497 1 d497.htm ONCORE PREMIER WF ONcore Premier WF

Prospectus

Flexible Purchase Payment

Individual Variable Annuity Contracts

ONcore Premier WF

Ohio National Variable Account A

The Ohio National Life Insurance Company

One Financial Way • Montgomery, Ohio 45242 •1-888-925-6446

This prospectus offers a variable annuity contract allowing you to accumulate values and paying you benefits on a variable and/or fixed basis. Two separate contracts are offered in this prospectus, each of which has different features and charges. You must choose from one of the following contracts: ONcore Premier WF 7 or ONcore Premier WF 4. This prospectus provides information regarding the material provisions of your variable annuity contract. We may restrict the availability of these contracts to certain broker-dealers. The Ohio National Life Insurance (“Ohio National Life”) issues the contract. The contracts are not available in all states.

Variable annuities provide Contract Value and lifetime annuity payments that vary with the investment results of the mutual funds listed later in this prospectus (“Funds”) that you choose. You cannot be sure that the Contract Value or annuity payments will equal or exceed your purchase payments. The contracts are not insured by the FDIC or any other agency. They are not deposits or obligations of any bank and are not bank guaranteed.

The variable annuity contracts are designed for:

 

 

annuity purchase plans adopted by public school systems and certain tax-exempt organizations described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, (the “Code”), qualifying for tax-deferred treatment pursuant to Section 403(b) of the Code,

 

 

other employee pension or profit-sharing trusts or plans qualifying for tax-deferred treatment under Section 401(a), 401(k) or 403(a) of the Code,

 

 

individual retirement annuities qualifying for tax-deferred treatment under Section 408 or 408A of the Code,

 

 

state and municipal deferred compensation plans and

 

 

non-tax-qualified retirement plans.

Many of the listed qualified retirement plans already benefit from tax-deferral. Therefore, your decision to fund any of the above-listed qualified retirement plans with a deferred annuity should include an assessment of the other benefits available under this annuity contract. Your exercise of contract rights may be subject to the terms of your qualified employee trust or annuity plan. This prospectus contains no information concerning your trust or plan.

The minimum initial purchase payment is $5,000 ($2,000 for IRAs). You may make additional payments of at least $500 at any time ($300 for payroll deduction plans). For new contracts, we may currently limit your total purchase payments for any one life to $3,000,000. We reserve the right to limit your purchase payments as described later in this prospectus.

You may direct the allocation of your purchase payments to one or more investment options of Ohio National Variable Account A (“VAA”) and the Fixed Accumulation Account. Currently, your allocation of Contract Value may be to no more than 18 of the available investment options and the Fixed Accumulation Account. VAA is a separate account of Ohio National Life. The assets of VAA are invested in shares of the Funds. The Funds are portfolios of Ohio National Fund, Inc., AIM Variable Insurance Funds, Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund, Federated Insurance Series, Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Fund, Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust, Ivy Funds Variable Insurance Portfolios, Janus Aspen Series, J.P. Morgan Insurance Trust, Lazard Retirement Series, Inc., Legg Mason Partners Variable Equity Trust, MFS Variable Insurance Trust, Neuberger Berman Advisers Management Trust, PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, The Prudential Series Fund, Inc., Royce Capital Fund, and The Universal Institutional Funds Inc. See page 2 for the list of available Funds. See also the accompanying prospectuses of the Funds. The Fund prospectuses might also contain information about funds that are not available for these contracts.

You may revoke the contract, without penalty, within 10 days of receiving it (or a longer period if required by state law).

Keep this prospectus for future reference. It sets forth the information about VAA and the variable annuity contracts that you should know before investing. Additional information about VAA has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Statement of Additional Information dated May 18, 2011. We have incorporated the Statement of Additional Information by reference. It is available upon request and without charge by writing or calling us at the above address. The table of contents for the Statement of Additional Information is on the back page of this prospectus.

May 18, 2011

 

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. This prospectus is accompanied by the current Fund prospectuses.

 

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Available Funds

The investment adviser for Ohio National Fund, Inc. is its affiliate, Ohio National Investments, Inc. Subadvisers for certain portfolios are shown below in parentheses.

 

Ohio National Fund, Inc.

   Investment Adviser (Subadviser)

Money Market Portfolio

   Ohio National Investments, Inc.

Equity Portfolio

   (Legg Mason Capital Management, Inc.)

Bond Portfolio

   Ohio National Investments, Inc.

Omni Portfolio (an asset allocation portfolio)

   (Suffolk Capital Management, LLC)

S&P 500® Index Portfolio

   Ohio National Investments, Inc.

International Portfolio

   (Federated Global Investment Management Corp.)

International Small-Mid Company Portfolio

   (Federated Global Investment Management Corp.)

Capital Appreciation Portfolio

   (Jennison Associates LLC)

Millennium Portfolio (small cap growth)

   (Neuberger Berman Management, LLC)

Aggressive Growth Portfolio

   (Janus Capital Management LLC)

Mid Cap Opportunity Portfolio

   (Goldman Sachs Asset Management L.P.)

Capital Growth Portfolio

   (Eagle Asset Management, Inc.)

High Income Bond Portfolio

   (Federated Investment Management Company)

Strategic Value Portfolio

   (Federated Equity Management Company of Pennsylvania)

Small Cap Growth Portfolio

   (Janus Capital Management, LLC)

Nasdaq-100® Index Portfolio

   Ohio National Investments, Inc.

Bristol Portfolio (large cap stocks)

   (Suffolk Capital Management, LLC)

Bryton Growth Portfolio (small/mid cap stocks)

   (Suffolk Capital Management, LLC)

U.S. Equity Portfolio

   (ICON Advisers, Inc.)

Balanced Portfolio

   (ICON Advisers, Inc.)

Income Opportunity Portfolio

   (ICON Advisers, Inc.)

Target VIP Portfolio (large cap growth)

   (First Trust Advisors, L.P.)

Target Equity/Income Portfolio

   (First Trust Advisors, L.P.)

Bristol Growth Portfolio

   (Suffolk Capital Management, LLC)

AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)

  

Invesco V.I. International Growth Fund

   Invesco Advisers, Inc.

Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund (Service Shares)

  

Appreciation Portfolio

   (Fayez Sarofim & Co.)

Federated Insurance Series (Service Shares)

  

Federated Kaufmann Fund II (multi cap growth)

   Federated Equity Management Company of Pennsylvania

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products Fund (Service Class 2)

  

VIP Contrafund® Portfolio (a value fund)

   Fidelity Management & Research Company

VIP MidCap Portfolio

   Fidelity Management & Research Company

VIP Growth Portfolio

   Fidelity Management & Research Company

VIP Equity-Income Portfolio

   Fidelity Management & Research Company

VIP Real Estate Portfolio

   Fidelity Management & Research Company

Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust (Class 4 Shares)

  

Franklin Income Securities Fund

   Franklin Advisers, Inc.

Franklin Flex Cap Growth Securities Fund

   Franklin Advisers, Inc.

Templeton Foreign Securities Fund

   Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC

Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund(1)

   Franklin Templeton Services, LLC(2)

Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust (Service Shares)

  

Goldman Sachs Large Cap Value Fund

   Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.

Goldman Sachs Structured(SM) U.S. Equity Fund

   Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.

Goldman Sachs Strategic Growth Fund

   Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.

Ivy Funds Variable Insurance Portfolios

  

Ivy Funds VIP Asset Strategy

   Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company (WRIMCO)

Ivy Funds VIP Global Natural Resources

   Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company (WRIMCO)

Ivy Funds VIP Science and Technology

   Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company (WRIMCO)

 

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Janus Aspen Series (Service Shares)

  

Janus Portfolio (long-term growth of capital consistent with preservation of capital)

   Janus Capital Management LLC

Overseas Portfolio

   Janus Capital Management LLC

Worldwide Portfolio

   Janus Capital Management LLC

Balanced Portfolio

   Janus Capital Management LLC

J.P. Morgan Insurance Trust (Class I)

  

JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Value Portfolio

   J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.

JPMorgan Insurance Trust Small Cap Core Portfolio

   J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.

Lazard Retirement Series, Inc. (Service Shares)

  

Lazard Retirement U.S. Small-Mid Cap Equity Portfolio

   Lazard Asset Management LLC

Lazard Retirement Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio

   Lazard Asset Management LLC

Lazard Retirement International Equity Portfolio

   Lazard Asset Management LLC

Lazard Retirement U.S. Strategic Equity Portfolio

   Lazard Asset Management LLC

Legg Mason Partners Variable Equity Trust (Class I Shares)

  

Legg Mason ClearBridge Variable Fundamental All Cap Value Portfolio

   (ClearBridge Advisors, LLC)

Legg Mason ClearBridge Variable Equity Income Builder Portfolio

   (ClearBridge Advisors, LLC)

Legg Mason ClearBridge Variable Large Cap Value Portfolio

   (ClearBridge Advisors, LLC)

MFS® Variable Insurance Trust(SM) (Service Class)

  

MFS® Investors Growth Stock Series

   Massachusetts Financial Services Company

MFS® Mid Cap Growth Series

   Massachusetts Financial Services Company

MFS® New Discovery Series (small cap growth)

   Massachusetts Financial Services Company

MFS® Total Return Series

   Massachusetts Financial Services Company

Neuberger Berman Advisers Management Trust (S Class Shares)

  

AMT Regency Portfolio (mid cap blend)

   Neuberger Berman Management, LLC

PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust (Administrative Shares)

  

Real Return Portfolio

   Pacific Investment Management Company LLC

Total Return Portfolio

   Pacific Investment Management Company LLC

Global Bond Portfolio (Unhedged)

   Pacific Investment Management Company LLC

CommodityRealReturn® Strategy Portfolio

   Pacific Investment Management Company LLC

The Prudential Series Fund, Inc. (Class II Shares)

  

Jennison Portfolio (a growth stock fund)

   Jennison Associates LLC

Jennison 20/20 Focus Portfolio (a value and growth fund)

   Jennison Associates LLC

Royce Capital Fund

  

Royce Small-Cap Portfolio

   Royce & Associates, LLC

Royce Micro-Cap Portfolio

   Royce & Associates, LLC

The Universal Institutional Funds, Inc. (Class II)

  

Morgan Stanley UIF Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio (an income fund)

   Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.

Morgan Stanley UIF U.S. Real Estate Portfolio

   Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.

Morgan Stanley UIF Growth Portfolio

   Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.

 

(1) This fund is structured as a “Fund of Funds.” Because a Fund of Funds invests in other mutual funds and bears a proportionate share of expenses charged by the underlying funds, it may have higher expenses than direct investments in the underlying funds.
(2) Franklin Templeton Services, LLC is the administrator for Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund, which invests in shares of other series of Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust. The advisers of the underlying funds are Franklin Advisers, Inc., Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC and Templeton Global Advisors, Limited.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Available Funds

     3   

Glossary

     6   

Fee Table

     8   

Financial Statements

     10   

Accumulation Unit Values

     10   

Ohio National Life

     11   

Ohio National Variable Account A

     11   

Investment Options

     12   

Fixed Acculmulation Account

     12   

The Funds

     13   

Optional Asset Allocation Models

     14   

Investment Restrictions for Certain Optional Riders

     15   

Mixed and Shared Funding

     18   

Voting Rights

     18   

Changes in Your Contract

     19   

Changes in Applicable Law

     19   

Risk of Increase in Current Fees and Expenses

     19   

Risk of Contract Termination

     19   

Distribution of Variable Annuity Contracts

     19   

Deductions and Expenses

     19   

Surrender Charge

     19   

Withdrawal Fee

     20   

Annual Contract Fee

     20   

Deduction for Account Expense Fee

     20   

Deduction for Mortality and Expense Risk Fee

     20   

Charges for Optional Benefits

     21   

Transfer Fee

     22   

Deduction for State Premium Tax

     22   

Fund Expenses

     22   

Description of Variable Annuity Contracts

     22   

Free Look

     22   

Accumulation Period

     23   

Purchase Payments

     23   

Accumulation Units

     23   

Crediting Accumulation Units

     23   

Allocation of Purchase Payments

     23   

Accumulation Unit Value and Accumulation Value

     24   

Net Investment Factor

     24   

Surrender and Withdrawal

     24   

Transfers among Subaccounts

     25   

Effective Time for Purchase, Transfer or Redemption Orders

     26   

Electronic Access

     26   

Scheduled Transfers (Dollar Cost Averaging)

     27   

Portfolio Rebalancing

     27   

Nursing Facility Confinement

     28   

Death Benefit

     28   

Basic Death Benefit

     28   

Optional Death Benefit Riders

     30   

Annuity Period

     37   

Annuity Payout Date

     37   

Annuity Options

     38   

Determination of Amount of the First Variable Annuity Payment

     38   

Annuity Units and Variable Payments

     39   

Transfers During Annuity Payout

     39   

Optional Living Benefit Riders

     39   

Optional Guaranteed Principal Protection (“GPP”)

     38   

Optional Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (“GLWB”) Riders

     40   

Summary of Optional Living Benefit Riders

     47   

Other Contract Provisions

     48   

Assignment

     48   

Reports and Confirmations

     49   

Substitution for Fund Shares

     49   

Contract Owner Inquiries

     49   

Performance Data

     49   

Federal Tax Status

     49   

Tax-Deferred Annuities

     51   

Qualified Pension or Profit-Sharing Plans

     51   

Withholding on Annuity Payments

     51   

Individual Retirement Annuities (IRAs)

     51   

Appendix A — IRA Disclosure Statement

     52   

Free Look Period

     52   

Eligibility Requirements

     52   

Contributions and Deductions

     52   

IRA for Non-working Spouse

     53   

Rollover Contribution

     53   

Premature Distributions

     54   

Distribution at Retirement

     54   

Inadequate Distributions — 50% Tax

     54   

Death Benefits

     54   

Roth IRAs

     54   

Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE)

     55   

Reporting to the IRS

     55   

Illustration of IRA Fixed Accumulations

     56   

Statement of Additional Information Contents

     57   
 

 

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Glossary

Accumulation Units — Until annuity payments begin, your contract’s value in each subaccount is measured by accumulation units. The dollar value of each unit varies with the investment results of the subaccount’s corresponding Fund.

Annual Credit Calculation Base — The amount to which the 8% annual credit rate is applied in the GLWB riders. The Annual Credit Calculation Base is equal to the GLWB base at the beginning of the annual credit period and is increased for additional purchase payments made since the beginning of the annual credit period.

Annuitant — A living person whose length of life determines the number and value of annuity payments to be made.

Annuity Unit — After annuity payments begin, the amount of each variable payment depends upon the value of your annuity units. The dollar value of each unit varies with the investment results of the subaccount’s corresponding Fund.

Applied for — The date the application for the annuity is signed or the electronic order is submitted to us.

Asset Allocation Model — The Asset Allocation Models are a service that Ohio National Life offers. Each Asset Allocation Model is developed by Ohio National Investments, Inc. and is comprised of a combination of available investment options. Please see “Optional Asset Allocation Models” for more information.

Commission — The Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contract Value — Contract Value is determined by multiplying the total number of units (for each subaccount) credited to the contract by the unit value (for such subaccount) for the current valuation period and adding to that any amount in the Fixed Accumulation Account or a DCA Account.

DCA — Dollar cost averaging.

Death Benefit — The amount used solely to calculate the Death Benefit Adjustment and is not the amount paid to the beneficiary after the death of the annuitant. Death Benefit is the greatest of (i) total Contract Value, or (ii) net purchase payments less pro-rata withdrawals, unless one of the riders added to your contract provides for a higher benefit.

Death Benefit Adjustment — The Death Benefit Adjustment is an amount added to the Contract Value to determine the Proceeds paid to the beneficiary. It represents the difference, if any, between the highest guaranteed death benefit amount and the Contract Value on the applicable calculation date as described under “Basic Death Benefit” if the Contract Value on this date is lower than the highest guaranteed death benefit amount. If the Contract Value on the applicable calculation date is higher than the highest guaranteed death benefit amount, no Death Benefit Adjustment will be made.

Fund — A mutual fund in which subaccount assets may be invested. See the list of “Available Funds” beginning on page 2.

GEB — The guaranteed enhanced benefit riders offered with this contract.

GLWB — The guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit riders offered with this contract.

GMDB — The guaranteed minimum death benefit amount provided for by the GMDB riders offered with this contract. The Premium Protection, Premium Protection Plus, and 5% GMDBR80 Plus are the GMDB riders.

Good order — An instruction or request is in good order when it is received in our home office, or other place we may specify, and has such clarity and completeness that we do not have to exercise any discretion to carry out the instruction or request. We may require that the instruction or request be given in a certain form.

GPP — The guaranteed principal protection rider offered with this contract.

Notice — A written form acceptable to us, signed by you and received at our home office (the address listed on the first page of the prospectus). We have specified forms or may require specific information in writing for certain transactions, such as a surrender request. Contact us or your registered representative for more information.

Participating Spouse — One of two people upon whose life and age the benefits under the Joint GLWB (2011) rider are based.

Pro rata — A pro rata adjustment means the benefit or rider base will be reduced by the same percentage that the Contract Value was reduced by a withdrawal in excess of that provided for by the contract or rider. If your Contract Value is lower than your rider base, a pro rata reduction will reduce your rider base by a greater amount than a dollar for dollar reduction would. If your Contract Value is higher than your rider base, a pro rata reduction will reduce your rider base less than a dollar for dollar reduction would.

 

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Proceeds — The amount that the beneficiary receives if the annuitant dies before annuity payments begin.

Subaccount — A subdivision of VAA. The assets of each subaccount are invested in a corresponding available Fund.

Surrender — To redeem the contract before annuity payments begin and receive its value minus any applicable surrender charge or other charges.

Valuation Period — The period of time from one determination of variable subaccount unit and annuity unit values to their next determination. A valuation period usually ends at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on each day the New York Stock Exchange is open for unrestricted trading. The valuation period may end sooner to correspond to earlier closing of the New York Stock Exchange. Accumulation unit and annuity unit values for each annuity period are determined at the end of that valuation period.

VAA (Variable Account A) — A separate account of The Ohio National Life Insurance Company consisting of assets segregated from Ohio National’s general assets for the purpose of funding annuity contracts whose values vary with the investment results of the separate account’s underlying Funds.

Withdraw — To receive part of the contract’s value without entirely redeeming or surrendering the contract.

You — You means the owner of the contract or the owner’s estate if the owner is deceased.

 

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Fee Table

The following tables describe the fees and expenses you will pay when buying, owning and surrendering the contract. The first table describes the fees and expenses you will pay when you buy the contract, surrender the contract, or transfer cash value between investment options (Funds). State premium taxes may also be deducted if applicable.

 

      ONcore Premier WF 7     ONcore Premier WF 4  
Contract Owner Transaction Expenses    Years    Charge     Years      Charge  

Surrender Charge (a percentage of your total purchase payments minus all previous withdrawals)(1)

   1st      8     1st         8
   2nd      7     2nd         7
   3rd      6     3rd         6
   4th      6     4th         6
   5th      5     5th and later         0
   6th      4     
   7th      3     
   8th and later      0     

 

Transfer Fee (currently no charge for the first 12 transfers each contract year)

   $10

Withdrawal Fee (for withdrawals in excess of 14 per contract year; currently no charge)

   The lesser of 2% of the amount withdrawn or $15

Premium Tax (charged upon annuitization, surrender or when assessed)

   0.0% to 5.0% depending on state law

The next table describes the fees and expenses you will pay periodically while you own the contract, not including Fund fees and expenses.

 

Annual Contract Fee (no fee if your Contract Value exceeds $50,000)

   $ 30   

Separate Account Annual Expenses (as a percentage of average account value unless otherwise indicated)

 

      ONcore Premier WF 7     ONcore Premier WF 4  

Mortality and Expense Risk Charge

     1.05     1.55

Account Expense Charge

     0.25     0.25
                

Total Separate Account Annual Expenses (without optional added benefits)

     1.30     1.80 %* 

 

* By virtue of a reduction in the Mortality and Expense Risk Charge to 1.05%, after the fourth contract year this total charge is reduced to 1.30%.

Optional Rider Expenses (Some of the optional riders are mutually exclusive. See the individual discussion of each rider later in the prospectus for details on the riders and the amounts upon which charges are based.)

 

Annual Stepped-Up Death Benefit

   0.25% of the optional death benefit amounts

Premium Protection death benefit at issue ages through 70 (currently 0.10%)

   0.25% of the optional death benefit amount (maximum charge)

Premium Protection death benefit at issue ages 71 through 75 (currently 0.25%)

   0.50% of the optional death benefit amount (maximum charge)

Joint Premium Protection death benefit at issue ages through 70 (currently 0.10%)

   0.25% of the optional death benefit amount (maximum charge)

Joint Premium Protection death benefit at issue ages 71 through 75 (currently 0.25%)

   0.50% of the optional death benefit amount (maximum charge)

 

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Premium Protection Plus death benefit (currently 0.45%)

   0.90% of the optional death benefit amount (maximum charge)

Joint Premium Protection Plus death benefit (currently 0.45%)

   0.90% of the optional death benefit amount (maximum charge)

5% GMDBR80 Plus

   0.45% of the optional death benefit amounts

GEB at issue ages through 70

   0.15% of your Contract Value on the contract anniversary

GEB at issue ages 71 through 75

   0.30% of your Contract Value on the contract anniversary

GEB “Plus” at issue ages through 70

   0.30% of your Contract Value on the contract anniversary

GEB “Plus” at issue ages 71 through 75

   0.60% of your Contract Value on the contract anniversary

GLWB (2011) (currently 0.95%)

   2.00% of the GLWB Base (maximum charge)

Joint GLWB (2011) (currently 1.20%)

   2.40% of the GLWB Base (maximum charge)

GPP

   0.55% of your average annual guaranteed principal amount

Summary of Maximum Contract Expenses (expenses you would pay if you elected all non-exclusive optional benefits currently available under the contract and the most expensive of mutually exclusive optional benefits)

 

      ONcore Premier WF 7     ONcore Premier WF 4  

Mortality and Expense Risk Charge

     1.05     1.55

Account Expense Charge

     0.25     0.25
                

Subtotal

     1.30     1.80

Joint Premium Protection Plus death benefit

     0.90     0.90

Joint GLWB (2011)

     2.40     2.40
                

Maximum Possible Total Separate Account Expenses:

     4.80 %(2)      4.80 %(2) 

 

(1) The percentage varies with the number of years from purchase payments to which values relate. The surrender charge may also be called a Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.
(2) Assumes average account value, Contract Value and all bases upon which rider charges are based are equal. If such amounts are not equal, then total charges may be higher or lower. Note that certain riders are mutually exclusive. The following shows which riders you may not have at the same time:

 

If you have this rider

  

you cannot have this rider

GPP

   Any GLWB

One of the GMDB riders

   Any other GMDB rider

Annual stepped-up death benefit

   Premium Protection or Premium Protection Plus

GLWB (2011) or Joint GLWB (2011)

   Any other rider except the annual stepped-up death benefit, Premium Protection, or Premium Protection Plus

The next item shows the minimum and maximum total operating expenses charged by the Funds that you may pay periodically during the time you own the contract. More detail concerning each Fund’s fees and expenses is contained in the prospectus for each Fund.

 

     Minimum
without waivers
    Maximum
without waivers
 

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses as of December 31, 2010 (expenses deducted from Fund assets, including management fees, distribution (12b-1) fees and other Fund operating expenses)(1)

     0.38     3.84

 

(1) 

Some of the Funds available are structured as “fund of funds.” A fund of funds is a mutual fund that invests primarily in a portfolio of other mutual funds. The expenses shown above include the total fees and expenses of the fund of funds, including the acquired fund fees and expenses of such fund of funds.

 

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Example

These Examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the contract with the cost of investing in other variable annuity contracts. These costs include contract owner transaction expenses, contract fees, separate account annual expenses, and Fund fees and expenses for the most expensive available Fund. The Examples do not reflect the deduction of premium taxes, typically charged upon annuitization surrender, or when assessed. If the premium taxes were reflected, the charges would be higher.

The following Example assumes you invest $10,000 in the contract for the periods indicated. The Example also assumes your investment has a 5% return each year and assumes the maximum fees and expenses of the most expensive available Fund assuming no waivers. The Example assumes you have selected all the available optional benefits based on their mutual exclusivity and maximum cost and the costs for those benefits are based on Contract Values or the rider base amounts specified above for a contract experiencing the assumed annual investment return of 5%. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

(1) If you surrender your contract at the end of the applicable period:

 

     1 year      3 years      5 years      10 years  

ONcore Premier WF 7

   $ 1,597       $ 3,301       $ 5,280       $ 10,866   

ONcore Premier WF 4

   $ 1,647       $ 3,446       $ 5,006       $ 11,051   

(2) If you annuitize at the end of the applicable period, or if you do not surrender your contract:

 

     1 year      3 years      5 years      10 years  

ONcore Premier WF 7

   $ 874       $ 2,754       $ 4,819       $ 10,866   

ONcore Premier WF 4

   $ 924       $ 2,898       $ 5,006       $ 11,051   

The following Example assumes you invest $10,000 in the contract for the periods indicated. The Example also assumes your investment has a 5% return each year and assumes the minimum fees and expenses of the available Funds assuming no waivers. The Example assumes you have selected all the available optional benefits based on their mutual exclusivity and maximum cost and the costs for those benefits are based on Contract Values or the rider base amounts specified above for a contract experiencing the assumed annual investment return of 5%. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

(1) If you surrender your contract at the end of the applicable period:

 

     1 year      3 years      5 years      10 years  

ONcore Premier WF 7

   $ 1,248       $ 2,262       $ 3,563       $ 7,560   

ONcore Premier WF 4

   $ 1,299       $ 2,417       $ 3,325       $ 7,812   

(2) If you annuitize at the end of the applicable period, or if you do not surrender your contract:

 

     1 year      3 years      5 years      10 years  

ONcore Premier WF 7

   $ 528       $ 1,721       $ 3,111       $ 7,560   

ONcore Premier WF 4

   $ 578       $ 1,875       $ 3,325       $ 7,812   

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The complete financial statements of VAA and Ohio National Life, are included in the Statement of Additional Information.

ACCUMULATION UNIT VALUES

Since this series of variable annuity contracts began on May 18, 2011, there are no accumulation unit values for the year ended December 31, 2010.

 

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Ohio National Life

Ohio National Life was organized under the laws of Ohio on September 9, 1909. We write life, accident and health insurance and annuities in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Currently we have assets of approximately $29.6 billion and equity of approximately $1.6 billion. Our home office is located at One Financial Way, Montgomery, Ohio 45242. We are a stock life insurance company ultimately owned by a mutual insurance holding company (Ohio National Mutual Holdings, Inc.). Our policyholders own the holding company.

Ohio National Life and/or its affiliates may pay certain retail broker-dealers additional compensation or reimbursement for their efforts in selling our variable contracts. Reimbursements and additional compensation are paid for the purpose of, among other things, training the broker-dealers’ registered representatives regarding the procedures for submitting business to us, internally marketing our products to their registered representatives, educating registered representatives about the benefits and options available under the variable contracts and about the benefits of variable contracts generally. These additional amounts are paid from our profits, not deducted from the contract owners’ purchase payments.

Additionally, we may compensate some broker-dealers more than others for the sale of our products. This differential compensation may be based on several factors including, but not limited to, the size of the selling broker-dealer, the amount of previous business generated by the broker-dealer and the length of time Ohio National Life has contracted with the broker-dealer for the distribution of our contracts. As with reimbursements, these payments are not deducted from contract owners’ purchase payments.

From time to time, Ohio National Life and/or its affiliates may also provide non-cash or cash compensation to certain financial institutions or their registered representatives in the form of occasional gifts, meals, tickets to events, educational conference support, special recognition support or other forms of non-cash and cash compensation as may be permitted by certain regulations applicable to broker-dealers.

We may credit additional amounts under our contracts for contracts sold to registered representatives (and their immediate families) of broker-dealers that have (i) a selling agreement with us and our principal underwriter to sell the contracts and (ii) approved the payment of the additional amount to their registered representatives. There will be no commissions paid on the sale of these contracts.

Ohio National Variable Account A

We established VAA on August 1, 1969 as a separate account for funding variable annuity contracts. Purchase payments for the variable annuity contracts are allocated to one or more subaccounts of VAA. Currently your allocation of Contract Value may be to no more than 18 of the available subaccounts. We reserve the right to limit your allocation of Contract Value to no more than 10 of the available subaccounts. You assume all of the investment risk for Contract Value allocated to the subaccounts. You may be subject to additional restrictions on allocations if you purchase certain optional riders. Please see “Investment Restrictions for Certain Optional Riders” and “Optional Asset Allocation Models” for more information.

Income, gains and losses, whether or not realized, from assets allocated to VAA are credited to or charged against VAA without regard to our other income, gains or losses. The assets maintained in VAA will not be charged with any liabilities arising out of any of our other business. Nevertheless, all obligations arising under the contracts, including the commitment to make annuity payments, are our general corporate obligations. Accordingly, all our assets are available to meet our obligations under the contracts. Unlike assets in VAA or other separate accounts we have established, all of our other assets may be charged with any liabilities arising out of any of our other business.

Any guarantees under the contract that exceed your Contract Value, such as those associated with the guaranteed benefit rider options or the death benefit rider options, are paid from our general account (not the separate account). Therefore, any amounts that we may pay under the contract in excess of Contract Value are subject to our financial strength and claims-paying ability and our long-term ability to make such payments. In the event of an insolvency or receivership, payments we make from our general account to satisfy claims under the contract would generally receive the same priority as our other policy holder obligations.

We reserve the right, within the law, to make additions, deletions and substitutions for the subaccounts and the portfolios available in the VAA. We may substitute shares of other portfolios for shares already purchased, or to be purchased in the future, under the contract. This substitution might occur if shares of one or more of the portfolios should become inappropriate for purposes of the contract, in the judgment of our management. The new portfolio may have higher fees and charges than the existing portfolio and not all portfolios may be available to all classes of contracts. Currently, we have no intention of substituting or deleting the portfolios; however, we reserve our right to do so in the future. No

 

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substitution or deletion will be made to the contract without prior notice to you and before any necessary orders of the SEC in accordance with the 1940 Act, and your prior approval if required by law.

We also reserve the right to establish additional subaccounts, each of which would invest in shares of an investment company, with a specified investment objective. We may also eliminate one or more subaccounts if, in our sole discretion, marketing, tax or investment conditions warrant. We will not eliminate a subaccount without prior notice to you and before any necessary order of the SEC, and your prior approval if required by law. Not all subaccounts may be available to all classes of contracts.

If permitted by law, and with your prior approval if required by law, we may create new separate accounts; deregister the VAA under the 1940 Act in the event such registration is no longer required; manage the VAA under the direction of committee; or combine the VAA with one of our other separate accounts. Further, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we may transfer the assets of the VAA to another separate account.

VAA is registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The assets of the subaccounts of VAA are invested at net asset value in Fund shares. Values of other contracts not offered through this prospectus are also allocated to VAA, including some subaccounts that are not available for these contracts.

Investment Options

You may allocate your Contract Values to Funds, the Fixed Accumulation Account or an optional Asset Allocation Model as described below. If you purchase certain optional riders, you may be subject to restrictions on allocations. Please see “Optional Asset Allocation Models” and “Investment Restrictions for Certain Optional Riders” below.

Fixed Accumulation Account

We may offer a Fixed Accumulation Account as a rider to your contract. The Fixed Accumulation Account guarantees a fixed return for a specified period of time and guarantees the principal against loss. We may also refer to the Fixed Accumulation Account as the Fixed Account. We reserve the right to not offer the Fixed Accumulation Account to new contracts in the future. The Fixed Accumulation Account is not registered as an investment company. Interests in it are not subject to the provisions or restrictions of federal securities laws. The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission has not reviewed disclosures regarding it. We invest our general assets at our discretion as allowed by Ohio law.

The Fixed Accumulation Account is a subset of our general account. The general account consists of all of our general assets other than those allocated to a separate account. If the Fixed Accumulation Account is available on your contract, you may allocate purchase payments and Contract Value between the Fixed Accumulation Account and the Funds, subject to certain restrictions described below. There might be periods when we will not make the Fixed Accumulation Account available on new contracts.

The amount of investment income allocated to the contracts varies from year to year at our sole discretion. However, we guarantee that we will credit interest at a rate of not less than 3% per year (or such lower rate as may be permitted by applicable state law), compounded annually, to Contract Values allocated to the Fixed Accumulation Account. We may credit interest at a rate in excess of 3% or in excess of the guaranteed minimum interest rate allowed by state law, but any such excess interest credit will be in our sole discretion.

We guarantee that, before annuity payments begin, the value of a contract in the Fixed Accumulation Account will never be less than:

 

 

the amount of purchase payments allocated to, and transfers into, the Fixed Accumulation Account, plus

 

 

interest credited at the rate of 3% per year (or such other rate that will be indicated in the contract) compounded annually, plus

 

 

any additional excess interest we may credit to guaranteed values, minus

 

 

any withdrawals and transfers from the guaranteed values, minus

 

 

any surrender charge on withdrawals, state premium taxes, transfer fees, and the portion of the $30 annual contract administration charge allocable to the Fixed Accumulation Account.

No deductions are made from the Fixed Accumulation Account for Account Expense Charges or Mortality and Expense Risk Charges. Insurance risk charges for optional benefit riders are taken pro rata from the Fixed Accumulation Account and variable subaccounts.

 

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Other than pursuant to a DCA (scheduled transfer) or portfolio rebalancing program, we may restrict transfers of your Fixed Accumulation Account value during a contract year to not more than 20% of that value as of the beginning of a contract year (or $1,000, if greater). As provided by state law, we may defer the payment of amounts to be withdrawn from the Fixed Accumulation Account for up to six months from the date we receive your written request for withdrawal.

The Funds

The Funds are mutual funds registered under the Investment Company Act 1940. Fund shares are sold only to insurance company separate accounts to fund variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies and, in some cases, to qualified plans. The value of each Fund’s investments fluctuates daily and is subject to the risk that Fund management may not anticipate or make changes necessary in the investments to meet changes in economic conditions.

The Funds receive investment advice from their investment advisers. The Funds pay each of the investment advisers a fee as shown in the prospectus for each Fund. In some cases, the investment adviser pays part of its fee to a subadviser.

Affiliates of certain Funds may compensate us based upon a percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets that are allocated to VAA. These percentages vary by Fund. This is intended to compensate us for administrative and other services we provide to the Funds and their affiliates.

Certain Funds may pay our distributor “12b-1 fees.” These fees are deducted from the assets of the Funds and are paid pursuant to a distribution (and/or shareholder servicing) plan adopted by the Funds under Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act. Please see the Funds’ prospectuses for more information about these fees. These payments decrease the Funds’ investment return.

Some of the Funds are structured as a “Fund of Funds.” A Fund of Funds is a mutual fund that invests primarily in a portfolio of other mutual funds. Because a Fund of Funds invests in other mutual funds rather than individual securities, the Fund of Funds bears a proportionate share of expenses charged by the underlying funds in which it invests. Therefore, a Fund of Funds may have higher expenses than direct investments in the underlying Funds. You should read the Fund prospectuses carefully for more information.

For additional information concerning the Funds, including their fees, expenses and investment objectives, see the Fund prospectuses. Read them carefully before investing. They may contain information about other funds that are not available as investment options for these contracts. You cannot be sure that any Fund will achieve its stated objectives and policies. For a free copy of the Fund prospectuses, call 1-888-925-6446.

Periodically some of the Funds may be closed to future allocation of purchase payments. This may be at the request of the Fund or based on a decision made by us. Advance written notice will be given to contract owners prior to any such closure.

The investment policies, objectives and/or names of some of the Funds may be similar to those of other investment companies managed by the same investment adviser or subadviser. However, similar funds often do not have comparable investment performance. The investment results of the Funds may be higher or lower than those of the other funds.

We reserve the right, within the law, to make additions, deletions and substitutions for the subaccounts and the portfolios available in the VAA. We may substitute shares of other portfolios for shares already purchase, or to be purchase in the future, under the contract. This substitution might occur if shares of one or more of the portfolios should become inappropriate for purposes of the contract, in the judgment of our management. The new portfolio may have higher fees and charges than the existing portfolio and not all portfolios may be available to all classes of contracts. Currently, we have no intention of substituting or deleting the portfolios; however, we reserve our right to do so in the future. No substitution or deletion will be made to the contract without prior notice to you and before any necessary orders of the SEC in accordance with the 1940 Act, and your prior approval if required by law.

We also reserve the right to establish additional subaccounts, each of which would invest in shares of an investment company, with a specified investment objective. We may also eliminate one of more subacccounts if, in our sole discretion, marketing, tax or investment conditions warrant. We will not eliminate a subaccount without prior notice to you and before any necessary order of the SEC, and your prior approval if required by law. Not all subaccounts may be available to all classes of contracts.

If permitted by law, and with your prior approval if required by law, we may create new separate accounts; deregister the VAA under the 1940 Act in the event such registration is no longer required; manage the VAA under the direction of committee; or combine the VAA with one of our other separate accounts. Further, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we may transfer the assets of the VAA to another separate account.

 

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Optional Asset Allocation Models

You may choose an optional Asset Allocation Model for your contract’s variable account values. If you choose this option, it must be used for all your variable account values. There is no charge for using an optional Asset Allocation Model. You may choose a model, discontinue using a model or change from one model to another at any time by notifying us. You may not use more than one model at a time. The GPP rider requires all variable account values be in the Asset Allocation Models from the issuance of the rider until the rider ends according to its terms or annuity payments begin. The GLWB (2011) and Joint GLWB (2011) riders require all your variable account values to be in Asset Allocation Models 2, 3 or 4 or be invested in accordance with the alternative investment restrictions from the issuance of the rider until the rider ends according to its terms or annuity payments begin.

Asset allocation is the distribution of invested assets among several different kinds of investments (such as large cap domestic value stocks, small cap domestic growth stocks, foreign stocks, long term investment-grade bonds, intermediate term bonds, high income bonds, money market instruments, real estate securities and so on). Historically, diversification among several different kinds of asset classes has been shown to help reduce volatility over long periods of time. However, there can be no assurance that asset allocation will reduce volatility or enhance performance.

If you choose the Asset Allocation Models, upon your execution and return of the investment advisory agreement, Ohio National Investments, Inc. (“ONII”) will serve as your investment adviser for the limited purpose of developing and updating the Asset Allocation Models. Until the investment advisory agreement is executed and received by ONII, your investments will not be automatically updated in accordance with any changes that ONII may periodically make to the Models. Upon receipt of the executed investment advisory agreement, your investments will be updated in accordance with any changes that ONII may make to the Models. Currently, you are required to sign an investment advisory agreement with ONII in order to be in an Asset Allocation Model. Periodically, typically annually, ONII will assess the make up of each of the Asset Allocation Models to determine if they continue to maintain the optimal level of investment return balanced against the designated risk tolerance for the model.

If ONII determines that changes to the models are appropriate, we will notify you at least 30 days before making the change. If we do not hear from you otherwise, we will automatically reallocate the assets contained in the existing model to the new model, based on the limited discretionary authority you will have granted to ONII to do so. If you do not want your Contract Values reallocated in your existing model, you may move to a different model. If you do not want to move to a different model and you do not wish to have your Contract Values reallocated in the existing model, we will deem the advisory agreement between ONII and you terminated and no further automatic rebalancing or reallocation will take place in your contract. If you have a rider that requires participation in the Asset Allocation Models, the effect of the termination of the advisory agreement will be to terminate your rider as well except for the GLWB (2011) and Joint GLWB (2011) riders, which can also remain in force if you adhere to the alternative investment restrictions.

More information about ONII’s role as your limited purpose investment adviser is contained in Part II of ONII’s Form ADV, which you can request at any time. It is possible that ONII may include underlying funds in the Asset Allocation Models for which it also acts as the investment adviser. As a result, inclusion of such portfolios will result in ONII receiving fund management fees from these funds and portfolios. ONII does not receive a fee for managing the Models themselves.

We have retained a third-party consultant to assist in the development of several Asset Allocation Models, each comprising a combination of the contract’s available Funds. Ohio National Life, in consultation with ONII selects the underlying Funds to be offered through this annuity contract. The consultant then performs a quantitative analysis to determine which combination of Funds offers the best opportunity to achieve the expected investment return given the acceptable level of investment risk. ONII approves the final recommendations made by the consultant. A copy of the ONII’s Form ADV may be obtained free of charge by calling 1-800-366-6654. We reserve the right to change the third party consultant we use to develop the Asset Allocation Models or to develop the Asset Allocation Models without the use of a third party consultant. The consultant selects the Funds for each of the models in accordance with risk/return profiles they have developed. Currently the following Models are available:

 

   

Model 1: Conservative (investment objective — preservation of capital)

 

   

Model 2: Moderately Conservative (investment objective — moderate growth)

 

   

Model 3: Balanced (investment objective — steady growth in asset values)

 

   

Model 4: Moderate Growth (investment objective — moderately high growth in asset values)

 

   

Model 5: Growth (investment objective — high growth in asset values)

Please contact us at 1-888-925-6446 or your registered representative for more detailed information on the Models.

 

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At the end of each quarter, variable account values allocated within each model will be rebalanced to maintain the mix of investments in the proportions established for each model. You will then receive a confirmation of the transfers made among the Funds within your contract. The transfer charge does not apply to these quarterly rebalancing transactions.

The transfer charge will apply if, by changing from one model to another, you exceed the 12 free transfers allowed per year. When you change models, it counts as one transfer.

Your registered representative or financial adviser can help you determine the model that best fits your risk tolerance, investment horizon and objectives. The variable account portion of any purchase payments you make after selecting an Asset Allocation Model will be allocated among the Funds as specified by the model you choose.

If your contract includes the optional Guaranteed Principal Protection (“GPP”) rider, your variable account values must be in one of the models. The GPP rider will be cancelled if you are no longer using any Asset Allocation Model. If the GPP is so terminated, a full annual rider charge will be assessed without being prorated to the date of termination.

We may limit the availability of an Asset Allocation Model under one of the riders with investment restrictions or that requires participation in an Asset Allocation Model. If we limit the availability of an Asset Allocation Model, unless you make additional purchase payments, your Contract Value will continue to be allocated in the unavailable Asset Allocation Model.

If we limit the availability of an Asset Allocation Model and you make additional purchase payments, you will not be permitted to allocate them to the unavailable Asset Allocation Model. Because you may only be in one Asset Allocation Model at a time, you will have to transfer your Contract Value to an available Asset Allocation Model.

We will always provide at least one Asset Allocation Model for any rider that requires participation in an Asset Allocation Model.

If an Asset Allocation Model becomes unavailable for the allocation of purchase payments under GPP and you wish to make additional purchase payments, you will have to transfer your Contract Value to an available Asset Allocation Model.

Currently, if you own the GLWB (2011) or Joint GLWB (2011) you can only be in Asset Allocation Model 2, 3, or 4 or comply with alternative investment restrictions, described below. If an Asset Allocation Model becomes unavailable for the allocation of purchase payments under those riders and you wish to make additional purchase payments, you will have to transfer your Contract Value to an available Asset Allocation Model or comply with the alternative investment restrictions under those riders.

In the following scenarios, you do not have to take affirmative action to retain your rider:

 

   

We limit the availability of an Asset Allocation Model under a rider, and you do not make any additional purchase payments.

 

   

ONII revises the make up of an existing Asset Allocation Model following the procedures described in this section, and you do no opt out.

In the following scenarios, you must take affirmative action or your rider will be cancelled:

 

   

We limit the availability of an Asset Allocation Model under a rider, and you do make additional purchase payments. If you do not transfer your Contract Value to an available Asset Allocation Model or comply with alternative investment restrictions, if applicable, your rider will be cancelled. However, if you make additional purchase payments and transfer your Contract Value to an available Asset Allocation Model at the same time, your rider will not be cancelled.

 

   

ONII revises the make up of an existing Asset Allocation Model following the procedures described in this section, you opt out by the deadline and do not move to another Asset Allocation Model. If you do not transfer your Contract Value to another Asset Allocation Model or comply with alternative investment restrictions, if applicable, your rider will be cancelled. If we provide only one Asset Allocation Model for any rider that requires participation in an Asset Allocation Model, if you opt out of the revised Asset Allocation Model and do not comply with alternative investment restrictions, if applicable, your rider will be cancelled.

Investment Restrictions for Certain Optional Riders

If you selected the GLWB (2011) or Joint GLWB (2011) rider, your purchase payments and Contract Value must be allocated in accordance with the restrictions specified below.

 

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The Fixed Accumulation Account is not an available investment option with the GLWB (2011)or Joint GLWB (2011) rider. See “Fixed Accumulation Account” for more details about the Fixed Accumulation Account.

Your purchase payments and Contract Value must be allocated in compliance with either (a) or (b):

 

  (a) 100% must be allocated to one of Asset Allocation Models 2, 3 or 4. See “Optional Asset Allocation Models” for more details. Please contact us at 1-888-925-6446 or your registered representative for more detailed information on the Models.

or

 

  (b)     (i) at least 30% must, but no more than 60% may, be allocated to investment options included in Category 1;

 

  (ii) no more than 70% may be allocated to investment options included in Category 2;

 

  (iii) no more than 25% may be allocated to investment options included in Category 3; and

 

  (iv) no more than 15% may be allocated to investment options included in Category 4.

The investment options available in each Category are:

INVESTMENT OPTIONS

 

CATEGORY 1

 

Ohio National Fund, Inc.

Money Market Portfolio

Bond Portfolio

PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust

Real Return Portfolio

Total Return Portfolio

 

The Universal Institutional Funds, Inc.

Morgan Stanley UIF Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio

CATEGORY 2

 

Ohio National Fund, Inc.

Equity Portfolio

Omni Portfolio

S&P 500® Index Portfolio

Strategic Value Portfolio

Nasdaq-100® Index Portfolio

Bristol Portfolio

Bristol Growth Portfolio

Balanced Portfolio

Income Opportunity Portfolio

U.S. Equity Portfolio

Target VIP Portfolio

Target Equity/Income Portfolio

Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund

Appreciation Portfolio

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products

VIP Contrafund® Portfolio

VIP Growth Portfolio

VIP Equity-Income Portfolio

Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust

Franklin Income Securities Fund

Franklin Flex Cap Growth Securities Fund

Franklin Templeton VIP Founding Funds Allocation Fund

Templeton Foreign Securities Fund

 

Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust

Goldman Sachs Large Cap Value Fund

Goldman Sachs Structured U.S. Equity Fund

Goldman Sachs Strategic Growth Fund

Ivy Funds Variable Insurance Portfolios

Ivy Funds VIP Asset Strategy

Janus Aspen Series

Janus Portfolio

Balanced Portfolio

Lazard Retirement Series

Lazard Retirement U.S. Strategic Equity Portfolio

Legg Mason Partners Variable Equity Trust

Legg Mason ClearBridge Variable Fundamental All Cap Value Portfolio

Legg Mason ClearBridge Variable Equity Income Builder Portfolio

Legg Mason ClearBridge Variable Large Cap Value Portfolio

MFS® Variable Insurance Trust

MFS® Investors Growth Stock Series

MFS® Total Return Series

PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust

Global Bond Portfolio (Unhedged)

The Prudential Series Fund, Inc.

Jennison Portfolio

Jennison 20/20 Focus Portfolio

The Universal Institutional Funds, Inc.

Morgan Stanley UIF Growth Portfolio

 

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CATEGORY 3

 

Ohio National Fund, Inc.

International Portfolio

Aggressive Growth Portfolio

High Income Bond Portfolio

Capital Appreciation Portfolio

Mid Cap Opportunity Portfolio

AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)

Invesco V.I. International Growth Fund

Federated Insurance Series

Federated Kaufmann Fund II

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products

VIP Mid Cap Portfolio

 

J.P. Morgan Insurance Trust

JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Value Portfolio

Janus Aspen Series

Overseas Portfolio

Worldwide Portfolio

Lazard Retirement Series

Lazard Retirement International Equity Portfolio

MFS® Variable Insurance Trust

MFS® Mid Cap Growth Stock Series

Neuberger Berman Advisers Management Trust

AMT Regency Portfolio

CATEGORY 4

 

Ohio National Fund, Inc.

International Small-Mid Company Portfolio

Millennium Portfolio

Capital Growth Portfolio

Small Cap Growth Portfolio

Bryton Growth Portfolio

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products

VIP Real Estate Portfolio

Ivy Funds Variable Insurance Portfolios

Ivy Funds VIP Global Natural Resources

Ivy Funds VIP Science and Technology

J.P. Morgan Insurance Trust

JPMorgan Insurance Trust Small Cap Core Portfolio

 

Lazard Retirement Series

Lazard Retirement U.S. Small-Mid Cap Equity Portfolio

Lazard Retirement Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio

MFS® Variable Insurance Trust

MFS® New Discovery Series

PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust

CommodityRealReturnTM Strategy Portfolio

Royce Capital Fund

Royce Micro-Cap Portfolio

Royce Small-Cap Portfolio

The Universal Institutional Funds, Inc.

Morgan Stanley UIF U.S. Real Estate Portfolio

You may allocate purchase payments to the Enhanced dollar cost averaging (“DCA”) account, and transfer amounts out of the account in accordance with the restrictions described above. You may not establish a DCA program with scheduled transfers from a Fund and comply with these restrictions. See “Scheduled Transfers (Dollar Cost Averaging)” for more details about dollar cost averaging.

Transfers. Any transfer request or change in allocation or rebalance instructions must comply with the applicable investment restrictions. Any transfer request from one Category to another must result in an allocation that continues to meet the investment restrictions. If you make a transfer within a Category, you will still be deemed to have met the investment restrictions, even if your Contract Value has increased beyond the percentage limit. Please note that a transfer request will not update your purchase payment allocation or rebalance instructions. You must provide us separate instructions to change your purchase payment allocation or rebalance instructions.

Classifications. We have classified investment options into the above Categories based on the fund’s characteristics and our determination of their risk. If a new investment choice is added to your contract, we will determine which of the above Categories, if any, it will be placed in. We may reassess our determination of risk based on characteristics such as investment objective, strategy or holdings and may change the classification of any investment option in the individual Categories with advance written notice to you. We may limit the availability of any Asset Allocation Model or any investment option under the riders. We may apply any changes to future purchase payments and transfer requests. Any such changes to transfer requests will not apply to transfers out of the Enhanced DCA account. If an existing investment option becomes unavailable for the allocation of future purchase payments and you wish to make additional purchase payments, you will need to provide us updated allocation instructions that comply with (a) or (b) described above in this section. If a change in classification applies to future transfer requests, any transfer request you make must comply with the new investment restrictions. If you do not make any additional purchase payments or transfer requests after a change in classification, the new investment restrictions will not apply to you. If you fail to provide us with new instructions as described and your allocation of purchase payments or Contract Value violates the investment restrictions, your rider will be terminated.

Please note that you may only be in one Asset Allocation Model at a time. Therefore, if an Asset Allocation Model to which your Contract Value is allocated becomes unavailable for the allocation of future purchase payments under your rider and you wish to make additional purchase payments, you will have to transfer your Contract Value to an Asset Allocation Model that is available under your rider.

 

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Rebalancing. If you choose to allocate your purchase payments to an available Asset Allocation Model according to option (a) described above in this section, at the end of each calendar quarter we will rebalance variable account values allocated within each Asset Allocation Model to maintain the mix of investments in the proportions established for each Asset Allocation Model. If you choose to allocate your purchase payments according to option (b) described above in this section, you must provide us with rebalance allocation instructions that comply with option (b). On each three-month anniversary of the date the applicable rider was added, we will rebalance your Contract Value in accordance with your rebalance instructions.

Termination. You will not violate the investment restrictions simply because your Contract Value in the Categories increases or decreases above or below the specified limits. You will violate the investment restrictions if you allocate purchase payments or Contract Value in a manner not specified above.

 

   

If you have purchased the GLWB (2011), your rider will be cancelled if you violate the restrictions. Furthermore if you have purchased the Premium Protection death benefit rider or Premium Protection Plus death benefit rider, it will also be cancelled.

 

   

If you have purchased the Joint GLWB (2011), your rider will be cancelled if you violate the restrictions. Furthermore if you have purchased the Joint Premium Protection death benefit rider or the Joint Premium Protection Plus death benefit rider, it will also be cancelled.

If one of these riders is terminated, a prorated annual rider charge will apply. Please see “Optional Death Benefit Riders” and “Optional Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (‘GLWB’) Riders” for details.

Mixed and Shared Funding

In addition to being offered to VAA, certain Fund shares are offered to our other separate accounts for variable annuity contracts and a separate account of Ohio National Life Assurance Corporation for variable life insurance contracts. Fund shares may also be offered to other insurance company separate accounts and qualified plans. It is conceivable that in the future it may become disadvantageous for one or more of variable life and variable annuity separate accounts, or separate accounts of other life insurance companies, and qualified plans to invest in Fund shares. Although neither we nor any of the Funds currently foresee any such disadvantage, the Board of Directors or Trustees of each Fund will monitor events to identify any material conflict among different types of owners and to determine if any action should be taken. That could possibly include the withdrawal of VAA’s participation in a Fund. Material conflicts could result from such things as:

 

 

changes in state insurance law;

 

 

changes in federal income tax law;

 

 

changes in the investment management of any Fund; or

 

 

differences in voting instructions given by different types of owners.

Voting Rights

We will vote Fund shares held in VAA at Fund shareholders meetings in accordance with voting instructions received from contract owners. We will determine the number of Fund shares for which you are entitled to give instructions as described below. This determination will be within 90 days before the shareholders meeting. Proxy material and forms for giving voting instructions will be distributed to each owner. We will vote Fund shares held in VAA, for which no timely instructions are received, in proportion to the instructions that we do receive. There is no minimum number of contract owners required to form a quorum. As a result, a small number of contract owners may determine the outcome of a vote submitted to the Fund by VAA.

Until annuity payments begin, the number of Fund shares for which you may instruct us is determined by dividing your Contract Value in each Fund by the net asset value of a share of that Fund as of the same date. After annuity payments begin, the number of Fund shares for which you may instruct us is determined by dividing the actuarial liability for your variable annuity by the net asset value of a Fund share as of the same date. Generally, the number of shares tends to decrease as annuity payments progress.

 

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Changes in Your Contract

Changes in Applicable Law

We reserve the right to change your contract without your consent in order to comply with any laws and regulations that apply, including but not limited to, changes in the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations or in published rulings of the Internal Revenue Service and in Department of Labor regulations.

Any change in your contract must be in writing and made by the President, a Vice President or the Secretary of Ohio National Life. We will provide you notice of any contract change and amend this prospectus as applicable.

Risk of Increase in Current Fees and Expenses

Some riders’ fees may be currently charged at less than their maximum amounts. We may increase these expenses up to the maximum amounts. We will provide prior notice of when we will increase fees and amend the prospectus as applicable.

Risk of Contract Termination

Your contract will terminate if your Contract Value is reduced to zero. Your Contract Value can become zero due to the assessment of the Annual Contract Fee after you have taken partial withdrawals and/or due to poor market performance. If your Contract Value is reduced to zero, your contract will terminate unless you have purchased a rider that provides for continuation of benefits and you are in compliance with the rider’s terms for continuation. Please see the “Lifetime Annuity Period” provision in the “Optional Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (“GLWB”) Riders” section later in this prospectus for more information.

Distribution of Variable Annuity Contracts

The variable annuity contracts are sold by our insurance agents who are also registered representatives of broker-dealers that have entered into distribution agreements with Ohio National Equities, Inc. (“ONEQ”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours. ONEQ is the principal underwriter of the contracts. ONEQ and the broker-dealers are registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. We pay ONEQ up to 7.45% of each purchase payment and ONEQ then pays part of that to the broker-dealers. The amounts may vary by broker-dealer. The broker-dealers pay their registered representatives from their own funds. Purchase payments on which nothing is paid to registered representatives may not be included in amounts on which we pay the sales compensation to ONEQ. If our surrender charge is not sufficient to recover the fee paid to ONEQ, any deficiency will be made up from our general assets. These include, among other things, any profit from the mortality and expense risk charges. ONEQ’s address is One Financial Way, Montgomery, Ohio 45242.

Deductions and Expenses

Surrender Charge

Surrenders and Partial Withdrawals.

There is no deduction from purchase payments to pay sales expense. We may assess a surrender charge if you surrender the contract or withdraw part of its value. The purpose of this charge is to defray expenses relating to the sale of the contract, including compensation to broker-dealers or other benefits provided under the contract, cost of sales literature and prospectuses, and other expenses related to sales activity. The surrender charge is a percentage of your total purchase payments minus all previous withdrawals. This percentage varies with the number of years from the date the purchase payments were made (starting with the first purchase payment) as follows:

 

ONcore Premier WF 7     ONcore Premier WF 4  

Years

  Payment     Years   Payment  
1st     8   1st     8

 

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2nd     7     2nd        7
3rd     6     3rd        6
4th     6     4th        6
5th     5     5th and later        0
6th     4    
7th     3    
8th and later     0    

During each contract year, you may withdraw not more than 10% of the Contract Value (as of the day of the first withdrawal made during that contract year) without a surrender charge. You may take this 10% annual free withdrawal in up to 12 installments. We do not assess the surrender charge when a beneficiary takes a lump sum distribution after the death of the annuitant. If the annuitant dies before the end of the surrender charge period and the beneficiary chooses any settlement option other than a lump sum distribution or immediate annuitization, we will assess the applicable surrender charge on any withdrawals the beneficiary takes while the contract is in the surrender charge period.

Annuitization.

We do not assess a surrender charge if you annuitize your contract. See “Annuity Period — Annuity Options” later in this prospectus.

Death Benefit.

We do not assess a surrender charge upon any Proceeds paid to a beneficiary upon the death of the annuitant. See “Death Benefit — How will the Proceeds be paid to the beneficiary?” later in this prospectus.

Withdrawal Fee

We may also charge a withdrawal fee of up to the lesser of 2% of the amount withdrawn or $15 per withdrawal for withdrawals in excess of 14 in a contract year. This charge is to reimburse us for administrative processing expenses associated with a withdrawal. We are not currently charging the fee. We will provide 30 days notice prior to assessing a withdrawal fee.

Annual Contract Fee

Each year on the contract anniversary (or when you surrender the contract), we will deduct an annual contract fee of $30 from the Contract Value. This helps to repay us for maintaining the contract for contracts under $50,000. This helps to cover expenses for accounting, auditing, legal, contract owner services, reports to regulatory authorities and contract owners, contract issue, etc. The account expense charge is not sufficient to cover these expenses for contracts under $50,000. There is no contract fee for contracts having a value of at least $50,000 at the contract anniversary. There is no charge after annuity payments begin. We guarantee not to increase the annual contract fee.

Deduction for Account Expense Fee

At the end of each valuation period before annuity payments begin we deduct an amount equal to 0.25% on an annual basis of the contract value. This deduction reimburses us for amounts not covered by the annual contract fee. Examples of these are accounting, auditing, legal, contract owner services, reports to regulatory authorities and contract owners, contract issue, etc.

Deduction for Mortality and Expense Risk Fee

ONcore Premier WF 7

We guarantee that, until annuity payments begin, the contract’s value will not be affected by any excess of sales and administrative expenses over the deductions for them. We also guarantee to pay a death benefit if the annuitant dies before annuity payments begin. After annuity payments begin, and except in the instance of the annuitant’s death, we guarantee that variable annuity payments will not be affected by adverse mortality experience or expenses.

For assuming these risks, when we determine the accumulation unit values and the annuity unit values for each subaccount, we make a deduction from the applicable investment results equal to 1.05% of the contract value on an annual basis. We may decrease that deduction at any time and we may increase it not more often than annually to not more than 1.05% on an annual basis. We may discontinue this limitation on our right to increase the deduction up to

 

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1.05%. The mortality and expense risk charge is an indivisible whole of the amount currently being deducted. However, we believe that a reasonable allocation would be 0.60% for mortality risk, and 0.45% for expense risk. We hope to realize a profit from this charge. However there will be a loss if the deduction fails to cover the actual risks involved.

ONcore Premier WF 4

We guarantee that, until annuity payments begin, the contract’s value will not be affected by any excess of sales and administrative expenses over the deductions for them. We also guarantee to pay a death benefit if the annuitant dies before annuity payments begin. After annuity payments begin, and except in the instance of the annuitant’s death, we guarantee that variable annuity payments will not be affected by adverse mortality experience or expenses.

For assuming these risks, when we determine the accumulation unit values and the annuity unit values for each subaccount, we make a deduction from the applicable investment results equal to 1.55% of the contract value on an annual basis. We may decrease that deduction at any time and we may increase it not more often than annually to not more than 1.55% on an annual basis. After the fourth contract year, the maximum charge under this section will be 1.05%. We may discontinue this limitation on our right to increase the deduction up to 1.55% (1.05% after the fourth contract year). The mortality and expense risk charge is an indivisible whole of the amount currently being deducted. However, we believe that a reasonable allocation would be 0.85% for mortality risk (0.60% after the fourth contract year), and 0.70% for expense risk (0.45% after the fourth contract year). We hope to realize a profit from this charge. However there will be a loss if the deduction fails to cover the actual risks involved.

Charges for Optional Benefits

There is an additional annual charge if you choose an optional benefit. See the individual discussion of each rider later in this prospectus for details on the riders and the amounts upon which the charges are based. The additional charge is made on each contract anniversary. Not all optional benefits are currently available or are available in all states. We reserve the right to terminate or modify these benefits for new contracts at any time.

If you choose one of the optional death benefit riders described under “Death Benefit,” those annual charges are the following percentages of the optional death benefit amounts:

 

Annual Stepped-Up Death Benefit

     0.25

Premium Protection death benefit at issue ages through 70

     0.25

(currently 0.10%)

     (maximum charge

Premium Protection death benefit at issue ages 71 through 75

     0.50

(currently 0.25%)

     (maximum charge

Joint Premium Protection death benefit at issue ages through 70

     0.25

(currently 0.10%)

     (maximum charge

Joint Premium Protection death benefit at issue ages 71 through 75

     0.50

(currently 0.25%)

     (maximum charge

Premium Protection Plus death benefit

     0.90

(currently 0.45%)

     (maximum charge

Joint Premium Protection Plus death benefit

     0.90

(currently 0.45%)

     (maximum charge

5% GMDBR80 Plus

     0.45

If you choose the GEB, as described under “Death Benefit,” the annual charge is the following percentage of your Contract Value on the contract anniversary:

 

GEB at issue ages through 70

     0.15

GEB at issue ages 71 through 75

     0.30

GEB “Plus” at issue ages through 70

     0.30

GEB “Plus” at issue ages 71 through 75

     0.60

If you choose the GPP, the annual charge is the following percentage of your average annual guaranteed principal amount as described under “Optional Guaranteed Principal Protection (“GPP”)”:

 

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Percent of average annual guaranteed principal amount

     0.55

If you choose the GLWB (2011) or Joint GLWB (2011) the annual charge is the following percentage of your GLWB base as described under “Optional Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (‘GLWB’) Riders:”

 

GLWB (2011)

   2.00%

(currently 0.95%)

  

(maximum charge)

Joint GLWB (2011)

   2.40%

(currently 1.20%)

  

(maximum charge)

Transfer Fee

We may charge a transfer fee of $10 for each transfer of values from one or more subaccounts to other subaccounts. Only one charge is assessed for transfers out of any one subaccount, even if the transfer is to multiple subaccounts. The fee is charged pro rata against the subaccounts from which the transfer is made. We currently do not charge for your first 12 transfers each contract year. Other restrictions may apply to transfers. See “Transfers among Subaccounts” below.

Deduction for State Premium Tax

Depending on your state, a premium tax or some similar charge may be levied based on the amount of your annuity purchase payments. We will deduct from your Contract Value the amount of any applicable premium taxes or similar assessment charged by any state or other governmental entity. While the rates are subject to change, the range for the premium tax is currently between 0.0% and 5.0%. If a charge is assessed, we will deduct that amount from your Contract Value at the time the contract is surrendered, at the time you annuitize, or at such earlier time that we may become subject to the premium tax. We may also deduct the premium tax from any death benefit proceeds.

Fund Expenses

There are deductions from, and expenses paid out of, the assets of the Funds. These are described in the Fund prospectuses. Deductions for fund expense continue after annuity payments begin for the amounts which are allocated to a Fund.

Description of Variable Annuity Contracts

Free Look

You may revoke the contract at any time until the end of 10 days after you receive it (or such longer period as may be required by your state law) and get a refund of the Contract Value as of the date of cancellation. To revoke, you must return the contract to us within the free look period. We must receive your contract at our home office (the address listed on the first page of the prospectus) by 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last day of the free look period. In some states, we are required to return the greater of purchase payments received during the free-look period or Contract Value as of the Valuation Period the request for free-look is received by our Home Office. For contracts issued in such states, we reserve the right to allocate all purchase payments received during the free-look period to the Money Market Portfolio. On the next Valuation Period after the expiration of the free-look period, we will allocate your assets in the Monday Market Portfolio to your requested investment options. We are currently not allocating purchase payments to the Money Market Portfolio during the free-look period, but reserve the right to do so with prior notice provided to contract owners. If you are a California resident 60 years old or older and at the time you apply for your contract you elect to receive a return of your purchase payments if you exercise your free look, any purchase payments to be allocated to variable Funds will first be allocated to the Money Market Portfolio until the end of the free look period. If you are a California resident 60 years old or older and you do not elect to receive a return of your purchase payment, you will receive a refund of your Contract Value if you exercise your free look. For IRAs, you may get a refund of the greater of your purchase payments or the current Contract Value. We deem you to receive the contract and the free look period to begin five days after we mail your contract to you.

 

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Accumulation Period

Purchase Payments

The minimum initial purchase payment is $5,000 ($2,000 for IRAs). You may make additional payments of at least $500 at any time ($300 for payroll deduction plans).

We currently limit your total purchase payments to $3,000,000. For those contracts, we reserve the right to limit your total purchase payments to the lesser of the following:

 

  (a) for any one contract, the lesser of 150% of your initial purchase payment (for example, $7,500 if your initial purchase payment was $5,000) or $1,000,000; and

 

  (b) for all our variable annuities sold to you, or covering the life of the annuitant, $1,000,000.

We will provide you prior written notice before we enforce the limits in (a) or (b) above.

If the check for your payment is dishonored, you will be liable to us for any changes in the market value between the date we receive your check and the date we are notified that the payment was dishonored.

We reserve the right to refuse any additional purchase payments or to limit additional purchase payments (beyond the limits described in (a) and (b) above) if you have purchased the Premium Protection rider, Joint Premium Protection rider, Premium Protection Plus rider, Joint Premium Protection Plus rider, GLWB (2011) or Joint GLWB (2011). If you purchase one of these riders, we currently limit total purchase payments to $3,000,000. Please see the descriptions of the riders later in this prospectus.

Accumulation Units

Until the annuity payout date, the Contract Value is measured by accumulation units. As you make each purchase payment, we credit units to the contract (see Crediting Accumulation Units). The number of units remains constant between purchase payments but their dollar value varies with the investment results of each Fund to which payments are allocated.

Crediting Accumulation Units

Your registered representative will send an order or application, together with the first purchase payment, to our home office for acceptance. We may enter into arrangements with certain broker-dealers whereby submission of the completed application and first purchase payment to the broker-dealer will be credited and deemed accepted by us on the date received by them. Such arrangements are at our sole discretion and approved by our Board of Directors. Before entering into such arrangements, we first must ensure that the broker-dealer has adequate compliance controls in place to prevent applications received after the cut-off time (usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) from being submitted to us for issuance as if received before the cut-off time.

Upon acceptance, we issue a contract and we credit the first purchase payment to the contract in the form of accumulation units. If all information necessary for issuing a contract and processing the purchase payment is complete, we will credit your first purchase payment within two business days after receipt. If we do not receive everything necessary to make the application in good order within five business days, we will return the purchase payment to you immediately unless you specifically consent to having us retain the purchase payment until the necessary information is completed. After that, we will credit the purchase payment within two business days.

Unless otherwise prohibited by law, no contract is effective until the purchase payment is received and the contract is issued during the lifetime of the annuitant. If the annuitant dies before the contract is issued and we are not notified at our home office of the annuitant’s death, our sole obligation is to return the Contract Value to you or your estate upon notice and proof of the death of the annuitant.

You must send any additional purchase payments directly to our home office. They will then be applied to your contract according to you allocation instructions to provide that number of accumulation units (for each subaccount) determined by dividing the amount of the purchase payment by the unit value next computed after we receive the payment at our home office. Except as detailed in the paragraph above, payments received after 4 p.m. (Eastern time) at our home office on a valuation period (earlier when the New York Stock Exchange closes early) will be priced at the next calculated unit value.

Allocation of Purchase Payments

You may allocate your Contract Values among up to 18 investment options including the variable subaccounts of VAA and to the Fixed Accumulation Account (if offered). We reserve the right to limit your allocation of purchase payments

 

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to no more than 10 of the available investment options. We will provide you prior written notice before we will limit you to no more than 10 investment options. The amount you allocate to any Fund or to the Fixed Accumulation Account must equal a whole percent. You may change your allocation of future purchase payments at any time by sending written notice to our home office. Changes in allocation of purchase payments are not deemed effective until received by us at our home office. You may be subject to restrictions on allocations if you purchase certain optional riders. Please see “Investment Restrictions for Certain Optional Riders” and “Optional Asset Allocation Models” for more information.

Accumulation Unit Value and Accumulation Value

We set the original accumulation unit value of each subaccount of VAA for these contracts at the beginning of the first valuation period for each such subaccount. We determine the unit value for any later valuation period by multiplying the unit value for the immediately preceding valuation period by the net investment factor (described below) for such later valuation period. We determine a contract’s value by multiplying the total number of units (for each subaccount) credited to the contract by the unit value (for such subaccount) for the current valuation period and adding to that any amount in the Fixed Accumulation Account or in a Dollar Cost Averaging Account.

Net Investment Factor

The net investment factor measures the investment results of each subaccount. The investment performance and expenses of each Fund, and the deduction of contract charges, affect daily changes in the subaccounts’ accumulation unit values. The net investment factor for each subaccount for any valuation period is determined by dividing (a) by (b), then subtracting (c) from the result, where:

 

(a) is:

 

  (1) the net asset value of the corresponding Fund share at the end of a valuation period, plus

 

  (2) the per share amount of any dividends or other distributions declared for that Fund if the “ex-dividend” date occurs during the valuation period, plus or minus

 

  (3) a per share charge or credit for any taxes paid or reserved for the maintenance or operation of that subaccount; (No federal income taxes apply under present law.)

 

(b) is the net asset value of the corresponding Fund share at the end of the preceding valuation period; and

 

(c) is the deduction for administrative and sales expenses and risk undertakings.

Surrender and Withdrawal

Before annuity payments begin you may surrender (totally withdraw the value of) your contract, or withdraw part of the Contract Value (at least $500). You must make all surrender or withdrawal requests by providing Notice to us. The surrender charge may then apply. That charge is taken from the total amount withdrawn.

Unless you specify otherwise, the withdrawal will be made pro-rata from your values in each Fund. The amount you may withdraw is the Contract Value less any surrender charge and any premium tax charge that may apply. In the case of a surrender, we subtract any contract administration charge. We will pay you within seven days after we receive your request. However, we may defer payment of Fixed Accumulation Account values as described below. Surrenders and withdrawals are limited or not permitted in connection with certain retirement plans. For possible tax consequences of a surrender or withdrawal, see “Federal Tax Status” below.

If you request a surrender or withdrawal which includes Contract Values derived from purchase payments that have not yet cleared the banking system, we may delay mailing the portion relating to such payments until your check has cleared. We require the return of the contract or the execution of an affidavit indicating the contract has been lost in the case of a surrender.

Your right to withdraw may be suspended or the date of payment postponed:

 

(1) for any period during which the New York Stock Exchange is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings) or during which the Commission has restricted trading on the Exchange;

 

(2) for any period during which an emergency, as determined by the Commission, exists as a result of which disposal of securities held in a Fund is not reasonably practical, or it is not reasonably practical to determine the value of a Fund’s net assets; or

 

(3) such other periods as the Commission may order to protect security holders.

 

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If your Contract Value is reduced to zero, your contract will terminate unless you have purchased a rider that provides for continuation of benefits and you are in compliance with the rider’s terms for continuation. Please see the “Lifetime Annuity Period” provision in the “Optional Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (“GLWB”) Riders” section later in this prospectus for more information.

Transfers among Subaccounts

You may transfer Contract Values from one or more Funds to one or more other Funds. You may make transfers at any time before annuity payments begin. The amount of any transfer must be at least $300 (or the entire value of the contract’s interest in a Fund, if less). Not more than 20% of a contract’s Guaranteed Account value (or $1,000, if greater) as of the beginning of a contract year may be transferred to variable Funds during that contract year.

We may limit the number, frequency, method or amount of transfers. We may limit transfers from any Fund on any one day to 1% of the previous day’s total net assets of that Fund if we or the Fund in our discretion, believe that the Fund might otherwise be damaged. In determining which requests to honor, scheduled transfers (under a DCA program) will be made first, followed by mailed written requests in the order postmarked and, lastly, telephone, facsimile and other electronic requests in the order received. This policy will be applied uniformly without exception. We will notify you if your requested transfer is not made. Current SEC rules preclude us from processing at a later date those requests that were not honored. Accordingly, you would need to submit a new transfer request in order to make a transfer that was not honored because of these limitations.

Certain third parties may offer you investment management services for your contract. We will honor transfer requests from these third parties only if you give us a written authorization to do so. Fees you pay for such other services are in addition to any contract charges.

We discourage excessive trading and market timing through your contract. Excessive trading into and out of the portfolios can disrupt portfolio investment strategies and increase the portfolios’ operating expenses. In addition, excessive trading lowers overall portfolio performance for long term investors, prevents portfolio managers from taking timely advantage of investment opportunities, and creates liquidity risks for the portfolios. The contract and the underlying portfolios are not designed to accommodate excessive trading practices. We and the portfolios reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to restrict or reject purchase and exchange orders which we believe represent excessive or disruptive trading. Listed below are some, but not necessarily all the steps we may take to discourage excessive trading and market timing.

The first time the contract owner is determined to have traded excessively, we will notify the contract owner in writing that his or her contract will be monitored for additional transactions in excess of the established limits and such subsequent activity may result in suspension of electronic transfer privileges and/or suspension of all transfer privileges. The established limits are determined internally as a protection against frequent trading and are not disclosed in the prospectus or other otherwise made public.

Upon the second instance of excessive trading, the contract owner will be advised that his or her electronic transfer privileges have been suspended and that all transfer requests must be submitted in writing and delivered via U.S. mail.

Upon the third instance of excessive trading, the transfer of Contract Values will only be permitted into the money market portfolio and all other transfer privileges will be suspended. The contract owner will be informed in writing of the denial of future transfer privileges. If a contract owner decides to surrender the contract following suspension of transfer privileges, the contract owner will incur the resulting surrender charge, if any.

We may, in our sole discretion take any contract off of the list of monitored contracts, or restore suspended transfer privileges if we determine that the transactions were inadvertent or were not done with the intent to market time. Otherwise, all of our policies related to excessive trading and market timing as described in this section will be applied to all contract owners uniformly and without exception. Other trading activities may be detrimental to the portfolios. Therefore, we may place a contract on the list of monitored contracts despite the fact the contract owner has not exceeded the established transfer limits. You may be deemed to have traded excessively even if you have not exceeded the number of free transfers permitted by your contract.

Some of the factors we may consider when determining whether or not to place a contract on the list of monitored contracts may include, but not be limited to:

 

 

The number of transfers made in a defined period;

 

 

The dollar amount of the transfer;

 

 

The total assets of the portfolios involved in the transfer;

 

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The investment objectives of the particular portfolios involved in your transfers; and/or

 

 

Whether the transfer appears to be a part of a pattern of transfers to take advantage of short-term market fluctuations or market inefficiencies.

Contract owners who have not engaged in market timing or excessive trading may also be prevented from transferring Contract Values if we, or the portfolios, believe that an intermediary associated with the contract owner’s account has otherwise been involved in market timing or excessive trading on behalf of other contract owners. Likewise, contract owners who have not engaged in intentional market timing or engaged in intentional disruptive or excessive trading may have their transfers rejected or their transfer privileges suspended if their trading activity generates an exception report in our transfer monitoring systems.

Contract owners seeking to engage in excessive trading practices may deploy a variety of strategies to avoid detection, and there is no guarantee that we or the portfolios will be able to identify such contract owners or curtail their trading practices. Our ability and the ability of the portfolios to detect and curtail excessive trading practices may also be limited by operational systems and technology limitations. In addition, because the portfolios receive orders from omnibus accounts, which is common among funds offering portfolios to insurance companies offering variable products, the portfolios may not be able to detect an individual’s excessive trading practices through these omnibus accounts. If we are unable to detect those contract owners engaging in market timing and/or excessive trading, the previously mentioned harm associated with excessive trading (lower portfolio performance, liquidity risks, increased portfolio expenses, etc.) may occur.

We may alter or amend this policy as required to comply with state or federal regulations and such regulations may impose stricter standards than currently adopted by us or the portfolios.

Pursuant to rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, we are required to enter into agreements with the Funds which require us to provide the Funds, upon their request, with certain information including taxpayer identification numbers of contract owners and the amounts and dates of any purchase, redemption, transfer or exchange requests by contract owners. We are also required to restrict or prohibit further purchases or exchange requests into the Funds by a contract owner upon instruction from the Funds.

Effective Time for Purchase, Transfer or Redemption Orders

Orders to purchase, redeem or transfer units received after the close of the New York Stock Exchange, typically 4:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on a valuation period (earlier on those days when the New York Stock Exchange closes early) will not become effective until the next business day.

However, we may enter into arrangements with certain broker-dealers whereby orders to purchase accumulation units (either through an initial purchase or subsequent purchase payments to an existing contract) will be credited and deemed accepted by us on the date received by them. Such arrangements are at our sole discretion and approved by our Board of Directors. Before entering into such arrangements, we will first ensure that the broker-dealer has adequate compliance controls in place to prevent orders to purchase units received after the cut-off time (usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) from being credited as if received before the cut-off time.

Electronic Access

If you give us authorization, your contract and unit values and interest rates can be checked by telephoning us at1-888-925-6446, or by accessing our web site at www.ohionational.com. You may also request transfers or make allocation changes on our web site. You may only make one electronic, facsimile or telephone (collectively, “electronic”) transfer request per day.

We will honor pre-authorized electronic transfer instructions from anyone who provides the personal identifying information requested. We will not honor electronic transfer requests after we receive notice of your death. For added security, we send the contract owner a written confirmation of all electronic transfers on the next business day. However, if we cannot complete a transfer as requested, our customer service representative will contact the owner in writing sent within 48 hours of the electronic request. You may think that you have limited this access to yourself, or to yourself and your representative. However, anyone giving us the necessary identifying information can use electronic access once you authorize it.

Please note that telephone and/or other means of electronic communication may not always be available. Any telephone or electronic device, whether it is yours, your service provider’s, your agent’s or ours can experience inaccessibility, power outages or slowdowns for a variety of reasons. These periods of inaccessibility may delay or prevent our receipt and processing of your requests. Although we have taken precautions and have emergency contingency plans to limit

 

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these problems, we cannot promise complete reliability under all circumstances. If you experience such problems, you should make your transfer request by writing to our home office.

We reserve the right to limit or restrict electronic access in any form at any time as to any contract owner.

Scheduled Transfers (Dollar Cost Averaging)

We administer a Dollar Cost Averaging (“DCA”) program enabling you to preauthorize automatic monthly or quarterly transfers of a specified dollar amount from the Fixed Accumulation Account or the Funds to any of the other subaccounts. There is no charge for participating in a DCA program. Each transfer under the DCA program must be at least $300. For a DCA program from a Fund, at least 12 transfers must be scheduled. For a DCA program from the Fixed Accumulation Account, at least three transfers must be scheduled. The DCA program is only available to contracts having a total accumulation value of at least $3,600. No transfer fees will be incurred for DCA transfers and they do not count against the 12 free transfers allowed each contract year. Unless you are in an Asset Allocation Model or unless other investment restrictions are applicable, a DCA program may be made with transfers from Funds or the Money Market Portfolio to any other Funds at any time during the contract.

A DCA program with transfers from the Fixed Accumulation Account to any other Funds may be made if the DCA program is established at the time the contract is issued, and the DCA program is scheduled to begin within 6 months of the time you make purchase payments from which DCA transfers will be made. A DCA program from the Fixed Accumulation Account may not exceed 2 years.

DCA generally has the effect of reducing the risk of purchasing at the top of a market cycle by reducing the average cost of indirectly purchasing Fund shares through the subaccounts to less than the average price of the shares on the same purchase dates. DCA transfers from the Fixed Accumulation Account or from a Fund with a stabilized net asset value, such as the Money Market Portfolio, will generally reduce the average total cost of indirectly purchasing Fund shares because greater numbers of shares will be purchased when the share prices are lower than when prices are higher. However, DCA does not assure you of a profit, nor does it protect against losses in a declining market. In addition, in a rising market, DCA will produce a lower rate of return than will a single up-front investment.

The DCA program may be discontinued at any time by you as long as we receive notice of the cancellation at least 7 business days before the next scheduled transfers. We reserve the right to not offer the DCA program to new contracts in the future. Upon prior written notice, we may discontinue providing the DCA program to existing contracts that are not currently enrolled in a DCA program.

Enhanced DCA Account. We currently offer the Enhanced DCA program for initial purchase payments (or additional purchase payments of $3,600 or greater) which are allocated to the Enhanced DCA account that provides a fixed interest rate that is higher than the guaranteed minimum interest rate for the Fixed Accumulation Account. The Enhanced DCA account is a subset of our general account. The Enhanced DCA program is the same as the DCA program except as described in this section. The Enhanced DCA program requires the purchase payment be fully transferred from the account within specified periods of time. Each DCA transfer must be at least $300. An Enhanced DCA program can be discontinued at any time by you as long as we receive notice of the cancellation at least 7 business days before the next scheduled transfer. Terminating this program will result in all remaining funds transferred to the subaccounts of your choice or to the Fixed Accumulation Account. We reserve the right to not offer the Enhanced DCA program to new contracts in the future. Upon prior written notice, we may discontinue providing the Enhanced DCA program for additional purchase payments.

Portfolio Rebalancing

You may have us automatically transfer amounts on a quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis to maintain a specified percentage (whole percentages only) of Contract Value in each of two or more designated Funds. The purpose of a portfolio rebalancing strategy is to maintain, over time, your desired allocation percentage in the designated Funds having differing investment performance. Portfolio rebalancing will not necessarily enhance future performance or protect against future losses.

There is no charge for participating in portfolio rebalancing, and the transfer charge does not apply to portfolio rebalancing transactions. These transactions do not count against the 12 free transfers you are allowed each contract year. You may not have portfolio rebalancing for any Funds that are part of a DCA program.

 

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Nursing Facility Confinement

We will not assess a surrender charge if you are confined to a state licensed or legally operated in-patient nursing home facility for at least 30 consecutive days. This waiver of the surrender charge may not be available in all states. It only applies when:

 

 

the confinement begins after the first contract anniversary and before annuity payments begin;

 

 

the contract was issued before your 80th birthday; and

 

 

we receive the request for withdrawal, together with proof of the confinement, at our home office while you are confined or within 90 days after discharge from the facility.

Death Benefit

Basic Death Benefit

What does the beneficiary receive upon death of the annuitant before the annuity payout date?

If the annuitant dies before the annuity payout date, your contract provides for the beneficiary to receive Proceeds from the contract. The Proceeds equal (i) the Contract Value and (ii) any Death Benefit Adjustment, on the calculation date as described below.

What is the amount of the Death Benefit Adjustment?

The Death Benefit Adjustment is equal to the difference, if any, between the highest guaranteed death benefit amount and the Contract Value as of the calculation date as described below. The Death Benefit is used solely to calculate the Death Benefit Adjustment and is not an amount paid to the beneficiary.

The Death Benefit is the greatest of: (i) the total Contract Value or (ii) net purchase payments less pro-rata withdrawals, unless one of the riders added to your contract provides for a higher death benefit.

For purposes of the paragraphs above, “net purchase payments” means your total purchase payments less an amount for any applicable premium tax or similar state or local tax. “Pro rata withdrawals” mean an adjustment for any amounts you have withdrawn from the contract based on the percentage reduction to the total Contract Value which resulted from the withdrawal.

If the Contract Value is greater than the Death Benefit on the calculation date as described below, then there is no Death Benefit Adjustment that will be added to the Proceeds. If the Contract Value is less than the Death Benefit on the calculation date as described below, then there is a Death Benefit Adjustment that will be added to the Proceeds. See the examples below.

When are Contract Value and Death Benefit Adjustment calculated for purposes of this section?

The Contract Value is calculated as of the date that we receive proof of the annuitant’s death and satisfactory instruction from the beneficiary for the disposition of the contract.

The Death Benefit Adjustment is calculated as of the earlier of: (i) the date we are in receipt of proof of the annuitant’s death; or (ii) 90 days from the date of the annuitant’s death.

Examples of Death Benefit Adjustment calculation:

If the Contract Value on date of the Death Benefit Adjustment calculation is $100,000 and the Death Benefit is $85,000, then there is no Death Benefit Adjustment.

If the Contract Value on date of the Death Benefit Adjustment calculation is $85,000 and the Death Benefit is $100,000, then the Death Benefit Adjustment is $15,000 ($100,000 Death Benefit minus $85,000 Contract Value). $15,000 is added to the Money Market Portfolio until satisfactory instructions are received from the beneficiary as to settlement of the contract or the beneficiary gives us different investment instructions. If the Contract Value is $60,000 when we receive satisfactory instructions to settle the contract, then the beneficiary will receive $75,000 ($15,000 + $60,000). If the Contract Value is $120,000 when we receive satisfactory instructions, then the beneficiary will receive $135,000 ($15,000 + $120,000).

Where are the Proceeds invested before being paid out to a beneficiary?

From the date of the annuitant’s death until the Proceeds are paid to the beneficiary, unless the beneficiary elects to change the subaccount allocations, the Contract Value will remain invested in the subaccounts selected by the owner. If

 

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we have not yet received the required documents necessary to pay the Proceeds to the beneficiary, the amount equal to the Death Benefit Adjustment is added to the contract in the Money Market Portfolio.

What are the consequences of any change in the Contract Value before the Death Benefit Adjustment is calculated?

The beneficiary may decide to reallocate the Contract Value to different subaccounts in an effort to minimize the risk of market fluctuation. If the beneficiary elects to change the subaccount allocations before the date that the Death Benefit Adjustment is calculated, then any resulting change in Contract Value will have an impact on the Death Benefit Adjustment amount when it is calculated.

What are the consequences of any change in the Contract Value after the Death Benefit Adjustment is calculated?

Any change in the Contract Value, including, but not limited to market fluctuation, after the effective date of the Death Benefit Adjustment, and before we distribute the contract Proceeds, will affect the amount to be paid to the beneficiary. If the Contract Value increases or decreases, the amount of the Proceeds will be correspondingly increased or decreased. As such, the actual amount paid upon disposition of the contract may be more or less than the highest Death Benefit provided under your contract or optional riders.

How will the Proceeds be paid to the beneficiary?

The Proceeds will be paid to the beneficiary in a single sum unless you or the beneficiary(ies) elect settlement under one or more settlement options. If there are multiple beneficiaries and the owner has not selected a settlement option, all the beneficiaries must agree on a settlement option or the payout value will be paid in lump sums to all of them proportionally. We must receive all required documentation or forms (for example, the claim form and certified death certificate) from all beneficiaries before the Proceeds will be distributed. (Please contact us at 1-888-925-6446 for more information about the documentation and forms we require.) If we are unable to locate one of the beneficiaries, we will provide 30 days written notice to their last known address stating that the Proceeds will be equally distributed to the other beneficiaries. We do not assess a surrender charge on any Proceeds paid to a beneficiary. A spouse who elects to continue the contract will not be assessed a surrender charge on the Proceeds, but will be assessed a surrender charge in accordance with the “Surrender Charge” provision of this prospectus on any additional purchase payments that the spouse makes to the contract.

Unless otherwise designated by the contract owner before the date of annuitant’s death, the beneficiary may elect one of the following settlement options:

 

  (1) Five Year Continuance — Beneficiary may elect to receive the Proceeds over a period of five years or less from the date of the annuitant’s death. All Proceeds must be liquidated within the five year period that begins on the date of the annuitant’s death.

 

  (2) Beneficiary Stretch — Beneficiary may elect to receive the Proceeds in the form of required minimum distributions each year. This option must be elected within twelve months from the date of the annuitant’s death. The amounts of the annual minimum distributions must comply with applicable federal tax regulations and withdrawals of lesser or greater amounts may subject you to adverse tax consequences. Please consult your tax advisor for advice on how the Beneficiary Stretch option would affect you.

 

  (3) Immediate Annuitization — Beneficiary may elect to annuitize the annuity but must do so within twelve months from the date of the annuitant’s death.

 

  (4) Lump Sum Distribution — Beneficiary may elect a lump sum distribution.

If the sole, primary beneficiary is the surviving spouse of the owner and annuitant and there is either no surviving owner or the surviving spouse is also the sole surviving owner, the spouse may continue the contract as the owner and annuitant, or choose one of the settlement options listed above.

Not all of the settlement options may be available if the beneficiary is not a natural person.

Other considerations:

We may require any designated beneficiary have an insurable interest in the life of the annuitant. We will notify you when we issue the contract or when you request a beneficiary change if we are unable to accept your designated beneficiary.

Any guarantees under the contract or death benefit riders that exceed the value of your interest in the separate account VAA are paid from our general account (not the VAA). Therefore, any amounts that we may pay under the contract in excess of your interest in the VAA are subject to our financial strength and claims-paying ability and our long-term ability to make such payments. In the event of an insolvency or receivership, payments we make from our general

 

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account to satisfy claims under the contract would generally receive the same priority as our other policy holder obligations.

Optional Death Benefit Riders

Annual Stepped-Up Death Benefit.

In those states where permitted, we may offer an optional annual stepped-up death benefit at the time the contract is issued. With that option, the Death Benefit on the first contract anniversary will be the greater of (a) the Contract Value then or (b) net purchase payments less pro-rata withdrawals made on or before that date. On each contract anniversary after that (until the annuitant attains age 86), the death benefit will be reset to the greater of (a) the Contract Value on that anniversary date or (b) the death benefit as of the last preceding anniversary adjusted for any purchase payments or withdrawals. The stepped-up death benefit amount is increased by purchase payments and decreased by pro-rata withdrawals made during the period between contract anniversaries. There is an annual rider charge of 0.25% of the optional death benefit amount. You cannot purchase the annual stepped-up death benefit once the annuitant is 76 years old.

Premium Protection Riders.

In those states where permitted, we may offer the Premium Protection death benefit rider (“Premium Protection rider”) at the time the contract is issued. In the future, we may, at our sole option, offer this rider after the contract is issued, in which case it may be added on a contract anniversary. This rider is available only when purchased in conjunction with the GLWB (2011) rider described later in this prospectus. If you purchase this rider, you cannot have any other living benefit or death benefit rider except the GLWB (2011). You cannot purchase this rider once the annuitant is 76 years old.

Death Benefit.

With the Premium Protection rider, the Death Benefit is the greater of (a) the Contract Value as of the effective date of the Death Benefit Adjustment or (b) the GMDB amount. The initial GMDB amount is equal to your initial purchase payment (excluding extra credits, if applicable). If we allow you to add the rider on a subsequent contract anniversary, the initial GMDB amount will be equal to the then current Contract Value. The GMDB amount is increased for additional purchase payments and decreased dollar for dollar for withdrawals up to your maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider, whereas the basic Death Benefit provided for under the contract is reduced on a pro rata basis for withdrawals.

If your surviving spouse chooses to continue the contract under the spousal continuation option and becomes the sole owner and annuitant, the GMDB amount will be set equal to the Contract Value (after the application of any Death Benefit Adjustment) if it is greater than the current GMDB amount.

Please note that withdrawals you take under the GLWB (2011) (including maximum annual withdrawals) reduce the GMDB amount under this rider. Therefore, you should carefully consider whether this rider is appropriate for you.

Excess Withdrawals.

When computing the Premium Protection rider Death Benefit, the GMDB amount also is reduced by any excess withdrawals. An excess withdrawal is the amount a withdrawal exceeds the maximum annual withdrawal you may take under the GLWB (2011) rider. For example, assume the maximum annual withdrawal you may withdraw is $5,000 under the GLWB (2011) rider and in one contract year you withdraw $6,000. The $1,000 difference between the $6,000 withdrawn and the $5,000 maximum annual withdrawal limit would be an excess withdrawal. Allowable annual withdrawals begin under the GLWB (2011) rider when the annuitant reaches 59 1/2, so any withdrawal before the annuitant is 59 1/2 is an excess withdrawal for the Premium Protection rider as well as for the GLWB (2011) rider.

An excess withdrawal will reduce the GMDB amount by the greater of (a) the same percentage the excess withdrawal reduces your Contract Value (i.e. pro-rata) or (b) the dollar amount of the excess withdrawal. For example, assume your GMDB amount is $100,000 at the beginning of the contract year and your maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider is $5,000. Assume your Contract Value is $90,000 and you withdraw $6,000. First we process that portion of the withdrawal up to your maximum annual withdrawal, which is $5,000. Your GMDB amount decreases to $95,000 and your Contract Value decreases to $85,000. Then we process that portion of the withdrawal in excess of your maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider, which is $1,000. Your GMDB amount will be reduced to $93,882, i.e. $95,000 x (1 — $1,000/$85,000) because the pro-rata reduction of $1,118 is greater than the dollar amount of your $1,000 excess withdrawal. Your Contract Value will be reduced to $84,000.

For another example, assume the same facts above except your Contract Value prior to the withdrawal is $120,000. After we process the maximum annual withdrawal portion of your withdrawal, which is $5,000, your GMDB amount is

 

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$95,000 and your Contract Value is $115,000. After we process the portion of your withdrawal in excess of your maximum annual withdrawal, your GMDB amount will be reduced to $94,000 ($95,000 — $1,000) because the dollar for dollar reduction of $1,000 is greater than the pro-rata reduction of $826 ($1,000/$115,000 x $95,000). Your Contract Value will be reduced to $114,000.

Because the allowable annual withdrawals under the GLWB (2011) rider begin when the annuitant is 59 1/2, any withdrawal under the contract prior to the annuitant reaching age 59 1/2 is an excess withdrawal under the Premium Protection rider. Since excess withdrawals may reduce your GMDB amount by an amount greater than the dollar value of the withdrawal, any withdrawals you take before the annuitant is 59 1/2 may significantly reduce or eliminate the Death Benefit under this rider.

Charge.

There is an annual charge for the Premium Protection rider for annuitant issue ages through age 70 of 0.10% of your GMDB amount (which may be increased to no more than 0.25% on contracts issued in the future). For annuitant issue ages 71 through 75, there is an annual charge for this rider of 0.25% (which may be increased to no more than 0.50% on contracts issued in the future). We reserve the right to lower the charge for this rider at any contract anniversary. If we do lower the charge for the rider, we reserve the right to increase the charge up to the original charge on any contract anniversary.

On each anniversary the charge for the Premium Protection rider will be deducted on a pro rata basis in proportion to your current investment option allocations, but will not be deducted from the DCA account. We reserve the right to prorate the annual charge for the rider if (i) the annuitant dies, (ii) you surrender the contract, (iii) the rider is terminated due to the termination of the GLWB (2011), or (iv) you annuitize your contract.

Termination.

If you choose the Premium Protection rider, you cannot later discontinue it unless we otherwise agree. This rider will terminate if:

 

   

your contract terminates according to its terms (unless otherwise provided in this rider);

 

   

your GMDB amount is reduced to zero;

 

   

your Contract Value goes to zero because of an excess withdrawal;

 

   

the GLWB (2011) rider terminates;

 

   

you annuitize your contract;

 

   

the annuitant dies, except in the case of spousal continuation; or

 

   

you transfer or assign your contract or the benefits under the rider, except in the case of spousal continuation.

Since you may have the Premium Protection rider only if you have the GLWB (2011) rider, any termination of the GLWB (2011) rider will automatically terminate the Premium Protection rider as well. If you have purchased the Premium Protection rider and violate the investment restrictions of the GLWB (2011), both the GLWB (2011) rider and the Premium Protection rider will be cancelled.

Required Minimum Distributions (Qualified Contracts Only).

If you are required to take withdrawals from your contract under the Required Minimum Distribution regulations under the Code, we will allow you to take your Required Minimum Distribution (or “RMD”) for a given year without treating it as an excess withdrawal even if it exceeds your maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider. Any RMD you take will reduce your GMDB amount dollar for dollar. Any withdrawals in a contract year that exceed your maximum annual withdrawal and your RMD will be considered excess withdrawals. You may withdraw your RMD under this rider without a surrender charge even if your RMD exceeds 10% of your Contract Value.

You may elect RMD treatment on or after January 1 of the first calendar year after your contract was issued by providing Notice to us. You will not receive RMD treatment without providing Notice to us. You may take your RMD payments on a non-systematic basis or you may elect to receive monthly payments. To elect monthly RMD treatment, you must provide Notice to us on or before January 25 of that calendar year and you must elect a monthly payment date on or before the 25th day of the month. If the date you elect is not the end of a Valuation Period (generally, a day when the NYSE is open), we will make the payment on, and as of, the end of the next applicable Valuation Period. If you elect monthly RMD treatment, we will pay you the greater of your RMD or your maximum annual withdrawal on a monthly basis each month. Once you elect monthly RMD treatment, you cannot revoke it. You may elect to not take a monthly withdrawal by providing Notice to us, but you will not be able to take that withdrawal later and still receive RMD treatment for it. If you do later take such withdrawal, it will be considered an excess withdrawal.

 

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If you die and your spouse elects to continue the contract, your spouse may revoke RMD treatment by providing Notice to us within 30 days of the later of the date of spousal continuation or December 31 of the calendar year in which you died. If your spouse revokes RMD treatment, any withdrawal that exceeds the maximum annual withdrawal will be an excess withdrawal. If your spouse revokes RMD treatment, he or she may elect RMD treatment in the future when he or she is required to take RMDs from the contract. If your spouse continues the contract, is eligible for RMD treatment and does not revoke RMD treatment, he or she will continue to receive RMD treatment with the applicable RMD amount based upon the continuing spouse’s age beginning in the calendar year after you die.

We reserve the right to modify or eliminate RMD treatment if there is any change to the Code or regulations regarding RMDs, including guidance by the Internal Revenue Service. We will provide you 30 days written notice, when practicable, of any modifications to or termination of the RMD treatment with the Premium Protection rider.

Premium Protection (Joint Life).

In those states where permitted, we may also offer a joint life version of the Premium Protection rider (“Joint Premium Protection”). The Joint Premium Protection rider is the same as the Premium Protection rider except as described below.

The Joint Premium Protection rider is available only when purchased in conjunction with the Joint GLWB (2011) described later in this prospectus. If you purchase this rider, you cannot have any other rider except the Joint GLWB (2011).

Allowable annual withdrawals begin under the Joint GLWB (2011) rider when the youngest Participating Spouse reaches 59 1/2, so any withdrawal before the youngest Participating Spouse is 59 1/2 (including any RMD) is an excess withdrawal. Maximum annual withdrawals under the Joint GLWB (2011) are also based on the age of the youngest Participating Spouse, so the maximum amount you may withdraw annually under the Joint Premium Protection rider will depend on the age of the youngest Participating Spouse and reduce the GMDB amount on a dollar for dollar basis. You are not eligible for RMD treatment with the Joint Premium Protection Plus rider until the youngest Participating Spouse is 59 1/2 years old. (Please see the description of the Joint GLWB (2011) later in this prospectus for more details on the youngest Participating Spouse.)

Premium Protection Plus Riders.

In those states where permitted, we may offer the Premium Protection Plus death benefit rider (“Premium Protection Plus rider”) at the time the contract is issued. The Premium Protection Plus rider differs from the Premium Protection rider in that a withdrawal that is not an excess withdrawal does not decrease the GMDB amount up to the contract anniversary after the annuitant turns 85, after which time the GMDB amount is decreased for such withdrawals on a dollar for dollar basis, and the GMDB amount may step-up to your Contract Value on the seventh rider anniversary. In the future, we may, at our sole option, offer this rider to existing contracts, in which case it may be added on a contract anniversary. This rider is available only when purchased in conjunction with the GLWB (2011) rider described later in this prospectus. If you purchase this rider, you cannot have any other living benefit or death benefit rider except the GLWB (2011). You cannot purchase this rider once the annuitant is 71 years old.

Death Benefit.

With the Premium Protection Plus rider, the Death Benefit is the greater of (a) the Contract Value as of the effective date of the Death Benefit Adjustment or (b) the GMDB amount. The initial GMDB amount is equal to your initial purchase payment (excluding extra credits, if applicable). If we allow you to add the rider on a subsequent contract anniversary, the initial GMDB amount will be equal to the then current Contract Value. The GMDB amount is increased for additional purchase payments. You may take withdrawals up to your annual maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider until the contract anniversary after the annuitant turns 85 without the reducing the GMDB amount. Following the contract anniversary after the annuitant turns 85, withdrawals up to your maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider reduce the GMDB amount dollar for dollar.

If your surviving spouse chooses to continue the contract under the spousal continuation option becomes the sole owner and annuitant, the GMDB amount will be set equal to the Contract Value (after the application of any Death Benefit Adjustment) if it is greater than the current GMDB amount.

The Premium Protection Plus rider provides for a one-time step-up of the GMDB amount on the seventh rider anniversary. If, on the seventh rider anniversary, your Contract Value is greater than the GMDB amount, we will set your GMDB amount equal to your Contract Value.

Excess Withdrawals.

When computing the Premium Protection Plus rider Death Benefit, the GMDB amount is reduced by any excess withdrawals. An excess withdrawal is the amount a withdrawal exceeds the maximum annual withdrawal you may take under the GLWB (2011) rider. For example, assume the maximum annual withdrawal you may withdraw is $5,000

 

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under the GLWB (2011) rider and in one contract year you withdraw $6,000. The $1,000 difference between the $6,000 withdrawn and the $5,000 maximum annual withdrawal limit would be an excess withdrawal. Allowable annual withdrawals begin under the GLWB (2011) rider when the annuitant reaches 59 1/2, so any withdrawal before the annuitant is 59 1/2 is an excess withdrawal.

An excess withdrawal will reduce the GMDB amount by the greater of (a) the same percentage the excess withdrawal reduces your Contract Value (i.e. pro-rata) or (b) the dollar amount of the excess withdrawal. For example, assume the annuitant is 65 and your GMDB amount is $100,000 at the beginning of the contract year and your maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider is $5,000. Assume your Contract Value is $90,000 and you withdraw $6,000. First we process that portion of the withdrawal up to your maximum annual withdrawal, which is $5,000. Because the annuitant is less than 85 years old, your GMDB amount is not reduced for that portion of the withdrawal that is equal to your maximum annual withdrawal, $5,000. Your Contract Value decreases to $85,000. Then we process that portion of the withdrawal in excess of your maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider, which is $1,000. Your GMDB amount will be reduced to $98,824, i.e. $100,000 x (1 — $1,000/$85,000) because the pro-rata reduction of $1,176 is greater than the dollar amount of your $1,000 excess withdrawal. Your Contract Value will be reduced to $84,000.

For another example, assume the same facts above except your Contract Value prior to the withdrawal is $120,000. After we process the maximum annual withdrawal portion of your withdrawal, $5,000, your GMDB amount remains $100,000 and your Contract Value is $115,000. After we process the portion of your withdrawal in excess of your maximum annual withdrawal, your GMDB amount will be reduced to $99,000 ($100,000 — $1,000) because the dollar for dollar reduction of $1,000 is greater than the pro-rata reduction of $870 ($1,000/$115,000 x $100,000). Your Contract Value will be reduced to $114,000.

Because the allowable annual withdrawals under the GLWB (2011) rider begin when the annuitant is 59 1/2, any withdrawal under the contract prior to the annuitant reaching age 59 1/2 is an excess withdrawal under the Premium Protection Plus rider. Since excess withdrawals may reduce your GMDB amount by an amount greater than the dollar value of your withdrawal, any withdrawals you take before the annuitant is 59 1/2 may significantly reduce or eliminate the Death Benefit under this rider.

Charge.

There is an annual charge for the Premium Protection Plus rider of 0.45% of your GMDB amount. We may increase the charge for this rider on the seventh rider anniversary if your GMDB amount is set equal to your Contract Value. The new charge will be no higher than the then current charge for new issues of the rider or if we are not issuing the rider, a rate we declare, in our sole discretion. We guarantee the new charge will not exceed 0.90%. If we notify you of a charge increase effective upon the step-up on the seventh rider anniversary, you may decline to accept an increase in the charge for the rider by declining the step-up within 30 days in a form acceptable to us.

We reserve the right to lower the charge for this rider at any contract anniversary. If we do lower the charge for the rider, we reserve the right to increase the charge up to the original charge on any contract anniversary.

On each anniversary the charge for the Premium Protection Plus rider will be deducted on a pro rata basis in proportion to your current investment option allocations, but will not be deducted from the DCA account. We reserve the right to prorate the annual charge for the rider if (i) the annuitant dies, (ii) you surrender the contract, (iii) the rider is terminated due to the termination of the GLWB (2011), or (iv) you annuitize your contract.

Termination.

If you choose the Premium Protection Plus rider, you cannot later discontinue it unless we otherwise agree. This rider will terminate if:

 

   

your contract terminates according to its terms (unless otherwise provided in this rider);

 

   

your GMDB amount is reduced to zero;

 

   

your Contract Value goes to zero because of an excess withdrawal;

 

   

you enter the Lifetime Annuity Period under the GLWB (2011) rider because your Contract Value is reduced to zero (other than by an excess withdrawal);

 

   

the GLWB (2011) rider terminates;

 

   

you annuitize your contract;

 

   

the annuitant dies, except in the case of spousal continuation; or

 

   

you transfer or assign your contract or the benefits under the rider, except in the case of spousal continuation.

 

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Since you may have the Premium Protection Plus rider only if you have the GLWB (2011) rider, any termination of the GLWB (2011) rider will automatically terminate the Premium Protection Plus rider as well. If you have purchased the Premium Protection Plus rider and violate the investment restrictions of the GLWB (2011), both the GLWB (2011) rider and the Premium Protection Plus rider will be cancelled.

Required Minimum Distributions (Qualified Contracts Only).

If you are required to take withdrawals from your contract under the Required Minimum Distribution regulations under the Code, we will allow you to take your Required Minimum Distribution (or “RMD”) for a given year without treating it as an excess withdrawal even if it exceeds your maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider. Any RMD you take until the contract anniversary after the annuitant is 85 years old will not reduce the GMDB amount. Any RMD you take following the contract anniversary after the annuitant is 85 will reduce your GMDB amount dollar for dollar. Any withdrawals in a contract year that exceed your maximum annual withdrawal and your RMD will be considered excess withdrawals. You may withdraw your RMD under this rider without a surrender charge even if your RMD exceeds 10% of your Contract Value.

You may elect RMD treatment on or after January 1 of the first calendar year after your contract was issued by providing Notice to us. You will not receive RMD treatment without providing Notice to us. You may take your RMD payments on a non-systematic basis or you may elect to receive monthly payments. To elect monthly RMD treatment, you must provide Notice to us on or before January 25 of that calendar year and you must elect a monthly payment date on or before the 25th day of the month. If the date you elect is not the end of a Valuation Period (generally, a day when the NYSE is open), we will make the payment on, and as of, the end of the next applicable Valuation Period. If you elect monthly RMD treatment, we will pay you the greater of your RMD or your maximum annual withdrawal on a monthly basis each month. Once you elect monthly RMD treatment, you cannot revoke it. You may elect to not take a monthly withdrawal by providing Notice to us, but you will not be able to take that withdrawal later and still receive RMD treatment for it. If you do later take such withdrawal, it will be considered an excess withdrawal.

If you die and your spouse elects to continue the contract, your spouse may revoke RMD treatment by providing Notice to us within 30 days of the later of the date of spousal continuation or December 31 of the calendar year in which you died. If your spouse revokes RMD treatment, any withdrawal that exceeds the maximum annual withdrawal will be an excess withdrawal. If your spouse revokes RMD treatment, he or she may elect RMD treatment in the future when he or she is required to take RMDs from the contract. If your spouse continues the contract, is eligible for RMD treatment and does not revoke RMD treatment, he or she will continue to receive RMD treatment with the applicable RMD amount based upon the continuing spouse’s age beginning in the calendar year after you die.

We reserve the right to modify or eliminate RMD treatment if there is any change to the Code or regulations regarding RMDs, including guidance by the Internal Revenue Service. We will provide you 30 days written notice, when practicable, of any modifications to or termination of the RMD treatment with the Premium Protection rider.

Premium Protection Plus (Joint Life).

In those states where permitted, we may also offer a joint life version of the Premium Protection Plus rider (“Joint Premium Protection Plus”). The Joint Premium Protection Plus rider is the same as the Premium Protection Plus rider except as described below.

The Joint Premium Protection Plus rider is available only when purchased in conjunction with the Joint GLWB (2011) described later in this prospectus. If you purchase this rider, you cannot have any other rider except the Joint GLWB (2011).

Allowable annual withdrawals begin under the Joint GLWB (2011) rider when the youngest Participating Spouse reaches 59 1/2, so any withdrawal before the youngest Participating Spouse is 59 1/2 (including any RMD) is an excess withdrawal. Maximum annual withdrawals under the Joint GLWB (2011) are also based on the age of the youngest Participating Spouse, so the maximum amount you may withdraw under the Joint Premium Protection Plus rider will depend on the age of the youngest Participating Spouse. You are not eligible for RMD treatment with the Joint Premium Protection Plus rider until the youngest Participating Spouse is 59 1/2 years old. (Please see the description of the Joint GLWB (2011) later in this prospectus for more details on the Participating Spouse.)

5% GMDBR80 Plus.

In those states where permitted, we may offer the 5% GMDBR80 Plus at the time the contract is issued. You cannot purchase this rider once the annuitant is 76 years old.

With the 5% GMDBR80 Plus, the death benefit is the greater of (a) the Contract Value as of the effective date of the Death Benefit Adjustment or (b) the GMDB amount. The initial GMDB amount is total net purchase payments made when you purchase the contract and within the first three months after the contract is issued. The GMDB amount is

 

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adjusted for withdrawals from the contract as described below and is increased by (i) additional purchase payments and (ii) an increase for each valuation period, until the annuitant attains age 80, at an effective annual rate of 5% for values in variable portfolios (other than the Money Market Portfolio) or in one of the Asset Allocation Models. Values in the Money Market Portfolio or the Fixed Accumulation Account which are not in one of the Asset Allocation Models will accumulate at the lesser of 5% or the rate being credited to the Money Market Portfolio or the Fixed Accumulation Account on those days in which the values are so allocated. During the free look period, a different rate may apply in certain states. The total death benefit amount with 5% GMDBR80 Plus shall not exceed two times your total net purchase payments, adjusted for withdrawals.

Any withdrawals in a contract year equal to or less than 5% of the GMDB amount as of the beginning of that year will reduce the GMDB amount and the maximum death benefit amount by the amount of such withdrawals. Any withdrawals in a contract year in excess of 5% of the GMDB amount as of the beginning of that year will reduce the GMDB and maximum death benefit amounts pro rata. In other words, under the pro rata adjustment, the guaranteed minimum death benefit amount and the maximum death benefit amount will both be reduced by the same percentage that the Contract Value was reduced because of the withdrawal in excess of 5%. There is an additional annual charge for this option of 0.45% of the 5% GMDBR80 Plus amount.

Guaranteed Enhancement Benefit.

In those states where permitted, we may offer Guaranteed Enhancement Benefit (“GEB”) riders at the time the contract is issued. You cannot purchase these riders once the annuitant is 76 years old. This benefit will never exceed $1,000,000. With the GEB option, the following amount will be added to any other amount payable upon the annuitant’s death:

 

   

25% of the lesser of (a) two times net purchase payments less pro rata withdrawals or (b) the total Contract Value on the date of death minus net purchase payments less pro rata withdrawals; or

 

   

40% of the lesser of (a) two and a half times net purchase payments less pro rata withdrawals, or (b) the total Contract Value on the date of death minus net purchase payments less pro rata withdrawals. This is the GEB “Plus.”

For the regular GEB option, there is an additional annual charge of 0.15% of the Contract Value (or 0.30% if the annuitant is age 71 to 75 when your contract is issued). If you choose the GEB “Plus,” the charge is 0.30% of the Contract Value (or 0.60% for issue ages 71 to 75). After the contract has been in effect for 6 months, any purchase payments made within 6 months before the date of death will not be included for calculating the amount of this benefit. You may choose GEB in addition to one of the other death benefit options. If you choose GEB, you cannot later discontinue it. That means even if the GEB will be of no further benefit to you, you will continue to be charged for it.

Summary.

The following is a summary of the currently available optional death benefit riders. For complete details on the riders, see the individual descriptions above.

 

Optional Rider

  

Features

  

Who may want to consider

the Rider

  

Charge

Annual Stepped-Up Death Benefit   

•     Guarantees that the death benefit will be the greater of total purchase payments or the highest contract anniversary value.

•     Increases the death benefit to the contract value, adjusted for subsequent purchase payments and withdrawals.

•     Stops accumulating at contract anniversary after annuitant’s 85th birthday.

•     Cannot purchase once the annuitant is 76.

   Those who wish to protect their death benefit from market downturns by locking in gains on every contract anniversary.    0.25% (maximum and current)

 

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Premium Protection (Single Life)   

•     Guarantees a death benefit equal to your purchase payments, adjusted for withdrawals.

•     Adjusted dollar for dollar on annual withdrawals that do not exceed the allowable withdrawals under the GLWB (2011).

•     Reduced by the greater of the excess dollar amount of the withdrawal or the pro rata reduction for any withdrawals that are excess withdrawals under the GLWB (2011).

•     Continues if Contract Value is reduced to zero.

•     Cannot purchase once the annuitant is 76.

•     Sold only in conjunction with GLWB (2011).

   Those who want to ensure, through the GLWB (2011) and this rider, the return of their original principal.   

For issues ages through 70:

0.25% (maximum)

0.10% (current)

For issue ages 71-75:

0.50% (maximum)

0.25% (current)

Premium Protection (Joint Lives)   

•     Like Premium Protection except for the following:

•     Sold only in conjunction with Joint GLWB (2011).

   Those who want to ensure, through the Joint GLWB (2011) and this rider, the return of their original principal   

For issues ages through 70:

0.25% (maximum) 0.10% (current)

For issue ages 71-75:

0.50% (maximum)

0.25% (current)

Premium Protection Plus (Single Life)   

•     Guarantees a death benefit equal to your purchase payments, adjusted for withdrawals.

•     Not reduced for annual withdrawals that do not exceed the allowable withdrawals under the GLWB (2011) until the contract anniversary after the annuitant is 85; reduced dollar for dollar thereafter.

•     Reduced by the greater of the excess dollar amount of the withdrawal or the pro rata reduction for any withdrawals that are excess withdrawals under the GLWB (2011).

•     Steps up to Contract Value, if higher, on the seventh contract anniversary.

•     Cannot purchase once the annuitant is 71.

•     Sold only in conjunction with GLWB (2011).

   Those who are planning to make use of their money during their lifetime and want to leave the original principal to their heirs.    0.90% (maximum) 0.45% (current)
Premium Protection Plus (Joint Lives)   

•     Like Premium Protection Plus except for the following:

•     Sold only in conjunction with Joint GLWB (2011).

   Those who are planning to make use of their money during their lifetime and want to leave the original principal to their heirs.    0.90% (maximum) 0.45% (current)

 

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5% GMDBR80 Plus   

•     Guarantees 5% annual rate of return on the death benefit, up to two times the purchase payments.

•     Accumulates purchase payments at 5% (except values allocated to the Fixed Accumulation Account or Money Market Portfolio which are not in an Asset Allocation Model may accumulate at less than 5%).

•     Adjusted dollar-for-dollar on annual withdrawals up to 5% of the guaranteed minimum death benefit amount.

•     Stops accumulating at contract anniversary after annuitant’s 80(th) birthday.

•     Cannot purchase once the annuitant is 76.

   Those who are planning to make use of their money during their lifetime and want to leave the original principal to their heirs.    0.45% (maximum and current)
GEB   

•     Pays an additional death benefit of 25% of the lesser of (a) two times net purchase payments less pro rata withdrawals or (b) total Contract Value on the date of death minus net purchase payments less pro rata withdrawals.

•     Benefit will never exceed $1,000,000.

•     Cannot purchase once the annuitant is 76 years old.

   Those who wish to maximize the amount left to their beneficiaries   

For issue ages through 70:

0.15% (maximum and current)

For issues ages 71-75:

0.30% (maximum and current)

GEB Plus   

•     Pays an additional death benefit of 40% of the lesser of (a) 2 1/2 times net purchase payments less pro rata withdrawals or (b) total Contract Value on the date of death minus net purchase payments less pro rata withdrawals.

•     Benefit will never exceed $1,000,000.

•     Cannot purchase once the annuitant is 76 years old.

   Those who wish to maximize the amount left to their beneficiaries   

For issue ages through 70:

0.30% (maximum and current)

For issues ages 71-75:

0.60% (maximum and current)

Annuity Period

Annuity Payout Date

Annuity payments begin on the annuity payout date. You may select this date when the contract is issued. It must be at least 30 days after the contract date. You may change it from time to time so long as it is the first day of any month at least 30 days after the date of such change. The contract restricts the annuity payout date to not later than the first of the month following the annuitant’s 90th birthday. This restriction may be modified by applicable state law, or we may agree to waive it or to allow the annuitant to defer receiving annuity payments.

The contracts include our guarantee that we will pay annuity payments for the lifetime of the annuitant (and any joint annuitant) in accordance with the contract’s annuity rates, no matter how long you live.

Once annuity payments begin, you may not surrender the contract for cash except that, upon the death of the annuitant, the beneficiary may surrender the contract for the commuted value of any remaining period-certain payments.

 

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Annuity Options

You may elect one or more of the following annuity options. You may change the election anytime before the annuity payout date. The variable part of the Contract Value will be used to provide a variable annuity and the fixed portion of the contract will be used to provide a fixed annuity, unless you elect otherwise.

 

Option 1(a):

   Life Annuity with installment payments for the lifetime of the annuitant. (The contract has no more value after the annuitant’s death). Under this annuity option, it is possible to receive only one annuity payment.

Option 1(b):

   Life Annuity with installment payments guaranteed for five years and then continuing during the remaining lifetime of the annuitant.

Option 1(c):

   Life Annuity with installment payments guaranteed for ten years and then continuing during the remaining lifetime of the annuitant.

Option 1(d):

   Installment Refund Life Annuity with payments guaranteed for a period certain and then continuing during the remaining lifetime of the annuitant. The number of period-certain payments is equal to the amount applied under this option divided by the amount of the first payment.

Option 2(a):

   Joint & Survivor Life Annuity with installment payments during the lifetime of the annuitant and then continuing during the lifetime of a contingent annuitant. (The contract has no more value after the second annuitant’s death.) Under this annuity option, it is possible to receive only one annuity payment.

Option 2(b):

   Joint & Survivor Life Annuity with installment payments guaranteed for ten years and then continuing during the remaining lifetime of the annuitant or a contingent annuitant.

We may agree to other settlement options.

Unless you direct otherwise, we will apply the Contract Value as of the annuity payout date to provide annuity payments pro-rata from each Fund in the same proportion as the Contract Values immediately before the annuity payout date.

If no election is in effect on the annuity payout date, we will apply Contract Value under Option 1(c) with the beneficiary as payee for any remaining period-certain installments payable after the death of the annuitant. The Pension Reform Act of 1974 might require certain contracts to provide a Joint and Survivor Annuity. If the contingent annuitant is not related to the annuitant, Options 2(a) and 2(b) are available only if we agree.

Determination of Amount of the First Variable Annuity Payment

To determine the first variable annuity payment we apply the Contract Value for each Fund in accordance with the contract’s settlement option tables. We divide the account value by $1,000 and then multiply the result by the applicable factor in the contract’s settlement option tables. The rates in those tables depend upon the annuitant’s (and any contingent annuitant’s) age and sex and the option selected. The annuitant’s sex is not a factor in contracts issued to plans sponsored by employers subject to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or similar state statutes. We determine the value to be applied at the end of a valuation period (selected by us and uniformly applied) not more than 10 valuation periods before the annuity payout date.

If the amount that would be applied under an option is less than $5,000, we will pay the Contract Value to the annuitant in a single sum. If the first periodic payment under any option would be less than $100, we may change the frequency of payments so that the first payment is at least $100.

 

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Annuity Units and Variable Payments

After your first annuity payment, later variable annuity payments will vary to reflect the investment performance of your Funds. The amount of each payment depends on the number of your annuity units. To determine the number of annuity units for each Fund, divide the dollar amount of the first annuity payment from each Fund by the value of that Fund’s annuity unit. This number of annuity units remains constant during the annuity payment period unless you transfer among Funds.

We set the annuity unit value for each Fund for the valuation period when the first variable annuity was calculated for these contracts. The annuity unit value for each later valuation period equals the annuity unit value for the immediately preceding valuation period multiplied by the net investment factor for such later valuation period and by a factor (0.999919 for a one-day valuation period) to neutralize the 3% assumed interest rate discussed below.

The dollar amount of each later variable annuity payment equals your constant number of annuity units for each Fund multiplied by the value of the annuity unit for the valuation period.

The annuity rate tables contained in the contracts are based on the 2000 Mortality Table Projected to 2010 under Scale G (which is a method of projecting individual annuity valuation mortality tables based on industry best practices) with compound interest at the effective rate of 3% per year. A higher interest assumption would mean a higher initial annuity payment but a more slowly rising series of subsequent annuity payments if annuity unit values were increasing (or a more rapidly falling series of subsequent annuity payments if annuity unit values were decreasing). A lower interest assumption would have the opposite effect. If the actual net investment rate were equal to the assumed interest rate, annuity payments would stay level.

Transfers During Annuity Payout

After annuity payments have been made for at least 12 months, the annuitant can, once each calendar quarter, change the Funds on which variable annuity payments are based. There is no transfer fee during annuity payout. Transfers may not be made between guaranteed and variable accounts during annuity payout. You may change the underlying Funds by providing Notice to us in writing at our home Office. Upon receipt of your request, we will change that portion of the periodic variable annuity payment as you direct to reflect the investment results of different Funds. To do this, we convert the number of annuity units being changed to the number of annuity units of the Funds to which you are changing. If an annuity payment is already in process at the time we receive your request to change the Fund allocations, the change will not be reflected in your next annuity payment. It will be reflected in the payment received thereafter.

Optional Living Benefit Riders

Optional Guaranteed Principal Protection (“GPP”)

In those states where permitted, we may offer the GPP rider when you apply for the contract. We may, at our sole option, also offer the GPP rider to existing contracts, in which case it may be added on a contract anniversary, if the annuitant is then under age 80. GPP is not available when your contract includes any GLWB.

If you continue the GPP rider until the end of its 10-year term, and do not make any withdrawals, we guarantee that your eligible Contract Value will not be less than it was at the beginning of the 10-year term. On the last day of the 10-year term, we will add an amount to your total Contract Value to increase it to the “guaranteed principal amount” if the eligible Contract Value at the end of the 10-year term is less than the guaranteed principal amount. The guaranteed principal amount is the Contract Value:

 

  (a) as of the first day of the rider’s term or

 

  (b) the amount in (a) plus the total of any purchase payments made in the first 6 months if the rider was included in the contract when you purchased the contract,

 

  (c) reduced pro rata for any withdrawals you made.

Contract Value attributable to purchase payments made after the rider is added (or after the first 6 months if the rider is included when the contract was issued) are not included in the guaranteed principal amount and do not count as part of your eligible Contract Value at the end of the term for purposes of determining the benefit amount.

Any guarantees under the contract that exceed the value of your interest in the separate account VAA, such as those associated with the GPP, are paid from our general account (not the VAA). Therefore, any amounts that we may pay

 

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under the contract in excess of your interest in the VAA are subject to our financial strength and claims-paying ability and our long-term ability to make such payments. In the event of an insolvency or receivership, payments we make from our general account to satisfy claims under the contract would generally receive the same priority as our other policy holder obligations.

If you choose GPP, you must allocate all variable Contract Values to one of the Asset Allocation Models (see Optional Asset Allocation Models) during the entire 10-year term of the rider. You may change asset allocation models at any time. You may also have a portion of your Contract Values in a fixed accumulation account or a dollar-cost averaging account we may offer while this rider is in force. If you stop using a model, we will cancel the GPP rider. You may cancel the GPP rider as of any contract anniversary by notifying us before that anniversary. Cancellation of the GPP rider does not affect any other contract features. You may continue using an Asset Allocation Model after the GPP rider ends.

The charge for the GPP rider is made on each contract anniversary at the rate of 0.55% of the average of your guaranteed principal amount at the beginning and the end of each contract year. This charge will discontinue if the GPP rider is cancelled. However, if the GPP is canceled because you stop using a model, a full annual rider charge will be assessed without being prorated to the date of cancellation.

At the end of the 10-year term, you may reset the rider for another 10-year term if the annuitant is then under age 80. The guaranteed principal amount under the new GPP 10-year term will be your total Contract Value as of the end of the 10-year term then ended, including any amount we then add pursuant to the earlier GPP 10-year term, subject to adjustment for any withdrawals. You may also reset the GPP rider’s guaranteed principal amount at the current Contract Value on any contract anniversary after the rider has been in effect for at least 5 years (if the annuitant is then under age 80). This starts a new 10-year rider term.

If the annuitant dies during the 10-year term, and his or her spouse continues the contract, the GPP rider may also be continued.

Optional Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (“GLWB”) Riders

This section describes the optional Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (“GLWB”) riders that we may offer. Not all of the riders may be available in all states. You may only have one of the GLWB riders on your contract.

Subject to the conditions described below, the GLWB riders provide a guaranteed level of withdrawals from your contract in each contract year for the lifetime of the annuitant beginning when the annuitant is age 59 1/2. The GLWB riders may help protect you from the risk that you may outlive your income.

GLWB (2011)

In those states where permitted, we may offer the GLWB (2011) rider when you apply for the contract. In the future we may, at our sole option, offer the GLWB (2011) rider to existing contracts, in which case it may be added on a contract anniversary. You may not purchase the GLWB (2011) rider if you have any rider, other than the annual stepped-up death benefit, Premium Protection death benefit, or Premium Protection Plus death benefit on your contract. You may not purchase this rider once the annuitant is 86 years old.

Any guarantees under the contract that exceed the value of your interest in the separate account VAA, such as those associated with the GLWB (2011) rider, are paid from our general account (not the VAA). Therefore, any amounts that we may pay under the contract in excess of your interest in the VAA are subject to our financial strength and claims-paying ability and our long-term ability to make such payments. In the event of an insolvency or receivership, payments we make from our general account to satisfy claims under the contract would generally receive the same priority as our other policyholder obligations.

With the GLWB (2011) rider, you may take annual withdrawals regardless of your Contract Value and without a surrender charge. The maximum annual withdrawals you may take are determined by applying a percentage to a value we refer to as the GLWB base. The percentage you may take is set at the time of your first withdrawal and is based on the annuitant’s age bracket. The higher the annuitant’s age bracket at the time of the first withdrawal, the larger the allowable withdrawal percentage will be. Unlike the GLWB base, the percentage can only change in limited circumstances. The GLWB base, which is described below, is recalculated at least annually, so the maximum annual withdrawals you may take can change every contract year. Certain of your actions can increase or decrease the GLWB base, which would affect your maximum annual withdrawals. These actions include making additional purchase payments, not taking withdrawals, taking withdrawals before age 59 1/2 or taking more than the maximum annual withdrawals.

 

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GLWB base.

The initial GLWB base is equal to your initial net purchase payment (excluding any extra credits, if applicable) if the rider is added when the contract is issued. If the rider is added after your contract is issued, the initial GLWB base is equal to your Contract Value when the rider is added. The GLWB base is increased dollar for dollar by purchase payments when made and decreased for “excess withdrawals” as described below. (If you make an additional purchase payment on the day the rider is added, the GLWB base will be increased by the additional purchase payment.) Withdrawals that do not exceed the maximum annual withdrawals allowed under this rider will not decrease the GLWB base but will decrease your Contract Value and the Death Benefit under your contract, the optional annual stepped-up death benefit or Premium Protection death benefit rider. We reserve the right to limit or not allow additional purchase payments to contracts with the GLWB (2011).

On each contract anniversary, the GLWB base is reset to the greatest of (a) the GLWB base as of the previous contract anniversary plus subsequent net purchase payments (excluding any extra credits, if applicable), adjusted for any excess withdrawals, (b) the then-current Contract Value (also called the “step-up base”) or (c) the “annual credit base” described below. If we notify you that the charge for the GLWB (2011) will be increased upon a reset to the step-up base, you have a right to opt out of the reset to the step-up base within 30 days after your contract anniversary. See the Charge section below for more information.

The GLWB base is used solely for the purpose of calculating benefits under the GLWB (2011) rider. It does not provide a Contract Value or guarantee performance of any investment option.

Annual credit base.

With the GLWB (2011), there is a ten-year period called the “annual credit period” that begins on the date the rider is issued. During the annual credit period, you may be eligible for the annual credit base, which provides for a credit to your GLWB base of 8% simple interest of the “Annual Credit Calculation Base” for each year you do not take any withdrawals. (The 8% simple interest is referred to as an annual credit.) You will start a new ten-year annual credit period on each contract anniversary the GLWB base is set equal to the step-up base. If your GLWB base is not set equal to the step-up base, you will not start a new ten-year annual credit period. If you take a withdrawal from your contract during the annual credit period, you will not be eligible for the annual credit for the year in which you took the withdrawal.

The annual credit base on a rider anniversary is equal to:

 

  (a) the GLWB base as of the prior contract anniversary, plus

 

  (b) net purchase payments (excluding any extra credits, if applicable) made during the prior contract year, plus

 

  (c) 8% of the Annual Credit Calculation Base.

The Annual Credit Calculation Base is the amount to which the 8% annual credit rate is applied. The Annual Credit Calculation Base is equal to the GLWB base at the beginning of the annual credit period, increased for any additional purchase payments made since the beginning of the annual credit period. If there is an excess withdrawal and the GLWB base after it has been adjusted for the excess withdrawal is less than the Annual Credit Calculation Base, the Annual Credit Calculation Base will be lowered to the GLWB base at that time.

Deferral Credit.

If you take no withdrawals in the first ten contract years the GLWB (2011) rider is in effect, we guarantee that your GLWB base on your tenth GLWB (2011) rider anniversary will be at least:

 

  (a) 200% of an amount equal to (i) your initial GLWB base plus (ii) total net subsequent purchase payments made in the first contract year the rider is in effect, plus

 

  (b) any net purchase payments made in the second through tenth years; plus

 

  (c) any annual credits (as described above in Annual Credit Base) that you may earn on any net purchase payments made in the second through the tenth year.

For example, if your initial purchase payment is $100,000, you make no additional purchase payments and you take no withdrawals, we guarantee your GLWB base on the tenth rider anniversary will be at least $200,000. In this example, if you make an additional purchase payment of $100,000 in year one, we guarantee your GLWB base on the tenth rider anniversary will be at least $400,000. If you also make an additional purchase payment in year three of $50,000, we guarantee your GLWB base on the tenth rider anniversary will be at least $482,000, which is 200% of ($100,000 initial purchase payment + $100,000 additional purchase payment in year one) + $50,000 additional purchase payment in year three + $32,000 (8% annual credits earned on the $50,000 additional purchase payment for years three through ten).

 

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Excess withdrawals.

The GLWB base is reduced by any excess withdrawals. An excess withdrawal is the amount a withdrawal exceeds the maximum annual withdrawal under this rider. For example, assume the maximum annual withdrawal you may withdraw is $5,000 under the GLWB (2011) rider and in one contract year you withdraw $6,000. The $1,000 difference between the $6,000 withdrawn and the $5,000 maximum annual withdrawal limit would be an excess withdrawal. An excess withdrawal will reduce your GLWB base by the greater of (a) the same percentage the excess withdrawal reduces your Contract Value (i.e. pro-rata) or (b) the dollar amount of the excess withdrawal.

For example, assume your GLWB base is $100,000 at the beginning of the contract year and your withdrawal percentage is 5%, so your maximum annual withdrawal is $5,000. That means you can withdraw $5,000 without it affecting your GLWB base. Assume your Contract Value is $90,000 and you withdraw $6,000. First we process that portion of the withdrawal up to your maximum annual withdrawal, which is $5,000. Your GLWB base remains $100,000 and your Contract Value decreases to $85,000. Then we process that portion of the withdrawal in excess of your maximum annual withdrawal, which is $1,000. Because you have already taken your maximum annual withdrawal, the $1,000 withdrawal will reduce the GLWB base. Your GLWB base will be reduced to $98,824, i.e. $100,000 x (1 — $1,000/$85,000) because the pro-rata reduction of $1,176 is greater than the dollar amount of your $1,000 excess withdrawal. Your Contract Value will be reduced to $84,000.

For another example, assume the same facts above except your Contract Value prior to the withdrawal is $120,000. After we process the maximum annual withdrawal portion of your withdrawal, $5,000, your GLWB base remains $100,000 and your Contract Value is $115,000. After we process the portion of your withdrawal in excess of your maximum annual withdrawal, your GLWB base will be reduced to $99,000 ($100,000 — $1,000) because the dollar for dollar reduction of $1,000 is greater than the pro-rata reduction of $870 ($1,000/$115,000 x $100,000). Your Contract Value will be reduced to $114,000.

Because the allowable annual withdrawals under this rider begin when the annuitant is 59 1/2, any withdrawal under the contract prior to the annuitant reaching age 59 1/2 is an excess withdrawal. Since excess withdrawals reduce your GLWB base by the greater of pro-rata or the dollar amount of the excess withdrawal, any withdrawals you take before the annuitant is 59 1/2 may significantly reduce or eliminate the lifetime maximum annual withdrawals under this rider.

Maximum Annual Withdrawals.

The maximum amount you may annually withdraw under the GLWB (2011) rider without reducing your GLWB base is based upon the annuitant’s age when withdrawals begin and is equal to the following withdrawal percentages multiplied by the “GLWB base”:

 

Annuitant’s Age

  Maximum Annual
Withdrawal %
 
59 1/2 to 64     4
65 to 74     5
75 to 79     5.5
80 to 84     6
85+     6.5

After you start taking withdrawals, the maximum percentage you may withdraw will not automatically increase to a higher percentage when the annuitant reaches a higher age bracket. Your maximum withdrawal percentage will only increase, based on the annuitant’s then current age, on any contract anniversary on which the GLWB base has been increased to the step-up base as described above. You may opt out of a reset to the step-up base and avoid an increase in the rider’s charge, but you will then no longer be eligible for any further resets of the GLWB base to the step-up base. If you opt-out, you will also no longer be eligible for any increases in the maximum annual withdrawal percentages based on the annuitant’s age.

Any withdrawal you take before the annuitant is 59 1/2 is an excess withdrawal and reduces the GLWB base by the greater of pro-rata or the dollar amount of the excess withdrawal. It does not affect the maximum percentage you may withdraw once you take your first withdrawal after the annuitant is 59 1/2.

You may withdraw the maximum annual withdrawal amount under the GLWB (2011) rider without a surrender charge even if the maximum annual withdrawal amount exceeds 10% of your Contract Value. We reserve the right to charge a withdrawal fee of up to the lesser of 2% of the amount withdrawn or $15 per withdrawal for withdrawals in excess of 14 in a contract year. We are not currently charging this fee. If charged, this fee would be assessed against your Contract Value and would not affect the amount you withdraw at that time.

 

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Please note that if you have the annual stepped-up death benefit, any withdrawals you take under the GLWB (2011) (including maximum annual withdrawals) reduce the death benefit pro-rata. Therefore, you should carefully consider whether the annual stepped-up death benefit is appropriate for you.

Example.

The following provides an example of how the annual credit base and withdrawals work. Assume you purchase a contract with an initial purchase payment of $100,000 and select the GLWB (2011) rider. Further assume (i) the annuitant is age 65 at the time of purchase; (ii) you take a withdrawal of $1,000 in year five and one of $50,000 in year six and take no other withdrawals in the first ten years, (iii) you make an additional purchase payment of $50,000 in year three and one of $10,000 in year eight, (iv) during year one your Contract Value increases $30,000, net of contract expenses and charges, due to market performance, and (v) the market is flat, net of contract expenses and charges, over the next ten years of your contract. Your initial GLWB base and Annual Credit Calculation Base is $100,000. Since you took no withdrawals in years one, you receive a $8,000 credit on the first contract anniversary (8% of $100,000 Annual Credit Calculation Base) and your annual credit base is $108,000 after year one.

Your GLWB base is the greater of your annual credit base and your step-up base. Your Contract Value increased by $30,000 during year one due to market performance, so at the beginning of year two your GLWB base is set equal to the step-up base of $130,000, i.e. your then current Contract Value, which is greater than your annual credit base. Because your GLWB base was set equal to the step-up base, you start a new ten-year annual credit period, unless you chose to decline the step-up. Your Annual Credit Calculation Base is set equal to the GLWB base of $130,000. You receive an annual credit at the end of year two of $10,400 (8% of $130,000 Annual Credit Calculation Base). Your annual credit base and GLWB base are $140,400 after year two ($130,000 prior GLWB base + $10,400 annual credit).

At the start of year three, you make an additional purchase payment of $50,000, so your Annual Credit Calculation Base increases to $180,000 ($130,000 prior Annual Credit Calculation Base + $50,000 additional purchase payment). Your GLWB base immediately increases with the additional purchase payment to $190,400 ($140,400 prior GLWB base + $50,000 additional purchase payment). Your annual credit at the end of year three is $14,400 (8% of $180,000 Annual Credit Calculation Base). Your annual credit base after year three, therefore, is $204,800 ($140,400 prior GLWB base + $50,000 purchase payment + $14,400 annual credit), and your GLWB base is set equal to your annual credit base. Your Contract Value also increases to $180,000 with the additional purchase payment of $50,000.

In year four you take no withdrawals and make no additional purchase payments. Your annual credit for year four is $14,400 (8% of $180,000 Annual Credit Calculation Base), so your annual credit base, and therefore your GLWB base, at the end of year four is $219,200 ($204,800 prior GLWB base + $14,400 annual credit).

In year five, when the annuitant is age 70 and your maximum annual withdrawal amount under the rider is $10,960 (5% of $219,200), you take a withdrawal of $1,000. Your Contract Value is reduced to $179,000. Because your withdrawal is less than the maximum annual withdrawal, your GLWB base is not reduced by the withdrawal and remains $219,200. Further, because you took a withdrawal, you are not eligible for the annual credit in year five.

In year six, when the annuitant is age 71 and your maximum annual withdrawal amount under the rider is $10,960 (5% of $219,200), you take a withdrawal of $50,000. Because your withdrawal exceeds your maximum annual withdrawal amount, $39,040 of it is an excess withdrawal and you are not eligible for an annual credit at the end of year six. Your Contract Value after the allowed withdrawal of $10,960 was $168,040 ($179,000 — $10,960). Upon the excess withdrawal, your GLWB base is set equal to $168,274, i.e. $219,200 x (1 — $39,040/$168,040). Because the GLWB base after adjustment for the excess withdrawal of $168,274 is less than the Annual Credit Calculation Base of $180,000, the Annual Credit Calculation Base is set equal to the GLWB base of $168,274.

In year seven you take no withdrawals and make no additional purchase payments. Your annual credit for year seven is $13,462 (8% of $168,274 Annual Credit Calculation Base), so your annual credit base, and therefore, your GLWB base, at the end of the year seven is $181,736 ($168,274 prior GLWB base + $13,462 annual credit).

At the start of year eight, you make an additional purchase payment of $10,000. Your GLWB base immediately increases with the additional purchase payment to $191,736 ($181,736 prior GLWB base + $10,000 additional purchase payment). Your Annual Credit Calculation Base increases to $178,274 ($168,274 prior Annual Credit Calculation Base + $10,000 additional purchase payment). Your annual credit at the end of year eight is $14,262 (8% of $178,274 Annual Credit Calculation Base). Your annual credit base at the end of year eight, therefore, is $205,998 ($181,736 prior GLWB base + $10,000 additional purchase payment + $14,262 annual credit), and your GLWB base is set equal to your annual credit base.

Since you take no more withdrawals and add no more purchase payments in years nine and ten, for each year, your annual credit will be $14,262 (8% of $178,274 Annual Credit Calculation Base). Furthermore, since the market is flat,

 

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your GLWB base increases each of those years by the amount of the annual credit to $220,260 for year nine and $234,522 for year ten.

You started a new ten-year annual credit period at the beginning of year two because your GLWB base was set equal to the step-up base so you are eligible for the annual credit in year eleven. Since you took no withdrawals or made no purchase payments in year eleven, you receive an annual credit of $14,262 (8% of $178,274 Annual Credit Calculation Base) and your GLWB base after year eleven is $248,784 ($234,522 prior GLWB base + $14,262 annual credit).

Lifetime Annuity Period.

During the Lifetime Annuity Period, we will pay you monthly payments in an annual amount equal to the then current annual withdrawal amount you may take under the GLWB (2011) rider for the lifetime of the annuitant. Once you enter the Lifetime Annuity Period, we will not accept any additional purchase payments and you will no longer be eligible for any further increases in the GLWB base. Furthermore, except as expressly stated in the Premium Protection death benefit rider or the Premium Protection Plus death benefit rider, the contract will only provide the benefits under the GLWB (2011) rider.

You will enter the “Lifetime Annuity Period” when (a) the annuitant is at least 59 1/2 years old and (b) the earlier of (i) the day your Contract Value goes to zero other than because of an excess withdrawal (such as due to a decline in market value or an allowable withdrawal) or (ii) the contract anniversary immediately following the annuitant’s 95th birthday.

When you enter the Lifetime Annuity Period, we will immediately make a payment to you equal to the excess, if any, of your maximum annual withdrawal over the total withdrawals you have taken during that contract year. If you were taking systematic withdrawals, your payments will continue until you have reached your maximum annual withdrawal for the contract year. Then, you will begin receiving a lifetime annuity on the first day of the month following the contract anniversary in the Lifetime Annuity Period.

If your Contract Value goes to zero other than because of an excess withdrawal before the annuitant is 59 1/2 years old, the Lifetime Annuity Period is deferred until the annuitant reaches age 59 1/2. In determining whether your Contract Value goes to zero because of an excess withdrawal, we will first calculate your Contract Value for that valuation period and then determine the effect of an excess withdrawal on Contract Value. If a decline in market value and the then allowable withdrawal reduce your Contract Value to zero on a day you requested an excess withdrawal, we will not pay you the excess withdrawal since you do not have any Contract Value left based upon the non-excess portion of your requested withdrawal. You will, however, still be eligible to enter the Lifetime Annuity Period. If the excess withdrawal reduces your Contract Value to zero, you will not be eligible to enter the Lifetime Annuity Period and your rider will terminate.

For example, assume your allowable withdrawal is $5,000, your Contract Value is $5,500 and you request a withdrawal of $6,000. Further assume on the day you request the withdrawal, your Contract Value declines by $500. We first process the change in Contract Value due to the market and the allowable withdrawal, which reduces your Contract Value to zero ($5,500 — $500 market decline — $5,000 allowable withdrawal). You cannot take the $1,000 excess withdrawal since your Contract Value is zero, but you will be eligible to enter the Lifetime Annuity Period and receive monthly payments equal to one-twelfth of your current maximum annual withdrawal.

Now assume your allowable withdrawal is $5,000, your Contract Value is $6,000 and you request a withdrawal of $6,000. Also assume on the day you request the withdrawal, your Contract Value declines by $500. We first process the change in Contract Value due to the market and the allowable withdrawal, which reduces your Contract Value to $500 ($6,000 — $500 market decline — $5,000 allowable withdrawal). We then process the excess withdrawal. Since your Contract Value is $500, you may only take another $500. Because the $500 is an excess withdrawal, we will assess a surrender charge against that amount and you would receive less than the additional $500. The excess withdrawal reduces your Contract Value to zero; therefore, you will not be eligible to enter the Lifetime Annuity Period. You should carefully consider any withdrawal that may totally deplete your Contract Value and should talk to your registered representative to determine whether the withdrawal would be appropriate for you.

With the GLWB (2011) rider, we will delay the annuity payout date under your contract to the contract anniversary immediately following the annuitant’s 95th birthday. This does not affect the termination of, or extend, any Death Benefit under the contract or other rider unless expressly stated in the rider. In lieu of the benefits under the GLWB (2011) rider, you may annuitize under the terms of your contract or under the terms of any single premium, immediate fixed annuity we offer based upon your Contract Value at that time. We will notify you at least 90 days in advance of your annuitization. At that time you may ask us what other options are available to you.

If you elect the lifetime annuity payout option and there is Contract Value remaining in your annuity, you should ask us about the alternative immediate fixed annuity options that we might have generally available for sale at that time. It is possible that one of those alternative fixed annuity options might pay you a higher stream of income or otherwise better

 

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fit your circumstances and needs. We will be happy to provide you with whichever immediate fixed annuity option you choose.

You should consult with your registered representative to determine which payout option is best for you.

Charge.

If you choose the GLWB (2011) rider, there is an annual charge of 0.95% of the GLWB base. The charge for the GLWB (2011) rider ends when you begin the Lifetime Annuity Period or the rider terminates. (See “Termination” below.) We may increase the charge for the GLWB (2011) rider on any contract anniversary that your GLWB base is reset to the step-up base once the rider reaches the third anniversary. That means if your GLWB base is never increased to the step-up base, we will not increase your charge. The new charge will not be higher than the then current charge for new issues of this rider or if we are not issuing the rider, a rate we declare, in our sole discretion. We guarantee the new charge will not exceed 2.00% of the GLWB base.

You may opt out of a reset to the step-up base and avoid an increase in the charge, but you will then no longer be eligible for any further resets of the GLWB base to the step-up base. If you opt-out, you will also no longer be eligible for any increases in the maximum annual withdrawal percentages based on the annuitant’s age. To opt-out of an increase in the charge, you must notify us in writing, or in any other manner acceptable to us, within 30 days of the contract anniversary.

We reserve the right to lower the charge for the GLWB (2011) rider at any contract anniversary. If we do lower the charge for the rider, we reserve the right to increase the charge up to the original charge on any contract anniversary.

On each anniversary the charge for the GLWB rider will be deducted on a pro rata basis in proportion to your current investment option allocations, but will not be deducted from the DCA account. We reserve the right to prorate the annual charge for the rider if (i) the annuitant dies, (ii) you surrender the contract, (iii) the rider is terminated because you violate the investment restrictions, or (iv) you annuitize your contract.

Investment Restrictions.

In order to have the GLWB (2011) rider, you must allocate your purchase payments and Contract Value (a) to one of Asset Allocation Models 2, 3, or 4 or (b) in accordance with the Fund Category requirements described in “Investments Restrictions for Certain Optional Riders.” You may allocate purchase payments to the Enhanced DCA account and transfer amounts in accordance with the investment restrictions. The GLWB (2011) rider will be terminated if you cease to comply with the requirements described in “Investment Restrictions for Certain Optional Riders.” If the rider is so terminated, a prorated annual rider charge will be assessed.

Required Minimum Distributions (Qualified Contracts Only).

If you are required to take withdrawals from your contract under the Required Minimum Distribution regulations under the Code, we will allow you to take your Required Minimum Distribution (or “RMD”) for a given year even if it exceeds your maximum annual withdrawal under the GLWB (2011) rider without it affecting your GLWB base. Any withdrawals in a contract year that exceed your maximum annual withdrawal and your RMD will be considered excess withdrawals and will reduce the GLWB base. You may withdraw your RMD under this rider without a surrender charge even if your RMD exceeds 10% of your Contract Value.

You may elect RMD treatment on or after January 1 of the first calendar year after your contract was issued by providing Notice to us. You will not receive RMD treatment without providing Notice to us. You may take your RMD payments on a non-systematic basis or you may elect to receive monthly payments. To elect monthly RMD treatment, you must provide Notice to us on or before January 25 of that calendar year and you must elect a monthly payment date on or before the 25th day of the month. If the date you elect is not the end of a Valuation Period (generally, a day when the NYSE is open), we will make the payment on, and as of, the end of the next applicable Valuation Period. If you elect monthly RMD treatment, we will pay you the greater of your RMD or your maximum annual withdrawal on a monthly basis each month. Once you elect monthly RMD treatment, you cannot revoke it. You may elect to not take a monthly withdrawal by providing Notice to us, but you will not be able to take that withdrawal later and still receive RMD treatment for it. If you do later take such withdrawal, it will be considered an excess withdrawal.

If you die and your spouse elects to continue the contract, your spouse may revoke RMD treatment by providing Notice to us within 30 days of the later of the date of spousal continuation or December 31 of the calendar year in which you died. If your spouse revokes RMD treatment, any withdrawal that exceeds the maximum annual withdrawal will be an excess withdrawal. If your spouse revokes RMD treatment, he or she may elect RMD treatment in the future when he or she is required to take RMDs from the contract. If your spouse continues the contract, is eligible for RMD treatment and does not revoke RMD treatment, he or she will continue to receive RMD treatment with the applicable RMD amount based upon the continuing spouse’s age beginning in the calendar year after you die.

 

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We reserve the right to modify or eliminate RMD treatment if there is any change to the Code or regulations regarding RMDs, including guidance by the Internal Revenue Service. We will provide you 30 days written notice, when practicable, of any modifications to or termination of the RMD treatment with the GLWB (2011).

Termination.

The GLWB (2011) rider will terminate when the contract is terminated in accordance with its terms (unless otherwise provided in this rider) or if your Contract Value goes to zero because of an excess withdrawal. The rider will terminate if the funds are allocated in a manner that violate the investment restrictions. The GLWB (2011) rider will also terminate if you annuitize your contract, or, except in the case of spousal continuation, if the annuitant dies or you transfer or assign your contract or the benefits under the GWLB rider. If you choose the GLWB (2011), it will continue until it is terminated as described in this section.

Spousal Continuation.

If your surviving spouse chooses to continue the contract under the spousal continuation option and becomes the sole owner and annuitant, the GLWB (2011) rider will be continued. Your spouse will be eligible to take withdrawals under this rider when he or she reaches age 59 1/2, and the maximum annual withdrawal will be based on your spouse’s age when he or she begins taking such withdrawals. If you die before age 59 1/2 or after age 59 1/2 but before taking any withdrawals, the GLWB base will be set equal to the greater of (a) Contract Value (after applying any applicable death benefit adjustments) or (b) the GLWB base as of the earlier of (i) the date we are in receipt of proof of the annuitant’s death or (ii) 90 days from the date of the annuitant’s death. If you die after age 59 1/2 and after you have begun to take withdrawals, the GLWB base will be set equal to the Contract Value (after applying any Death Benefit Adjustment) as of the earlier of (a) the date we are in receipt of proof of the annuitant’s death or (b) 90 days from the date of the annuitant’s death. We will use the surviving spouse’s age to calculate maximum annual withdrawals when, and if, the surviving spouse is eligible to enter the Lifetime Withdrawal Period. (For example, if the surviving spouse is 40, he or she will not be eligible to enter the Lifetime Withdrawal Period until he or she turns 59 1/2.)

Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (Joint Life) (2011)

In those states where permitted, we may offer a Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit rider (Joint Life) (“Joint GLWB (2011)”) at the time the contract is issued. The Joint GLWB (2011) differs from the GLWB (2011) since the surviving spouse continues to receive the same payment the annuitant was receiving before his or her death if he or she was in Lifetime Withdrawal Period at the time of death, and allowable withdrawals under the rider are calculated based upon the youngest Participating Spouse’s age. Subject to the conditions described, the Joint GLWB (2011) rider provides a guaranteed level of withdrawals from your contract in each contract year, beginning when the youngest spouse is age 59 1/2 for the lifetime of you and your spouse. The Joint GLWB (2011) rider may help protect you from the risk that you and your spouse might outlive your income. The Joint GLWB (2011) differs from electing spousal continuation under the GLWB (2011) because you have the potential to have a higher GLWB base upon the death of the first spouse, who is also the annuitant, with the Joint GLWB (2011). The Joint GLWB (2011) has a higher charge than the GLWB (2011).

We may, at our sole option, offer the Joint GLWB (2011) rider to existing contracts, in which case it may be added on a contract anniversary. You may not add this rider once either spouse is 86 years old. The Joint GLWB (2011) rider is the same as the GLWB (2011) rider except as described below.

The Joint GLWB (2011) rider is available to two people who are legally married at the time the rider is added. We refer to these people as “Participating Spouses.” A Participating Spouse is one of two people upon whose life and age the benefits under the Joint GWLB rider are based. On the date the rider is added, either (a) the two Participating Spouses must be joint owners and one must be the annuitant or (b) one Participating Spouse is the owner and annuitant and the other is the sole beneficiary. No one can be added as a Participating Spouse after the rider is added to the contract, and once someone loses his or her status as a Participating Spouse, it cannot be regained. Status as a Participating Spouse will be lost in the following situations:

 

   

when a Participating Spouse dies;

 

   

when a sole owner Participating Spouse requests that the other Participating Spouse be removed by giving Notice to us;

 

   

if one Participating Spouse is the sole owner and the Participating Spouses divorce, the non-owner spouse will cease to be a Participating Spouse;

 

   

if the Participating Spouses are joint owners and they divorce, the non-annuitant will cease to be a Participating Spouse.

 

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Please note that if one of the spouses ceases to be a Participating Spouse, you will still be charged for the Joint GLWB (2011) rider.

Under the Joint GLWB (2011) rider, the amount you may withdraw under the rider is based upon the youngest Participating Spouse’s age. Therefore, if the youngest Participating Spouse is younger than 59 1/2 years old, any withdrawals under the contract (including RMDs) will be excess withdrawals under the Joint GLWB (2011) rider until the youngest Participating Spouse becomes 59 1/2. Please carefully consider whether the Joint GLWB (2011) is appropriate for you if there is a significant difference in age between you and your spouse.

If you choose the Joint GLWB (2011) rider, there is an annual charge of 1.20% of the GLWB base. We may increase the charge for the Joint GLWB (2011) rider on any contract anniversary that your GLWB base is reset to the step-up base once the rider reaches the third anniversary. The new charge will not be higher than the then current charge for new issues of the rider or if we are not issuing the rider, a rate we declare, in our sole discretion. We guarantee the new charge will not exceed 2.40% of the GLWB base.

If we are required by state law, we will allow legally married same sex couples or civil union partners to purchase the Joint GLWB (2011) rider in certain states and receive the same benefits as a Participating Spouse while both Participating Spouses are living. Please note that because legally married same sex couples and civil union partners are not eligible for spousal continuation under the Code, there may be no benefit to such couples or partners from buying the Joint GLWB (2011) rider versus the GLWB (2011) rider. You should consult with your tax advisor before purchasing this rider. Please contact your registered representative or call us at 1-888-925-6446 for more information about whether your state recognizes civil unions or same-sex marriages.

You will enter the Lifetime Annuity Period when (a) the youngest Participating Spouse is at least 59 1/2 years old, and (b) the earlier of (i) the day your Contract Value goes to zero other than because of an excess withdrawal (such as due to a decline in market value or an allowable withdrawal) or (ii) the contract anniversary immediately following the annuitant’s 95th birthday. If your Contract Value goes to zero other than because of an excess withdrawal before the youngest Participating Spouse is 59 1/2 years old, the Lifetime Annuity Period is deferred until the youngest Participating Spouse reaches age 59 1/2. In that scenario, we will make the first payment immediately upon the youngest Participating Spouse reaching age 59 1/2. During the Lifetime Annuity Period, we will pay you monthly payments in an annual amount equal to the then current annual withdrawal amount you may take under the Joint GLWB (2011) rider (as based on the youngest Participating Spouse’s age) for the lifetime of the annuitant.

In lieu of the benefits under this rider, you may annuitize under the terms of your contract or under the terms of any single premium, immediate fixed annuity we offer based upon your Contract Value at that time.

You should consult with your financial representative to determine which payout option is best for you.

If you are the sole owner and your surviving Participating Spouse elects spousal continuation, the GLWB base will be set equal to the greater of (a) Contract Value (after applying any applicable death benefit adjustments) or (b) the GLWB base as of the earlier of (i) the date we are in receipt of proof of the annuitant’s death or (ii) 90 days from the date of the annuitant’s death. Your Participating Spouse will be eligible to take withdrawals under this rider when he or she reaches age 59 1/2 and the maximum annual withdrawal will be based on your spouse’s age when he or she begins taking such withdrawals. Please note that since legally married same sex couples and civil union partners are not eligible for spousal continuation under the Code, they are also not eligible for spousal continuation under this rider.

Summary of Optional Living Benefit Riders.

The following is a summary of the currently available optional living benefit riders. For complete details on the riders, see the individual descriptions above.

 

Optional Rider

  

Features

  

Who may want to consider

the Rider

  

Charge

Guaranteed Principal Protection

(“GPP”) rider

  

•     Guarantees return of principal without annuitization on the 10th rider anniversary if you take no withdrawals.

•     If, at the end of the rider’s ten-year term, the eligible Contract Value is less than the guaranteed principal amount, the difference will be added to the contract.

•     The guaranteed principal amount is adjusted pro-rata for any withdrawals.

   Those who are afraid of market risk and want to invest without fear of losing their original principal.    0.55% (maximum and current)

 

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•     Investment restrictions.

•     Cannot purchase once the annuitant is 80.

     
Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (“GLWB”) (2011)   

•     Provides a guaranteed level of withdrawals in each contract year beginning when the annuitant is 59 1/2 for the lifetime of the annuitant.

•     Excess withdrawals reduce the GLWB base by the greater of a pro-rata reduction or the dollar amount of the withdrawal.

•     GLWB base steps-up to current Contract Value each contract anniversary, if higher.

•     8% annual credit to the GLWB base for each of the first ten years if you take no withdrawals.

•     GLWB base is guaranteed to be at least 200% of first year’s purchase payments if no withdrawals in the first ten years.

•     Investment restrictions.

•     Cannot purchase once the annuitant is 86.

   Those who want to protect their retirement income but still desire market exposure and want to protect against the risk of outliving their income for a single life.    2.00% (maximum) 0.95% (current)
Joint GLWB (2011)   

•     Like the GLWB (2011) except that it provides a guaranteed level of withdrawals in a contract year beginning when the youngest spouse is 59 1/2 for the lifetime of the annuitant and the surviving spouse.

•     Available to two people who are legally married at the time the rider is issued.

•     Spousal continuation provides for a higher potential GLWB base upon the death of the first spouse.

•     Investment restrictions.

•     Cannot purchase once either spouse is 86.

   Those who want to protect their retirement income but still desire market exposure and want to protect against the risk of outliving their income for both spouses.    2.40% (maximum) 1.20% (current)

Other Contract Provisions

Assignment

Amounts payable in settlement of a contract may not be commuted, anticipated, assigned or otherwise encumbered, or pledged as loan collateral to anyone other than us. We may require that any assignee or owner have an insurable interest in the life of the annuitant. To the extent permitted by law, such amounts are not subject to any legal process to pay any claims against an annuitant before annuity payments begin. The owner of a tax-qualified contract may not, but the owner

 

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of a non-tax-qualified contract may, collaterally assign the contract before the annuity payout date. Ownership of a tax-qualified contract may not be transferred except to:

 

 

the annuitant,

 

 

a trustee or successor trustee of a pension or profit-sharing trust which is qualified under Section 401 of the Code,

 

 

the employer of the annuitant provided that the contract after transfer is maintained under the terms of a retirement plan qualified under Section 403(a) of the Code for the benefit of the annuitant, or

 

 

as otherwise permitted by laws and regulations governing plans for which the contract may be issued.

Reports and Confirmations

Before the annuity payout date, we will send you quarterly statements showing the number of units credited to the contract by Fund and the value of each unit as of the end of the last quarter. In addition, as long as the contract remains in effect, we will forward any periodic Fund reports.

We will send you a written confirmation of your purchase payments, transfers and withdrawals. For regularly recurring transactions, such as dollar cost averaging and payroll deduction programs, we may confirm the transactions in a quarterly report. Review your statements and confirmations to verify their accuracy. You must report any error or inaccuracy to us within 30 days. Otherwise, we are not responsible for losses due to the error or inaccuracy.

Substitution for Fund Shares

If investment in a Fund is no longer possible or we believe it is inappropriate to the purposes of the contract, we may substitute one or more other funds. Substitution may be made as to both existing investments and the investment of future purchase payments. However, no substitution will be made until we receive any necessary approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission. We may also add other Funds as eligible investments of VAA.

Contract Owner Inquiries

Direct any questions to Ohio National Life, Variable Annuity Administration, P.O. Box 2669, Cincinnati, Ohio 45201; telephone 1-888-925-6446 (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Eastern time).

Performance Data

We may advertise performance data for the various Funds showing the percentage change in unit values based on the performance of the applicable Fund over a period of time (usually a calendar year). We determine the percentage change by dividing the increase (or decrease) in value for the unit by the unit value at the beginning of the period. This percent reflects the deduction of any asset-based contract charge but does not reflect the deduction of any applicable contract administration charge or surrender charge. The deduction of a contract administration charge or surrender charge would reduce any percentage increase or make greater any percentage decrease.

Advertising may also include average annual total return figures calculated as shown in the Statement of Additional Information. The average annual total return figures reflect the deduction of applicable contract administration charges and surrender charges as well as applicable asset-based charges.

We may also distribute sales literature comparing separate account performance to the Consumer Price Index or to such established market indexes as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index, IBC’s Money Fund Reports, Lehman Brothers Bond Indices, the Morgan Stanley Europe Australia Far East Index, Morgan Stanley World Index, Russell 2000 Index, or other variable annuity separate accounts or mutual funds with investment objectives similar to those of the Funds.

Federal Tax Status

The following discussion of federal income tax treatment of amounts received under a variable annuity contract does not cover all situations or issues. It is not intended as tax advice. Consult a qualified tax adviser to apply the law to your circumstances. Tax laws can change, even for contracts that have already been issued. Tax law revisions, with unfavorable consequences, could have retroactive effect on previously issued contracts or on later voluntary transactions in previously issued contracts.

 

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We are taxed as a life insurance company under Subchapter L of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). Since the operations of VAA are a part of, and are taxed with, our operations, VAA is not separately taxed as a “regulated investment company” under Subchapter M of the Code.

The contracts are considered annuity contracts under Section 72 of the Code, which generally provides for taxation of annuities. Under existing provisions of the Code, any increase in the Contract Value is not taxable to you as the owner or annuitant until you receive it, either in the form of annuity payments, as contemplated by the contract, or in some other form of distribution. (As of the date of this prospectus, proposals to modify taxation of annuities may be under consideration by the federal government.) The owner of a non-tax qualified contract must be a natural person for this purpose. With certain exceptions, where the owner of a non-tax qualified contract is a non-natural person (corporation, partnership or trust) any increase in the accumulation value of the contract attributable to purchase payments made after February 28, 1986 will be treated as ordinary income received or accrued by the contract owner during the current tax year.

The income and gains within an annuity contract are generally tax deferred. Within a tax-qualified plan, the plan itself provides tax deferral. Therefore, the tax-deferred treatment otherwise available to an annuity contract is not a factor to consider when purchasing an annuity within a tax-qualified plan or arrangement.

The law does not now provide for payment of federal income tax on dividend income or capital gains distributions from Fund shares held in VAA or upon capital gains realized by VAA on redemption of Fund shares. When a non-tax-qualified contract is issued in connection with a deferred compensation plan or arrangement, all rights, discretions and powers relative to the contract are vested in the employer and you must look only to your employer for the payment of deferred compensation benefits. Generally, in that case, an annuitant will have no “investment in the contract” and amounts received by you from your employer under a deferred compensation arrangement will be taxable in full as ordinary income in the years you receive the payments.

When annuity payments begin, each payment is taxable under Section 72 of the Code as ordinary income in the year of receipt if you have neither paid any portion of the purchase payments nor previously been taxed on any portion of the purchase payments. If any portion of the purchase payments has been paid from or included in your taxable income, this aggregate amount will be considered your “investment in the contract.” You will be entitled to exclude from your taxable income a portion of each annuity payment equal to your “investment in the contract” divided by the period of expected annuity payments, determined by your life expectancy and the form of annuity benefit. Once you recover your “investment in the contract,” all further annuity payments will be included in your taxable income.

A withdrawal of contract values is taxable as ordinary income in the year received to the extent that the accumulated value of the contract immediately before the payment exceeds the “investment in the contract.” If you elect to withdraw any portion of your accumulated value in lieu of receiving annuity payments, that withdrawal is treated as a distribution of earnings first and only second as a recovery of your “investment in the contract.” Any part of the value of the contract that you assign or pledge to secure a loan will be taxed as if it had been a withdrawal and may be subject to a penalty tax.

There is a penalty tax equal to 10% of any amount that must be included in gross income for tax purposes. The penalty will not apply to a redemption that is:

 

 

received on or after the taxpayer reaches age 59 1/2;

 

 

made to a beneficiary on or after the death of the annuitant;

 

 

attributable to the taxpayer’s becoming disabled;

 

 

made as a series of substantially equal periodic payments for the life of the annuitant (or joint lives of the annuitant and beneficiary);

 

 

from a contract that is a qualified funding asset for purposes of a structured settlement;

 

 

made under an annuity contract that is purchased with a single premium and with an annuity payout date not later than a year from the purchase of the annuity;

 

 

incident to divorce, or

 

 

taken from an IRA for a qualified first-time home purchase (up to $10,000) or qualified education expenses.

Any taxable amount you withdraw from an annuity contract is automatically subject to 10% withholding unless you elect not to have withholding apply. If you elect not to have withholding apply to an early withdrawal or if an insufficient amount is withheld, you may be responsible for payment of estimated tax. You may also incur penalties under the estimated tax rules if the withholding and estimated tax payments are not sufficient. If you fail to provide your taxpayer identification number, any payments under the contract will automatically be subject to withholding. The Code requires 20% withholding for distributions from contracts owned by tax qualified plans.

 

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Tax-Deferred Annuities

Under the provisions of Section 403(b) of the Code, employees may exclude from their gross income purchase payments made for annuity contracts purchased for them by public educational institutions and certain tax-exempt organizations which are described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Code. You may make this exclusion to the extent that the aggregate purchase payments plus any other amounts contributed to purchase the contract and toward benefits under qualified retirement plans do not exceed certain limits in the Code. Employee contributions are, however, subject to social security (FICA) tax withholding. All amounts you receive under a contract, either in the form of annuity payments or cash withdrawal, will be taxed under Section 72 of the Code as ordinary income for the year received, except for exclusion of any amounts representing “investment in the contract.” Under certain circumstances, amounts you receive may be used to make a “tax-free rollover” into one of the types of individual retirement arrangements permitted under the Code. Amounts you receive that are eligible for “tax-free rollover” will be subject to an automatic 20% withholding unless you directly roll over such amounts from the tax-deferred annuity to the individual retirement arrangement.

With respect to earnings accrued and purchase payments made after December 31, 1988, for a contract set up under Section 403(b) of the Code, distributions may be paid only when the employee:

 

 

attains age 59 1/2,

 

 

separates from the employer’s service,

 

 

dies,

 

 

becomes disabled as defined in the Code, or

 

 

incurs a financial hardship as defined in the Code.

In the case of hardship, cash distributions may not exceed the amount of your purchase payments. These restrictions do not affect your right to transfer investments among the Funds and do not limit the availability of transfers between tax-deferred annuities.

Qualified Pension or Profit-Sharing Plans

Under present law, purchase payments made by an employer or trustee, for a plan or trust qualified under Section 401(a) or 403 of the Code, are generally excludable from the employee’s gross income. Any purchase payments made by the employee, or which are considered taxable income to the employee in the year such payments are made, constitute an “investment in the contract” under Section 72 of the Code for the employee’s annuity benefits. Salary reduction payments to a profit sharing plan qualifying under Section 401(k) of the Code are generally excludable from the employee’s gross income up to certain limits in the Code, and therefore are not considered “investment in the contract”.

The Code requires plans to prohibit any distribution to a plan participant prior to age 59 1/2, except in the event of death, total disability, financial hardship or separation from service (special rules apply for plan terminations). Distributions generally must begin no later than April 1 of the calendar year following the year in which the participant reaches age 70 1/2. Premature distribution of benefits or contributions in excess of those permitted by the Code may result in certain penalties under the Code. (Special tax treatment, including capital gain treatment and 5-year forward averaging, may be available to those born before 1936). If you receive such a distribution you may be able to make a “tax-free rollover” of the distribution less your “investment in the contract” into another qualified plan in which you are a participant or into one of the types of individual retirement arrangements permitted under the Code. Your surviving spouse receiving such a distribution may be able to make a tax-free rollover to one of the types of individual retirement arrangements permitted under the Code. Amounts received that are eligible for “tax-free rollover” will be subject to an automatic 20% withholding unless such amounts are directly rolled over to another qualified plan or individual retirement arrangement.

Withholding on Annuity Payments

Distributions from tax-deferred annuities (i.e. 403b plans) or qualified pension and profit sharing plans that are eligible for “tax-free rollover” will be subject to an automatic 20% withholding unless such amounts are directly rolled over to an individual retirement arrangement or another qualified plan. Federal income tax withholding is required on annuity payments. However, recipients of annuity payments are allowed to elect not to have the tax withheld. This election may be revoked at any time and withholding would begin after that. If you do not give us your taxpayer identification number, any payments under the contract will automatically be subject to withholding.

Individual Retirement Annuities (IRAs)

See IRA Disclosure Statement (Appendix A), following.

 

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Appendix A

IRA Disclosure Statement

This statement is designed to help you understand the requirements of federal tax law which apply to your individual retirement annuity (IRA), your Roth IRA, your simplified employee pension IRA (SEPP-IRA) for employer contributions, your Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE) IRA, or to one you purchase for your spouse. You can obtain more information regarding your IRA either from your sales representative or from any district office of the Internal Revenue Service.

Free Look Period

The annuity contract offered by this prospectus gives you the opportunity to revoke the contract for a full refund within 10 days after you receive it (or a longer period as may be required by your state law) and for IRAs, get a refund of the greater of your purchase payments or the current Contract Value if you exercise your free look. Any purchase payments in these states to be allocated to variable Funds may first be allocated to the Money Market Portfolio until the end of the free look period. If you are a California resident 60 years old or older and at the time you apply for your contract you elect to receive a return of your purchase payments if you exercise your free look, any purchase payments to be allocated to variable Funds will first be allocated to the Money Market Portfolio until the end of the free look period. We deem you to receive the contract and the free look period to begin five days after we mail your contract to you. This is a more liberal provision than is required in connection with IRAs. To exercise this “free-look” provision, you must return the contract to us within the free look period. We must receive your contract at our home office (the address listed on the first page of the prospectus) by 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last day of the free look period.

Eligibility Requirements

IRAs are intended for all persons with earned compensation whether or not they are covered under other retirement programs. Additionally if you have a non-working spouse (and you file a joint tax return), you may establish an IRA on behalf of your non-working spouse. A working spouse may establish his or her own IRA. A divorced spouse receiving taxable alimony (and no other income) may also establish an IRA.

Contributions and Deductions

Contributions to a traditional IRA will be deductible if you are not an “active participant” in an employer maintained qualified retirement plan or if you have Adjusted Gross Income which does not exceed the “applicable dollar limit”. For a single taxpayer, the applicable dollar limitation is $56,000 in 2011, with the amount of IRA contribution which may be deducted reduced proportionately for Adjusted Gross Income between $56,000 and $66,000. For married couples filing jointly, the applicable dollar limitation is $90,000, with the amount of IRA contribution which may be deducted reduced proportionately for Adjusted Gross Income between $90,000-$110,000. There is no deduction allowed for IRA contributions when Adjusted Gross Income reaches $66,000 for individuals and $110,000 for married couples filing jointly. IRA contributions must be made by no later than the time you file your income tax return for that year. Special limits apply for the non-active participant spouse where a joint return is filed with an active participant.

The IRA maximum annual contribution and the associated tax deduction is limited to the lesser of: (1) $5,000 in 2011 or (2) 100% of your earned compensation. Those age 50 or older may make an additional IRA contribution of $1,000 per year in 2011. Contributions in excess of the limits may be subject to penalty. See below.

The maximum tax deductible annual contribution that a divorced spouse with no other income may make to an IRA is the lesser of (1) $5,000 or (2) 100% of taxable alimony.

Contributions made by your employer to your SEPP-IRA are excludable from your gross income for tax purposes in the calendar year for which the amount is contributed. Certain employees who participate in a SEPP-IRA will be entitled to elect to have their employer make contributions to their SEPP-IRA on their behalf or to receive the contributions in cash. If the employee elects to have contributions made on the employee’s behalf to the SEPP, those funds are not treated as current taxable income to the employee. Salary-reduction SEPP-IRAs (also called “SARSEPs”) are available only if at least 50% of the employees elect to have amounts contributed to the SEPP-IRA and if the employer has 25 or fewer employees at all times during the preceding year. New SARSEPPs may no longer be established. Elective deferrals under a salary-reduction SEPP-IRA are subject to an inflation-adjusted limit which is $16,500 for 2011.

 

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Under a SEPP-IRA agreement, the maximum annual contribution which your employer may make on your behalf to a SEPP-IRA contract which is excludable from your income is the lesser of 100% of your salary or $49,000. An employee who is a participant in a SEPP-IRA agreement may make after-tax contributions to the SEPP-IRA contract, subject to the contribution limits applicable to IRAs in general. Those employee contributions will be deductible subject to the deductibility rules described above. The Internal Revenue Service has reviewed the format of your SEPP-IRA and issued an opinion letter to us stating that it qualifies as a prototype SEPP-IRA.

If you or your employer should contribute more than the maximum contribution amount to your IRA or SEPP-IRA, the excess amount will be considered an “excess contribution”. You may withdraw an excess contribution from your IRA (or SEPP-IRA) before your tax filing date without adverse tax consequences. If, however, you fail to withdraw any such excess contribution before your tax filing date, a 6% excise tax will be imposed on the excess for the tax year of contribution.

Once the 6% excise tax has been imposed, an additional 6% penalty for the following tax year can be avoided if the excess is (1) withdrawn before the end of the following year, or (2) treated as a current contribution for the following year.

An individual retirement annuity must be an annuity contract. In our opinion, the optional additional death benefits available under the contract are part of the annuity contract. There is a risk, however, that the Internal Revenue Service would take the position that one or more of the optional additional death benefits are not part of the annuity contract. In such a case, the charges for the optional additional death benefits would be considered distributions from the IRA and would be subject to tax, including penalty taxes. The charges for the optional additional death benefits would not be deductible. It is possible that the IRS could determine that optional death proceeds in excess of the greater of the Contract Value or net purchase payments are taxable to your beneficiary. Should the IRS so rule, we may have to tax report such excess death benefits as taxable income to your beneficiary. If the IRS were to take such a position, we would take all reasonable steps to avoid this result, including the right to amend the contract, with appropriate notice to you.

The contracts are not eligible for use in Puerto Rico IRAs.

IRA for Non-working Spouse

If you establish an IRA for yourself, you may also be eligible to establish an IRA for your “non-working” spouse. In order to be eligible to establish such a spousal IRA, you must file a joint tax return with your spouse and if your non-working spouse has compensation, his/her compensation must be less than your compensation for the year. Contributions of up to $10,000 may be made to the two IRAs if the combined compensation of you and your spouse is at least equal to the amount contributed. If requirements for deductibility (including income levels) are met, you will be able to deduct an amount equal to the least of (i) the amount contributed to the IRA’s; (ii) $10,000; or (iii) 100% of your combined gross income.

Contributions in excess of the contribution limits may be subject to penalty. See above under “Contributions and Deductions”. If you contribute more than the allowable amount, the excess portion will be considered an excess contribution. The rules for correcting it are the same as discussed above for regular IRAs.

Other than the items mentioned in this section, all of the requirements generally applicable to IRAs are also applicable to IRAs established for non-working spouses.

Rollover Contribution

Once every year, you may move any portion of the value of your IRA (or SEPP-IRA) to another IRA. Withdrawals may also be made from other IRAs and contributed to this contract. This transfer of funds from one IRA to another is called a “rollover” IRA. To qualify as a rollover contribution, the entire portion of the withdrawal must be reinvested in another IRA within 60 days after the date it is received. You are not allowed a tax-deduction for the amount of any rollover contribution.

A similar type of rollover to an IRA can be made with the proceeds of a qualified distribution from a qualified retirement plan or tax-sheltered annuity. Properly made, such a distribution will not be taxable until you receive payments from the IRA created with it. You may later roll over such a contribution to another qualified retirement plan. (You may roll less than all of a qualified distribution into an IRA, but any part of it not rolled over will be currently includable in your income without any capital gains treatment.)

 

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Premature Distributions

At no time can an interest in your IRA (or SEPP-IRA) be forfeited. The federal tax law does not permit you to use your IRA (or SEPP-IRA) as security for a loan. Furthermore, as a general rule, you may not sell or assign your interest in your IRA (or SEPP-IRA) to anyone. Use of an IRA (or SEPP-IRA) as security or assignment of it to another will invalidate the entire annuity. It then will be includable in your income in the year it is invalidated and will be subject to a 10% penalty tax if you are not at least age 59 1/2 or totally disabled. (You may, however, assign your IRA (or SEPP-IRA) without penalty to your former spouse in accordance with the terms of a divorce decree.)

You may withdraw part of the value of your IRA (or SEPP-IRA). If a withdrawal does not qualify as a rollover, the amount withdrawn will be includable in your income and subject to the 10% penalty if you are not at least age 59 1/2 or totally disabled or the withdrawal meets the requirements of another exception contained in the Code, unless you comply with special rules requiring distributions to be made at least annually over your life expectancy.

The 10% penalty tax does not apply to the withdrawal of an excess contribution as long as the excess is withdrawn before the due date of your tax return. Withdrawals of excess contributions after the due date of your tax return will generally be subject to the 10% penalty unless the excess contribution results from erroneous information from a plan trustee making an excess rollover contribution or unless you are over age 59 1/2 or are disabled.

Distribution at Retirement

Once you have attained age 59 1/2 (or have become totally disabled), you may elect to receive a distribution of your IRA (or SEPP-IRA) regardless of when you actually retire. You may elect to receive the distribution in either one sum or under any one of the periodic payment options available under the contract. The distributions from your IRA under any one of the periodic payment options or in one sum will be treated as ordinary income as you receive them unless nondeductible contributions were made to the IRA. In that case, only earnings will be income.

Inadequate Distributions — 50% Tax

Your IRA or SEPP-IRA is intended to provide retirement benefits over your lifetime. Thus, federal law requires that you either (1) receive a lump-sum distribution of your IRA by April 1 of the year following the year in which you attain age 70 1/2 or (2) start to receive periodic payments by that date. If you elect to receive periodic payments, those payments must be sufficient to pay out the entire value of your IRA during your life expectancy (or over the joint life expectancies of you and your spouse). If the payments are not sufficient to meet these requirements, an excise tax of 50% will be imposed on the amount of any underpayment.

Death Benefits

If you, (or your surviving spouse) die before starting required minimum distributions or receiving the entire value of your IRA (or SEPP-IRA), the remaining interest must be distributed to your beneficiary (or your surviving spouse’s beneficiary) in one lump-sum within 5 years of death, applied to purchase an immediate annuity for the beneficiary or applied to purchase a beneficiary IRA which will pay out over the beneficiary’s life expectancy. This annuity must be payable over the life expectancy of the beneficiary beginning within one year after your or your spouse’s death. If your spouse is the designated beneficiary, he or she is treated as the owner of the IRA. If minimum required distributions have begun at the time of your death, the entire amount must be distributed over a period of time not exceeding your beneficiary’s life expectancy. A distribution of the balance of your IRA upon your death will not be considered a gift for federal tax purposes, but will be included in your gross estate for purposes of federal estate taxes.

Roth IRAs

Section 408A of the Code permits eligible individuals to contribute to a type of IRA known as a “Roth IRA.” Contributions may be made to a Roth IRA by taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of less than $179,000 for married individuals filing jointly and less than $122,000 for single individuals. Married individuals filing separately are not eligible to contribute to a Roth IRA. The maximum amount of contributions allowable for any taxable year to all Roth IRAs maintained by an individual is generally the same as the contribution limits for traditional IRAs (the limit is phased out for incomes between $169,000 and $179,000 for married and between $107,000 and $122,000 for singles). The contribution limit is reduced by the amount of any contributions made to a non-Roth IRA. Contributions to a Roth IRA are not deductible. Catch up contributions are available for persons age 50 or older.

All or part of amounts in a non-Roth IRA may be converted, transferred or rolled over to a Roth IRA. Some or all of the IRA value will typically be includable in the taxpayer’s gross income. Provided a rollover contribution meets the

 

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requirements for IRAs under Section 408(d)(3) of the Code, a rollover may be made from a Roth IRA to another Roth IRA.

Persons considering a rollover, transfer or conversion should consult their own tax advisor.

“Qualified distributions” from a Roth IRA are excludable from gross income. A “qualified distribution” is a distribution that satisfies two requirements: (1) the distribution must be made (a) after the owner of the IRA attains age 59 1/2; (b) after the owner’s death; (c) due to the owner’s disability; or (d) for a qualified first time homebuyer distribution within the meaning of Section 72(t)(2)(F) of the Code; and (2) the distribution must be made in the year that is at least five years after the first year for which a contribution was made to any Roth IRA established for the owner or five years after a rollover, transfer or conversion was made from a non-Roth IRA to a Roth IRA. Distributions from a Roth IRA that are not qualified distributions will be treated as made first from contributions and then from earnings, and taxed generally in the same manner as distributions from a non-Roth IRA.

Distributions from a Roth IRA need not commence at age 70 1/2. However, if the owner dies before the entire interest in a Roth IRA is distributed, any remaining interest in the contract must be distributed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of the owner’s death subject to certain exceptions.

Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE)

An employer may sponsor a plan allowing for employee salary deferral contributions with an additional employer contribution. SIMPLE plans may operate as a 401(k) or an IRA. Limits for employee contributions to a SIMPLE are $11,500 in 2011. Employees age 50 and older may contribute an additional $2,500 in 2011. Distributions from a SIMPLE are subject to restrictions similar to distributions from a traditional IRA. Additional terms of your SIMPLE are in a summary plan description distributed by your employer.

Reporting to the IRS

Whenever you are liable for one of the penalty taxes discussed above (6% for excess contributions, 10% for premature distributions or 50% for underpayments), you must file Form 5329 with the Internal Revenue Service. The form is to be attached to your federal income tax return for the tax year in which the penalty applies. Normal contributions and distributions must be shown on your income tax return for the year to which they relate.

 

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Illustration of IRA Fixed Accumulations

 

Year

     $1,000 Annual
Contribution
       $1,000 One Time
Contribution
 

  1

     $ 1,020.00         $ 1,020.00   

  2

     $ 2,060.40         $ 1,040.40   

  3

     $ 3,121.61         $ 1,061.21   

  4

     $ 4,204.04         $ 1,082.43   

  5

     $ 5,308.12         $ 1,104.08   

  6

     $ 6,434.28         $ 1,126.16   

  7

     $ 7,582.97         $ 1,148.68   

  8

     $ 8,754.63         $ 1,171.65   

  9

     $ 9,949.72         $ 1,195.08   

10

     $ 11,168.71         $ 1,218.98   

11

     $ 12,412.09         $ 1,243.36   

12

     $ 13,680.33         $ 1,268.23   

13

     $ 14,973.94         $ 1,293.59   

14

     $ 16,293.42         $ 1,319.46   

15

     $ 17,639.28         $ 1,345.85   

16

     $ 19,012.07         $ 1,372.77   

17

     $ 20,412.31         $ 1,400.23   

18

     $ 21,840.56         $ 1,428.23   

19

     $ 23,297.37         $ 1,456.79   

20

     $ 24,783.32         $ 1,485.93   

21

     $ 26,298.98         $ 1,515.65   

22

     $ 27,844.96         $ 1,545.96   

23

     $ 29,421.86         $ 1,576.88   

24

     $ 31,030.30         $ 1,608.42   

25

     $ 32,670.91         $ 1,640.59   

26

     $ 34,344.32         $ 1,673.40   

27

     $ 36,051.21         $ 1,706.87   

28

     $ 37,792.23         $ 1,741.01   

29

     $ 39,568.08         $ 1,775.83   

30

     $ 41,379.44         $ 1,811.35   

31

     $ 43,227.03         $ 1,847.58   

32

     $ 45,111.57         $ 1,884.53   

33

     $ 47,033.80         $ 1,922.22   

34

     $ 48,994.48         $ 1,960.66   

35

     $ 50,994.37         $ 1,999.87   

Year

     $1,000 Annual
Contribution
       $1,000 One Time
Contribution
 
36      $ 53,034.25         $ 2,039.87   
37      $ 55,114.94         $ 2,080.67   
38      $ 57,237.24         $ 2,122.28   
39      $ 59,401.98         $ 2,164.73   
40      $ 61,610.02         $ 2,208.02   
41      $ 63,862.22         $ 2,252.18   
42      $ 66,159.47         $ 2,297.22   
43      $ 68,502.66         $ 2,343.16   
44      $ 70,892.71         $ 2,390.02   
45      $ 73,330.56         $ 2,437.82   
46      $ 75,817.18         $ 2,486.58   
47      $ 78,353.52         $ 2,536.31   
48      $ 80,940.59         $ 2,587.04   
49      $ 83,579.40         $ 2,638.78   
50      $ 86,270.99         $ 2,691.56   
51      $ 89,016.41         $ 2,745.39   
52      $ 91,816.74         $ 2,800.30   
53      $ 94,673.07         $ 2,856.31   
54      $ 97,586.53         $ 2,913.44   
55      $ 100,558.26         $ 2,971.71   
56      $ 103,589.43         $ 3,031.14   
57      $ 106,681.22         $ 3,091.76   
58      $ 109,834.84         $ 3,153.60   
59      $ 113,051.54         $ 3,216.67   
60      $ 116,332.57         $ 3,281.00   
61      $ 119,679.22         $ 3,346.62   
62      $ 123,092.81         $ 3,413.55   
63      $ 126,574.66         $ 3,481.82   
64      $ 130,126.16         $ 3,551.46   
65      $ 133,748.68         $ 3,622.49   
66      $ 137,443.65         $ 3,694.94   
67      $ 141,212.53         $ 3,768.84   
68      $ 145,056.78         $ 3,844.22   
69      $ 148,977.91         $ 3,921.10   
70      $ 152,977.47         $ 3,999.52   
 

 

Neither the values, nor any earnings on the values in this variable annuity policy are guaranteed. To the extent that amounts are invested in the Fixed Accumulation Account of the insurer, the principal is guaranteed as well as interest at the guaranteed rate contained in the policy. For purposes of this projection, an annual earnings rate of 2% has been assumed. For ONcore Premier WF 4, withdrawals from the contract will incur a surrender charge for 4 years after amounts are deposited into the contract as follows: Year 1-8%, Year 2- 7%, Year 3- 6%, Year 4- 6%. For ONcore Premier WF 7, withdrawals from the contract will incur a surrender charge for 7 years after amounts are deposited into the contract as follows: Year 1- 8%, Year 2- 7%, Year 3- 6%, Year 4- 6%, Year 5- 5%, Year 6- 4%, Year 7- 3%. See “Surrender Charge” in this prospectus for further information regarding application of the surrender charge.

 

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Statement of Additional Information Contents

Ohio National Life

Custodian

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Underwriter

Calculation of Money Market Yield

Total Return

Financial Statements

1940 Act File Number 811-1978

1933 Act File Number 333-171785

 

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Ohio National Variable Account A

of

The Ohio National Life Insurance Company

One Financial Way

Montgomery, Ohio 45242

Telephone 1-888-925-6446

ONcore Premier WF VA

Statement of Additional Information

May 18, 2011

This Statement of Additional Information is not a prospectus. Read it along with the prospectus for Ohio National Variable Account A (“VAA”) flexible purchase payment individual variable annuity contracts dated May 18, 2011. To get a free copy of the prospectus for VAA, write or call us at the above address.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Ohio National Life

     2   

Custodian

     2   

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     2   

Underwriter

     2   

Calculation of Money Market Yield

     2   

Total Return

     2   


Ohio National Life

The Ohio National Life Insurance Company was organized under the laws of Ohio on September 9, 1909. We write life, accident and health insurance and annuities in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Currently we have assets of approximately $29.6 billion and equity of approximately $1.6 billion. Our home office is located at One Financial Way, Montgomery, Ohio 45242. We are a stock life insurance company ultimately wholly-owned by Ohio National Financial Services, Inc., which is wholly-owned by a mutual insurance holding company (Ohio National Mutual Holdings, Inc.). Our policyholders own the holding company.

Custodian

The Ohio National Life Insurance Company, the depositor, One Financial Way, Montgomery, Ohio 45242 , holds custody of VAA’s assets.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The financial statements of Ohio National Variable Account A and the consolidated financial statements and schedules of The Ohio National Life Insurance Company and subsidiaries for the periods indicated have been included herein in reliance upon the reports of KPMG LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, appearing elsewhere herein, and upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing. The report of KPMG LLP covering the December 31, 2010 consolidated financial statements and schedules of The Ohio National Life Insurance Company and subsidiaries refers to a change in the method of evaluating other-than-temporary impairments of fixed maturity securities due to the adoption of new accounting requirements issued by the FASB, as of January 1, 2009. KPMG LLP is located at 191 West Nationwide Blvd., Columbus, Ohio, 43215.

Underwriter

We offer the contracts continuously. The principal underwriter of the contracts is Ohio National Equities, Inc. (“ONEQ”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours. The aggregate amount of commissions paid to ONEQ for contracts issued by VAA, and the amounts retained by ONEQ, for each of the last three years have been:

 

Year

    Aggregate Commissions     Retained Commissions  
  2010      $ 78,700,175      $ 15,846,834   
  2009      $ 124,029,575      $ 24,758,681   
  2008      $ 104,098,342      $ 19,487,825   

Calculation of Money Market Yield

The annualized current yield of the Money Market subaccount is calculated by determining the net change, exclusive of capital changes and income other than investment income, in the value of a hypothetical pre-existing account having a balance of one Money Market accumulation unit at the beginning of the seven-day period, subtracting a hypothetical charge reflecting deductions from the contract, and dividing the difference by the beginning value to obtain the seven-day return, and multiplying the difference by 365/7 (or 366/7 during a leap year). The result is rounded to the nearest hundredth of one percent.

Total Return

The average annual compounded rate of return for a contract for each subaccount over a given period is found by equating the initial amount invested to the ending redeemable value using the following formula:

P(1 + T)n = ERV

 

where: P = a hypothetical initial payment of $1,000,

 

  T = the average annual total return,

 

  n = the number of years, and

 

  ERV = the ending redeemable value of a hypothetical $1,000 beginning-of-period payment at the end of the period (or fractional portion thereof).

 

2