costs, over time, of the Insurer. The parties agree to negotiate in good faith a reduction to the Quarterly Payment as necessary to eliminate any such excess.
SCHEDULE B
SCHEDULE B is deleted and replaced with the following schedule
Portfolios and Classes of BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc.
Offered to Separate Accounts of Pacific Life Insurance Company
Available Class I, Class II and Class III shares of:
             
CUSIP   TICKER   FUND NAME   CLASS
09253L108
  AMBLI   BlackRock Balanced Capital V.I. Fund   I
09253L405
  BAVLI   BlackRock Basic Value V.I. Fund   I
09253L504
  BAVII   BlackRock Basic Value V.I. Fund   II
09253L603
  BVIII   BlackRock Basic Value V.I. Fund   III
09253L843
  FDGRI   BlackRock Fundamental Growth V.I. Fund   I
09253L777
  GLALI   BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund   I
09253L769
  GLAII   BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund   II
09253L751
  GAIII   BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Fund   III
09253L819
  GLGRI   BlackRock Global Growth V.I. Fund   I
09253L785
  GGIII   BlackRock Global Growth V.I. Fund   III
09253L645
  IVVVI   BlackRock International Value V.I. Fund   I
09253L611
  LGCCI   BlackRock Large Cap Core V.I. Fund   I
09253L595
  LGCII   BlackRock Large Cap Core V.I. Fund   II
09253L587
  LCIII   BlackRock Large Cap Core V.I. Fund   III
09253L579
  LGGGI   BlackRock Large Cap Growth V.I. Fund   I
09253L553
  LGIII   BlackRock Large Cap Growth V.I. Fund   III
09253L546
  LCVAX   BlackRock Large Cap Value V.I. Fund   I
09253L538
  LCVBX   BlackRock Large Cap Value V.I. Fund   II
09253L520
  LVIII   BlackRock Large Cap Value V.I. Fund   III
09253L876
  DMMKI   BlackRock Money Market V.I. Fund *   I
09253L512
  UTTLI   BlackRock Utilities and Telecommunications V.I. Fund   I
09253L470
  SMCPI   BlackRock Value Opportunities V.I. Fund   I
09253L462
  SMCII   BlackRock Value Opportunities V.I. Fund   II
09253L454
  SCIII   BlackRock Value Opportunities V.I. Fund   III
 
*   No fees will be paid on the BlackRock Money Market V.I. Fund

 


 

On or about May 1, 2010 the BlackRock Fundamental Growth V.I. Fund will be renamed the BlackRock Capital Appreciation V.I. Fund
On or about May 1, 2010 the BlackRock Global Growth V.I. Fund will be renamed the BlackRock Global Opportunities V.I. Fund
To the extent that provisions of the Agreement and this Amendment are in conflict, the terms of this Amendment shall control. Except to the extent amended by this Amendment, the Agreement shall remain unchanged and in full force and effect, and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects as amended hereby.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused their duly authorized officers to execute this Amendment as of the date and year first above written.
                         
BLACKROCK ADVISORS, LLC       PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY    
 
                       
By: 
            By:       
Name:
 
          Name:
 
   
Title:             Title: Assistant Vice President    
 
                       
 
          Attest:            
                     
                , Corporate Secretary    

 

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Amendment No. 1 to
Administrative Services Agreement

Franklin Templeton Services, LLC
Pacific Life Insurance Company
     THIS AMENDMENT is made by and between Franklin Templeton Services, LLC (the “Fund Administrator”) and Pacific Life Insurance Company (the “Company”).
     WHEREAS, The Company and the Fund Administrator have entered into an Administrative Services Agreement, dated as of March 17, 2008, as may be amended from time to time (the “Agreement”), concerning certain administrative services with respect to each series (“Fund” or “Funds”) of Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust (the “Trust”) listed on the Schedule B of the Agreement;
     WHEREAS, the Company and the Fund Administrator wish to amend the Agreement for the purpose of adding certain new Funds and variable life or variable annuity insurance contracts covered by the Agreement.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of past and prospective business relations, the Fund Administrator and the Company hereby amend the Agreement as follows:
1. Schedules A and B of the Agreement are hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the Schedules A and B attached hereto.
2. All other terms and provisions of the Agreement not amended herein shall remain in full force and effect.
This Amendment is executed as of February ___, 2010.
         
Franklin Templeton Services, LLC
  Pacific Life Insurance Company    
 
       
By:
  By:    
 
 
 
   
Name:
  Name:    
Title: Vice President
  Title: Assistant Vice President    
 
       
 
  Attest:    
 
 
 
   
 
  Name:    
 
  Title: Corporate Secretary    


 

Schedule A
Administrative Services
Maintenance of Books and Records
  Assist as necessary to maintain book entry records on behalf of the Funds regarding issuance to, transfer within (via net purchase orders) and redemption by the Accounts of Fund shares.
  Maintain general ledgers regarding the Accounts’ holdings of Fund shares, coordinate and reconcile information, and coordinate maintenance of ledgers by financial institutions and other contract owner service providers.
Communication with the Funds
  Serve as the designee of the Funds for receipt of purchase and redemption orders from the Account and to transmit such orders, and payment therefore, to the Funds.
  Coordinate with the Funds’ agents respecting daily valuation of the Funds’ shares and the Accounts’ units.
  Purchase Orders
  -   Determine net amount available for investment in the Funds.
 
  -   Deposit receipts at the Funds’ custodians (generally by wire transfer).
 
  -   Notify the custodians of the estimated amount required to pay dividends or distributions.
  Redemption Orders
  -   Determine net amount required for redemptions by the Funds.
 
  -   Notify the custodian and Funds of cash required to meet payments.
  Purchase and redeem shares of the Funds on behalf of the Accounts at the then-current price in accordance with the terms of each Fund’s then current prospectus.
 
  Assistance in enforcing procedures adopted on behalf of the Trust to reduce, discourage, or eliminate market timing transactions in a Fund’s shares in order to reduce or eliminate adverse effects on a Fund or its shareholders.
Processing Distributions from the Funds
  Process ordinary dividends and capital gains.
  Reinvest the Funds’ distributions.

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Reports
  Periodic information reporting to the Funds, including, but not limited to, furnishing registration statements, prospectuses or private offering memorandum, statements of additional information, reports, solicitations for instructions, disclosure statements, sales or promotional materials and any other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the Accounts invested in the Funds, if necessary.
  Periodic information reporting about the Funds to contract owners, including necessary delivery of the Funds’ prospectus and annual and semi-annual reports.
Fund-related Contract Owner Services
  Maintain adequate fidelity bond or similar coverage for all Company officers, employees, investment advisors and other individuals or entities controlled by the Company who deal with the money and/or securities of the Funds.
  Provide general information with respect to Fund inquiries (not including information about performance or related to sales).
  Provide information regarding performance of the Funds.
  Oversee and assist the solicitation, counting and voting of contract owner pass-through voting interests in the Funds pursuant to Fund proxy statements.
Other Administrative Support
  Provide other administrative and legal compliance support for the Funds as mutually agreed upon by the Company and the Funds or the Fund Administrator.
  Relieve the Funds of other usual or incidental administrative services provided to individual contract owners.

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Schedule B
Administrative Expense Payment
The Fund Administrator agrees to pay the Company a fee, computed daily and paid quarterly in arrears, equal to an annual rate as set forth below, applied to the average daily net assets of the shares of the Funds held in the subaccounts of the Accounts. The payment will be computed and paid in the manner described more completely in the Agreement. Only one fee rate is in effect for each Contract; for each Contract higher fee rates supersede and replace lower fee rates, which are shown for reference only.
                     
                    Date of
                    beginning of
                    period for
        Product Name/       Fee   computation of
#   Company Name   Securities Act No.   Funds of the Trust   Rate   fee
1.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific One Select
033-88458
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4
       
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
2.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific One
033-88458
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4        
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
3.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Odyssey
333-53040
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4        
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
4.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Innovations Select
333-93059
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4        
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
5.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Innovations
333-93059
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4        
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
6.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Portfolios
033-88460
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4        
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
7.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Portfolios for Chase
033-88460
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4        
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2        

4


 

                     
                    Date of
                    beginning of
                    period for
        Product Name/       Fee   computation of
#   Company Name   Securities Act No.   Funds of the Trust   Rate   fee
8.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Value
333-60833
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4
       
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2
       
 
                   
9.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Voyages
333-136597
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4
       
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2
       
 
                   
10.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Explorer
333-141135
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4
       
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2
       
 
                   
11.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Journey
333-145822
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4
       
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2
       
 
                   
12.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Value Edge
333-148865
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4
       
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Found Allocation Fund — Class 2
       
 
                   
13.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Variable Annuity
033-32704
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4
       
 
                   
 
          Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 2
       
 
                   
14.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Destinations
333-160772
  Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund — Class 4
       
 
                   
 
          Class 2 Shares:
Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund
Mutual Global Discovery Securities Fund
Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund
       
 
                   
 
          Class 4 Shares:
Franklin Templeton VIP Founding
Funds Allocation Fund
       
 
                   
15.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Exec
033-21754
  Templeton Global Bond Securities
Fund — Class 2
       
 
                   
16.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Exec II
333-60461
  Templeton Global Bond Securities
Fund — Class 2
       

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                    Date of
                    beginning of
                    period for
        Product Name/       Fee   computation of
#   Company Name   Securities Act No.   Funds of the Trust   Rate   fee
17.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Exec III
333-60461
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
18.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Exec IV
333-150092
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
19.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Exec V
333-150092
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
20.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Exec VI
333-153022
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
21.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Accumulator
333-118913
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
22.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  M’s Versatile Product
333-61135
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
23.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  M’s Versatile Product VI
333-61135
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
24.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  M’s Versatile Product VII
333-152224
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
25.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  M’s Versatile Product VIII
333-152224
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
26.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  M’s Versatile Product - - Survivorship
333-106969
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
27.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  M’s Versatile Product - - Survivorship II
333-153027
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
28.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Estate Preserver
333-01713
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
29.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Estate Preserver II
333-20355
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
30.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Estate Preserver III
333-01713
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        

6


 

                     
                    Date of
                    beginning of
                    period for
        Product Name/       Fee   computation of
#   Company Name   Securities Act No.   Funds of the Trust   Rate   fee
31.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Estate Preserver IV
333-20355
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
32.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Estate Preserver V
333-65458
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
33.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Estate Preserver VI
333-153022
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
34.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Choice
033-57908
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
35.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Performer 500
333-102902
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
36.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific Select Estate Maximizer
333-14005
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
37.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific COLI Rider (Not Registered)   Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
38.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific COLI
(Not Registered)
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
39.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific COLI II
(Not Registered)
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
40.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific COLI III
(Not Registered)
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
41.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific COLI IV
(Not Registered)
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
42.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific COLI V
(Not Registered)
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
43.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific COLI VI
(Not Registered)
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
44.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Pacific COLI VII
(Not Registered)
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        

7


 

                     
                    Date of
                    beginning of
                    period for
        Product Name/       Fee   computation of
#   Company Name   Securities Act No.   Funds of the Trust   Rate   fee
45.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Magnastar
(Not Registered)
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        
 
                   
46.
  Pacific Life
Insurance Company
  Magnastar - Survivorship
(Not Registered)
  Templeton Global Bond Securities Fund — Class 2        

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AMENDMENT
To
PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
By and Among
PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
And
GE INVESTMENTS FUNDS, INC.
And
GE INVESTMENT DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
And
GE ASSET MANAGEMENT INCORPORATED
     THIS AMENDMENT, effective as of May 1, 2010, amends that certain Participation Agreement dated as of December 1, 2008 (the “Agreement”), by and among PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, GE INVESTMENTS FUNDS, INC., GE INVESTMENT DISTRIBUTORS, INC. and GE ASSET MANAGEMENT INCORPORATED.
     WHEREAS, the parties hereto agree that the Company intends to add variable life policies to the Agreement that will offer Class 3 Shares of the Portfolio named in Schedule 3 of the Agreement;
     WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to update Schedules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 to reflect additional variable life policies that will offer Class 3 Shares of the Portfolio named in Schedule 3 to the Agreement;
     WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to make certain other amendments to the Agreement; and
     WHEREAS, any capitalized terms set forth in this Amendment that are not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Agreement.
     NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto hereby amend the Agreement as follows:
  1.   Sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of Section 1.3 (“Purchase and Redemption Procedures”) are deleted and replaced by the following:
 
      (i) If the Company transmits such request to the Fund via the National Securities Clearing Corporation’s (the “NSCC”) Fund/SERV System and/or Defined Contribution Clearance & Settlement (“DCC&S”) platform, such request must be received by the Company by the close of regular trading on the NYSE (or such reasonably earlier time designated by the Company in response to a change by the NSCC in the deadline for receipt of requests via its systems) and must be transmitted by the Company to the Fund in the time and manner designated by the NSCC pursuant to Rule 22c-1 of the 1940 Act (which as of the date of execution of this Agreement is 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the next following Business Day); or
 
      (ii) For standard submissions, the parties agree that the “Right Fax” system will send the faxes automatically each evening between 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Pacific Time. If there are technical problems with Fund/SERV, or if the parties are not able to transmit or receive information through Fund/SERV (e.g., by fax), the Company shall provide telephone notification to the Fund by 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time and shall re-

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      transmit the request so that it is received by the Fund by 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on the next following Business Day.
  2.   Schedules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 to the Agreement are deleted in their entirety and replaced by Schedules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 attached hereto.
 
  3.   This Amendment shall become effective on May 1, 2010.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused this Amendment to be executed in its name and behalf by its duly authorized representative as of the date specified above.
             
    PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:   Assistant Vice President    
 
           
 
  Attest:        
 
     
 
Corporate Secretary
   
 
           
    GE INVESTMENTS FUNDS, INC.    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:   President & CEO    
 
           
    GE INVESTMENT DISTRIBUTORS, INC.    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:   President    
 
           
    GE ASSET MANAGEMENT INCORPORATED    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:   Senior Vice President    

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Schedule 1
Registered Accounts
     
Name of Separate Account:   Date Established by Board of Directors:
 
   
Separate Account A of Pacific Life Insurance Company
  September 7, 1994
 
   
Pacific Select Variable Annuity Separate Account of Pacific Life Insurance Company
  November 30, 1989
 
   
Pacific Select Exec Separate Account of Pacific Life Insurance Company
  May 12, 1998

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Schedule 2
Unregistered Account
     
Name of Separate Account:   Date Established by Board of Directors:
Pacific COLI Separate Account
  July 17, 1992
 
   
Pacific COLI Separate Account II
  October 12, 1998
 
   
Pacific COLI Separate Account III
  October 12, 1998
 
   
Pacific COLI Separate Account IV
  July 8, 2008
 
   
Pacific COLI Separate Account V
  July 8, 2008
 
   
Separate Account I
  August 9, 2007

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Schedule 3
Name(s) of Portfolio
GE Investments Funds, Inc.:
Total Return Fund – Class 3

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Schedule 4
Registered Products
     
Variable Annuities:    
Pacific Select Variable Annuity
  Pacific One
 
   
Pacific One Select
  Pacific Portfolios
 
   
Pacific Portfolios for Chase
  Pacific Voyages
 
   
Pacific Value
  Pacific Value Edge
 
   
Pacific Innovations
  Pacific Innovations Select
 
   
Pacific Journey
  Pacific Odyssey
 
   
Pacific Destinations
   
     
Variable Life:    
Pacific Select Exec
  Pacific Select Exec II
 
   
Pacific Select Exec III
  Pacific Select Exec IV
 
   
Pacific Select Exec V
  Pacific Select Accumulator
 
   
M’s Versatile Product
  M’s Versatile Product VI
 
   
M’s Versatile Product — Survivorship
  M’s Versatile Product VII
 
   
M’s Versatile Product — Survivorship II
  M’s Versatile Product VIII
 
   
Pacific Select Estate Preserver
  Pacific Select Estate Preserver II
 
   
Pacific Select Estate Preserver III
  Pacific Select Estate Preserver IV
 
   
Pacific Select Estate Preserver V
  Pacific Select Estate Preserver VI
 
   
Pacific Select Choice
  Pacific Select Performer 500
 
   
Pacific Select Estate Maximizer
   

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Schedule 5
Exempt Products
Not Applicable

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Schedule 6
Contracts with Accredited Investors
     
Pacific COLI Rider
  Pacific COLI
 
   
Pacific COLI II
  Pacific COLI IV
 
   
Pacific COLI VI
  Pacific COLI III (Qualified Investors)
 
   
Pacific COLI V (Qualified Investors)
  Pacific COLI VII (Qualified Investors)
 
   
Magnastar (Qualified Investors)
   

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Schedule 7
Accounts Excluded from the Definition of Investment Company
     
Name of Account:   Date of Establishment of Account:
Pacific COLI Separate Account
  July 17, 1992
 
   
Pacific COLI Separate Account II
  October 12, 1998
 
   
Pacific COLI Separate Account III
  October 12, 1998
 
   
Pacific COLI Separate Account IV
  July 8, 2008
 
   
Pacific COLI Separate Account V
  July 8, 2008
 
   
Separate Account I
  August 9, 2007

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EX-99.8(Q) 8 a52618exv99w8xqy.htm EX-99.8(Q) exv99w8xqy
AMENDED AND RESTATED
FUND MARKETING AND INVESTOR SERVICE AGREEMENT
between
GE INVESTMENT DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
and
PACIFIC SELECT DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
     THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 20th day of November, 2009, amends and restates that certain other FUND MARKETING AND INVESTOR SERVICE AGREEMENT dated December 1, 2008, by and between GE Investment Distributors, Inc. (“GEID”), a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, and Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. (“Product Distributor”), a corporation organized under the laws of the State of California.
RECITALS
     (A) GE Investments Funds, Inc. (the “Company”) is a Virginia corporation registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (the “1940 Act”) as an open-end management investment company consisting of a number of investment portfolios.
     (B) The Company issues a separate series of shares of capital stock for each investment portfolio representing a fractional undivided interest in that portfolio. The series of shares representing an interest in the investment portfolios listed on Schedule A (the “Funds”) are further divided into classes, including Class 3 Shares. This Agreement relates exclusively to Class 3 Shares (the “Shares”).
     (C) Each series and class of the Company’s shares, including the Shares, are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”) on Form N-1A. The term “Registration Statement,” as used herein, means the Company’s 1933 Act Form N-1A registration statement, including all prospectuses therein and exhibits thereto, as of the effective date of the most recent post-effective amendment thereto.
     (D) GEID is the distributor and principal underwriter of the Shares and is registered as a broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”).
     (E) Product Distributor is the distributor and principal underwriter of variable annuity contracts (the “Contracts”) and/or variable life insurance policies (the “Policies”) issued by Pacific Life Insurance Company and Pacific Life & Annuity Company (each, an “Insurer”, together, the “Insurers”) and is registered as a broker-dealer under the 1934 Act and is a member of FINRA.
     (F) The Shares are offered and sold to separate accounts of the Insurers through which Contracts or Policies are issued as investment options under such Contracts and Policies. Each Insurer has entered into a participation agreement (a “Participation Agreement”) with the

 


 

Company, GEID and GE Asset Management Incorporated (“GEAM”) pursuant to which it purchases, holds, exchanges and redeems the Shares for its separate accounts.
     (G) “Personal Services” refers to the phrase “personal service and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts” as referenced in FINRA Conduct Rule 2830(b)(9) and having the same meaning given to it in NASD Notices to Members 90-56, 92-41 and 93-12.
     (H) “Sales Services” means services provided by Product Distributor or by a broker-dealer having an agreement with Product Distributor to distribute Contracts and Policies (a “Selling Broker-Dealer”), related to activities primarily intended to result in investment in the Shares by owners or prospective owners of Contracts or Policies. Sales Services does not include Personal Services provided by Product Distributor or a Selling Broker-Dealer to owners of Contracts or Policies indirectly invested in Shares who are its customers.
     (I) “Investor Services” shall mean record keeping and other administrative services provided by Product Distributor or a Selling Broker-Dealer, an Insurer, a third-party administrator for an Insurer, a retirement plan record keeper or administrator, transfer agent, or other financial intermediary; and (2) Personal Services provided by Product Distributor or a Selling Broker-Dealer to owners of Contracts or Policies indirectly invested in Shares who are its customers.
     (J) As part of their efforts to distribute Contracts and Policies, Product Distributor and Selling Broker-Dealers often provide Sales Services to the Company by promoting the Funds as investment options under the Contracts and Policies. Likewise, Product Distributor and Selling Broker-Dealers may provide, or arrange for others to provide, Investor Services. In this connection, the Company has adopted a plan pursuant to which the Shares may each bear an expense designed to cover some of the costs of such Sales Services and Investor Services (the “Distribution and Service Plan”).
     (K) As used herein, references to owners of Contracts and Policies include participants under group Contracts and Policies if such participants have discretion to allocate purchase payments and transfer Contract or Policy value attributable to them between and among investment options available under the Contracts or Policies.
     NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and mutual covenants herein, the parties agree as follows:
1. Services Provided by the Product Distributors
     (a) Sales Services. GEID hereby engages Product Distributor, and Product Distributor hereby agrees, to promote investment in and indirectly distribute the Shares by inducing owners and prospective owners of Contracts and Policies to invest purchase payments and accumulated values under Contracts and Policies in sub-accounts of Insurers’ separate accounts that invest in such Shares and to otherwise perform Sales Services for the Company. Such Sales Services include, but are not limited to, the following:

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    obtaining information for, and providing explanations to, owners or prospective owners of Contracts and Policies, as well as representatives of Selling Broker-Dealers and wholesale distributors of Contracts and Policies regarding the Funds and the Shares;
 
    holding seminars and sales meetings for its own representatives as well as those of Selling Broker-Dealers and wholesale distributors of Contracts and Policies and providing training to such persons regarding the Funds and the Shares;
 
    establishing and maintaining, and assisting Insurers to establish and maintain, relationships with owners and prospective owners of Contracts and Policies who are its customers for the primary purpose of encouraging investment, or additional investments, in the Shares;
 
    compensating its representatives or other of its sales personnel for performing the foregoing services;
 
    arranging for, assisting and encouraging Selling Broker-Dealers in performing the foregoing services;
 
    compensating Selling Broker-Dealers for performing the foregoing services, including, without limitation, payment of “trail commissions” or other commissions, concessions, or sales compensation,
 
    reimbursing Selling Broker-Dealers for their expenses performing the foregoing services;
 
    developing, preparing, printing and mailing advertisements, sales literature and other promotional materials relating to the Funds and the Shares;
 
    printing and mailing prospectuses, statements of additional information, supplements thereto and shareholder reports to prospective owners of Contracts and Policies, or current owners of Contracts or Policies who are not indirectly invested in Shares; and
 
    engaging in, or compensating Selling Broker-Dealers for engaging in, any other activity primarily intended to result in the promotion of the Funds and the Shares that is permitted by the Distribution and Service Plan.
     (b) Investor Services — Recordkeeping and Other Administrative Services. GEID is not engaging Product Distributor to provide, or arrange for Insurers or other parties to provide, Investor Services for the Company in the form of recordkeeping and other administrative services.
     (c) Investor Services — Personal Services. GEID hereby engages Product Distributor, and Product Distributor hereby agrees, to provide, or arrange for Selling Broker-Dealers to provide, Investor Services for the Company in the form of Personal Services to owners of Contracts and Policies such as:

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    maintaining accounts for and relationships with owners of Contracts and Policies who at the time are indirectly invested in Shares; and
 
    providing investor liaison to owners of Contracts and Policies who at the time are indirectly invested in Shares, such as responding to their inquiries and providing them with information about their investments.
2. Compensation
     (a) Rates of Compensation. For the services identified above, GEID, on behalf of the Company and the Funds, agrees to pay Product Distributor compensation at the following annual rates:
     (i) The amount of compensation paid by GEID to Product Distributor in any fiscal year of the Company for both Sales Services and Investor Services shall not exceed 0.25% of the average daily net assets of a Fund attributable to Class 3 Shares supporting Contracts or Policies owned by customers of Product Distributor or Selling Broker-Dealers; provided, however, that the amount of any such compensation paid by GEID to Product Distributor in any fiscal year for the Personal Services component of Investor Services shall not exceed 0.25% of the average daily net assets of a Fund attributable to Class 3 Shares supporting Contracts or Policies owned by customers of Product Distributor or Selling Broker-Dealers.
     (ii) GEID and Product Distributor agree that, notwithstanding the foregoing, GEID shall adjust such compensation whenever necessary to ensure that no payment is made by the Company on behalf of Shares of a Fund in excess of the applicable limits on: (A) sales charges under FINRA Conduct Rule 2830(d)(3); or (B) service fees under FINRA Conduct Rule 2830(d)(5).
     (b) Payment of Compensation. GEID agrees to pay the Product Distributor the compensation due under this Agreement on a quarterly basis calculated at the annual rates shown above. GEID shall calculate and make this payment within 90 days of the end of the calendar quarter without demand or notice from the Insurer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Product Distributor understands and acknowledges that the Company may, without prior notice, suspend or eliminate the payment of compensation to GEID, including payments under the Distribution and Service Plan, by amending or supplementing its prospectuses for the Shares. In such an event, GEID shall have no obligation to pay any further compensation to Product Distributor for Sales Services or Investor Services provided by Product Distributor or Selling Broker-Dealers unless and until the Company pays GEID for such services.
     (c) Character of Compensation. GEID and Product Distributor agree that the compensation paid by GEID to Product Distributor described in Section 2(a) of this Agreement is either for Sales Services or for a combination of Sales Services and Investor Services in the form of Personal Services, as those terms are defined in this Agreement. In particular, Product Distributor understands and acknowledges that the compensation paid to it by GEID is not to be used for activities primarily intended to result in the sale of Contracts and Policies unless such

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activities entail a sufficiently large element of promotion of the Funds and the Class 3 Shares that the activities clearly come within the definition of Sales Services in this Agreement.
     (d) Recording and Reporting of Compensation. Product Distributor understands that GEID will record on its books and records, as the purpose for each quarterly payment to Product Distributor, the breakdown of Sales Services and Investor Services.
     (e) Selling Broker-Dealers. The Product Distributor agrees that it has sole responsibility for compensating Selling Broker-Dealers for their provision of Sales Services or Investor Services covered by this Agreement and that neither GEID, nor the Company, have any obligation to compensate Selling Broker-Dealers in any manner. Product Distributor shall not pay a Selling Broker-Dealer compensation for providing the Personal Services component of Investor Services under this Agreement in any fiscal year of the Company in excess of an amount equal to 0.25% of the average daily net assets of a Fund attributable to the Class 3 Shares supporting Contracts or Policies owned by customers of that Selling Broker-Dealer.
3. General Covenants
     (a) Role of Product Distributor. In performing services under this Agreement, Product Distributor is acting as agent for the Insurers. Product Distributor is not an agent of GEID or the Company and shall have no authority to act for or represent GEID or the Company.
     (b) Responsibilities of Product Distributor. Product Distributor agrees that in providing Sales Services under this Agreement, the Selling Broker-Dealer is solely responsible for all recommendations made to owners or prospective owners of Contracts or Policies regarding the Funds and the Shares, including all suitability determinations made in connection with such recommendations. In this regard, Product Distributor agrees that neither GEID, nor the Company, nor its Funds, nor the agents or affiliates of the foregoing, have any responsibility for such recommendations or suitability determinations made in connection with such recommendations, the manner of Product Distributor’s or a Selling Broker-Dealer’s performance of Sales Services or Investor Services under this Agreement, or any acts or omissions related thereto. Similarly, Product Distributor agrees that neither GEID, nor the Company, nor its Funds, nor the agents or affiliates of the foregoing, have any responsibility to determine whether or not a purchase, exchange or redemption of Shares by an Insurer is the net result of transactions in separate account units authorized by owners of Contracts and Policies. Consequently, Product Distributor agrees that GEID, the Company, the Funds, and their agents and affiliates may rely conclusively on any purchase or redemption order for the Shares received from an Insurer pursuant to a Participation Agreement.
     (c) Relationship to Participation Agreements. GEID and Product Distributor agree that the Participation Agreement between and among each Insurer, GEID, GEAM and the Company shall govern the purchase, exchange or redemption of the Shares by each Insurer for its separate accounts. To the extent that any provision of a Participation Agreement conflicts with a provision of this Agreement, the Participation Agreement shall govern. In particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Product Distributor agrees to comply, or assist

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each Insurer to comply, with each Insurer’s obligations under the applicable Participation Agreement relating to:
    each Insurer’s obligation to maintain effective anti- money laundering policies and procedures;
 
    each Insurer’s obligation to maintain effective policies and procedures to prevent frequent or disruptive trading in separate account units and assist GEID, GEAM and the Company in maintaining effective policies and procedures for the Company to prevent frequent or disruptive trading in Shares;
 
    each Insurer’s obligations in connection with the preparation and distribution of sales literature or other marketing materials regarding the Company, the Funds and/or the Shares.
     (d) GEID Compliance With Law and Company Policies. In the performance of this Agreement, GEID agrees to comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations, including, without limitation, the 1940 Act, 1933 Act and 1934 Act, and all rules and regulations adopted thereunder, as well as all rules of FINRA. Likewise, in the performance of this Agreement, GEID will act in conformity with:
    the Registration Statement;
 
    the Distribution and Service Plan;
 
    the terms of the distribution agreement between itself and the Company;
 
    the terms of Participation Agreements covering the Contracts and Policies;
 
    written compliance policies and procedures of the Company or itself relating to matters covered by this Agreement;
 
    instructions from the Company or any of its officers; and
 
    instructions from the Company’s board of directors.
     (e) Product Distributor’s Interpretation and Compliance With Law. Product Distributor shall be solely responsible for its own compliance with applicable law and regulations and shall rely exclusively on its own determination, or that of its legal advisers, that the performance of its duties under this Agreement complies with such laws and regulations.
     (f) Agreements With Selling Broker-Dealers. In furtherance of its duties under this Agreement, Product Distributor may enter into agreements with the Selling Broker-Dealers pursuant to which the Selling Broker-Dealers sell the Contracts and Policies and promote the indirect sale of Shares by promoting the Funds as investment options under the Contracts and Policies. Product Distributor agrees that its agreements with Selling Broker-Dealers shall include assurances from Selling Broker-Dealers to it that conform, in substance, to those that it provides to GEID in Sections 2(c), 2(d), 2(e), 3(b), and 3(e) of this Agreement.
     (g) Status of Product Distributor Under Rule 38a-1. GEID understands and acknowledges that Product Distributor is not a principal underwriter or administrator to the Company as referenced in Rule 38a-1(a)(2) under the 1940 Act. Product Distributor understands

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and acknowledges that it is a principal underwriter, as referenced in Rule 38a-1(a)(2) under the 1940 Act, to the separate accounts of each Insurer that are registered as investment companies under the 1940 Act.
4. Representations and Warranties
     (a) Validly Existing in Good Standing. Product Distributor represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of California, and is qualified to act as a broker-dealer in the states and other jurisdictions in which it transacts business. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Product Distributor represents and warrants that it is the distributor and principal underwriter of the Contracts and Policies and is registered as a broker-dealer under the 1934 Act and is a member in good standing of FINRA. Product Distributor will maintain all registrations, qualifications and memberships required by the terms of this Agreement in full force and effect throughout the term of this Agreement.
     (b) Duly Authorized and Enforceable Agreement. Product Distributor represents and warrants that its execution and delivery of this Agreement and its performance of the services contemplated herein have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and all other authorization and approvals (if any) required for lawful execution and delivery of this Agreement, and each of their performance hereunder, have been obtained. Upon execution and delivery by Product Distributor, this Agreement will constitute a valid and binding agreement, enforceable against Product Distributor in accordance with its terms.
     (c) Character of Compensation. Product Distributor represents and warrants that it will use the compensation paid to it by GEID under this Agreement for Sales Services or a combination of Sales Services and Investor Services and will not use such compensation to finance activities primarily intended to result in the sale of Contracts or Policies.
     (d) Reports. Product Distributor represents and warrants that it will provide upon request reports to GEID properly reflecting the breakdown of its expenses in promoting the Funds and the Shares between Sales Services and Investor Services in the form of Personal Services and properly reflecting the breakdown of Sales Services in the following categories:
    advertising;
 
    printing and mailing Fund prospectuses to other than current owners of Contracts and Policies indirectly invested in Shares;
 
    compensation to Selling Broker-Dealers;
 
    compensation to representatives of Product Distributor;
 
    interest, carrying or other financial charges; and
 
    other expenses.
     Product Distributor also represents and warrants that it will record on its books and records compensation paid under this Agreement in a manner consistent with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations.

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     (f) Compliance With Law and Company Policies. Product Distributor represents and warrants that it will comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations, including, without limitation, the 1940 Act, 1933 Act and 1934 Act, and all rules and regulations adopted thereunder, as well as all rules of FINRA. Likewise, in the performance of this Agreement, Product Distributor will each act in conformity with:
    the Registration Statement;
 
    the Distribution and Service Plan;
 
    the terms of the Contracts and Policies and prospectuses or other disclosure statements for the Contracts and Policies; and
 
    written compliance policies and procedures of the Insurers or itself relating to matters covered by this Agreement.
     (g) “Market Timing.” Product Distributor represents and warrants that it will not knowingly promote the Shares or the Funds to owners or prospective owners of Contracts or Policies who engage in, or may engage in, frequent or disruptive trading in separate account units that has the potential to result in frequent or disruptive trading in Shares, or otherwise knowingly facilitate the activities of such owners and prospective owners.
     (h) Validly Existing in Good Standing. GEID represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and is qualified to act as a broker-dealer in the states and other jurisdictions in which it transacts business. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, GEID represents and warrants that it is the distributor and principal underwriter of the Shares and is registered as a broker-dealer under the 1934 Act and is a member in good standing of FINRA. GEID will maintain all registrations, qualifications and memberships required by the terms of this Agreement in full force and effect throughout the term of this Agreement.
     (i) Duly Authorized and Enforceable Agreement. GEID represents and warrants that the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the performance of the services contemplated hereby by GEID have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and all other authorization and approvals (if any) required for lawful execution and delivery of this Agreement, and its performance hereunder, have been obtained. Upon execution and delivery by GEID, this Agreement will constitute a valid and binding agreement, enforceable against GEID in accordance with its terms.
5. Annual Certification
     Product Distributor shall provide to GEID upon request written certification of the continued effectiveness of each representation and warranty made by it in Section 4 of this Agreement. Likewise, GEID shall provide to Product Distributor upon request written certification of the continued effectiveness of each representation and warranty made by it in Section 4 of this Agreement.

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6. Indemnification
     (a) Indemnification by Product Distributor. GEID, the Company, the Funds and their affiliates shall not be responsible for, and Product Distributor shall indemnify and hold GEID, the Company, the Funds and their affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, agents, and persons, if any, who control them (within the meaning of the 1940 Act) harmless from and against any and all losses, damages, costs, charges, counsel fees, payments, expenses, and liability, arising out of or attributable to:
    Product Distributor’s lack of good faith or willful misconduct in carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this Agreement;
 
    the material failure or alleged (by a regulatory agency) material failure of Product Distributor to comply with any applicable law, rule or regulation in connection with the discharge of any obligations under this Agreement; or
 
    any material breach or alleged material breach by Product Distributor of any provision of this Agreement, including any material breach or alleged material breach by Product Distributor of any representation made by it in the Agreement.
     Product Distributor will not be obligated to indemnify any entity or person pursuant to this Section 6(a) against any liability to which GEID, the Company, the Funds and their affiliates, and their officers and directors, or any controlling person would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in performance of, or reckless disregard of, the obligations and duties set forth in this Agreement.
     (b) Indemnification by GEID. Product Distributor shall not be responsible for, and GEID shall indemnify and hold Product Distributor and its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, agents, and persons, if any, who control it (within the meaning of the 1940 Act) harmless from and against any and all losses, damages, costs, charges, counsel fees, payments, expenses, and liability, arising out of or attributable to:
    GEID’s lack of good faith or willful misconduct in carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this Agreement;
 
    the material failure or alleged (by a regulatory agency) material failure of GEID to comply with any applicable law, rule or regulation in connection with the discharge of any obligations under this Agreement;
 
    any material breach or alleged material breach by GEID of any provision of this Agreement, including any material breach or alleged material breach by GEID of any representation made by it in the Agreement; or
 
    any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of material fact, or any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, in the Registration statement or in any written sales literature or other marketing materials provided to Product Distributor by GEID, the Company or their affiliates.

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     GEID will not be obligated to indemnify any entity or person pursuant to this Section 6(b) against any liability to which Product Distributor, its officers and directors, or any controlling person would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in performance of, or reckless disregard of, the obligations and duties set forth in this Agreement.
7. Amendment
     This Agreement may be amended only by the mutual written agreement of GEID and Product Distributor.
8. Term
     This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect for a period of one year from November 20, 2009, and shall be automatically renewed thereafter for successive one-year periods, unless otherwise terminated in accordance with Section 9.
9. Termination
     (a) This Agreement shall terminate upon mutual agreement of GEID and Product Distributor in writing.
     (b) Either party to this Agreement may terminate this Agreement at the end of any one-year term by written notice to the other party at least 30 days before the end of such term.
     (c) This Agreement shall automatically terminate upon the termination of the Participation Agreement.
     (d) This Agreement shall terminate in the event that the Company ceases paying compensation to GEID under the Distribution and Service Plan or upon the termination of the Plan.
     (e) Section 6 of this Agreement shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
10. Notices
     All notices, requests, demands and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if delivered:
  (a) To GEID, at P.O. Box 7900, 3001 Summer Street, Stamford, CT 06904-7900.
         
    Attention: Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
    GE Asset Management Incorporated
 
  Phone:   (203) 708-3191
 
  Facsimile:   (203) 708-3107

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     (b) To Product Distributor, at 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660.
         
    Attention: General Counsel
 
  Phone:   (949) 219-3852
 
  Facsimile:   (949) 219-6952
11. Miscellaneous
     (a) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their transferees, successors and assigns. The benefits of and the right to enforce this Agreement shall accrue to the parties and their transferees, successors, and assigns.
     (b) Assignment. Neither party may assign this Agreement, or any of the rights, obligations, or liabilities under the Agreement, without the written consent of the other party.
     (c) Intended Beneficiaries. No provision of this Agreement shall be construed to give any person or entity other than the parties hereto any legal or equitable claim, right or remedy. The Agreement is intended for the exclusive benefit of the parties hereto.
     (d) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but both of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
     (e) Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be interpreted, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to the conflict of laws principles thereof.
     (f) Severability. If any portion of this Agreement shall be found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court or tribunal or regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction, the remainder shall not be affected thereby, but shall have the same force and effect as if the invalid or unenforceable portion had not been part of the Agreement.
     (g) Prior Agreement. This Agreement supersedes and supplants a prior agreement covering Class 4 Shares of the Funds between and among the parties for the period December 1, 2008 through November 19, 2009.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.
             
GE INVESTMENT   PACIFIC SELECT DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
DISTRIBUTORS, INC.        
 
           
By:
      By:    
 
           
 
Name:
      Name:    
 
 
 
       
 
Title:
      Title:   Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
 
           
 
           
 
      Attest:  
 
           
 
          Corporate Secretary

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SCHEDULE A
Total Return Fund — Class 3

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INVESTOR SERVICES AGREEMENT
CLASS 3 SHARES
          GE Investments Funds, Inc. (the “Company”) and each life insurance company listed on Schedule A hereof (each, an “Insurer;” together, the “Insurers”) mutually agree to the arrangements set forth in this agreement (the “Agreement”) made and entered into effective this 20th day of November, 2009.
RECITALS
     (A) The Company is a Virginia corporation registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (the “1940 Act”) as an open-end management investment company consisting of a number of investment portfolios. This Agreement relates exclusively to the Company’s Total Return Fund (the “Fund”).
     (B) GE Asset Management Incorporated (“GEAM”) is the investment adviser to the Fund. GE Investment Distributors, Inc. (“GEID”) is the principal underwriter of the shares of the Fund.
     (C) The Company issues several classes of shares in connection with the Fund. This Agreement relates exclusively to Class 3 shares of the Fund (the “Shares”).
     (D) Each Insurer issues variable annuity contracts (the “Contracts”) and/or variable life insurance policies (the “Policies”) that offer the Fund as an investment option. As used herein, references to owners of Contracts and Policies include participants under group Contracts and Policies if such participants have either: (1) discretion to allocate purchase payments and transfer Contract or Policy value attributable to them between and among investment options available under the Contracts or Policies, or (2) only the Fund as an investment option.
     (E) Each Insurer has entered into a participation agreement (the “Participation Agreement”) with the Company, GEID and GEAM pursuant to which it purchases shares of the Fund (and other series of the Company’s shares) for its separate accounts.
     (F) Purchase payments made under the Contracts and Policies by their owners are invested in separate accounts of the Insurers. At the direction of owners of Contracts and Policies, the Insurer invests assets of its separate accounts in shares of the Fund.
     (G) Each Insurer (or its agent) performs all of the services necessary to administer the Contracts and Policies issued by it including record keeping and other administrative services that benefit the Company and the Fund for which the Fund would have to pay if not provided by the Insurer (or its agent).
     (H) Each Insurer desires to be compensated for providing the aforementioned record keeping and other administrative services.

 


 

     (I) The Company has adopted a plan pursuant to which the Shares shall bear an expense for shareholder services (the “Investor Services Plan”) provided to the Fund and the Company by the Insurers.
     NOW THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:
1.   Investor Service Expense Payments
(a) Subject to paragraph (c) of this section, the Company agrees to pay each Insurer at the end of each calendar quarter an amount equal, on an annual basis, to % of average daily net assets supporting the Shares held by separate accounts of that Insurer throughout that calendar quarter.
(b) The Company or GEAM shall calculate and make the payment described in paragraph (a) of this section within 90 days of the end of each calendar quarter.
(c) The Company and each Insurer agrees that Shares will be offered only in connection with Contracts and Policies shown on Schedule B hereof.
(d) The Insurers and the Company understand that the Company may enter into similar agreements for record keeping and other administrative services with other insurance companies with regard to the Shares, the Fund, or any other Fund of the Company.
2.   Services Provided by the Insurers
     Each Insurer agrees to provide, including but not limited to, the following record keeping and other administrative services to the Company and the Fund:
    periodic reporting of information to the Company.
 
    preparation, printing and distribution of confirmation and periodic account statements to owners of Contracts and Policies indirectly invested in Shares of the Fund.
 
    solicitation of Contract owner and Policy owner voting instructions and tabulation of the same.
 
    attendance at and participation in meetings of holders of Shares of the Fund.
 
    provide other administrative support to the Company or the Fund as mutually agreed from time to time between the Company and each Insurer.
 
    maintain records of daily transactions in separate account units and compute the number of Shares that must be purchased or redeemed each day to support such transactions.
 
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      its agents the records of daily transactions in separate account units, it being understood that the Insurers shall not be obligated to violate any federal or state law or rule or regulation thereunder concerning privacy of Contract owners.
    assist the Company in complying with Section 314(b) of the USA Patriot Act by implementing policies and procedures reasonably designed to identify owners or prospective owners of Contracts or Policies suspected of possible terrorist or money-laundering activities and prevent the same from indirectly investing in Shares.
 
    transmission of requests to purchase and redeem Shares to the Company’s transfer agent or NSCC.
 
    assist the Company’s transfer agent in recording the issuance of Shares by maintaining a record of daily purchases and redemptions of Shares.
 
    prepare and provide reports to third-party reporting services.
 
    relieve the Company, the Fund, or the Company’s transfer agent of other incidental record keeping or administrative services generally provided by mutual funds (or their transfer agents) to their shareholders by providing the same to owners of Contracts and Policies indirectly invested in Shares of the Fund.
3.   Third Party Service Providers
     An Insurer may retain a third-party service provider to perform one or more of the services it is obligated to perform under this Agreement, provided, however, that the retention does not operate to relieve the Insurer of any obligation (including obligations arising from the Insurer’s representations and warranties below) it has to the Company or its affiliates under this Agreement. In addition, retention of unaffiliated third-party service providers is subject the following conditions:
    the retention must be pursuant to a written agreement (a “retention agreement”) conforming in substance to the terms of this Agreement (i.e., not inconsistent with any term or provision of this Agreement) and provided to the Company for its approval at least seven (7) days in advance of its execution.
 
    in the event that the Insurer retains a third-party to perform fewer than all of the services provided for herein, any compensation under this Agreement that the Insurer retains must be commensurate with the services it provides under this agreement.
4.   Nature of Payments
     The Insurers and the Company recognize and agree that the Company’s payments to each Insurer under this Agreement are for record keeping and other administrative services only and do not constitute payment in any manner for: (1) investment advisory services, (2) the cost of distributing the Contracts and Policies, (3) the cost of distributing Shares, (4) the cost of

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providing “personal services and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts” as referenced in FINRA Conduct Rule 2830(b)(9) (and having the same meaning given to it in NASD Notices to Members 90-56, 92-41 and 93-12) to owners or prospective owners of Contracts or Policies, or (5) the Insurers’ selection of the Fund. Likewise, the Insurers and the Company recognize and agree that the Company’s payments under this Agreement are not otherwise related to investment advisory or distribution services or expenses.
     The Insurers and the Company recognize and agree that the services each Insurer provides under this Agreement do not make an Insurer either an “administrator” or a “transfer agent” to the Company under Rule 38a-1 under the 1940 Act.
5.   Representations and Warranties
     The Company represents and warrants that:
    the Company has the legal authority to make the payments under this Agreement.
 
    the Company will perform its obligations under this Agreement in compliance with applicable law.
 
    the payments made by the Company to each Insurer under this Agreement are for the record keeping and other administrative services described herein and are not “sales charges” as defined in FINRA Conduct Rule 2830(b)(8).
 
    the payments made by the Company to each Insurer under this Agreement are not compensation for the purchase or sale of Shares or other Fund shares to any separate account of the Insurer.
     Each Insurer represents and warrants that:
    the Insurer has the legal authority to accept the payments made to it by the Company under this Agreement.
 
    the Insurer will perform its obligations under this Agreement in compliance with applicable law.
 
    payments received by the Insurer from the Company under this Agreement are for the record keeping and other administrative services described herein and are not “sales charges” as defined in FINRA Conduct Rule 2830(b)(8).
 
    the Insurer will not use the payments made to it by the Company under this Agreement for any purpose coming within the meaning of “personal services and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts” as referenced in FINRA Conduct Rule 2830(b)(9) (and having the same meaning given to it in FINRA Notices to Members 90-56, 92-41 and 93-12).
 
    regarding use of payments made to the Insurer by the Company under this Agreement:

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  o   the Insurer will not use the payments made to it by the Company under this Agreement to finance sales or sales promotion expenses of the Contracts, Policies or Shares, or to finance any activity primarily intended to result in the sale or distribution of the Contracts, Policies, or Shares.
 
  o   in the case of group Contracts sold to sponsors of employee benefit plans, the Insurer will not use the payments made to it by the Company under this Agreement to finance sales or sales promotion expenses of soliciting plan participants to become participants under a group Contract held by their plan and thereby invest indirectly in Shares, or to finance any activity primarily intended to result in the sale or distribution of the Contracts or Shares to plan participants.
 
  o   in the event that the Insurer pays all or part of the payments made to it by the Company under this Agreement to a record keeper retained by an employee benefit plan holding a group Contract, such record keeper will not be a broker-dealer.
    payments received by the Insurer from the Company under this Agreement are not compensation to the Insurer for the purchase or sale of Shares or other Fund shares by it for any separate account of the Insurer.
 
    the Insurer will not use the payments received from the Company under this Agreement to finance any activity primarily intended to result in the promotion, sale or distribution of Shares or otherwise promote the Fund to owners of Contracts entitled to invest indirectly in Shares services provided by the Insurer to the Company under this Agreement have not been financed or paid for out of revenues received by the Insurer in the form of fees or charges under the Contracts or the Policies, nor does the Insurer receive compensation, except under this Agreement, for the services performed under this Agreement. This provision, however, does not prohibit an Insurer from paying to an agent acting as a third-party service provider pursuant to Section 3 hereof, an amount for providing Investor Services in excess of the amount shown in Section 1(a) hereof.
 
    the fees and charges deducted under the Contracts and the Policies, along with the payments received by it from the Company under this Agreement, in the aggregate, are reasonable in relation to the services rendered, the expenses the Insurer incurs or expects to incur, and the risks the Insurer assumes under the Contracts and Policies.
 
    the Insurer is solely responsible for the design of the Contracts and Policies including the fees and charges assessed thereunder. The Insurer is solely responsible for the selection of the Fund as a mutual fund investment option for Contracts shown on Schedule B.
 
    the Insurer is solely responsible for the selection of the Fund as the sole mutual fund investment option for Contracts shown on Schedule B.

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    the Insurer’s written compliance policies and procedures include policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that each representation and warranty herein remains true throughout the term of this agreement.
6.   Annual Certification
     Each Insurer shall provide to the Company upon request written certification of the continued effectiveness of each representation and warranty made by it in section 5 of this Agreement. Likewise, the Company shall provide to each Insurer upon request written certification of the continued effectiveness of each representation and warranty made by it in section 5 of this Agreement.
7. Indemnification
(a) The Company, the Funds and their affiliates shall not be responsible for, and each Insurer shall indemnify and hold the Company, the Funds and their affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, agents, and persons, if any, who control them (within the meaning of the 1940 Act) harmless from an against any and all losses, damages, costs, charges, counsel fees, payments, expenses, and liability, arising out of or attributable to:
    the Insurer’s lack of good faith or willful misconduct in carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this Agreement,
 
    the failure of the Insurer to comply with any applicable law, rule or regulation in connection with the discharge of any obligations under this Agreement, or
 
    any breach by the Insurer of any material provision of this Agreement, including any breach by the Insurer of any representation made by it in the Agreement.
(b) The Insurers shall not be responsible for, and the Company shall indemnify and hold each Insurer and its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, agents, and persons, if any, who control them (within the meaning of the 1940 Act) harmless from an against any and all losses, damages, costs, charges, counsel fees, payments, expenses, and liability, arising out of or attributable to:
    the Company’s lack of good faith or willful misconduct in carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this Agreement,
 
    the failure of the Company to comply with any applicable law, rule or regulation in connection with the discharge of any obligations under this Agreement, or
 
    any breach by the Company of any material provision of this Agreement, including any breach by the Company of any representation made by it in the Agreement.

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8.   Term
     This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect for a period of one year from November 20, 2009 and shall be automatically renewed thereafter for successive one-year periods, unless otherwise terminated in accordance with Section 9.
9.   Termination
(a) This Agreement shall terminate upon mutual agreement of the Company and the Insurers in writing.
(b) Any party to this Agreement may terminate this Agreement at the end of any one-year term by written notice to the other party at least 30 days before the end of such term.
(c) This Agreement shall automatically terminate upon the termination of the Participation Agreement or upon the termination of the Investor Services Plan.
(d) Section 7 of this Agreement shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
10.   Amendment
     This Agreement may be amended only by mutual agreement of the Company and the Insurers in writing.
11.   Notices
     All notices, requests, demands and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if delivered:
(a) To the Insurer, at 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660.
Attention: General Counsel
Phone:            (949) 219-3852           Facsimile:           (949) 219-6952
(b) To the Company, at P.O. Box 7900, 3001 Summer Street, Stamford, CT 06904-7900.
Attention: Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
GE Asset Management Incorporated
Phone:            (203) 708-3191            Facsimile:            (203) 708-3234
12.   Miscellaneous
(a) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their transferees, successors and assigns. The benefits of and the right to enforce this Agreement shall accrue to the parties and their transferees, successors and assigns.

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(b) Assignment. No party may assign the Agreement, or any of the rights, obligations, or liabilities under the Agreement, without the written consent of the other parties.
(c) Intended Beneficiaries. No provision of this Agreement shall be construed to give any person or entity other than the parties hereto any legal or equitable claim, right or remedy. The Agreement is intended for the exclusive benefit of the parties hereto.
(d) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
(e) Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be interpreted, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without reference to the conflict of laws principles thereof.
(f) Severability. If any portion of this Agreement shall be found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court or tribunal or regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction, the remainder shall not be affected thereby, but shall have the same force and effect as if the invalid or unenforceable portion had not been part of the Agreement.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.
             
PACIFIC LIFE AND ANNUITY   GE INVESTMENTS FUNDS, INC.
COMPANY        
 
           
By:
      By:    
 
           
 
Name:
      Name:    
 
           
 
Title:
  Assistant Vice President   Title:    
 
           
 
           
Attest:
           
 
           
 
Name:
           
 
Title:
  Corporate Secretary        
 
           
PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE        
COMPANY        
 
           
By:
           
 
           
 
Name:
           
 
Title:
  Assistant Vice President        
 
           
Attest:
           
 
           
 
Name:
           
 
Title:
  Corporate Secretary        

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Schedule A
Life Insurance Companies
Pacific Life & Annuity Company
Pacific Life Insurance Company

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Schedule B
Variable Annuity Contracts Registered Under the Securities Act of 1933
The following Contracts are offered by both Pacific Life Insurance Company and Pacific Life & Annuity Company unless otherwise noted below. The variable annuity contracts are:
Pacific Value
Pacific Value Edge
Pacific Voyages
Pacific Innovations*
Pacific Innovations Select
Pacific Select Variable Annuity*
Pacific One*
Pacific One Select
Pacific Portfolios
Pacific Portfolios for Chase
Pacific Explorer
Pacific Journey
Pacific Odyssey
Pacific Destinations
 
*   These Contracts are only offered by Pacific Life Insurance Company.

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AMENDMENT
To
INVESTOR SERVICES AGREEMENT
CLASS 3 SHARES
     THIS AMENDMENT, effective as of May 1, 2010, amends that certain Investor Services Agreement dated as of November 20, 2009 (the “Agreement”), by and among PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, PACIFIC LIFE & ANNUITY COMPANY (each an “Insurer”, together the “Insurers”), and GE INVESTMENTS FUNDS, INC. (the “Company”).
     WHEREAS, the parties hereto agree that the Insurers intend to add variable life policies to the Agreement that will offer Class 3 Shares of the Portfolio;
     WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to update Schedule B to reflect additional variable life policies; and
     WHEREAS, any capitalized terms set forth in this Amendment that are not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Agreement.
     NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto hereby amend the Agreement as follows:
  1.   Schedule B is deleted in its entirety and replaced by Schedule B attached hereto.
 
  2.   This Amendment shall become effective on May 1, 2010.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused this Amendment to be executed in its name and behalf by its duly authorized representative as of the date specified above.
             
    PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY/PACIFIC LIFE & ANNUITY COMPANY    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:   Assistant Vice President    
 
           
 
  Attest:        
 
     
 
Corporate Secretary
   
 
           
    GE INVESTMENTS FUNDS, INC.    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:   President & CEO    
 
           
    GE INVESTMENT DISTRIBUTORS, INC.    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:   President    
 
           
    GE ASSET MANAGEMENT INCORPORATED    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:   Senior Vice President    

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Schedule B
Variable Annuity Contracts Registered Under the Securities Act of 1933
The following Contracts are offered by both Pacific Life Insurance Company and Pacific Life & Annuity Company unless otherwise noted below. The variable annuity contracts are:
Pacific Value
Pacific Value Edge
Pacific Voyages
Pacific Innovations*
Pacific Innovations Select
Pacific Select Variable Annuity*
Pacific One*
Pacific One Select
Pacific Portfolios
Pacific Portfolios for Chase
Pacific Explorer
Pacific Journey
Pacific Odyssey
Pacific Destinations
 
*   These Contracts are only offered by Pacific Life Insurance Company.
Variable Life Policies Registered Under the Securities Act of 1933
The following Contracts are offered by Pacific Life Insurance Company. The variable life policies are:
     
Pacific Select Exec
  Pacific Select Performer 500
Pacific Select Exec II
  Pacific Select Estate Maximizer
Pacific Select Exec III
   
Pacific Select Exec IV
   
Pacific Select Exec V
   
Pacific Select Accumulator
   
M’s Versatile Product
   
M’s Versatile Product VI
   
M’s Versatile Product — Survivorship
   
M’s Versatile Product VII
   
M’s Versatile Product — Survivorship II
   
M’s Versatile Product VIII
   
Pacific Select Estate Preserver
   
Pacific Select Estate Preserver II
   
Pacific Select Estate Preserver III
   
Pacific Select Estate Preserver IV
   
Pacific Select Estate Preserver V
   
Pacific Select Estate Preserver VI
   
Pacific Select Choice
   

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Schedule B (continued)
The following Contracts are offered by Pacific Life & Annuity Company. The variable life policies are:
Pacific Select Exec II — NY
Pacific Select Exec III — NY
Pacific Select Exec IV — NY
Pacific Select Exec V — NY
Pacific Select Estate Preserver — NY
Unregistered Variable Life Policies
The following Contracts are offered by Pacific Life Insurance Company. The variable life policies are:
Pacific COLI Rider
Pacific COLI
Pacific COLI II
Pacific COLI III
Pacific COLI IV
Pacific COLI V
Pacific COLI VI
Pacific COLI VII
Magnastar
The following Contracts are offered by Pacific Life & Annuity Company. The variable life policies are:
Magnastar — NY

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PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
Among
PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
PIMCO VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST,
and
ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS DISTRIBUTORS LLC
     THIS AGREEMENT, dated as of the 1ST day of May, 2010, by and among Pacific Life Insurance Company, (the “Company”), a Nebraska life insurance company, on its own behalf and on behalf of each segregated asset account of the Company set forth on Schedule A hereto as may be amended from time to time (each account hereinafter referred to as the “Account”), PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust (the “Fund”), a Delaware statutory trust, and Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC (the “Underwriter”), a Delaware limited liability company.
     WHEREAS, the Fund engages in business as an open-end management investment company and is available to act as the investment vehicle for separate accounts established for variable life insurance and variable annuity contracts (the “Variable Insurance Products”) to be offered by insurance companies which have entered into participation agreements with the Fund and Underwriter (“Participating Insurance Companies”);
     WHEREAS, the shares of beneficial interest of the Fund are divided into several separate series of shares, each designated a “Portfolio” and representing the interest in a particular managed portfolio of securities and other assets;
     WHEREAS, the Fund has obtained an order (PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, et al., Investment Company Act Rel. Nos. 22994 (Jan. 7, 1998) (Notice) and 23022 (Feb. 9, 1998)(Order)) from the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) granting Participating Insurance Companies and variable annuity and variable life insurance separate accounts exemptions from the provisions of sections 9(a), 13(a), 15(a), and 15(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (the “1940 Act”) and Rules 6e-2(b)(15) and 6e-3(T)(b)(15) thereunder, if and to the extent necessary to permit shares of the Fund to be sold to and held by variable annuity and variable life insurance separate accounts of both affiliated and unaffiliated life insurance companies (the “Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order”);
     WHEREAS, the Fund is registered as an open-end management investment company under the 1940 Act and shares of the Portfolios are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”);
     WHEREAS, Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (the “Adviser”), which serves as investment adviser to the Fund, is duly registered as an investment adviser under the federal Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended;
     WHEREAS, the Company has issued or will issue certain variable life insurance and/or variable annuity contracts supported wholly or partially by the Account (the “Contracts”), and said Contracts are listed in Schedule A hereto, as it may be amended from time to time by mutual written agreement;

 


 

     WHEREAS, the Account is duly established and maintained as a segregated asset account, duly established by the Company, on the date shown for such Account on Schedule A hereto, to set aside and invest assets attributable to the aforesaid Contracts;
     WHEREAS, the Underwriter, which serves as distributor to the Fund, is registered as a broker dealer with the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), and is a member in good standing of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”);
     WHEREAS, Pacific Select Distributors, Inc. the principal underwriter and distributor of the Contracts, is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC under the 1934 Act and is a member in good standing with FINRA; and
     WHEREAS, to the extent permitted by applicable insurance laws and regulations, the Company intends to purchase Advisor Class shares in the Portfolios listed in Schedule A hereto, as it may be amended from time to time by mutual written agreement (the “Designated Portfolios”) on behalf of the Account to fund the aforesaid Contracts, and the Underwriter is authorized to sell such shares to the Account at net asset value;
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of their mutual promises, the Company, the Fund and the Underwriter agree as follows:
ARTICLE I. Sale of Fund Shares
          1.1. The Fund has granted to the Underwriter exclusive authority to distribute the Fund’s shares, and has agreed to instruct, and has so instructed, the Underwriter to make available to the Company for purchase on behalf of the Account Fund shares of those Designated Portfolios selected by the Underwriter. Pursuant to such authority and instructions, and subject to Article IX hereof, the Underwriter agrees to make available to the Company for purchase on behalf of the Account, shares of those Designated Portfolios, such purchases to be effected at net asset value in accordance with Section 1.3 of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Trustees of the Fund (the “Board”) may suspend or terminate the offering of Fund shares of any Designated Portfolio or class thereof, or liquidate any Designated Portfolio or class thereof, if such action is required by law or by regulatory authorities having jurisdiction or if, in the sole discretion of the Board acting in good faith, suspension, termination or liquidation is necessary in the best interests of the shareholders of such Designated Portfolio.
          1.2. The Fund shall redeem, at the Company’s request, any full or fractional Designated Portfolio shares held by the Company on behalf of the Account, such redemptions to be effected at net asset value in accordance with Section 1.3 of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the Company shall not redeem Fund shares attributable to Contract owners except in the circumstances permitted in Section 1.3 of this Agreement, and (ii) the Fund may delay redemption of Fund shares of any Designated Portfolio to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, and any rules, regulations or orders thereunder.
          1.3. Purchase and Redemption Procedures
               (a) The Fund hereby appoints the Company as an agent of the Fund for the limited purpose of receiving purchase and redemption requests on behalf of the Account (but not with respect to any Fund shares that may be held in the general account of the Company) for shares of those Designated Portfolios made available hereunder, based on allocations of amounts to the Account or subaccounts thereof under the Contracts and other transactions relating to the Contracts or the Account.

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Receipt and acceptance of any such request (or relevant transactional information therefor) on any day the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading and on which the Fund calculates its net asset value pursuant to the rules of the SEC (a “Business Day”) by the Company as such limited agent of the Fund prior to the time that the Fund ordinarily calculates its net asset value as described from time to time in the Fund’s statutory prospectus, as such term is defined in Rule 498 under the 1933 Act (which as of the date of execution of this Agreement is 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time) shall constitute receipt and acceptance by the Fund on that same Business Day, provided that the Fund or its designated agent receives notice of such request by 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on the next following Business Day.
               (b) The Company shall pay for shares of each Designated Portfolio on the same day that it notifies the Fund of a purchase request for such shares. Payment for Designated Portfolio shares shall be made in federal funds transmitted to the Fund by wire to be received by the Fund by 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the Business Day the Fund is notified of the purchase request for Designated Portfolio shares (which request may be net of redemptions of shares). If federal funds are not received on time, such funds will be invested, and Designated Portfolio shares purchased thereby will be issued, as soon as practicable and the Company shall promptly, upon the Fund’s request, reimburse the Fund for any charges, costs, fees, interest or other expenses incurred by the Fund in connection with any advances to, or borrowing or overdrafts by, the Fund, or any similar expenses incurred by the Fund, as a result of portfolio transactions effected by the Fund based upon such purchase request. Upon receipt of federal funds so wired, such funds shall cease to be the responsibility of the Company and shall become the responsibility of the Fund.
               (c) Payment for Designated Portfolio shares redeemed by the Account or the Company shall be made in federal funds transmitted by wire to the Company or any other designated person on the next Business Day after the Fund is properly notified of the redemption order of such shares (which order shall be net of any purchase orders) except that the Fund reserves the right to redeem Designated Portfolio shares in assets other than cash and to delay payment of redemption proceeds to the extent permitted under Section 22(e) of the 1940 Act and any Rules thereunder, and in accordance with the procedures and policies of the Fund as described in the then current statutory prospectus and/or SAI. The Fund shall not bear any responsibility whatsoever for the proper disbursement or crediting of redemption proceeds by the Company; the Company alone shall be responsible for such action.
               (d) Any purchase or redemption request for Designated Portfolio shares held or to be held in the Company’s general account shall be effected at the net asset value per share next determined after the Fund’s receipt of such request, provided that, in the case of a purchase request, payment for Fund shares so requested is received by the Fund in federal funds prior to close of business for determination of such value, as defined from time to time in the Fund’s statutory prospectus.
               (e) The Company shall not redeem Fund shares attributable to the Contracts (as opposed to Fund shares attributable to the Company’s assets held in the Account) except (i) as necessary to implement Contract owner initiated or approved transactions, (ii) as required by state and/or federal laws or regulations or judicial or other legal precedent of general application (hereinafter referred to as a “Legally Required Redemption”), (iii) upon 45 days prior written notice to the Fund and the Underwriter, as permitted by an order of the SEC pursuant to Section 26(c) of the 1940 Act, but only if a substitution of other securities for the shares of the Designated Portfolios is consistent with the terms of the Contracts, or (iv) as permitted under the terms of the Contracts. Upon request, the Company will promptly furnish to the Fund reasonable assurance that any redemption pursuant to clause (ii) above is a Legally Required Redemption. Furthermore, except in cases where permitted under the terms of the Contracts, the Company shall not prevent Contract owners from allocating payments to a Designated Portfolio that was otherwise available under the Contracts without first giving the Fund 30 days notice of its intention to do so.

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          1.4. The Fund shall use its best efforts to make the net asset value per share for each Designated Portfolio available to the Company by 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time each Business Day, and in any event, as soon as reasonably practicable after the net asset value per share for such Designated Portfolio is calculated, and shall calculate such net asset value in accordance with the Fund’s statutory prospectus. If the Fund anticipates that it will not be able to send the Pricing Information by the above deadline, the Fund will send a notification (“Notification”) to the Company that such Pricing Information may not be sent by such deadline in the same manner as described in the preceding sentences for transmission of Pricing Information. The Fund shall then provide the Pricing Information as soon as possible thereafter and the Company will, to the extent possible without impacting its daily calculations for the custom investment options, work with the Fund to accept Pricing Information after the above referenced deadline. In the event of an error in the computation of a Fund’s net asset value per share requiring correction action under the Fund’s net asset value pricing error correction procedures (“Price Error”), such price error shall be corrected in accordance with the Fund’s net asset value pricing error procedures. The parties shall use best efforts to resolve any print expenses resulting from correcting Fund net asset value errors.
          1.5. Neither the Fund, any Designated Portfolio, the Underwriter, nor any of their affiliates shall be liable for any information provided to the Company pursuant to this Agreement which information is based on incorrect information supplied by the Company or any other Participating Insurance Company to the Fund or the Underwriter.
          1.6. The Fund shall furnish notice (by wire or telephone followed by written confirmation) to the Company as soon as reasonably practicable of any income dividends or capital gain distributions payable on any Designated Portfolio shares. The Company, on its behalf and on behalf of the Account, hereby elects to receive all such dividends and distributions as are payable on any Designated Portfolio shares in the form of additional shares of that Designated Portfolio. The Company reserves the right, on its behalf and on behalf of the Account, to revoke this election and to receive all such dividends and capital gain distributions in cash. The Fund shall notify the Company promptly of the number of Designated Portfolio shares so issued as payment of such dividends and distributions.
          1.7. Issuance and transfer of Fund shares shall be by book entry only. Share certificates will not be issued to the Company or the Account. Purchase and redemption orders for Fund shares shall be recorded in an appropriate ledger for the Account or the appropriate subaccount of the Account.
          1.8. (a) The parties hereto acknowledge that the arrangement contemplated by this Agreement is not exclusive; the Fund’s shares may be sold to other insurance companies (subject to Section 1.8 hereof) and the cash value of the Contracts may be invested in other investment companies, provided, however, that until this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Article IX, the Company shall promote the Designated Portfolios on the same basis as other funding vehicles available under the Contracts. Funding vehicles other than those listed on Schedule A to this Agreement may be available for the investment of the cash value of the Contracts, provided, however, that if any such vehicle or series thereof, has investment objectives or policies that are substantially comparable to the investment objectives and policies of a Designated Portfolio available hereunder, the Company gives the Fund and the Underwriter 45 days written notice of its intention to make such other investment vehicle available as a funding vehicle for the Contracts.
               (b) The Company shall not, without prior notice to the Fund (unless otherwise required by applicable law), take any action to operate the Account as a management investment company under the 1940 Act.

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               (c) The Company shall not, without prior notice to the Fund (unless otherwise required by applicable law), induce or encourage Contract owners to change or modify the Fund or remove or otherwise change the Fund’s distributor or investment adviser.
               (d) The Company shall not, without prior notice to the Fund, induce or encourage Contract owners to vote on any matter submitted for consideration by the shareholders of the Fund in a manner other than as recommended by the Board of Trustees of the Fund.
          The Company acknowledges that, pursuant to Form 24F-2, the Fund is not required to pay fees to the SEC for registration of its shares under the 1933 Act with respect to its shares issued to an Account that is a unit investment trust that offers interests that are registered under the 1933 Act and on which a registration fee has been or will be paid to the SEC (a “Registered Account”). The Company agrees to provide the Fund or its agent each year within 60 days of the end of the Fund’s fiscal year, or when reasonably requested by the Fund, information as to the number of shares purchased by a Registered Account and any other Account the interests of which are not registered under the 1933 Act. The Company acknowledges that the Fund intends to rely on the information so provided.
ARTICLE II. Representations and Warranties
          2.1. The Fund represents and warrants that (i) the Fund is lawfully organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, (ii) the Fund is and shall remain registered under the 1940 Act, (iii) Designated Portfolio shares sold pursuant to this Agreement are registered under the 1933 Act (to the extent required by that Act) and are duly authorized for issuance, (iv) the Fund shall amend the registration statement for the shares of the Designated Portfolios under the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act from time to time as required in order to effect the continuous offering of such shares, and (v) the Board has elected for each Designated Portfolio to be taxed as a Regulated Investment Company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The Fund makes no representations or warranties as to whether any aspect of the Designated Portfolios’ operations, including, but not limited to, investment policies, fees and expenses, complies with the insurance laws and other applicable laws of the various states. The Company agrees to promptly notify the Fund of any investment restrictions imposed by state insurance law applicable to the Fund or a Designated Portfolio. The Fund shall not be responsible, and the Company shall take full responsibility, for determining any jurisdiction in which any qualification or registration of Fund shares or the Fund by the Fund may be required in connection with the sale of the Contracts or the indirect interest of any Contract in any shares of the Fund and shall advise the Fund at such time and in such manner as is necessary to permit the Fund to comply.
          2.2. The Underwriter represents and warrants that shares of the Designated Portfolios (i) shall be offered and sold in compliance in all material respects with applicable federal securities laws, (ii) are offered and sold only to Participating Insurance Companies and their separate accounts and to persons or plans that communicate to the Fund that they qualify to purchase shares of the Designated Portfolios under Section 817(h) of the Code and the regulations thereunder without impairing the ability of the Account to consider the portfolio investments of the Designated Portfolios as constituting investments of the Account for the purpose of satisfying the diversification requirements of Section 817(h) (“Qualified Persons”), and (iii) are registered and qualified for sale in accordance with the laws of the various states to the extent required by applicable law.
          2.3. Subject to Company’s representations and warranties in Sections 2.5 and 2.6, the Fund represents and warrants that it will invest the assets of each Designated Portfolio in such a manner as to ensure that the Contracts will be treated as annuity or life insurance contracts, whichever is appropriate, under the Code and the regulations issued thereunder (or any successor provisions). Without

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limiting the scope of the foregoing, the Fund represents and warrants that each Designated Portfolio has complied and will continue to comply with Section 817(h) of the Code and Treasury Regulation §1.817-5, and any Treasury interpretations thereof, relating to the diversification requirements for variable annuity, endowment, or life insurance contracts, and any amendments or other modifications or successor provisions to such Section or Regulation. The Fund will make every reasonable effort (a) to notify the Company immediately upon having a reasonable basis for believing that a breach of this Section 2.3 has occurred, and (b) in the event of such a breach, to adequately diversify the Designated Portfolio so as to achieve compliance within the grace period afforded by Treasury Regulation §1.817-5.
          2.4. The Fund represents and warrants that each Designated Portfolio is or will be qualified as a Regulated Investment Company under Subchapter M of the Code, that the Fund will make every reasonable effort to maintain such qualification (under Subchapter M or any successor or similar provisions) and that the Fund will notify the Company immediately upon having a reasonable basis for believing that a Designated Portfolio has ceased to so qualify or that it might not so qualify in the future.
          2.5. The Company represents and warrants that the Contracts (a) are, or prior to issuance will be, registered under the 1933 Act, or (b) are not registered because they are properly exempt from registration under the 1933 Act or will be offered exclusively in transactions that are properly exempt from registration under the 1933 Act. The Company also represents and warrants that it is an insurance company duly organized and in good standing under applicable law, that it has legally and validly established the Account prior to any issuance or sale thereof as a segregated asset account under Nebraska insurance laws, and that it (a) has registered or, prior to any issuance or sale of the Contracts, will register the Account as a unit investment trust in accordance with the provisions of the 1940 Act to serve as a segregated investment account for the Contracts, or alternatively (b) has not registered the Account in proper reliance upon an exclusion from registration under the 1940 Act. The Company further represents and warrants that (i) the Contracts will be issued and sold in compliance in all material respects with all applicable federal securities and state securities and insurance laws, (ii) the sale of the Contracts shall comply in all material respects with state insurance suitability requirements; (iii) the information provided pursuant to Section 1.8 shall be accurate in all material respects; and (iv) it and the Account are Qualified Persons. The Company shall register and qualify the Contracts or interests therein as securities in accordance with the laws of the various states only if and to the extent required by applicable law.
          2.6. The Company represents and warrants that the Contracts are currently, and at the time of issuance shall be, treated as life insurance or annuity contracts, under applicable provisions of the Code, and that it will make every reasonable effort to maintain such treatment, and that it will notify the Fund and the Underwriter immediately upon having a reasonable basis for believing the Contracts have ceased to be so treated or that they might not be so treated in the future. In addition, the Company represents and warrants that each of its Accounts is a “segregated asset account” and that interests in the Accounts are offered exclusively through the purchase of or transfer into a “variable contract” within the meaning of such terms under Section 817 of the Code and the regulations thereunder. Company will use every reasonable effort to continue to meet such definitional requirements, and it will notify the Fund and the Underwriter immediately upon having a reasonable basis for believing that such requirements have ceased to be met or that they might not be met in the future.
          2.7. The Underwriter represents and warrants that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC.
          2.8. The Fund and the Underwriter represent and warrant that all of their trustees/directors, officers, employees, investment advisers, and other individuals or entities dealing with the money and/or securities of the Fund are and shall continue to be at all times covered by a blanket

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fidelity bond or similar coverage for the benefit of the Fund in an amount not less than the minimum coverage as required currently by Rule 17g-1 of the 1940 Act or related provisions as may be promulgated from time to time. The aforesaid bond shall include coverage for larceny and embezzlement and shall be issued by a reputable bonding company.
          2.9. The Company represents and warrants that all of its directors, officers, employees, and other individuals/entities employed or controlled by the Company dealing with the money and/or securities of the Account are covered by a blanket fidelity bond or similar coverage for the benefit of the Account, in an amount not less than $5 million. The aforesaid bond includes coverage for larceny and embezzlement and is issued by a reputable bonding company. The Company agrees to hold for the benefit of the Fund and to pay to the Fund any amounts lost from larceny, embezzlement or other events covered by the aforesaid bond to the extent such amounts properly belong to the Fund pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The Company agrees to make all reasonable efforts to see that this bond or another bond containing these provisions is always in effect, and agrees to notify the Fund and the Underwriter in the event that such coverage no longer applies.
          2.10. The Company represents and warrants that it shall comply with any applicable privacy and notice provisions of 15 U.S.C. §§ 6801-6827 and any applicable regulations promulgated thereunder (including but not limited to 17 C.F.R. Part 248), and any other applicable federal and state privacy law, as they may be amended from time to time.
          2.11. The Company represents and warrants that it has in place an anti-money laundering program (“AML program”) that does now and will continue to comply with applicable laws and regulations, including the relevant provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-56 (2001)) and the regulations issued thereunder (the “Patriot Act”). The Company hereby certifies that it has established and maintains an AML program that includes written policies, procedures and internal controls reasonably designed to identify its Contract owners and has undertaken appropriate due diligence efforts to “know its customers” in accordance with all applicable anti-money laundering regulations in its jurisdiction including, where applicable, the Patriot Act. The Company further confirms that it will monitor for suspicious activity in accordance with the requirements of the Patriot Act. In addition, the Company represents and warrants that it has adopted and implemented policies and procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance with the applicable requirements administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Company agrees to provide the Underwriter with such information as it may reasonably request, including but not limited to the filling out of questionnaires, attestations and other documents, to enable the Underwriter to fulfill its obligations under applicable law, and, upon its request, to file a notice pursuant to Section 314 of the Patriot Act and the implementing regulations related thereto to permit the voluntary sharing of information between the parties hereto. Upon filing such a notice, the Company agrees to forward a copy to the Underwriter, and further agrees to comply with all requirements under the Patriot Act and implementing regulations concerning the use, disclosure, and security of any information that is shared.
          2.12. The Company represents and warrants that (a) the Company has, and will maintain, policies and procedures reasonably designed to monitor and prevent market timing or excessive trading activity by its customers and (b) the Company will provide the Fund or its agent with assurances regarding the compliance of its handling of orders with respect to shares of the Designated Portfolios with the requirements of Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, regulatory interpretations thereof, and the Fund’s market timing and excessive trading policies upon reasonable request. Additionally, the Company shall comply with provisions of the Prospectus (the term “Prospectus” to include the summary prospectuses and statutory prospectuses of the Portfolios of the Fund as defined under Rule 498 of the 1933 Act) and statement of additional information (“SAI”) of the Fund, and with applicable federal and state securities laws. Among other things, and without limitation of the foregoing, the Company shall be responsible for

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reasonably assuring that: (a) only orders to purchase, redeem or exchange Portfolio shares received by the Company or any Indirect Intermediary (as defined below) prior to the Valuation Time (as defined below) shall be submitted directly or indirectly by the Company to the Fund or its transfer agent or other applicable agent for receipt of a price based on the net asset value per share calculated for that day in accordance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act (Orders to purchase, redeem or exchange Portfolio shares received by the Company subsequent to the Valuation Time on any given day shall receive a price based on the next determined net asset value per share in accordance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act.); and (b) the Company shall cause to be imposed and/or waived applicable redemption fees, if any, only in accordance with the Portfolio’s then current statutory Prospectus or SAI and/or as instructed by the Underwriter. The Company further agrees to make reasonable efforts to assist the Fund and its service providers (including but not limited to the Underwriter) to detect, prevent and report market timing or excessive short-term trading of Portfolio shares. To the extent the Company has actual knowledge of violations of Fund policies (as set forth in the then current Prospectus or SAI) regarding (i) the timing of purchase, redemption or exchange orders and pricing of Portfolio shares, (ii) market timing or excessive short-term trading of Portfolio shares, or (iii) the imposition of redemption fees, if any, the Company agrees to report such known violations to the Underwriter. For purposes of this provision, the term “Valuation Time” refers to the time as of which the shares of a Portfolio are valued on each business day, currently the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (normally, 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time) on each day that the New York Stock Exchange is open for business.
          2.13 The Company agrees to provide promptly to the Underwriter, upon written request, the taxpayer identification number (“TIN”), the Individual/International Taxpayer Identification Number (“ITIN”), or other government-issued identifier (“GII”) and the Contract owner number or participant account number, if known, of any or all Contractholder(s) of the account, and the amount, date and transaction type (purchase, redemption, transfer, or exchange) of every purchase, redemption, transfer, or exchange of shares held through an account maintained by the Company during the period covered by the request. Unless otherwise specifically requested by the Underwriter, the Company shall only be required to provide information relating to Contractholder-Initiated Transfer Purchases or Contractholder-Initiated Transfer Redemptions.
(a) Period Covered by Request. Requests must set forth a specific period, not to exceed 90 days from the date of the request, for which transaction information is sought. The Underwriter may request transaction information older than 90 days from the date of the request as it deems necessary to investigate compliance with policies established or utilized by the Fund or the Underwriter for the purpose of eliminating or reducing any dilution of the value of the outstanding shares issued by a Portfolio. If requested by the Underwriter, the Company will provide the information specified in this Section 2.13 for each trading day.
(b) Form and Timing of Response. The Company agrees to provide, promptly upon request of the Underwriter, the requested information specified in this Section 2.13. The Company agrees to use its best efforts to determine promptly whether any specific person about whom it has received the identification and transaction information specified in this Section 2.13 is itself a “financial intermediary,” as that term is defined in Rule 22c-2 under the 1940 Act (an “Indirect Intermediary”) and, upon request of the Underwriter, promptly either (i) provide (or arrange to have provided) the information set forth in this Section 2.13 for those Contractholders who hold an account with an Indirect Intermediary or (ii) restrict or prohibit the Indirect Intermediary from purchasing shares in nominee name on behalf of other persons. The Company additionally agrees to inform the Underwriter whether it plans to perform (i) or (ii) above. Responses required by this paragraph must be communicated in writing and in a format mutually agreed upon by the parties. To the extent practicable, the format for any Contractholder and transaction information provided to the Underwriter should be consistent with the NSCC Standardized Data Reporting Format.

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(c) Limitations on Use of Information. The Underwriter agrees not to use the information received under this Section 2.13 for marketing or any other similar purpose without the prior written consent of the Company; provided, however, that this provision shall not limit the use of publicly available information, information already in the possession of the Underwriter, the Fund or their affiliates at the time the information is received pursuant to this Section 2.13 or information which comes into the possession of the Underwriter, the Fund or their affiliates from a third party.
(d) Agreement to Restrict Trading. The Company agrees to execute written instructions from the Underwriter to restrict or prohibit further purchases or exchanges of Portfolio shares by a Contractholder that has been identified by the Underwriter as having engaged in transactions in Portfolio shares (directly or indirectly through the Company’s account) that violate policies established or utilized by the Fund or the Underwriter for the purpose of eliminating or reducing any dilution of the value of the outstanding shares issued by a Portfolio. Unless otherwise directed by the Underwriter, any such restrictions or prohibitions shall only apply to Contractholder-Initiated Transfer Purchases or Contractholder-Initiated Transfer Redemptions that are effected directly or indirectly through the Company.
(e) Form of Instructions. Instructions must include the TIN, ITIN or GII and the specific individual Contract owner number or participant account number associated with the Contractholder, if known, and the specific restriction(s) to be executed. If the TIN, ITIN, GII or the specific individual Contract owner number or participant account number associated with the Contractholder is not known, the instructions must include an equivalent identifying number of the Contractholder(s) or account(s) or other agreed upon information to which the instruction relates.
(f) Timing of Response. The Company agrees to execute instructions from the Underwriter as soon as reasonably practicable, but not later than ten (10) business days after receipt of the instructions by the Company.
(g) Confirmation by the Company. The Company must provide written confirmation to the Underwriter that the Underwriter’s instructions to restrict or prohibit trading have been executed. The Company agrees to provide confirmation as soon as reasonably practicable, but not later than ten (10) business days after the instructions have been executed.
(h) Definitions. For purposes of this Section 2.13, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning is clearly required by the context:
(i) The term “Contractholder” means the holder of interests in a Contract or a participant in an employee benefit plan with a beneficial interest in a Contract.
(ii) The term “Contractholder-Initiated Transfer Purchase” means a transaction that is initiated or directed by a Contractholder that results in a transfer of assets within a Contract to a Portfolio, but does not include transactions that are executed: (i) automatically pursuant to a contractual or systematic program or enrollment such as a transfer of assets within a Contract to a Portfolio as a result of “dollar cost averaging” programs, insurance company approved asset allocation programs, or automatic rebalancing programs; (ii) pursuant to a Contract death benefit; (iii) as a result of a one-time step-up in Contract value pursuant to a Contract death benefit; (iv) as a result of an allocation of assets to a Portfolio through a Contract as a result of payments such as loan repayments, scheduled contributions, retirement plan salary

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reduction contributions, or planned premium payments to the Contract; or (v) pre-arranged transfers at the conclusion of a required “free look” period.
(iii) The term “Contractholder-Initiated Transfer Redemption” means a transaction that is initiated or directed by a Contractholder that results in a transfer of assets within a Contract out of a Portfolio, but does not include transactions that are executed: (i) automatically pursuant to a contractual or systematic program or enrollments such as transfers of assets within a Contract out of a Portfolio as a result of annuity payouts, loans, systematic withdrawal programs, insurance company approved asset allocation programs and automatic rebalancing programs; (ii) as a result of any deduction of charges or fees under a Contract; (iii) within a Contract out of a Portfolio as a result of scheduled withdrawals or surrenders from a Contract; or (iv) as a result of payment of a death benefit from a Contract.
(iv) The term “Portfolios” shall mean the constituent series of the Fund, but for purposes of this Section 2.13 shall not include Portfolios excepted from the requirements of paragraph (a) of Rule 22c-2 by paragraph (b) of Rule 22c-2.
(v) The term “promptly” shall mean as soon as practicable but in no event later than ten (10) business days from the Company’s receipt of the request for information from the Underwriter.
(vi) The term “written” includes electronic writings and facsimile transmissions.
(vii) In addition, for purposes of this Section 2.13, the term “purchase” does not include the automatic reinvestment of dividends or distributions.
ARTICLE III. Prospectuses and Proxy Statements; Voting
          3.1. Subject to Section 6.1 and the parties’ agreement to use summary prospectuses, as such term is defined in Rule 498 under the 1933 Act, the Underwriter shall provide the Company with as many printed copies of the Fund’s current summary and statutory prospectuses (and supplements thereto) as the Company may reasonably request. The Fund shall bear the expense of printing and delivering (including postage) copies of the current summary prospectus and statutory prospectus, if requested by Contract owners, (and any supplements thereto) for the Contracts that will be distributed to existing Contract owners who allocate Contract value to any Fund investment option. The Company shall bear the expense of printing and delivering (including postage) copies of the Fund’s summary prospectuses and statutory prospectuses that are used in connection with offering the Contracts issued by the Company. If requested by the Company in lieu of receiving printed copies of the Fund’s summary and statutory prospectuses (and supplements thereto), the Fund shall provide an electronic copy of such documentation (including a final copy of the new summary and/or statutory prospectus in print ready PDF format at the Fund’s expense) and other assistance as is reasonably necessary in order for the Company once each year (or more frequently if the summary prospectus for the Fund is amended) to have the prospectus for the Contracts and the Fund’s summary prospectus bound together in one document in accordance with applicable law, including but not limited to, Rule 498 under the 1933 Act. The Company, may, in its sole discretion, bind together the Fund’s summary prospectus with summary prospectuses and statutory prospectuses for other investment options under the Contracts in accordance with Rule 498 or other applicable guidance received from the SEC. The Company shall deliver the summary prospectus and/or statutory prospectus to existing Contract owners and potential investors as required by, and in

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accordance with, Rule 498 and all other applicable laws. The Fund shall use its best efforts to provide the Fund’s summary prospectuses and statutory prospectuses (which only includes the Fund portfolios offered by the Company) and full SAI by April 15th of each year. Such materials will be provided by the Fund or its agent to the Company no later than April 21st each year or some other date as mutually agreed upon by Fund or its agent and the Company.
(a) The Fund shall host and manage all of the electronic documents for purposes of compliance with Rule 498 requirements.
(b) The Company shall be permitted, but not required, to post a copy of the Fund’s summary prospectuses and/or statutory prospectuses on the Company’s web site. The Fund documents posted on the Company web site are for informational purposes only and are not intended to comply with Rule 498. Notwithstanding the above, the Fund shall be and remain solely responsible for ensuring that the Fund electronic documents are hosted and managed by the Fund’s web site and fully comply with the requirements of Rule 498.
          3.2. Subject to Section 6.1 and the parties’ agreement to not use summary prospectuses, as such term is defined in Rule 498 under the 1933 Act, the Underwriter shall provide the Company with as many printed copies of the Fund’s current statutory prospectuses (and supplements thereto) as the Company may reasonably request. The Fund shall bear the expense of printing and delivering (including postage) copies of the current statutory prospectus, if requested by Contract owners, (and any supplements thereto) for the Contracts that will be distributed to existing Contract owners who allocate Contract value to any Fund investment option. The Company shall bear the expense of printing and delivering (including postage) copies of the Fund’s statutory prospectuses that are used in connection with offering the Contracts issued by the Company. If requested by the Company in lieu of receiving printed copies of the Fund’s statutory prospectuses (and supplements thereto), the Fund shall provide an electronic copy of such documentation (including a final copy of the new statutory prospectus in PDF format at the Fund’s expense) and other assistance as is reasonably necessary in order for the Company once each year (or more frequently if the statutory prospectus for the Fund is amended) to have the prospectus for the Contracts and the Fund’s statutory prospectus printed. The Fund shall use its best efforts to provide the Fund’s Prospectuses (which only includes the Fund portfolios offered by the Company) and full SAI by April 15th of each year. Such materials will be provided by the Fund or its agent to the Company no later than April 21st each year or some other date as mutually agreed upon by Fund or its agent and the Company.
          3.3. The Underwriter (or the Fund), at its expense, shall provide a reasonable number of printed copies (and an electronic copy in print ready PDF format) of the current SAI (and supplements thereto) for the Fund free of charge to the Company for itself and for any owner of a Contract who requests such SAI.
          3.4. The Fund shall provide the Company with information regarding the Fund’s expenses, which information may include a table of fees and related narrative disclosure for use in any prospectus or other descriptive document relating to a Contract. The Company agrees that it will use such information in the form provided. The Company shall provide prior written notice of any proposed modification of such information, which notice will describe in detail the manner in which the Company proposes to modify the information, and agrees that it may not modify such information in any way without the prior consent of the Fund.
          3.5. The Fund, at its expense, shall provide the Company with printed copies of Fund annual and semi-annual reports (in addition to an electronic copy in print ready PDF format) in such quantity as the Company shall reasonable require for distributing to Contract owners. The Fund shall

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reimburse the Company for costs incurred by the Company in connection with delivery (including postage) of the Fund annual and semi-annual reports.
          3.6. The Fund, at its expense, or at the expense of its designee, shall provide the Company with printed copies of its proxy material and other communications to shareholders in such quantity as the Company shall reasonably require for distributing to Contract owners. The Fund shall reimburse the Company for usual, customary and reasonable costs incurred by the Company in connection with delivery (including postage) of the proxy materials (or similar materials such as voting solicitation instructions), as well as processing, tabulation and project management costs provided that the Company provide the Fund with copies of appropriate invoices received for such costs. In lieu of all or part of the foregoing reimbursements, the Fund may elect to retain, at its own expense, a proxy solicitation firm to perform some or all of the tasks necessary for the Company to obtain voting instructions from Contract owners.
          3.7. The Company shall:
  (i)   solicit voting instructions from Contract owners;
 
  (ii)   vote the Fund shares in accordance with instructions received from Contract owners; and
 
  (iii)   vote Fund shares for which no instructions have been received in the same proportion as Fund shares of such portfolio for which instructions have been received,
so long as and to the extent that the SEC continues to interpret the 1940 Act to require pass-through voting privileges for variable contract owners or to the extent otherwise required by law. The Company will vote Fund shares held in any segregated asset account in the same proportion as Fund shares of such portfolio for which voting instructions have been received from Contract owners, to the extent permitted by law.
          3.8. Participating Insurance Companies shall be responsible for assuring that each of their separate accounts participating in a Designated Portfolio calculates voting privileges as required by the Shared Funding Exemptive Order and consistent with any reasonable standards that the Fund may adopt and provide in writing.
ARTICLE IV. Sales Material and Information
          4.1. The Company shall furnish, or shall cause to be furnished, to the Fund or its designee, each piece of sales literature or other promotional material that the Company develops and in which the Fund (or a Designated Portfolio thereof) or the Adviser or the Underwriter is named. No such material shall be used until approved by the Fund or its designee, and the Fund will use its best efforts for it or its designee to review such sales literature or promotional material within ten (10) Business Days after receipt of such material. The Fund or its designee reserves the right to reasonably object to the continued use of any such sales literature or other promotional material in which the Fund (or a Designated Portfolio thereof) or the Adviser or the Underwriter is named, and no such material shall be used if the Fund or its designee so object.
          4.2. The Company shall not give any information or make any representations or statements on behalf of the Fund or concerning the Fund or the Adviser or the Underwriter in connection with the sale of the Contracts other than the information or representations contained in the registration

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statement or Prospectus or SAI for the Fund shares, as such registration statement and Prospectus or SAI may be amended or supplemented from time to time, or in reports or proxy statements for the Fund, or in sales literature or other promotional material approved by the Fund or its designee or by the Underwriter, except with the permission of the Fund or the Underwriter or the designee of either. If the parties agree to use summary prospectuses, the Company shall comply with all applicable laws, including Rule 498 of the 1933 Act, when delivering a summary prospectus along with sales literature or other promotional material. The Fund shall be entitled to review Company’s placement of sales materials with the summary prospectus in order to review Company’s compliance with applicable laws.
          4.3. The Fund and the Underwriter, or their designee, shall furnish, or cause to be furnished, to the Company, each piece of sales literature or other promotional material that it develops and in which the Company, the Contracts and/or its Account, is named. No such material shall be used until approved by the Company, and the Company will use its best efforts to review such sales literature or promotional material within ten (10) Business Days after receipt of such material. The Company reserves the right to reasonably object to the continued use of any such sales literature or other promotional material in which the Company and/or its Account is named, and no such material shall be used if the Company so objects.
          4.4. The Fund and the Underwriter shall not give any information or make any representations on behalf of the Company or concerning the Company, the Account, or the Contracts other than the information or representations contained in a registration statement, prospectus (which shall include an offering memorandum, if any, if the Contracts issued by the Company or interests therein are not registered under the 1933 Act), or SAI for the Contracts, as such registration statement, prospectus, or SAI may be amended or supplemented from time to time, or in published reports for the Account which are in the public domain or approved by the Company for distribution to Contract owners, or in sales literature or other promotional material approved by the Company or its designee, except with the permission of the Company.
          4.5. Upon Company request, the Fund will provide to the Company at least one complete copy of all registration statements, summary and/or statutory prospectuses, SAIs, reports, proxy statements, sales literature and other promotional materials, applications for exemptions, requests for no-action letters, and all amendments to any of the above, that relate to the Fund or its shares, promptly after the filing of such document(s) with the SEC or other regulatory authorities.
          4.6. Upon Fund request, the Company will provide to the Fund at least one complete copy of all registration statements, prospectuses (which shall include an offering memorandum, if any, if the Contracts issued by the Company or interests therein are not registered under the 1933 Act), SAIs, reports, solicitations for voting instructions, sales literature and other promotional materials, applications for exemptions, requests for no-action letters, and all amendments to any of the above, that relate to the Contracts or the Account, promptly after the filing of such document(s) with the SEC or other regulatory authorities. The Company shall provide to the Fund and the Underwriter any material complaints received from the Contract owners pertaining to the Fund or the Designated Portfolio.
          4.7. For purposes of this Article IV, the phrase “sales literature and other promotional materials” includes, but is not limited to, any of the following that refer to the Fund or any affiliate of the Fund or the Company: advertisements (such as material published, or designed for use in, a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical, radio, television, telephone or tape recording, videotape display, signs or billboards, motion pictures, or other public media), sales literature (i.e., any written communication distributed or made generally available to customers or the public, including brochures, circulars, reports, market letters, form letters, seminar texts, reprints or excerpts of any other advertisement, sales literature, or published article), educational or training materials or other communications distributed or made

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generally available to some or all agents or employees, and registration statements, prospectuses, SAIs, shareholder reports, proxy materials, and any other communications distributed or made generally available with regard to the Fund or the Company.
ARTICLE V. Fees and Expenses
          5.1. Except as otherwise provided herein, no party to this Agreement shall pay any fee or other compensation to any other party to this Agreement. Except as otherwise provided herein, all expenses incident to performance by a party under this Agreement shall be paid by such party.
          5.2. All expenses incident to performance by the Fund under this Agreement shall be paid by the Fund. The Fund shall see to it that all its shares are registered and authorized for issuance in accordance with applicable federal law and, if and to the extent deemed advisable by the Fund, in accordance with applicable state laws prior to their sale. The Fund shall bear the expenses for the cost of registration and qualification of the Fund’s shares, preparation and filing of the Fund’s Prospectuses and registration statement, proxy materials and reports, setting the Prospectuses in type, setting in type and printing the proxy materials and reports to shareholders, the preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state law, and all taxes on the issuance or transfer of the Fund’s shares.
          5.3 The Fund shall contribute a maximum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) annually towards the combined expenses of printing and delivering the Fund’s prospectus to existing owners of Contracts issued by the Company with any additional expenses to be borne by the Company.
ARTICLE VI. Potential Conflicts
          6.1. The parties to this Agreement agree that the conditions or undertakings required by the Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order that may be imposed on the Company, the Fund and/or the Underwriter by virtue of such order by the SEC: (i) shall apply only upon the sale of shares of the Designated Portfolios to variable life insurance separate accounts (and then only to the extent required under the 1940 Act); (ii) shall apply and be incorporated herein by reference only if any of the Company, any Participating Insurance Company, the Fund or the Adviser relies on the exemptions from Sections 9(a), 13(a), 15(a) or 15(b) of the 1940 Act granted by the Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order; (iii) will be incorporated herein by reference; and (iv) such parties agree to comply with such conditions and undertakings to the extent applicable to each such party notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary.
          6.2. If and to the extent that Rule 6e-2 and Rule 6e-3(T) are amended, or Rule 6e-3 is adopted, to provide exemptive relief from any provision of the 1940 Act or the rules promulgated thereunder with respect to mixed or shared funding (as defined in the Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order) on terms and conditions materially different from those contained in the Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order, then (a) the parties to this Agreement shall take such steps as may be necessary to comply with Rules 6e-2 and 6e-3(T), as amended, and Rule 6e-3, as adopted, to the extent such rules are applicable; and (b) Sections 3.5 and 3.6 of this Agreement shall continue in effect only to the extent that terms and conditions substantially identical to such Sections are contained in such Rule(s) as so amended or adopted.

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ARTICLE VII. Indemnification
7.1. Indemnification By the Company
               7.1(a). The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Fund and the Underwriter and each of its trustees/directors and officers, and each person, if any, who controls the Fund or Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or who is under common control with the Underwriter (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties” for purposes of this Section 7.1) against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities (including amounts paid in settlement with the written consent of the Company) or litigation (including legal and other expenses), to which the Indemnified Parties may become subject under any statute or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses (or actions in respect thereof) or settlements:
(i) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statements of any material fact contained in the registration statement, prospectus (which shall include a written description of a Contract that is not registered under the 1933 Act), or SAI for the Contracts or contained in the Contracts or sales literature for the Contracts (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing), or arise out of or are based upon the omission or the alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, provided that this agreement to indemnify shall not apply as to any Indemnified Party if such statement or omission or such alleged statement or omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the Fund for use in the registration statement, prospectus or SAI for the Contracts or in the Contracts or sales literature (or any amendment or supplement) or otherwise for use in connection with the sale of the Contracts or Fund shares; or
(ii) arise out of or as a result of statements or representations (other than statements or representations contained in the registration statement, prospectus, SAI, or sales literature of the Fund not supplied by the Company or persons under its control) or wrongful conduct of the Company or its agents or persons under the Company’s authorization or control, with respect to the sale or distribution of the Contracts or Fund Shares; or
(iii) arise out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in a registration statement, prospectus, SAI, or sales literature of the Fund or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading if such a statement or omission was made in reliance upon information furnished to the Fund by or on behalf of the Company; or
(iv) arise as a result of any material failure by the Company to provide the services and furnish the materials under the terms of this Agreement (including a failure, whether unintentional or in good faith or otherwise, to comply with the qualification requirements specified in Section 2.6 of this Agreement); or

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(v) arise out of or result from any material breach of any representation and/or warranty made by the Company in this Agreement or arise out of or result from any other material breach of this Agreement by the Company;
as limited by and in accordance with the provisions of Sections 7.1(b) and 7.1(c) hereof.
               7.1(b). The Company shall not be liable under this indemnification provision with respect to any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or litigation to which an Indemnified Party would otherwise be subject by reason of such Indemnified Party’s willful misfeasance, fraud, bad faith, or gross negligence in the performance of such Indemnified Party’s duties or by reason of such Indemnified Party’s reckless disregard of its obligations or duties under this Agreement.
               7.1(c). The Company shall not be liable under this indemnification provision with respect to any claim made against an Indemnified Party unless such Indemnified Party shall have notified the Company in writing within a reasonable time after the summons or other first legal process giving information of the nature of the claim shall have been served upon such Indemnified Party (or after such Indemnified Party shall have received notice of such service on any designated agent), but failure to notify the Company of any such claim shall not relieve the Company from any liability which it may have to the Indemnified Party against whom such action is brought otherwise than on account of this indemnification provision. In case any such action is brought against an Indemnified Party, the Company shall be entitled to participate, at its own expense, in the defense of such action. The Company also shall be entitled to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to the party named in the action. After notice from the Company to such party of the Company’s election to assume the defense thereof, the Indemnified Party shall bear the fees and expenses of any additional counsel retained by it, and the Company will not be liable to such party under this Agreement for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such party independently in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation.
               7.1(d). The Indemnified Parties will promptly notify the Company of the commencement of any litigation or proceedings against them in connection with the issuance or sale of the Fund shares or the Contracts or the operation of the Fund.
7.2. Indemnification by the Underwriter
               7.2(a). The Underwriter agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and each of its directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties” for purposes of this Section 7.2) against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities (including amounts paid in settlement with the written consent of the Underwriter) or litigation (including legal and other expenses) to which the Indemnified Parties may become subject under any statute or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses (or actions in respect thereof) or settlements:
(i) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in the registration statement or prospectus or SAI or sales literature of the Fund (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing), or arise out of or are based upon the omission or the alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, provided that this agreement to indemnify shall not apply as to any Indemnified Party if such statement or omission or such alleged statement or omission was

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made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Underwriter or Fund by or on behalf of the Company for use in the registration statement, prospectus or SAI for the Fund or in sales literature (or any amendment or supplement) or otherwise for use in connection with the sale of the Contracts or Fund shares; or
(ii) arise out of or as a result of statements or representations (other than statements or representations contained in the registration statement, prospectus, SAI or sales literature for the Contracts not supplied by the Underwriter or persons under its control) or wrongful conduct of the Fund or Underwriter or persons under their control, with respect to the sale or distribution of the Contracts or Fund shares; or
(iii) arise out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in a registration statement, prospectus, SAI or sales literature covering the Contracts, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statement or statements therein not misleading, if such statement or omission was made in reliance upon information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the Fund or the Underwriter; or
(iv) arise as a result of any failure by the Fund or the Underwriter to provide the services and furnish the materials under the terms of this Agreement (including a failure of the Fund, whether unintentional or in good faith or otherwise, to comply with the diversification and other qualification requirements specified in Sections 2.3 and 2.4 of this Agreement); or
(v) arise out of or result from any material breach of any representation and/or warranty made by the Underwriter in this Agreement or arise out of or result from any other material breach of this Agreement by the Underwriter; as limited by and in accordance with the provisions of Sections 7.2(b) and 7.2(c) hereof.
               7.2(b). The Underwriter shall not be liable under this indemnification provision with respect to any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or litigation to which an Indemnified Party would otherwise be subject by reason of such Indemnified Party’s willful misfeasance, fraud, bad faith, or gross negligence in the performance of such Indemnified Party’s duties or by reason of such Indemnified Party’s reckless disregard of obligations and duties under this Agreement or to the Company or the Account, whichever is applicable.
               7.2(c). The Underwriter shall not be liable under this indemnification provision with respect to any claim made against an Indemnified Party unless such Indemnified Party shall have notified the Underwriter in writing within a reasonable time after the summons or other first legal process giving information of the nature of the claim shall have been served upon such Indemnified Party (or after such Indemnified Party shall have received notice of such service on any designated agent), but failure to notify the Underwriter of any such claim shall not relieve the Underwriter from any liability which it may have to the Indemnified Party against whom such action is brought otherwise than on account of this indemnification provision. In case any such action is brought against the Indemnified Party, the Underwriter will be entitled to participate, at its own expense, in the defense thereof. The Underwriter also shall be entitled to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to the party named in the

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action. After notice from the Underwriter to such party of the Underwriter’s election to assume the defense thereof, the Indemnified Party shall bear the fees and expenses of any additional counsel retained by it, and the Underwriter will not be liable to such party under this Agreement for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such party independently in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation.
               7.2(d). The Company agrees promptly to notify the Underwriter of the commencement of any litigation or proceedings against it or any of its officers or directors in connection with the issuance or sale of the Contracts or the operation of the Account.
7.3. Indemnification By the Fund
               7.3(a). The Fund agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and each of its directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties” for purposes of this Section 7.3) against any and all losses, claims, expenses, damages, liabilities (including amounts paid in settlement with the written consent of the Fund) or litigation (including legal and other expenses) to which the Indemnified Parties may be required to pay or may become subject under any statute or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, expenses, damages, liabilities or expenses (or actions in respect thereof) or settlements, are related to the operations of the Fund and:
(i) arise as a result of any failure by the Fund to provide the services and furnish the materials under the terms of this Agreement (including a failure, whether unintentional or in good faith or otherwise, to comply with the diversification and other qualification requirements specified in Section 2.3 and 2.4 of this Agreement); or
(ii) arise out of or result from any material breach of any representation and/or warranty made by the Fund in this Agreement or arise out of or result from any other material breach of this Agreement by the Fund;
as limited by and in accordance with the provisions of Sections 7.3(b) and 7.3(c) hereof. The parties acknowledge that the Fund’s indemnification obligations under this Section 7.3 are subject to applicable law.
               7.3(b). The Fund shall not be liable under this indemnification provision with respect to any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or litigation to which an Indemnified Party would otherwise be subject by reason of such Indemnified Party’s willful misfeasance, fraud, bad faith, or gross negligence in the performance of such Indemnified Party’s duties or by reason of such Indemnified Party’s reckless disregard of obligations and duties under this Agreement or to the Company, the Fund, the Underwriter or the Account, whichever is applicable.
               7.3(c). The Fund shall not be liable under this indemnification provision with respect to any claim made against an Indemnified Party unless such Indemnified Party shall have notified the Fund in writing within a reasonable time after the summons or other first legal process giving information of the nature of the claim shall have been served upon such Indemnified Party (or after such Indemnified Party shall have received notice of such service on any designated agent), but failure to notify the Fund of any such claim shall not relieve the Fund from any liability which it may have to the Indemnified Party against whom such action is brought otherwise than on account of this indemnification provision. In case any such action is brought against the Indemnified Parties, the Fund will be entitled to participate, at its own expense, in the defense thereof. The Fund also shall be entitled to assume the

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defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to the party named in the action. After notice from the Fund to such party of the Fund’s election to assume the defense thereof, the Indemnified Party shall bear the fees and expenses of any additional counsel retained by it, and the Fund will not be liable to such party under this Agreement for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such party independently in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation.
               7.3(d). The Company and the Underwriter agree promptly to notify the Fund of the commencement of any litigation or proceeding against it or any of its respective officers or directors in connection with the Agreement, the issuance or sale of the Contracts, the operation of the Account, or the sale or acquisition of shares of the Fund.
ARTICLE VIII. Applicable Law
          8.1. This Agreement shall be construed and the provisions hereof interpreted under and in accordance with the laws of the State of California.
          8.2. This Agreement shall be subject to the provisions of the 1933, 1934 and 1940 Acts, and the rules and regulations and rulings thereunder, including such exemptions from those statutes, rules and regulations as the SEC may grant (including, but not limited to, any Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order) and the terms hereof shall be interpreted and construed in accordance therewith. If, in the future, the Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order should no longer be necessary under applicable law, then Article VI shall no longer apply.
ARTICLE IX. Termination
          9.1. This Agreement shall continue in full force and effect until the first to occur of:
  (a)   termination by any party, for any reason with respect to some or all Designated Portfolios, by three (3) months advance written notice delivered to the other parties; or
 
  (b)   termination by the Company by written notice to the Fund and the Underwriter based upon the Company’s determination that shares of the Fund are not reasonably available to meet the requirements of the Contracts; or
 
  (c)   termination by the Company by written notice to the Fund and the Underwriter in the event any of the Designated Portfolio’s shares are not registered, issued or sold in accordance with applicable state and/or federal law or such law precludes the use of such shares as the underlying investment media of the Contracts issued or to be issued by the Company; or
 
  (d)   termination by the Fund or Underwriter in the event that formal administrative proceedings are instituted against the Company by FINRA, the SEC, the Insurance Commissioner or like official of any state or any other regulatory body regarding the Company’s duties under this Agreement or related to the sale of the Contracts, the operation of any Account, or the purchase of the Fund’s shares; provided, however, that the Fund or Underwriter determines in its sole judgment exercised in good faith, that any such administrative proceedings will have a material adverse effect upon the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement; or

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  (e)   termination by the Company in the event that formal administrative proceedings are instituted against the Fund or Underwriter by FINRA, the SEC, or any state securities or insurance department or any other regulatory body; provided, however, that the Company determines in its sole judgment exercised in good faith, that any such administrative proceedings will have a material adverse effect upon the ability of the Fund or Underwriter to perform its obligations under this Agreement; or
 
  (f)   termination by the Company by written notice to the Fund and the Underwriter with respect to any Designated Portfolio in the event that such Portfolio ceases to qualify as a Regulated Investment Company under Subchapter M or fails to comply with the Section 817(h) diversification requirements specified in Section 2.4 hereof, or if the Company reasonably believes that such Portfolio may fail to so qualify or comply; or
 
  (g)   termination by the Fund or Underwriter by written notice to the Company in the event that the Contracts fail to meet the qualifications specified in Section 2.6 hereof; or
 
  (h)   termination by either the Fund or the Underwriter by written notice to the Company, if either one or both of the Fund or the Underwriter respectively, shall determine, in their sole judgment exercised in good faith, that the Company has suffered a material adverse change in its business, operations, financial condition, or prospects since the date of this Agreement or is the subject of material adverse publicity; or
 
  (i)   termination by the Company by written notice to the Fund and the Underwriter, if the Company shall determine, in its sole judgment exercised in good faith, that the Fund, Adviser, or the Underwriter has suffered a material adverse change in its business, operations, financial condition or prospects since the date of this Agreement or is the subject of material adverse publicity; or
 
  (j)   termination by the Fund or the Underwriter by written notice to the Company, if the Company gives the Fund and the Underwriter the written notice specified in Section 1.7(a) hereof and at the time such notice was given there was no notice of termination outstanding under any other provision of this Agreement; provided, however, any termination under this Section 9.1(j) shall be effective forty-five (45) days after the notice specified in Section 1.7(a)(ii) was given; or
 
  (k)   termination by the Company upon any substitution of the shares of another investment company or series thereof for shares of a Designated Portfolio of the Fund in accordance with the terms of the Contracts, provided that the Company has given at least forty-five (45) days prior written notice to the Fund and Underwriter of the date of substitution; or
 
  (l)   termination by the Fund if the Board has decided to (i) refuse to sell shares of any Designated Portfolio to the Company and/or any of its Accounts; (ii) suspend or terminate the offering of shares of any Designated Portfolio; or (iii) dissolve, reorganize, liquidate, merge or sell all assets of the Fund or any Designated Portfolio, subject to the provisions of Section 1.1; or

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  (m)   termination by any party in the event that the Fund’s Board of Trustees determines that a material irreconcilable conflict exists as provided in Article VI.
          9.2. (a) Notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement, and except as provided in Section 9.2(b), the Fund and the Underwriter shall, at the option of the Company, continue, until the one year anniversary from the date of termination, and from year to year thereafter if deemed appropriate by the Fund and the Underwriter, to make available additional shares of the Designated Portfolios pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, for all Contracts in effect on the effective date of termination of this Agreement (hereinafter referred to as “Existing Contracts”). Specifically, based on instructions from the owners of the Existing Contracts, the Accounts shall be permitted to reallocate investments in the Designated Portfolios of the Fund and redeem investments in the Designated Portfolios, and shall be permitted to invest in the Designated Portfolios in the event that owners of the Existing Contracts make additional premium payments under the Existing Contracts.
                    The Company agrees, promptly after any termination of this Agreement, to take all steps necessary to redeem the investment of the Accounts in the Designated Portfolios within one year from the date of termination of the Agreement as provided in Article IX. Such steps shall include, but not be limited to, obtaining an order pursuant to Section 26(c) of the 1940 Act to permit the substitution of other securities for the shares of the Designated Portfolios. The Fund may, in its discretion, permit the Accounts to continue to invest in the Designated Portfolios beyond such one year anniversary for an additional year beginning on the first annual anniversary of the date of termination, and from year to year thereafter; provided that the Fund agrees in writing to permit the Accounts to continue to invest in the Designated Portfolios at the beginning of any such year.
               (b) In the event (i) the Agreement is terminated pursuant to Sections 9.1(g) or 9.1(m), at the option of the Fund or the Underwriter; or (ii) the one year anniversary of the termination of the Agreement is reached or, after waiver as provided in Section 9.2(a), such subsequent anniversary is reached (each of (i) and (ii) referred to as a “triggering event” and the date of termination as provided in (i) or the date of such anniversary as provided in (ii) referred to as the “request date”), the parties agree that such triggering event shall be considered as a request for immediate redemption of shares of the Designated Portfolios held by the Accounts, received by the Fund and its agents as of the request date, and the Fund agrees to process such redemption request in accordance with the 1940 Act and the regulations thereunder and the Fund’s registration statement.
               (c) The parties agree that this Section 9.2 shall not apply to any terminations under Article VI and the effect of such Article VI terminations shall be governed by Article VI of this Agreement. The parties further agree that, to the extent that all or a portion of the assets of the Accounts continue to be invested in the Fund or any Designated Portfolio of the Fund, Articles I, II, VI, VII and VIII will remain in effect after termination.
          9.3. Notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement, each party’s obligation under Article VII to indemnify the other parties shall survive.
ARTICLE X. Notices
               Any notice shall be sufficiently given when sent by registered or certified mail to the other party at the address of such party set forth below or at such other address as such party may from time to time specify in writing to the other party.

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If to the Fund:
  PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust
840 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Attention: Legal Department
 
   
If to the Company:
  Pacific Life Insurance Company
700 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Attention: General Counsel
 
   
If to Underwriter:
  Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC
1345 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10105
Attention: Legal Department
ARTICLE XI. Miscellaneous
          11.1. All persons dealing with the Fund must look solely to the property of the Fund, and in the case of a series company, the respective applicable Designated Portfolios listed on Schedule A hereto as though each such Designated Portfolio had separately contracted with the Company and the Underwriter for the enforcement of any claims against the Fund. The parties agree that neither the Board, officers, agents or shareholders of the Fund assume any personal liability or responsibility for obligations entered into by or on behalf of the Fund.
          11.2. Subject to the requirements of legal process and regulatory authority, each party hereto shall treat as confidential the names and addresses of the owners of the Contracts and all information reasonably identified as confidential in writing by any other party hereto and, except as permitted by this Agreement, shall not disclose, disseminate or utilize such names and addresses and other confidential information without the express written consent of the affected party until such time as such information has come into the public domain.
          11.3. The captions in this Agreement are included for convenience of reference only and in no way define or delineate any of the provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or effect.
          11.4. This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
          11.5. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held or made invalid by a court decision, statute, rule or otherwise, the remainder of the Agreement shall not be affected thereby.
          11.6. Each party hereto shall cooperate with each other party and all appropriate governmental authorities (including without limitation the SEC, FINRA, and state insurance regulators) and shall permit such authorities reasonable access to its books and records in connection with any investigation or inquiry relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, each party hereto further agrees to furnish the applicable Insurance Commissioner with any information or reports in connection with services provided under this Agreement which such Commissioner may request in order to ascertain whether the variable insurance contract operations of the Company are being conducted in a manner consistent with the applicable variable insurance contract laws and regulations and any other applicable law or regulations.

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          11.7. The rights, remedies and obligations contained in this Agreement are cumulative and are in addition to any and all rights, remedies, and obligations, at law or in equity, which the parties hereto are entitled to under state and federal laws.
          11.8. This Agreement or any of the rights and obligations hereunder may not be assigned by any party without the prior written consent of all parties hereto.
          11.9. If requested by the Fund, the Company shall furnish, or shall cause to be furnished, to the Fund or its designee copies of the following reports:
  (a)   the Company’s annual statement (prepared under statutory accounting principles) and annual report (prepared under generally accepted accounting principles) filed with any state or federal regulatory body or otherwise made available to the public, as soon as practicable and in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year; and
 
  (b)   any registration statement (without exhibits) and financial reports of the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any state insurance regulatory, as soon as practicable after the filing thereof.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused this Agreement to be executed in its name and on its behalf by its duly authorized representative and its seal to be hereunder affixed hereto as of the date specified below.
PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY:
         
  By its authorized officer
 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:   Assistant Vice President   
    Date:      
 
 
    Attest:      
 
 
       Corporate Secretary   
PIMCO VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST
         
  By its authorized officer
 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
    Date:      
 
ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS DISTRIBUTORS LLC
         
  By its authorized officer
 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
    Date:      
 

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Schedule A
The term “Designated Portfolio” of the Fund will include any currently offered class of any Portfolio of the Fund (as listed below) as well as any Portfolio of the Fund or any share class of any Portfolio (now existing or hereafter created) created subsequent to the date hereof.
Designated Portfolios/Classes:
Administrative Class Shares
All Asset Portfolio
All Asset All Authority
CommodityRealReturn Strategy Portfolio
Diversified Income Portfolio
Emerging Markets Bond Portfolio
Foreign Bond Portfolio (Unhedged)
Foreign Bond Portfolio (U.S. Dollar-Hedged)
Global Bond Portfolio (Unhedged)
Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
High Yield Portfolio
Long-Term U.S. Government Portfolio
Low Duration Portfolio
Money Market Portfolio
Real Return Portfolio
Short-Term Portfolio
Total Return Portfolio
Institutional Class Shares
All Asset Portfolio
CommodityRealReturn Strategy Portfolio
Emerging Markets Bond Portfolio
Foreign Bond Portfolio (U.S. Dollar-Hedged)
Global Bond Portfolio (Unhedged)
High Yield Portfolio
Long-Term U.S. Government Portfolio
Low Duration Portfolio
Money Market Portfolio
Real Return Portfolio
Short-Term Portfolio
Total Return Portfolio
Advisor Class Shares
All Asset Portfolio
All Asset All Authority Portfolio

 


 

CommodityRealReturn Strategy Portfolio
Emerging Markets Bond Portfolio
Foreign Bond Portfolio (Unhedged)
Global Bond Portfolio (Unhedged)
Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
High Yield Portfolio
Long-Term U.S. Government Portfolio
Low Duration Portfolio
Real Return Portfolio
Short-Term Portfolio
Total Return Portfolio
Class M Shares
All Asset Portfolio
All Asset All Authority Portfolio
Segregated Asset Accounts:
Separate Account A of Pacific Life Insurance Company
Pacific Select Variable Annuity Separate Account of Pacific Life Insurance Company
Contracts:
Pacific Destinations
Pacific Odyssey
Pacific Journey
Pacific Innovations
Pacific Innovations Select
Pacific Value Edge
Pacific Value
Pacific Voyages
Pacific Portfolios for Chase
Pacific Portfolios
Pacific One Select
Pacific One
Pacific Select Variable Annuity

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EX-99.8(W) 12 a52618exv99w8xwy.htm EX-99.8(W) exv99w8xwy
ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS DISTRIBUTORS LLC
1345 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10105-4800
SELLING AGREEMENT
FOR ADVISOR CLASS SHARES OF
PIMCO VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST
Dear Sirs:
We are the distributor of the Advisor Class shares of those series of PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust set forth in Appendix A (collectively, the “Funds”). Shares are offered pursuant to the then-current prospectus, including any supplements or amendments thereto, of each of the Funds (the “Prospectus”). To the extent that a Prospectus contains provisions that are inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Prospectus shall be controlling. We have the exclusive right to distribute shares of the Funds (the “Shares”). As agent for the Funds, we hereby offer to sell Shares of the Funds to you, upon the following terms and conditions:
1. All sales of shares shall be made in conformity with that certain Participation Agreement, by and among us, the Trust, and Pacific Life Insurance Company, dated as of May 1, 2010 (“Participation Agreement”). To the extent that the Participation Agreement contains provisions that are inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Participation Agreement shall be controlling, provided, however, that Section 5.1 of the Participation Agreement shall not be construed to prohibit the payment of fees to Pacific Life Insurance Company or its distributor (“You”) pursuant to Section 2 hereunder.
2. Certain of the Funds have adopted Distribution Plans (“Plans”) pursuant to which we, on behalf of each such Fund, will pay a fee to You equal, on an annual basis, of the Funds’ average daily net assets attributable to Your variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts (“Fee”) in accordance with the provisions of the Plans. The provisions and terms of these Funds’ Plans are described in their respective Prospectuses, and you hereby agree that we have made no representations to you with respect to the Plans of such Funds in addition to, or conflicting with, the description set forth in their respective Prospectuses.
3. We may prospectively increase or decrease the Fee, in our sole discretion, at any time upon notice to You.
4. In consideration of the Fee, You acknowledge and agree that you shall perform the following services:
  a.   print and mail prospectuses, supplements and shareholder reports for prospective investors;
 
  b.   develop, print and mail advertisements, sales literature and other promotional materials describing and/or relating to the Funds;

 


 

  c.   train sales personnel and conduct seminars and sales meetings designed to promote the distribution of the shares of the Funds;
 
  d.   obtain information and providing explanations to wholesale and retail distributors of Your variable insurance contracts regarding the investment objectives and policies and other information about the Funds, including the performance of the Funds;
 
  e.   compensate financial intermediaries for services performed and expenses incurred in connection with the sale of shares of the Funds through sales of Your variable insurance contracts;
 
  f.   finance any other activity that is primarily intended to result in the sale of shares of the Funds;
 
  g.   teleservice support in connection with the Funds;
 
  h.   recordkeeping services;
 
  i.   provide support services, including providing information about the Trust and the Funds and answering questions concerning the Trust and the Funds, including questions respecting investors’ interests in the Funds;
 
  j.   provide and administer insurance features for the benefit of investors in connection with the Funds;
 
  k.   receive, aggregate and forward purchase and redemption orders;
 
  l.   process dividend payments;
 
  m.   issue investor reports and transaction confirmations;
 
  n.   provide subaccounting services;
 
  o.   provide general account administration activities; and
 
  p.   provide such similar services as You may reasonably request to the extent You are permitted to do so under applicable statutes, rules or regulations.
5. You may, at your expense, subcontract with any entity or person concerning the provision of the Services contemplated hereunder; provided, however, that You shall not be relieved of any of your obligations under this Agreement by the appointment of such subcontractor and provided further, that You shall be responsible, to the extent provided in Article 5 hereof, for all acts of such subcontractor as if such acts were Your own.
6. You will provide such office space and equipment, telephone facilities, and personnel (which may be any part of the space, equipment, and facilities currently used in Your business, or any

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personnel employed by You) as may be reasonably necessary or beneficial in order to provide such Services.
7. You and your employees will, upon request, be available during normal business hours to consult with us concerning the performance of your responsibilities under this Agreement. Upon our reasonable request, you will provide to us a written report of the amounts expended under this Agreement and a description of the purposes for which the expenditures are made.
8. In addition, You will furnish to the Trust or its designees such information as the Trust or its designees may reasonably request (including, without limitation, periodic certifications confirming the rendering of services as described herein), and will otherwise cooperate with us, the Trust and its designees (including, without limitation, any auditors designated by the Trust), in the preparation of reports to the Trust’s Trustees’ concerning this Agreement and the monies paid, reimbursed, payable, or reimbursable pursuant hereto, the Services provided hereunder and related expenses, and any other reports or filings that may be required by law.
9. By written acceptance of this Agreement, You represent, warrant, and agree that, to the extent required by law: (i) You have all necessary qualifications, authorizations and/or registrations relating to Your participation in this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby or relating to any activities of any persons or entities affiliated with You performed in connection with the discharge of its responsibilities under this Agreement; (ii) to the extent required by law, You will provide to your customers a schedule of the services You will perform pursuant to this Agreement and a schedule of any fees that You may charge directly to Your customers for services You perform in connection with investments in the Trust on Your customer’s behalf; and (iii) the arrangements provided for in this Agreement, including, the compensation arrangements provided for in this Agreement, will be timely disclosed, to the extent necessary or appropriate, by You to your customers.
10. If You receive, aggregate and/or forward purchase and redemption orders (i) all purchase and redemption orders with respect to shares of the Trust submitted by You will be received in good order by You prior to the close of trading on that business day, and will be processed by You in compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the Investment Company Act and regulatory interpretations thereof; (ii) You have, and will maintain, policies and procedures reasonably designed to monitor and prevent market timing or excessive trading activity by investors; (iii) You will, upon reasonable request, provide the Trust or its agent with assurances regarding the compliance of its handling of orders with respect to shares of the Funds with the requirements of Rule 22c-1, regulatory interpretations thereof, and the Funds’ market timing and excessive trading policies; and (v) You will use your best efforts to cooperate with the Trust or its agent to implement policies and procedures to prevent market timing and/or excessive trading in the Funds.
11. If You act as nominee and hold Trust shares in nominee name, effective October 16, 2006 or such earlier date as agreed in writing between the parties, You will (i) provide, promptly upon request by the Trust or its agents, the Taxpayer Identification Number of all investors that purchased, redeemed, transferred, or exchanged shares held through an account with You, and the amount and dates of such shareholder purchases, redemptions, transfers, and exchanges; (ii) execute any instructions from the Trust or its agents to restrict or prohibit further purchases or

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exchanges of Fund shares by investors who have been identified by the Trust or its agents as having engaged, directly or indirectly, in transactions that violate policies established as to a Fund for the purpose of eliminating or reducing any dilution of the value of the outstanding securities issued by the Trust; and (iii) either assess any applicable redemption fees adopted as to a Fund, or communicate to the Trust or its agents all information necessary for the Trust or its agents to assess such redemption fees directly against payment of redemption proceeds.
12. Each party to this Agreement hereby agrees to abide by and comply with all applicable anti-money laundering laws and regulations including the Anti-Money Laundering and Abatement Act and relevant provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001. Each party represents that it has established an Anti-Money Laundering Program that complies with all material aspects of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and other applicable anti-money laundering laws and regulations. Each party also hereby agrees to take action to comply with any new or additional anti-money laundering regulations. You certify that You have obtained and verified the requisite information with respect to each investor on whose behalf You are acting with respect to the Funds and, unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law, You agree to notify us promptly whenever, with respect to any such investor, You detect potential indications of any: (i) suspicious activity that would require a broker/dealer or bank (as applicable) to file a suspicious activity report or (ii) Office of Foreign Asset Control matches.
13. You agree to comply with all requirements applicable to You by reason of all applicable laws, including federal and state securities laws, the rules and regulations of the SEC, including, without limitation, all applicable requirements of the 1933 Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. You further agree to maintain all records required by applicable law or otherwise reasonably requested by the Trust relating to services provided pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
14. You agree that under no circumstances shall the Trust be liable to You or any other person under this Agreement as a result of any action by the Securities and Exchange Commission affecting the operation or continuation of the Plan.
15. We shall not be liable to You and You shall not be liable to us except for acts or failures to act which constitute lack of good faith or negligence and for obligations expressly assumed by any party hereunder. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to operate as a waiver by You or by us of compliance with any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
16. You will indemnify us and hold us harmless from any claims or assertions relating to the lawfulness of your participation in this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby or relating to any activities of any persons or entities affiliated with you performed in connection with the discharge of its responsibilities under this Agreement. If any such claims are asserted, we shall have the right to manage its own defense, including the selection and engagement of legal counsel of our choosing, and You shall bear all costs of such defense.
17. This Agreement will become effective with respect to each Fund on the date of its acceptance by You. Unless sooner terminated with respect to any Fund, this Agreement will continue with respect to a Fund until terminated in accordance with its terms, provided that the

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continuance of the relevant Plan is specifically approved at least annually in accordance with the terms of such Plan.
18. This Agreement will automatically terminate with respect to a Fund in the event of its assignment (as such term is defined in the 1940 Act) or upon termination of the Plan. This Agreement may be terminated with respect to a Fund by the Trust, by Us or by You, without penalty, upon sixty (60) days’ prior written notice to the other parties and (unless terminated by the Trust) to the Trust. This Agreement may also be terminated with respect to a Fund at any time without penalty by the vote of a majority of the Independent Trustees (as defined in the Plan) or a majority of the outstanding Shares of a Fund on sixty (60) days’ written notice.
19. This Agreement may be modified or amended, and the terms of this Agreement may be waived, only in writing with the consent of both parties. In this regard, this Agreement may be amended by us (but not by You) at any time by mailing a copy of a written amendment to You at the address shown below. In the absence of written objection to such amendment, continued performance by You under this Agreement shall constitute your consent to such written amendment.
20. All notices and other communications to any party or the Trust will be duly given if mailed, telegraphed or telecopied to the appropriate address set forth below, or at such other address as any party or the Trust may provide in writing to the other parties and the Trust.
     
If to the Trust:
  PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust
 
  840 Newport Center Drive
 
  Newport Beach, CA 92660
 
   
If to the Company:
  Pacific Life Insurance Company
 
  700 Newport Center Drive
 
  Newport Beach, CA 92660
 
  Attn: General Counsel
 
   
If to Underwriter:
  Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC
 
  1345 Avenue of the Americas
 
  New York, NY 10105
21. This Agreement supersedes any other agreement between us and You relating to the services described herein in connection with a Fund’s shares and relating to any other matters discussed herein. All covenants, agreements, representations, and warranties made herein shall be deemed to have been material and relied on by each party and the Trust, notwithstanding any investigation made by any party or on behalf of any party, and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement. The invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision hereof shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other term or provision hereof. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not alter or otherwise affect the meaning hereof. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts which together shall constitute one instrument and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the

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laws (other than the conflict of laws rules) of the State of Delaware and shall bind and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and the Trust and their respective successors.
(The remainder of this page is left intentionally blank. The signature page follows.)

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this instrument to be executed by their officers designated below.
         
    Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC
 
       
 
  By:    
 
       
 
       
 
  Name:    
 
       
 
       
 
  Title:    
 
       
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted:
Pacific Life Insurance Company
         
By:
       
 
       
 
       
Name:
       
 
       
Title:
  Assistant Vice President    
 
       
Date:
       
 
       
 
       
Attest:
       
 
       
 
       
 
  Corporate Secretary    

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SCHEDULE A
TO THE SELLING AGREEMENT
MAY 1, 2010
The following Advisor Class Portfolios of the Fund include any currently offered Portfolio (listed below) as well as any Portfolio of the Fund hereinafter created.
All Asset Portfolio
All Asset All Authority Portfolio
CommodityRealReturn Strategy Portfolio
Emerging Markets Bond Portfolio
Foreign Bond Portfolio (Unhedged)
Global Bond Portfolio (Unhedged)
Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
High Yield Portfolio
Low Duration Portfolio
Real Return Portfolio
Small Cap StocksPLUS® TR Portfolio
Total Return Portfolio

EX-99.8(X) 13 a52618exv99w8xxy.htm EX-99.8(X) exv99w8xxy
PIMCO SERVICES AGREEMENT
FOR ADVISOR CLASS SHARES
OF PIMCO VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST
     The terms and conditions of this Services Agreement between Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (“PIMCO”) and Pacific Life Insurance Company, a Nebraska life insurance company (the “Company”) are effective as of May 1, 2010.
     WHEREAS, the Company, Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC and PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust (the “Trust”) have entered into a Fund Participation Agreement dated May 1, 2010, as may be amended from time to time (the “Participation Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company, on behalf of certain of its separate accounts (the “Separate Accounts”), purchases Advisor Class shares (“Shares”) of certain Portfolios of the Trust, as set forth in Schedule A to the Participation Agreement (“Portfolios”) to serve as an investment vehicle under certain variable annuity and/or variable life insurance contracts (“Variable Contracts”) offered by the Company, which Portfolios may be one of several investment options available under the Variable Contracts; and
     WHEREAS, PIMCO recognizes that it will derive substantial savings in administrative expenses by virtue of having a sole shareholder rather than multiple shareholders in connection with each Separate Account’s investments in the Portfolios, and that in the course of soliciting applications for Variable Contracts issued by the Company and in servicing owners of such Variable Contracts, the Company will provide information about the Trust and its Portfolios from time to time, answer questions concerning the Trust and its Portfolios, including questions respecting Variable Contract owners’ interests in one or more Portfolios, and provide services respecting investments in the Portfolios; and
     WHEREAS, PIMCO wishes to compensate the Company for the efforts of the Company in providing written and oral information and services regarding the Trust to Variable Contract owners; and
     WHEREAS, the following represents the collective intention and understanding of the service fee agreement between PIMCO and the Company.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of their mutual promises, the Company and PIMCO agree as follows:
     1. Services. The Company and/or its affiliates agree to provide services (“Services”) to owners of Variable Contracts including, but not limited to: teleservicing support in connection with Portfolios; delivery of current Trust prospectuses, reports, notices, proxies and proxy statements and other informational materials; facilitation of the tabulation of investors’ votes in the event of a Trust shareholder vote; receiving, tabulating and transmitting proxies executed by or on behalf of investors; maintenance of investor records reflecting shares purchased and redeemed and share balances, and the conveyance of that information to the Trust or Pacific Investment Management Company (the administrator of the Portfolios) as may be reasonably requested.

 


 

     2. Compensation. In consideration of the Services, PIMCO agrees to pay to the Company a service fee at an annual rate equal to ( ) basis points (%) of the average daily value of the Shares held in the Separate Accounts. Such payments will be made monthly in arrears. For purposes of computing the payment to the Company under this paragraph 2, the average daily value of Shares held in the Separate Accounts over a monthly period shall be computed by totaling such Separate Accounts’ aggregate investment (Share net asset value multiplied by total number of Shares held by such Separate Accounts) on each business day during the calendar month, and dividing by the total number of business days during such month. The payment to the Company under this paragraph 2 shall be calculated by PIMCO at the end of each calendar month and will be paid to the Company within 30 days thereafter. Payment will be accompanied by a statement showing the calculation of the monthly amounts payable by PIMCO and such other supporting data as may be reasonably requested by the Company.
     3. Compliance with Laws. The Company agrees that:
     (a) in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Company will abide by all applicable laws, including, without limitation, federal and state securities laws and regulations, state insurance laws and regulations, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; and
     (b) the arrangements provided for in this Agreement, including the compensation arrangements provided for in this agreement, will be timely disclosed, to the extent necessary or appropriate, to Variable Contract owners.
     4. Term. This Services Agreement shall remain in full force and effect for an initial term of one year, and shall automatically renew for successive one year periods. This Services Agreement may be terminated by either party hereto upon 30 days written notice to the other. This Services Agreement shall terminate automatically upon the redemption of all Shares held in the Separate Accounts, upon termination of the Participation Agreement, upon a material, unremedied breach of the Participation Agreement, as to a Portfolio upon termination of the investment advisory agreement between the Trust, on behalf of such Portfolio, and PIMCO, or upon assignment of the Participation Agreement by either the Company or PIMCO. Notwithstanding the termination of this Services Agreement, PIMCO will continue to pay the service fees in accordance with paragraph 2 so long as net assets of the Separate Accounts remain in a Portfolio, provided such continued payment is permitted in accordance with applicable law and regulation.
     5. Amendment. This Services Agreement may be amended only in writing with the consent of both parties. In this regard, this Agreement may be amended by PIMCO (but not by the Company) at any time by mailing a copy of a written amendment to the Company. In the absence of written objection to such amendment, continued performance by the Company under this Agreement shall constitute Company’s consent to such written amendment.
     6. Effect on Other Terms, Obligations and Covenants. Nothing herein shall amend, modify or supersede any contractual terms, obligations or covenants among or between any of

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the Company, PIMCO or the Trust previously or currently in effect, including those contractual terms, obligations or covenants contained in the Participation Agreement.

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     In witness whereof, the parties have caused their duly authorized officers to execute this Services Agreement.
             
    PACIFIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC
 
           
         
 
  By:        
 
  Title:        
 
  Date:        
 
           
    PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY    
 
           
         
 
  By:        
 
  Title:   Assistant Vice President    
 
  Date:        
 
           
 
  Attest:        
 
     
 
Corporate Secretary
   

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EX-99.10 14 a52618exv99w10.htm EX-99.10 exv99w10
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to Registration Statement No. 333-93059 on Form N-4 of our report dated February 26, 2010, relating to the financial statements and financial highlights of Separate Account A, comprised of Diversified Bond, Floating Rate Loan, High Yield Bond, Inflation Managed, Managed Bond, Money Market, Short Duration Bond, American Funds® Growth, American Funds Growth-Income, Comstock, Diversified Research, Equity, Equity Index, Focused 30, Growth LT, Large-Cap Growth, Large-Cap Value, Long/Short Large-Cap, Main Street® Core, Mid-Cap Equity, Mid-Cap Growth, Mid-Cap Value, Small-Cap Equity, Small-Cap Growth, Small-Cap Index, Small-Cap Value, Emerging Markets, International Large-Cap, International Small-Cap, International Value, Health Sciences, Real Estate, Technology, American Funds Asset Allocation, Multi-Strategy, Pacific Dynamix — Conservative Growth, Pacific Dynamix — Moderate Growth, Pacific Dynamix — Growth, AIM V.I. PowerShares ETF Allocation Series II, AllianceBernstein VPS Balanced Wealth Strategy Class B, BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. Class III, Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Class 4, GE Investments Total Return Class 3, Van Kampen LIT Global Tactical Asset Allocation Class II, Jennison, Value, SP International Growth, SP Prudential U.S. Emerging Growth, JPMorgan Insurance Trust Core Bond, JPMorgan Insurance Trust Equity Index, JPMorgan Insurance Trust U.S. Equity (formerly named JPMorgan Insurance Trust Diversified Equity), JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Value (formerly named JPMorgan Insurance Trust Diversified Mid Cap Value), JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Growth, and JPMorgan Insurance Trust Diversified Mid Cap Growth Variable Accounts (collectively, the “Variable Accounts”), appearing in the Annual Report on Form N-30D of Separate Account A of Pacific Life Insurance Company for the year ended December 31, 2009, and to the references to us under the heading “Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm and Independent Auditors” in the Statements of Additional Information, which are part of such Registration Statement.
/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Costa Mesa, California
April 19, 2010

 


 

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
We consent to the use in this Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to Registration Statement No. 333-93059 on Form N-4 of our report dated March 4, 2010 (which report expresses an unqualified opinion and includes explanatory paragraphs relating to (1) the retrospective adjustment to the consolidated financial statements to give effect of comparative information as a result of the aircraft leasing company transfer, (2) change in the method of accounting and reporting for other than temporary impairments of debt and equity securities, and (3) the adoption of new guidance requiring retrospective application and presentation requirements for noncontrolling interest (previously known as minority interest)), relating to the consolidated financial statements of Pacific Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries appearing in the Statements of Additional Information, which are part of such Registration Statement, and to the references to us under the heading “Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm and Independent Auditors” also in such Statements of Additional Information.
/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Costa Mesa, California
April 19, 2010

 

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