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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2011
Registration Nos. 333-22375
and 811-3199
 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
FORM N-4
         
 
  REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933   o
 
  Pre-Effective Amendment No.   o
 
  Post-Effective Amendment No. 22   x
 
  and    
 
  REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY   x
 
  ACT OF 1940    
 
  Amendment No. 118    
ZALICO VARIABLE ANNUITY SEPARATE ACCOUNT
(formerly KILICO VARIABLE ANNUITY SEPARATE ACCOUNT)
(Exact Name of Registrant)
ZURICH AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
(formerly KEMPER INVESTORS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY)
(Name of Depositor)
1400 American Lane, Schaumburg, Illinois 60196
(Address of Depositor’s Principal Executive Offices)
Depositor’s Telephone Number, including Area Code:
(425) 577-5100
     
Name and Address of Agent for Service:   Copy to:
     
Juanita M. Thomas, Esq.   Mary Jane Wilson-Bilik, Esq.
1114 Georgia Street   Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Louisiana, MO 63353   1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
    Washington, DC 20004-2415
It is proposed that this filing will become effective:
  o   Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485
 
  x   On May 1, 2011, pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485
 
  o   60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a) of Rule 485
 
  o   On _______________ pursuant to paragraph (a) of Rule 485
 
Title of securities being registered:
Units of interest in a separate account under individual and group variable, fixed and market value
adjusted deferred annuity contracts.
 
 


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Individual and Group Variable, Fixed, and Market Value Adjusted Deferred
Annuity Contracts

Issued by
Zurich American Life Insurance Company
(formerly Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company)
Through
ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
(formerly KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account)
     
Home Office
  Service Center
1400 American Lane
  Scudder DestinationsSM Service Team
Schaumburg, Illinois 60196
  PO Box 19097
 
  Greenville, SC 29602-9097
 
  Phone: 1-800-449-0523 (toll free)
 
  7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time M-F
 
   
www.zurichamericanlifeinsurance.com (formerly www.kemperinvestors.com)
Prospectus
May 1, 2011
Scudder
Destinations
SM
Annuity


          This Prospectus describes the Scudder DestinationsSM Annuity, a variable, fixed and market value adjusted deferred annuity contract (the “Contract”) offered by Zurich American Life Insurance Company (formerly Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company) (“we” or “ZALICO”). The Contract is designed to provide annuity benefits for retirement that may or may not qualify for certain federal tax advantages. Depending on particular state requirements, the Contract may have been issued on a group or individual basis. The Contract is currently not being issued.
          Investing in this Contract involves risk, including possible loss of some or all of your investment.
          You may allocate Purchase Payments to one or more of the variable options or the Fixed Account Option, or the Market Value Adjustment (“MVA”) Option (the “MVA Option”) in states where an MVA is authorized. The availability of the Fixed Account Option and the MVA Option may be restricted in some states. The Contract currently offers 24 variable options, each of which is a Subaccount of ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account (formerly KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account) that invests solely in shares of one of the Portfolios listed below. Currently, you may choose to invest among the following Portfolios:
  AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds) (Series I Shares):
    Invesco V.I. Utilities Fund
  The Alger Portfolios (Class I-2 Shares):
    Alger Balanced Portfolio
 
    Alger Capital Appreciation Portfolio
  Credit Suisse Trust (Trust Class Shares):
    Credit Suisse Trust-International Equity Flex III Portfolio
  Dreyfus Investment Portfolios (Initial Share Class):
    Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, MidCap Stock Portfolio
  The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc. (Initial Share Class)
 
  DWS Investments VIT Funds (Class A Shares):
    DWS Equity 500 Index VIP
  DWS Variable Series I (Class A Shares):
    DWS Bond VIP
 
    DWS Capital Growth VIP (Successor to DWS Health Care VIP (Variable Series I) and DWS Technology VIP (Variable Series II)) 1
    DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Global Opportunities VIP) 2
 
    DWS Growth & Income VIP
 
    DWS International VIP
  DWS Variable Series II (Class A Shares):
    DWS Balanced VIP
 
    DWS Blue Chip VIP
 
    DWS Core Fixed Income VIP
 
    DWS Diversified International Equity VIP
 
    DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP
 
    DWS Global Thematic VIP
 
    DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP
 
    DWS High Income VIP
 
    DWS Large Cap Value VIP (Successor to DWS Strategic Value VIP) 3
 
    DWS Money Market VIP
 
    DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Small Cap Growth VIP) (Successor to DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP and to DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP) 4
 
    DWS Strategic Income VIP


 
1  Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Health Care VIP (DWS Variable Series I) and DWS Technology VIP (DWS Variable Series II) each merged into DWS Capital Growth VIP (DWS Variable Series I), pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
2  Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Global Opportunities VIP changed its name to DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP.
3  Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Strategic Value VIP merged into DWS Large Cap Value VIP, pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
4  Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Small Cap Growth VIP changed its name to DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP. Also Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP and DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP each merged into DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Small Cap Growth VIP), pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.

 


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         We may add or delete Subaccounts and Portfolios in the future. The Contract Value that you allocate to any of the Subaccounts will vary, reflecting the investment experience of the Portfolio in which the selected Subaccount invests. The Contract Value that you allocate to the Fixed Account or one or more Guarantee Periods of the MVA Option accumulates interest at rates set in advance by ZALICO.
         Please be aware that Market Value Adjustments are sensitive to changes in interest rates. If you withdraw money from a Guarantee Period before its term has expired, and during a period of rising interest rates, you likely will be assessed a negative Market Value Adjustment. In times of rising interest rates, the negative Market Value Adjustment could result in a substantial downward adjustment to your Contract Value. Before you take a withdrawal from a Guarantee Period, you should know its expiration date, and ask the Service Center to calculate whether a Market Value Adjustment will apply and how much it will be.
         The Contracts are not insured by the FDIC. They are obligations of the issuing insurance company and not a deposit of, or guaranteed by, any bank or savings institution and are subject to risks, including possible loss of principal.
         This Prospectus contains important information about the Contracts that you should know before investing. You should read it before investing and keep it for future reference. We have filed a Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The current SAI has the same date as this Prospectus and is incorporated by reference in this Prospectus. You may obtain a free copy by contacting the Service Center. A table of contents for the SAI appears at the end of this Prospectus. You may also find this Prospectus and other information about the Separate Account required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) at the SEC’s web site at http://www.sec.gov.
         The date of this Prospectus is May 1, 2011.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved the Contract or
determined that this Prospectus is accurate or complete.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is committing a U.S. Federal crime.
 
Not FDIC Insured May Lose Value No Bank Guarantee

 


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DEFINITIONS
         The following terms as used in this Prospectus have the indicated meanings:
         Accumulated Guarantee Period Value—The sum of your Guarantee Period Values.
         Accumulation Period—The period between the Date of Issue of a Contract and the Annuity Date.
         Accumulation Unit—A unit of measurement used to determine the value of each Subaccount during the Accumulation Period.
         Annuitant—The person designated to receive or who is actually receiving annuity payments and upon the continuation of whose life annuity payments involving life contingencies depend.
         Annuity Date—The date on which annuity payments are to commence.
         Annuity Option—One of several methods by which annuity payments can be made.
         Annuity Period—The period starting on the Annuity Date.
         Annuity Unit—A unit of measurement used to determine the amount of Variable Annuity payments.
         Beneficiary—The person designated to receive any benefits under a Contract upon the death of the Annuitant or the Owner prior to the Annuity Period.
         Company (“we”, “us”, “our”, “ZALICO”)—Zurich American Life Insurance Company (formerly Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company). Our Home Office is located at 1400 American Lane, Schaumburg, Illinois 60196. For Contract services, you may contact the Service Center at Scudder DestinationsSM Service Team, PO Box 19097, Greenville, South Carolina, 29602-9097 or 1-800-449-0523.
         Contract—A Variable, Fixed and Market Value Adjusted Annuity Contract offered on an individual or group basis. Contracts issued on a group basis are represented by a certificate. Contracts issued on an individual basis are represented by an individual annuity contract.
         Contract Value—The sum of the values of your Separate Account Contract Value, Accumulated Guarantee Period Value and Fixed Account Contract Value.
         Contract Year—Period between anniversaries of the Contract’s Date of Issue.
         Contract Quarter—Periods between quarterly anniversaries of the Contract’s Date of Issue.
         Contribution Year—Each one year period following the date a Purchase Payment is made.
         Date of Issue—The date on which the first Contract Year commences.
         Effective Date—The date that the endorsement to your Contract adding enhancements to the MVA Option (the “MVA Endorsement”) became effective, which is April 1, 2005.

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         Fixed Account—The General Account of ZALICO to which you may allocate all or a portion of Purchase Payments or Contract Value. We guarantee a minimum rate of interest on Purchase Payments allocated to the Fixed Account.
         Fixed Account Contract Value—The value of your Contract interest in the Fixed Account.
         Fixed Annuity—An annuity under which we guarantee the amount of each annuity payment; it does not vary with the investment experience of a Subaccount.
         Fund or Funds—AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds), The Alger Portfolios, Credit Suisse Trust, Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., DWS Investments VIT Funds, DWS Variable Series I and DWS Variable Series II, including any Portfolios thereunder.
         General Account—All our assets other than those allocated to any separate account.
         Guaranteed Interest Rate—The rate of interest we establish for a given Guarantee Period.
         Guarantee Period—The time during which we credit your allocation with a Guaranteed Interest Rate. Guarantee Periods may range from one to ten years, at our option. If you withdraw money from a Guarantee Period before its term has expired, you will be assessed a Market Value Adjustment.
         Guarantee Period Value—The value of your Contract Value in a Guarantee Period is the sum of your: (1) Purchase Payment allocated or amount transferred to a Guarantee Period; plus (2) interest credited; minus (3) withdrawals, previously assessed Withdrawal Charges and transfers; and (4) as adjusted for any applicable Market Value Adjustment previously made.
         Home Office—The address of our Home Office is 1400 American Lane, Schaumburg, Illinois 60196.
         Market Adjusted Value—A Guarantee Period Value adjusted by the Market Value Adjustment formula on any date prior to the end of a Guarantee Period.
         Market Value Adjustment (“MVA”)—An adjustment of amounts held in a Guarantee Period that we compute in accordance with the Market Value Adjustment formula in your Contract if you take a withdrawal prior to the end of that Guarantee Period. The adjustment reflects the change in the value of the Guarantee Period Value due to changes in interest rates since the date the Guarantee Period started. Any downward Market Value Adjustment is subject to the MVA Floor described in the MVA Endorsement issued on April 1, 2005 and described herein.
         Non-Qualified Plan Contract—A Contract which does not receive favorable tax treatment under Sections 401, 403, 408, 408A or 457 of the Internal Revenue Code.
         Owner (“you”, “your”, “yours”)—The person designated in the Contract as having the privileges of ownership defined in the Contract.
         Portfolio—A series of a Fund with its own objective and policies, which represents shares of beneficial interest in a separate portfolio of securities and other assets. Portfolio is sometimes referred to herein as a Fund.
         Purchase Payments—Amounts paid to us by you or on your behalf.

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         Qualified Plan Contract—A Contract issued in connection with a retirement plan which receives favorable tax treatment under Sections 401, 403, 408, 408A or 457 of the Internal Revenue Code.
         Separate Account—The ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account (formerly KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account).
         Separate Account Contract Value—The sum of your Subaccount Values.
         Service Center—The address of our Service Center is Scudder DestinationsSM Service Team, PO Box 19097, Greenville, South Carolina, 29602-9097. The overnight address is: Scudder DestinationsSM Service Team, 2000 Wade Hampton Boulevard, Greenville, SC 29615-1064. IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Service Corporation is the administrator of the Contract. You can call the Service Center toll-free at 1-800-449-0523.
         Start Date—The later of the Effective Date of the MVA Endorsement or the beginning of a new Guarantee Period.
         Subaccounts—The twenty-four subdivisions of the Separate Account, the assets of which consist solely of shares of the corresponding Portfolios or Funds.
         Subaccount Value—The value of your interest in each Subaccount.
         Valuation Date—Each day when the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading, as well as each day otherwise required.
         Valuation Period—The interval of time between two consecutive Valuation Dates.
         Variable Annuity—An annuity with payments varying in amount in accordance with the investment experience of the Subaccount(s) in which you have an interest.
         Withdrawal Charge—The “contingent deferred sales charge” assessed against certain withdrawals of Contract Value in the first seven Contribution Years after a Purchase Payment is made or against certain annuitizations of Contract Value in the first seven Contribution Years after a Purchase Payment is made.
         Withdrawal Value—Contract Value, plus or minus any applicable Market Value Adjustment, less any premium tax payable if the Contract is being annuitized, minus any Withdrawal Charge applicable to that Contract.

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SUMMARY
         Because this is a summary, it does not contain all of the information that may be important. Read the entire Prospectus and Contract before deciding to invest.
         The Contracts provide for investment on a tax-deferred basis and for payment of annuity benefits. Both Non-Qualified Plan and Qualified Plan Contracts are described in this Prospectus. The Contract was available to be purchased by natural persons, or by trusts or custodial accounts which hold the Contract as agent for and for the sole benefit of a natural person. The Contract is not available for sale to other types of purchasers without our prior approval. The Contract is currently not being issued.
         Subject to certain exceptions, the minimum subsequent Purchase Payment is $500. Any allocation you make to a Subaccount, Fixed Account or Guarantee Period must be at least $500. Our prior approval is required for Purchase Payments over $1,000,000.
         Investment Options. The Contract permits you to allocate your Purchase Payments and transfer Contract Value to one or more Subaccounts listed on the cover page of this Prospectus. Each Subaccount invests in shares of a corresponding Portfolio or Fund. Contract Value that you allocate to a Subaccount varies with the investment experience of the Portfolio in which Subaccount invests.
         You may also allocate Purchase Payments and transfer Contract Value into the Fixed Account. We guarantee that Purchase Payments allocated to the Fixed Account will earn no less than the minimum guaranteed rate. In our discretion, we may credit interest in excess of the minimum guaranteed rate.
         The Contract also permits you to allocate your Purchase Payments and transfer Contract Value to one or more Guarantee Periods under the MVA Option. Amounts you allocate to one or more Guarantee Period will earn a guaranteed interest rate, but will be subject to a market value adjustment (MVA) and a possible surrender charge if you take a withdrawal before the end of the Guarantee Period. Please be aware that Market Value Adjustments are sensitive to changes in interest rates.
         If you withdraw money from a Guarantee Period under the MVA Option before its term has expired, and during a period of rising interest rates, you likely will be assessed a negative Market Value Adjustment. In times of rising interest rates, the negative Market Value Adjustment could result in a substantial downward adjustment to your Contract Value. Before you take a withdrawal from a Guarantee Period, you should know its expiration date, and ask the Service Center to calculate whether a Market Value Adjustment will apply and how much it will be.
         The MVA Option may not be available in all states. The MVA Option is only available during the Accumulation Period. We may limit the number of Guarantee Periods we offer at our discretion. We credit interest daily to amounts allocated to the MVA Option. We declare the rate at our sole discretion. We guarantee amounts allocated to the MVA Option at Guaranteed Interest Rates for the Guarantee Periods you select. These guaranteed amounts are subject to any applicable Withdrawal Charge, Market Value Adjustment or Records Maintenance Charge. We will not change a Guaranteed Interest Rate for the duration of the Guarantee Period. However, Guaranteed Interest Rates for subsequent Guarantee Periods are set at our discretion. At the end of a Guarantee Period, a new Guarantee Period for the same duration starts, unless you timely elect another Guarantee Period. The interests under the Contract relating to the MVA Option are not registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (“1933 Act”) and the insulated, nonunitized separate account supporting the MVA Option is not registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“1940 Act”).

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         You bear the investment risk under the Contracts, including possible loss of principal, unless you allocate Contract Values to:
    the MVA Option. Under the MVA Option, you are guaranteed to receive the Guaranteed Interest Rate over the duration of the Guarantee Period, unless you take a withdrawal before the end of the Guarantee Period. In case of premature withdrawal, you will be assessed a Market Value Adjustment, which, in times of rising interest rates, could have a substantial negative impact on your Contract Value.
 
    the Fixed Account Option, wherein you are guaranteed to earn interest at a rate not less than the minimum guaranteed rate (See “Fixed Account Option”).
         Transfers. The Contract permits you to transfer Contract Value between the Subaccounts before and after annuitization, subject to certain limitations. A transfer from a Guarantee Period is subject to a Market Value Adjustment unless effected within 30 days after the existing Guarantee Period ends. Restrictions apply to transfers out of the Fixed Account.
         Withdrawals and Withdrawal Charges. You may withdraw Contract Value subject to Withdrawal Charges, any applicable Market Value Adjustment and other specified conditions. We do not deduct sales charges from Purchase Payments.
         Each Contract Year, you may withdraw or surrender the Contract, without Withdrawal Charge, up to the greater of:
    the excess of Contract Value over total Purchase Payments subject to Withdrawal Charges, minus prior withdrawals that were previously assessed a Withdrawal Charge, or
 
    10% of Contract Value. If you withdraw a larger amount, the excess Purchase Payments withdrawn are subject to a Withdrawal Charge.
         The Withdrawal Charge is:
    7% in the first Contribution Year,
 
    6% in the second Contribution Year,
 
    5% in the third and fourth Contribution Years,
 
    4% in the fifth Contribution Year,
 
    3% in the sixth Contribution Year,
 
    2% in the seventh Contribution Year, and
 
    0% in the eighth Contribution Year and thereafter.
         The Withdrawal Charge also applies at the annuitization of Accumulation Units in their seventh Contribution Year or earlier, except as set forth under “Withdrawal Charge.” Withdrawals may be subject to income tax, a 10% penalty tax, and other tax consequences. Withdrawals from Qualified Plan Contracts may be limited by the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”).
         Contract Charges. Contract charges include:
    mortality and expense risk charge,
 
    administration charge,
 
    records maintenance charge,
 
    Withdrawal Charge,
 
    Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit Rider Charge, if selected,
 
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    investment management fees and other expenses, and
 
    applicable state premium taxes.
         In addition, the investment advisers to the Funds deduct varying charges from the assets of the Funds for which they provide investment advisory services.
         The Contract may be purchased in connection with retirement plans qualifying either under Section 401 or 403(b) of the Code or as individual retirement annuities including Roth IRAs. We may limit Purchase Payments under qualified plans, other than IRAs, to lump-sum rollovers and transfers. The Contract is also available in connection with state and municipal deferred compensation plans and non-qualified deferred compensation plans.

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SUMMARY OF EXPENSES
         The following tables describe the fees and expenses that you will pay when buying, owning, and surrendering the Contract. The first table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay at the time that you buy the Contract, take a partial withdrawal, annuitize the Contract, surrender the Contract, or transfer cash value between and among the Subaccounts, the Fixed Account, and the Guarantee Periods. State premium taxes may also be deducted.
Contract Owner Transaction Expenses
     
Sales Load Imposed on Purchases
(as a percentage of Purchase Payments):
  None
 
   
Maximum Withdrawal Charge1
(as a percentage of Purchase Payments)
  7%
     
Year of Withdrawal after
  Withdrawal
Purchase Payments Made
 
Charge
First year
  7.00%    
Second year
  6.00%    
Third year
  5.00%    
Fourth year
  5.00%    
Fifth year
  4.00%    
Sixth year
  3.00%    
Seventh year
  2.00%    
Eighth year and following
  0.00%    
     
Maximum Transfer Fee
  $252
 
1   A Contract Owner may withdraw up to the greater of (i) the excess of Contract Value over total Purchase Payments subject to a Withdrawal Charge less prior withdrawals that were previously assessed a Withdrawal Charge and (ii) 10% of the Contract Value in any Contract Year without assessment of any Withdrawal Charge. In certain circumstances we may reduce or waive the Withdrawal Charge. See “Withdrawal Charge.”
 
2   We reserve the right to charge a fee of $25 for each transfer of Contract Value in excess of 12 transfers per calendar year. See “Transfers During the Accumulation Period.”

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The next table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay periodically during the time that you own the Contract, not including Fund fees and expenses.
Periodic Charges other than Portfolio Expenses
         
    Current  
 
       
Annual Records Maintenance Charge3
     $30  
Separate Account Annual Expenses (as a percentage of average Separate Account Contract Value)
         
With the Standard Death Benefit Only
       
 
       
Mortality and Expense Risk Charge
    1.25 %
Administration Charge
    0.15 %
 
     
Total Separate Account Annual Expense Charges4
    1.40 %
 
       
With the Optional Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit
       
 
       
Mortality and Expense Risk Charge
    1.25 %
Optional Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit5
    0.25 %
Administration Charge
    0.15 %
 
     
Total Separate Account Annual Expense Charges
    1.65 %
 
3   The records maintenance charge applies to Contracts with Contract Value less than $50,000 on the date of assessment. In certain circumstances we may reduce or waive the annual records maintenance charge. See “Records Maintenance Charge.”
 
4   If you annuitize the Contract on a variable basis, we will assess a daily Mortality and Expense Risk Charge and Administration Charge at an annual rate of 1.40% on the assets held in the Separate Account.
 
5   We no longer offer the Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit rider. If you have elected the Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit rider and your rider remains in force, the 0.25% rider charge will continue to be deducted on the last business day of each contract quarter. The rider charge will be deducted prorata as a percentage of Contract Value from each Subaccount, Guarantee Period, and the Fixed Account in which you have Contract Value until you annuitize or surrender the Contract or the Annuitant reaches age 91, whichever comes first.

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         The following table shows the range of Fund fees and expenses for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010. Expenses of the Funds may be higher or lower in the future. You can obtain more detailed information concerning each Fund’s fees and expenses in the prospectus for each Fund.
Range of Annual Operating Expenses for the Funds During 20101
                 
 
        Lowest     Highest  
 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (total of all expenses that are deducted from Fund assets, including management fees, 12b-1 fees, and other expenses, before any contractual waivers or reimbursements of fees and expenses)
    0.33%     2.43%  
 
Net Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Reimbursements and Waivers (total of all expenses that are deducted from Fund assets, including management fees, 12b-1 fees, and other expenses, after any contractual waivers or reimbursements of fees and expenses)2
    0.33%     2.43%  
 
   
 
 
1   The Fund expenses used to prepare this table were provided to us by the Fund(s). We have not independently verified such information. The expenses shown are those incurred for the year ended December 31, 2010. Current or future expenses may be greater or less than those shown.
 
2   The range of Net Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Reimbursements and Waivers takes into account contractual arrangements for those Funds that require a Fund’s investment adviser to reimburse or waive Fund expenses for a limited period of time ending no earlier than April 30, 2012. For more information about these arrangements, consult the prospectuses for the Funds.
         The next table shows the fees and expenses charged by each Fund for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010.

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that are deducted from Portfolio assets)
(as a percentage of average daily net assets in the Funds as of December 31, 2010):
                                         
 
                                Contractual        
                                Waiver        
                          Gross     or        
                          Total     Expense     Net Total  
        Management     12b-1     Other     Annual     Reimburse-     Annual  
  Name of Fund     Fees     Fees     Expenses     Expenses     ment     Expenses  
  AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds) (Series I Shares)  
 
Invesco V.I. Utilities Fund 1
    0.60%     N/A     0.44%     1.04%     0.11%     0.93%  
 
 
                                     
  The Alger Portfolios (Class I-2 Shares)  
 
Alger Balanced Portfolio
    0.71%     N/A     0.20%     0.91%     N/A     0.91%  
 
Alger Capital Appreciation Portfolio
    0.81%     N/A     0.17%     0.98%     N/A     0.98%  
 
 
                                     
  Credit Suisse Trust (Trust Class Shares)  
 
Credit Suisse Trust- International Equity Flex III Portfolio 2
    1.00%     N/A     1.43%     2.43%     N/A     2.43%  
 
 
                                     
  Dreyfus Investment Portfolios (Initial Share Class)  
 
Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, Mid Cap Stock Portfolio
    0.75%     N/A     0.09%     0.84%     N/A     0.84%  
 
 
                                     
  The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc. (Initial Share Class)  
 
 
    0.75%     N/A     0.14%     0.89%     N/A     0.89%  
 
 
                                     
  DWS Investments VIT Funds (Class A Shares)  
 
DWS Equity 500 Index VIP
    0.20%     N/A     0.13%     0.33%     N/A     0.33%  
 
 
                                     
  DWS Variable Series I (Class A Shares)  
 
DWS Bond VIP
    0.39%     N/A     0.20%     0.59%     N/A     0.59%  
 
DWS Capital Growth VIP (Successor to DWS Health Care VIP (Variable Series I) and DWS Technology VIP (Variable Series II))
    0.37%     N/A     0.14%     0.51%     N/A     0.51%  
 
DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Global Opportunities VIP) 3
    0.89%     N/A     0.23%     1.12%     N/A     1.12%  
 
DWS Growth & Income VIP
    0.39%     N/A     0.24%     0.63%     N/A     0.63%  
 
DWS International VIP 4
    0.79%     N/A     0.21%     1.00%     N/A     1.00%  
 
 
                                     
  DWS Variable Series II (Class A Shares) 5  
 
DWS Balanced VIP
    0.37%     N/A     0.30%     0.67%     N/A     0.67%  
 
DWS Blue Chip VIP
    0.55%     N/A     0.21%     0.76%     N/A     0.76%  
 
DWS Core Fixed Income VIP
    0.50%     N/A     0.22%     0.72%     N/A     0.72%  
 
DWS Diversified International Equity VIP
    0.65%     N/A     0.34%     0.99%     N/A     0.99%  
 
DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP
    0.65%     N/A     0.22%     0.87%     N/A     0.87%  
 
DWS Global Thematic VIP
    0.92%     N/A     0.49%     1.41%     N/A     1.41%  
 
DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP
    0.45%     N/A     0.19%     0.64%     N/A     0.64%  
 
DWS High Income VIP
    0.50%     N/A     0.22%     0.72%     N/A     0.72%  
 
DWS Large Cap Value VIP (Successor to DWS Strategic Value VIP)
    0.65%     N/A     0.17%     0.82%     N/A     0.82%  
 
DWS Money Market VIP
    0.29%     N/A     0.17%     0.46%     N/A     0.46%  
 

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                                Contractual        
                                Waiver        
                          Gross     or        
                          Total     Expense     Net Total  
        Management     12b-1     Other     Annual     Reimburse-     Annual  
  Name of Fund     Fees     Fees     Expenses     Expenses     ment     Expenses  
 
DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Small Cap Growth VIP) (Successor to DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP and to DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP)
    0.55%     N/A     0.23%     0.78%     N/A     0.78%  
 
DWS Strategic Income VIP
    0.55%     N/A     0.40%     0.95%     N/A     0.95%  
 
 
1 Through at least April 30, 2012 the adviser for the Invesco V.I. Utilities Fund has contractually agreed to waive advisory fees and/or reimburse expenses of Series I shares to the extent necessary to limit Net Total Annual Expenses (excluding certain items discussed below) of Series I shares to 0.93% of average daily net assets for the Invesco V.I. Utilities Fund. In determining the adviser’s obligation to waive advisory fees and/or reimburse expenses, the following expenses are not taken into account, and could cause the Net Total Annual Expenses to exceed the numbers reflected above: (i) interest; (ii) taxes; (iii) dividend expense on short sales; (iv) extraordinary or non-routine items; and (v) expenses that the Fund has incurred but did not actually pay because of an expense offset arrangement.
2 Voluntary fee waivers and reimbursements reduced Net Total Annual Expenses to 1.99% for the Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex III Portfolio during 2010. Gross Total Annual Expenses include dividend expenses on short sales, which were 0.64% during 2010. Effective January 1, 2011, the adviser for the Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex III Portfolio will voluntarily waive fees and reimburse expenses so that the portfolio’s Net Total Annual Expenses, excluding dividend expenses on short sales, will not exceed 1.45%. Fee waivers and/or reimbursements are voluntary and may be discontinued at any time.
3 The investment manager for the DWS Variable Series I has contractually agreed to waive all or a portion of its management fee and reimburse or pay certain operating expenses of the DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP, excluding certain expenses such as extraordinary expenses, taxes, brokerage, and interest, to the extent necessary to maintain the Portfolio’s Net Total Annual Expenses at 1.00% through September 30, 2011.
4 The “Other Expenses” for the DWS International VIP include expenses of 0.01% for acquired fund fees and expenses. “Acquired fund fees and expenses” are not fees or expenses incurred by the Fund directly, but are expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests. You incur these fees and expenses indirectly through the valuation of the Fund’s investment in those investment companies.
5 The “Other Expenses” for DWS Balanced VIP and DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP include expenses of 0.02%, 0.05%, respectively, for acquired fund fees and expenses. “Acquired fund fees and expenses” are not fees or expenses incurred by the Funds directly, but are expenses of the investment companies in which the Funds invest. You incur these fees and expenses indirectly through the valuation of the Funds’ investment in those investment companies.
The investment manager for the DWS Variable Series II has contractually agreed to waive all or a portion of its management fee and reimburse or pay certain operating expenses of the Portfolios, excluding certain expenses such as extraordinary expenses, taxes, brokerage, and interest, so that Net Total Annual Expenses of the Portfolios will not exceed the following amounts: 0.71% for the DWS Core Fixed Income VIP, 1.03% for the DWS Global Thematic VIP, 0.51% for the DWS Money Market VIP, and 0.78% for the DWS Strategic Income VIP, through September 30, 2011.
          The expenses shown above are deducted by each underlying Fund or Portfolio before the Fund or Portfolio provides us with its daily net asset value. We then deduct applicable Separate Account charges from the net asset value to calculate the unit value of the corresponding Subaccount. The management fees and other expenses are more fully described in the prospectus for each underlying Portfolio.
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expenses of certain Funds are reduced by contractual fee reduction and expense reimbursement arrangements that will remain in effect until at least April 30, 2012. Other Funds have voluntary fee reduction and/or expense reimbursement arrangements that may be terminated at any time. The minimum and maximum Net Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses for all Funds after each fee reduction and/or expense reimbursement arrangement is described in the relevant Fund’s prospectus.
          THE FUND’S INVESTMENT MANAGER OR ADVISER PROVIDED THE ABOVE EXPENSES FOR THE FUNDS. WE HAVE NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED THE ACCURACY OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION.
EXAMPLE
          This Example is 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.
          The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Contract for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and assumes the maximum fees and expenses of any of the Funds prior to any fee waivers or expense reimbursements. In addition, this Example assumes no transfers were made and no premium taxes were deducted. If these arrangements were considered, the expenses shown would be higher. This Example also does not take into consideration any fee waiver or expense reimbursement arrangements of the Funds. If these arrangements were taken into consideration, the expenses shown would be lower.
          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 time period:
             
1   3   5   10
year   years   years   years
$1,119   $1,779   $2,591   $4,633
  (2) a.   If you annuitize your Contract at the end of the available time period under Annuity Option 2, 3, 4, or under Annuity Option 1 for a period of five years or more*:
             
1   3   5   10
year   years   years   years
$394   $1,224   $2,115   $4,633
  b.   If you annuitize your Contract at the end of the available time period under Annuity Option 1 for a period of less than five years*:

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1   3   5   10
year
 
years
 
years
 
years
$1,119   $1,779   $2,591   $4,633
  (3)   If you do not surrender or annuitize your Contract at the end of the applicable time period:
             
1   3   5   10
year
 
years
 
years
 
years
$394   $1,224   $2,115   $4,633
 
*   Withdrawal Charges do not apply if the Contract is annuitized under Annuity Option 2, 3 or 4, or under Annuity Option 1 for a period of five years or more. Withdrawal Charges do apply if the Contract is annuitized under Annuity Option 1 for a period of less than five years.
         The Example is an illustration and does not represent past or future expenses and charges of the Subaccounts. Your actual expenses may be greater or less than those shown. Similarly, your rate of return may be more or less than the 5% assumed rate in the Example.
         The Example does not include the deduction of premium taxes, which may be assessed before or upon annuitization or any taxes or penalties you may be required to pay if you surrender your Contract.
         The Record Maintenance Charge of $30 is reflected as an annual charge of 0.040% that is determined by dividing total Record Maintenance Charges collected during 2010 ( $689,331) by total average net assets attributable to the Contract during 2010 ( $1,736,292,661).
REDEMPTION FEES
         A Fund or Portfolio may assess a redemption fee of up to 2% on Subaccount assets that are redeemed out of the Fund or Portfolio in connection with a withdrawal or transfer. Each Fund or Portfolio determines the amount of the redemption fee and when the fee is imposed. The redemption fee will reduce your Contract Value. For more information, see the Fund or Portfolio prospectus.
DISTRIBUTION COSTS
         For information concerning the compensation we pay in relation to prior sale of the Contracts, see “Distribution of Contracts.”
CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION
         In Appendix C, we have included a financial history of the accumulation unit values for the Subaccounts available under the Contract.
ZALICO, THE MVA OPTION, THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT AND THE FUNDS
A.   Zurich American Life Insurance Company
         We were organized in 1947 and are a stock life insurance company organized under the laws of the State of Illinois. Our home office is located at 1400 American Lane, Schaumburg, Illinois 60196. For Contract services, you may contact us at the Service Center at Scudder DestinationsSM Service Team, PO Box 19097, Greenville, South Carolina, 29602-9097. We offer annuity and life insurance products and

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are admitted to do business in the District of Columbia and all states except New York. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zurich American Corporation (formerly Kemper Corporation), a non-operating holding company. Zurich American Corporation is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services (“ZFS”), a Swiss holding company.
         Effective August 22, 2010, Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company (“KILICO”), the insurance company that issued your Contract, changed its name to Zurich American Life Insurance Company, or ZALICO. The change in the name of the insurance company from KILICO to ZALICO does not change or alter any of the terms or provisions of your Contract. ZALICO will continue to honor all its obligations under your Contract. ZALICO remains organized under the laws of the State of Illinois. ZALICO continues to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zurich American Corporation and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of ZFS.
         Effective September 3, 2003 (the “Closing Date”), ZALICO transferred certain of its business, as well as the capital stock of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, to its former affiliate, Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company (“FKLA”). In a contemporaneous transaction, FKLA and ZALICO entered into a coinsurance agreement under which FKLA administers the business and the records of, and 100% reinsures, certain lines of business issued by ZALICO, including certain registered variable annuity contracts that are funded through the ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account (formerly KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account) (the “Separate Account”). These transfers were part of a larger transaction under which the capital stock of FKLA was sold to Bank One Insurance Holdings, Inc. (“Bank One”). On July 1, 2004, Bank One merged into JP Morgan Chase & Co., and FKLA changed its name to Chase Insurance Life and Annuity Company (“Chase Insurance”).
         On July 3, 2006, Protective Life Insurance Company of Birmingham, Alabama (“Protective Life”), purchased Chase Insurance from JP Morgan Chase & Co. Effective April 1, 2007, Chase Insurance merged with and into Protective Life. Protective Life has reinsured 100% of the variable annuity business of Chase Insurance to Commonwealth Annuity and Life Insurance Company (formerly Allmerica Financial Life Insurance and Annuity Company), a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
         These acquisitions, transfers and the coinsurance agreement do not relate directly to the Contracts, although certain other contracts issued by ZALICO and administered by Protective Life are supported by the Separate Account. Your rights and benefits and our obligations under the Contracts are not changed by these transactions and agreements.
         Effective September 7, 2004, we transferred our customer services operations and the administration of the Contracts to IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Service Corporation (“IBM Outsourcing”), in Greenville, South Carolina. IBM Outsourcing provides all of the services required for complete support and administration of your Contract, including processing all premium payments and all requests for transfers, partial withdrawals, surrenders and death benefits, responding to inquiries, and calculating accumulation unit values for your Contract and the Separate Account.
B.   Risks of Managing General Account Assets
         The assets we hold in our General Account are used to support the payment of the death benefit under the Contracts, as well as to support payments under the optional Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit (“GRIB rider”), as applicable. To the extent that ZALICO is required to pay you amounts under the death benefit or GRIB rider that are in addition to your Contract Value in the Separate Account, such amounts will come from our General Account assets. You should be aware that the General Account is

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exposed to the risks normally associated with a portfolio of fixed-income securities, including interest rate, liquidity and credit risks. The Company’s financial statements contained in the Statement of Additional Information include a further discussion of the risks inherent in the General Account’s investments.
C.   Financial Condition of the Company
         The benefits under the Contract are paid by ZALICO from its General Account assets and from your Contract Value held in the Separate Account. It is important that you understand that payment of the benefits is not assured and depends upon certain factors discussed below.
         Assets in the Separate Account. You assume all of the investment risk for your Contract Value that you allocate to the Subaccounts of the Separate Account. Your Contract Value in those Subaccounts constitutes a portion of the assets of the Separate Account. These assets are segregated and insulated from our General Account, and may not be charged with liabilities arising from any other business that we may conduct (See “The Separate Account ”).
         Assets in the General Account. Allocations you make to the MVA Option and the Fixed Account are supported by the assets in our General Account (See “The MVA Option” and “Fixed Account Option ”). Any guarantees under the Contract that exceed your Separate Account Contract Value, such as those associated with the death benefit and the GRIB rider, are paid from our General Account. Therefore, any benefits that we may be obligated to pay under the Contract in excess of Separate Account Contract Value are subject to our financial strength and claims-paying ability and our long-term ability to make such payments. The assets of the Separate Account, however, are also available to cover the liabilities of our General Account, but only to the extent that the Separate Account assets exceed the Separate Account liabilities arising under the Contract supported by it. We issue other types of insurance policies and financial products as well, and we also pay our obligations under these products from our assets in the General Account.
         Our Financial Condition. As an insurance company, we are required by state insurance regulation to hold a specified amount of reserves in order to meet all the contractual obligations of our General Account to our Contract Owners. We monitor our reserves so that we hold sufficient amounts to cover actual or expected Contract and claims payments. However, it is important to note that there is no assurance that we will always be able to meet our claims-paying obligations, and that there are risks to purchasing and owning any insurance product.
         State insurance regulators also require insurance companies to maintain a minimum amount of capital, which acts as a cushion in the event that the insurer suffers a financial impairment, based on the inherent risks in the insurer’s operations. These risks include those associated with losses that we may incur as the result of defaults on the payment of interest or principal on our General Account assets, as well as the loss in market value of these investments. We may also experience liquidity risk if our General Account assets cannot be readily converted into cash to meet obligations to our Contract Owners or to provide collateral necessary to finance our business operations.
         How to Obtain More Information. We encourage our Contract Owners to read and understand our financial statements. We prepare our financial statements on a statutory basis. Our financial statements, which are presented in conformity with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations – Division of Insurance, as well as the financial statements of the Separate Account (which are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles), are located in the Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”). The SAI is

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available at no charge by writing to our Service Center at the address on the cover page of this Prospectus, or by calling us at (800) 449-0523, or by visiting our website www.zurichamericanlifeinsurance.com (formerly www.kemperinvestors.com). In addition, the SAI is available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
D.   The Guarantee Periods of the MVA Option
         During the Accumulation Period, you may allocate Purchase Payments and Contract Value to one or more Guarantee Periods of the MVA Option with durations generally of one to ten years. You may choose a different Guarantee Period by pre-authorized telephone instructions or by giving us written notice (See “Guarantee Periods of the MVA Option”). The MVA Option may not be available in all states. At our discretion, we may offer additional Guarantee Periods or limit the number of Guarantee Periods available to three.
         The amounts you allocate to the MVA Option are invested under the laws regulating our General Account. Assets supporting the amounts allocated to Guarantee Periods are held in a “non-unitized” separate account. A non-unitized separate account is a separate account in which you do not participate in the performance of the assets held in the separate account. The assets of the non-unitized separate account are held to fund our guaranteed obligations. The “non-unitized” separate account is insulated, so that the assets of the separate account are not chargeable with liabilities arising out of the business conducted by any other separate account or out of any other business we may conduct. In addition, our General Account assets are available to fund benefits under the Contracts.
         State insurance laws concerning the nature and quality of investments regulate our General Account investments and any non-unitized separate account investments. These laws generally permit investment in federal, state and municipal obligations, preferred and common stocks, corporate bonds, real estate mortgages, real estate and certain other investments.
         We consider the return available on the instruments in which Contract proceeds are invested when establishing Guaranteed Interest Rates. This return is only one of many factors considered in establishing Guaranteed Interest Rates. (See “The Accumulation Period-4. Establishment of Guaranteed Interest Rates.”)
         Our investment strategy for the non-unitized separate account is generally to match Guarantee Period liabilities with assets, such as debt instruments. We expect to invest in debt instruments such as:
    securities issued by the United States Government or its agencies or instrumentalities, which issues may or may not be guaranteed by the United States Government;
 
    debt securities which have an investment grade, at the time of purchase, within the four highest grades assigned by Moody’s Investors Services, Inc. (“Moody’s”) (Aaa, Aa, A or Baa), Standard & Poor’s Corporation (“Standard & Poor’s”) (AAA, AA, A or BBB), or any other nationally recognized rating service;
 
    other debt instruments including issues of or guaranteed by banks or bank holding companies and corporations, which obligations, although not rated by Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s, are deemed by our management to have an investment quality comparable to securities which may be otherwise purchased; and
 
    options and futures transactions on fixed income securities.
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E.   The Separate Account
         We established the ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account (formerly KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account) on May 29, 1981, pursuant to Illinois law as the KILICO Money Market Separate Account. The SEC does not supervise the management, investment practices or policies of the Separate Account or ZALICO.
         As a result of KILICO changing its name to ZALICO in August 2010, on November 2, 2010, ZALICO changed the name of KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account, the separate account supporting your Contract, to ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account. The change in the name of the Separate Account does not change the status, duties, or obligations of the ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account under federal or state laws. ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account remains registered with the SEC as a unit investment trust and remains subject to the same duties, obligations, and restrictions under the 1940 Act and state insurance laws.
         Benefits provided under the Contracts are our obligations. Although the assets in the Separate Account are our property, they are held separately from our other assets and are not chargeable with liabilities arising out of any other business we may conduct. Income, capital gains and capital losses, whether or not realized, from the assets allocated to the Separate Account are credited to or charged against the Separate Account without regard to the income, capital gains and capital losses arising out of any other business we may conduct.
         Twenty-four Subaccounts of the Separate Account are currently available. Each Subaccount invests exclusively in shares of one of the corresponding Funds or Portfolios. We may add or delete Subaccounts in the future. Not all Subaccounts may be available in all jurisdictions or under all Contracts.
         The Separate Account purchases and redeems shares from the Funds at net asset value. We redeem shares of the Funds as necessary to provide benefits, to deduct Contract charges and to transfer assets from one Subaccount to another as you request. All dividends and capital gains distributions received by the Separate Account from a Fund or Portfolio are reinvested in that Fund or Portfolio at net asset value and retained as assets of the corresponding Subaccount.
         The Separate Account’s financial statements appear in the Statement of Additional Information.
         The Portfolios, which sell their shares to the Subaccounts, may discontinue offering their shares to the Subaccounts. We will not discontinue a Subaccount available for investment without receiving the necessary approvals, if any, from the SEC and applicable state insurance departments. We will notify you of any changes. We reserve the right to make other structural and operational changes affecting the Separate Account.
F.   The Funds
         The Separate Account invests in shares of the following Funds:
    AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)
 
    The Alger Portfolios
 
    Credit Suisse Trust
 
    Dreyfus Investment Portfolios
 
    The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc.
 
    DWS Investments VIT Funds
 
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    DWS Variable Series II
         The Funds provide investment vehicles for variable life insurance and variable annuity contracts and, in the case of Credit Suisse Trust, certain qualified retirement plans. Shares of the Funds are sold only to insurance company separate accounts and qualified retirement plans. Shares of the Funds may be sold to separate accounts of other insurance companies, whether or not affiliated with us. It is conceivable that in the future it may be disadvantageous for variable life insurance separate accounts and variable annuity separate accounts of companies unaffiliated with us, or for variable life insurance separate accounts, variable annuity separate accounts and qualified retirement plans to invest simultaneously in the accounts, variable annuity separate accounts and qualified retirement plans to invest simultaneously in the Funds. Currently, we do not foresee disadvantages to variable life insurance owners, variable annuity owners or qualified retirement plans from these arrangements. The Funds monitor events for material conflicts between owners and determine what action, if any, should be taken. In addition, if we believe that a Fund’s response to any of those events or conflicts insufficiently protects Owners, we will take appropriate action.
         There can be no assurance that the DWS Money Market VIP portfolio will be able to maintain a stable net asset value per share. During extended periods of low interest rates, and partly as a result of insurance charges, the yield on the DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount may become extremely low and possibly negative. You could lose money when invested in the DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount.
         A Fund may consist of separate Portfolios. The assets of each Portfolio are held separate from the assets of the other Portfolios, and each Portfolio has its own distinct investment objective and policies. Each Portfolio operates as a separate investment fund, and the investment performance of one Portfolio has no effect on the investment performance of any other Portfolio.
         The following table summarizes each Fund/Portfolio’s investment objective and provides the name of each investment adviser.
           
 
  Fund/Portfolio     Investment Objective and Investment Adviser  
 
Alger Balanced Portfolio (Class 
I-2 Shares)
    Seeks current income and long term capitalization. Investment adviser is Fred Alger Management, Inc.  
 
Alger Capital Appreciation Portfolio (Class I-2 Shares)
    Seeks long term capitalization. Investment adviser is Fred Alger Management, Inc.  
 
Credit Suisse Trust-International Equity Flex III Portfolio (Trust Class Shares)
    Seeks capital appreciation. Investment adviser is Credit Suisse Asset Management, LLC.  
 
Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, MidCap Stock Portfolio (Initial Share Class)
    Seeks investment results that are greater than the total return performance of publicly traded common stocks of medium-size domestic companies in the aggregate, as represented by the Standard & Poor’s MidCap 400® Index (S&P 400). Investment adviser is The Dreyfus Corporation.  
 
DWS Balanced VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks high total return, a combination of income and capital appreciation. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The subadvisers are QS Investors, LLC and Deutsche Asset Management International GmbH (DeAMi).  
 
DWS Blue Chip VIP (Class A
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Shares)
    Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The subadviser is QS Investors, LLC.  
 
DWS Bond VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks to maximize total return consistent with preservation of capital and prudent investment management, by investing for both current income and capital appreciation. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc.  
 
DWS Capital Growth VIP (Successor to DWS Health Care VIP (Variable Series I) and DWS Technology VIP (Variable Series II)) (Class A Shares) 1
    Seeks to provide long-term growth of capital. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc.  
 
DWS Core Fixed Income VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks high current income. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc.  
 
DWS Diversified International Equity VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks capital appreciation. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The subadviser is QS Investors, LLC.  
 
DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks long-term capital appreciation. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The subadviser is Dreman Value Management L.L.C.  
 
DWS Equity 500 Index VIP (Class A Shares) *
    Seeks to replicate, as closely as possible, before the deduction of expenses, the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Stock Price Index (the “S&P 500® Index”), which emphasizes stocks of large US companies. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The subadviser is Northern Trust Investments, Inc.  
 
DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Global Opportunities VIP) (Class A Shares) 2
    Seeks above-average capital appreciation over the long term. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc.  
 
DWS Global Thematic VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks long-term capital growth. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The subadviser is Global Thematic Partners, LLC.  
 
DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks high current income consistent with preservation of capital. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc.  
 
DWS Growth & Income VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks long-term growth of capital, current income and growth of income. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The Subadviser is QS Investors, LLC.  
 
DWS High Income VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks to provide a high level of current income. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc.  
 
DWS International VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks long-term growth of capital. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc.  
 
 
1 Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Health Care VIP (DWS Variable Series I) and DWS Technology VIP (DWS Variable Series II) each merged into DWS Capital Growth VIP (DWS Variable Series I), pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
2 Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Global Opportunities VIP changed its name to DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP.

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DWS Large Cap Value VIP (Successor to DWS Strategic Value VIP) (Class A Shares)3
    Seeks to achieve a high rate of total return. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The subadviser is Deutsche Asset Management International GmbH (DeAMi).  
 
DWS Money Market VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks maximum current income to the extent consistent with stability of principal. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc.  
 
DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Small Cap Growth VIP) (Successor to DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP and to DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP) (Class A Shares) 4
    Seeks long-term capital appreciation. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc.  
 
DWS Strategic Income VIP (Class A Shares)
    Seeks a high current return. Investment adviser is Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The subadviser is QS Investors, LLC.  
 
Invesco V.I. Utilities Fund (Series I Shares)
    Seeks long-term growth of capital, and, secondarily, current income. Investment adviser is Invesco Advisers, Inc.  
 
The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc. (Initial Share Class)
    Seeks to provide capital growth, with current income as a secondary goal. Investment adviser is The Dreyfus Corporation.  
 
* “Standard & Poor’s ®,” “S&P ® ,” “S&P 500® ,” “Standard & Poor’s® 500,” Standard and Poor’s MidCap 400 ® ,” and “500” are trademarks of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and have been licensed for use by Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The DWS Index 500 Portfolio is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Standard & Poor’s® , and Standard & Poor’s ® makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the Portfolio. Additional information may be found in the Portfolio’s statement of additional information.
 
         The Portfolios may not achieve their stated objective. More detailed information, including a description of risks, fees and expenses involved in investing in the Portfolios is found in the Portfolios’ prospectuses accompanying this Prospectus and in the Portfolios’ statements of additional information, available from us upon request. You should read the Portfolio prospectuses carefully.
 
3 Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Strategic Value VIP merged into DWS Large Cap Value VIP, pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
4 Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Small Cap Growth VIP changed its name to DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP. Also Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP and DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP each merged into DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Small Cap Growth VIP), pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.

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G.   Selection of Funds
         The Funds or Portfolios offered through the Contracts are selected by ZALICO, and ZALICO may consider various factors, including, but not limited to asset class coverage, the strength of the investment adviser’s (and/or subadviser’s) reputation and tenure, brand recognition, performance, and the capability and qualification of each investment firm. We also consider whether the Fund or Portfolio or one of its service providers (e.g., the investment adviser, administrator and/or distributor) will make payments to us in connection with certain administrative, marketing, and support services, or whether the Funds or Portfolios adviser was an affiliate. We review the Portfolios periodically and may remove a Portfolio, or limit its availability to new premiums and/or transfers of Contract Value if we determine that a Portfolio no longer satisfies one or more of the selection criteria and/or if the Portfolio has not attracted significant allocations from Contract Owners.
         You are responsible for choosing to invest in the Subaccounts that, in turn, invest in the Funds or Portfolios. Your are also responsible for choosing the amounts allocated to each Subaccount that are appropriate for your own individual circumstances and your investment goals, financial situation, and risk tolerance. Since you bear the investment risk of investing in the Subaccounts, you should carefully consider any decisions regarding allocations of Purchase Payments and Contract Value to each Subaccount.
         In making your investment selections, we encourage you to thoroughly investigate all of the information regarding the Funds or Portfolios that is available to you, including each Fund or Portfolio’s prospectus, statement of additional information, and annual and semi-annual reports. Other sources such as the Fund or Portfolio’s website or newspapers and financial and other magazines provide more current information, including information about any regulatory actions or investigations relating to a Fund or Portfolio. After you select Subaccounts in which to allocate Purchase Payments or Contract Value, you should monitor and periodically re-evaluate your investment allocations to determine if they are still appropriate.
         You bear the risk that the Contract Value of your Contract may decline as a result of negative investment performance of the Subaccounts you have chosen.
         We do not provide investment advice and we do not recommend or endorse any of the particular Funds or Portfolios available as variable options in the Contract.
         Administrative, Marketing, and Support Services Fees. The Funds and Portfolios currently available for investment under the Contract do not charge 12b-1 fees.
         We may receive payments from some of the Funds’ service providers in connection with certain administrative and other services we perform and expenses we incur. The amount of the payment is based on a percentage of the assets of the particular Funds attributable to the Contract and/or to certain other variable insurance products that we issue. These percentages currently range from .085% to .25%. Some service providers pay us more than others.
         The chart below provides the current maximum percentages of fees that we anticipate will be paid to us on an annual basis:
                       
 
  Incoming Payments to ZALICO  
  From the following Funds or     Maximum % of     From the following Funds or     Maximum % of  
  their Service Providers:     assets*     their Service Providers:     assets*  
  AIM     .25%     Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth     .25%  
  Alger     .25%     DWS     .085%  
  Credit Suisse     .25%              
 
 
*   Payments are based on a percentage of the average assets of each Fund owned by the Subaccounts available under this Contract and/or under certain other variable insurance products offered by our affiliates and us.

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         We may directly or indirectly receive additional amounts or different percentages of assets under management from some of the Funds’ service providers with regard to other variable insurance products we issue. These payments may be derived, in whole or in part, from the profits the investment adviser or sub-adviser realizes from the advisory fee deducted from Portfolio assets. Contract Owners, through their indirect investment in the Funds, bear the costs of these advisory fees. Certain investment advisers or their affiliates may provide us and/or selling firms with wholesaling services to assist us in servicing the Contract, may pay us and/or certain affiliates and/or selling firms amounts to participate in sales meetings or may reimburse our sales costs, and may provide us and/or certain affiliates and/or selling firms with occasional gifts, meals, tickets or other compensation. The amounts in the aggregate may be significant and may provide the investment adviser (or other affiliates) with increased access to us and to our affiliates.
         Proceeds from these payments by the Funds or their service providers may be used for any corporate purpose, including payment of expenses that we and/or our affiliates incur in distributing and administering the Contracts, and that we incur, in our role as intermediary, in marketing and administering the underlying Portfolios. We and our affiliates may profit from these payments.
         For further details about the compensation payments we make in connection with the sale of the Contracts, see “Distribution of Contracts” in this Prospectus.
H.   Change of Investments
         We reserve the right to make additions to, deletions from, or substitutions for the shares held by the Separate Account or that the Separate Account may purchase. We may eliminate the shares of any of the Funds or Portfolios and substitute shares of another portfolio or of another investment company, if the shares of a Fund or Portfolio are no longer available for investment, or if in our judgment further investment in any Fund or Portfolio becomes inappropriate in view of the purposes of the Separate Account. We will not substitute any shares attributable to your interest in a Subaccount without prior notice and the SEC’s prior approval, if required. The Separate Account may purchase other securities for other series or classes of contracts, or may permit a conversion between series or classes of contracts on the basis of requests made by Owners.
         We may establish additional subaccounts of the Separate Account, each of which would invest in a new portfolio of the Funds, or in shares of another investment company. New subaccounts may be established when, in our discretion, marketing needs or investment conditions warrant. New subaccounts may be made available to existing Owners as we determine. We may also eliminate or combine one or more subaccounts, transfer assets, or substitute one subaccount for another subaccount, if, in our discretion, marketing, tax, or investment conditions warrant. We will notify all Owners of any such changes.

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         If we deem it to be in the best interests of persons having voting rights under the Contract, the Separate Account may be: (a) operated as a management company under the 1940 Act; (b) deregistered under the 1940 Act in the event such registration is no longer required; or (c) combined with our other separate accounts. To the extent permitted by law, we may transfer the assets of the Separate Account to another separate account or to the General Account.
FIXED ACCOUNT OPTION
         Amounts allocated or transferred to the Fixed Account are part of our General Account, supporting insurance and annuity obligations. Interests in the Fixed Account are not registered under the 1933 Act, and the Fixed Account is not registered as an investment company under the 1940 Act. Accordingly, neither the Fixed Account nor any interests therein generally are subject to the provisions of the 1933 or 1940 Acts. We have been advised that the staff of the SEC has not reviewed the disclosures in this Prospectus relating to the Fixed Account. Disclosures regarding the Fixed Account, however, may be subject to the general provisions of the federal securities laws relating to the accuracy and completeness of statements made in prospectuses.
         Under the Fixed Account Option, we pay a fixed interest rate for stated periods. This Prospectus describes only the aspects of the Contract involving the Separate Account and the MVA Option, unless we refer to fixed accumulation and annuity elements.
         We guarantee that payments allocated to the Fixed Account earn a minimum fixed interest rate not less than the minimum rate allowed by state law. At our discretion, we may credit interest in excess of the minimum guaranteed rate. We reserve the right to change the rate of excess interest credited. We also reserve the right to declare different rates of excess interest depending on when amounts are allocated or transferred to the Fixed Account. As a result, amounts at any designated time may be credited with a different rate of excess interest than the rate previously credited to such amounts and to amounts allocated or transferred at any other designated time.
THE CONTRACTS
A.   General Information.
         This Contract is no longer offered for sale, although we continue to accept additional Purchase Payments under the Contract. The minimum additional Purchase Payment is $500 ($50 or more for IRAs). The minimum additional Purchase Payment is $100 if you authorize us to draw on an account via check or electronic debit. Cumulative Purchase Payments in excess of $1,000,000 require our prior approval. The Internal Revenue Code may also limit the maximum annual amount of Purchase Payments. An allocation to a Subaccount, the Fixed Account or a Guarantee Period must be at least $500.
         Contracts issued on a group basis are represented by a certificate. Contracts issued on an individual basis are represented by an individual annuity contract. For purposes of this Prospectus, the term “Contract” refers both to certificates and to individual annuity contracts. The Contract was available to be purchased by natural persons, or by trusts or custodial accounts which hold the Contract as agent for and for the sole benefit of a natural person.
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         During the Accumulation Period, you may assign the Contract or change a Beneficiary at any time by signing our form and sending our form back to the Service Center completed and in good order. No assignment or Beneficiary change is binding on us until we receive our form in good order. We reserve the right, except to the extent prohibited by applicable laws, regulations, or actions of the State insurance commissioner, to require that the assignment will be effective only upon acceptance by us, and to refuse assignments or transfers at any time on a non-discriminatory basis. We assume no responsibility for the validity of the assignment or Beneficiary change. An assignment may subject you to immediate tax liability and a 10% tax penalty.
         Amounts payable during the Annuity Period may not be assigned or encumbered. In addition, to the extent permitted by law, annuity payments are not subject to levy, attachment or other judicial process for the payment of the Annuitant’s debts or obligations.
         You designate the Beneficiary. If you or the Annuitant die, and no designated Beneficiary or contingent beneficiary is alive at that time, we will pay your or the Annuitant’s estate.
         Under a Qualified Plan Contract, the provisions of the applicable plan may prohibit a change of Beneficiary. Generally, an interest in a Qualified Plan Contract may not be assigned.
B.   The Accumulation Period.
  1.   Application of Purchase Payments.
         You select how to allocate your Purchase Payments among the Subaccount(s), Guarantee Periods, and/or Fixed Account. The amount of each Purchase Payment allocated to a Subaccount is based on the value of an Accumulation Unit, as next computed after we receive the Purchase Payment in good order at the Service Center or the bank we have designated to receive Purchase Payments (“the bank”). Generally, we determine the value of an Accumulation Unit as of 3:00 p.m. Central Time on each day that the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open for trading. Purchase Payments that we receive at the Service Center in good order after 3:00 p.m. Central Time will be priced using the Accumulation Unit values next determined at the end of the next regular trading session of the NYSE. Electronic payments received by wire or through electronic credit or debit transactions at the bank in good order after 3:00 p.m. Central Time will be priced using the Accumulation Unit values next determined at the end of the next regular trading session of the NYSE. Please contact the Service Center for wiring instructions or instructions on automatic electronic debiting.
         Purchase Payments allocated to a Guarantee Period or to the Fixed Account begin earning interest one day after we receive them in good order at the Service Center or the bank. Upon receipt of a Purchase Payment in good order, we determine the number of Accumulation Units credited by dividing the Purchase Payment allocated to a Subaccount by the Subaccount’s Accumulation Unit value, as next computed after we receive the Purchase Payment.
         Some of the Funds reserve the right to delay or refuse purchase requests from the Separate Account, as further described in their prospectuses and/or statements of additional information. Therefore, if you request a transaction under your Contract that is part of a purchase request delayed or refused by a Fund, we will be unable to process your request. In that event, we will notify you promptly in writing or by telephone.
         The number of Accumulation Units will not change due to investment experience. Accumulation Unit value varies to reflect the investment experience of the Subaccount and the assessment of charges against the Subaccount, other than the Withdrawal Charge, the Records Maintenance Charge and Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit Charge (See “CONTRACTS ISSUED BEFORE NOVEMBER

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12, 2001”). The number of Accumulation Units is reduced when the Records Maintenance Charge and Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit Charge are assessed.
  2.   Accumulation Unit Value.
         Each Subaccount has an Accumulation Unit value. When Purchase Payments or other amounts are allocated to a Subaccount, the number of units purchased is based on the Subaccount’s Accumulation Unit value at the end of the current Valuation Period. When amounts are transferred out of or deducted from a Subaccount, units are redeemed in a similar manner.
         The Accumulation Unit value for each subsequent Valuation Period is the investment experience factor for that Valuation Period times the Accumulation Unit value for the preceding Valuation Period. Each Valuation Period has a single Accumulation Unit value which applies to each day in the Valuation Period.
         Each Subaccount has its own investment experience factor. The investment experience of the Separate Account is calculated by applying the investment experience factor to the Accumulation Unit value in each Subaccount during a Valuation Period.
         The investment experience factor of a Subaccount for any Valuation Period is determined by the following formula:
         (a divided by b) minus c, where:
  “a” is:
    the net asset value per share of the Portfolio held in the Subaccount as of the end of the current Valuation Period; plus
 
    the per share amount of any dividend or capital gain distributions made by the Portfolio held in the Subaccount, if the “ex-dividend” date occurs during the current Valuation Period; plus or minus
 
    a credit or charge for any taxes reserved for the current Valuation Period which we determine have resulted from the investment operations of the Subaccount;
  “b” is the net asset value per share of the Portfolio held in the Subaccount as of the end of the preceding Valuation Period;
and
  “c” is the factor representing asset-based charges (the mortality and expense risk and administration charges).
  3.   Guarantee Periods of the MVA Option.
         You may allocate Purchase Payments to one or more Guarantee Periods with durations of one to ten years. Each Guarantee Period has a Guaranteed Interest Rate that will not change during the Guarantee Period. Interest is credited daily at the effective annual rate.
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EXAMPLE OF GUARANTEED INTEREST RATE ACCUMULATION
     
Purchase Payment
  $40,000.00
Guarantee Period
  5 Years
Guaranteed Interest Rate
  3.00% Effective Annual Rate
                 
    Interest Credited   Cumulative Interest
Year   During Year   Credited
1
  $ 1,200.00     $ 1,200.00  
2
    1,236.00       2,436.00  
3
    1,273.08       3,709.08  
4
    1,311.27       5,020.35  
5
    1,350.61       6,370.96  
         Accumulated value at the end of 5 years is:
$40,000.00 + $6,370.96 = $46,370.96
         Note: This example assumes that no withdrawals or transfers are made during the five-year period. If you make withdrawals or transfers during this period, Market Value Adjustments and Withdrawal Charges apply.
         The hypothetical interest rate is not intended to predict future Guaranteed Interest Rates. Actual Guaranteed Interest Rates for any Guarantee Period may be more than those shown.
         At the end of any Guarantee Period, we send written notice of the beginning of a new Guarantee Period. A new Guarantee Period for the same duration starts unless you elect another Guarantee Period within 30 days after the end of the terminating Guarantee Period. You may choose a different Guarantee Period by calling the Service Center or by mailing us written notice in good order. You should not select a new Guarantee Period extending beyond the Annuity Date. Otherwise, the Guarantee Period amount available for annuitization will be subject to Market Value Adjustments and may be subject to Withdrawal Charges. In a rising interest rate environment, the Market Value Adjustment could result in a substantial downward adjustment to your Contract Value. (See “Market Value Adjustment” and “Withdrawal Charge” below.)
         The amount reinvested at the beginning of a new Guarantee Period is the Guarantee Period Value for the Guarantee Period just ended. The Guaranteed Interest Rate in effect when the new Guarantee Period begins applies for the duration of the new Guarantee Period.
         You may call or write us at the Service Center for the new Guaranteed Interest Rates.
  4.   Establishment of Guaranteed Interest Rates.
         We declare the Guaranteed Interest Rates for each of the durations of Guarantee Periods from time to time at our discretion. Once established, rates are guaranteed for the respective Guarantee Periods. We advise you of the Guaranteed Interest Rate for a chosen Guarantee Period when we receive a Purchase Payment, when a transfer is effectuated or when a Guarantee Period renews. Withdrawals of Accumulated Guarantee Period Value are subject to Withdrawal Charges and Records Maintenance Charges and may be subject to a Market Value Adjustment. (See “Market Value Adjustment” below.)

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         We have no specific formula for establishing the Guaranteed Interest Rates. The determination may be influenced by, but not necessarily correspond to, the current interest rate environment. (See “The MVA Option”.) We may also consider, among other factors, the duration of a Guarantee Period, regulatory and tax requirements, sales commissions and administrative expenses we bear, and general economic trends.
         We make the final determination of the Guaranteed Interest Rates to be declared. We cannot predict or guarantee the level of future Guaranteed Interest Rates.
  5.   Contract Value.
         On any Valuation Date, Contract Value equals the total of:
    the number of Accumulation Units credited to each Subaccount, times
 
    the value of a corresponding Accumulation Unit for each Subaccount, plus
 
    your Accumulated Guarantee Period Value in the MVA Option, plus
 
    your interest in the Fixed Account.
  6.   Transfers During the Accumulation Period.
         During the Accumulation Period, you may transfer the Contract Value among the Subaccounts, the Guarantee Periods and the Fixed Account subject to the following provisions:
    the amount transferred must be at least $100 unless the total Contract Value attributable to a Subaccount, Guarantee Period or Fixed Account is transferred;
 
    the Contract Value remaining in a Subaccount, Guarantee Period or Fixed Account must be at least $500 unless the total value is transferred;
 
    transfers may not be made from any Subaccount to the Fixed Account over the six months following any transfer from the Fixed Account into one or more Subaccounts;
 
    transfers from the Fixed Account may be made one time during the Contract Year during the 30 days following an anniversary of a Contract Year; and
 
    transfer requests we receive must be in good order.
         We may charge a $25 fee for each transfer in excess of 12 transfers per calendar year. However, transfers made pursuant to the Asset Allocation and Dollar Cost Averaging programs do not count toward these 12 transfers. In addition, transfers of Guarantee Period Value are subject to Market Value Adjustment unless the transfer is made within 30 days of the end of the Guarantee Period. Because a transfer before the end of a Guarantee Period is subject to a Market Value Adjustment, the amount transferred from the Guarantee Period may be more or less than the requested dollar amount.
         We will make transfers pursuant to your mailed, faxed or telephone instructions that specify in detail the requested changes and are in good order. Transfers involving a Subaccount are based upon the Accumulation Unit values, as next calculated after we receive transfer instructions in good order at the Service Center. We may suspend, modify or terminate the transfer provision. We disclaim all liability if we follow in good faith instructions you give to us in accordance with our procedures, including requests for personal identifying information, that are designed to limit unauthorized use of the privilege. Therefore, you bear the risk of loss in the event of a fraudulent telephone transfer.
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1-864-609-3962. You may also request transfers by telephone by calling our Service Center at 1-800-449-0523 and providing us with all required information.
         Website Access. You may request transfers through our website. Our website address at www.zurichamericanlifeinsurance.com (formerly www.kemperinvestors.com) is available 24 hours a day. Our website will allow you to request transfers among the Subaccounts, Fixed Account, and the Guarantee Periods and inquire about your Contract. To use the website for access to your Contract information or to request transfers, you must enter your Contract number and Personal Identification Number (PIN), which you can obtain from our Service Center.
         Pricing of Transfers. We will price any transfer request that we receive in good order at the Service Center (by mail, fax, or telephone) or through our website address before the NYSE closes for regular trading (usually, 3:00 p.m. Central Time) using the Accumulation Unit values next determined at the end of that regular trading session of the NYSE.
         And we will price any transfer request that we receive in good order at the Service Center (by mail, fax, or telephone) or through our website after the close of the regular business session of the NYSE, on any day the NYSE is open for regular trading, using the Accumulation Unit values next determined at the end of the next regular trading session of the NYSE.
         E-mail Access. Currently, we do not allow transfer requests or withdrawals by e-mail. You may e-mail us through our website to request an address change or to inquire about your Contract. Please identify your Contract number in any transaction request or correspondence sent to us by e-mail.
         Limitations on Transfers. The following transfers must be requested through standard first-class United States mail and must have an original signature:
    transfers in excess of $250,000, per Contract, per day, and
 
    transfers into and out of the Credit Suisse Trust-International Equity Flex III, the DWS Global Thematic VIP, the DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Global Opportunities VIP), the DWS International VIP or the DWS Diversified International Equity VIP Subaccounts in excess of $50,000, per Contract, per day.
         These administrative procedures have been adopted under the Contract to protect the interests of the remaining Contract Owners from the adverse effects of frequent and large transfers into and out of variable annuity Subaccounts that can adversely affect the investment management of the underlying Funds or Portfolios.
         We reserve the right to further amend the transfer procedures in the interest of protecting remaining Contract Owners.
         Some of the Funds reserve the right to delay or refuse purchase requests from the Separate Account, as further described in their prospectuses and/or statements of additional information. Therefore, if you request a transaction under your Contract that is part of a purchase request delayed or refused by a Fund, we will be unable to process your request. In that event, we will notify you promptly in writing or by telephone.
         Additional Telephone, Fax, and Online Access Rules and Conditions. We will employ reasonable procedures to confirm that telephone, fax, e-mail and website instructions are genuine. Such procedures may include confirming that instructions are in good order, requiring forms of personal identification prior to acting upon any telephone, fax, e-mail and website instructions, providing written

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confirmation of transactions to you, and/or tape recording telephone instructions and saving fax, e-mail and website instructions received from you. We disclaim all liability if we follow in good faith instructions given in accordance with our procedures that are designed to limit unauthorized use of the telephone, fax, e-mail and website privileges. Therefore, you bear the risk of loss in the event of a fraudulent telephone, fax, e-mail and website request.
         In order to access our website or our automated customer response system, you will need to obtain a PIN by calling into the Service Center. You should protect your PIN, because the automated customer response system will be available to your representative of record and to anyone who provides your PIN. We will not be able to verify that the person providing electronic instructions is you or authorized by you.
         We cannot guarantee that our telephone, fax, e-mail and website services will always be available. For example, our Service Center may be closed during severe weather emergencies or there may be interruptions in telephone or fax service or problems with computer systems that are beyond our control. Outages or slowdowns may prevent or delay our receipt of your request. If the volume of requests is unusually high, we might not be able to receive your order. Although we have taken precautions to help our systems handle heavy use, we cannot promise complete reliability under all circumstances. If you are experiencing problems, you should make your request or correspond in writing to our mailing address.
         Transfer requests made in writing, by phone, by fax, or through our website must comply with our transfer provisions stated in this Prospectus. Any transfer requests that are not in good order or are not in compliance with these provisions will not be considered received at our Service Center. We reserve the right to modify, restrict, suspend or eliminate the transfer privileges (including the telephone, fax, and website transfer privilege) at any time, for any class of Contracts, for any reason.
         Third Party Transfers. If you authorize a third party to transact transfers on your behalf, we will reallocate the Contract Value pursuant to the authorized asset allocation program. However, we do not offer or participate in any asset allocation program and we take no responsibility for any third party asset allocation program. We may suspend or cancel acceptance of a third party’s instructions at any time and may restrict the variable options available for transfer under third party authorizations.
         Automatic Account Rebalancing. You may elect to have transfers made automatically among the Subaccounts on an annual, semiannual or quarterly basis so that Contract Value is reallocated to match the percentage allocations in your predefined allocation elections. Transfers under this program are not subject to the $100 minimum transfer limitation. Your election to participate in the automatic asset reallocation program must be in writing on our form and returned to us in good order.
  7.   Policy and Procedures Regarding Disruptive Trading and Market Timing.
         Statement of Policy. This Contract is not designed for use by organizations or individuals engaged in market timing or for use by investors who make frequent transfers, programmed transfers, transfers into and then out of a Subaccount in a short period of time, or transfers of large amounts at one time (“Disruptive Trading”).
         Market timing and other kinds of Disruptive Trading can increase your investment risks and have harmful effects for you, for other Contract Owners, for the underlying Portfolios, and for other persons who have material rights under the Contract, such as insureds and beneficiaries. These risks and harmful effects include:

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    dilution of the interests of long-term investors in a Subaccount if market timers manage to transfer into an underlying Portfolio at prices that are below the true value or to transfer out of the underlying Portfolio at prices that are above the true value of the underlying Portfolio’s investments (some market timers attempt to do this through methods known as “time-zone arbitrage” and “liquidity arbitrage”); and
 
    reduced investment performance due to adverse effects on Portfolio management by:
 
  o   impeding a Portfolio manager’s ability to sustain an investment objective;     
 
  o   causing the underlying Portfolio to maintain a higher level of cash than would otherwise be the case; or
 
  o   causing an underlying Portfolio to liquidate investments prematurely (or otherwise at an inopportune time) in order to pay withdrawals or transfers out of the underlying Portfolio; and
 
  o   increased costs to you in the form of increased brokerage and administrative expenses. These costs are borne by all Contract Owners invested in those Subaccounts, not just those making the transfers.
         Policy Against Disruptive Trading. We have adopted policies and procedures that are intended to detect and deter market timing and other forms of Disruptive Trading in the Contract. We do not make special arrangements or grant exceptions or waivers to accommodate any persons or class of persons with regard to these policies and procedures.
         Do not invest with us if you intend to engage in market timing or potentially Disruptive Trading.
         For these purposes, we do not include transfers made pursuant to Dollar Cost Averaging.
         Detection. We monitor the transfer activities of Owners in order to detect market timing and other forms of Disruptive Trading activity. However, despite our monitoring we may not be able to detect or halt all Disruptive Trading activity. Our ability to detect Disruptive Trading may be limited by operational or technological systems, as well as by our ability to predict strategies employed by market timers to avoid detection. As a result, despite our efforts, there is no assurance that we will be able to identify and curtail all Disruptive Trading by such Contract Owners or intermediaries acting on their behalf.
         In addition, because other insurance companies (and retirement plans) with different market timing policies and procedures may invest in the underlying Portfolios, we cannot guarantee that all harmful trading will be detected or that an underlying Portfolio will not suffer harm from Disruptive Trading in the subaccounts of variable products issued by these other insurance companies (or retirement plans) that invest in the underlying Portfolios.
         As a result, to the extent we are not able to detect Disruptive Trading activity, or other insurance companies (or retirement plans) fail to detect such activity, it is possible that a market timer may be able to engage in Disruptive Trading transactions that may interfere with underlying Portfolio management and cause you to experience detrimental effects such as increased costs, lower performance and a dilution of your interest in a underlying Portfolio.
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         We will accept the following transfers only if the order is sent to us with an original signature and by first class U.S. Mail:
    transfers in excess of $250,000 per Contract, per day; and
 
    transfers in excess of $50,000 per Contract, per day, into or out any of the following Subaccounts:
  o   Credit Suisse Trust-International Equity Flex III,
 
  o   DWS Global Thematic VIP,
 
  o   DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Global Opportunities VIP),
 
  o   DWS International VIP, or
 
  o   DWS Diversified International Equity VIP.
         If you send a transfer request in excess of these restrictions by any other method (such as fax, phone, or overnight mail), we will not honor your request.
         If we identify suspicious transfer activity, we will advise you in writing that we are monitoring your transfer activity and that we will impose restrictions if we identify a pattern of Disruptive Trading activity. If we identify such a pattern as a result of continued monitoring, we will notify you in writing that all future transfers must be requested through first class U.S. Mail with an original signature. This means that we would accept only written transfer requests with an original signature transmitted to us only by U.S. mail. We may also restrict the transfer privileges of others acting on your behalf, including your registered representative or an asset allocation or investment advisory service.
         To further deter any market timing and Disruptive Trading activities, we may at any time and without prior notice:
    terminate all telephone, website, email or fax transfer privileges;
 
    limit the total number of transfers;
 
    place further limits on the dollar amount that may be transfer;
 
    require a minimum period of time between transfers; or
 
    refuse transfer requests from intermediaries acting on behalf of you.
         Our ability to impose these restrictions in order to discourage market timing and other forms of Disruptive Trading may be limited by provisions of your Contract. As a result, to the extent the provisions of your Contract limit our actions, some Contract Owners may be able to market time through the Contract, while others would bear the harm associated with the timing.
         We reserve the right to reject any premium payment or transfer request from any person without prior notice, if, in our judgment, (1) the payment or transfer, or series of transfers, would have a negative impact on an underlying Portfolio’s operations, (2) if an underlying Portfolio would reject or has rejected our purchase order, or has instructed us not to allow that purchase or transfer, or (3) because of a history of large or frequent transfers. We may impose other restrictions on transfers, or even prohibit transfers for any Owner who, in our view, has abused, or appears likely to abuse, the transfer privilege. We also reserve the right to reverse a potentially harmful transfer if an underlying Portfolio refuses or reverses our order; in such instances some Contract Owners may be treated differently than others. For all of these purposes, we may aggregate two or more variable insurance products that we believe are connected.
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imposed by any underlying Portfolio. To the extent permitted by law, we also reserve the right to defer the transfer privilege at any time that we are unable to purchase or redeem shares of any of the underlying Portfolios.
         Under our current policies and procedures, we do not:
    impose redemption fees on transfers;
 
    expressly limit the number, size or frequency of transfers in a given period (except for certain Subaccounts listed above where transfers that exceed a certain size are prohibited); or
 
    allow a certain number of transfers in a given period.
         Redemption fees, other transfer limits, and other procedures or restrictions may be more or less successful than ours in deterring market timing or other forms of Disruptive Trading and in preventing or limiting harm from such trading.
         Please note that the limits and restrictions described herein are subject to our ability to monitor transfer activity. Our ability to detect market timing and other Disruptive Trading may be limited by operational and technological systems, as well as by our ability to predict strategies employed by Contact Owners (or those acting on their behalf) to avoid detection. As a result, despite our efforts to prevent harmful trading activity among the Subaccounts available under the Contract, there is no assurance that we will be able to deter or detect market timing or Disruptive Trading by such Contract Owners or intermediaries acting on their behalf. Moreover, our ability to discourage and restrict market timing or Disruptive Trading may be limited by decisions of state regulatory bodies and court order which we cannot predict.
         We may revise our policies and procedures in our sole discretion at any time and without prior notice, as we deem necessary or appropriate (1) to better detect and deter market timing or other Disruptive Trading if we discover that our current procedures do not adequately curtail such activity, (2) to comply with state or federal regulatory requirements, or (3) to impose additional or alternative restrictions on Owners engaging in frequent transfer activity among the underlying Portfolios under the Contract. The actions we take will be based on policies and procedures that we apply uniformly to all Contract Owners.
         Underlying Portfolio Frequent Trading Policies. The underlying Portfolios may have adopted their own policies and procedures with respect to frequent purchases and redemptions of their respective shares. The prospectuses for the underlying Portfolios describe any such policies and procedures. The frequent trading policies and procedures of one underlying Portfolio may be different, and more or less restrictive, than the frequent trading policies and procedures of another underlying Portfolios and the policies and procedures we have adopted for the Contract to discourage market timing and other programmed, large, frequent, or short-term transfers.
         You should be aware that, as required by SEC regulation, we have entered into a written agreement with each underlying Fund or principal underwriter that obligates us to provide the Fund, upon written request, with information about you and your trading activities in the Fund’s Portfolios. In addition, we are obligated to execute instructions from the Funds that may require us to restrict or prohibit your investment in a specific Portfolio if the Fund identifies you as violating the frequent trading policies that the Fund has established for that Portfolio.

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         If we receive a premium payment from you with instructions to allocate it into a Fund that has directed us to restrict or prohibit your trades into the Fund, then we will request new allocation instructions from you. If you request a transfer into a Fund that has directed us to restrict or prohibit your trades, then we will not effect the transfer.
         Omnibus Order. Contract Owners and other persons with material rights under the Contract also should be aware that the purchase and redemption orders received by the underlying Portfolios generally are “omnibus” orders from intermediaries such as retirement plans and separate accounts funding variable insurance products. The omnibus orders reflect the aggregation and netting of multiple orders from individual retirement plan participants and individual owners of variable insurance products. The omnibus nature of these orders may limit the underlying Portfolios’ ability to apply their respective frequent trading policies and procedures. We cannot guarantee that the underlying Portfolios will not be harmed by transfer activity relating to the retirement plans or other insurance companies that may invest in the underlying Portfolios. These other insurance companies are responsible for their own policies and procedures regarding frequent transfer activity. If their policies and procedures fail to successfully discourage harmful transfer activity, it will affect other owners of underlying Portfolio shares, as well as the owners of all of the variable annuity or life insurance policies, including ours, whose variable options correspond to the affected underlying Portfolios. In addition, if an underlying Portfolio believes that an omnibus order we submit may reflect one or more transfer requests from Owners engaged in market timing and other programmed, large, frequent, or short-term transfers, the underlying Portfolio may reject the entire omnibus order and thereby delay or prevent us from implementing your request.
  8.   Withdrawals During the Accumulation Period.
         You may redeem some or all of the Contract Value, subject to any applicable Market Value Adjustment and minus any Withdrawal Charge. In a rising interest rate environment, the Market Value Adjustment could result in a substantial downward adjustment to your Contract Value.
         Withdrawals will have tax consequences. (See “Federal Tax Considerations.”) A withdrawal of the entire Contract Value is called a surrender.
         In any Contract Year, you may withdraw or surrender the Contract, without Withdrawal Charge, up to the greater of:
    the excess of Contract Value over total Purchase Payments subject to Withdrawal Charges, minus prior withdrawals that were previously assessed a Withdrawal Charge, or
 
    10% of the Contract Value.
         See “Contract Charges and Expenses-Withdrawal Charge” for a discussion of the charges we deduct from partial withdrawals and surrenders.
         If your Contract Value is allocated to more than one Subaccounts, you must specify the Subaccount(s) from which you want us to take the partial withdrawal. If you do not specify the Subaccount(s), we will redeem Accumulation Units on a pro rata basis from all Subaccount(s) in which you have an interest. Accumulation Units attributable to the earliest Contribution Years are redeemed first.
         Partial withdrawals are subject to the following:
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    The minimum withdrawal is $100 (before any Market Value Adjustment), or your entire interest in the variable option(s) from which withdrawal is requested.
 
    You must leave at least $500 in each Subaccount from which the withdrawal is requested, unless the total value is withdrawn.
         A request to withdraw shall be made in writing (in good order) to us at the Service Center and should be accompanied by the Contract if surrender is requested. You may request a surrender or partial withdrawal in writing by mailing your request (in good order) to our Service Center, or by faxing your request (in good order) to our Service Center at 1-864-609-3962.
         Withdrawal requests are processed only on days when the New York Stock Exchange is open. The Withdrawal Value attributable to the Subaccounts is determined on the basis of the Accumulation Unit values, as calculated after we receive the request. We will price any partial withdrawal or surrender request that we receive in good order at the Service Center before the NYSE closes for regular trading (usually 3:00 p.m. Central Time) using the Accumulation Unit values next determined at the end of that regular trading session of the NYSE. We will price any partial withdrawal or surrender request that we receive in good order at the Service Center after the NYSE closes for regular trading (usually 3:00 p.m. Central Time), using the Accumulation Unit values next determined at the end of the next regular trading session of the NYSE. The Withdrawal Value attributable to the Subaccounts is paid within seven days after we receive the request. However, we may suspend withdrawals or delay payment:
    during any period when the New York Stock Exchange is closed,
 
    when trading in a Fund or Portfolio is restricted or the SEC determines that an emergency exists, or
 
    as the SEC by order may permit.
         If, pursuant to SEC rules, the DWS Money Market VIP Portfolio suspends payment of redemption proceeds in connection with a liquidation of the Portfolio, we will delay payment of any transfer, partial withdrawal, surrender, loan, or death benefit from the DWS Money Market VIP Sub-account until the Portfolio no longer suspends such payments.
         For withdrawal requests from the MVA Option and the Fixed Account, we may defer any payment for up to six months, as permitted by state law. During the deferral period, we will continue to credit interest at the current Guaranteed Interest Rate for the same Guarantee Period.
         Withdrawals are permitted from Contracts issued in connection with Section 403(b) Qualified Plans only under limited circumstances. If your Contract was issued pursuant to a 403(b) plan, we generally are required to confirm, with your 403(b) plan sponsor or otherwise, that surrenders, withdrawals or transfers you request comply with applicable tax requirements and to decline requests that are not in compliance. We will defer such payments you request until all information required under the tax law has been received. By requesting a surrender, withdrawal or transfer, you consent to the sharing of confidential information about you, your Contract, and transactions under your Contract and any other 403(b) contracts or accounts you have under the 403(b) plan among us, your employer or plan sponsor, any plan administrator or recordkeeper, and other product providers. (See “Federal Tax Considerations.”)
         A participant in the Texas Optional Retirement Program (“ORP”) must obtain a certificate of termination from the participant’s employer before a Contract can be redeemed. The Attorney General of Texas has ruled that participants in the ORP may redeem their interest in a Contract issued pursuant to the ORP only upon termination of employment in Texas public institutions of higher education, or upon retirement, death or total disability. In those states adopting similar requirements for optional retirement programs, we will follow similar procedures.

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         Other types of Qualified Plan Contracts also may be subject to withdrawal restrictions under the Code or the terms of the Qualified Plan. You should consult your tax adviser and your plan sponsor regarding such restrictions. To the extent that you request a transaction with respect to your Qualified Plan Contract that requires us to share confidential information about you in order to comply with the rules under the Code or the plan governing your Qualified Contract, you consent to such information sharing by requesting the transaction.
  9.   Market Value Adjustment.
         Any withdrawal, transfer or annuitization of Guarantee Period Values, unless effected within 30 days after a Guarantee Period ends, may be adjusted up or down by a Market Value Adjustment. We calculate and apply the Market Value Adjustment before we calculate and deduct the Withdrawal Charge.
         The Market Value Adjustment reflects the relationship between (a) the currently established interest rate (“Current Interest Rate”) for a Guarantee Period equal to the remaining length of the Guarantee Period, rounded to the next higher number of complete years, and (b) the Guaranteed Interest Rate applicable to the amount being withdrawn. Generally, if the Guaranteed Interest Rate is the same or lower than the applicable Current Interest Rate, the Market Value Adjustment reduces Guarantee Period Value and results in a lower payment. Conversely, if the Guaranteed Interest Rate is higher than the applicable Current Interest Rate, the Market Value Adjustment increases Guarantee Period Value and results in a higher payment.
         Please be aware that Market Value Adjustments are sensitive to changes in interest rates. If you withdraw money from a Guarantee Period before its term has expired, and during a period of rising interest rates, you likely will be assessed a negative Market Value Adjustment. In times of rising interest rates, the negative Market Value Adjustment could result in a substantial downward adjustment to your Contract Value. Before you take a withdrawal from a Guarantee Period, you should know its expiration date, and ask the Service Center to calculate whether a Market Value Adjustment will apply and how much it will be.
         MVA Endorsement Adding the MVA Floor. Effective April 1, 2005 (the “Effective Date”), we amended your Contract or certificate by putting a “floor” on the Market Value Adjustment feature and increasing the Guaranteed Interest Rate to 3% on all Guarantee Period Values. For this to occur, we issued an endorsement to your Contract or certificate (the “MVA Endorsement”).
         The MVA Endorsement enhanced the MVA formula for your Contract by limiting (i.e., putting a “floor” on) any downward Market Value Adjustment that might be applied after the Effective Date of the MVA Endorsement. The “floor” ensures that, regardless of any changes in interest rates, if you withdraw or transfer money from a Guarantee Period before it expires and after the Start Date, then you will receive a return on your Guarantee Period Value as of the Start Date (before any deductions for Contract charges) that will not be less than the Contract’s new minimum Guaranteed Interest Rate of 3% per annum. The Start Date is the later of the Effective Date of the MVA Endorsement or the beginning of a new Guarantee Period.
         In applying the MVA formula, each amount allocated to a different Guarantee Period or allocated at different times will be considered separately.
         The specific terms of this change to your Contract are described in the MVA Endorsement.
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         The Market Value Adjustment (MVA) uses this formula:
 
         Where:   (MATH FORMULA)
“I” is the Guaranteed Interest Rate being credited to the Guarantee Period Value (GPV) subject to the Market Value Adjustment,
“J” is the Current Interest Rate we declare, as of the effective date of the application of the Market Value Adjustment, for current allocations to a Guarantee Period the length of which is equal to the balance of the Guarantee Period for the Guarantee Period Value subject to the Market Value Adjustment, rounded to the next higher number of complete years, and
“t” is the number of days remaining in the Guarantee Period.
         Any downward Market Value Adjustment is limited by the MVA “floor” described above.
         For an illustration of the new “floor” on a downward Market Value Adjustment, as well as an upward Market Value Adjustment, see Appendix A.
  10.   Guaranteed Death Benefit.
         We pay a death benefit to the Beneficiary if any of the following occurs during the Accumulation Period:
    the Owner, or a joint owner, dies,
 
    the Annuitant dies with no living contingent annuitant, or
 
    the contingent annuitant dies after the Annuitant.
         Each Beneficiary or contingent beneficiary will bear the investment risk (i.e., receive any gains or bear any losses) on investments held in the Subaccounts until the payment of the death benefit. The amount of the death benefit depends on the age of the deceased Owner or Annuitant when the death benefit becomes payable.
         If the deceased Owner or Annuitant dies before age 91, we will pay the Beneficiary the greatest of the following less debt:
    Contract Value,
 
    Purchase Payments minus previous withdrawals, accumulated at 5.00% interest per year to the earlier of the deceased’s age 80 or the date of death, plus Purchase Payments minus all withdrawals from age 80 to the date of death, or
 
    the greatest anniversary value before death.
         The greatest anniversary value equals:
    the highest of the Contract Values on each Contract anniversary prior to the deceased’s age 81, plus the dollar amount of any Purchase Payments made since that anniversary, minus
 
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         We pay Contract Value to the Beneficiary if an Owner or Annuitant dies after age 91. The Owner or Beneficiary (unless the Owner has already elected an Annuity Option), as appropriate, may elect to have all or a part of the death benefit proceeds paid to the Beneficiary under one of the Annuity Options described under “Annuity Options” below. The death benefit must be distributed within five years after the date of death unless an Annuity Option is elected or a surviving spouse elects to continue the Contract in accordance with the provisions described below.
         Note: The right of a spouse to continue the Contract and all Contract provisions relating to spousal continuation are available only to a person who meets the definition of “spouse” under the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, or any other applicable Federal law. Under current Federal law, a prospective or current Owner who has entered into or is contemplating a civil union or a same sex marriage should be aware that the rights of the spouse under the spousal continuation provisions of this Contract will not be available to such partner or same sex marriage spouse.
         For Non-Qualified Plan Contracts or Individual Retirement Annuities, if the Beneficiary is the Owner’s surviving spouse (as defined under Federal law) (or the Annuitant’s surviving spouse if the Owner is not a natural person), the surviving spouse may elect to continue the Contract in lieu of taking a death benefit distribution.
         The spouse will become the successor Owner of the Contract subject to the following:
    The Contract Value will be increased to reflect the amount of the death benefit. The difference will be credited to the DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount.
 
    No Withdrawal Charges will apply on existing values in the Contract. However, Purchase Payments made after the original owner’s death are subject to Withdrawal Charges.
 
    Upon the death of the surviving spouse, the death benefit will be calculated from the time that the election to continue the Contract is made. A subsequent spouse of the surviving spouse will not be able to continue the Contract.
         The above option is subject to availability of this feature in your state.
         As an alternative to the above election, the surviving spouse may elect to continue a Non-Qualified Plan Contract or an Individual Retirement Annuity without receiving the increase in Contract Value attributable to the death benefit. In this case, all rights, benefits and charges under the Contract will continue including any applicable Withdrawal Charges.
CONTRACT CHARGES AND EXPENSES
         This section describes the charges and deductions that we make under the Contract to compensate for: (1) the services and benefits we provide; (2) the costs and expenses we incur; and (3) the risks we assume. The fees and charges we deduct under the Contract may result in a profit to us.
         We deduct the following charges and expenses:
    mortality and expense risk charge,
 
    administration charge,
 
    records maintenance charge,
 
    Withdrawal Charge,
 
    Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit Rider Charge, if any,
 
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    applicable state premium taxes.
         Subject to certain expense limitations, you indirectly bear investment management fees and other Fund expenses.
A.   Charges Against The Separate Account.
  1.   Mortality and Expense Risk Charge.
         We assess each Subaccount a daily asset charge for mortality and expense risks at a rate of 1.25% per annum. Variable Annuity payments reflect the investment experience of each Subaccount but are not affected by changes in actual mortality experience or by actual expenses we incur. If you annuitize the Contract on a variable basis, we will continue to assess a daily Mortality and Expense Risk Charge at an annual rate of 1.25% against the assets you hold in the Separate Account.
         The mortality risk we assume arises from two contractual obligations. First, if you or the Annuitant die before age 91 and before the Annuity Date, we may, in some cases, pay more than Contract Value. (See “Guaranteed Death Benefit”, above.) Second, when Annuity Options involving life contingencies are selected, we assume the risk that Annuitants will live beyond actuarial life expectancies.
         We also assume an expense risk. Actual expenses of administering the Contracts may exceed the amounts we recover from the Records Maintenance Charge or the administrative cost portion of the daily asset charge.
  2.   Administration Charge.
         We assess each Subaccount a daily administration charge at a rate of 0.15% per annum. This charge reimburses us for expenses incurred for administering the Contracts. These expenses include Owner inquiries, changes in allocations, Owner reports, Contract maintenance costs, and data processing costs. The administration charge covers the average anticipated administrative expenses incurred while the Contracts are in force. There is not necessarily a direct relationship between the amount of the charge and the administrative costs of a particular Contract. If you annuitize the Contract on a variable basis, we will continue to assess a daily Administration Charge at an annual rate of 0.15% against the assets you hold in the Separate Account.
  3.   Records Maintenance Charge.
         We deduct an annual Records Maintenance Charge of $30 during the Accumulation Period. The charge is assessed:
    at the end of each Contract Year,
 
    on Contract surrender, and
 
    upon annuitization.
         However, we do not deduct the Records Maintenance Charge for Contracts with Contract Value of at least $50,000 on the assessment date.
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         The Records Maintenance Charge is assessed equally among all Subaccounts in which you have an interest.
  4.   Withdrawal Charge.
         We deduct a Withdrawal Charge to cover Contract sales expenses, including commissions and other promotion and acquisition expenses.
         Each Contract Year, you may withdraw or surrender the Contract, without Withdrawal Charge, up to the greater of:
    the excess of Contract Value over total Purchase Payments subject to Withdrawal Charges, minus prior withdrawals that were previously assessed a Withdrawal Charge, or
 
    10% of the Contract Value.
         If you withdraw a larger amount, the excess Purchase Payments withdrawn are subject to a Withdrawal Charge. The Withdrawal Charge applies in the first seven Contribution Years following each Purchase Payment as follows:
         
Contribution Year
  Withdrawal Charge
First
    7 %
Second
    6 %
Third
    5 %
Fourth
    5 %
Fifth
    4 %
Sixth
    3 %
Seventh
    2 %
Eighth and following
    0 %
         Purchase Payments are deemed surrendered in the order in which they were received.
         When a withdrawal is requested in good order, you receive a check in the amount requested. If a Withdrawal Charge applies, Contract Value is reduced by the Withdrawal Charge, plus the dollar amount sent to you.
         Because Contribution Years are based on the date each Purchase Payment is made, you may be subject to a Withdrawal Charge, even though the Contract may have been issued many years earlier. (For additional details, see “Withdrawals During the Accumulation Period.”)
         Subject to certain exceptions and state approvals, Withdrawal Charges are not assessed on withdrawals:
    after you have been confined in a hospital or skilled health care facility for at least 30 days and you remain confined at the time of the request;
 
    within 30 days following your discharge from a hospital or skilled health care facility after a confinement of at least 30 days; or
 
    if you or the Annuitant become disabled after the Contract is issued and before age 65.
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         The Withdrawal Charge compensates us for Contract distribution expenses, which include the payment of on-going trail commissions to selling firms (See “Distribution of Contracts”). Currently, we anticipate Withdrawal Charges will not fully cover distribution expenses. We may use our general assets to pay distribution expenses. Those assets may include proceeds from the mortality and expense risk charge.
         The Withdrawal Charge also applies at annuitization to amounts attributable to Purchase Payments in their seventh Contribution Year or earlier. No Withdrawal Charge applies upon annuitization if you select Annuity Options 2, 3 or 4 or if payments under Annuity Option 1 are scheduled to continue for at least five years. See “The Annuity Period-Annuity Options” for a discussion of the Annuity Options available.
  5.   Optional Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit (“GRIB”) Rider Charge.
         If you have selected the GRIB rider and it is in force, we will deduct an annual charge of 0.25% of Contract Value for this rider. We deduct a prorata portion of the charge on the last business day of each calendar quarter. This quarterly charge is deducted from each Subaccount, each Guarantee Period and the Fixed Account in which you have value based on the proportion that the value you have in each account bears to your total Contract Value. If the GRIB rider is not exercised by the Annuitant’s age 91, the GRIB terminates without value on that date. Contract Owners must exercise the GRIB rider no later than the Contract anniversary before the Annuitant’s age 91. We do not charge for this rider after the Annuitant’s 91st birthday. We do not assess the GRIB Charge after you annuitize your Contract.
  6.   Transfer Charge.
         We currently allow you to make unlimited transfers without charge. We reserve the right to assess a transfer fee of $25 for the thirteenth and each subsequent transfer during a Contract Year.
  7.   Investment Management Fees and Other Expenses.
         Each Fund or Portfolio’s net asset value may reflect the deduction of investment management fees, Rule 12b-1 fees and general operating expenses. Subject to limitations, you indirectly bear these fees and expenses. (See “Summary of Expenses.”) For 2010, total annual investment management fees and expenses for the Funds and Portfolios offered through the Contracts ranged from 0.33% to 2.43% of average daily Portfolio assets. Further detail is provided in the attached prospectuses for the Funds or Portfolios and the Portfolios’ or Funds’ statements of additional information.
         Redemption Fees. A Fund or Portfolio may assess a redemption fee of up to 2% on Subaccount assets that are redeemed out of the Fund or Portfolio in connection with a withdrawal or transfer. Each Fund or Portfolio determines the amount of the redemption fee and when the fee is imposed. The redemption fee is retained by or paid to the Fund or Portfolio and is not retained by us. The redemption fee will be deducted from your Contract Value. For more information on each Fund or Portfolio’s redemption fee, see the Fund or Portfolio prospectus.
  8.   State and Local Government Premium Taxes.
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Purchase Payment. If you live in a state where we pay premium tax when you annuitize your Contract (California and Nevada), we will deduct the amount of the premium tax payable from your Contract Value (if you annuitize under the standard feature in your Contract) or from your GRIB base (if you annuitize under the GRIB rider). We will take this deduction at the time of annuitization of your Contract. In no event will this deduction for premium tax exceed the amount of your Contract Value at the time of annuitization. The charge we deduct for premium tax will never exceed the amount of premium tax we have paid to your state on your Purchase Payments. See “Appendix A-State and Local Government Premium Tax Chart” in the Statement of Additional Information.
  9.   Exceptions.
         We may decrease the mortality and expense risk charge, the administration charge, and the Records Maintenance Charge without notice. However, we guarantee that they will not increase. We bear the risk that those charges will not cover our costs. On the other hand, should the charges exceed our costs, we will not refund any charges. Any profit is available for corporate purposes including, among other things, payment of distribution expenses.
         We may also reduce or waive charges, including but not limited to, the Records Maintenance Charge, the Withdrawal Charge, and mortality and expense risk and administration charges, for certain sales that may result in cost savings, such as those where we incur lower sales expenses or perform fewer services because of economies due to the size of a group, the average contribution per participant, or the use of mass enrollment procedures. We may also reduce or waive charges and/or credit additional amounts on Contracts issued to:
    employees and registered representatives (and their families) of broker-dealers (or their affiliated financial institutions) that have entered into selling group agreements with Synergy Investment Group, LLC (“Synergy”), and
 
    officers, directors and employees (and their families) of ZALICO, DWS Investments VIT Funds, and DWS Variable Series I and II, their investment advisers and principal underwriter or certain affiliated companies, or to any trust, pension, profit-sharing or other benefit plan for such persons.
         Reductions in these charges will not unfairly discriminate against any Owner.
THE ANNUITY PERIOD
         Contracts may be annuitized under one of several Annuity Options. Annuity payments begin on the Annuity Date and under the selected Annuity Option. The Annuity Date must be at least one year after the Date of Issue. Subject to state variation, the Annuity Date may not be deferred beyond the later of the Annuitant’s 91st birthday (100th birthday if the Contract is part of a Charitable Remainder Trust) or ten years after the Date of Issue. However, annuitization will be delayed beyond the Annuity Date if we are making systematic withdrawals based on your life expectancy. In this case, annuitization begins when life expectancy withdrawals are stopped.
         You may elect to receive annuity payments on a fixed or variable basis, or a combination. Keep in mind that, on the Annuity Date, any of your Contract Value being held in the Fixed Account or allocated to a Guarantee Period will be annuitized on a fixed basis. (The MVA Option is not available during the Annuity Period.) Any of your Contract Value being held in the Separate Account will be annuitized on a variable basis. If you annuitize on a variable basis, we will assess a daily mortality and expense risk charge and an administration charge at an annual rate of 1.40% against your assets invested in the Separate Account.

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         Special annuitization rules apply if you purchased the GRIB rider. (See “CONTRACTS ISSUED BEFORE NOVEMBER 12, 2001” below.)
A.   Annuity Payments.
         Annuity payments are based on:
    the annuity table specified in the Contract,
 
    the selected Annuity Option, and
 
    the investment performance of the selected Subaccount(s) (if variable annuitization is elected).
         Under variable annuitization, the Annuitant receives the value of a fixed number of Annuity Units each month. An Annuity Unit’s value reflects the investment performance of the Subaccount(s) selected. The amount of each annuity payment varies accordingly. If you annuitize under Option 1 for a period of less than 5 years, your annuity payments will be subject to a Withdrawal Charge. (For additional details, see “Withdrawal Charge.”)
B.   Annuity Options.
         You may elect one of the Contract’s Annuity Options. You may decide at any time (subject to the provisions of your retirement plan, if applicable, and state variations) to begin annuity payments before the Annuitant’s 91st birthday (100th birthday if the Contract is part of a Charitable Remainder Trust) or within ten years after the Date of Issue, whichever is later. You may change the Annuity Option before the Annuity Date. If you do not elect an Annuity Option, we will make monthly annuity payments in accordance with Option 3 below with a ten year period certain. Generally, annuity payments are made in monthly installments. However, you must select a payment frequency that results in an annuity payment of at least $50. If the amount falls below $50, we have the right to change the payment frequency to bring the annuity payment up to at least $50.
         The amount of periodic annuity payments may depend upon:
    the Annuity Option selected;
 
    the age and sex of the Annuitant; and
 
    the investment experience of the selected Subaccount(s).
         For example:
    If Option 1, income for a specified period, is selected, shorter periods result in fewer payments with higher values.
 
    If Option 2, life income, is selected, it is likely that each payment will be smaller than would result if income for a short period were specified.
 
    If Option 3, life income with installments guaranteed, is selected, each payment will probably be smaller than would result if the life income option were selected.
 
    If Option 4, the joint and survivor annuity, is selected, each payment is smaller than those measured by an individual life income option.
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performance, it is likely you will receive a higher periodic payment, and conversely, you will likely receive a lower periodic payment if you participate in Subaccounts with lower investment performance.
         If you die before the Annuity Date, available Annuity Options are limited. Unless you have imposed restrictions, the Annuity Options available are:
    Option 2, or
 
    Option 1 or 3 for a period no longer than the life expectancy of the Beneficiary (but not less than five years from your death).
         If the Beneficiary is not an individual, the entire interest must be distributed within five years of your death. The death benefit distribution must begin no later than one year from your death, unless a later date is prescribed by federal regulation.
         For Qualified Plan Contracts, the period certain elected cannot be longer than the Owner’s life expectancy, in order to satisfy minimum required distribution rules.
         Option 1—Income for Specified Period.
         Option 1 provides an annuity payable monthly for a selected number of years ranging from five to thirty. Upon the Annuitant’s death, if the Beneficiary is an individual, we automatically continue payments to the Beneficiary for the remainder of the period specified. If the Beneficiary is not an individual (e.g., an estate or trust), we pay the discounted value of the remaining payments in the specified period. Although there is no life contingency risk associated with Option 1, we continue to deduct the mortality and expense risk and administration charge.
         If you elect variable annuitization under Option 1, the Annuitant may elect to cancel all or part of the variable annuity payments remaining due. We will then pay the discounted value of the remaining payments calculated as of the date we receive your request in good order at the Service Center.
         Option 2—Life Income.
         Option 2 provides for an annuity payable monthly over the lifetime of the Annuitant. If Option 2 is elected, annuity payments terminate automatically and immediately on the Annuitant’s death without regard to the number or total amount of payments made. Thus, it is possible for an individual to receive only one payment if death occurred prior to the date the second payment was due.
         Option 3—Life Income with Installments Guaranteed.
         Option 3 provides an annuity payable monthly during the Annuitant’s lifetime. However, Option 3 also provides for the automatic continuation of payments for the remainder of the specified period if the Beneficiary is an individual and payments have been made for less than the specified period. The period specified may be five, ten, fifteen or twenty years. If the Beneficiary is not an individual, we pay the discounted value of the remaining payments in the specified period.
         Option 4—Joint and Survivor Annuity.
         Option 4 provides an annuity payable monthly while either Annuitant is living. Upon either Annuitant’s death, the monthly income payable continues over the life of the surviving Annuitant at a percentage specified when Option 4 is elected. Annuity payments terminate automatically and immediately upon the surviving Annuitant’s death without regard to the number or total amount of payments received.

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C.   Transfers During the Annuity Period.
         During the Annuity Period, the Annuitant may, by sending a written request (in good order) to the Service Center, transfer Subaccount Value from one Subaccount to another Subaccount or to the Fixed Account, subject to the following limitations:
    Transfers to a Subaccount are prohibited during the first year of the Annuity Period; subsequent transfers are limited to one per year.
 
    All interest in a Subaccount must be transferred.
 
    If we receive notice of transfer to a Subaccount more than seven days before an annuity payment date, the transfer is effective during the Valuation Period after the date we receive the notice.
 
    If we receive notice of transfer to a Subaccount less than seven days before an annuity payment date, the transfer is effective during the Valuation Period after the annuity payment date.
 
    Transfers to the Fixed Account are available only on an anniversary of the first Annuity Date. We must receive notice at least 30 days prior to the anniversary.
 
    Transfers are not allowed from the Fixed Account to the Subaccounts.
         A Subaccount’s Annuity Unit value is determined at the end of the Valuation Period preceding the effective date of the transfer. We may suspend, change or terminate the transfer privilege at any time.
         A payee may not have more than three Subaccounts after any transfer.
         You may request transfers in writing by mailing your request (in good order) to our Service Center, or by faxing your request (in good order) to our Service Center at 1-864-609-3962.
D.   Annuity Unit Value Under Variable Annuity.
         Annuity Unit value is determined independently for each Subaccount.
         Annuity Unit value for any Valuation Period is:
    Annuity Unit value for the preceding Valuation Period, times
 
    the net investment factor for the current Valuation Period, times
 
    an interest factor which offsets the 2.5% per annum rate of investment earnings assumed by the Contract’s annuity tables.
         The net investment factor for a Subaccount for any Valuation Period is:
    the Subaccount’s Annuity Unit value at the end of the current Valuation Period, plus or minus the per share charge or credit for taxes reserved; divided by
 
    the Subaccount’s Annuity Unit value at the end of the preceding Valuation Period, plus or minus the per share charge or credit for taxes reserved.
E.   First Periodic Payment Under Variable Annuity.
         When annuity payments begin, the value of your Contract interest is:
    Accumulation Unit values at the end of the Valuation Period falling on the 20th or 7th day of the month before the first annuity payment is due, times
 
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    any applicable premium taxes and Withdrawal Charges.
         The first annuity payment is determined by multiplying the benefit per $1,000 of value shown in the applicable annuity table by the number of thousands of dollars of Contract Value (or GRIB base, if applicable), after the deduction of any Withdrawal Charges and any premium taxes from Contract Value (or the GRIB base, if applicable).
         A 2.5% per annum rate of investment earnings is assumed by the Contract’s annuity tables. If the actual net investment earnings rate exceeds 2.5% per annum, payments increase accordingly. Conversely, if the actual rate is less than 2.5% per annum, annuity payments decrease.
F.   Subsequent Periodic Payments Under Variable Annuity.
         Subsequent annuity payments are determined by multiplying the number of Annuity Units by the Annuity Unit value at the Valuation Period before each annuity payment is due. The first annuity payment is divided by the Annuity Unit value as of the Annuity Date to establish the number of Annuity Units representing each annuity payment. This number does not change.
G.   Fixed Annuity Payments.
         Each Fixed Annuity payment is determined from tables we prepare. These tables show the monthly payment for each $1,000 of Contract Value allocated to a Fixed Annuity. Payment is based on the Contract Value at the date before the annuity payment is due. Fixed Annuity payments do not change regardless of investment, mortality or expense experience.
H.   Death Benefit Proceeds.
         If the Annuitant dies after the Annuity Date while the Contract is in force, the death benefit proceeds, if any, depend upon the form of annuity payment in effect at the time of death. (See “Annuity Options.”)
I.   GRIB Rider.
         If you purchased a GRIB rider with your Contract, additional annuitization rights apply. (See “CONTRACTS ISSUED BEFORE NOVEMBER 12, 2001 below.)
FEDERAL TAX CONSIDERATIONS
         The following discussion is general in nature and is not intended as tax advice. Each person concerned should consult a competent tax adviser. No attempt is made to consider any applicable state or other income tax or other tax laws, any state and local estate or inheritance tax, or other tax consequences or ownership or receipt of distribution under a Contract.
         We believe that our Contracts will qualify as annuity contracts for Federal income tax purposes and the following discussion assumes that they will so qualify.
         When you invest in an annuity contract, you usually do not pay taxes on your investment gains until you withdraw the money — generally for retirement purposes. In this way, annuity contracts have been recognized by the tax authorities as a legitimate means of deferring tax on investment income.
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deferred compensation plan, your Contract is called a Qualified Plan Contract. If your annuity is independent of any formal retirement or pension plan, it is called a Non-Qualified Plan Contract.
         We believe that if you are a natural person you will not be taxed on increases in the Contract Value of your Contract until a distribution occurs or until annuity payments begin. (The agreement to assign or pledge any portion of a Contract’s accumulation value generally will be treated as a distribution.) When annuity payments begin on a Non-Qualified Plan Contract, you will be taxed only on the investment gains you have earned and not on the payments you made to purchase the Contract. Generally, withdrawals from your annuity should only be made once the taxpayer reaches age 591/2, dies or is disabled, otherwise a tax penalty of ten percent of the amount treated as income could be applied against any amounts included in income, in addition to the tax otherwise imposed on such amount.
A.   Taxation of Non-Qualified Plan Contracts
         Non-Natural Person. If a non-natural person (such as a corporation or a trust) owns a non-qualified annuity contract, the owner generally must include in income any increase in the excess of the accumulation value over the investment in the contract (generally, the Purchase Payments or other consideration paid for the contract) during the taxable year. There are some exceptions to this rule and a prospective owner that is not a natural person should discuss these with a tax adviser.
         The following discussion generally applies to Contracts owned by natural persons.
         Withdrawals. When a withdrawal from a Non-Qualified Plan Contract occurs, the amount received will be treated as ordinary income subject to tax up to an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the accumulation value immediately before the distribution over the owner’s investment in the Contract (generally, the Purchase Payments or other consideration paid for the Contract, reduced by any amount previously distributed from the Contract that was not subject to tax) at that time. In the case of a surrender under a Non-Qualified Plan Contract, the amount received generally will be taxable only to the extent it exceeds the owner’s investment in the contract.
         If the Contract includes the GRIB rider and it is in force, and the Guaranteed Retirement Income base is greater than the Contract Value, it is possible that the IRS could take the view that the “income on the contract” is a greater amount than would otherwise be the case. This could result in a larger amount being included in gross income in connection with a partial withdrawal, assignment, pledge, or other transfer.
         There is also some uncertainty regarding the treatment of the MVA for purposes of determining the income on the Contract. Resolution of the uncertainty could result in the income on the Contract being a greater (or lesser) amount.
         Penalty Tax on Certain Withdrawals. In the case of a distribution from a Contract, there may be imposed a Federal tax penalty equal to ten percent of the amount treated as income. In general, however, there is no penalty on distributions:
    made on or after the taxpayer reaches age 591/2;
 
    made on or after the death of an owner;
 
    attributable to the taxpayer’s becoming disabled; or
 
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         Other exceptions may apply under certain circumstances and special rules may apply in connection with the exceptions enumerated above. Additional exceptions apply to distributions from a Qualified Plan Contract. You should consult a tax adviser with regard to exceptions from the penalty tax.
         Annuity Payments. Although tax consequences may vary depending on the annuity option elected under an annuity contract, a portion of each annuity payment is generally not taxed and the remainder is taxed as ordinary income. The non-taxable portion of an annuity payment is generally determined in a manner that is designed to allow you to recover your investment in the contract ratably on a tax-free basis over the expected stream of annuity payments, as determined when annuity payments start. Once your investment in the contract has been fully recovered, however, the full amount of each annuity payment is subject to tax as ordinary income.
         With respect to a Contract issued with the GRIB rider, the annuitant may elect to receive a lump sum payment after the Annuity Date. In the case of a Non-Qualified Plan Contract, the Company will treat a portion of such a lump sum payment as includible in income, and will determine the taxable portion of subsequent periodic payments by applying an exclusion ratio to the periodic payments. However, the Federal income tax treatment of such a lump sum payment, and of the periodic payments made thereafter, is uncertain. It is possible the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) could take a position that greater amounts are includible in income than the Company currently believes is the case. Prior to electing a lump sum payment after the Annuity Date, you should consult a tax adviser about the tax implications of making such an election.
         Partial Annuitization. Under a new tax provision enacted in 2010, if part of an annuity contract’s value is applied to an annuity option that provides payments for one or more lives or for a period of at least ten years, those payments may be taxed as annuity payments instead of withdrawals. Currently, we do not allow partial annuitizations under your Contract.
         Taxation of Death Benefit Proceeds. Amounts may be distributed from a Contract because of your death or the death of the annuitant. Generally, such amounts are includible in the income of the recipient as follows: (i) if distributed in a lump sum, they are taxed in the same manner as a surrender of the Contract, or (ii) if distributed under an annuity option, they are taxed in the same way as annuity payments.
         Transfers, Assignments or Exchanges of a Contract. A transfer or assignment of ownership of a Contract, the designation of an annuitant or payee other than an owner, the selection of certain annuity start dates, or the exchange of a Contract may result in certain tax consequences to you that are not discussed herein. An owner contemplating any such transfer, assignment, designation or exchange, should consult a tax adviser as to the tax consequences.
         Withholding. Annuity distributions are generally subject to withholding for the recipient’s Federal income tax liability. Recipients can generally elect, however, not to have tax withheld from distributions.
         Multiple Contracts. All non-qualified deferred annuity contracts that are issued by us (or our affiliates) to the same owner during any calendar year are treated as one annuity contract for purposes of determining the amount includible in such owner’s income when a taxable withdrawal occurs.
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be treated as a taxable withdrawal, you should consult your tax adviser prior to selecting any rider or endorsement under the Contract.
B.   Taxation of Qualified Plan Contracts
         The tax rules that apply to Qualified Plan Contracts vary according to the type of retirement plan and the terms and conditions of the plan. Your rights under a Qualified Plan Contract may be subject to the terms of the retirement plan itself, regardless of the terms of the Qualified Plan Contract. Adverse tax consequences may result if you do not ensure that contributions, distributions and other transactions with respect to the Contract comply with the law. Qualified Plan Contracts have minimum distribution rules that govern the timing and amount of distributions. You should refer to your retirement plan, adoption agreement, or consult a tax adviser for more information about these distribution rules.
         1. Qualified Plan Types
         Individual Retirement Annuities (IRAs). IRAs, as defined in Section 408 of the Tax Code, permit individuals to make annual contributions of up to the lesser of $5,000 for 2011 ($6,000 if age 50 or older by the end of 2011) or 100% of the compensation included in your income for the year. The contributions may be deductible in whole or in part, depending on the individual’s income. Distributions from certain pension plans may be “rolled over” into an IRA on a tax-deferred basis without regard to these limits. Amounts in the IRA (other than nondeductible contributions) are taxed when distributed from the IRA. A 10% penalty tax generally applies to distributions made before age 591/2, unless certain exceptions apply. The Contract has been approved as to form for use as an IRA, Roth IRA or a SIMPLE IRA by the IRS. Such approval by the IRS is a determination only as to form of the Contract, and does not represent a determination on the merits of the Contract.
         SIMPLE IRAs. Simple IRAs permit certain small employers to establish SIMPLE plans as provided by Section 408(p) of the Code, under which employees may elect to defer to a SIMPLE IRA a percentage of compensation up to a limit specified in the Code (as increased for cost of living adjustments). The sponsoring employer is required to make matching or non-elective contributions on behalf of the employees. Distributions from SIMPLE IRAs are subject to the same restrictions that apply to IRA distributions and are taxed as ordinary income. Subject to certain exceptions, premature distributions prior to age 591/2 are subject to a 10% penalty tax, which is increased to 25% if the distribution occurs within the first two years after the commencement of the employee’s participation in the plan.
         Roth IRAs. Roth IRAs, as described in Code section 408A, permit certain eligible individuals to make non-deductible contributions to a Roth IRA up to a limit specified in the Code or as a rollover or transfer from another Roth IRA or other IRA. A rollover from or conversion of an IRA to a Roth IRA is generally subject to tax based on the fair market value of the IRA. In some cases, the fair market value of a Qualified Plan Contract purchased as an IRA may exceed the Contract Value, such as where the Qualified Plan Contract has an enhanced death benefit or was issued with the GRIB rider. In such cases, a conversion of the IRA to a Roth IRA may result in higher taxes than a surrender of the Contract. The owner may wish to consult a tax adviser before combining any converted amounts with any other Roth IRA contributions, including any other conversion amounts from other tax years. Distributions from a Roth IRA generally are not taxed, except that, once aggregate distributions exceed contributions to the Roth IRA, income tax and a 10% penalty tax may apply to distributions made (1) before age 591/2 (subject to certain exceptions) or (2) during the five taxable years starting with the year in which the first contribution is made to any Roth IRA. A 10% penalty tax may apply to amounts attributable to a conversion from an IRA if they are distributed during the five taxable years beginning with the year in

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which the conversion was made. Unlike the traditional IRA, there are no minimum required distributions during the owner’s lifetime; however, required distributions at death are generally the same.
         SEP IRAs. SEP IRAs, as described in Code section 408(k), permit employers to make contributions to IRAs on behalf of their employees. SEP IRAs generally are subject to the same tax rules and limitations regarding distributions as IRAs, and they are subject to additional requirements regarding plan participation and limits on contributions.
         Corporate and Self-Employed (“H.R. 10” and “Keogh”) Pension and Profit-Sharing Plans. The Code permits corporate employers to establish various types of tax-favored retirement plans for employees. The Self-Employed Individuals’ Tax Retirement Act of 1962, as amended, commonly referred to as “H.R. 10” or “Keogh”, permits self-employed individuals also to establish such tax-favored retirement plans for themselves and their employees. Such retirement plans may permit the purchase of the Contracts in order to provide benefits under the plans. The Contract provides a death benefit that in certain circumstances may exceed the greater of the Purchase Payments and the Contract Value. It is possible that such death benefit could be characterized as an incidental death benefit. There are limitations on the amount of incidental benefits that may be provided under pension and profit sharing plans. In addition, the provision of such benefits may result in current taxable income to participants. The Code also restricts when amounts can be distributed from Qualified Plan Contracts that are issued in connection with such retirement plans. Adverse tax consequences to the retirement plan, the participant or both may result if the Contract is transferred to any individual as a means to provide benefit payments, unless the plan complies with all requirements applicable to such benefits prior to transferring the Contract. Other rules and limitations also may apply to such Qualified Plan Contracts under the Code and the retirement plans governing the Contracts. In addition, a 10% penalty tax generally applies to distributions made before age 591/2, unless certain exceptions apply. Employers intending to use the Contract in connection with such plans should seek competent advice.
         Tax-Sheltered Annuities. Code Section 403(b) permits public school employees and employees of certain types of charitable, educational and scientific organizations to have their employers purchase annuity contracts for them and, subject to certain limitations, to exclude the amount of purchase payments from taxable gross income. Purchase payments may be subject to FICA (social security) tax. These annuity contracts are commonly referred to as “tax-sheltered annuities”. If you purchase a Contract for such purposes, you should seek competent advice as to eligibility, limitations on permissible amounts of purchase payments and other tax consequences associated with the Contracts. In particular, you should consider that the Contract provides a death benefit that in certain circumstances may exceed the greater of the Purchase Payments and the Contract Value. It is possible that such death benefit could be characterized as an incidental death benefit. If the death benefit were so characterized, this could result in currently taxable income to you. In addition, there are limitations on the amount of incidental benefits that may be provided under a tax-sheltered annuity. Even if the death benefit under the Contract were characterized as an incidental death benefit, it is unlikely to violate those limits unless you also purchase a life insurance contract as part of your tax-sheltered annuity plan.
         Generally, a 10% penalty tax applies to distributions made before age 591/2, unless certain exceptions apply. In addition, tax-sheltered annuity contracts must contain restrictions on withdrawals of:
    contributions made pursuant to a salary reduction agreement in years beginning after December 31, 1988,
 
    earnings on those contributions, and
 
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         These amounts can be paid only if you have reached age 591/2, severed employment, died, or become disabled (within the meaning of the tax law), or in the case of hardship (within the meaning of the tax law). Amounts permitted to be distributed in the event of hardship are limited to actual contributions; earnings thereon cannot be distributed on account of hardship. Amounts subject to the withdrawal restrictions applicable to Code Section 403(b)(7) custodial accounts may be subject to more stringent restrictions. (These limitations on withdrawals generally do not apply to the extent you direct us to transfer some or all of the Contract Value to the issuer of another tax-sheltered annuity or into a Code Section 403(b)(7) custodial account, as permitted by law.) Additional restrictions may be imposed by the plan sponsor. Pursuant to new tax regulations, we generally are required to confirm, with your 403(b) plan sponsor or otherwise, that surrenders, withdrawals or transfers you request from an existing 403(b) contract comply with applicable tax requirements before we process your request. We will defer such payments you request until all information required under the tax law has been received. By requesting a surrender or transfer, you consent to the sharing of confidential information about you, the Contract, and transactions under the Contract and any other 403(b) contracts or accounts you have under the 403(b) plan among us, your employer or plan sponsor, any plan administrator or recordkeeper, and other product providers.
         Deferred Compensation Plans of State and Local Governments and Tax-Exempt Organizations. The Code permits employees of state and local governments and tax-exempt organizations to defer a portion of their compensation without paying current taxes. The employees must be participants in an eligible deferred compensation plan. Generally, a Contract purchased by a state or local government or a tax-exempt organization will not be treated as an annuity contract for Federal income tax purposes unless it meets certain conditions set forth in the Code. In addition, in some cases involving rollovers to such Contracts, distributions from the Contracts may be subject to a 10% penalty tax unless an exception applies. Under a non-governmental plan, all investments are owned by and are subject to, the claims of the general creditors of the sponsoring employer. Those who intend to use the Contracts in connection with such plans should seek competent advice.
         2. Withdrawals
         In the case of a withdrawal under a Qualified Plan Contract, a ratable portion of the amount received is taxable, generally based on the ratio of the “investment in the contract” to the individual’s total account balance or accrued benefit under the retirement plan. The “investment in the contract” generally equals the amount of any non-deductible Purchase Payments paid by or on behalf of any individual. In many cases, the “investment in the contract” under a Qualified Plan Contract can be zero.
         3. Direct Rollovers
         If the Contract is used in connection with a retirement plan that is qualified under Sections 401(a), 403(a), or 403(b) of the Code or with an eligible government deferred compensation plan that is qualified under Code Section 457(b), any “eligible rollover distribution” from the Contract will be subject to “direct rollover” and mandatory withholding requirements. An eligible rollover distribution generally is any taxable distribution from such a qualified retirement plan, excluding certain amounts such as:
    Hardship distributions,
 
    minimum distributions required under Section 401(a)(9) of the Code, and
 
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         Under these requirements, Federal income tax equal to 20% of the taxable eligible rollover distribution will be withheld from the amount of the distribution. Unlike withholding on certain other amounts distributed from the Contract, discussed below, you cannot elect out of withholding with respect to an eligible rollover distribution. However, this 20% withholding will not apply if, (i) you (or your spouse or former spouse as a beneficiary or alternate payee) chooses a “direct rollover” from the plan to a tax qualified plan, IRA, Roth IRA or tax-sheltered annuity or to a governmental 457 plan that agrees to separately account for rollover contributions; or (ii) your non-spouse beneficiary chooses a “direct rollover” from the plan to an IRA established by the direct rollover. Prior to receiving an eligible rollover distribution, a notice will be provided explaining generally the direct rollover and mandatory withholding requirements and how to avoid the 20% withholding by electing a direct rollover.
         As indicated above, any distribution that is a minimum distribution required under Code section 401(a)(9) is not an eligible rollover distribution. There is some uncertainty regarding how the minimum distribution requirements apply to a Qualified Plan Contract issued with a GRIB rider. As a result, you should consult your tax adviser regarding the interaction between the minimum distribution requirements and the eligible rollover distribution requirements in the context of a Qualified Contract issued with a GRIB rider, including in connection with any lump sum payment after annuity income payments have commenced under the GRIB rider.
C.   Tax Status of the Contracts
         Tax law imposes several requirements that variable annuities must satisfy in order to receive the tax treatment normally accorded to annuity contracts.
         Diversification Requirements. The Code requires that the investments of each investment division of the variable account underlying the Contracts be “adequately diversified” in order for the Contracts to be treated as annuity contracts for Federal income tax purposes. It is intended that each investment division, through the fund in which it invests, will satisfy these diversification requirements.
         Owner Control. In some circumstances, owners of variable annuity contracts who retain excessive control over the investment of the underlying portfolio assets of the variable account may be treated as the owners of those assets and may be subject to tax on income produced by those assets. Although there is limited published guidance in this area and it does not address certain aspects of the Contracts, we believe that the owner of a Contract should not be treated as the owner of the underlying assets. We reserve the right to modify the Contracts to bring them into conformity with applicable standards should such modification be necessary to prevent owners of the Contracts from being treated as the owners of the underlying portfolio assets of the variable account.
         Required Distributions from Non-Qualified Plan Contracts. In order to be treated as an annuity contract for Federal income tax purposes, section 72(s) of the Code requires any Non-Qualified Plan Contract to contain certain provisions specifying how your interest in the Contract will be distributed in the event of the death of a holder of the Contract. Specifically, section 72(s) requires that (a) if any owner dies on or after the annuity starting date, but prior to the time the entire interest in the Contract has been distributed, the entire interest in the Contract will be distributed at least as rapidly as under the method of distribution being used as of the date of such owner’s death; and (b) if any owner dies prior to the annuity start date, the entire interest in the Contract will be distributed within five years after the date of such owner’s death. These requirements will be considered satisfied as to any portion of an owner’s interest which is payable to or for the benefit of a designated beneficiary and which is distributed over the life of such designated beneficiary or over a period not extending beyond the life expectancy of that beneficiary, provided that such distributions begin within one year of the owner’s death. The designated beneficiary refers to a natural person designated by the owner as a beneficiary and to whom ownership of the

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Contract passes by reason of death. However, if the designated beneficiary is the surviving spouse of the deceased owner, the Contract may be continued with the surviving spouse as the new owner.
         The Non-Qualified Plan Contracts contain provisions that are intended to comply with these Code requirements, although no regulations interpreting these requirements have yet been issued. We intend to review such provisions and modify them if necessary to assure that they comply with the applicable requirements when such requirements are clarified by regulation or otherwise.
         Required Distributions from Qualified Plan Contracts. Qualified Plan Contracts are subject to special rules governing the time at which distributions must begin and the amount that must be distributed each year. In the case of IRAs, distributions of minimum amounts must generally begin by April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the owner attains age 701/2. For other types of Qualified Plan Contracts, minimum distributions generally must commence by April 1 following the later of (1) the calendar year the owner attains age 701/2, and (2) the calendar year in which the owner retires. In general, periodic distributions in the form of annuity payments will satisfy the minimum distribution rules only if they meet certain requirements in the regulations under Code section 401(a)(9), including that the annuity payments be nonincreasing and made at least annually over a period permitted in the regulations. Annuity payments generally must meet these requirements even if they commence earlier than otherwise required under the Code.
         If you purchased a Qualified Plan Contract with a GRIB rider, you should consult a tax adviser about the implications under the minimum distribution requirements of Code section 401(a)(9). For example, prior to the date a Qualified Plan Contract is “annuitized,” the amount of each annual required minimum distribution is determined by dividing the entire interest in the Contract by the applicable distribution period determined under IRS regulations. For this purpose, the entire interest in the Qualified Plan Contract includes the amount credited under the Contract (i.e., the Contract Value), plus the “actuarial present value” of any additional benefits provided under the Contract (such as certain enhanced death benefits or GRIB values). As a result, your required minimum distribution could be significantly larger than it would be absent such additional benefits, and could even exceed your Contract Value. Only the Contract Value is available for withdrawal from a Qualified Plan Contract that has not been annuitized. If the Contract Value is insufficient to support a required minimum distribution from a Qualified Plan Contract, it is possible that the minimum distribution requirements will not be met.
         In addition, if you annuitize a Qualified Plan Contract by exercising the GRIB rider, and later elect to receive a lump sum payment in lieu of some or all of the future guaranteed installments, it is possible that the remaining annuity installments will not satisfy the minimum distribution requirements. You should consult a tax adviser about the implications under the minimum distribution requirements of taking a lump sum payment under the GRIB rider. (See “C. Commutable Annuitization Option” below.)
         If the Qualified Plan Contract is an IRA or tax-sheltered annuity, there may be circumstances in which you can satisfy the minimum distribution requirements for the Qualified Plan Contract by taking a distribution from another IRA or tax-sheltered annuity, respectively, that you own. You should consult your tax adviser regarding the availability of this rule in your particular circumstances.
         A failure to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements with respect to a Qualified Plan Contract may result in a 50% excise tax and could cause the Qualified Plan to violate the Code provisions governing its “qualified” status. In light of these potential tax consequences and the uncertainty as to how the minimum distribution requirements apply to a Qualified Plan Contract in certain circumstances, you should consult a tax adviser to ensure that those requirements are satisfied with respect to your Qualified Plan Contract.

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FEDERAL INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING
         We withhold and send to the U.S. Government a part of the taxable portion of each distribution unless the annuitant notifies us before distribution of an available election not to have any amounts withheld. In certain circumstances, we may be required to withhold tax. The withholding rates for the taxable portion of periodic annuity payments are the same as the withholding rates for wage payments. In addition, the withholding rate for the taxable portion of non-periodic payments (including withdrawals prior to the maturity date and conversions of, or rollovers from, non-Roth IRAs to Roth IRAs) is 10%. The withholding rate for eligible rollover distributions is 20%.
A.   Other Tax Issues
         Qualified Plan Contracts have minimum distribution rules that govern the timing and amount of distributions. Those rules are described generally above, but you should consult a tax adviser for more information about how they apply to your Qualified Plan Contract, particularly in connection with enhanced death benefits and the GRIB rider.
         Distributions from Qualified Plan Contracts generally are subject to withholding for the owner’s Federal income tax liability. The withholding rate varies according to the type of distribution and the owner’s tax status. The owner will be provided the opportunity to elect to not have tax withheld from distributions other than eligible rollover distributions.
B.   Our Taxes
         At the present time, we make no charge for any Federal, state or local taxes (other than the charge for state and local premium taxes) that we incur that may be attributable to the subaccounts of the variable account or to the Contracts. We do have the right in the future to make additional charges for any such tax or other economic burden resulting from the application of the tax laws that we determine is attributable to the subaccounts of the variable account or the Contracts.
         Under current laws in several states, we may incur state and local taxes (in addition to premium taxes). These taxes are not now significant and we are not currently charging for them. If they increase, we may deduct charges for such taxes.
C.   Federal Estate Taxes
         While no attempt is being made to discuss the Federal estate tax implications of the Contract, a purchaser should keep in mind that the value of an annuity contract owned by a decedent and payable to a beneficiary by virtue of surviving the decedent is included in the decedent’s gross estate. Depending on the terms of the annuity contract, the value of the annuity included in the gross estate may be the value of the lump sum payment payable to the designated beneficiary or the actuarial value of the payments to be received by the beneficiary. You should consult an estate planning adviser for more information.
D.   Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
         Under certain circumstances, the Code may impose a “generation skipping transfer tax” when all or part of an annuity contract is transferred to, or a death benefit is paid to, an individual two or more generations younger than the owner. Regulations issued under the Code may require us to deduct the tax from your Contract, or from any applicable payment, and pay it directly to the IRS.

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E.   Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
         The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (the “2010 Act”) increases the federal estate tax exemption to $5,000,000 and reduces the federal estate tax rate to 35%; increases the Federal gift tax exemption to $5,000,000 and retains the federal gift tax rate at 35%; and increases the generation-skipping transfer tax exemption to $5,000,000 and reduces the generation-skipping transfer tax rate to 35%. Commencing in 2012, these exemption amounts will be indexed for inflation.
         The estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer provisions of the 2010 Act are only effective until December 31, 2012; thereafter the provisions will sunset, and the federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes will return to their pre-2001 levels, resulting in significantly lower exemptions and significantly higher tax rates. Between now and the end of 2012, Congress may make these provisions of the 2010 Act permanent, or they may do nothing and allow these 2010 Act provisions to sunset, or they may alter the exemptions and/or applicable tax rates.
         The uncertainty as to how the current law might be modified in coming years underscores the importance of seeking guidance from a qualified adviser to help ensure that your estate plan adequately addresses your needs and that of your beneficiaries under all possible scenarios.
F.   Medicare Tax
         Beginning in 2013, distributions from non-qualified annuity contracts will be considered “investment income” for purposes of the newly enacted Medicare tax on investment income. Thus, in certain circumstances, a 3.8% tax may be applied to some or all of the taxable portion of distributions (e.g., earnings) to individuals whose income exceeds certain threshold amounts ($200,000 for filing single, $250,000 for married filing jointly and $125,000 for married filing separately.) Please consult a tax adviser for more information.
G.   Federal Defense of Marriage Act
         The Contract provides that upon your death, a surviving spouse may have certain continuation rights that he or she may elect to exercise for the Contract’s death benefit and/or for any joint-life coverage under an optional living benefit. All Contract provisions relating to spousal continuation are available only to a person who meets the definition of “spouse” under federal law. The federal Defense of Marriage Act currently does not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions, even those which are permitted under individual state laws. Therefore, spousal continuation provisions in this Contract will not be available to such partners or same-sex marriage spouses. Consult a tax adviser for more information on this subject.
H.   Annuity Purchases by Residents of Puerto Rico
         The IRS has announced that income received by residents of Puerto Rico under life insurance or annuity contracts issued by a Puerto Rico branch of a United States Life Insurance Company is U.S.-source income that is generally subject to United States Federal income tax.
I.   Annuity Purchases by Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Corporations
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citizens or residents will generally be subject to U.S. Federal withholding tax on taxable distributions from annuity contracts at a 30% rate, unless a lower treaty rate applies. In addition, purchasers may be subject to state and/or municipal taxes and taxes that may be imposed by the purchaser’s country of citizenship or residence. Prospective purchasers are advised to consult with a qualified tax adviser regarding U.S. state, and foreign taxation with respect to an annuity contract purchase.
J.   Foreign Tax Credits
         We may benefit from any foreign tax credits attributable to taxes paid by certain portfolios to foreign jurisdictions to the extent permitted under federal tax law.
K.   Possible Tax Law Changes
         Although the likelihood of legislative changes is uncertain, there is always the possibility that the tax treatment of the Contracts could change by legislation or otherwise. Consult a tax adviser with respect to legislative developments and their effect on the Contract.
         We have the right to modify the Contract in response to legislative changes that could otherwise diminish the favorable tax treatment that annuity contract owners currently receive. We make no guarantee regarding the tax status of any Contract and do not intend the above discussion as tax advice.
SENDING FORMS AND WRITTEN REQUESTS IN GOOD ORDER
         We cannot process your instructions to effect a transaction relating to the Contract until we have received your instructions in good order at our Service Center or at our website, as appropriate. “Good order” means the actual receipt by us of the instructions relating to a transaction in writing (or by telephone or electronically, as appropriate), along with all forms, information and supporting legal documentation (including any required spousal or joint owner’s consents) that we require in order to effect the transaction. To be in “good order,” instructions must be sufficiently clear so that we do not need to exercise any discretion to follow such instructions.
SIGNATURE GUARANTEES
         Signature guarantees are relied upon as a means of preventing the perpetuation of fraud in financial transactions, including the disbursement of funds or assets from a victim’s account with a financial institution or a provider of financial services. They provide protection to investors by, for example, making it more difficult for a person to take another person’s money by forging a signature on a written request for the disbursement of funds.
         As a protection against fraud, we require a Medallion signature guarantee for any disbursement to another carrier in connection with the exchange of one annuity contract for another in a “tax-free exchange” under Section 1035 of the Internal Revenue Code.
         An investor can obtain a signature guarantee from more than 7,000 financial institutions across the United States and Canada that participate in a Medallion signature guarantee program. This includes many:
    national and state banks;
 
    savings banks and savings and loan associations;
 
    securities brokers and dealers; and
 
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         The best source of a signature guarantee is a bank, savings and loan association, brokerage firm, or credit union with which you do business. Guarantor firms may, but frequently do not, charge a fee for their services.
         A notary public cannot provide a signature guarantee. Notarization will not substitute for a signature guarantee.
DISTRIBUTION OF CONTRACTS
         Distribution and Principal Underwriting Agreement. Synergy Investment Group, LLC (“Synergy”) currently serves as principal underwriter for the Contracts. Synergy’s home office is located at 8320 University Executive Park Drive, Suite 112, Charlotte, NC 28262. Synergy is not affiliated with ZALICO. Synergy is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as well as with the securities commissions in the states in which it operates, and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). Synergy is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.
         Until April 1, 2010, Investors Brokerage Services, Inc. (“IBS”), located at 1707 North Randall Road, Suite 310, Elgin, IL 60123-9409, served as principal underwriter for the Contracts. Effective April 1, 2010, ZALICO entered into an Amendment of Distribution Agreement with IBS under which IBS’s role as principal underwriter for the Contracts was terminated. Simultaneously, IBS and Synergy entered into an Assignment of Selling Agreements, whereby IBS assigned all selling group agreements pertaining to the Contracts to Synergy.
         The Contracts are no longer offered for sale to the public.
         Special Compensation Paid to the Principal Underwriter. We pay compensation to Synergy in the amount of $3,500.00 per month to compensate it for serving as principal underwriter for the Contracts.
         Compensation to Broker-Dealers Selling the Contracts. The Contracts were offered to the public through broker-dealers (“selling firms”) that are licensed under the federal securities laws and state insurance laws. The selling firms originally entered into written selling agreements with IBS; IBS assigned those selling agreements to Synergy on April 1, 2010. We pay commissions directly to certain selling firms for their past sales of the Contracts.
         The selling firms that have selling agreements with Synergy are paid, and those that had selling agreements with IBS were paid, commissions for the promotion and sale of the Contracts according to one or more schedules. The amount and timing of commissions varies depending on the selling agreement, but the maximum commission paid to selling firms is 6.75% of additional Purchase Payments, plus a trail commission option of up to 1.00% of additional Purchase Payments paid quarterly on Purchase Payments that have been held in the Contract for at least twelve months.
         With respect to Contracts issued on or after April 20, 2000 with the GRIB rider, annuitization compensation of 2% is paid on Contracts that are seven years old or older and that are annuitized for a period of five or more years. Ask your sales representative for further information about what your sales representative and the selling firm for which he or she works may receive in connection with your purchase and annuitization of a Contract.
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programs based on past sales of the Contracts and other criteria in order to receive enhanced marketing services and increased access to their sales representatives. In addition to access to their distribution network, such selling firms have received separate compensation or reimbursement for, among other things, the hiring and training of sales personnel, marketing, sponsoring of conferences and seminars, and/or other services they provided to us. These special compensation arrangements were not offered to all selling firms and the terms of such arrangements differed between selling firms.
         We had entered into such “preferred product” arrangements with the following selling firms: AG Edwards; CSN Insurance Agency; Compass Bancshares Insurance Agency, FL; Compass Brokerage Inc.; PFIC; ABN AMRO; WM Financial Services, Inc.; Michigan National Bank; and Standard Investment Services.
         The amounts paid during 2010 to such selling firms under such arrangements ranged from 25 to 75 basis points of Contract Value, equivalent to from $25.00 to $75.00 on a $10,000 investment.
         During the last fiscal year, we paid the following selling firms the amounts shown below in addition to sales commissions.
             
 
Name of Firm and Principal       Aggregate Amount Paid
Business Address       During Last Fiscal Year
         
WS Insurance Services LLC
(Formerly AG Edwards)
1 North Jefferson
Suite 960
St. Louis, Missouri 63103
      $ 3,238.85  
 
         No specific charge is assessed directly to Contract Owners or the Separate Account to cover commissions and other incentives or payments we pay in connection with the distribution of the Contracts. However, we intend to recoup commissions and other sales expenses and incentives we pay through the fees and charges we deduct under the Contract and through other corporate revenue.
         You should be aware that any selling firm or its sales representatives may receive different compensation or incentives for selling one product over another. As such, they may be inclined to favor or disfavor one product over another due to differing rates of compensation. You may wish to take such payments into account when considering and evaluating any recommendation relating to the Contracts.
VOTING RIGHTS
         Proxy materials in connection with any Fund shareholder meeting are delivered to each Owner with Subaccount interests invested in the Fund as of the record date. Proxy materials include a voting instruction form. We vote all Fund shares proportionately in accordance with instructions received from Owners. We will also vote any Fund shares attributed to amounts we have accumulated in the Subaccounts in the same proportion that Owners vote.
         A Fund is not required to hold annual shareholders’ meetings. Funds hold special meetings as required or deemed desirable for such purposes as electing trustees, changing fundamental policies or approving an investment advisory agreement.
         Owners have voting rights in a Fund or Portfolio based upon the Owner’s proportionate interest in the corresponding Subaccount as measured by units. Owners have voting rights before surrender, the Annuity Date or the death of the Annuitant. Thereafter, the Annuitant entitled to receive Variable

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Annuity payments has voting rights. During the Annuity Period, Annuitants’ voting rights decrease as Annuity Units decrease.
REPORTS TO CONTRACT OWNERS AND INQUIRIES
         After each Contract anniversary, we send you a statement showing amounts credited to each Subaccount, to the Fixed Account option and to the Guarantee Period Value. In addition, if you transfer amounts among the variable options or make additional payments, you receive written confirmation of these transactions. We will also send a current statement upon your request. We also send you annual and semi-annual reports for the Funds or Portfolios that correspond to the Subaccounts in which you invest and a list of the securities held by that Fund or Portfolio.
         You may direct inquiries to the selling agent or may contact the Service Center.
DOLLAR COST AVERAGING
         Under our Dollar Cost Averaging program, a predesignated portion of Subaccount Value is automatically transferred monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually for a specified duration to other Subaccounts, Guarantee Periods and the Fixed Account. The DCA theoretically gives you a lower average cost per unit over time than you would receive if you made a one time purchase of the selected Subaccounts. There is no guarantee that DCA will produce that result. There is currently no charge for this service. The Dollar Cost Averaging program is available only during the Accumulation Period. You may also elect transfers from the Fixed Account on a monthly or quarterly basis for a minimum duration of one year. You may enroll any time by completing our Dollar Cost Averaging form. Transfers are made based on the date you specify. We must receive the enrollment form in good order at least five business days before the transfer date.
         The minimum transfer amount is $100 per Subaccount, Guarantee Period or Fixed Account. The total Contract Value in an account at the time Dollar Cost Averaging is elected must be at least equal to the amount designated to be transferred on each transfer date times the duration selected.
         Dollar Cost Averaging ends if:
    the number of designated monthly transfers has been completed,
 
    Contract Value in the transferring account is insufficient to complete the next transfer (the remaining amount is transferred),
 
    we receive the Owner’s written termination at least five business days before the next transfer date, or
 
    the Contract is surrendered or annuitized.
         If the Fixed Account balance is at least $10,000, you may elect automatic calendar quarter transfers of interest accrued in the Fixed Account to one or more of the Subaccounts or Guarantee Periods. You may enroll in this program any time by completing our Dollar Cost Averaging form. Transfers are made within five business days of the end of the calendar quarter. We must receive the enrollment form at least ten days before the end of the calendar quarter.
         Dollar Cost Averaging is not available during the Annuity Period.
SYSTEMATIC WITHDRAWAL PLAN
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based on your life expectancy, from the Fixed Account, or from any of the Subaccounts or Guarantee Periods on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis. The SWP is available when you submit a written request (in good order) to the Service Center for a minimum $100 periodic payment. A Market Value Adjustment applies to any withdrawals under the SWP from a Guarantee Period, unless effected within 30 days after the Guarantee Period ends. SWP withdrawals from the Fixed Account are not available in the first Contract Year and are limited to the amount not subject to Withdrawal Charges. If the amounts distributed under the SWP from the Subaccounts or Guarantee Periods exceed the free withdrawal amount, the Withdrawal Charge is applied on any amounts exceeding the free withdrawal amount. Withdrawals taken under the SWP may be subject to the 10% tax penalty on early withdrawals and to income taxes and withholding. If you are interested in SWP, you may obtain an application and information concerning this program and its restrictions from us or your agent. We give 30 days’ notice if we amend the SWP. The SWP may be terminated at any time by you or us.
EXPERTS
         The statutory financial statements and schedules of Zurich American Life Insurance Company as of December 31, 2010 and 2009 and for each of the three years ended December 31, 2010 (prepared in conformity with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations — Division of Insurance) and the U.S. GAAP statement of assets, liabilities, and Contract owners’ equity of ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account as of December 31, 2010 and the related statement of operations for the year then ended and the statement of changes in Contract owners’ equity for each of periods presented included in the Statement of Additional Information, have been so included in reliance on the reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
         ZALICO has been named as defendant in certain lawsuits incidental to our insurance business. Our management believes that the resolution of these various lawsuits will not result in any material adverse effect on the Separate Account, on our consolidated financial position, or on our ability to meet our obligations under the Contracts. As of the date of this Prospectus, it also appears that there are no pending or threatened lawsuits that are likely to have a material adverse impact on Synergy’s ability to perform its obligations under its principal underwriting agreement.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
         The financial statements of ZALICO and the Separate Account are set forth in the Statement of Additional Information. The financial statements of ZALICO should be considered primarily as bearing on our ability to meet our obligations under the Contracts. The Contracts are not entitled to participate in our earnings, dividends or surplus.
CONTRACTS ISSUED BEFORE NOVEMBER 12, 2001
A.   Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit: General
         The Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit (“GRIB”) rider was an optional Contract benefit available under Contracts issued before November 12, 2001. GRIB is not offered on Contracts issued on or after November 12, 2001. We reserve the right to begin offering GRIB at any time.

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         GRIB provides a minimum fixed annuity guaranteed lifetime income to the Annuitant as described below. Requests to exercise the GRIB must be received by us in good order. GRIB may be exercised only within 30 days after the seventh Contract anniversary and within 30 days before and 30 days after later Contract anniversaries. We will not accept requests to exercise the GRIB option outside of these 30-day and 60-day windows. In addition, GRIB must be exercised between the Annuitant’s 60th and 91st birthdays. However, if the Annuitant is age 44 or younger on the Date of Issue, GRIB may be exercised after the Contract’s 15th Anniversary, even though the Annuitant is not yet 60 years old. GRIB may not be appropriate for Annuitants age 80 and older. State premium taxes may be assessed when you exercise GRIB.
         If you elected GRIB, the charge is 0.25% of Contract Value. We deduct a pro rata portion of the charge from each Subaccount, each Guarantee Period and the Fixed Account in which you have value on the last business day of each calendar quarter. If the GRIB rider is not exercised by the Annuitant’s age 91, the GRIB terminates without value on that date. Contract Owners must exercise the GRIB rider no later than the Contract anniversary before the Annuitant’s age 91. We no longer charge for GRIB after the Annuitant’s 91st birthday. We do not assess the GRIB charge after you annuitize. The GRIB charge is in addition to the Contract fees and expenses appearing in the “Summary of Expenses”. You may cancel the GRIB rider at any time by written notice to us. Once discontinued, GRIB may not be elected again. Since any guaranteed benefits under GRIB will be lost, you should carefully consider your decision to cancel GRIB.
         GRIB only applies to the determination of income payments upon annuitization in the circumstances described in this section of the Prospectus. It is not a guarantee of Contract Value or performance. This benefit does not enhance the amounts paid in partial withdrawals, surrenders, or death benefits. If you surrender your Contract, you will not receive any benefit under this optional benefit.
B.   Annuity Payments with GRIB
         Annuity payments are based on the greater of:
    the income provided by applying the GRIB base to the guaranteed annuity factors, and
 
    the income provided by applying the Contract Value to the current annuity factors.
         The GRIB base is the greatest of:
    Contract Value,
 
    Purchase Payments minus previous withdrawals, accumulated at 5.00% interest per year to the earlier of the Annuitant’s age 80 or the GRIB exercise date plus Purchase Payments minus all withdrawals from age 80 to the GRIB exercise date (the “Purchase Payment Roll-Up Value”), and
 
    the greatest anniversary value before the exercise date.
          The greatest anniversary value equals:
    the highest of the Contract Values on each Contract anniversary prior to the Annuitant’s age 81, plus
 
    the dollar amount of any Purchase Payments made since that anniversary, minus
 
    withdrawals since that anniversary.
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it is not a minimum return for any Subaccount; and it is not a guarantee of any Contract Value. Your greatest anniversary value is a hypothetical value that you may never realize unless and until: (a) you annuitize your Contract, (b) you exercise the GRIB, and (c) the greatest anniversary value on the Exercise Date is greater than either the Contract Value or the Purchase Payment Roll-Up Value on the Exercise Date. When you exercise the GRIB, we will calculate the GRIB base, in part, by using your greatest anniversary value as calculated on your Exercise Date. Calculation of the greatest anniversary value on any date other than the Exercise Date is subject to recalculation and you are not entitled to any interim value of the greatest anniversary value.
         Applying additional Purchase Payments to your Contract may increase your interim greatest anniversary value, which in turn may appear to increase your GRIB base. However, in some instances when you apply additional Purchase Payments to your Contract, your hypothetical greatest anniversary value, as calculated on the Contact anniversary date immediately subsequent to the Purchase Payments, may be less than the interim greatest anniversary value and your GRIB base calculation may appear to be negatively impacted.
         The guaranteed annuity factors are based on the 1983a table projected using projection scale G, with interest at 2.5% (the “Annuity 2000” table). However, if GRIB is exercised on or after the 10th Contract anniversary, interest at 3.5% is assumed. Contracts issued in the state of Montana or in connection with certain employer-sponsored employee benefit plans are required to use unisex annuity factors. In such cases, the guaranteed annuity factors will be based on unisex rates.
         Because GRIB is based on conservative actuarial factors, the income guaranteed may often be less than the income provided under the regular provisions of the Contract. If the regular annuitization provisions would provide a greater benefit than GRIB, the greater amount will be paid.
         GRIB is paid for the life of a single Annuitant or the lifetimes of two Annuitants. If paid for the life of a single Annuitant, GRIB is paid in the amount determined above. If paid for the lifetimes of two Annuitants, GRIB is paid in the amount determined above, but the age of the older Annuitant is used to determine the GRIB base.
         If you elect GRIB payable for the life of a single Annuitant, you may elect a period certain of 5, 10, 15, or 20 years. If the Annuitant dies before GRIB has been paid for the period elected, the remaining GRIB payments are paid as they fall due to the Beneficiary, if the Beneficiary is a natural person. If the Beneficiary is not a natural person, the remaining payments may be commuted at a minimum 2.5% interest rate and paid in a lump sum.
         If you elect GRIB payable for the lifetimes of two Annuitants, the period certain is 5, 10, 15, 20, or 25 years. The full GRIB is payable as long as at least one of the two Annuitants is alive, but for no less than 25 years. If both Annuitants die before GRIB has been paid for the period elected, the remaining GRIB payments are paid as they fall due to the Beneficiary, if the Beneficiary is a natural person. If the Beneficiary is not a natural person, the remaining payments may be commuted at a minimum 2.5% interest rate and paid in a lump sum.
         For Qualified Plan Contracts, the period certain elected cannot be longer than the Owner’s life expectancy, in order to satisfy minimum required distribution rules.
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         We may deduct premium taxes at the time of annuitization from Contract Value (or from the GRIB base, if applicable).
C.   Commutable Annuitization Option
         If you purchased your Contract on or after August 24, 1999, and you exercise the GRIB option to receive guaranteed benefits, you may elect to have payments made under a commutable annuitization option. Under the commutable annuitization option, partial lump sum payments are permitted, subject to the following general requirements:
    At the time you exercise the GRIB option, you must elect the commutable annuitization option in order to be eligible for the lump sum payments.
    Lump sum payments are available only during the period certain applicable under the payout option you elected. For example, lump sum payments can be elected only during the 5, 10, 15, or 20 year certain period that applies to the payout.
    Lump sum payments are available once in each calendar year and may not be elected until one year after annuitization has started. We reserve the right to make exceptions.
If you select a commutation option in connection with your GRIB rider, you may be subject to additional tax risks. You should consult a tax adviser before selecting any commutation options in connection with your GRIB rider. (See “Required Distributions from Qualified Plan Contracts” above.)
         1. Original Commutation Option.
         The commutable annuitization option originally allowed the Annuitant to elect a lump sum payment in lieu of receiving some or all of the guaranteed installment payments remaining in the period certain under the Contract. There is some uncertainty regarding how the required minimum distribution rules of Code section 401(a)(9) apply to a Qualified Plan Contract after such a commutation is elected. As a result, you should consult a tax adviser before doing so. The original commutation option is summarized as follows:
    The Annuitant may elect to receive a partial lump sum payment of the present value of the remaining payments in the period certain, subject to the restrictions described below. If a partial lump sum payment is elected, the remaining payments in the period certain will be reduced based on the ratio of the amount of the partial withdrawal to the amount of the present value of the remaining installments in the period certain prior to the withdrawal. If the Annuitant is still living after the period certain is over, the Annuitant will begin receiving the original annuitization payment amount again.
    Each time that a partial lump sum payment is made, we will determine the percentage that the payment represents of the present value of the remaining installments in the period certain. For Non-Qualified Plan Contracts, the sum of these percentages over the life of the Contract generally cannot exceed 75%. For Qualified Plan Contracts, partial lump sum payments of up to 100% of the present value of the remaining installments in the period certain may be made.
    In determining the amount of the lump sum payment that is available, the present value of the remaining installments in the period certain will be calculated based on an interest rate equal to the GRIB annuity factor interest rate (3.5% if GRIB was exercised on or after the 10th Contract anniversary; 2.5% if exercised before that date) plus an interest rate adjustment that has the effect of reducing the amount of the lump sum payment. The interest rate adjustment is equal to the following:

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    Interest rate
Number of years remaining in the period certain   Adjustment
15 or more years
    1.00 %
10 or more, but less than 15, years
    1.50 %
less than 10 years
    2.00 %
         2. Additional Commutation Options.
         As described in the FEDERAL TAX CONSIDERATIONS section of this Prospectus, there is some uncertainty about how the minimum distribution requirements in Code section 401(a)(9) apply to your Contract after a lump sum payment is elected under the commutable annuitization option. In particular, there is uncertainty regarding how to treat options that allow a commutation of the guaranteed installments remaining to be made in a period certain but not the life-contingent payments that could remain payable after the period certain (which we call the “Life Income Payments”). The following two commutation options are intended to provide access to the Life Income Payments through a commutation.
    Lump Sum Option: Under this option, we will pay a lump sum distribution reflecting our calculation of the present value of your remaining guaranteed installments (if any) and the actuarial present value of your future contingent Life Income Payments. Once we pay the lump sum, no further payments will be made and your Contract will terminate. This option is also available in connection with Non-Qualified Plan Contracts.
    Level Lifetime Payment Option: Under this option, we will pay a lump sum distribution reflecting our calculation of the present value of your remaining guaranteed installments (if any), followed by life-contingent periodic payments for life (which we call the “New Level Lifetime Payments”). The New Level Lifetime Payments will commence immediately after this option is elected (rather than at the end of the originally-scheduled period certain). The New Level Lifetime Payments will continue for as long as the Annuitant (or the original joint Annuitant, if any) live, but with no period certain. The New Level Lifetime Payments will be made in lieu of any Life Income Payments that otherwise might become payable following the original period certain. The New Level Lifetime Payments will be calculated based on our calculation of the actuarial present value of your future contingent Life Income Payments as of the election date, which are discounted for mortality and other relevant factors. The New Level Lifetime Payments will be lower in amount compared to your original Life Income Payments, primarily because they will commence before the end of your original period certain. Once the New Level Lifetime Payments begin, they cannot be accelerated or paid out in a lump sum. The New Level Lifetime Payments do not include a period certain, meaning they will cease, and your Contract will terminate, upon the later of the Annuitant’s death or the death of the last surviving joint Annuitant, if any.
D.   Effect of Death of Owner or Annuitant on GRIB
         The GRIB terminates upon the death of the Owner or the Annuitant (if the Owner is not a natural person) unless the Owner’s or Annuitant’s surviving spouse elects to continue the Contract as described in “Guaranteed Death Benefit” Section above. A spouse may continue only a Non-Qualified Plan Contract or an Individual Retirement Annuity.

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         If the spouse elects to continue the Contract as the new Owner and receive any increase in Contract Value attributable to the death benefit, the GRIB is modified as follows:
The GRIB base is calculated from the time the election to continue the Contract is made and reflects the increase, if any, in Contract Value attributable to the death benefit. GRIB may not be exercised or canceled prior to the seventh Contract Year anniversary date following the spouse’s election to continue the Contract. However, we will waive all other age restrictions that would apply to exercising GRIB. The spouse may also elect to discontinue GRIB within 30 days of the date the election to continue the Contract is made.
         If the spouse elects to continue the Contract without receiving any increase in Contract Value attributable to the death benefit, all rights, benefits and charges under the Contract, including the GRIB charge and the right to exercise GRIB based on the existing exercise period, will continue unchanged.

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STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TABLE OF CONTENTS
The SAI contains additional information about the Contract and the Separate Account. You can obtain the SAI (at no cost) by contacting us at the Service Center. Please read the SAI in conjunction with this Prospectus. The following is the Table of Contents for the SAI.
         
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
    2  
 
       
SERVICES TO THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
    2  
 
       
VOTING RIGHTS
    4  
 
       
SAFEKEEPING OF SEPARATE ACCOUNT ASSETS
    4  
 
       
STATE REGULATION
    5  
 
       
LEGAL MATTERS
    5  
 
       
EXPERTS
    5  
 
       
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
    5  
 
       
APPENDIX A - STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PREMIUM TAX CHART
    A-1  
 
       
APPENDIX F - INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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APPENDIX A
ILLUSTRATION OF THE “FLOOR” ON THE DOWNWARD MARKET VALUE
ADJUSTMENT (MVA)
     
Purchase Payment
  $40,000
 
   
Guarantee Period
  5 Years
 
   
Guaranteed Interest Rate
  5% Annual Effective Rate
         The following examples illustrate how the “floor” on a downward MVA, that was added to your Contract effective April 1, 2005, may affect the values of your Contract upon a withdrawal. In these examples, the Guarantee Period starts on the Effective Date of the MVA Endorsement (i.e., the Start Date); a withdrawal occurs one year after the Start Date. The MVA operates in a similar manner for transfers. No Withdrawal Charge applies to transfers.
         In these examples, the Guarantee Period Value for the $40,000.00 Purchase Payment is guaranteed to equal $51,051.26 at the end of the five-year Guarantee Period. After one year, when the first withdrawals occur in these examples, the Guarantee Period Value is $42,000.00. It is also assumed, for the purposes of these examples, that no prior partial withdrawals or transfers have occurred.
         A downward MVA results when you take a full or partial withdrawal during periods of rising interest rates. Assume in this example that, one year after the Purchase Payment, the interest rate on a four-year Guarantee Period rose to 6.5% .
         In this example, the MVA will be based on the hypothetical interest rate we are crediting at the time of the withdrawal on new money allocated to a Guarantee Period with a duration equal to the time remaining in your Guarantee Period rounded to the next higher number of complete years. One year after the Purchase Payment there would have been four years remaining in your Guarantee Period, so the hypothetical crediting rate for a four-year Guarantee Period will be used (6.5%). These examples also show how the Withdrawal Charge (if any) would be calculated separately after the MVA.
Note: We declare interest rates on the MVA Options at our sole discretion. The interest rates used in this example are hypothetical and do not reflect current interest rates being credited by us, and the interest rates do not represent any of our intentions regarding future interest crediting rates.
Example of Full Withdrawal
         Upon a full withdrawal, the market value adjustment factor would be:
(FORMULAE)
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         The downward MVA is subject to a “floor” so that the downward MVA can remove only interest credited in excess of 3% on the Guarantee Period Value from the Start Date. The “floor” in this example is calculated as:
-$800.00 = $40,000.00 x (1 + .03) - $40,000.00 x (1 + .05)
         The Market Adjusted Value after applying the floored downward MVA would be:
$41,200.00 = $42,000.00 - $800.00
         A Withdrawal Charge of 6% would be assessed against the Purchase Payments subject to a Withdrawal Charge in excess of the amount available as a free withdrawal. In this case, there are no prior withdrawals, so 10% of the Contract Value is not subject to a Withdrawal Charge.
         The Withdrawal Charge on a full withdrawal is:
$2,148.00 = ($40,000.00 – (.10 x $42,000.00)) x .06
         Thus, the amount payable on a full withdrawal after the application of the MVA floor would be:
$39,052.00 = $41,200.00 - $2,148.00
Example of Partial Withdrawal of 50% of Guarantee Period Value
         If instead of a full withdrawal, assume that 50% of the Guarantee Period Value ($21,000.00) was withdrawn from the Contract (partial withdrawal of 50%) after the first year.
         The downward MVA is subject to the floor of -$800.00 described above. In this example, this means that only the interest credited on the entire Guarantee Period Value for the one-year period between the Start Date and the date of withdrawal that was in excess of 3% (i.e., the difference between 5% interest and 3% interest) can be removed at the time of the partial withdrawal. The partial withdrawal will have the impact of reducing the return, to date, in the Guarantee Period to the minimum guaranteed interest rate of 3% per annum.
         The Market Adjusted Value after applying the floored downward MVA would be:
$20,200.00 = $21,000.00 - $800.00
         A Withdrawal Charge of 6% would be assessed against the Purchase Payments subject to a Withdrawal Charge in excess of the amount available as a free withdrawal. In this case, there are no prior withdrawals, so 10% of the Contract Value is not subject to a Withdrawal Charge.
$888.00 = ($19,000.00 – (.10 x $42,000.00)) x .06
         Thus, the amount payable, net of Withdrawal Charges, on this partial withdrawal after the application of the MVA floor would be:
$19,312.00 = $20,200.00 - $888.00

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Example of a Second Withdrawal of the Remaining Guarantee Period Value
         Assume that the owner took a second withdrawal of the remaining balance after the second year and the hypothetical crediting rate for a three-year Guarantee Period was 6.5% at that time.
         After the second year, the Guaranteed Period Value ($21,000) would have been credited with 5% interest and would have increased by $1,050 to $22,050.
         Upon a full withdrawal, the market value adjustment factor would be:
(FORMULAE)
         The downward MVA is subject to a “floor” discussed above. In this example, the downward MVA can remove only interest credited in excess of 3% (i.e., the difference between 5% interest and 3% interest) on the remaining Guarantee Period Value for the one-year period from the time of the prior withdrawal. The “floor” in this example is calculated as:
-$420.00 = $21,000.00 x (1 + .03) - $21,000.00 x (1 + .05)
         The Market Adjusted Value after applying the floored downward MVA would be:
$21,630.00 = $22,050.00 - $420.00
         A Withdrawal Charge of 5% would be assessed against the Purchase Payments subject to a Withdrawal Charge in excess of the amount available as a free withdrawal. In this case, 10% of the Contract Value is not subject to a Withdrawal Charge.
         The Withdrawal Charge is thus:
$939.75 = ($21,000.00 - (.10 x $22,050.00)) x .05
         Thus, the amount payable on a full withdrawal after the application of the MVA floor would be:
$20,690.25 = $21,630.00 - $939.75
ILLUSTRATION OF AN UPWARD MARKET VALUE ADJUSTMENT
         An upward Market Value Adjustment results from a withdrawal that occurs when interest rates have decreased. Assume interest rates have decreased one year later and we are then crediting 4% for a four-year Guarantee Period. Upon a full withdrawal, the market value adjustment factor would be:
(FORMULAE)
         The Market Value Adjustment is an increase of $1638.83 to the Guarantee Period Value:
$1,638.83 = $42,000.00 x .0390198

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         The Market Adjusted Value would be:
$43,638.83 = $42,000.00 + $1,638.83
         A Withdrawal Charge of 6% would apply to the Market Adjusted Value being withdrawn, less 10% of the Contract Value, as there were no prior withdrawals:
$2,366.33 = ($43,638.83 - .10 x 42,000) x .06
         Thus, the amount payable on withdrawal would be:
$41,272.50 = $43,638.83 - $2,366.33
         If instead of a full withdrawal, 50% of the Guarantee Period Value was withdrawn (partial withdrawal of 50%), the Market Value Adjustment would be:
$819.42 = $21,000.00 x .0390198
         The Market Adjusted Value of $21,000.00 would be:
$21,819.42 = $21,000.00 + $819.42
         The Withdrawal Charge of 6% would apply to the Market Adjusted Value being withdrawn, less 10% of the full Market Adjusted Value as there are no prior withdrawals:
$1,057.17 = ($21,819.42 -.1 x $42,000) x .06
         Thus, the amount payable, net of Withdrawal Charges, on this partial withdrawal would be:
$20,762.25 = $21,819.42 - $1,057.17
         Actual Market Value Adjustment may have a greater or lesser impact than that shown in the Examples, depending on the actual change in interest crediting rates and the timing of the withdrawal or transfer in relation to the time remaining in the Guarantee Period.

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APPENDIX B
ZURICH AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
DEFERRED FIXED AND VARIABLE ANNUITY IRA, ROTH IRA AND
SIMPLE IRA DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
         This Disclosure Statement describes the statutory and regulatory provisions applicable to the operation of traditional Individual Retirement Annuities (IRAs), Roth Individual Retirement Annuities (Roth IRAs) and Simple Individual Retirement Annuities (SIMPLE IRAs). Internal Revenue Service regulations require that this be given to each person desiring to establish an IRA, Roth IRA or a SIMPLE IRA. Except where otherwise indicated, IRA discussion includes Simplified Employee Pension IRAs (SEP IRAs). Further information can be obtained from Zurich American Life Insurance Company (formerly Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company) and from any district office of the Internal Revenue Service. Also, see IRS Publication 590, Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs).
         This Disclosure Statement is for your general information and is not intended to be exhaustive or conclusive, to apply to any particular person or situation, or to be used as a substitute for qualified legal or tax advice.
         Please note that the information contained herein is based on current Federal income tax law, income tax regulations, and other guidance provided by the IRS. Hence, this information is subject to change upon an amendment of the law or the issuance of further regulations or other guidance. Also, you should be aware that state tax laws may differ from Federal tax laws governing such arrangements. You should consult your tax adviser about any state tax consequences of your IRA, Roth IRA or SIMPLE IRA, whichever is applicable.
A. REVOCATION
         Within seven days of the date you signed your enrollment application, you may revoke the Contract and receive back 100% of your money. To do so, write the Service Center.
         Notice of revocation will be deemed mailed on the date of the postmark (or if sent by certified or registered mail, the date of the certification or registration) if it is deposited in the mail in the United States in an envelope, or other appropriate wrapper, first class postage prepaid, properly addressed.
B.   STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS
         This Contract is intended to meet the requirements of Section 408(b) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) for use as an IRA, Section 408A of the Code for use as a Roth IRA, or of Section 408(p) of the Code for use as a SIMPLE IRA, whichever is applicable. The Contract has been approved as to form for use as an IRA, Roth IRA or a SIMPLE IRA by the Internal Revenue Service. Such approval by the Internal Revenue Service is a determination only as to form of the Contract, and does not represent a determination on the merits of the Contract.
         1.      The amount in your IRA, Roth IRA, and SIMPLE IRA, whichever is applicable, must be fully vested at all times and the entire interest of the owner must be nonforfeitable.
         2.      The Contract must be nontransferable by the owner.
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         4.      For IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs, you must start receiving distributions on or before April 1 of the year following the year in which you reach age 701/2 (the required beginning date)(See “Required Distributions”).
         If you die before the date on which you are required to begin distributions from your Contract, any remaining interest in the Contract must be distributed to your designated beneficiary (within the meaning of Section 401(a)(9) of the Code) either (i) by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of your death, or (ii) over his or her life, or over a period certain not extending beyond his or her life expectancy, commencing on or before December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which you die. If you die after distributions have begun but before your entire interest in your Contract is distributed, unless otherwise permitted under applicable law, any remaining interest in the Contract must be distributed to your beneficiary at least as rapidly as under the method of distribution in effect as of your date of death.
         If the sole designated beneficiary is your spouse, he or she may elect to treat the Contract as his or her own IRA, or, where applicable, Roth IRA whether you die before or after the distributions have begun.
         Section 401(a)(9)(A) of the Code (relating to minimum distributions required to commence at age 701/2), and the incidental death benefit requirements of Section 401(a) of the Code, do not apply to Roth IRAs.
         5.      Except in the case of a rollover contribution or a direct transfer (See “Rollovers and Direct Transfers”), or a contribution made in accordance with the terms of a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP), all contributions to an IRA, Roth and SIMPLE IRA must be cash contributions which do not exceed certain limits.
         6.      The Contract must be for the exclusive benefit of you and your beneficiaries.
C.   ROLLOVERS AND DIRECT TRANSFERS FOR IRAS AND SIMPLE IRAS
         1.      A rollover is a tax-free transfer from one retirement program to another that you cannot deduct on your tax return. There are two kinds of tax-free rollover payments to an IRA. In one, you transfer amounts from another IRA. With the other, you transfer amounts from a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code, a qualified annuity under Section 403(a) of the Code, a tax-sheltered annuity or custodial account under Section 403(b) of the Code, or a governmental plan under Section 457(b) of the Code (collectively referred to as “qualified employee benefit plans”). Tax-free rollovers can be made from a SIMPLE IRA or to a SIMPLE Individual Retirement Account under Section 408(p) of the Code. An individual can make a tax-free rollover to an IRA from a SIMPLE IRA, or vice-versa, after a two-year period has expired since the individual first participated in a SIMPLE plan.
         2.      You must complete the rollover by the 60th day after the day you receive the distribution from your IRA or other qualified employee benefit plan or SIMPLE IRA. The failure to satisfy this 60-day requirement may be waived by the Internal Revenue Service in certain circumstances. Amounts distributed as required minimum distributions are not eligible for treatment as a rollover.
         3.      A rollover distribution may be made to you only once a year. The one-year period begins on the date you receive the rollover distribution, not on the date you roll it over (reinvest it).
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         5.      All or a part of the premium for this Contract used as an IRA may be paid from a rollover from an IRA or qualified employee benefit plan or from a trustee-to-trustee transfer from another IRA. All or part of the premium for this Contract used as a SIMPLE IRA may be paid from a rollover from a SIMPLE Individual Retirement Account or, to the extent permitted by law, from a direct transfer from a SIMPLE IRA.
         6.      A distribution that is eligible for rollover treatment from a qualified employee benefit plan will be subject to twenty percent (20%) withholding by the Internal Revenue Service even if you roll the distribution over within the 60-day rollover period. One way to avoid this withholding is to make the distribution as a direct transfer to the IRA trustee or insurance company.
D.   CONTRIBUTION LIMITS AND ALLOWANCE OF DEDUCTION FOR IRAs
         1.      In general, the amount you can contribute each year to an IRA is the lesser of (1) 100% of your compensation includible in your gross income, or (2) the maximum annual contributions under Section 219(b) of the Code, including “catchup” contributions for certain individuals age 50 and older. The maximum annual contribution limit for IRA contributions is equal to $5,000 for 2011. After 2011, the limit may be indexed annually in $500 increments, except as otherwise provided by law. An individual who has attained age 50 may make additional “catch-up” IRA contributions. The maximum annual contribution limit for the individual is increased by $1,000 for 2011 and thereafter, except as otherwise provided by law. If you have more than one IRA, the limit applies to the total contributions made to your own IRAs for the year. Generally, if you work the amount that you earn is compensation. Wages, salaries, tips, professional fees, bonuses and other amounts you receive for providing personal services are compensation. If you own and operate your own business as a sole proprietor, your net earnings reduced by your deductible contributions on your behalf to self-employed retirement plans are compensation. If you are an active partner in a partnership and provide services to the partnership, your share of partnership income reduced by deductible contributions made on your behalf to qualified retirement plans is compensation. All taxable alimony and separate maintenance payments received under a decree of divorce or separate maintenance are compensation.
         2.      In the case of a married couple filing a joint return, up to the maximum annual contribution can be contributed to each spouse’s IRA, even if one spouse has little or no compensation. This means that the total combined contributions that can be made to both IRAs can be as much as $10,000 for the year (plus an additional $2,000 in catch-up contributions).
         3.      In the case of a married couple with unequal compensation who file a joint return, the limit on the deductible contributions to the IRA of the spouse with less compensation is the smaller of:
              a.      the maximum annual contribution, or
              b.      The total compensation of both spouses, reduced by any deduction allowed for contributions to IRAs of the spouse with more compensation.
         The deduction for contributions to both spouses’ IRAs may be further limited if either spouse is covered by an employer retirement plan.
         4.      If either you or your spouse is an active participant in an employer-sponsored plan and have a certain level of income, the amount of the contribution to your IRA that is deductible is phased out, and in some cases eliminated. If you are an active participant in an employer-sponsored plan, the deductibility of your IRA contribution will be phased out, depending on your adjusted gross income, or combined adjusted gross income in the case of a joint tax return, as follows:

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Joint Returns
         
Taxable year beginning in:   Phase-out range
2011
  $ 90,000-$110,000  
         
Single Taxpayers         
         
Taxable year beginning in:   Phase-out range
2011
  $ 56,000-$66,000  
         The phase-out range for married individuals filing separately is $0-$10,000. If you file a joint tax return and are not an active participant in an employer-sponsored plan, but your spouse is, the amount of the deductible IRA contribution is phased out for adjusted gross income between $ 169,000 and $ 179,000.
         To designate a contribution as nondeductible, you must file IRS Form 8606, Nondeductible IRAs. You may have to pay a penalty if you make nondeductible contributions to an IRA and you do not file Form 8606 with your tax return, or if you overstate the amount of nondeductible contributions on your Form 8606. If you do not report nondeductible contributions, all of the contributions to your traditional IRA will be treated as deductible, and all distributions from your IRA will be taxed, unless you can show, with satisfactory evidence, that nondeductible contributions were made.
         5.      Contributions to your IRA for a year can be made at any time up to April 15 of the following year. If you make the contribution between January 1 and April 15, however, you may elect to treat the contribution as made either in that year or in the preceding year. You may file a tax return claiming a deduction for your IRA contribution before the contribution is actually made. You must, however, make the contribution by the due date of your return not including extensions.
         6.      You cannot make a contribution other than a rollover or transfer contribution to your IRA for the year in which you reach age 701/2 or thereafter.
         7.      A taxpayer may qualify for a tax credit for contributions to an IRA, depending on the taxpayer’s adjusted gross income.
E.   SEP IRAs
         1.      SEP IRA rules concerning eligibility and contributions are governed by Code Section 408(k). The maximum deductible contribution for a SEP IRA is the lesser of $49,000 (indexed for cost-of-living increases after 2011) or 25% of compensation.
         2.      A SEP must be established and maintained by an employer (corporation, partnership, sole proprietor).
F.   SIMPLE IRAs
         1.      A SIMPLE IRA must be established with your employer using a qualified salary reduction agreement.
         2.      You may elect to have your employer contribute to your SIMPLE IRA, under a qualified salary reduction agreement, an amount (expressed as a percentage of your compensation) not to exceed $11,500 for 2011. After 2011, the limit may be indexed annually, except as otherwise provided by law.

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An individual who has attained age 50 may make additional “catch-up” IRA contributions. The maximum annual contribution limit for the individual is increased by $2,500 for 2011 and thereafter, except as otherwise provided by law. In addition to these employee elective contributions, your employer is required to make each year either (1) a matching contribution equal to up to 3 percent, and not less than 1 percent, of your SIMPLE IRA contribution for the year, or (2) a nonelective contribution equal to 2 percent of your compensation for the year (up to $245,000 of compensation, as adjusted for inflation). No other contributions may be made to a SIMPLE IRA.
         3.      Employee elective contributions and employer contributions (i.e., matching contributions and nonelective contributions) to your SIMPLE IRA are excluded from your gross income.
         4.      To the extent an individual with a SIMPLE IRA is no longer participating in a SIMPLE plan (e.g., the individual has terminated employment), and two years have passed since the individual first participated in the plan, the individual may treat the SIMPLE IRA as an IRA.
G.   TAX STATUS OF THE CONTRACT AND DISTRIBUTIONS FOR IRAs AND SIMPLE IRAs
         1.      Earnings of your IRA annuity contract are not taxed until they are distributed to you.
         2.      In general, taxable distributions are included in your gross income in the year you receive them.
         3.      Distributions under your IRA are non-taxable to the extent they represent a return of non-deductible contributions (if any). The non-taxable percentage of a distribution is determined generally by dividing your total undistributed, non-deductible IRA contributions by the value of all your IRAs (including SEPs and rollovers).
         4.      You cannot choose the special five-year or ten-year averaging that may apply to lump sum distributions from qualified employer plans.
H.   REQUIRED DISTRIBUTIONS FOR IRAs AND SIMPLE IRAs
         You must start receiving minimum distributions required under the Contract and Section 401(a)(9) of the Code from your IRA and SIMPLE IRA starting with the year you reach age 701/2 (your 701/2 year). Ordinarily, the required minimum distribution for a particular year must be received by December 31 of that year. However, you may delay the required minimum distribution for the year you reach age 701/2 until April 1 of the following year (i.e., the required beginning date).
         Annuity payments which begin by April 1 of the year following your 701/2 year satisfy the minimum distribution requirement if they provide for non-increasing payments over your life or the lives of you and your designated beneficiary (within the meaning of Section 401(a)(9) of the Code), provided that, if installments are guaranteed, the guaranty period does not exceed the applicable life or joint life expectancy.
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         If you have more than one IRA, you must determine the required minimum distribution separately for each IRA; however, you can take the actual distributions of these amounts from any one or more of your IRAs.
         In addition, the after-death minimum distribution requirements described generally in section B. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS apply to IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs.
         If the actual distribution from your Contract is less than the minimum amount that should be distributed in accordance with the minimum distribution requirements mentioned above, the difference generally is an excess accumulation. There is a 50% excise tax on any excess accumulations. If the excess accumulation is due to reasonable error, and you have taken (or are taking) steps to remedy the insufficient distribution, you can request that this 50% excise tax be excused by filing with your tax return an IRS Form 5329, together with a letter of explanation and the excise tax payment.
I.   ROTH IRAs
         1.      If your Contract is a special type of individual retirement plan known as a Roth IRA, it will be administered in accordance with the requirements of section 408A of the Code. (Except as otherwise indicated, references herein to an “IRA” are to an “individual retirement plan,” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(37) of the Code, other than a Roth IRA.) Roth IRAs are treated the same as other IRAs, except as described here.
         2.      If your Contract is a Roth IRA, we will send you a Roth IRA endorsement to be attached to, and to amend, your Contract. The Company reserves the right to amend the Contract as necessary or advisable from time to time to comply with future changes in the Internal Revenue Code, regulations or other requirements imposed by the IRS to obtain or maintain its approval of the annuity as a Roth IRA.
         3.      Earnings in your Roth IRA are not taxed until they are distributed to you, and will not be taxed if they are paid as a “qualified distribution,” as described to you in section L, below.
         4. The minimum distribution requirements that apply to IRAs do not apply to Roth IRAs while the owner is alive. However, after the death of a Roth IRA owner, the after-death minimum distribution rules that apply to IRAs also apply to Roth IRAs as though the Roth IRA owner died before his or her required beginning date. You may not use your Roth IRA to satisfy minimum distribution requirements for traditional IRAs. Nor may you use distributions from an IRA for required distributions from a Roth IRA.
J.   ELIGIBILITY AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ROTH IRAs
         1.      Generally, you are eligible to establish or make a contribution to your Roth IRA only if you meet certain income limits. No deduction is allowed for contributions to your Roth IRA. Contributions to your Roth IRA may be made even after you attain age 701/2.
         2.      The maximum aggregate amount of contributions for any taxable year to all IRAs, including all Roth IRAs, maintained for your benefit (the “contribution limit”) generally is the lesser of (1) 100% of your compensation includible in gross income, or (2) the maximum annual contributions under Section 219(b) of the Code, including “catchup” contributions for certain individuals age 50 and older (as discussed in section D, above).
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    the excess of (i) your adjusted gross income for the taxable year, over (ii) the “applicable dollar amount,” bears to $15,000 (or $10,000 if you are married).
         For this purpose, “adjusted gross income” is determined in accordance with Section 219(g)(3) of the Code and (1) excludes any amount included in gross income as a result of any rollover from, transfer from, or conversion of an IRA to a Roth IRA, and (2) is reduced by any deductible IRA contribution. In addition, the “applicable dollar amount” is equal to $ 169,000 for a married individual filing a joint return, $0 for a married individual filing a separate return, and $ 107,000 for any other individual.
         A “qualified rollover contribution” (discussed in section K, below), and a non-taxable transfer from another Roth IRA, are not taken into account for purposes of determining the contribution limit.
K.   ROLLOVERS, TRANSFERS AND CONVERSIONS TO ROTH IRAs
         1.      Rollovers and Transfers—A rollover may be made to a Roth IRA only if it is a “qualified rollover contribution.” A “qualified rollover contribution” is a rollover to a Roth IRA from another Roth IRA or from an IRA or other Qualified Plan, but only if such rollover contribution also meets the rollover requirements for IRAs under Section 408(d)(3). In addition, a transfer may be made to a Roth IRA directly from another Roth IRA or from an IRA.
         The rollover requirements of Section 408(d)(3) are complex and should be carefully considered before you make a rollover. One of the requirements is that the amount received be paid into another IRA (or Roth IRA) within 60 days after receipt of the distribution. The failure to satisfy this 60-day requirement may be waived by the Internal Revenue Service in certain circumstances. In addition, a rollover contribution from a Roth IRA may be made by you only once a year. The one-year period begins on the date you receive the Roth IRA distribution, not on the date you roll it over (reinvest it) into another Roth IRA. If you withdraw assets from a Roth IRA, you may roll over part of the withdrawal tax-free into another Roth IRA and keep the rest of it. A portion of the amount you keep may be included in your gross income.
         2.      Taxation of Rollovers and Transfers to Roth IRAs—A qualified rollover contribution or transfer from a Roth IRA maintained for your benefit to another Roth IRA maintained for your benefit which meets the rollover requirements for IRAs under Section 408(d)(3) is tax-free.
         In the case of a qualified rollover contribution or a transfer from an IRA maintained for your benefit to a Roth IRA maintained for your benefit, any portion of the amount rolled over or transferred which would be includible in your gross income were it not part of a qualified rollover contribution or a nontaxable transfer will be includible in your gross income. However, Code Section 72(t) (relating to the 10% penalty tax on premature distributions) will generally not apply unless the amounts rolled over or transferred are withdrawn within the five-year period beginning with the taxable year in which such contribution was made.
         3.      Transfers of Excess IRA Contributions to Roth IRAs—If, before the due date of your federal income tax return for any taxable year (not including extensions), you transfer, from an IRA, contributions for such taxable year (and earnings thereon) to a Roth IRA, such amounts will not be includible in gross income to the extent that no deduction was allowed with respect to such amount.
         4.      Taxation of Conversions of IRAs to Roth IRAs—All or part of amounts in an IRA maintained for your benefit may be converted into a Roth IRA maintained for your benefit. A conversion typically will result in the inclusion of some or all of your IRA’s value in gross income, as described above.

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         A conversion of an IRA to a Roth IRA can be made without taking an actual distribution from your IRA. For example, an individual may make a conversion by notifying the IRA issuer or trustee, whichever is applicable.
         UNDER SOME CIRCUMSTANCES, IT MIGHT NOT BE ADVISABLE TO ROLLOVER, TRANSFER, OR CONVERT ALL OR PART OF AN IRA TO A ROTH IRA. WHETHER YOU SHOULD DO SO WILL DEPEND ON YOUR PARTICULAR FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SUCH FACTORS AS WHETHER YOU QUALIFY TO MAKE SUCH A ROLLOVER, TRANSFER, OR CONVERSION, YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION, AGE, CURRENT AND FUTURE INCOME NEEDS, YEARS TO RETIREMENT, CURRENT AND FUTURE TAX RATES, YOUR ABILITY AND DESIRE TO PAY CURRENT INCOME TAXES WITH RESPECT TO AMOUNTS ROLLED OVER, TRANSFERRED, OR CONVERTED, AND WHETHER SUCH TAXES MIGHT NEED TO BE PAID WITH WITHDRAWALS FROM YOUR ROTH IRA (SEE DISCUSSION BELOW OF “NONQUALIFIED DISTRIBUTIONS”). YOU SHOULD CONSULT A QUALIFIED TAX ADVISER BEFORE ROLLING OVER, TRANSFERRING, OR CONVERTING ALL OR PART OF AN IRA TO A ROTH IRA.
         5.      Separate Roth IRAs—Due to the complexity of, and proposed changes to, the tax law, it may be advantageous to maintain amounts rolled over, transferred, or converted from an IRA in separate Roth IRAs from those containing regular Roth IRA contributions. For the same reason, you should consider maintaining a separate Roth IRA for each amount rolled over, transferred, or converted from an IRA. These considerations should be balanced against the additional costs you may incur from maintaining multiple Roth IRAs. You should consult your tax adviser if you intend to contribute rollover, transfer, or conversion amounts to your Contract, or if you intend to roll over or transfer amounts from your Contract to another Roth IRA maintained for your benefit.
L.   INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES OF ROTH IRAs
         1.      Qualified Distributions—Any “qualified distribution” from a Roth IRA is excludible from gross income. A “qualified distribution” is a payment or distribution which satisfies two requirements. First, the payment or distribution must be (a) made after you attain age 591/2, (b) made after your death, (c) attributable to your being disabled, or (d) a “qualified special purpose distribution” (i.e., a qualified first-time homebuyer distribution under Section 72(t)(2)(F) of the Code). Second, the payment or distribution must be made in a taxable year that is at least five years after (1) the first taxable year for which a contribution was made to any Roth IRA established for you, or (2) in the case of a rollover from, or a conversion of, an IRA to a Roth IRA, the taxable year in which the rollover or conversion was made if the payment or distribution is allocable (as determined in the manner set forth in guidance issued by the IRS) to the rollover contribution or conversion (or to income allocable thereto).
         2.      Nonqualified Distributions—A distribution from a Roth IRA which is not a qualified distribution is taxed under Section 72 (relating to annuities), except that such distribution is treated as made first from contributions to the Roth IRA to the extent that such distribution, when added to all previous distributions from the Roth IRA, does not exceed the aggregate amount of contributions to the Roth IRA. For purposes of determining the amount taxed, (a) all Roth IRAs established for you will be treated as one contract, (b) all distributions during any taxable year from Roth IRAs established for you will be treated as one distribution, and (c) the value of the contract, income on the contract, and investment in the contract, if applicable, will be computed as of the close of the calendar year in which the taxable year begins.

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         An additional tax of 10% is imposed on nonqualified distributions (including amounts deemed distributed as the result of a prohibited loan or use of your Roth IRA as security for a loan) made before the benefited individual has attained age 591/2, unless one of the exceptions discussed in Section N applies.
M.   TAX ON EXCESS CONTRIBUTIONS
         1.      You must pay a 6% excise tax each year on excess contributions that remain in your Contract. Generally, an excess contribution is the amount contributed to your Contract that is more than you can contribute. The excess is taxed for the year of the excess contribution and for each year after that until you correct it.
         If contributions to your IRA for a year are more than the contribution limit, you can apply the excess contribution in one year to a later year if the contributions for that later year are less than the maximum allowed for that year.
         2.      You will not have to pay the 6% excise tax if you withdraw the excess amount by the date your tax return is due including extensions for the year of the contribution. You do not have to include in your gross income an excess contribution that you withdraw from your Contract before your tax return is due if the income earned on the excess was also withdrawn and no deduction was allowed for the excess contribution. You must include in your gross income the income earned on the excess contribution.
N.   TAX ON PREMATURE DISTRIBUTIONS
         There is an additional tax on premature distributions from your IRA, Roth IRA, or SIMPLE IRA, equal to 10% of the taxable amount. For premature distributions from a SIMPLE IRA made within the first two years you participate in a SIMPLE plan, the additional tax is equal to 25% of the amount of the premature distribution that must be included in gross income. Premature distributions are generally amounts you withdraw before you are age 591/2. However, the tax on premature distributions does not apply generally:
         1.      To amounts that are rolled over or transferred tax-free;
         2.      To a distribution that is made on or after your death, or on account of you being disabled within the meaning of Code Section 72(m)(7);
         3.      To a distribution that is part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (made at least annually) over your life or your life expectancy or the joint life or joint life expectancy of you and your beneficiary; or
         4.      To a distribution that is used for qualified first-time homebuyer expenses, qualified higher education expenses, certain medical expenses, by an unemployed individual to pay health insurance premiums, or a qualified reservist as a qualified reservist distribution.
O.   EXCISE TAX REPORTING
         Use Form 5329, Additional Taxes Attributable to Qualified Retirement Plans (Including IRAs), Annuities, and Modified Endowment Contracts, to report the excise taxes on excess contributions, premature distributions, and excess accumulations. If you do not owe any IRA, SIMPLE IRA or Roth IRA excise taxes, you do not need Form 5329. Further information can be obtained from any district office of the Internal Revenue Service.

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P.   BORROWING
         If you borrow money against your Contract or use it as security for a loan, the Contract will lose its classification as an IRA, Roth IRA, or SIMPLE IRA, whichever is applicable, and you must include in gross income the fair market value of the Contract as of the first day of your tax year. In addition, you may be subject to the tax on premature distributions described above. (Note: This Contract does not allow borrowings against it, nor may it be assigned or pledged as collateral for a loan.)
Q.   REPORTING
         We will provide you with any reports required by the Internal Revenue Service.
R.   ESTATE TAX
         Generally, the value of your IRA, including your Roth IRA, is included in your gross estate for federal estate tax purposes.
S.   FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
         If contributions to the Contract are made by other than rollover contributions and direct transfers, the following information based on the charts shown on the next pages, which assumes you were to make a level contribution to the fixed account at the beginning of each year of $1,000 must be completed prior to your signing the enrollment application.
             
    Lump Sum Termination   At   Lump Sum Termination
End of Year        Value of Contract*   Age        Value of Contract*
1
      60    
2       65    
3       70    
4            
5            
         If contributions to the Contract are made by rollover contributions and/or direct transfers, the following information, based on the charts shown on the next page, and all of which assumes you make one contribution to the fixed account of $1,000 at the beginning of this year, must be completed prior to your signing the enrollment application.
             
    Lump Sum Termination   At   Lump Sum Termination
End of Year        Value of Contract*   Age        Value of Contract*
1       60    
 
2       65    
 
3       70    
 
4            
 
* Includes applicable withdrawal charges as described in Item T below.

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    Lump Sum Termination   At   Lump Sum Termination
End of Year        Value of Contract*   Age        Value of Contract*
5            
T.   FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FOR THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT (VARIABLE ACCOUNT)
         1.      If on the enrollment application you indicated an allocation to a Subaccount or if you transfer Contract Value to a Subaccount, a daily charge of an amount which will equal an aggregate of 1.40% per annum will be assessed against Separate Account Value.
         2.      An annual records maintenance charge of $30.00 will be assessed ratably each quarter against the Separate Account, Fixed Account and Guarantee Periods.
         3.      Withdrawal (early annuitization) charges will be assessed based on the years elapsed since the Purchase Payments (in a given Contract Year) were received by ZALICO; under one year, 7%; over one to two years, 6%; over two to three years, 5%; over three to four years, 5%; over four to five years, 4%; over five to six years, 3%; over six to seven years, 2%; over seven years and thereafter, 0%.
         4.      The method used to compute and allocate the annual earnings is contained in the Prospectus under the heading “Accumulation Unit Value.”
         5.      The growth in value of your Contract is neither guaranteed nor projected but is based on the investment experience of the Separate Account.

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GUARANTEED LUMP SUM TERMINATION OF DEFERRED FIXED AND VARIABLE ANNUITY COMPLETELY ALLOCATED TO THE GENERAL ACCOUNT WITH 3% GUARANTEED EACH YEAR. (TERMINATION VALUES ARE BASED ON $1,000 ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH YEAR.)
                                                         
End of   Termination   End of   Termination   End of   Termination   End of   Termination
Year   Values*   Year   Values*   Year   Values*   Year   Values*
1
    $937.00       14       $16,798.32       27       $40,421.63       40       $75,113.26  
2
    1,913.00       15       18,310.91       28       42,642.92       41       78,375.30  
3
    2,928.90       16       19,868.88       29       44,930.85       42       81,735.20  
4
    3,976.63       17       21,473.59       30       47,287.42       43       85,195.89  
5
    5,066.14       18       23,126.44       31       49,714.68       44       88,760.41  
6
    6,198.41       19       24,828.87       32       52,214.76       45       92,431.86  
7
    7,374.46       20       26,582.37       33       54,789.84       46       96,213.46  
8
    8,604.34       21       28,388.49       34       57,442.18       47       100,108.50  
9
    9,871.11       22       30,248.78       35       60,174.08       48       104,120.40  
10
    11,175.88       23       32,164.88       36       62,987.94       49       108,252.65  
11
    12,519.80       24       34,138.47       37       65,886.22       50       112,508.87  
12
    13,904.03       25       36,171.26       38       68,871.45                  
13
    15,329.79       26       38,265.04       39       71,946.23                  
GUARANTEED LUMP SUM TERMINATION OF DEFERRED FIXED AND VARIABLE ANNUITY COMPLETELY ALLOCATED TO THE GENERAL ACCOUNT WITH 3% GUARANTEED EACH YEAR. (TERMINATION VALUES ARE BASED ON $1,000 SINGLE PREMIUM.)
                                                         
End of   Termination   End of   Termination   End of   Termination   End of   Termination
Year   Values*   Year   Values*   Year   Values*   Year   Values*
1
    $937       14       $1,000       27       $1,000       40       $1,000  
2
    946       15       1,000       28       1,000       41       1,000  
3
    955       16       1,000       29       1,000       42       1,000  
4
    955       17       1,000       30       1,000       43       1,000  
5
    964       18       1,000       31       1,000       44       1,000  
6
    973       19       1,000       32       1,000       45       1,000  
7
    982       20       1,000       33       1,000       46       1,000  
8
    1,000       21       1,000       34       1,000       47       1,000  
9
    1,000       22       1,000       35       1,000       48       1,000  
10
    1,000       23       1,000       36       1,000       49       1,000  
11
    1,000       24       1,000       37       1,000       50       1,000  
12
    1,000       25       1,000       38       1,000                  
13
    1,000       26       1,000       39       1,000                  
 
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APPENDIX C
CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION
     The following tables of condensed financial information show accumulation unit values for each Subaccount for the period since the Subaccount started operation. An accumulation unit value is the unit we use to calculate the value of your interest in a Subaccount. The accumulation unit values shown in the tables reflect the Separate Account Annual Expenses of 1.40% listed in the “Fee Table” in this Prospectus. The accumulation unit value does not reflect the deduction of charges such as the Record Maintenance Charge that we subtract from your Contract Value by redeeming units. The data used in the tables below is obtained from the audited financial statement of the Separate Account that can be found in the SAI. Please review the condensed financial information in conjunction with the financial statements, related notes, and other financial information included in the SAI. In the tables below, no number is shown when there were fewer than 1,000 accumulation units outstanding at the end of a period.
     Selected data for accumulation units outstanding as of the year ended December 31st for each period (reflects Separate Account Annual Expenses of 1.40%):
                                   
 
  AIM Variable Insurance Funds: Invesco V.I. Utilities Subaccount (Series I Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      9.667         10.135         1,662    
 
2009
      8.529         9.667         1,908    
 
2008
      12.786         8.529         2,792    
 
2007
      10.748         12.786         3,997    
 
2006
      8.686         10.748         4,057    
 
2005
      7.538         8.686         3,734    
 
2004
      6.186         7.538         2,550    
 
2003
      5.340         6.186         1,996    
 
2002
      6.796         5.340         1,638    
 
2001 *
    10.000         6.796         1,004    
 
*   Commencement of offering on May 1, 2001.
                                   
 
  The Alger Portfolios: Alger Balanced Subaccount (Class I-2 Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      11.255         12.246         3,447    
 
2009
      8.830         11.255         4,038    
 
2008
      13.121         8.830         5,039    
 
2007
      11.841         13.121         7,039    
 
2006
      11.465         11.841         8,396    
 
2005
      10.722         11.465         9,551    
 
2004
      10.397         10.722         10,696    
 
2003
      8.857         10.397         10,639    
 
2002
      10.240         8.857         10,165    
 
2001
      10.588         10.240         8,205    
 
2000
      11.041         10.588         1,292    
 
1999 * 
    10.000         11.041         19    
 
*   Commencement of offering on November 1, 1999.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  The Alger Portfolios: Alger Capital Appreciation Subaccount (Class I-2 Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      10.552         11.866         4,578    
 
2009
      7.081         10.552         5,052    
 
2008
      13.088         7.081         6,678    
 
2007
      9.939         13.088         9,245    
 
2006
      8.450         9.939         8,586    
 
2005
      7.487         8.450         8,648    
 
2004
      7.017         7.487         9,465    
 
2003
      5.281           8.784 *       10,008    
 
2002
      8.103         5.281         9,225    
 
2001
      9.773         8.103         9,057    
 
2000
      13.184         9.773         4,158    
 
  1999* *
    10.000         13.184         49    
 
*   The 2003 end of period Accumulation Unit value represents an average of the Accumulation Unit value and the Annuity Unit value at the end of the period. If Accumulation Unit value only had been shown, the Accumulation Unit value at the end of 2003 would have been $7.017. In future periods, only Accumulation Unit value will be shown.
 
**   Commencement of offering on November 1, 1999.
                                   
 
  Credit Suisse Trust: Credit Suisse Trust- International Equity Flex III Subaccount (Trust Class Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      18.268         20.220         2,035    
 
2009
      12.217         18.268         2,407    
 
2008
      27.412         12.217         2,543    
 
2007
      21.476         27.412         3,829    
 
2006
      16.433         21.476         4,319    
 
2005
      13.024         16.433         4,409    
 
2004
      10.571         13.024         3,406    
 
2003
      7.502         10.571         2,847    
 
2002
      8.602         7.502         2,512    
 
2001
      9.639         8.602         1,918    
 
2000
      14.302         9.639         1,034    
 
1999
      7.994         14.302         213    
 
1998 *
    9.755         7.994         7    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  Dreyfus Investment Portfolios: Dreyfus MidCap Stock Subaccount (Initial Share Class)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      12.743         15.973         3,677    
 
2009
      9.536         12.743         4,049    
 
2008
      16.230         9.536         6,003    
 
2007
      16.216         16.230         8,727    
 
2006
      15.260         16.216         10,467    
 
2005
      14.173         15.260         11,800    
 
2004
      12.554         14.173         11,759    
 
2003
      9.664         12.554         11,190    
 
2002
      11.199         9.664         10,436    
 
2001
      11.738         11.199         7,541    
 
2000
      10.992         11.738         1,141    
 
1999 *
    10.000         10.992         12    
 
*   Commencement of offering on November 1, 1999.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., Subaccount (Initial Share Class)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      6.883         7.793         420    
 
2009
      5.218         6.883         465    
 
2008
      8.069         5.218         565    
 
2007
      7.591         8.069         788    
 
2006
      7.049         7.591         1,264    
 
2005
      6.898         7.049         1,169    
 
2004
      6.585         6.898         1,417    
 
2003
      5.299         6.585         1,509    
 
2002
      7.563         5.299         1,546    
 
2001
      9.905         7.563         1,444    
 
2000
      11.289         9.905         600    
 
1999* 
    9.941         11.289         22    
 
*   Commencement of offering on November 1, 1999.
                                   
 
  DWS Investments VIT Funds: DWS Equity 500 Index VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      9.296         10.515         7,267    
 
2009
      7.462         9.296         8,076    
 
2008
      12.039         7.462         10,621    
 
2007
      11.595         12.039         15,232    
 
2006
      10.177         11.595         17,666    
 
2005
      8.699         10.177         19,101    
 
2004
      7.991         8.699         25,782    
 
2003
      6.334         7.991         25,461    
 
2002
      8.270         6.334         23,118    
 
2001
      9.535         8.270         17,576    
 
2000
      10.735         9.535         4,497    
 
1999* 
    10.027         10.735         633    
 
*   Commencement of offering on September 10, 1999.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series I: DWS Bond VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      9.514         10.020         1,488    
 
2009
      8.765         9.514         1,542    
 
2008
      10.679         8.765         871    
 
2007
      10.395         10.679         676    
 
2006
      10.066         10.395         298    
 
2005* 
    10.000         10.066         75    
 
*   Commencement of offering on May 2, 2005.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  DWS Variable Series I: DWS Capital Growth VIP Subaccount (Successor to DWS Health Care VIP Subaccount  
  (Variable Series I) and DWS Technology VIP Subaccount (Variable Series II)) (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      10.024         11.538         13,997    
 
2009
      8.012         10.024         16,624    
 
2008
      12.123         8.012         17,327    
 
2007
      10.919         12.123         24,258    
 
2006
      10.201         10.919         29,857    
 
2005
      9.493         10.201         18,643    
 
2004
      8.914         9.493         5,701    
 
2003
      7.124         8.914         5,318    
 
2002
      10.201         7.124         4,949    
 
2001
      12.826         10.201         4,261    
 
2000
      14.435         12.826         1,959    
 
1999
      10.823         14.435         916    
 
1998**
    9.985         10.823         56    
 
*   Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Health Care VIP (DWS Variable Series I) and DWS Technology VIP (DWS Variable Series II) each merged into DWS Capital Growth VIP (DWS Variable Series I), pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
**   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series I: DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP Subaccount (formerly DWS Global Opportunities VIP  
  Subaccount) (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      17.596         21.976         3,382    
 
2009
      12.039         17.596         3,731    
 
2008
      24.400         12.039         5,128    
 
2007
      22.631         24.400         7,461    
 
2006
      18.797         22.631         8,689    
 
2005
      16.127         18.797         8,850    
 
2004
      13.257         16.127         7,838    
 
2003
      9.017         13.257         7,393    
 
2002
      11.412         9.017         7,117    
 
2001
      15.347         11.412         6,536    
 
2000
      16.430         15.347         3,226    
 
1999
      10.043         16.430         509    
 
1998**
    9.911         10.043         74    
 
*   Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Global Opportunities VIP changed its name to DWS Global Small Cap Growth VIP.
 
**   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  DWS Variable Series I: DWS Growth & Income VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      8.277         9.338         2,674    
 
2009
      6.257         8.277         3,106    
 
2008
      10.285         6.257         4,077    
 
2007
      10.290         10.285         5,894    
 
2006
      9.182         10.290         7,235    
 
2005
      8.778         9.182         8,612    
 
2004
      8.080         8.778         5,555    
 
2003
      6.464         8.080         5,681    
 
2002
      8.527         6.464         5,647    
 
2001
      9.748         8.527         4,982    
 
2000
      10.096         9.748         2,341    
 
1999
      9.651         10.096         1,073    
 
1998* 
    10.033         9.651         175    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series I: DWS Health Care VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      13.015         13.882         2,229    
 
2009
      10.801         13.015         2,578    
 
2008
      14.262         10.801         3,921    
 
2007
      12.776         14.262         5,172    
 
2006
      12.202         12.776         6,151    
 
2005
      11.403         12.202         6,994    
 
2004
      10.551         11.403         7,279    
 
2003
      8.002         10.551         7,056    
 
2002
      10.551         8.002         6,232    
 
2001**
    10.000         10.551         4,222    
 
*   Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Health Care VIP merged into DWS Capital Growth VIP, pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
**   Commencement of offering on May 1, 2001.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series I: DWS International VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      9.945         9.967         3,837    
 
2009
      7.552         9.945         4,471    
 
2008
      14.789         7.552         6,444    
 
2007
      13.088         14.789         9,517    
 
2006
      10.540         13.088         10,753    
 
2005
      9.199         10.540         10,915    
 
2004
      8.005         9.199         10,684    
 
2003
      6.354         8.005         10,652    
 
2002
      7.892         6.354         10,313    
 
2001
      11.574         7.892         9,022    
 
2000
      14.990         11.574         4,655    
 
1999
      9.837         14.990         1,653    
 
1998* 
    9.972         9.837         88    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Balanced VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      10.971         12.035         3,718    
 
2009
      9.013         10.971         4,218    
 
2008
      12.577         9.013         5,515    
 
2007
      12.165         12.577         7,454    
 
2006
      11.189         12.165         8,791    
 
2005
      10.878         11.189         10,111    
 
2004
      10.329         10.878         10,863    
 
2003
      8.880         10.329         11,274    
 
2002
      10.615         8.880         11,368    
 
2001
      11.462         10.615         10,298    
 
2000
      11.936         11.462         4,778    
 
1999
      10.542         11.936         2,617    
 
1998* 
    9.983         10.542         123    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Blue Chip VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      10.811         12.130         4,693    
 
2009
      8.183         10.811         5,497    
 
2008
      13.491         8.183         7,475    
 
2007
      13.218         13.491         10,990    
 
2006
      11.590         13.218         12,986    
 
2005
      10.677         11.590         13,710    
 
2004
      9.330         10.677         14,410    
 
2003
      7.435         9.330         14,179    
 
2002
      9.680         7.435         9,733    
 
2001
      11.659         9.680         9,110    
 
2000
      12.827         11.659         4,280    
 
1999
      10.386         12.827         1,728    
 
1998* 
    9.964         10.386         125    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Core Fixed Income VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      11.651         12.239         2,970    
 
2009
      10.968         11.651         3,418    
 
2008
      13.786         10.968         4,232    
 
2007
      13.420         13.786         5,574    
 
2006
      13.052         13.420         5,807    
 
2005
      12.943         13.052         5,880    
 
2004
      12.556         12.943         6,170    
 
2003
      12.110         12.556         6,697    
 
2002
      11.369         12.110         6,990    
 
2001
      10.905         11.369         4,482    
 
2000
      10.062         10.905         1,114    
 
1999
      10.417         10.062         940    
 
1998* 
      10.014         10.417         66    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Diversified International Equity VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      10.455         11.438         3,077    
 
2009
      8.196         10.455         3,418    
 
2008
      16.236         8.196         5,438    
 
2007
      14.107         16.236         7,666    
 
2006
      11.392         14.107         7,838    
 
2005
      10.087         11.392         7,765    
 
2004
      8.650         10.087         7,008    
 
2003
      6.756         8.650         5,691    
 
2002
      7.918         6.756         4,842    
 
2001
      10.624         7.918         1,829    
 
2000
      13.549         10.624         977    
 
1999
      9.429         13.549         351    
 
1998* 
    9.944         9.429         56    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      17.729         21.518         4,456    
 
2009
      13.860         17.729         5,151    
 
2008
      21.110         13.860         7,809    
 
2007
      20.772         21.110         12,839    
 
2006
      16.841         20.772         15,122    
 
2005
      15.489         16.841         16,286    
 
2004
      12.462         15.489         16,463    
 
2003
      8.897         12.462         14,637    
 
2002
      10.177         8.897         12,826    
 
2001
      8.770         10.177         7,886    
 
2000
      8.547         8.770         1,281    
 
1999
      8.431         8.547         610    
 
1998* 
    9.943         8.431         125    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Global Thematic VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      14.314         16.044         2,422    
 
2009
      10.092         14.314         2,753    
 
2008
      19.587         10.092         3,794    
 
2007
      18.686         19.587         5,496    
 
2006
      14.559         18.686         5,030    
 
2005
      12.007         14.559         3,685    
 
2004
      10.609         12.007         2,996    
 
2003
      8.331         10.609         2,916    
 
2002
      10.029         8.331         2,745    
 
2001
      12.031         10.029         2,280    
 
2000
      12.624         12.031         855    
 
1999
      10.103         12.624         308    
 
1998* 
    9.989         10.103         29    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      15.665         16.470         3,822    
 
2009
      14.697         15.665         4,091    
 
2008
      14.202         14.697         6,075    
 
2007
      13.593         14.202         5,132    
 
2006
      13.232         13.593         5,570    
 
2005
      13.080         13.232         6,211    
 
2004
      12.784         13.080         6,585    
 
2003
      12.676         12.784         7,918    
 
2002
      11.896         12.676         12,527    
 
2001
      11.223         11.896         7,960    
 
2000
      10.259         11.223         1,273    
 
1999
      10.332         10.259         857    
 
1998* 
    10.012         10.332         77    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series II: DWS High Income VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      13.655         15.352         4,259    
 
2009
      9.891         13.655         4,588    
 
2008
      13.186         9.891         4,730    
 
2007
      13.245         13.186         6,436    
 
2006
      12.157         13.245         8,060    
 
2005
      11.866         12.157         9,092    
 
2004
      10.703         11.866         10,449    
 
2003
      8.709         10.703         11,164    
 
2002
      8.857         8.709         8,371    
 
2001
      8.751         8.857         6,665    
 
2000
      9.717         8.751         2,803    
 
1999
      9.646         9.717         1,923    
 
1998* 
    10.003         9.646         361    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Large Cap Value VIP Subaccount (Successor to DWS Strategic Value VIP  
  Subaccount) (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      12.863         14.052         7,789    
 
2009
      10.404         12.863         9,113    
 
2008
      16.587         10.404         4,713    
 
2007
      14.866         16.587         5,986    
 
2006
      13.061         14.866         7,036    
 
2005
      12.988         13.061         8,028    
 
2004
      11.965         12.988         8,972    
 
2003
      9.150         11.965         8,446    
 
2002
      10.913         9.150         7,780    
 
2001
      10.863         10.913         6,319    
 
2000
      9.485         10.863         2,516    
 
1999
      10.712         9.485         1,851    
 
1998**
    10.029         10.712         110    
 
*   Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Strategic Value VIP merged into DWS Large Cap Value VIP, pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
**   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      8.568         10.812         1,554    
 
2009
      6.072         8.568         1,658    
 
2008
      12.324         6.072         1,905    
 
2007
      11.534         12.324         2,841    
 
2006
      10.540         11.534         3,091    
 
2005
      9.290         10.540         3,549    
 
2004
      9.066         9.290         3,662    
 
2003
      6.853           9.772 **       3,913    
 
2002
      10.022         6.853         4,070    
 
2001
      12.990         10.022         3,999    
 
2000
      13.859         12.990         1,910    
 
  1999***
    10.000         13.859         89    
 
*   Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP merged into DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Small Cap Growth VIP), pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
**   The 2003 end of period Accumulation Unit value represents an average of the Accumulation Unit value and the Annuity Unit value at the end of the period. If Accumulation Unit value only had been shown, the Accumulation Unit value at the end of 2003 would have been $9.066. In future periods, only Accumulation Unit value will be shown.
 
***   Commencement of offering on May 3, 1999.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      12.132         11.966         5,223    
 
2009
      12.261         12.132         7,729    
 
2008
      12.114         12.261         14,070    
 
2007
      11.700         12.114         11,917    
 
2006
      11.337         11.700         9,082    
 
2005
      11.181         11.337         8,700    
 
2004
      11.235         11.181         8,764    
 
2003
      11.311         11.235         11,843    
 
2002
      11.315         11.311         18,002    
 
2001
      11.049         11.315         18,261    
 
2000
      10.559         11.049         3,372    
 
1999
      10.213         10.559         1,569    
 
1998* 
    10.003         10.213         82    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP Subaccount (formerly DWS Small Cap Growth VIP  
  Subaccount) (Successor to DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP Subaccount and to DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP  
  Subaccount) (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      6.782         8.657         4,235    
 
2009
      4.891         6.782         5,003    
 
2008
      9.822         4.891         6,535    
 
2007
      9.378         9.822         8,837    
 
2006
      9.033         9.378         10,840    
 
2005
      8.555         9.033         12,543    
 
2004
      7.813         8.555         10,299    
 
2003
      5.959         7.813         10,075    
 
2002
      9.082         5.959         8,221    
 
2001
      12.936         9.082         6,740    
 
2000
      14.691         12.936         2,896    
 
1999
      11.070         14.691         843    
 
1998**
    9.867         11.070         106    
 
*   Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Small Cap Growth VIP changed its name to DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP. Also Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP and DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP each merged into DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Small Cap Growth VIP), pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
**   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Strategic Income VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      16.286         17.675         2,507    
 
2009
      13.455         16.286         2,677    
 
2008
      14.790         13.455         3,425    
 
2007
      14.225         14.790         4,290    
 
2006
      13.235         14.225         3,567    
 
2005
      13.108         13.235         2,848    
 
2004
      12.239         13.108         2,294    
 
2003
      11.507         12.239         2,269    
 
2002
      10.483         11.507         2,105    
 
2001
      10.102         10.483         1,041    
 
2000
      9.986         10.102         298    
 
1999
      10.755         9.986         124    
 
1998* 
    10.009         10.755         7    
 
*   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Strategic Value VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      11.143         12.366         11,908    
 
2009
      9.018         11.143         14,241    
 
2008
      16.929         9.018         21,151    
 
2007
      17.493         16.929         31,241    
 
2006
      14.938         17.493         37,022    
 
2005
      14.036         14.938         35,320    
 
2004
      12.479         14.036         35,325    
 
2003
      9.591         12.479         34,780    
 
2002
      11.865         9.591         32,960    
 
2001
      11.831         11.865         23,548    
 
2000
      9.192         11.831         5,275    
 
1999
      10.491         9.192         3,389    
 
1998**
    9.997         10.491         518    
 
*   Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Strategic Value VIP merged into DWS Large Cap Value VIP, pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
**   Commencement of offering on June 1, 1998.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Technology VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      8.066         9.439         4,572    
 
2009
      5.099         8.066         5,491    
 
2008
      9.614         5.099         6,909    
 
2007
      8.529         9.614         10,093    
 
2006
      8.584         8.529         12,562    
 
2005
      8.390         8.584         14,667    
 
2004
      8.347         8.390         16,401    
 
2003
      5.773         8.347         17,585    
 
2002
      9.079         5.773         24,909    
 
2001
      13.617         9.079         23,797    
 
2000
      17.605         13.617         7,183    
 
1999**
    10.000         17.605         1,112    
 
*   Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Technology VIP (DWS Variable Series II) merged into DWS Capital Growth VIP (DWS Variable Series I), pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
**   Commencement of offering on May 3, 1999.
                                   
 
  DWS Variable Series II: DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP Subaccount (Class A Shares)*  
                            Number of accumulation  
        Accumulation unit value at     Accumulation unit value at     units outstanding at end of  
        beginning of period     end of period     period (000’s omitted) (1)  
 
2010
      9.913         12.611         3,490    
 
2009
      6.701         9.913         3,818    
 
2008
      13.453         6.701         5,865    
 
2007
      10.849         13.453         7,910    
 
2006
      10.327         10.849         8,696    
 
2005
      9.369         10.327         9,411    
 
2004
      8.556         9.369         10,137    
 
2003
      5.842         8.556         9,948    
 
2002
      8.748         5.842         7,947    
 
2001**
    10.000         8.748         4,649    
 
*   Effective May 1, 2011, DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP merged into DWS Small Mid Cap Growth VIP (formerly DWS Small Cap Growth VIP), pursuant to shareholder approval on April 11, 2011.
 
**   Commencement of offering on May 1, 2001.
(1)          The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of 2004 and the years thereafter include only Accumulation Units that correspond to Contracts in their Accumulation Period. The number of accumulation units outstanding at the end of prior periods may include Annuity Units that correspond to Contracts in their Annuity Period.

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STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
May 1, 2011
INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP VARIABLE, FIXED AND MARKET VALUE
ADJUSTED DEFERRED ANNUITY CONTRACTS
SCUDDER DESTINATIONSSM ANNUITY
and
FARMERS VARIABLE ANNUITY I
Issued By
ZURICH AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
(formerly Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company)
and
ZALICO VARIABLE ANNUITY SEPARATE ACCOUNT
(formerly KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account)
HOME OFFICE: 1400 American Lane, Schaumburg, Illinois 60196
SERVICE CENTER: Scudder Destinations
SM Service Team, PO Box, 19097, Greenville, SC
29602-9097
Phone: 1-800-449-0523 (toll-free)
Website: www.zurichamericanlifeinsurance.com (formerly www.kemperinvestors.com)
This Statement of Additional Information is not a prospectus. This Statement of Additional Information should be read in conjunction with the Prospectus for the Scudder DestinationsSM Annuity dated May 1, 2011, and with the Prospectus for the Farmers Variable Annuity I dated May 1, 2005 (the Scudder DestinationsSM Annuity and the Farmers Variable Annuity are each referred to herein as a “Contract” and together, the “Contracts”). The Prospectuses may be obtained from Zurich American Life Insurance Company (“ZALICO” or “us”) by contacting the Service Center at the address, website, or telephone number listed above.
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SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
         We reserve the right to amend the Contract to meet the requirements of federal or state laws or regulations. We will notify you in writing of these amendments.
         Your rights under a Contract may be assigned as provided by law. An assignment will not be binding upon us until we receive a written copy of the assignment. You are solely responsible for the validity or effect of any assignment. You, therefore, should consult a qualified tax adviser regarding the tax consequences, as an assignment may be a taxable event.
SERVICES TO THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
Recordkeepers and Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
         Effective September 3, 2003 (the “Closing Date”), ZALICO transferred certain of its business, as well as the capital stock of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, to its former affiliate, Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company (“FKLA”). In a contemporaneous transaction, FKLA and ZALICO entered into a coinsurance agreement under which FKLA administers the business and the records of, and 100% reinsures, certain lines of business issued by ZALICO, including certain registered variable annuity contracts that are funded through the ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account (the “Separate Account”) (formerly KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account). These transfers were part of a larger transaction under which the capital stock of FKLA was sold to Bank One Insurance Holdings, Inc. (“Bank One”). On July 1, 2004, Bank One merged into JP Morgan Chase & Co., and FKLA changed its name to Chase Insurance Life and Annuity Company (“Chase Insurance”).
         On July 3, 2006, Protective Life Insurance Company of Birmingham, Alabama (“Protective Life”), purchased Chase Insurance from JP Morgan Chase & Co. Effective April 1, 2007, Chase Insurance merged with and into Protective Life. Protective Life has reinsured 100% of the variable annuity business of Chase Insurance to Commonwealth Annuity and Life Insurance Company (formerly Allmerica Financial Life Insurance and Annuity Company), a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
         These acquisitions, transfers and the coinsurance agreement do not relate directly to the Contracts, although certain other contracts issued by ZALICO that are administered by Protective Life are supported by the Separate Account. Your rights and benefits and our obligations under the Contracts are not changed by these transactions and agreements.
         As required by law, ZALICO is responsible for the maintenance of the books and records of the Separate Account, and it has outsourced the recordkeeping function to its third party administrator, IBM Outsourcing (see below), and Protective Life. ZALICO owns the assets of the Separate Account.
         The independent registered public accounting firm for the Separate Account and ZALICO is PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 300 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10017 for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008. The firm has performed the annual audit of

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the financial statements of the Separate Account and ZALICO for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008.
Third Party Administrator
         ZALICO has entered into an Insurance Administrative Services Agreement (the “Agreement”) with IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Service Corporation (“IBM Outsourcing”), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of South Carolina. The Agreement, as amended, is included as an exhibit to the Registration Statement for the Contracts. IBM Outsourcing has its principal business address at 2000 Wade Hampton Boulevard, Greenville, South Carolina 29615-1064. Under the Agreement, IBM Outsourcing, provides, at the Contact Center, significant administrative services for the Contracts and the Separate Account, including the processing of all Purchase Payments, requests for transfers, partial withdrawals, and surrenders, and the calculation of accumulation unit values for each Contract and the Separate Account.
Distribution of the Contracts
         Synergy Investment Group, LLC (“Synergy”) currently serves as principal underwriter for the Contracts. Synergy’s home office is located at 8320 University Executive Park Drive, Suite 112, Charlotte, NC 28262. Synergy is not affiliated with ZALICO. Synergy is registered as a broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as well as with the securities commissions in the states in which it operates, and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). Synergy is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.
         Until April 1, 2010, Investors Brokerage Services, Inc. (“IBS”), located at 1707 North Randall Road, Suite 310, Elgin, IL 60123-9409, served as principal underwriter for the Contracts. Effective April 1, 2010, ZALICO entered into an Amendment of Distribution Agreement with IBS under which IBS’s role as principal underwriter for the Contracts was terminated. Simultaneously, IBS and Synergy entered into an Assignment of Selling Agreements, whereby IBS assigned all selling group agreements pertaining to the Contracts to Synergy.
         The Contracts are no longer offered for sale to the public.
         The selling firms that have selling agreements with Synergy are paid, and those that had selling agreements with IBS were paid, commissions for the promotion and sale of the Contracts according to one or more schedules. The amount and timing of commissions varies depending on the selling agreement, but the maximum commission paid to selling firms is 6.75% of additional Purchase Payments, plus a trail commission option of up to 1.00% of additional Purchase Payments paid quarterly on Purchase Payments that have been held in the Contract for at least twelve months. During 2010, 2009 and 2008, ZALICO paid gross commissions on additional Purchase Payments of approximately $0.5 million, $1.9 million, and $2.4 million, respectively, to selling firms on behalf of IBS and paid trail commissions of approximately $2.7 million, $10.9 million, and $15 million, respectively, to selling firms on behalf of IBS. During 2010, ZALICO paid gross commissions on additional Purchase Payments of approximately $1.1 million to selling firms on behalf of Synergy and paid trail commissions of approximately $8.0 million to

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selling firms on behalf of Synergy. Neither Synergy nor IBS retained any portion of these commissions.
         Compensation accrues to Synergy at the rate of $3,500.00 per month. During 2010, ZALICO paid compensation to Synergy in the amount of $42,000.00.
         During 2010, the top ten (10) selling firms received commissions from ZALICO as follows:
               
 
  Selling Firm     Commission Amount  
 
LINSCO/Private Ledger Financial Services
    $254,129.96  
 
Huckin Financial Group, Inc.
    $188,344.25  
 
Planning Corp of America
    $171,805.55  
 
Lincoln Financial Advisors
    $98,654.98  
 
Securities America, Inc.
    $71,563.46  
 
WS Insurance Services LLC
    $59,658.21  
 
HD Vest Insurance Agency LLC
    $56,955.51  
 
NFP Securities, Inc.
    $34,822.96  
 
Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.
    $30,882.38  
 
Wells Fargo Advisors LLC
    $30,634.86  
 
VOTING RIGHTS
         Proxy materials in connection with any Fund shareholder meeting are delivered to each Owner with Subaccount interests invested in the Fund as of the record date. Proxy materials include a voting instruction form. We vote all Fund shares proportionately in accordance with instructions received from Owners. We will also vote any Fund shares attributed to amounts we have accumulated in the Subaccounts in the same proportion that Owners vote.
         A Fund is not required to hold annual shareholders’ meetings. Funds hold special meetings as required or deemed desirable for such purposes as electing trustees, changing fundamental policies or approving an investment advisory agreement.
         Owners have voting rights in a Fund or Portfolio based upon the Owner’s proportionate interest in the corresponding Subaccount as measured by units. Owners have voting rights before surrender, the Annuity Date or the death of the Annuitant. Thereafter, the Annuitant entitled to receive Variable Annuity payments has voting rights. During the Annuity Period, Annuitants’ voting rights decrease as Annuity Units decrease.
SAFEKEEPING OF SEPARATE ACCOUNT ASSETS
         We hold title to the assets of the Separate Account. The assets are kept physically segregated and held separate and apart from our general account assets and from the assets in any other separate account. We and our agents, IBM Outsourcing and Protective Life, maintain the records of all purchases and redemptions of portfolio shares held by each of the Subaccounts. Fidelity insurance coverage for the assets of the Separate Account is provided by a Form 25 Bond

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issued by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company providing aggregate coverage of $9.5 million (subject to a $500,000 each loss deductible) for Zurich Holding Company of America and its subsidiaries, including ZALICO.
STATE REGULATION
         ZALICO is subject to the laws of Illinois governing insurance companies and to regulation by the Illinois Department of Insurance. An annual statement in a prescribed form is filed with the Illinois Department of Insurance each year. ZALICO’s books and accounts are subject to review by the Department of Insurance at all times, and a full examination of its operations is conducted periodically. In addition, ZALICO is subject to regulation under the insurance laws of other jurisdictions in which it may operate.
LEGAL MATTERS
         Legal matters with respect to our organization, our authority to issue annuity contracts and the validity of the Contract have been passed upon by Juanita M. Thomas, Esq., Senior Assistant General Counsel. Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, LLP of Washington, D.C., has provided advice on certain matters relating to the federal securities laws.
EXPERTS
         The statutory financial statements and schedules of Zurich American Life Insurance Company as of December 31, 2010 and 2009 and for each of the three years ended December 31, 2010 (prepared in conformity with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations — Division of Insurance) and the U.S. GAAP statement of assets, liabilities, and Contract owners’ equity of ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account as of December 31, 2010 and the related statement of operations for the year then ended and the statement of changes in Contract owners’ equity for each of periods presented included in the Statement of Additional Information, have been so included in reliance on the reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
         This Statement of Additional Information contains financial statements for ZALICO and the Separate Account. The financial statements of ZALICO should be considered primarily as bearing on our ability to meet our obligations under the Contract. The Contracts are not entitled to participate in our earnings, dividends or surplus. The financial statements for the Separate Account reflect assets attributable to the Contracts and also assets attributable to other variable annuity contracts offered by ZALICO through the Separate Account.

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APPENDIX A
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PREMIUM TAX CHART
                 
    Rate of Tax
    Qualified   Non-Qualified
State   Plans   Plans  
 
California*
    0.50 %     2.35 %
Maine**
     --     2.00 %
Nevada*
     --     3.50 %
South Dakota**
     --     1.25 %***
West Virginia**
    1.00 %     1.00 %
Wyoming**
     --     1.00 %
 
*   In California and Nevada, we pay premium taxes when you annuitize your Contract. We deduct the amount of the premium tax payable from your Contract Value (if you annuitize under the standard feature in your Contract) or from your GRIB Base (if you annuitize under the GRIB rider). We will take this deduction at the time of annuitization of your Contract.
 
**   In Maine, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming, we pay premium taxes at the time we receive a Purchase Payment from you. In those four states, we reserve the right to deduct the amount of the premium tax payable from your Contract Value at the time we receive your Purchase Payment.
 
***   In South Dakota, we pay a 1.25% premium tax on the first $500,000 for each Non-Qualified Plan Contract and a 0.08% premium tax on any premium amount thereafter.

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APPENDIX F
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Report of Independent Auditors
Statutory Statements of Admitted Assets, Liabilities, and Capital and Surplus as of December 31, 2010 and 2009
Statutory Statements of Operations For the Years Ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
Statutory Statements of Changes in Capital and Surplus for the Years Ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
Statutory Statements of Cash Flows For the Years Ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
Notes to Financial Statements
Supplemental Schedule of Assets and Liabilities as of December 31, 2010 and For the Year Then Ended
Supplemental Summary Investment Schedule and Investment Risk Interrogatories as of December 31, 2010 and for the Year Then Ended
ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity, December 31, 2010
Statement of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2010
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity for the year ended December 31, 2010
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity for the year ended December 31, 2009
Notes to Financial Statements

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Zurich American Life
Insurance Company
Statutory Financial Statements and
Supplemental Schedules
December 31, 2010 and 2009

 


 

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[PWC LETTERHEAD]
Report of Independent Auditors
To the Board of Directors and Stockholder of
Zurich American Life Insurance Company:
We have audited the accompanying statutory statements of admitted assets, liabilities and capital and surplus of Zurich American Life Insurance Company (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the related statutory statements of operations, of changes in capital and surplus and of cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2010. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
As described in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company prepared these financial statements using accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations, Division of Insurance (“IDOI”), which practices differ from accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The effects on the financial statements of the variances between the statutory basis of accounting and accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, although not reasonably determinable, are presumed to be material.
In our opinion, because of the effects of the matter discussed in the preceding paragraph, the financial statements referred to above do not present fairly, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, or the results of its operations or its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2010.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the admitted assets, liabilities and capital and surplus of the Company as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2010, on the basis of accounting described in Note 2.
As disclosed in the notes to the financial statements, the Company has significant transactions with Zurich Financial Services and its affiliates. Because of these relationships, it is possible that the terms of the transactions are not the same as those that would result from transactions among wholly unrelated parties.

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As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company received permission from the IDOI in 1995 to reset its unassigned surplus to zero with an equal and offsetting entry to gross paid-in capital and contributed surplus; under prescribed statutory accounting practices the aforementioned reclassification would not have been recorded. As of December 31, 2009 and 2010, the permitted practice had no impact on statutory surplus.
Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic statutory basis financial statements taken as a whole. The accompanying Supplemental Schedules of Assets and Liabilities, Summary Investment Schedule, and Investment Risks Interrogatories (collectively referred to as the “supplemental schedules”) of the Company as of December 31, 2010 and for the year then ended are presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic statutory financial statements. The effects on the supplemental schedules of the variances between the statutory basis of accounting and accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, although not reasonably determinable, are presumed to be material. As a consequence, the supplemental schedules do not present fairly, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, such information of the Company as of December 31, 2010 and for the year then ended. The supplemental schedules have been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic statutory basis financial statements and, in our opinion, are fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic statutory basis financial statements taken as a whole.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
New York, New York
April 28, 2011

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Statutory Statements of Admitted Assets, Liabilities and Capital and Surplus
Years Ended December 31, 2010 and 2009
                 
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009  
Admitted Assets
               
Cash and invested assets
               
Fixed Maturities, at amortized cost (market value of $462,645 and $429,234, respectively)
  $ 436,763     $ 420,860  
Contract loans
    65,909       54,404  
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
    20,195       29,157  
Other invested assets
          17  
Receivables for securities
          150  
 
           
Total cash and invested assets
    522,867       504,588  
Amounts recoverable from reinsurers
    33,983       25,766  
Other amounts receivable under reinsurance contracts
    17,716       23,254  
Uncollected premiums and agents’ balances in the course of collection
          40  
Federal income tax recoverable
    5,781       463  
Net deferred tax asset
    11,860       15,749  
Investment income due and accrued
    5,385       6,054  
Guaranty funds receivable or on deposit
    1,521       1,531  
Securities lending collateral
          27,696  
Receivable from separate accounts
    17,687       15,774  
Receivables from parent, subsidiaries and affiliates
          31  
Other assets
    347       353  
Separate account assets
    12,590,999       12,703,614  
 
           
Total admitted assets
  $ 13,208,146     $ 13,324,913  
 
           
 
               
Liabilities and Capital and Surplus
               
Liabilities
               
Life and annuity reserves
    378,471       355,882  
Deposit-type funds
               
Supplemental contracts without life contingencies
    3,126       4,047  
Claims and benefits payable to policyholders
    304       212  
 
           
Total policy liabilities
    381,901       360,141  
Interest maintenance reserve
    972       328  
General expenses due or accrued
    3,740       1,558  
Taxes, licenses and fees due or accrued
    18,265       18,385  
Asset valuation reserve
    747       14  
Payable to affiliates
    19,870       16,569  
Funds held under coinsurance
    1,727       239  
Commission to agents due or accrued
    3,882       259  
Other liabilities
    1,882       8,615  
Securities lending liability
          27,696  
Separate account liabilities
    12,590,999       12,703,613  
 
           
Total liabilities
    13,023,985       13,137,417  
 
           
Capital and surplus
               
Capital stock ($10 par value — 300,000 authorized shares; 250,000 shares issued and outstanding at 2010 and 2009)
    2,500       2,500  
Paid-in capital
    673,845       673,845  
Aggregate write-ins for special surplus funds
    6,649       8,380  
Unassigned deficit
    (498,832 )     (497,229 )
 
           
Total capital and surplus
    184,161       187,496  
 
           
Total liabilities and capital and surplus
  $ 13,208,146     $ 13,324,913  
 
           
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statutory financial statements.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Statutory Statements of Operations
Years Ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Income
                       
Premium and annuity considerations
  $ (127,759 )   $ (132,031 )   $ (108,582 )
Considerations for supplemental contracts with life contingencies
    38,495       73,254       50,848  
Net investment income
    24,605       25,263       24,127  
Amortization of interest maintenance reserve
    (128 )     (46 )     229  
Separate accounts fees
    254,862       196,480       188,707  
Assumed modco reserve adjustment
    26,383       46,609       51,505  
Separate accounts-related income (expenses), net
    922       2,393       (2,157 )
Reinsurance ceding commissions and allowances
    20,659       24,057       24,891  
Ceded miscellaneous fees
    (117 )     65       232  
Other income
    (1 )     1,240       (67 )
 
                 
Total income
    237,921       237,284       229,733  
 
                 
 
                       
Benefits and expenses
                       
Death benefits
    38,306       25,707       16,815  
Annuity benefits
    312,043       646,952       888,894  
Surrender benefits
    107,268       718,616       1,101  
Interest and adjustments on policy or deposit-type contracts
    277       4,933       (2,315 )
Payments on supplementary contracts with life contingencies
    32,430       20,720       15,041  
Increase in aggregate reserves for life policies and contracts
    22,589       21,649       68,155  
Commissions
    18,011       16,487       21,982  
Commissions and expense allowances on reinsurance assumed
    5,191       3,635       3,710  
General expenses
    31,106       20,091       24,031  
Insurance taxes, licenses and fees
    1,252       482       696  
Net transfers from separate accounts
    (501,048 )     (1,398,044 )     (1,026,195 )
Reinsured fees associated with separate accounts
    45,110              
Net change in termination value of separate accounts
    2,651       11,177       38,745  
Ceded change in termination value of separate accounts
    (2,625 )     (2,214 )     (9,577 )
Ceded fixed/variable expense
    132,715       131,457       222,418  
Other expenses
    1,031       2,375        
 
                 
Total benefits and expenses
    246,307       224,023       263,501  
 
                 
Net income (loss) from operations before federal income tax benefit and realized capital losses
    (8,386 )     13,261       (33,768 )
Federal income tax benefit
    (12,477 )     (6,684 )     (22,614 )
 
                 
Net income (loss) from operations before realized capital losses
    4,091       19,945       (11,154 )
 
                 
 
                       
Net realized capital losses
    (27 )     (4,406 )     (4,801 )
Related federal income tax benefits
    (1,227 )     (998 )     (560 )
Realized gain (loss) transferred to the interest maintenance reserve
    516       (868 )     (238 )
 
                 
Total realized capital gains (losses)
    684       (2,540 )     (4,003 )
 
                 
Net income (loss)
  $ 4,775     $ 17,405     $ (15,157 )
 
                 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statutory financial statements.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Statutory Statements of Changes in Capital and Surplus
Years Ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
                                 
            Gross                
    Common     Paid-In and             Total  
    Capital     Contributed     Unassigned     Capital and  
(in thousands of dollars)   Stock     Surplus     Surplus     Surplus  
Balances at December 31, 2007
  $ 2,500     $ 673,845     $ (488,420 )   $ 187,925  
Net loss
                (15,157 )     (15,157 )
Change in net unrealized capital gains and losses, net of tax
                (78 )     (78 )
Change in nonadmitted assets
                9,809       9,809  
Change in net deferred tax asset
                (10,884 )     (10,884 )
Change in asset valuation reserve
                642       642  
Change in surplus as a result of reinsurance
                (2,357 )     (2,357 )
Interest maintenance reserve generated by transferred coinsurance assets
                (3,037 )     (3,037 )
 
                       
Balances at December 31, 2008
    2,500       673,845       (509,482 )     166,863  
Net income
                17,405       17,405  
Change in net unrealized capital gains and losses, net of tax
                78       78  
Change in nonadmitted assets
                6,254       6,254  
Change in net deferred tax asset
                (7,803 )     (7,803 )
Change in asset valuation reserve
                (14 )     (14 )
Change in surplus as a result of reinsurance
                (1,611 )     (1,611 )
Interest maintenance reserve generated by transferred coinsurance assets
                (2,076 )     (2,076 )
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle:
                               
SSAP 10R net deferred tax
                8,380       8,380  
SSAP 43R recovery of other than temporary impairments (net of tax)
                19       19  
 
                       
Balances at December 31, 2009
    2,500       673,845       (488,849 )     187,495  
Net income
                4,775       4,775  
Change in nonadmitted assets
                2,573       2,573  
Change in net deferred tax asset
                (6,927 )     (6,927 )
Change in asset valuation reserve
                (733 )     (732 )
Change in surplus as a result of reinsurance
                (1,321 )     (1,321 )
Interest maintenance reserve generated by transferred coinsurance assets
                (1,703 )     (1,703 )
 
                       
Balances at December 31, 2010
  $ 2,500     $ 673,845     $ (492,184 )   $ 184,161  
 
                       
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statutory financial statements.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Statutory Statements of Cash Flows
Years Ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Cash from operations
                       
Premiums collected, net of reinsurance
  $ (89,249 )   $ (58,769 )   $ (57,268 )
Net investment income
    25,515       27,633       24,211  
Miscellaneous income
    302,710       270,844       263,111  
Benefits and loss related payments
    (498,450 )     (1,428,279 )     (930,884 )
Net transfers from separate accounts
    501,048       1,406,591       1,055,282  
Commissions, expenses paid and aggregate write-ins for deductions
    (223,208 )     (188,658 )     (300,117 )
Federal and foreign income taxes recovered
    8,387       25,580       42,242  
 
                 
Net cash provided by operations
    26,753       54,942       96,577  
 
                 
Cash from investments
                       
Proceeds from investments sold, matured or repaid
                       
Bonds
    106,356       79,577       44,707  
Miscellaneous proceeds
    150              
 
                 
Total investment proceeds
    106,506       79,577       44,707  
 
                 
Cost of investments acquired
                       
Bonds
    122,510       126,600       99,360  
Miscellaneous applications
          150        
 
                 
Total investments acquired
    122,510       126,750       99,360  
 
                 
Net decrease (increase) in contract loans
    11,505       (16,208 )     25,880  
 
                 
Net cash used in investments
    (27,509 )     (30,965 )     (80,533 )
 
                 
Cash from financing and miscellaneous sources
                       
Net deposits on deposit-type funds and other liabilities
    (921 )     3,173       203  
Other applications
    (7,285 )     (3,638 )     (28,247 )
 
                 
Net cash used in financing and miscellaneous sources
    (8,206 )     (465 )     (28,044 )
 
                 
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
    (8,962 )     23,512       (11,999 )
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
                       
Beginning of year
    29,157       5,645       17,644  
 
                 
End of year
  $ 20,195     $ 29,157     $ 5,645  
 
                 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statutory financial statements.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
1.   The Company and Nature of Operations
    Organization and Description of Business
    Zurich American Life Insurance Company (“ZALICO” or the “Company”) is a stock life insurance company founded in 1947. The Company is incorporated under the insurance laws of the State of Illinois and is licensed in the District of Columbia and all states, with the exception of New York.
    The Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich American Corporation (“ZAC”), formerly Kemper Corporation, a non-operating holding company. ZAC is a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc. (“ZHCA”). ZHCA is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services Ltd. (“ZFS” or the “Parent’).
    On July 6, 2010 the Company’s sole shareholder (ZAC, then Kemper Corporation) approved that the name of the Company be changed from Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company to Zurich American Life Insurance Company, and that an amendment of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation be made to effect such name change, with such amendment being subject to the approval of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Insurance, (“IDOI”). This change aligns the name of the Company with the Zurich Financial Services (“Zurich”) brand. The IDOI approved the Company’s amended Articles of Incorporation reflecting this name change on Aug 23, 2010 and, accordingly, amended the Company’s Certificate of Authority. All other state regulatory notifications are being made. On September 2, 2010, the Company established a new subsidiary, Zurich American Life Insurance Company of New York (“ZALICONY”), for which it is in the process of applying for a New York state insurance license.
    Purchase Agreement
    On May 29, 2003, Kemper Corporation (now ZAC) entered into a stock and asset purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Bank One Insurance Holdings, Inc. (“BOIH” or “Bank One”) which, in conjunction with then-associated and subsequent transactions, has resulted in the following:
    The Company ceded, through a coinsurance agreement, 100% of its general account liabilities to Protective Life Insurance Company (“PLICO”) with the exception of those relating to the DESTINATIONS product, supplemental contracts arising from the DESTINATIONS product, and business-owned life insurance (“BOLI”) contracts. These general account liabilities included all of the Company’s gross liabilities and obligations, including benefits, claims, taxes, commissions and assessments for certain types of existing individual and group life insurance policies and annuity contracts (collectively referred to as the “Reinsured Policies”). The Reinsured Policies also included certain policies written for a period of twelve months subsequent to the Closing. The Company or the reinsurer under the coinsurance agreement are accepting renewal premium for all of its products.
 
    The Company ceded on a modified coinsurance basis its separate account liabilities that are related to the Reinsured Policies. As of December 31, 2010 and 2009, the Company’s separate account reserves subject to the coinsurance agreement with PLICO were approximately $1,150,000,000 and $1,097,389,000, respectively.
 
    PLICO assumed administration of the Reinsured Policies and BOLI contracts of the Company on a long-term basis subject to the oversight of the Company. This included, but was not limited to, policy and policyholder administration, separate account administration, preparing accounting and actuarial information and certain aspects of legal compliance.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company (“FKLA”) established a trust account (the “Security Trust Account”) for the exclusive benefit of the Company. The Security Trust Account is funded with assets equal to the general account statutory reserves adjusted for policy loans and interest maintenance reserves reinsured by FKLA, adjusted on a quarterly basis. FKLA is required to maintain the Security Trust Account until the Company’s general account statutory reserves of the Reinsured Policies are $400,000,000 or less. As of December 31, 2010 and 2009, the Company’s general account statutory reserves subject to the coinsurance agreement with FKLA were approximately $1,926,797,000 and $2,006,102,000, respectively. The balance in the Security Trust Account was approximately $1,941,151,000 and $2,064,681,000 as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
    Nature of Operations
    As of the BOIH Purchase Agreement closing, the Company’s direct retained business consisted primarily of the DESTINATIONS product. The Company also ceased issuing new business with the exception of renewal business and certain policies to be written and reinsured pursuant to the coinsurance agreement with PLICO. The Company agreed that for a period of three years following the Closing Date, it would not, except under limited circumstances, issue any new BOLI policies. Nearly all of the Company’s BOLI policies are reinsured to Zurich Insurance Company, Bermuda Branch (“ZIBB”). The account values of these ceded BOLI policies are included in the separate account assets and liabilities on the balance sheet.
    Synergy Investment Group, LLC (“Synergy”), an unaffiliated broker/dealer, and Investment Distributors, Inc. (“IDI”), an affiliate of PLICO, are the principal underwriters for the ZALICO separate account. BFP Securities LLC (“BFP”), an affiliate of the Company, is the primary wholesaling distributor of the Company’s BOLI products.
    During 2009, the Company transferred its marketing function to Zurich Global Life North America (“GLNA”), which has responsibility for life insurance new business generation in the U.S. GLNA is identifying and implementing strategic opportunities designed to achieve profitable new business growth for the Company. Also during 2009, the Company began implementation of a target operating model for legal entity and legacy product management that transitions responsibility for these activities to center of excellence groups at affiliated companies. The transition was completed in 2010.
    DESTINATIONS Product
    DESTINATIONS is a registered individual and group variable, fixed and market value adjusted deferred annuity product. DESTINATIONS currently offers 30 variable subaccount investment options with various investment managers, a number of different guaranty periods, a fixed account option, dollar cost averaging, a guaranteed minimum death benefit (“GMDB”) option and a guaranteed retirement income benefit (“GRIB”) option.
    The GMDB and GRIB options subject the Company to market risk as the beneficiary or contract holder may receive, due to product guarantees, benefits that exceed the investment performance associated with their account balance. The GMDB and GRIB benefit is the greatest of: i) the contract value (account value); ii) the greatest anniversary value before the exercise (annuitization date or date of death), reset up to age 80 minus previous withdrawals; or iii) purchase payments minus previous withdrawals, accumulated at 5% per annum to age 80.
    The GRIB option is a rider to the DESTINATIONS base contract that was available to be purchased at the time the contract was issued. If purchased and later exercised, the GRIB option allows a policyholder to receive a payment stream that may have value in excess of what would

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    otherwise have been generated, without GRIB, by annuitization of their contract value (due to benefit guarantees associated with the GRIB option). For contracts with the GRIB option, the guaranteed value may begin to be realized after seven or more years from contract issue, depending upon issue age. The amount of excess of the GRIB value over the contract value can fluctuate on a daily basis with changes in equity market returns. As such, the ultimate amount paid by the Company, if any, is uncertain and could be significantly more or less than the net amount at risk (as disclosed in Note 8).
    On November 17, 2006, the Company entered into a reinsurance agreement with Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. (“ZIC”; “ZIC Agreement”) to reinsure the net amounts at risk for GMDB and GRIB options on policies issued from May 1, 2000 through February 28, 2003. Subsequently, on December 22, 2008 the Company and ZIC entered into Amendment No.1 to the ZIC Agreement (“Amendment”). Under terms of the Amendment, the Company paid a premium to ZIC of $10,000,000 in consideration for changes in the operation of the ZIC Agreement, for the benefit of the Company, under forecast scenarios where a significant further decline in equity market levels was projected. See Note 9 for a more detailed discussion of the ZIC Agreement and Amendment.
    Business Owned Life Insurance (BOLI)
    From 1997 to the effective date of the Purchase Agreement, the Company marketed BOLI policies. BOLI is a form of group life insurance which enables clients to buy variable life insurance on key employees. The policies remain in force until the last insured dies or the policy is surrendered or exchanged. The policyholder has flexibility regarding premiums and the right to allocate premiums to various divisions with differing investment objectives. The policyholders may also borrow from the investment value of the policies, surrender the policies for their cash surrender values or in some cases, make partial withdrawals from the cash surrender values. Death benefits on the life of any insured are at least equal to the face amount on the individual insured provided the cash value relating to the insured is greater than zero.
    ZIBB reinsures 98% of the mortality risk and 98% of the net amount at risk of the BOLI policies. ZIBB offered a stable value protection (“SVP”) option in conjunction with the BOLI policies. The SVP option allows purchasers of the option to make payments into SVP divisions in the Company’s separate accounts. These SVP divisions purchase value protection from a stable value provider which offers smooth or stabilized investment returns over a specified period of time.
    Separate Account Business
    The Company maintains separate account assets and liabilities, which are reported at fair value. Separate accounts reflect two categories of risk assumption: non-guaranteed separate accounts, wherein the contract holder assumes the investment risk, and guaranteed separate accounts, wherein the Company contractually guarantees either a minimum return or account value to the contract holder. Non-guaranteed separate account assets are segregated from other investments, and investment income and gains and losses accrue directly to the contract holder. Mortality, policy administration, and surrender charges to all accounts are included in the revenues of the Company. Changes in liabilities for minimum guarantees are included in the increase in aggregate reserves for life policies and contracts line item in the financial statements.
    Group Term Life Insurance
    During the second half of 2006, the Company began marketing and sales of a group term life insurance product (“Group Life”). Group Life is marketed through the agency force of Farmers Group, Inc. (“FGI”), an affiliated company. The Group Life product is yearly renewable term life insurance for employers to make available as a part of their employee benefits package. Group Life provides guaranteed issue in limited amounts to group members and allows for conversion to an individual term life policy when a member leaves the group.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    The Company continues to sell the Group Life product introduced in 2006 and marketed through the agency force of FGI.
    Group Term Life /AD&D and Group L-T Disability Insurance
    During the second half of 2010, the Company began marketing and sales of its group term life insurance product (“Group Life II”) with accidental death and dismemberment (“AD&D”) rider marketed to U.S. expatriates. This was followed by the introduction of the group long-term disability (“Group L-T Disability”) product. The Group Life w/AD&D rider and the Group L-T Disability products are yearly renewable group term insurance products made available to U.S. — base companies as part of their employee benefits package. Group Life II provides guaranteed issue in limited amounts to group members and allows for conversion to an individual term life policy when a member leaves the group. Group L-T Disability provides monthly income benefit percentages up to a designated maximum amount and age upon completion of a disability elimination period.
    Guaranteed Death Benefit Insurance
    During the second half of 2010, the Company began marketing and sales of an individual no-lapse guarantee protection product (“NLG”) marketed to the affluent U.S. life insurance market segment. The NLG product is intended to serve the wealth transfer, estate tax planning, and business insurance needs of this market segment. The NLG is flexible premium adjustable life insurance and provides coverage guarantees, death benefit options, a policy loan feature, and three riders.
2.   Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
    Basis of Presentation
    The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations — Division of Insurance (“IDOI”).
    The IDOI recognizes only Statements of Statutory Accounting Principles (“SSAP”) prescribed or permitted by the State of Illinois for determining and reporting the financial condition and results of operations of an insurance company, for determining its solvency under the Illinois Insurance Law. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (“NAIC”) Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual version effective January 1, 2001 (“NAIC AP&P”) has been adopted as a component of prescribed or permitted practices by the State of Illinois.
    Statutory accounting practices differ from accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) in the following respects:
    Investments
    Investments in bonds are stated at amortized cost or at values required by the NAIC. Under GAAP, bonds are carried at fair value or amortized cost based upon management’s intent as to whether bonds are available for sale or will be held until maturity.
    In determining fair market value, for the majority of securities, quotes were obtained from third party sources. If quotes from these sources were not available, a broker estimate was used. Changes between cost and admitted asset investment carrying amounts are credited and charged directly to unassigned surplus rather than to a separate component of stockholder’s equity and other comprehensive income.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Asset Valuation Reserve
    The asset valuation reserve (“AVR”) is determined by NAIC prescribed formulas, which establish a provision for the risk of asset defaults, and is reported as a liability with changes recorded directly to unassigned surplus. Under GAAP, no such liability is established.
    Interest Maintenance Reserve
    An interest maintenance reserve (“IMR”) is provided as required by the IDOI in order to defer certain realized investment gains and losses, net of tax, related to interest rate fluctuations, and to amortize such gains and losses through operating income over the remaining life of the securities sold. Any net unamortized deferred losses are nonadmitted and charged directly to unassigned surplus. No such reserve is required by GAAP.
    Life Policy and Contract Reserves
    Life policy and contract reserves under statutory accounting practices are based on statutory mortality, morbidity, and interest requirements without consideration of withdrawals and Company experience.
    GAAP requires that policy reserves for traditional products be based upon the net level premium method utilizing management’s best estimate of mortality, interest, and withdrawals prevailing when the policies were sold; for interest sensitive products, the GAAP policy reserve is determined using the retrospective deposit method and is equal to the policy fund balance, before surrender charges.
    Acquisition Costs
    Under statutory accounting practices, costs of acquiring new business are charged to operations in the year such costs are incurred. Under GAAP, such costs are deferred and amortized over the premium-paying period of the policies for traditional products, or as a level percentage of gross profits for interest sensitive products.
    Recognition of Revenue and Related Expenses
    Under statutory accounting practices, premiums are recognized as revenues when due. For GAAP purposes, premiums for traditional life insurance products, which include those products with fixed and guaranteed premiums and benefits and consist principally of whole and term life insurance policies, are recognized as revenues when due. Revenues for universal life insurance policies and for investment products consist of policy charges for the cost of insurance, interest earned, policy administration charges, and surrender charges assessed against policyholder account balances during the year. Expenses related to these products include interest credited to policy account balances, benefit claims incurred in excess of policy account balances and commissions and expense allowances on reinsurance assumed. Revenues also include commissions and expense allowances on reinsurance ceded and reserve adjustments on reinsurance ceded. Under statutory accounting practices, deferred premiums, representing gross premiums less loading, are reported as an admitted asset. Under GAAP, uncollected premiums are stated at gross amounts and deferred premiums are reflected as a reduction of the related aggregate reserve.
    Reinsurance
    Reserves and reinsurance recoverable on unpaid claims on reinsured business are netted in aggregate reserves and the liability for life policy claims, respectively. Under GAAP, these reinsured amounts are reflected as an asset.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Federal Income Taxes
    Deferred income taxes are provided for temporary differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities at the end of each year based on enacted tax rates. Net deferred tax assets are limited to their admissible amount according to a prescribed formula. Changes in deferred income tax assets and liabilities are reported as adjustments to surplus. Under GAAP, changes in deferred income taxes are included in income tax expense or benefit and are allocated to continuing operations, discontinued operations, extraordinary items and items charged directly to shareholders’ equity. Additionally, under GAAP, deferred income tax assets are only reduced by a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. There is no requirement to consider admissibility standards.
    Nonadmitted Assets
    Certain assets are considered nonadmitted assets for statutory purposes and any changes in such assets are credited or charged directly to unassigned surplus. There are no nonadmitted assets for GAAP purposes.
    Statement of Cash Flows
    The statutory basis statement of cash flows is presented as required and differs from the GAAP presentation.
    Permitted Accounting Practice
    In anticipation of the Zurich acquisition in 1996, the Company sold, primarily through a bulk sale, approximately $284,000,000 in real estate-related investments during 1995 as part of a strategic effort to reduce overall exposure to real estate. As a result of these sales, the Company incurred realized capital losses that were required to be transferred to the Interest Maintenance Reserve (“IMR”). However, as a result of the transfer of these realized capital losses, the IMR became negative. In connection with the sale of the real estate-related investments and the acquisition of the Company’s parent, the IDOI permitted the Company to reset the IMR to zero at December 31, 1995. This treatment permits the Company to proceed as if it had been legally reorganized through a procedure known as “quasi-reorganization”.
    This procedure allows the Company a “fresh start” by resetting the negative unassigned surplus to zero and reducing gross paid-in and contributed surplus by the same amount. Although this treatment does not change the Company’s total amount of reported capital and surplus as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, it did favorably impact the 2010, 2009 and 2008 net income (loss) from operations. If the Company had not been permitted to reset the IMR to zero as of December 31, 1995, the Company’s statutory net gain from operations would have decreased by approximately $1,394,000, $1,326,000 and $1,316,000 for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Capital and surplus would have increased by like amounts through a credit to the change in nonadmitted assets and related items. If the Company had not been able to reset the negative unassigned surplus to zero, paid-in surplus and unassigned surplus (deficit) would have been approximately $729,254,000 and $(533,557,000), respectively as of December 31, 2010, and approximately $729,254,000 and ($528,829,000), respectively, as of December 31, 2009.
    Changes in Accounting Principles
    In September 2009, the NAIC issued SSAP No. 43R, “Loan-backed and Structured Securities” (“SSAP No. 43R”), an amendment of SSAP No. 43, “Loan-backed and Structured Securities”, replacing SSAP No. 98 “Treatment of Cash Flows When Quantifying Changes in Valuation and Impairments, an Amendment of SSAP No. 43-Loan-backed and Structured Securities”. SSAP No. 43R provides that for loan-backed and structured securities for which (i) fair value is less than cost (ii) the Company does not intend to sell the security and (iii) the Company has the intent and ability to hold the security until recovery, the Company should determine if there is a non-interest related impairment by comparing the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected to the amortized cost basis.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    If the net present value of the cash flows expected to be collected is less than amortized cost, the security is impaired, and the difference is recorded as a realized loss in net income. The new cost basis of the security is the previous amortized cost basis less the non-interest impairment recognized in net income.
    If fair value is less than amortized cost and the Company (i) has the intent to sell the security, or (ii) does not have the intent and ability to retain the security until recovery of its carrying value, the security is written down to fair value with the associated realized loss reported in net income. The non-interest portion of the realized loss is recognized in the Asset Valuation Reserve (“AVR”), and the interest portion in the IMR. The fair value at the time of the impairment becomes the security’s new cost basis.
    SSAP No. 43R requires that for beneficial interests in securitized financial assets that are not of high credit quality or can contractually be prepaid or otherwise settled in such a way that the reporting entity would not recover substantially all of its recorded amount, determined at acquisition, if fair value is less than amortized cost and there has been a negative change in cash flows, an other-than-temporary impairment (“OTTI”) must be taken. The amount of the impairment is based upon the criteria discussed above. The carrying value of these securities is determined using the prospective yield method.
    The Company adopted SSAP No. 43R effective July 1, 2009. The cumulative effect of this change is $29,000 and is reported in the Statutory Statement of Changes in Capital and Surplus, in the amount of $19,000 net of tax.
    The NAIC amended “Actuarial Guideline XLIII, CARVM for Variable Annuities". This guidance allows companies to set reserves that more accurately and appropriately reflect the risks of the variable annuities with guarantees through stochastic modeling. This guidance was effective December 31, 2009. See Note 8, Life Reserves, for further details of the impact of adoption of Actuarial Guideline XLIII.
    In December 2009, the NAIC issued Statements of Statutory Accounting Principles No. 10R “Income Taxes-Revised, A Temporary Replacement of SSAP 10” (“SSAP No. 10R”). This guidance provides an increase in the admissibility limitation from 10% to 15% of surplus and an increase in the reversal/realization periods from one to three years. It requires gross deferred tax assets to be reduced by a statutory valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the gross deferred tax assets will not be realized. In December 2009, the Company adopted the accounting guidance related to deferred income taxes contained in SSAP No. 10R, with impact as the result of electing the provisions of paragraph 10e relating to admitted deferred tax assets. The cumulative effect of adopting this pronouncement increased surplus by $8,380,000 at December 31, 2009 and is reported as a specifically identified change in accounting principle in the Statutory Statements of Changes in Surplus.
    New Accounting Pronouncements
    The Company adopted SSAP No. 100 “Fair Value Measurements”, (“SSAP 100”) effective December 31, 2010 and thereafter. SSAP 100 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosure requirements regarding fair value measurements but does not change existing guidance about whether an asset or liability is carried at fair value. See Note 5 for disclosures related to SSAP No. 100.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    The NAIC modified SSAP No. 9, “Subsequent Events”. This guidance establishes general standards for accounting and disclosures of events that occur subsequent to the balance sheet date, but before the issuance of the financial statements. In addition, the Company must disclose the date through which subsequent events have been evaluated, and the date the financial statements were issued or available to be issued. This guidance is effective for the year ending December 31, 2009. The adoption of this guidance did not have an impact on the Company’s financial statements. The required disclosure of the date through which subsequent events have been evaluated is provided in Note 14, Subsequent Events.
    The NAIC issued SSAP No. 99, “Accounting for Debt Securities Subsequent to an Other-Than-Temporary Impairment", which provides guidance for the accounting treatment of premium or discount for a debt security subsequent to other-than-temporary impairment recognition. This guidance was effective January 1, 2009 with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2009 with a prospective application.
    The NAIC approved an initiative to create a new modeling and rating process for non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”), “The RMBS Initiative". For each RMBS within the scope of the guidance, the model determines the price at which the modeled expected loss equals the midpoint between the risk-based capital (“RBC”) charges for each NAIC designation, i.e. each price point that, if exceeded, changes the NAIC designation. A security’s carrying amount is based upon the initial NAIC designation, which is determined using the security’s amortized cost. A final NAIC designation is determined using the security’s carrying amount. This final NAIC designation is applicable for all statutory accounting and reporting purposes, including establishing the IMR, AVR and RBC, except for establishing the appropriate carrying value. This guidance was effective for December 31, 2009.
    Use of Estimates
    The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the IDOI requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
    The Company is liable for guaranty fund assessments related to certain unaffiliated life insurance companies that have become insolvent during the years 2010 and prior. The Company’s financial statements include provisions for all known assessments that are expected to be levied against the Company as well as an estimate of amounts (net of expected future premium tax recoveries) that the Company believes will be assessed in the future. According to SSAP No. 35, “Guaranty Fund and Other Assessments", guaranty fund assessment (“GFA”) liabilities and estimated premium tax credits as well as the estimated GFA recoverable for the ceded portion of the future liabilities, are to be presented separately in the balance sheet. The majority of the GFA liability is ceded as a result of the Purchase Agreement.
    Business Risks
    The Company operates in a business environment that is subject to various risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to, mortality risk, interest rate risk and legal and regulatory changes. The Company is subject to various state and federal regulatory authorities. The potential exists for changes in laws or regulations that can result in additional, unanticipated expense to the Company. Existing federal laws and regulations affect the taxation of life insurance products and insurance companies. There can be no assurance as to whether future legislation might be enacted, or if enacted that would include provisions with possible negative effects on the Company’s life and annuity products.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
3.   Accounting Policies
    Investments
    Investments are valued as prescribed by the NAIC and as required by the IDOI. All security transactions are recorded on a trade date basis. Investments are recorded on the following bases:
    Bonds — at cost, adjusted for amortization of premium or discount. Bonds with NAIC designations of 6 are reported at the lower of amortized cost or fair value. Discount or premium on bonds is amortized using the interest method on a retrospective basis. A yield to worst amortization method is used to take into consideration any bond call or sinking fund feature.
 
    Loan-backed securities — are amortized using the interest method including anticipated prepayments at the date of purchase. Prepayment assumptions for single class and multi-class mortgage-backed/asset-backed securities were obtained from the respective managers and the prepayment windows and/or cashflows were obtained from Bloomberg. The Company has elected to use the book value as of January 1, 1994 as the cost for applying the retrospective adjustment method to securities purchased prior to that date. Loan-backed securities with evidence of deterioration of credit quality for which it is probable that the Company will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable are written down to the present value of expected cash flows to be received.
 
    Preferred Stocks — at lower of cost, amortized cost or fair value. Preferred stocks with NAIC designations of 1 through 3 with characteristics of debt securities are reported at cost or amortized cost. All other preferred stocks are reported at the lower of cost, amortized cost or fair value.
 
    Common stocks of non-affiliates — at fair value.
 
    Short-term investments — at cost or amortized cost.
 
    Other invested assets — these balances consist of venture capital and real estate joint venture partnerships. They are carried at cost plus equity in undistributed earnings or losses for participants, net of a valuation allowance.
 
    Contract loans are carried at the aggregate of the unpaid balance provided the unpaid balance does not exceed either cash surrender value of the policy or the policy reserves. The excess of the unpaid loan balance over the cash surrender value is nonadmitted and reflected as an unrealized capital loss.
    Upon default or indication of potential default by an issuer of fixed maturity securities, other than mortgage-backed securities, the issue(s) of such issuer would be analyzed for possible write-down. Any such issue would be written down to its net realizable value during the fiscal year in which the impairment was determined to have become other than temporary. Thereafter, each issue is regularly reviewed and additional write-downs may be taken in light of later developments. Write-downs are included as part of net realized capital gains (losses). The Company recorded $0, $290,000, and $4,069,000, respectively, fixed maturity write-downs on securities other than loan -backed securities for the periods ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008. All loan-backed and structured securities were reviewed to determine if there were any indications of potential for OTTI classification. Where such an indication existed, cash flow and credit support analyses were performed. If it was determined that the Company was to receive less than 100% of contractual cash flows, the OTTI impact was measured and recorded in accordance with SSAP 43R Loan-Backed and Structured Securities.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    The Company recorded $2,280,000, $1,820,000 and $0, respectively, fixed maturity write-downs on loan-backed and structured securities for the periods ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008.
    Investment Income and Realized Gains and Losses
    Investment income is recorded when earned. All investment income due and accrued amounts that are over 90 days past due, with the exception of mortgage loans in default are excluded from surplus. The Company had no investment income due and accrued that was over 90 days past due at December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008.
    Realized gains or losses on sales of investments, determined on the basis of identifiable cost on the disposition of the respective investment, which are not transferred to the IMR and write-downs are credited or charged to income, net of applicable federal income tax. Unrealized gains and losses, including changes in real estate-related reserves, are credited or charged to surplus, net of deferred tax.
    Securities Lending
    The Company has entered into a securities lending agreement with a lending agent. The agreement authorizes the agent to lend securities held in the Company’s portfolio to a list of authorized borrowers. Concurrent with delivery of the securities, the borrower provides the Company with cash collateral equal to at least 102% of the fair value of domestic loaned securities and 105% of the fair value of foreign loaned securities.
    The securities are marked-to-market on a daily basis, and the collateral is adjusted on the next business day. The collateral is invested in overnight repurchases in U.S. governmental and Agency securities. Income earned from the security lending arrangement is shared 25% and 75% between the lending agent and the Company, respectively. Income earned by the Company was approximately $3,000, $0 and $27,000 in 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. There were no securities on loan as of December 31, 2010. The Company’s securities on loan as of December 31, 2009 primarily consisted of U.S. Treasury Notes, U.S. Government Agency and corporate fixed income securities and had an estimated fair value of approximately $27,081,000. The fair value of the reinvested cash collateral was approximately $27,696,000.
    Income and Expenses
    Revenue for annuities, variable life insurance and interest-sensitive life insurance products consists of premiums and annuity considerations, investment income and policy charges and fees. Expenses consist of benefits, changes in aggregate reserves and policy maintenance costs.
    Life and interest-sensitive life insurance contract premiums are recognized as income when due, while annuity contract premiums are recognized as income when received. Expenses, including acquisition costs related to acquiring new and renewal business, such as commissions, are charged to operations as incurred.
    During 2008 the Company’s third party administrator recorded considerations for supplemental contracts not involving life contingencies but did not notify the Company of such recordings in 2008 per agreed procedures. As such, because the associated increase in reserves was not recorded as an expense in the same period, the recording of these considerations served to increase the Company’s 2008 net gain from operations before federal income taxes by $3,456,000. This error in notification was discovered by the Company in late January 2009 through its reconciliations, was investigated, and in March 2009 the Company recorded the then current value for the increase in associated reserves, $3,329,000, which served to reduce the Company’s 2009 net gain from operations before federal income taxes by the same amount.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Correction of this out-of-period error from 2008 in March 2009, which the Company determined to be immaterial and is not reflected in the accompanying 2008 statutory financial statements, would have had the impact of increasing interest and adjustments on policy or deposit-type contracts, an expense, recorded in the 2008 Statutory Statement of Operations from ($2,315,000) to $1,141,000, increasing net loss from operations before federal income taxes from ($33,768,000) to ($37,224,000), decreasing federal income taxes incurred from ($22,614,000) to ($23,286,000), and increasing net loss from ($15,695,000) to ($17,941,000). Had this error been corrected in 2008, ending capital and surplus reported in the 2008 Statutory Statements of Capital and Surplus would have changed from $166,863,000 to $164,817,000.
    Correction of this out-of-period error from 2008 in March 2009 had the impact of increasing interest and adjustments on policy or deposit-type contracts recorded in the 2009 Statutory Statement of Operations, an expense, from $1,605,000 to $4,933,000, decreasing net gain from operations before federal income taxes from $16,590,000 to $13,261,000, decreasing federal income taxes incurred from ($5,519,000) to ($6,684,000), and decreasing net income from $19,568,000 to $17,405,000. The correction of this error had no impact on ending capital and surplus of $187,496,000 reported in the 2009 Statement of Changes in Capital and Surplus.
    Policy Liabilities and Other Policyholders’ Funds
    Liabilities for policy reserves on annuity contracts are calculated based on the Commissioner’s Annuity Reserve Valuation Method (“CARVM”). Interest crediting rates under the contracts’ accumulation periods range from 2.15% to 7.00%. Guarantee periods range from one to ten years with minimum interest rate guarantees ranging from 2.0% to 4.5%.
    Liabilities for life policy reserves and interest-sensitive life insurance contracts are based on statutory mortality and interest requirements without consideration of withdrawals. Liabilities for the majority of these contracts are calculated based on the 1980 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary (“CSO”) table assuming interest rates ranging from 4.5% to 6.0%.
    The Company waives deduction of deferred fractional premiums upon death of the insured and returns the portion of the final premium paid beyond the policy month of death. Surrender values promised in excess of the legally computed reserves, if any, would be included as a component of reserves.
    Extra premiums are charged for policies issued on substandard lives according to underwriting classifications. Final reserves are determined by computing the mid-terminal reserve for the plan and holding an additional one half of the net valuation premium for the modal period.
    Separate Accounts Business
    The assets of the separate accounts represent segregated funds administered and invested by the Company for purposes of funding variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts for the exclusive benefit of variable annuity and variable life insurance contract holders. The Company receives administrative fees from the separate accounts and retains varying amounts of withdrawal charges to cover expenses in the event of early withdrawals by contract holders.
    The assets and liabilities of the separate accounts are carried at the fair value of the underlying contracts. The difference between the fair values of the contracts, and their termination value, is recorded as a negative liability for transfers to separate accounts due or accrued. Changes in termination value of the contracts are recognized through the Company’s net loss from operations as a component of net transfers to (from) the separate accounts rather than directly to surplus.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    The assets are invested primarily in a series of mutual funds managed by DWS Investments, and other unaffiliated mutual fund managers.
    Reinsurance
    In the ordinary course of business, the Company enters into reinsurance agreements to diversify risk and limit its overall financial exposure to certain blocks of annuities and to individual death claims. Although these reinsurance agreements contractually obligate the reinsurers to reimburse the Company, they do not discharge the Company from its primary liabilities and obligations to policyholders. An additional protection is the existence of a security trust. Several of the Company’s reinsurance contracts require that the reinsurer fund a trust, with the fair value of the assets at least equal to the book value of the statutory liabilities reinsured.
    Federal Income Taxes
    The Company has applied the NAIC Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles No. 10R, “Income taxes — Revised, A Temporary Replacement of SSAP No. 10”. Income tax incurred is recognized by applying the enacted income tax law. Deferred income taxes are provided for temporary differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities at the end of each year based on enacted tax rates. Changes in admitted deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized as adjustments to surplus. Deferred tax assets are admitted to the extent they meet specific criteria but are limited to the amount of gross deferred tax assets expected to be reversed within a limited time period and adjusted surplus. Companies that meet the risk-based capital trend-test may elect to admit additional deferred tax assets under the provisions of paragraph 10.e, which provides expanded time periods and surplus limitations. The Company qualifies for and has elected to apply the expanded provisions.
    The Company records interest and penalties related to income tax contingencies as a component of income tax expense.
    Nonadmitted Assets
    Certain assets, designated as “nonadmitted assets”, have been excluded from the statutory statements of admitted assets, liabilities and capital and surplus through a direct charge against unassigned surplus.
    Statement of Cash Flows
    The Company defines cash as cash in banks and money market accounts and considers all highly liquid investments, with maturity of one year or less when purchased, to be short-term investments.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
4.   Investments
    The components of investment income by type of investment for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 are as follows:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Bonds
  $ 21,377     $ 20,903     $ 18,111  
Preferred stocks
                46  
Contract loans
    3,339       3,611       3,170  
Short-term investments
    57       89       1,027  
Other
    557       1,574       2,190  
 
                 
Gross investment income
  $ 25,330     $ 26,177     $ 24,544  
Less: Investment expenses
    (725 )     (915 )     (417 )
 
                 
Net investment income
  $ 24,605     $ 25,262     $ 24,127  
 
                 
    In 2010, 2009 and 2008, the Company’s investment expenses included fees of approximately $232,000, $204,000 and $157,000, respectively, to Deutsche Investment Management Americas, Inc.
    In 2010, 2009 and 2008, the Company’s investment expenses included fees of approximately $112,000, $108,000 and $108,000 respectively, to Zurich Investment Services.
    The Company also incurred investment fees in 2010, 2009 and 2008 of approximately $489,000, $240,000 and $140,000, respectively, to Zurich Global Investment Management (“ZGIM”), an affiliate of Zurich Financial Services.
    The Company owns one low income housing tax credit (“LIHTC”) property, National Equity Fund. The number of remaining tax credits is one year and the required holding period for the LIHTC investment is four years.
Realized Gains and Losses
    Realized gains and losses on sales, redemptions and impairments of investments are determined based on the actual cost of the securities.
    Realized investment gains and losses for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 are as follows:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Bonds
  $ 2,253     $ (2,296 )   $ (719 )
 
                 
 
    2,253       (2,296 )     (719 )
Transfer to (from) interest maintenance reserve
    (516 )     868       238  
Add: Tax impact from net realized gains and losses
    1,227       998       560  
 
                 
 
  $ 2,964     $ (430 )   $ 79  
 
                 

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Impairment losses for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 are as follows:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Bonds
  $ (2,280 )   $ (2,110 )   $ (4,069 )
Other
                (13 )
 
                 
 
  $ (2,280 )   $ (2,110 )   $ (4,082 )
 
                 
    Unrealized Gains and Losses on Fixed Maturities and Preferred Stocks
    Amortized cost, gross unrealized gains, gross unrealized losses, and estimated fair value of bonds and preferred stocks, as of December 31, 2010 and 2009 are as follows:
                                 
            Gross     Gross     Estimated  
    Amortized     Unrealized     Unrealized     Fair  
(in thousands of dollars)   Cost     Gains     Losses     Value  
2010
                               
Fixed maturities
                               
U.S. government
  $ 50,193     $ 1,051     $ (17 )   $ 51,227  
Other governments
    1,352       66             1,418  
Special revenue and special assessment obligations and all non-guaranteed obligations of agencies and authorities of governments and their political subdivisions
    31,611       1,250       (423 )     32,438  
Industrial and miscellaneous (unaffiliated)
    353,606       25,935       (1,979 )     377,562  
 
                       
Total fixed maturities
  $ 436,762     $ 28,302     $ (2,419 )   $ 462,645  
 
                       
 
                               
2009
                               
Fixed maturities
                               
U.S. government
  $ 39,738     $ 932     $ (306 )   $ 40,364  
Other governments
    750       29             779  
Special revenue and special assessment obligations and all non-guaranteed obligations of agencies and authorities of governments and their political subdivisions
    34,894       822       (548 )     35,168  
Industrial and miscellaneous (unaffiliated)
    345,477       15,389       (7,944 )     352,922  
 
                       
Total fixed maturities
  $ 420,859     $ 17,172     $ (8,798 )   $ 429,233  
 
                       
    Unrealized Losses on Fixed Maturities
    The Company has a security monitoring process overseen by a committee of investment and accounting professionals that, on a monthly basis, identifies securities in an unrealized loss position that could potentially be other-than-temporarily impaired. The Company believes that the prices of the securities in the sector identified in the tables below were temporarily depressed as of December 31, 2010 and 2009 due to the issuers’ continued satisfaction of the securities obligations in accordance with their contractual terms and the expectation that they will continue to do so, and management’s intent and ability to hold these securities for a period of time sufficient to allow for a recovery of fair value.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Fair value and gross unrealized losses of fixed maturities as of December 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:
                                 
    Unrealized Losses     Unrealized Losses  
    Less Than 12 Months     Greater Than 12 Months  
    Estimated     Unrealized     Estimated     Unrealized  
(in thousands of dollars)   Fair Value     Losses     Fair Value     Losses  
2010
                               
Fixed maturities
                               
U.S. government
  $ 9,977     $ (17 )   $     $  
Special revenue and special assessment obligations and all non-guaranteed obligations of agencies and authorities of governments and their political subdivisions
    7,052       (423 )            
Industrial and miscellaneous (unaffiliated)
    32,340       (713 )     11,322       (1,266 )
 
                       
Total fixed maturities
  $ 49,369     $ (1,153 )   $ 11,322     $ (1,266 )
 
                       
 
                               
2009
                               
Fixed maturities
                               
U.S. government
  $ 19,211     $ (306 )   $     $  
Special revenue and special assessment obligations and all non-guaranteed obligations of agencies and authorities of governments and their political subdivisions
    17,883       (548 )            
Industrial and miscellaneous (unaffiliated)
    29,727       (1,339 )     43,874       (6,605 )
 
                       
Total fixed maturities
  $ 66,821     $ (2,193 )   $ 43,874     $ (6,605 )
 
                       
    As of December 31, 2010, fixed maturities represented 100% of the Company’s total unrealized loss amount, which was comprised of 46 securities. As of December 31, 2010, there was one security with a fair value less than 80% of the security’s amortized cost for greater than 12 continuous months.
    Fixed maturities in an unrealized loss position for less than 12 months were comprised of 39 securities, of which 84%, or fair value $41,511,000, were comprised of securities with fair value to amortized cost ratios at or greater than 95%. The majority of these securities are investment grade fixed maturities depressed due to changes in interest rates from the date of purchase.
    Fixed maturities in an unrealized loss position for greater than 12 months as of December 31, 2010, were comprised of 7 securities with a total fair value of $11,322,000. The unrealized loss of $1,266,000 relates to industrial and miscellaneous securities. The decline in fair value for these securities is primarily attributable to changes in interest rates. A variety of data is reviewed, including the aging and severity of unrealized losses, watch lists distributed by the asset managers, deviations in market prices between months, and results of tests indicating if any fixed maturity securities with unrealized losses have a credit rating below investment grade for 12 consecutive months. Bonds, except mortgage-backed securities, classified as non-investment grade (NAIC designation 3 or below) and for which it is determined that the collection of all contractual cash flows are not probable, are written down to fair value and a loss is recognized. Mortgage-backed securities with evidence of deterioration of credit quality for which it is probable that the Company will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable, are written down to the present value of expected cash flows to be received.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Accordingly, it is expected that the securities would not be settled at a price less than the amortized cost of the Company’s investment. Because the decline in fair value is attributable to changes in interest rates and not credit quality and because the Company has the ability and intent to hold these investments until a recovery of fair value, which may be at maturity, the Company does not consider these investments to be other-than-temporarily impaired at December 31, 2010.
    Concentrations of Credit Risk
    The Company is not exposed to any significant concentration of credit risk of a single or group non-governmental issuer. Concentration of credit risk could exist when changes in economic, industry or geographic factors similarly affect groups of counter-parties whose aggregate credit exposure is material in relation to the Company’s total exposure.
    Loan-backed Securities
    Prepayment assumptions for loan-backed securities were obtained from broker dealer survey values. These assumptions are consistent with the current interest rate and economic environment.
    In accordance with SSAP No. 43R, effective July 1, 2009, loan-backed securities with fair value less than amortized cost and the Company (i) has the intent to sell the security, or (ii) inability or lack of intent to retain the security for a period of time sufficient to recover the amortized cost basis, the security is written down to fair value with the associated realized loss reported in net income. Loan-backed securities impaired due to intent to sell or inability or lack of intent to retain the security for a period of time sufficient to recover the amortized cost basis are summarized in the following table:
                                         
            Other-than-Temporary-
Impairment Recognized in Loss
 
            Amortized Cost              
            Basis Before              
            Other-than-              
            Temporary-              
(in thousands of dollars)   Impairment     Interest     Non-interest     Fair Value  
OTTI Recognized                                
       
 
                               
a )   Intent to sell   $ 1,965     $ (1,057 )   $     $ 908  
b )  
Inability or lack of intent to retain the investment in the security for a period of time sufficient to recover the amortized cost basis
                       
c )  
Total
    $ 1,965     $ (1,057 )   $     $ 908  
    Loan-backed securities with evidence of deterioration of credit quality for which it is probable that the Company will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable, are written down to the present value of expected cash flows to be received. Loan-backed securities impaired to their present value of projected cash flows that are still held as of December 31, 2010 consisted of the following:

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
                                                 
                            Amortized             Date of  
            Present     Recognized     Cost After             Financial  
    Amortized Cost     Value of     Other-Than-     Other-Than-     Fair Value     Statement  
(in thousands of dollars)   Before Current     Projected     Temporary-     Temporary-     at Time of     Where  
Cusip   Period OTTI     Cash Flows     Impairment     Impairment     OTTI     Reported  
46630JAQ2
  $ 1,962     $ 1,419     $ (543 )   $ 1,419     $ 489       12/31/2009  
46630JAQ2
    1,419       303       (1,116 )     303       549       6/30/2010  
 
  $ 3,381     $ 1,722     $ (1,659 )   $ 1,722     $ 1,038          
    In determining the impairments for loan-backed securities, a review of default rate, credit support and other key assumptions was made on the securities. Where it was determined that less than 100% of contractual cash flows would be received, the impairment was measured by discounting the projected cash flows and comparing that discounted cash flows to the amortized cost basis of the securities in accordance to SSAP 43R.
    The roll-forward of the amount related to credit losses recognized in earnings were as follows:
         
2010        
(In thousands of dollars)        
Beginning balance of credit losses on debt securities
  $ (1,070 )
Additions not previously recognized
    (1,223 )
Reduction for securities sold during the period
    1,691  
Impairment on intent to sell securities
    (1,057 )
Additional OTTI on previously impaired securities
     
Reductions for increases in cash flows expected to be collected
     
 
     
Ending balance for securities owned as of December 31, 2010
  $ (1,659 )
 
     
    Maturities of Bonds
    The amortized cost and estimated fair value of bonds, by contractual maturity, at December 31, 2010 are shown below. Expected maturities may differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties and because mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities provide for periodic payments throughout their life.
                 
            Estimated  
    Amortized     Fair  
(in thousands of dollars)   Cost     Value  
2010
               
Due in 1 year or less
  $ 16,612     $ 16,798  
Due after 1 year through 5 years
    158,295       165,204  
Due after 5 years through 10 years
    64,611       70,825  
Due after 10 years
    49,218       53,287  
 
           
 
    288,736       306,114  
Mortgage-backed securities
    148,027       156,531  
 
           
 
  $ 436,763     $ 462,645  
 
           

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Proceeds from sales of bonds and gross realized gains (losses) on such sales and impairments for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009, and 2008 are as follows:
                         
    Gross     Gross        
(in thousands of dollars)   Gains     Losses     Proceeds  
2010
Bonds
  $ 2,911     $ (2,938 )   $ 106,356  
 
                       
2009
Bonds
  $ 1,351     $ (5,757 )   $ 79,577  
 
                       
2008
Bonds
  $ 87     $ (4,875 )   $ 44,707  
    Bonds with an amortized cost of approximately $3,466,000 and $3,314,000 were on deposit with regulatory authorities at December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively, to satisfy regulatory requirements. The fair value of these securities was approximately $3,696,000 and $3,595,000 as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
5.   Fair Value of Financial Instruments
    The Company’s financial assets and liabilities carried at fair value have been classified, for disclosure purposes, based on a hierarchy defined by SSAP 100. The hierarchy gives the highest ranking to fair values determined using unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities (Level 1) and the lowest ranking to fair values determined using methodologies and models with unobservable inputs (Level 3). An asset’s or liability’s classification is based on the lowest level input that is significant to its measurement. For example, a Level 3 fair value measurement may include inputs that are both observable (Levels 1 and 2) and unobservable (Level 3). The levels of the fair value hierarchy are as follows:
    Level 1: Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the company has the ability to access at the measurement date. Level 1 securities include highly liquid U.S. Treasury securities, money market funds, certain mortgage backed securities, and exchange traded equity and derivative securities.
 
    Level 2: Quoted prices in markets that are not active or significant inputs that are observable either directly or indirectly. Level 2 inputs include the following:
  a)   Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets
 
  b)   Quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in non-active markets
 
  c)   Inputs other than quoted market prices that are observable
 
  d)   Inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data through correlation or other means
    Level 3: Prices or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both unobservable and significant to the overall fair value measurement. These measurements include circumstances in which there is little, if any, market activity for the asset or liability and reflect management’s own judgments about the assumptions a market participant would use in pricing the asset or liability.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    At the end of each reporting period, the Company evaluates whether or not an event has occurred that would transfer any of these securities between Level 1 and Level 2. This policy also applies to transfers in and out of Level 3.
Assets Measured at Fair Value
    The following table provides information as of December 31, 2010 about the Company’s financial assets measured at fair value:
                                 
    Quoted                    
    Prices                    
    Active                    
    Markets for     Significant     Significant        
    Identical     Observable     Unobservable        
(in thousands of dollars)   Assets     Inputs Level     Inputs Level        
Asset   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
 
Separate account assets
  $ 3,022,375     $ 5,135,486     $ 4,433,138     $ 12,590,999  
     
Total
  $ 3,022,375     $ 5,135,486     $ 4,433,138     $ 12,590,999  
     
    The Separate Account determines the fair values of certain financial assets based on quoted market prices. All of the open-ended mutual funds are included in Level 1. The open-ended mutual funds are valued at the net asset values of the respective portfolios as of December 31, 2010. There are no restrictions on purchases or sales of these open-ended mutual funds. Some of the privately managed funds assets are categorized in Level 2 or 3 based on the criteria defined above. The bonds are classified into Level 1, 2 or 3, based on the availability of quoted prices or valuation techniques utilized. The short-term investments are included in Level 1. The investment income due and accrued amount is allocated to the same level as the associated security for which it is due. The stable value asset is categorized as Level 2.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
Changes in Level 3 Assets Measured at Fair Value
    The following table summarizes the changes in assets classified as Level 3 for the years ended December 31, 2010. Gains and losses reported in this table may include changes in fair value that are attributable to both observable and unobservable inputs:
                                         
            Total Gains/     Purchases/              
    Beginning     (Losses) included     Issuance and Sales/     Transfer into/     Ending  
(in thousands of dollars)   Fair Value     in Net Income     Settlements, net     (out) of Level 3     Fair Value  
 
Separate account assets
  $ 4,447,082     $ 152,009     $ (165,856 )   $ (97 ) (1)   $ 4,433,138  
 
(1)   Net transfers into Level 3 are primarily due to a change in the information available to the Company when pricing the underlying securities, changing the significant inputs used in the valuation of the underlying securities to unobservable inputs, and consequently to a Level 3 classification.
     Methods and Assumptions to Estimate Fair Value of Financial Instruments
    The following methods and assumptions were used to estimate the fair value of financial instruments as of December 31, 2010 and 2009:
    Bonds
    The estimated fair values of bonds is valued in accordance with the NAIC’s Purposes and Procedures Manual of the Securities Valuation Office (“SVO”). In those instances where fair value is not available from the SVO then fair value is based upon quoted market prices, dealer quotes, and prices obtained from independent pricing services, generally broker dealers. Unless representative trades of securities actually occurred at year end, these quotes are generally estimates of fair value based on an evaluation of appropriate factors such as trading in similar securities, yields, credit quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issues and other market data.
    Contract Loans
    The carrying amounts of these items approximate fair market values because interest rates are generally variable and based on current market rates.
    Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments
    The carrying amounts of these items approximate fair value.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    The carrying value and estimated fair value of the Company’s financial instruments as of December 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:
                                 
    2010     2009  
    Carrying     Estimated     Carrying     Estimated  
(in thousands of dollars)   Value     Fair Value     Value     Fair Value  
Financial instruments recorded as assets
                               
Bonds
  $ 436,763     $ 462,645     $ 420,860     $ 429,234  
Contract loans
    65,909       65,909       54,404       54,404  
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
    20,195       20,195       29,157       29,157  
Other invested assets
                17       17  
Securities lending collateral
                27,696       27,696  
Separate account assets
    12,590,999       12,590,999       12,703,614       12,703,614  

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
6.   Income Taxes
 
    Components of Deferred Tax Assets (“DTAs”) and Deferred Tax Liabilities (“DTLs”):
                         
    2010
(in thousands of dollars)   Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
Gross deferred tax assets
  $ 36,978     $ 1,467     $ 38,445  
Statutory valuation allowance adjustment
                 
Adjusted gross deferred tax assets
    36,978       1,467       38,445  
Deferred tax liabilities
    472             472  
     
Net deferred tax assets
  $ 36,506     $ 1,467     $ 37,973  
     
 
                       
Deferred tax assets nonadmitted
    24,647       1,467       26,114  
     
Net admitted adjusted deferred tax assets
  $ 11,859     $     $ 11,859  
     
                         
    2009
    Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
Gross deferred tax assets
  $ 42,985     $ 2,250     $ 45,235  
Statutory valuation allowance adjustment
                 
Adjusted gross deferred tax assets
    42,985       2,250       45,235  
Deferred tax liabilities
    335             335  
     
Net deferred tax assets
  $ 42,650     $ 2,250     $ 44,900  
     
 
                       
Deferred tax assets nonadmitted
    26,901       2,250       29,151  
     
Net admitted adjusted deferred tax assets
  $ 15,749     $     $ 15,748  
     
                         
    Change
    Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
Gross deferred tax assets
  $ (6,006 )   $ (783 )   $ (6,789 )
Statutory valuation allowance adjustment
                 
Adjusted gross deferred tax assets
    (6,006 )     (783 )     (6,789 )
Deferred tax liabilities
    137             137  
     
Net deferred tax assets
  $ (6,143 )   $ (783 )   $ (6,926 )
     
 
                       
Deferred tax assets nonadmitted
    (2,255 )     (783 )     (3,038 )
     
Net admitted adjusted deferred tax assets
  $ (3,888 )   $     $ (3,888 )
     
The Company has elected to admit DTAs pursuant to paragraph 10.e. for all years presented.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
The Company recorded an increase in admitted DTAs as the result of its election to employ the provisions of paragraph 10.e. as follows:
                         
    2010
(in thousands of dollars)   Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
Deferred tax assets admitted through potential carryback (10.e.i)
  $     $     $  
Deferred tax assets admitted through future realization (10.e.ii)
    6,649             6,649  
Deferred tax assets admitted through offset of deferred tax liability (10.e.iii)
                 
                         
    2009
    Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
Deferred tax assets admitted through potential carryback (10.e.i)
  $     $     $  
Deferred tax assets admitted through future realization (10.e.ii)
    8,380             8,380  
Deferred tax assets admitted through offset of deferred tax liability (10.e.iii)
                 
                         
    Change
    Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
Deferred tax assets admitted through potential carryback (10.e.i)
  $     $     $  
Deferred tax assets admitted through future realization (10.e.ii)
    (1,731 )           (1,731 )
Deferred tax assets admitted through offset of deferred tax liability (10.e.iii)
                 

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
The SSAP No. 10R Admission calculation components are as follows:
                         
    2010
(in thousands of dollars)   Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.a.
  $     $     $  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b. (the lesser of 10.b.i and 10.b.ii below)
    5,211             5,211  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b.i.
    5,211             5,211  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b.ii
                17,673  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.c.
    472             472  
     
Total (paragraph 10.a. + 10.b. + 10.c.)
  $ 5,683     $     $ 5,683  
     
 
                       
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.e.i.
  $     $     $  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.ii. (the lesser of 10.e.ii.a. and 10.e.ii.b. below)
    11,860             11,860  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.ii.a.
    11,860             11,860  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.ii.b.
                26,510  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.iii.
    472             472  
     
Total (10.e.i. + 10.e.ii. + 10.e.iii.)
  $ 12,332     $     $ 12,332  
     
 
                       
Used in SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.d.:
                       
Total Adjusted Capital
                    178,259  
Authorized Control Level
                    836 %
                         
    2009
    Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.a.
  $     $     $  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b. (the lesser of 10.b.i and 10.b.ii below)
    7,369             7,369  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b.i.
    7,369             7,369  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b.ii
                15,734  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.c.
    335             335  
     
Total (paragraph 10.a. + 10.b. + 10.c.)
  $ 7,704     $     $ 7,704  
     
 
                       
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.e.i.
  $     $     $  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.ii. (the lesser of 10.e.ii.a. and 10.e.ii.b. below)
    15,749             15,749  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.ii.a.
    15,749             15,749  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.ii.b.
                23,600  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.iii.
    335             335  
     
Total (10.e.i. + 10.e.ii. + 10.e.iii.)
  $ 16,084     $     $ 16,083  
     
 
                       
Used in SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.d.:
                       
Total Adjusted Capital
                    179,130  
Authorized Control Level
                    853 %
                         
    Change
    Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.a.
  $     $     $  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b. (the lesser of 10.b.i and 10.b.ii below)
    (2,158 )           (2,158 )
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b.i.
    (2,158 )           (2,158 )
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b.ii
                1,939  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.c.
    137             137  
     
Total (paragraph 10.a. + 10.b. + 10.c.)
  $ (2,021 )   $     $ (2,020 )
     
 
                       
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.e.i.
  $     $     $  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.ii. (the lesser of 10.e.ii.a. and 10.e.ii.b. below)
    (3,889 )           (3,889 )
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.ii.a.
    (3,889 )           (3,889 )
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.ii.b.
                2,909  
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph10.e.iii.
    137             137  
     
Total (10.e.i. + 10.e.ii. + 10.e.iii.)
  $ (3,752 )   $     $ (3,752 )
     
 
                       
Used in SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.d.:
                       
Total Adjusted Capital
                    (871 )
Authorized Control Level
                    -17 %

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
The following table provides information about the admitted DTA, admitted assets, statutory surplus and total capital in the risk based calculation resulting from the calculation in paragraph 10a, 10b, 10c of SSAP No. 10R, and the increased amount of DTAs, admitted assets and surplus as a result of the application of paragraph 10.e. of SSAP No. 10R.
                         
    2010
(in thousands of dollars)   Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraphs 10.a., 10.b., and 10.c.:
                       
Admitted Deferred Tax Assets
  $ 5,683     $     $ 5,683  
Admitted Assets
                13,201,497  
Adjusted Statutory Capital and Surplus*
                176,731  
Total Adjusted Capital from DTAs
                178,259  
 
                       
Increases due to SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.e.
                       
Admitted Deferred Tax Assets
  $ 6,649     $     $ 6,649  
Admitted Assets
    6,649             6,649  
Statutory Surplus
    6,649             6,649  
                         
    2009
    Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraphs 10.a., 10.b., and 10.c.:
                       
Admitted Deferred Tax Assets
  $ 7,704     $     $ 7,704  
Admitted Assets
                13,316,534  
Adjusted Statutory Capital and Surplus*
                157,337  
Total Adjusted Capital from DTAs
                179,130  
 
                       
Increases due to SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.e.
                       
Admitted Deferred Tax Assets
  $ 8,380     $     $ 8,380  
Admitted Assets
    8,380             8,380  
Statutory Surplus
    8,380             8,380  
                         
    Change
    Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
SSAP No. 10R, Paragraphs 10.a., 10.b., and 10.c.:
                       
Admitted Deferred Tax Assets
  $ (2,020 )   $     $ (2,020 )
Admitted Assets
                (115,036 )
Adjusted Statutory Capital and Surplus*
                19,394  
Total Adjusted Capital from DTAs
                (871 )
 
                       
Increases due to SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.e.
                       
Admitted Deferred Tax Assets
  $ (1,731 )   $     $ (1,731 )
Admitted Assets
    (1,731 )           (1,731 )
Statutory Surplus
    (1,731 )           (1,731 )
 
*   As reported on the statutory balance sheet for the most recently filed statement with the domiciliary state commissioner adjusted in accordance with SSAP No. 10R, Paragraph 10.b.ii

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
The impact of Tax Planning Strategies includes:
                         
    2010
    Ordinary     Capital     Total  
     
Adjusted Gross DTAs
                       
(% of Total Adjusted Gross DTAs)
    0.0 %     3.8 %     3.8 %
Net Admitted Adjusted Gross DTAs
                       
(% of Total Net Admitted Adjusted Gross DTAs)
    0.0 %     0.0 %     0.0 %
The Company is currently recognizing all deferred tax liabilities.
Current income taxes incurred consist of the following major components:
(in thousands of dollars)
                         
Description   2010     2009     2008  
Current income tax expense ( benefit ) — operations
  $ (12,477 )   $ (6,684 )   $ (22,614 )
Current income tax expense ( benefit ) — capital gains
    (1,227 )     (998 )     (560 )
 
                 
Federal income taxes incurred
  $ (13,704 )   $ (7,682 )   $ (23,174 )
 
                 

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     Change  
Deferred Tax Assets:
                       
Ordinary:
                       
Life insurance reserves
  $ 12,246     $ 12,876     $ (630 )
Deferred acquisition costs
    20,997       26,287       (5,290 )
Nonadmitted assets
    454       292       162  
Compensation and benefits accrual
    390       581       (191 )
Tax credit carryforward
    2,834       2,834       0  
Other
    57       116       (59 )
 
                 
Subtotal
    36,978       42,986       (6,008 )
Statutory Valuation Allowance Adjustment
                 
Nonadmitted Deferred Tax Assets
    24,647       26,901       (2,255 )
 
                 
Admitted Ordinary Deferred Tax Assets
  $ 12,331     $ 16,085     $ (3,753 )
 
                 
 
                       
Capital:
                       
Unrealized losses
  $     $     $  
Bond write-downs
    1,207       1,933       (726 )
Partnerships
    260       318       (57 )
 
                 
Subtotal
    1,467       2,251       (783 )
Statutory Valuation Allowance Adjustment
                 
Nonadmitted Deferred Tax Assets
    1,467       2,251       (783 )
 
                 
Admitted Capital Deferred Tax Assets
  $     $     $  
 
                 
 
                       
Admitted Deferred Tax Assets
  $ 12,331     $ 16,085     $ (3,753 )
 
                 
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     Change  
Deferred Tax Liabilities:
                       
Ordinary:
                       
Market discount on bonds
  $ 471     $ 335     $ 136  
Depreciation/amortization
    1             1  
Other
                 
 
                 
Total Deferred Tax Liabilities
  $ 472     $ 335     $ 137  
 
                 
 
                       
Capital:
                       
Investments
  $     $     $  
Other
                 
 
                 
Total Capital Deferred Tax Liabilities
  $     $     $  
 
                 
 
                       
Total Deferred Tax Liabilities
  $ 472     $ 335     $ 137  
 
                 
 
                       
Net Admitted Deferred Tax Assets/Liabilities
  $ 11,859     $ 15,750     $ (3,891 )
 
                 

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
The change in net deferred income taxes is composed of the following:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     Change  
Total deferred tax assets
  $ 38,445     $ 45,236     $ (6,791 )
Total deferred tax liabilities
    472       335       137  
 
                 
Net deferred tax asset
  $ 37,973     $ 44,901       (6,928 )
 
                   
Tax effect of unrealized (gains) losses
                     
 
                     
Change in net deferred income tax (charge)/benefit
                  $ (6,928 )
 
                     
Reconciliation of Federal Income Tax Rate to Actual Effective Rate
The provision for federal income taxes incurred is different from that which would be obtained by applying the statutory federal income tax rate at 35% to income before income taxes. The significant items causing this difference are as follows:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Provision computed at statutory rate
  $ (2,944 )   $ 3,099     $ (13,499 )
Amortization of interest maintenance reserve
    45       16       (80 )
Separate accounts dividend received deduction
    (1,870 )     (1,747 )     (1,061 )
Ceding commission included in surplus
    (1,058 )     (1,290 )     (1,888 )
Nonadmitted assets
    (163 )     591       1,060  
Other
    (786 )     (548 )     3,206  
 
                 
Total
  $ (6,776 )   $ 121     $ (12,262 )
 
                 
Federal income tax incurred
  $ (12,477 )   $ (6,684 )   $ (22,614 )
Tax on capital gains/(losses)
    (1,227 )     (998 )   $ (560 )
Less: Change in net deferred income tax
    6,928       7,803       10,912  
 
                 
Total statutory income taxes
  $ (6,776 )   $ 121     $ (12,262 )
 
                 
As of December 31, 2010 the Company did not have any operating loss carryforwards.
The following are income taxes incurred in the current and prior years that will be available for recoupment in the event of future net losses:
         
    Amount  
2010
  $  
2009
  $  
2008
  $  
Deposits admitted under IRC §6603
  None

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
The Company’s federal income tax return is consolidated with the following entities, with Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc. as the parent:
     
American Guarantee and Liability Insurance Company
  Universal Underwriters of Texas Insurance Company
American Zurich Insurance Company
  Universal Underwriters Service Corporation
Assurance Company of America
  UUBVI, Limited
Colonial American Casualty & Surety Company
  Vehicle Dealer Solutions, Inc.
Diversified Specialty Risk, Inc.
  Zurich Agency Services, Inc.
Empire Fire and Marine Insurance Company
  Zurich Alternative Asset Management, LLC
Empire Indemnity Insurance Company
  Zurich American Insurance Company
Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland
  Zurich American Insurance Company of Illinois
Maryland Casualty Company
  Zurich American Corporation
Maryland Insurance Company
  Zurich American Life Insurance Company of New York
Maunalua Associates, Inc.
  Zurich CZI Management Holding, Ltd.
Northern Insurance Company of New York
  Zurich E & S Insurance Brokerage, Inc.
South County Services Company Inc.
  Zurich Finance (USA), Inc.
Steadfast Insurance Company
  Zurich Global, Ltd.
The Zurich Services Corporation
  Zurich Global Investment Management Inc.
Universal Underwriters Acceptance Corporation
  Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.
Universal Underwriters Insurance Company
  Zurich Latin America Corporation
Universal Underwriters Insurance Services, Inc.
  Zurich Realty, Inc.
Universal Underwriters Life Insurance Company
  Zurich Warranty Solutions, Inc.
A written agreement sets out the method of allocating tax between the companies. In general, the allocation is based upon a separate return calculation with an immediate benefit for a taxable loss. Intercompany tax balances are settled within thirty days after the filing of the consolidated federal income tax return, the payment of an estimated payment, an additional assessment of the consolidated tax liability, a refund of the consolidated tax liability or any other reduction to the member’s apportioned tax liability in accordance with the tax sharing agreement.
The Company’s significant tax jurisdiction is U.S. Federal tax. The statutes of limitations for all tax returns through the year ended December 31, 2004 are closed. The examination of the consolidated group’s tax return for the tax years 2003 through 2004 was settled with the Appeals Division of Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). Tax refunds related to the 2003/2004 Appeals settlement were approved by Joint Committee on Taxation and received in Q2 2010. The examination of the consolidated group’s tax returns for tax years 2005 and 2006 is currently before IRS Appeals. The 2005 and 2006 Separate account dividend received deduction disallowance attributable to the Company was fully conceded by the IRS in 2010. In October 2009, the IRS commenced its examination of tax years 2007 and 2008, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of June 2011. The Company believes the ultimate liability for the matters referred to above is not likely to have a material adverse affect on the Company’s financial position; however, it is possible the effect could be material to the Company’s results of operations for an individual future reporting period.
During the first quarter of 2011, ZHCA reached a settlement in principle with the Appeals Division of IRS with respect to tax years 2005 to 2006 and is in the process of determining additional taxes due for those years. The IRS completed its examination for the tax years 2007 and 2008, and on March 22, 2011 issued a Revenue Agent’s Report (“RAR”). ZHCA will protest certain disputed amounts by required due date and will seek resolution of the disputed tax matters through the Appeals Division of the IRS.
The Company did not accrue any interest and penalties related to income tax contingencies.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
7.   Information Concerning Parent, Subsidiaries and Affiliates
 
    The Company held no investments in parents, affiliates or subsidiaries as of the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009. The Company has related party services agreements and reinsurance agreements.
 
    At December 31, 2010 and 2009, the Company reported the following amounts due from or to related parties:
                 
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009  
Zurich Insurance Company
  $     $ 31  
 
           
Receivable from related party
  $     $ 31  
 
           
 
               
Zurich Insurance Company — Bermuda Branch
  $ (16,064 )   $ (15,068 )
Farmers New World Life Insurance Company
    (247 )     (669 )
Universal Underwriters Life Insurance Company
    (280 )      
Zurich American Insurance Company
    (472 )     (456 )
Centre Group Holdings (US) Limited
    (989 )     (375 )
ZFUS Services LLC
    (1,818 )      
 
           
Payable to related party
  $ (19,870 )   $ (16,568 )
 
           
 
               
Net payable to related party
  $ (19,870 )   $ (16,537 )
 
           
For the years 2010, 2009 and 2008, the Company incurred the following amounts of expense in association with services provided by related parties:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Farmers New World Life Insurance Company
  $ 2,523     $ 1,550     $ 1,273  
Centre Group Holdings (US) Limited
    3,374       956       1,183  
ZFUS Services LLC
    13,212       168        
 
                 
 
  $ 19,109     $ 2,674     $ 2,456  
 
                 
Services provided by affiliated companies include, but are not limited to, management, administrative and general services, data processing, financial services, investment services, investment advisory, investment accounting and financial reporting. Related party receivables and payables are settled as provided in its agreements, generally within 45 days from date of invoice.
The Company has no guarantees or undertakings for the benefit of an affiliate that would result in a material contingent exposure.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
8.  Life Reserves
Reserves for Life Contracts and Deposit-Type Contracts
The Company waives deduction of deferred fractional premiums upon death of the insured and returns the portion of the final premium paid beyond the policy month of death. The Company reserves for surrender values promised in excess of the legally computed reserves.
Extra premiums are charged for policies issued on substandard lives according to underwriting classifications. Final reserves are determined by computing the mid-terminal reserve for the plan and holding, in addition, one half of the net valuation premium for the modal period.
As of December 31, 2010 and 2009, the Company had $769,000 and $663,000, respectively, of insurance in force for which the gross premiums were less than the net premiums according to the standard of valuation set by the IDOI and related reserves of $7,000 and $6,000, respectively.
The tabular interest, tabular less actual reserve released and tabular cost have been determined by formulas in accordance with the NAIC Annual Statement Instructions.
For the determination of Tabular Interest on funds not involving life contingencies for each valuation rate of interest, the tabular interest is calculated as one hundredth of the product of such valuation rate of interest times the mean of the amount of funds subject to such valuation rate of interest held at the beginning and end of the year of valuation.
Variable Annuities with Guaranteed Living Benefits
The Company’s variable annuities with guaranteed living benefits at December 31, 2010 and 2009 are as follows:
                         
    Guaranteed Living Benefits  
    Subjected     Amount of     Reinsurance  
    Account     Reserve     Reserve  
(in thousands of dollars)   Value     Held-Net     Credit  
Benefit and Type of Risk
                       
December 31, 2010
                       
Guaranteed retirement income benefit (“GRIB”) (Waiting period 7, 10 or 15 years)
  $ 1,605,369     $ 24,632     $ 1,104,045  
December 31, 2009
                       
Guaranteed retirement income benefit (“GRIB”) (Waiting period 7, 10 or 15 years)
  $ 1,645,737     $ 26,941     $ 1,159,315  
Note: GRIB base is greatest of account value, greatest anniversary value or net deposits accumulated at 5%.
Effective December 31, 2009, the Company adopted the Actuarial Guideline XLIII reserve basis. This change in reserve methodology was included in the Company’s Life and annuity reserves as shown on page 3 of these financial statements with no impact to the net retained reserve. The December 31, 2010 reserves for GMDB and GRIB meet the requirements of Actuarial Guideline XLIII. The Company also calculates the GMDB and GRIB reserves using the Actuarial Guideline XXXIII/Actuarial Guideline XXXIV reserve basis, and holds the higher of the two reserves basis in Exhibit 5 of the Annual Statement.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
     Analysis of Annuity Actuarial Reserves and Deposit Liabilities by Withdrawal Characteristics
Annuity actuarial reserves and deposit-type contract funds and other liabilities without life or disability contingencies by withdrawal characteristics as of December 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:
                                 
    2010     2009  
            Percentage             Percentage  
(in thousands of dollars)   Amount     of Total     Amount     of Total  
Subject to discretionary withdrawal
                               
With fair value adjustment
  $ 157,820       2.51 %   $ 184,874       2.85 %
At book value less current surrender charge of 5% or more
    10,793       0.17 %     20,583       0.32 %
At fair value
    2,730,578       43.46 %     2,770,798       42.77 %
 
                       
Total with adjustment or at market value
  $ 2,899,191       46.14 %   $ 2,976,255       45.94 %
At book value without adjustment (minimal or no charge or adjustment)
    1,704,659       27.13 %     1,736,115       26.80 %
Not subject to discretionary withdrawal
    1,678,959       26.73 %     1,766,328       27.26 %
 
                       
Total
  $ 6,282,809       100.00 %   $ 6,478,698       100.00 %
 
                           
Reinsurance ceded
    (3,213,807 )             (3,377,588 )        
 
                           
Net total
  $ 3,069,002             $ 3,101,110          
 
                           
Reconciliation of total annuity actuarial reserves and deposit fund liabilities as of December 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:
                 
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009  
Life and accident and health annual statement
               
Annuities (excluding supplementary contracts)
  $ 148,688     $ 149,584  
Supplementary contracts with life contingencies
    162,362       150,734  
Liability for deposit-type contracts
    3,126       4,047  
 
           
Total annuity and deposit-type contracts
    314,176       304,365  
 
           
 
               
Separate accounts annual statement
               
Annuities (excluding supplementary contracts)
    2,747,935       2,788,876  
Supplementary contracts including life contingencies
    3,688       3,788  
Liability for deposit-type contracts
    3,203       4,081  
 
           
Total separate accounts
    2,754,826       2,796,745  
 
           
Total annuity actuarial reserves and deposit-type contract liabilities
  $ 3,069,002     $ 3,101,110  
 
           

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
9.   Reinsurance
 
    The Company has assumed and ceded business using yearly renewable term contracts and coinsurance contracts. The Company remains primarily responsible to its policyholders for all future claims and policyholder benefits related to the blocks of business ceded and is not relieved of its obligations to the extent any reinsurer does not meet its obligation to the Company.
 
    Failure of the reinsurers to honor their obligations could result in losses to the Company; consequently, estimates are established for amounts deemed or estimated to be uncollectible. To minimize its exposure to significant losses from reinsurance insolvencies, the Company utilizes several reinsurers to minimize concentration of credit risk, and evaluates the financial condition of its reinsurers and concentration of credit risk of its reinsurers. Several reinsurance contracts require the reinsurer to maintain assets in a security trust whose market value matches or exceeds the book value of the reinsured liability.
 
    PLICO
 
    The initial ceding commission on the coinsurance agreement with PLICO was $120 million. This initial ceding commission was not transferred to the Company from PLICO, but rather was withheld from the investment assets transferred from the Company to PLICO as part of the transferred coinsurance assets. This initial ceding commission, net of tax, and the IMR related to the transferred coinsurance assets reflected in surplus are being amortized into operations. Amortization of the initial ceding commission was approximately $1.3 million, $1.6 million and $2.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Amortization of the IMR related to the transferred coinsurance assets was approximately $1.7 million, $2.1 million and $3.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
    As part of the coinsurance agreement with PLICO (Note 1), most reinsurance agreements with outside reinsurers were novated to PLICO as part of the Purchase Agreement. As of December 31, 2010 and 2009, the Company’s separate account assets subject to the coinsurance agreement with PLICO were approximately $1.3 billion and $1.2 billion, respectively.
 
    FNWL
 
    The Company entered into a modified coinsurance agreement on December 1, 2003 with an affiliate, FNWL. FNWL is a Washington domiciled stock life insurance company. Initially, the Company assumed all existing non-qualified individual flexible payment fixed deferred (“NQ-FPDA”) and non-qualified individual single premium fixed deferred (“NQ-SPDA”) annuities from FNWL. In exchange, the Company paid an initial ceding commission of $36.5 million. No portion of the assets constituting the consideration was transferred to the Company. These assets consist principally of a portfolio of fixed income financial instruments. The values of these assets may fluctuate with changes in interest rates and other market conditions, and these fluctuations may be significant. The Company is at risk for such fluctuations. The reserve balances under this modified coinsurance agreement were approximately $665.7 million and $661.4 million as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. Subsequent new issues by FNWL of NQ-FPDA and NQ-SPDA annuities are assumed by the Company. In exchange, the Company receives all premiums and pays benefits to the policyholders relating to these contracts. The Company has a management and service agreement with FNWL to receive necessary services pursuant to this agreement.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    FLA
 
    As of December 31, 2010 and 2009, the reinsurance reserve credit from FLA related to fixed-rate annuity liabilities ceded to FLA amounted to approximately $139.5 million and $146.8 million, respectively.
 
    Transamerica Re
 
    The net amount at risk of the GMDB and GRIB on certain variable annuity contracts issued between March 1, 1997 and April 30, 2000 was ceded to Transamerica Re. As of December 31, 2010 and 2009, the reinsurance reserve credit related to reinsuring the net amount at risk on these contracts amounted to approximately $176.2 million and $188.0 million, respectively.
 
    ZIC
 
    On November 17, 2006, the Company entered into a reinsurance agreement (the “ZIC Agreement”) with ZIC, an affiliate. The Company ceded 100% of the net amounts at risk for GMDB and GRIB related to the Company’s DESTINATIONS contracts issued from May 1, 2000 through February 28, 2003. In accordance with Section 131.20a of the Illinois Insurance Code (the “Code”), the Company submitted Form D-1, reporting a proposed reinsurance contract and requested approval of the contract and the Form D-1 filing under Section 174 of the Code. In connection with the Form D-1 filing, the IDOI approved the transaction on November 3, 2006, as submitted by the Company, which incorporated pro forma accounting treatment including reserve credits proposed under the reinsurance contract. In addition the IDOI approved the reserve credit calculation methodology and the accounting as prescribed.
 
    The Company’s most significant policy risks prior to the ZIC Agreement were the GMDB and GRIB risks. The net amount at risk for the GMDB is defined as the current guaranteed minimum death benefit in excess of the current account balance at the balance sheet date. For GRIB, the net amount at risk is defined as the current guaranteed annuitization benefit, in excess of the current account balance at the balance sheet date. As a result of the ZIC Agreement, the Company ceded $779,632,000 of GMDB net amount at risk and $752,181,000 of GRIB net amount at risk at December 31, 2010 and $951,931,000 of GMDB net amount at risk and $922,341,000 of GRIB net amount at risk at December 31, 2009.
 
    The ceding premium paid to ZIC in exchange for reinsurance of GMDB and GRIB net amounts at risk for contracts issued after April 30, 2000 was $1,008,700,000. In addition, the ZIC Agreement called for the Company to pay interest of 5.25% on the initial ceding premium from September 1, 2006 until the effective date of the ZIC Agreement. The interest paid, in accordance with the ZIC Agreement, was $11,090,000.
 
    On December 22, 2008 the Company and ZIC entered into Amendment No.1 to the ZIC Agreement (“Amendment”). Under terms of the Amendment, the Company paid a premium to ZIC of $10,000,000 in consideration for changes in the operation of the ZIC Agreement, for the benefit of the Company, under forecast scenarios where a significant further decline in equity market levels was projected. Interest accrued from the effective date of the Amendment to December 23, 2008 at an annual rate of 5.25% was paid in the amount of $1,438 along with the premium on December 23, 2008.
 
    Pursuant to the ZIC Agreement, ZIC established a security trust account for the exclusive benefit of the Company. The Bank of New York is the trustee. The trust account is funded with assets equal to at least 102% of the statutory reserve credit assumed by ZIC. At December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, 102% of the statutory reserve credit assumed by ZIC was $1,259,452,000 and $1,336,199,000, respectively. The associated letters of credit and trust asset balances at

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, were $1,402,370,000 and $1,520,419,000, respectively.
 
    ZIBB
 
    The Company entered into a reinsurance treaty with ZIBB, an affiliate, in June 2002. A trust account (the “ZIBB Reinsurance Trust” or the “Trust”) was established as security for three reinsurance agreements which include the Second Amended and Restated Group Variable Life Program Yearly Renewable Term Reinsurance Agreement, the Second Amended and Restated Individual Variable Life Program Yearly Renewable Term Reinsurance Agreement and the Amended and Restated Group Variable Life Program 2000 Yearly Renewable Term Reinsurance Agreement. State Street Bank is the “Trustee”, and Fund Accountant and Custodian. At December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, reinsurance recoverables totaling approximately $271.5 million and approximately $305.9 million, respectively, were secured by the Trust, which was supported by cash and invested assets with a fair value of approximately $307.9 million and $339.5 million at December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
 
    As of December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, amounts associated with reinsurance assumed from affiliated insurance companies for life and annuity products were as follows:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Premiums assumed from affiliated insurance companies
  $ 43,590     $ 26,937     $ 26,372  
 
                 
Benefits assumed from affiliated insurance companies
  $ 62,681     $ 61,715     $ 80,102  
 
                 
    As of December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, amounts associated with reinsurance ceded to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for life and annuity products were as follows:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Reserves ceded to affiliated insurance companies
  $ 1,249,378     $ 1,323,721     $ 1,369,435  
Reserves ceded to unaffiliated insurance companies
    2,440,524       2,557,450       2,823,148  
 
                 
Total reserves ceded
  $ 3,689,902     $ 3,881,171     $ 4,192,583  
 
                 
Premiums ceded to affiliated insurance companies
  $ 199,104     $ 186,753     $ 179,701  
Premiums ceded to unaffiliated insurance companies
    86,696       93,728       101,691  
 
                 
Total premiums ceded
  $ 285,800     $ 280,481     $ 281,392  
 
                 
Benefits ceded to affiliated insurance companies
  $ 265,294     $ 361,225     $ 229,250  
Benefits ceded to unaffiliated insurance companies
    422,733       596,179       730,897  
 
                 
Total benefits ceded
  $ 688,027     $ 957,404     $ 960,147  
 
                 

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Such amounts related to life insurance in force at December 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:
                 
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009  
Direct and assumed
  $ 60,135,263     $ 61,457,731  
 
           
 
               
Ceded to
               
Affiliated insurance companies
  $ 48,740,781     $ 49,675,048  
Unaffiliated insurance companies
    2,006,169       2,166,212  
 
           
Total ceded
  $ 50,746,950     $ 51,841,260  
 
           
10.   Capital and Surplus
 
    The amount of dividends that can be paid by the Company to its stockholder without prior approval of the IDOI is limited to the greater of (i) 10% of its statutory unassigned surplus or (ii) statutory net income from the preceding calendar year. A dividend paid that does not meet the above specifications is defined as an “extraordinary dividend” and requires advance approval from the IDOI. Due to the fact that statutory unassigned surplus is also negative, the Company cannot pay a regular dividend in 2011. No cash dividends were paid in 2010 or 2009.
 
11.   Retirement Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
 
    Consolidated/Holding Company Plans
 
    In 2004, the Company began participating in a qualified, non-contributory defined benefit pension plan, which is sponsored by an affiliated entity, Farmers Group, Inc. (“FGI”). Effective January 1, 2009 the Company transitioned to a Cash Balance Program. However, vested employees who were age 40 and over or who had 10 or more years of service as of December 31, 2008 were “grandfathered” in the previous Pension Program. This approach helps employees closer to retirement to maintain the full value of their anticipated pension benefit. Benefits under the Pension Program are based on an employee’s years of service and compensation during the last five years of employment. The FGI funding policy is to make sufficient contributions to the pension plan to fully provide for employees’ benefits at the time of retirement. Under the Cash Balance Program, FGI makes regular contributions to the employee’s account. The amount of these contributions is based on a percentage of an employee’s base pay and will vary depending on an employee’s age and length of service.
 
    In addition, the Company provides postretirement benefits to retired employees through a plan also sponsored by FGI.
 
    The Company has no legal obligation for benefits under these plans. FGI charges the affiliate, FNWL, an allocated share of such contributions based on characteristics of the population of plan participants. These charges are then included in the overhead and administrative charges paid by the Company to FNWL. The Company has no pension plan liability as of December 31, 2010 and 2009. The Company’s share of pension costs was approximately $311,000, $428,000 and $350,000 for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Defined Contribution Plans
 
    Effective January 1, 2009 the Company transitioned from a deferred profit sharing plan to a 401(k) Savings Plan which includes a dollar-for-dollar Company match up to 6% of employees’ earned base pay. All employees, including new hires, are vested in the 401(k) Savings Plan immediately. The cost to the Company for the 401(k) Savings Plan is included in the overhead and administrative charges paid by the Company to FNWL. Additionally, the Company’s contribution to the newly adopted 401K Savings Plan totaled $143,000 and $198,000 for the year ended December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
 
12.   Separate Accounts
 
    General Nature and Characteristics of Separate Accounts Business
 
    The assets and liabilities of the Company’s Separate Accounts represent segregated funds administered and invested by the Company for purposes of funding flexible payment, individual and group, variable annuity contracts, market value adjusted deferred annuity contracts, variable supplemental contracts and individual and group variable life insurance contracts for the exclusive benefit of variable annuity and variable life insurance contract holders.
 
    The Company receives fees from the Separate Accounts which consist of charges for mortality and expense risk, certain minimum guaranteed death benefits, certain guaranteed retirement benefits, record maintenance fees and other administrative charges. The Company also retains varying amounts of withdrawal charges to cover expenses in the event of early withdrawals by contract holders. The assets and liabilities of the Separate Accounts are carried at current market value, which is based on upon the closing bid price, net asset value. The negative liability for transfers to Separate Accounts due or accrued represents the Commissioners Annuity.
 
    The assets and liabilities of the Separate Accounts are carried at fair value, which is based upon the net asset value, at December 31, 2010 and 2009.
 
    The Company has marketed non-registered individual and group variable BOLI contracts and a series of individual variable life contracts. The Company received approximately $2.1 million, $0.5 million and $6.5 million of renewal premium on existing BOLI contracts during 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. This business impacted premiums, separate accounts fees, net transfers to separate accounts, insurance taxes, licenses and fees and income tax expense. The BOLI products also have premium tax and deferred acquisition costs (“DAC”) tax expense load charges which are deducted from the contract holder’s premiums to compensate the Company for premium taxes and DAC tax expenses incurred by the Company related to the BOLI products. No commissions are paid on BOLI product sales.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Separate accounts fees and miscellaneous income were comprised of the following for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Separate accounts fees on non-BOLI variable life and annuities
  $ 13,569     $ 15,272     $ 20,650  
BOLI cost of insurance charges and fees1
    197,951       184,659       167,225  
BOLI tax benefits2
    (845 )     (1,058 )     (1,058 )
 
                 
 
                       
Total separate accounts fees and miscellaneous income
  $ 210,675     $ 198,873     $ 186,817  
 
                 
 
(1)   The Company ceded approximately $199.1 million, $186.8 million and $169.7 million of such charges, as a reduction to premiums, to a Zurich affiliated company, ZIBB, during 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
(2)   The Company paid approximately $0.8 million, $1.1 million and $1.1 million in DAC tax allowances to ZIBB in 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively, for certain contracts in which the DAC tax loads received by the Company are collected over time as opposed to receiving the entire load up front.
Under statutory accounting, transfers to the separate accounts are reported net of premium and DAC tax loads. There is a corresponding offset to the premium tax load in insurance taxes, licenses and fees.
Information regarding the reserves included in the separate accounts of the Company as of December 31, 2010 were as follows:
                                 
    Nonindexed     Nonindexed              
    Guarantee     Guarantee     Nonguaranteed        
    Less Than/     More     Separate        
(in thousands of dollars)   Equal to 4%     Than 4%     Accounts     Total  
Premiums, considerations or deposits for year ended
December 31, 2010
  $ 241     $     $ 48,928     $ 49,169  
 
                       
Reserves at December 31, 2010
  $ 16,417     $ 938     $ 12,546,101     $ 12,563,456  
 
                       
 
                               
For accounts with assets at:
                               
Market value
  $ 16,417     $ 938     $ 12,546,101     $ 12,563,456  
 
                       
Total reserves
  $ 16,417     $ 938     $ 12,546,101     $ 12,563,456  
 
                       
 
                               
By withdrawal characteristics:
                               
With market value adjustment
  $ 16,417     $ 938     $     $ 17,355  
At market value
                12,546,101       12,546,101  
 
                       
Total
  $ 16,417     $ 938     $ 12,546,101     $ 12,563,456  
 
                       

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    The following is a reconciliation of net transfers from the Company’s separate accounts for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008:
                         
(in thousands of dollars)   2010     2009     2008  
Transfers as reported in the summary of operations of the separate accounts annual statement:
                       
Transfers to separate accounts
  $ 112,140     $ 111,727     $ 160,784  
Transfers from separate accounts
    (548,403 )     (1,450,570 )     (1,139,512 )
 
                 
Net transfers from separate accounts
  $ (436,263 )   $ (1,338,843 )   $ (978,728 )
 
                       
Reconciling adjustments
                       
Experience rated refunds reinvested in separate accounts
    (55,816 )     (43,320 )     (12,700 )
Change in termination value of separate accounts
    (2,651 )     (11,177 )     (38,745 )
Separate accounts trading gain (loss)
    37       69       (890 )
SVP Surrender
    (1,039 )     (5,419 )      
Transfers required to support benefits
    (2,780 )     (4,385 )     (2,172 )
Terminated policy refunds
    255       1,530       2,858  
Funding of MVA Settlement
    (1,233 )     4,591        
Ceded transfers
    (1,558 )           4,299  
Other
          (1,090 )     (117 )
 
                 
 
                       
Net transfers from separate accounts as reported in the statement of operations
  $ (501,048 )   $ (1,398,044 )   $ (1,026,195 )
 
                 
13.   Commitments and Contingencies
 
    The Company is subject to lawsuits arising from the normal course of its business activities. These actions are in various stages of discovery and development, and some seek punitive as well as compensatory damages. In the opinion of management, the Company has not engaged in any conduct that should warrant the award of any material punitive or compensatory damages. Acting on the advice of counsel, the Company intends to defend vigorously its position in each case, and management believes that, while it is not possible to predict the outcome of such matters with absolute certainty, ultimate disposition of these proceedings should not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
 
    In 1997, the Company entered into an agreement with a third party to guaranty certain indemnity obligations of an investment property, including environmental claims over a period of 20 years and income tax liability claims over a period of 7 years. The maximum liability exposure under this guaranty would not exceed $4,000,000. The Company was fully insured for losses and liabilities related to the potential environmental claims for a period of 10 years. The insurance expired in 2007. Additionally, KFC Portfolio Corp, an affiliated company, has agreed to guaranty and indemnify the Company from all liabilities and costs incurred related to this transaction. While the Company currently has not experienced any claims, including environmental claims or threatened environmental claims related to this transaction, it is reasonably possible that the results of ongoing environmental studies or other factors could alter this expectation and may require recording of a liability and cause the Company future cash outlays. The extent or amount of such events, if any, cannot be estimated with certainty at this time. However, management expects this to have no material impact on the results of operations, financial position or liquidity for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements
December 31, 2010 and 2009
    Rent paid, including allocations of rent from third-party administrators, was approximately $448,000, $546,000 and $542,000 for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 respectively.
 
    The three year sublease term for Bellevue, WA, administrative office ended as of August 31, 2010. The new administrative office is located in Jersey City, NJ. The lease agreement for this office commenced on May 1, 2010, for a term of 12 months renewable with 60-day notice from end date. It was renewed for another 12 months period, starting on April 1, 2011, with automatic renewal for successive periods equal to the current term.
 
14.   Subsequent Events
 
    As of April 30, 2011, the date the financial statements were available to be issued, there have been no events occurring subsequent to the close of the Company’s books or accounts for the accompanying financial statements that would have a material effect on the financial condition of the Company.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Supplemental Schedule of Assets and Liabilities
December 31, 2010
The following is a summary of certain financial data included in exhibits and schedules subjected to audit procedures by independent accountants and utilized by actuaries in the determination of reserves.
         
    2010  
Investment income earned
       
U. S. government bonds
  $ 904,381  
Other bonds (unaffiliated)
    20,472,496  
Contract loans
    3,339,273  
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
    56,275  
Other invested assets
    (16,893 )
Aggregate write-ins for investment income
    573,975  
 
     
Gross investment income
  $ 25,329,507  
 
     
         
    2010  
Bonds and short-term investments, by class and maturity
       
Bonds by maturity — statement value
       
Due within 1 year or less
  $ 57,896,797  
Over 1 year through 5 years
    242,050,260  
Over 5 years through 10 years
    97,359,847  
Over 10 years through 20 years
    7,207,099  
Over 20 years
    45,908,343  
 
     
Total by maturity
  $ 450,422,346  
 
     
 
       
Bonds by class — statement value
       
Class 1
  $ 378,759,815  
Class 2
    57,323,648  
Class 3
    4,086,341  
Class 4
    6,286,933  
Class 5
    3,965,421  
Class 6
    188  
 
     
Total by class
  $ 450,422,346  
 
     
Total bonds publicly traded
  $ 411,251,580  
 
     
Total bonds privately traded
  $ 39,170,766  
 
     
Short-term investments — book value
  $ 13,659,361  
 
     
Cash on deposit
  $ 6,535,422  
 
     

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Supplemental Schedule of Assets and Liabilities
December 31, 2010
         
Life insurance in force
       
Industrial
  $  
 
     
Ordinary
  $  
 
     
Credit life
  $  
 
     
Group life
  $ 9,387,995,000  
 
     
Amount of additional accidental death benefits in force under ordinary policies
  $ 200,000  
 
     
Supplemental contracts in force
       
Ordinary — not involving life contingencies
       
Amount on deposit
  $  
 
     
Income payable
  $ 14,937,060  
 
     
Ordinary — involving life contingencies
       
Income payable
  $ 46,336,244  
 
     
Group — not involving life contingencies
       
Amount on deposit
  $  
 
     
Income payable
  $  
 
     
Group — involving life contingencies
       
Income payable
  $  
 
     
Annuities
       
Ordinary
       
Immediate — amount of income payable
  $  
 
     
Deferred — fully paid — account balance
  $ 256,547,861  
 
     
Deferred — not fully paid — account balance
  $ 2,648,037,713  
 
     
Group
       
Amount of income payable
  $  
 
     
Fully paid — account balance
  $  
 
     
Not fully paid — account balance
  $ 1,632,860,569  
 
     
Deposit funds and dividend accumulations
       
Deposit funds — account balance
  $ 21,101,134  
 
     
Dividend accumulations — account balance
  $  
 
     

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Supplemental Summary Investment Schedule
December 31, 2010
The Company’s gross investment holdings as filed with the 2010 Annual Statement are $522,867,120.
                                 
                    Admitted Assets as  
    Gross     Reported in the  
    Investment Holdings     Annual Statement  
Investment Categories   Amount     Percentage     Amount     Percentage  
2010
                               
Bonds
                               
U.S. treasury securities
  $ 35,551,314       6.80 %   $ 35,551,314       6.80 %
U.S. government agency obligations
                               
Issued by U.S. government sponsored agencies
    9,710,283       1.86 %     9,710,283       1.86 %
Foreign government (including Canada, excluding mortgage-backed securities)
    1,352,252       0.26 %     1,352,252       0.26 %
Securities issued by states, territories and possessions and political subdivisions in the U.S.
    1,729,448       0.33 %     1,729,448       0.33 %
Political subdivisions of state, territories and possessions general obligations
    4,033,599       0.77 %     4,033,599       0.77 %
Revenue and assessment obligations
    7,053,000       1.35 %     7,053,000       1.35 %
Mortgage-backed securities
                               
Pass-through securities
                               
Guaranteed by GNMA
    2,179,659       0.42 %     2,179,659       0.42 %
Issued by FNMA and FHLMC
    6,010,724       1.15 %     6,010,724       1.15 %
CMOs and REMICs
                               
Issued by FNMA and FHLMC
    12,566,110       2.40 %     12,566,110       2.40 %
Alll other privately issued
    127,270,953       24.34 %     127,270,953       24.34 %
Other debt and other fixed income securities (excluding short-term)
                               
Unaffiliated domestic securities (includes credit tenant loans rated by the SVO)
    187,222,049       35.81 %     187,222,049       35.81 %
Unaffiliated foreign securities
    42,083,600       8.05 %     42,083,600       8.05 %
Contract loans
    65,909,086       12.61 %     65,909,086       12.61 %
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
    20,194,782       3.86 %     20,194,782       3.86 %
Other invested assets
    261       0.00 %     261       0.00 %
 
                       
Total invested assets
  $ 522,867,120       100.00 %   $ 522,867,120       100.00 %
 
                       

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Supplemental Investment Risks Interrogatories
December 31, 2010
The Company’s total admitted assets, excluding separate account assets, as filed in the 2010 Annual Statement were $617,147,175.
The Company’s 10 largest exposures to a single issuer/borrower/investment, excluding U.S. government, U.S. government agency securities and those U.S. government money market funds listed in the Appendix to the NAIC SVO Purposes
and Procedures Manual
as exempt, property occupied by the Company and policy loans are as follows:
                 
            Percentage
            of Total
            Admitted
Investments   Amount     Assets
Credit Suisse Group AG
  $ 17,813,323       2.89 %
FGCI POOL# E86435
    16,441,237       2.66 %
Morgan Stanley Prime Money Market
    13,659,360       2.21 %
Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage
    11,888,715       1.93 %
LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust
    11,012,088       1.78 %
Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage
    10,066,118       1.63 %
Greenwich Capital Commercial Finance
    8,585,856       1.39 %
General Electric Co
    8,383,047       1.36 %
JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage
    8,039,058       1.30 %
Citigroup Inc
    7,962,833       1.29 %
The amounts and percentages of the Company’s total admitted assets held in bonds and preferred stocks by NAIC rating are as follows:
                                         
    Bonds             Preferred Stocks  
    Amount     Percentage             Amount     Percentage  
NAIC — 1
  $ 378,759,815       61.37 %   P/RP-1   $       0.00 %
NAIC — 2
    57,323,648       9.29 %   P/RP-2           0.00 %
NAIC — 3
    4,086,341       0.66 %   P/RP-3           0.00 %
NAIC — 4
    6,286,933       1.02 %   P/RP-4           0.00 %
NAIC — 5
    3,965,421       0.64 %   P/RP-5           0.00 %
NAIC — 6
    188       0.00 %   P/RP-6           0.00 %
 
                                   
 
  $ 450,422,346                     $          
 
                                   

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Supplemental Investment Risks Interrogatories
December 31, 2010
The Company holds admitted assets in foreign investments of $36,840,833 or 5.97% of total admitted assets.
The amounts and percentages of the Company’s total admitted assets held in aggregate foreign investment exposures categorized by NAIC sovereign rating are as follows:
                 
            Percentage of
            Total Admitted
    Amount     Assets
Countries rated NAIC — 1
  $ 36,840,833       5.97 %
Countries rated NAIC — 2
          0.00 %
Countries rated NAIC — 3 or below
          0.00 %
The Company’s two largest foreign investment exposures to a single country, categorized by the country’s NAIC sovereign rating:
                 
            Percentage of
            Total Admitted
    Amount     Assets
Countries Rated NAIC — 1:
               
Great Britain
  $ 9,443,896       1.53 %
Luxembourg
    5,305,423       0.86 %
Questions 7 through 9 are not applicable as the Company does not have unhedged foreign currency exposure.
The Company’s 10 largest non-sovereign foreign issues and related percentages of total admitted assets are listed below:
                     
2010               Percentage
NAIC               Total
Rating       Amount     Assets
1Z  
BARCLAYS PLC
  $ 2,643,180       0.43 %
1Z  
CODELCO INC
    2,497,069       0.40 %
1FE  
ANZ NATL BANK INTL LTD
    2,398,017       0.39 %
1FE  
UBS AG STAMFORD CT
    2,083,206       0.34 %
1FE  
ROYAL BK OF SCOTLAND
    1,961,141       0.32 %
1FE  
BHP BILLITON FINANCE
    1,870,117       0.30 %
2FE  
HBOS PLC
    1,744,180       0.28 %
1Z  
CREDIT SUISSE NEW YORK
    1,633,819       0.26 %
1FE  
ENEL FINANCE INTERNATION
    1,498,603       0.24 %
1FE  
TELEFONCIA SA
    1,472,092       0.24 %
The Company does have Canadian investments of $6,595,020 or 1.07% of total admitted assets, which is below the threshold of 2.5%.

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Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Supplemental Investment Risks Interrogatories
December 31, 2010
Question 12 is not applicable as the Company does not hold any investments with contractual sales restrictions.
Question 13 is not applicable as the Company does not hold any equity interests.
Question 14 is not applicable as the Company does not hold any investments in nonaffiliated, privately placed equity securities.
Question 15 is not applicable as the Company does not hold any investments in general partnership interests.
Questions 16 and 17 are not applicable as the Company does not hold any mortgage loans.
Question 18 is not applicable as the Company does not hold any real estate investments.
Question 19 is not applicable as the Company does not hold any investments in mezzanine real estate loans.
Question 20, the Company holds the following amounts in securities lending arrangements as of:
                 
            Percentage of  
            Total Admitted  
Date   Amount     Assets  
March 31, 2010 (unaudited)
  $ 862,762     Not Applicable
June 30, 2010 (unaudited)
        Not Applicable
September 30, 2010 (unaudited)
        Not Applicable
December 31, 2010
          0.00 %
Question 21 is not applicable as the Company does not hold any warrants not attached to other financial instruments, options, caps or floors.
Questions 22 and 23 are not applicable as the Company holds no investments in collars, swaps, forwards, or future contracts.

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ZALICO VARIABLE ANNUITY SEPARATE ACCOUNT
OF ZURICH AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
REPORT ON AUDIT OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2010

 


 

ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

 


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[PWC Letterhead]
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Contract Owners of ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
and the Board of Directors of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets, liabilities and contract owners’ equity and the related statements of operations and of changes in contract owners’ equity present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the subaccounts listed in Note 1 of the ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account at December 31, 2010, and the results of each of their operations and the changes in each of their contract owners’ equity for each of the periods presented, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements are the responsibility of the management of Zurich American Life Insurance Company. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of fund shares owned at December 31, 2010 by correspondence with the transfer agents of the investee mutual funds, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
New York, New York
April 28, 2011

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                                                    American Century  
                                                                    Variable Portfolios,  
    Alger Portfolios     Inc.  
                                    Alger     Alger     Alger     Alger     American  
    Alger     Alger     Alger Capital     Alger Capital     Large Cap     Mid Cap     Mid Cap     Small Cap     Century VP Income  
    Balanced O     Balanced S     Appreciation O     Appreciation S     Growth I-2     Growth I-2     Growth S     Growth I-2     & Growth  
    Subaccount     Subaccount (a)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 42,236,701             54,320,980       1,536       11,341,797       13,497,680       13,164       8,563,941       10,419,584  
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
 
Total assets
    42,236,701             54,320,980       1,536       11,341,797       13,497,680       13,164       8,563,941       10,419,584  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
    259                                                  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 42,236,442             54,320,980       1,536       11,341,797       13,497,680       13,164       8,563,941       10,419,584  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $ 42,219,613             54,320,978       1,536       11,324,692       13,497,680       13,164       8,549,601       10,418,866  
Annuity period
    16,828             1             17,105                   14,339       718  
 
                                                     
 
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 42,236,442             54,320,980       1,536       11,341,797       13,497,680       13,164       8,563,941       10,419,584  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    3,448,862             4,577,704       83       208,811       383,795       844       172,886       1,449,828  
 
                                                     
 
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    3,637,959             1,041,430       30       259,657       1,058,642       1,067       267,206       1,722,245  
 
                                                     
 
Fair Value per Share
  $ 11.61             52.16       51.04       43.68       12.75       12.34       32.05       6.05  
 
                                                     
 
(a)   Cessation of operations as of November 23, 2010, Alger Balanced Portfolio Class S. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                            Dreyfus     The Dreyfus  
    American Century     Credit Suisse     Investment     Socially Responsible  
    Variable Portfolios, Inc.     Trust     Portfolios     Growth Fund, Inc.  
    American     American     American     Credit Suisse     Credit Suisse     Dreyfus     Dreyfus             Dreyfus Socially  
    Century VP Income     Century VP     Century VP     Trust International     Trust International     I.P. MidCap     I.P. MidCap     Dreyfus Socially     Responsible Growth  
    & Growth II     Value     Value II     Equity Flex II     Equity Flex III     Stock A     Stock SC     Responsible Growth A     SC  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 8,917       20,808,685       3,919             43,926,844       58,739,382       2,010,062       5,724,278       2,028  
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total assets
    8,917       20,808,685       3,919             43,926,844       58,739,382       2,010,062       5,724,278       2,028  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
                                  638                    
 
                                                     
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 8,917       20,808,685       3,919             43,926,844       58,738,744       2,010,062       5,724,278       2,028  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $ 8,917       20,765,372       3,919             43,907,334       58,729,730       2,010,062       5,724,278       2,028  
Annuity period
          43,313                   19,510       9,014                    
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 8,917       20,808,685       3,919             43,926,844       58,738,744       2,010,062       5,724,278       2,028  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    693       2,020,986       272             2,176,109       3,677,366       126,956       507,993       160  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    1,474       3,550,970       669             6,685,973       4,460,090       152,740       191,447       68  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $ 6.05       5.86       5.86             6.57       13.17       13.16       29.90       29.71  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series I  
                            DWS     DWS                          
    DWS     DWS     DWS     Global     Global     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS  
    Bond     Capital     Capital     Opportunities     Opportunities     Growth & Income     Growth & Income     Health Care     Health Care  
    VIP     Growth VIP A     Growth VIP B     VIP A     VIP B     VIP A     VIP B     VIP A     VIP B  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 24,437,674       229,376,794       176,898       74,320,458       3,557       30,926,698       106,869       30,941,936       11,550  
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total assets
    24,437,674       229,376,794       176,898       74,320,458       3,557       30,926,698       106,869       30,941,936       11,550  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
          6,998                                     9        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 24,437,674       229,369,796       176,898       74,320,458       3,557       30,926,698       106,869       30,941,928       11,550  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $ 24,436,527       228,507,685       176,898       74,320,458       3,557       30,889,266       106,869       30,941,736       11,550  
Annuity period
    1,148       862,111                         37,431             192        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 24,437,674       229,369,796       176,898       74,320,458       3,557       30,926,698       106,869       30,941,928       11,550  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    2,608,674       17,222,300       12,475       3,381,940       165       3,206,489       8,426       2,228,996       655  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    4,317,610       11,708,872       9,067       5,204,514       254       4,090,833       14,155       2,728,566       1,049  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $ 5.66       19.59       19.51       14.28       14.03       7.56       7.55       11.34       11.01  
 
                                                     
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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
     
                                                                         
    DWS     DWS  
    Variable Series I     Variable Series II  
                                                            DWS        
    DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     Diversified     DWS  
    International     International     Balanced     Blue Chip     Blue Chip     Core Fixed     Davis Venture     International Equity     Dreman Small Mid  
    VIP A     VIP B     VIP     VIP A     VIP B     Income VIP A     Value VIP     VIP     Cap Value VIP A  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 42,166,920       71,620       180,809,182       58,274,262       166,590       47,896,149             59,066,342       132,029,494  
Dividends and other receivables
                                  208                    
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total assets
    42,166,920       71,620       180,809,182       58,274,262       166,590       47,896,356             59,066,342       132,029,494  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
    2,253             1,491       2,110                         6       1,517  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 42,164,667       71,620       180,807,691       58,272,151       166,590       47,896,356             59,066,335       132,027,978  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $ 42,099,450       71,620       179,194,651       58,224,136       166,590       47,811,221             58,960,584       131,887,226  
Annuity period
    65,217             1,613,040       48,016             85,135             105,752       140,751  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 42,164,667       71,620       180,807,691       58,272,151       166,590       47,896,356             59,066,335       132,027,978  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    4,135,335       5,486       24,051,653       5,581,706       11,664       11,343,078             13,620,379       17,119,399  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    5,129,796       8,713       8,170,320       5,471,762       15,598       5,473,846             7,310,191       10,813,226  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $ 8.22       8.22       22.13       10.65       10.68       8.75             8.08       12.21  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
     
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series II  
                            DWS     DWS                          
    DWS     DWS     DWS     Government &     Government &     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS  
    Dreman Small Mid     Global     Global     Agency Securities VIP     Agency Securities VIP     High Income     High Income     Janus Growth &     Large Cap  
    Cap Value VIP B     Thematic VIP A     Thematic VIP B     A     B     VIP A     VIP B     Income VIP     Value VIP A  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 235,392       38,862,156       39,713       87,300,242       208,559       119,021,930       144,160             131,101,667  
Dividends and other receivables
                      1,637                                
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total assets
    235,392       38,862,156       39,713       87,301,879       208,559       119,021,930       144,160             131,101,667  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
          151                         361                   8,803  
 
                                                     
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 235,392       38,862,005       39,713       87,301,879       208,559       119,021,569       144,160             131,092,864  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $ 235,392       38,858,490       39,713       86,557,811       208,559       118,357,372       144,160             130,791,068  
Annuity period
          3,515             744,068             664,197                   301,796  
 
                                                     
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 235,392       38,862,005       39,713       87,301,879       208,559       119,021,569       144,160             131,092,864  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    11,666       2,422,143       2,347       12,819,801       16,798       12,443,455       8,577             16,958,065  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    19,294       4,187,732       4,275       6,725,751       16,105       17,249,555       20,802             11,110,311  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $ 12.20       9.28       9.29       12.98       12.95       6.90       6.93             11.80  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
     
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series II  
    DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS                     DWS     DWS  
    Large Cap     Mid Cap     Money Market     Small Cap Growth     Strategic     DWS     DWS     Technology     Technology  
    Value VIP B     Growth VIP     VIP     VIP     Income VIP     Strategic Value VIP A     Strategic Value VIP B     VIP A     VIP B  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (b)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 169,630       16,831,006       94,048,655       59,138,426       44,962,277       147,904,599       152,542       46,276,132       15,771  
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total assets
    169,630       16,831,006       94,048,655       59,138,426       44,962,277       147,904,599       152,542       46,276,132       15,771  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
                383       179       1,059       5,948             733        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 169,630       16,831,006       94,048,272       59,138,246       44,961,218       147,898,651       152,542       46,275,399       15,771  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $ 169,630       16,831,006       93,804,060       59,080,550       44,863,589       147,798,304       152,542       46,259,022       15,771  
Annuity period
                244,211       57,696       97,629       100,347             16,378        
 
                                                     
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 169,630       16,831,006       94,048,272       59,138,246       44,961,218       147,898,651       152,542       46,275,399       15,771  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    12,864       1,555,860       20,485,047       15,249,794       2,785,117       11,960,608       13,311       7,780,964       1,125  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    14,363       1,351,888       94,048,655       4,269,922       3,759,388       18,192,448       18,717       4,222,275       1,482  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $ 11.81       12.45       1.00       13.85       11.96       8.13       8.15       10.96       10.64  
 
                                                     
 
(b)   Effective December 17, 2010, DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount merged with Franklin Zero Coupon 2010. Previous to this date effective November 23, 2010, Subaccount merged with Alger Balanced Portfolio CL S. Previous to this date effective April 23, 2010, Subaccount merged with JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
     
                                                                         
    DWS     DWS     Fidelity  
    Variable Series II     Investments VIT Funds     Variable Insurance Products Funds  
    DWS     DWS     DWS     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity  
    Turner Mid Cap     Equity 500     Equity 500     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP  
    Growth VIP     Index VIP A     Index VIP B2     Asset Manager     Contrafund     Contrafund 2     Equity Income     Equity Income 2     Growth  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 44,025,360       76,429,234       18,235       5,278,454       70,697,782       16,836       27,267,245       5,781       25,168,154  
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total assets
    44,025,360       76,429,234       18,235       5,278,454       70,697,782       16,836       27,267,245       5,781       25,168,154  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
    32       901                                            
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 44,025,328       76,428,333       18,235       5,278,454       70,697,782       16,836       27,267,245       5,781       25,168,154  
 
                                                     
Accumulation period
  $ 44,024,765       76,412,132       18,235       5,253,419       70,541,968       16,836       27,240,328       5,781       25,144,354  
Annuity period
    563       16,201             25,035       155,814             26,918             23,800  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 44,025,328       76,428,333       18,235       5,278,454       70,697,782       16,836       27,267,245       5,781       25,168,154  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    3,490,690       7,268,242       1,799       172,024       1,687,941       985       776,241       447       497,735  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    4,496,972       5,803,283       1,387       363,030       2,960,544       717       1,433,609       308       678,570  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $ 9.79       13.17       13.15       14.54       23.88       23.49       19.02       18.75       37.09  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                                                    Franklin Templeton  
    Fidelity     Franklin Templeton     Variable Insurance  
    Variable Insurance Products Funds     Variable Insurance Products Trust     Products Trust  
    Fidelity     Fidelity     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin     Mutual     Mutual  
    VIP     VIP     Rising Dividends     Small Cap Value     Strategic Income     U.S.     Zero Coupon     Global Discovery     Shares  
    Index 500     Index 500 SC     Securities     Securities     Securities     Government     2010     Securities     Securities  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (c)     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 59,068,067       3,698,741       6,633,312       6,367,489       10,961,360       4,403,283             22,545,566       6,847,492  
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
Total assets
    59,068,067       3,698,741       6,633,312       6,367,489       10,961,360       4,403,283             22,545,566       6,847,492  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
                                                     
 
                                                     
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 59,068,067       3,698,741       6,633,312       6,367,489       10,961,360       4,403,283             22,545,566       6,847,492  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $ 58,910,831       3,698,741       6,612,007       6,367,489       10,955,351       4,403,283             22,536,869       6,837,548  
Annuity period
    157,236             21,305             6,010                   8,698       9,945  
 
                                                     
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 59,068,067       3,698,741       6,633,312       6,367,489       10,961,360       4,403,283             22,545,566       6,847,492  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    392,293       26,097       442,763       310,603       699,669       351,890             1,069,950       466,521  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    446,167       28,168       352,461       391,845       861,742       335,872             1,084,443       429,310  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $ 132.39       131.31       18.82       16.25       12.72       13.11             20.79       15.95  
 
                                                     
 
(c)   Cessation of operations as of December 17, 2010, Franklin Zero Coupon 2010. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    Franklin Templeton     ING     ING                                              
    Variable Insurance     Global Resources     Investors                                     Janus  
    Products Trust     Trust     Trust     Invesco Variable Insurance Funds (d)     Aspen Series  
                    ING JPMorgan     Invesco     Invesco     Invesco             Janus     Janus  
    Templeton Developing     ING Global Resources     Emerging Markets     Financial Services     Global     Global     Invesco     Aspen     Aspen Enterprise -  
    Markets Securities     Trust     Equity     Fund     Health Care     Real Estate     Utilities     Balanced     Institutional  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (e)     Subaccount (f)     Subaccount (g)     Subaccount (h)     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 8,701,033       10,788,423       10,799,911       945,252       1,574,995       6,789,957       19,943,471       76,092,291       47,048,479  
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
Total assets
    8,701,033       10,788,423       10,799,911       945,252       1,574,995       6,789,957       19,943,471       76,092,291       47,048,479  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
                                        633              
 
                                                     
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 8,701,033       10,788,423       10,799,911       945,252       1,574,995       6,789,957       19,942,838       76,092,291       47,048,479  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $ 8,616,972       10,783,429       10,687,499       945,252       1,574,995       6,789,014       19,931,687       75,547,713       47,002,747  
Annuity period
    84,061       4,994       112,412                   943       11,151       544,579       45,732  
 
                                                     
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 8,701,033       10,788,423       10,799,911       945,252       1,574,995       6,789,957       19,942,838       76,092,291       47,048,479  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    262,452       797,856       410,250       142,544       111,169       316,699       1,823,497       1,801,300       1,178,022  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    770,003       501,787       471,200       168,194       94,255       499,997       1,341,188       2,688,774       1,215,095  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $ 11.30       21.50       22.92       5.62       16.71       13.58       14.87       28.30       38.72  
 
                                                     
 
(d)   Effective April 30, 2010, the AIM Variable Insurance Funds name changed to Invesco Variable Insurance Funds.
 
(e)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Financial Services Subaccount.
 
(f)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Global Health Care Subaccount.
 
(g)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Global Real Estate Subaccount.
 
(h)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Utilities Subaccount.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    Janus     JPMorgan  
    Aspen Series     Insurance Trust  
    Janus     Janus     Janus             Janus     Janus     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan  
    Aspen     Aspen Janus -     Aspen Perkins     Janus Aspen Perkins     Aspen Worldwide     Aspen Worldwide -     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust  
    Forty     Institutional     Mid Cap Value     Small Company Value     Institutional     Service     Balanced     Core Bond     Equity Index  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (i)     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 1,205,840       28,348,659       5,063,419             47,841,928       3             1,683,174       349,960  
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
Total assets
    1,205,840       28,348,659       5,063,419             47,841,928       3             1,683,174       349,960  
 
                                                                       
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
                                                     
 
                                                     
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 1,205,840       28,348,659       5,063,419             47,841,928       3             1,683,174       349,960  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $ 1,205,840       28,252,323       5,063,419             47,750,093       3             1,683,174       349,960  
Annuity period
          96,336                   91,836                          
 
                                                     
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 1,205,840       28,348,659       5,063,419             47,841,928       3             1,683,174       349,960  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
    91,164       1,086,131       234,843             1,485,843                   130,762       29,833  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    33,739       1,168,535       321,691             1,587,850                   145,856       32,018  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $ 35.74       24.26       15.74             30.13                   11.54       10.93  
 
                                                     
 
(i)   Cessation of operations as of April 23, 2010, JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                    JPMorgan                                  
    Insurance Trust  
    JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan Insurance     JPMorgan     JPMorgan             JPMorgan  
    Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Trust Mid Cap     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust Small     JPMorgan Insurance     International  
    Government Bond     International Equity     Intrepid Growth     Intrepid Mid Cap     Growth     Mid Cap Value     Cap Core     Trust U.S. Equity     Equity  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (j)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $       10,247,276       2,111       3,318,820       997,218       7,869,056       4,797,348       439,475        
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
Total assets
          10,247,276       2,111       3,318,820       997,218       7,869,056       4,797,348       439,475        
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
                                                     
 
                                                     
Contract owners’ equity
  $       10,247,276       2,111       3,318,820       997,218       7,869,056       4,797,348       439,475        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $       10,247,276       2,111       3,318,820       997,218       7,869,055       4,786,222       439,475        
Annuity period
                                  1       11,126              
 
                                                     
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $       10,247,276       2,111       3,318,820       997,218       7,869,056       4,797,348       439,475        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
          574,058       185       230,250       65,505       559,958       250,165       33,881        
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
          1,004,635       140       212,472       58,972       1,157,214       320,893       28,010        
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $       10.20       15.11       15.62       16.91       6.80       14.95       15.69        
 
                                                     
 
(j)   Effective December 17, 2010, name changed from JPMorgan Insurance Trust Diversified Mid Cap Growth Subaccount.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                                                    Oppenheimer  
        JPMorgan                       Oppenheimer                     Variable Account  
      Series Trust II     Variable Account Funds     Funds  
                                    Oppenheimer                             Oppenheimer  
    JPMorgan     JPMorgan     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Global Strategic     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Small-MidCap  
    MidCap     Small     Capital     Global     Income Fund     High     Main     Main Street     Growth  
    Value     Company     Appreciation     Securities     VA Service     Income     Street     Small Cap     Fund VA Series  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (k)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (l)  
ASSETS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $             2,383,137       27,102,578       10,061,327       736,349       5,702,698       7,722,501       685,951  
Dividends and other receivables
                                                     
 
                                                     
Total assets
                2,383,137       27,102,578       10,061,327       736,349       5,702,698       7,722,501       685,951  
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Liabilities — other payables
                                                     
 
                                                     
Contract owners’ equity
  $             2,383,137       27,102,578       10,061,327       736,349       5,702,698       7,722,501       685,951  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Accumulation period
  $             2,382,999       27,097,429       10,061,327       736,349       5,702,698       7,722,501       685,951  
Annuity period
                138       5,150                         1        
 
                                                     
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $             2,383,137       27,102,578       10,061,327       736,349       5,702,698       7,722,501       685,951  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Units Outstanding
                181,049       1,297,530       673,633       196,373       413,223       401,412       50,367  
 
                                                     
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
                59,593       902,216       1,771,360       344,088       275,360       441,286       15,089  
 
                                                     
Fair Value per Share
  $             39.99       30.04       5.68       2.14       20.71       17.50       45.46  
 
                                                     
 
(k)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from Oppenheimer Strategic Bond Subaccount.
 
(l)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from Oppenheimer Mid Cap Subaccount.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity
December 31, 2010
                 
    PIMCO  
    Variable Insurance Trust  
    PIMCO     PIMCO  
    Foreign     Low  
    Bond     Duration  
    Subaccount     Subaccount  
ASSETS
               
 
               
Investments in underlying portfolio funds, at fair value
  $ 125,192       138,146  
Dividends and other receivables
           
 
           
Total assets
    125,192       138,146  
LIABILITIES AND CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
               
 
               
Liabilities — other payables
           
 
           
Contract owners’ equity
  $ 125,192       138,146  
 
           
 
               
Accumulation period
  $ 125,192       138,146  
Annuity period
           
 
           
Total Contract Owners’ Equity
  $ 125,192       138,146  
 
           
 
               
Units Outstanding
    8,032       9,216  
 
           
Shares Owned in each Portfolio
    12,544       13,232  
 
           
Fair Value per Share
  $ 9.98       10.44  
 
           
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                                                    American Century  
                                                                    Variable Portfolios,  
    Alger Portfolios     Inc.  
                                    Alger     Alger     Alger     Alger     American  
    Alger     Alger     Alger Capital     Alger Capital     Large Cap     Mid Cap     Mid Cap     Small Cap     Century VP Income  
    Balanced O     Balanced S     Appreciation O     Appreciation S     Growth I-2     Growth I-2     Growth S     Growth I-2     & Growth  
    Subaccount     Subaccount (a)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 1,091,193       998       203,633       3       83,612                         154,219  
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    615,258       793       731,563       79       155,437       176,869       226       109,956       142,474  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 475,936       205       (527,929 )     (76 )     (71,825 )     (176,869 )     (226 )     (109,956 )     11,746  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ (1,543,441 )     2,020       1,878,448       728       352,718       (2,101,827 )     (34 )     591,375       (825,175 )
Capital gain distributions
                                                     
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (1,543,441 )     2,020       1,878,448       728       352,718       (2,101,827 )     (34 )     591,375       (825,175 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    4,655,964       (1,886 )     4,564,542       247       947,407       4,350,810       2,134       1,251,931       1,998,524  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 3,112,523       133       6,442,990       976       1,300,125       2,248,983       2,101       1,843,306       1,173,348  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 3,588,459       338       5,915,061       900       1,228,301       2,072,114       1,875       1,733,350       1,185,094  
 
                                                     
 
(a)   Cessation of operations as of November 23, 2010, Alger Balanced Portfolio Class S. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                            Dreyfus     The Dreyfus  
    American Century     Credit Suisse     Investment     Socially Responsible  
    Variable Portfolios, Inc.     Trust     Portfolios     Growth Fund, Inc.  
    American     American     American     Credit Suisse     Credit Suisse     Dreyfus     Dreyfus             Dreyfus Socially  
    Century VP Income     Century VP     Century VP     Trust International     Trust International     I.P. MidCap     I.P. MidCap     Dreyfus Socially     Responsible Growth  
    & Growth II     Value     Value II     Equity Flex II     Equity Flex III     Stock A     Stock SC     Responsible Growth A     SC  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 103       436,378       74             41,653       519,758       13,357       48,548       11  
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    137       237,980       60             610,835       752,080       24,770       78,684       32  
 
                                                     
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (33 )     198,398       14             (569,182 )     (232,322 )     (11,413 )     (30,136 )     (21 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ 13       (4,889,898 )     (24 )           (843,827 )     (5,007,041 )     (311,940 )     123,633       2  
Capital gain distributions
                                                     
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    13       (4,889,898 )     (24 )           (843,827 )     (5,007,041 )     (311,940 )     123,633       2  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    972       6,474,590       403             5,514,222       17,225,220       667,080       571,637       245  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 986       1,584,692       379             4,670,394       12,218,179       355,140       695,270       246  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 952       1,783,089       393             4,101,212       11,985,857       343,727       665,134       225  
 
                                                     
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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                        DWS                                
    Variable Series I  
                            DWS     DWS                          
    DWS     DWS     DWS     Global     Global     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS  
    Bond     Capital     Capital     Opportunities     Opportunities     Growth & Income     Growth & Income     Health Care     Health Care  
    VIP     Growth VIP A     Growth VIP B     VIP A     VIP B     VIP A     VIP B     VIP A     VIP B  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 1,083,585       2,034,271       924       265,805       3       504,101       1,477              
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    353,315       3,121,197       3,067       937,702       73       426,709       1,960       455,178       215  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 730,271       (1,086,926 )     (2,144 )     (671,896 )     (71 )     77,392       (484 )     (455,178 )     (215 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ (713,319 )     (713,341 )     (517 )     (1,327,532 )     (30 )     (1,686,012 )     (2,311 )     (1,109,323 )     103  
Capital gain distributions
                                              2,234,286       796  
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (713,319 )     (713,341 )     (517 )     (1,327,532 )     (30 )     (1,686,012 )     (2,311 )     1,124,963       899  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    1,295,982       32,412,552       25,100       16,823,104       773       5,146,965       14,457       1,254,568       (77 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 582,663       31,699,211       24,583       15,495,572       743       3,460,953       12,146       2,379,531       821  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 1,312,933       30,612,285       22,439       14,823,676       672       3,538,346       11,662       1,924,353       606  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
     
                                                                         
    DWS     DWS  
    Variable Series I     Variable Series II  
                                                            DWS        
    DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     Diversified     DWS  
    International     International     Balanced     Blue Chip     Blue Chip     Core Fixed     Davis Venture     International Equity     Dreman Small Mid  
    VIP A     VIP B     VIP     VIP A     VIP B     Income VIP A     Value VIP     VIP     Cap Value VIP A  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 955,605       1,335       5,712,133       854,443       1,920       3,150,415             1,290,372       1,602,932  
 
EXPENSES
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    614,328       1,388       2,449,340       817,466       3,091       736,945             777,149       1,709,291  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 341,277       (52 )     3,262,793       36,977       (1,170 )     2,413,470             513,222       (106,359 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ (2,500,902 )     (2,391 )     1,632,443       (6,074,750 )     (1,461 )     (7,744,969 )           (9,228,353 )     (5,211,311 )
Capital gain distributions
                                                     
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (2,500,902 )     (2,391 )     1,632,443       (6,074,750 )     (1,461 )     (7,744,969 )           (9,228,353 )     (5,211,311 )
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    1,809,833       2,083       11,632,735       12,394,087       19,765       7,943,839             13,584,603       29,075,981  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ (691,070 )     (308 )     13,265,177       6,319,337       18,305       198,870             4,356,250       23,864,670  
 
                                                     
 
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ (349,792 )     (360 )     16,527,970       6,356,314       17,134       2,612,340             4,869,472       23,758,311  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
     
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series II  
                            DWS     DWS                          
    DWS     DWS     DWS     Government &     Government &     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS  
    Dreman Small Mid     Global     Global     Agency Securities VIP     Agency Securities VIP     High Income     High Income     Janus Growth &     Large Cap  
    Cap Value VIP B     Thematic VIP A     Thematic VIP B     A     B     VIP A     VIP B     Income VIP     Value VIP A  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 1,986       362,668       198       4,159,671       9,151       9,143,778       11,524             2,678,408  
 
EXPENSES
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    4,195       527,381       614       1,295,967       3,859       1,565,295       2,853             1,842,653  
 
                                                     
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (2,209 )     (164,713 )     (415 )     2,863,704       5,291       7,578,483       8,670             835,755  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ (21,867 )     (6,552,668 )     (412 )     2,422,191       827       (931,905 )     (5,587 )           (4,108,882 )
Capital gain distributions
                                                     
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (21,867 )     (6,552,668 )     (412 )     2,422,191       827       (931,905 )     (5,587 )           (4,108,882 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    66,138       10,844,182       4,832       (599,907 )     2,679       6,807,205       12,722             14,427,100  
 
                                                     
 
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 44,271       4,291,514       4,420       1,822,284       3,505       5,875,300       7,135             10,318,218  
 
                                                     
 
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 42,062       4,126,801       4,004       4,685,988       8,797       13,453,783       15,805             11,153,973  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series II  
    DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS                     DWS     DWS  
    Large Cap     Mid Cap     Money Market     Small Cap Growth     Strategic     DWS     DWS     Technology     Technology  
    Value VIP B     Growth VIP     VIP     VIP     Income VIP     Strategic Value VIP A     Strategic Value VIP B     VIP A     VIP B  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (b)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 2,906             11,076             2,901,720       2,966,774       2,748       18,428        
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    3,119       204,069       1,595,176       746,355       633,682       2,120,370       3,186       634,402       417  
 
                                                     
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (213 )     (204,069 )     (1,584,100 )     (746,355 )     2,268,038       846,404       (438 )     (615,974 )     (417 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ (14,630 )     (214,355 )           442,125       238,415       (21,780,279 )     (35,849 )     1,281,736       150  
Capital gain distributions
                                                     
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (14,630 )     (214,355 )           442,125       238,415       (21,780,279 )     (35,849 )     1,281,736       150  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    28,459       3,760,777             13,424,591       1,144,239       35,705,709       50,053       5,930,796       3,408  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 13,829       3,546,423             13,866,716       1,382,653       13,925,430       14,204       7,212,532       3,557  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 13,616       3,342,354       (1,584,100 )     13,120,361       3,650,691       14,771,834       13,767       6,596,559       3,140  
 
                                                     
 
(b)   Effective December 17, 2010, DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount merged with Franklin Zero Coupon 2010. Previous to this date effective November 23, 2010, Subaccount merged with Alger Balanced Portfolio CL S. Previous to this date effective April 23, 2010, Subaccount merged with JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    DWS     DWS                     Fidelity                  
    Variable Series II     Investments VIT Funds     Variable Insurance Products Funds  
    DWS     DWS     DWS     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity  
    Turner Mid Cap     Equity 500     Equity 500     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP  
    Growth VIP     Index VIP A     Index VIP B2     Asset Manager     Contrafund     Contrafund 2     Equity Income     Equity Income 2     Growth  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 5,815       1,406,990       284       85,307       810,000       156       466,825       86       62,219  
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    544,163       1,050,976       350       70,038       902,831       253       359,418       88       318,442  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (538,348 )     356,014       (66 )     15,268       (92,831 )     (97 )     107,407       (1 )     (256,223 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ (2,592,413 )     (1,112,192 )     (468 )     (65,732 )     (2,704,576 )     40       (1,540,608 )     (22 )     1,007,261  
Capital gain distributions
                      25,624       29,406       7                   76,364  
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (2,592,413 )     (1,112,192 )     (468 )     (40,108 )     (2,675,170 )     47       (1,540,608 )     (22 )     1,083,625  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    12,602,383       9,796,696       2,524       639,022       12,474,690       2,243       4,762,032       689       3,823,082  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 10,009,970       8,684,504       2,057       598,914       9,799,519       2,289       3,221,424       667       4,906,707  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 9,471,622       9,040,518       1,990       614,182       9,706,688       2,193       3,328,831       665       4,650,484  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                                                    Franklin Templeton  
    Fidelity     Franklin Templeton     Variable Insurance  
    Variable Insurance Products Funds     Variable Insurance Products Trust     Products Trust  
    Fidelity     Fidelity     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin     Mutual     Mutual  
    VIP     VIP     Rising Dividends     Small Cap Value     Strategic Income     U.S.     Zero Coupon     Global Discovery     Shares  
    Index 500     Index 500 SC     Securities     Securities     Securities     Government     2010     Securities     Securities  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (c)     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 1,075,273       59,474       99,309       41,845       505,582       157,306       577,248       276,506       98,878  
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    774,066       55,507       82,830       73,848       147,471       64,021       81,051       294,431       88,889  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 301,208       3,967       16,479       (32,003 )     358,111       93,284       496,198       (17,925 )     9,989  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ 1,784,150       (86,949 )     (132,743 )     (409,693 )     78,326       84,082       (868,305 )     239,662       (636,066 )
 
                                                                       
Capital gain distributions
    1,114,507       72,017                               260,207              
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    2,898,657       (14,932 )     (132,743 )     (409,693 )     78,326       84,082       (608,098 )     239,662       (636,066 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    3,961,486       440,074       1,192,891       1,705,466       520,837       8,526       34,564       1,965,290       1,222,699  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 6,860,144       425,142       1,060,148       1,295,773       599,163       92,608       (573,534 )     2,204,952       586,632  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 7,161,351       429,109       1,076,627       1,263,770       957,274       185,892       (77,336 )     2,187,027       596,621  
 
                                                     
 
(c)   Cessation of operations as of December 17, 2010, Franklin Zero Coupon 2010. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    Franklin Templeton     ING     ING                                              
    Variable Insurance     Global Resources     Investors                                     Janus  
    Products Trust     Trust     Trust     Invesco Variable Insurance Funds (d)     Aspen Series  
                    ING JPMorgan     Invesco     Invesco     Invesco             Janus     Janus  
    Templeton Developing     ING Global Resources     Emerging Markets     Financial Services     Global     Global     Invesco     Aspen     Aspen Enterprise -  
    Markets Securities     Trust     Equity     Fund     Health Care     Real Estate     Utilities     Balanced     Institutional  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (e)     Subaccount (f)     Subaccount (g)     Subaccount (h)     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 125,610       89,851       74,270       944             322,006       724,459       2,148,147       28,697  
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    108,493       125,147       133,166       11,658       22,298       88,591       284,956       1,035,408       585,000  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 17,118       (35,296 )     (58,896 )     (10,715 )     (22,298 )     233,415       439,503       1,112,738       (556,303 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ (545,051 )     (579,732 )     679,950       68,569       (143,164 )     (1,887,662 )     (3,368,449 )     2,648,444       3,026,222  
 
                                                                       
Capital gain distributions
                563,257                                      
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (545,051 )     (579,732 )     1,243,208       68,569       (143,164 )     (1,887,662 )     (3,368,449 )     2,648,444       3,026,222  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    1,710,372       2,354,484       539,295       (26,597 )     221,355       2,616,179       3,779,768       1,316,116       6,877,511  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 1,165,321       1,774,751       1,782,502       41,972       78,190       728,517       411,319       3,964,561       9,903,733  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 1,182,439       1,739,455       1,723,606       31,258       55,893       961,932       850,822       5,077,299       9,347,430  
 
                                                     
 
(d)   Effective April 30, 2010, the AIM Variable Insurance Funds name changed to Invesco Variable Insurance Funds.
 
(e)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Financial Services Subaccount.
 
(f)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Global Health Care Subaccount.
 
(g)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Global Real Estate Subaccount.
 
(h)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Utilities Subaccount.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    Janus     JPMorgan  
    Aspen Series     Insurance Trust  
    Janus     Janus     Janus             Janus     Janus     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan  
    Aspen     Aspen Janus -     Aspen Perkins     Janus Aspen Perkins     Aspen Worldwide     Aspen Worldwide -     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust  
    Forty     Institutional     Mid Cap Value     Small Company Value     Institutional     Service     Balanced     Core Bond     Equity Index  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (i)     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $ 4,108       297,317       24,456             277,936       4             55,081       2,126  
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
    17,309       380,450       66,897             630,213       14       321       23,114       2,168  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (13,201 )     (83,132 )     (42,442 )           (352,278 )     (10 )     (321 )     31,967       (41 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ 27,577       1,259,140       (176,021 )           858,505       (36 )     3,824       16,328       7,344  
 
                                                                       
Capital gain distributions
                                                     
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    27,577       1,259,140       (176,021 )           858,505       (36 )     3,824       16,328       7,344  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    46,466       2,143,444       855,811             5,590,300       56       703       58,978       20,724  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 74,043       3,402,583       679,789             6,448,805       20       4,527       75,306       28,069  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 60,842       3,319,451       637,347             6,096,528       10       4,206       107,273       28,027  
 
                                                     
 
(i)   Cessation of operations as of April 23, 2010, JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    JPMorgan  
    Insurance Trust  
    JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan Insurance     JPMorgan     JPMorgan             JPMorgan  
    Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Trust Mid Cap     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust Small     JPMorgan Insurance     International  
    Government Bond     International Equity     Intrepid Growth     Intrepid Mid Cap     Growth     Mid Cap Value     Cap Core     Trust U.S. Equity     Equity  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (j)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $       25,899       158       41,898             93,681             5,446        
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
          141,816       149       42,156       12,687       100,910       62,591       6,681        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $       (115,917 )     9       (258 )     (12,687 )     (7,229 )     (62,591 )     (1,234 )      
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $       (555,718 )     (456 )     (225,565 )     (78,080 )     (37,984 )     (186,440 )     (70,816 )      
 
                                                                       
Capital gain distributions
                                                     
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
          (555,718 )     (456 )     (225,565 )     (78,080 )     (37,984 )     (186,440 )     (70,816 )      
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
          1,147,606       (119 )     726,499       298,490       1,566,446       1,249,737       123,322        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $       591,888       (575 )     500,934       220,409       1,528,463       1,063,297       52,506        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $       475,971       (566 )     500,675       207,722       1,521,234       1,000,706       51,272        
 
                                                     
 
(j)   Effective December 17, 2010, name changed from JPMorgan Insurance Trust Diversified Mid Cap Growth Subaccount.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                                                    Oppenheimer  
    JPMorgan     Oppenheimer     Variable Account  
    Series Trust II     Variable Account Funds     Funds  
                                    Oppenheimer                             Oppenheimer  
    JPMorgan     JPMorgan     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Global Strategic     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Small-MidCap  
    MidCap     Small     Capital     Global     Income Fund     High     Main     Main Street     Growth  
    Value     Company     Appreciation     Securities     VA Service     Income     Street     Small Cap     Fund VA Series  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (k)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (l)  
REVENUE
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Dividend income
  $                   340,604       735,753       54,685       51,135       31,196        
 
                                                                       
EXPENSES
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Mortality and expense risk charges
                34,470       358,173       126,718       10,869       76,464       101,783       7,355  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $             (34,470 )     (17,568 )     609,036       43,815       (25,328 )     (70,588 )     (7,355 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $             (72,584 )     (1,356,704 )     (83,364 )     (438,674 )     (292,963 )     (416,753 )     (61,036 )
 
                                                                       
Capital gain distributions
                                                     
 
                                                     
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
                (72,584 )     (1,356,704 )     (83,364 )     (438,674 )     (292,963 )     (416,753 )     (61,036 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
                268,524       4,830,405       592,587       488,352       1,038,365       1,885,730       197,175  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $             195,940       3,473,701       509,222       49,679       745,402       1,468,977       136,140  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $             161,470       3,456,133       1,118,258       93,494       720,074       1,398,389       128,785  
 
                                                     
 
(k)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from Oppenheimer Strategic Bond Subaccount.
 
(l)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from Oppenheimer Mid Cap Subaccount.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Operations
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                 
    PIMCO  
    Variable Insurance Trust  
    PIMCO     PIMCO  
    Foreign     Low  
    Bond     Duration  
    Subaccount     Subaccount  
REVENUE
               
 
               
Dividend income
  $ 2,306       2,199  
 
               
EXPENSES
               
 
               
Mortality and expense risk charges
    1,806       1,934  
 
           
 
               
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 500       265  
 
           
 
               
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS
               
 
               
Net realized gain (loss) on sale of investments
  $ 35       223  
 
               
Capital gain distributions
    3,434       443  
 
           
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    3,469       666  
 
               
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    4,334       4,157  
 
           
 
               
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments
  $ 7,803       4,823  
 
           
 
               
Net Increase (Decrease) in Contract Owners’ Equity Resulting from Operations
  $ 8,303       5,088  
 
           
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                                                    American Century  
                                                                    Variable Portfolios,  
    Alger Portfolios     Inc.  
                                    Alger     Alger     Alger     Alger     American  
    Alger     Alger     Alger Capital     Alger Capital     Large Cap     Mid Cap     Mid Cap     Small Cap     Century VP Income  
    Balanced O     Balanced S     Appreciation O     Appreciation S     Growth I-2     Growth I-2     Growth S     Growth I-2     & Growth  
    Subaccount     Subaccount (a)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 475,936       205       (527,929 )     (76 )     (71,825 )     (176,869 )     (226 )     (109,956 )     11,746  
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (1,543,441 )     2,020       1,878,448       728       352,718       (2,101,827 )     (34 )     591,375       (825,175 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    4,655,964       (1,886 )     4,564,542       247       947,407       4,350,810       2,134       1,251,931       1,998,524  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    3,588,459       338       5,915,061       900       1,228,301       2,072,114       1,875       1,733,350       1,185,094  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    298,220             1,299,689             362,833       443,596       25       276,566       291,495  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (1,310,362 )     (48,578 )     (908,806 )     (746 )     (549,177 )     (695,547 )           (622,314 )     (634,612 )
Payments for redemptions
    (5,713,928 )     (8,058 )     (5,170,351 )           (1,280,640 )     (1,474,867 )           (1,207,599 )     (1,432,234 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (101,257 )           (121,333 )                                    
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (1,406 )                       (2 )                 (4 )     (1 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (6,828,733 )     (56,636 )     (4,900,800 )     (746 )     (1,466,986 )     (1,726,819 )     25       (1,553,351 )     (1,775,352 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (3,240,274 )     (56,298 )     1,014,261       154       (238,685 )     345,295       1,900       179,999       (590,258 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    45,476,716       56,298       53,306,719       1,382       11,580,482       13,152,385       11,264       8,383,941       11,009,842  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
End of period
  $ 42,236,442             54,320,980       1,536       11,341,797       13,497,680       13,164       8,563,941       10,419,584  
 
                                                     
 
(a)        Cessation of operations as of November 23, 2010, Alger Balanced Portfolio Class S. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                            Dreyfus     The Dreyfus  
    American Century     Credit Suisse     Investment     Socially Responsible  
    Variable Portfolios, Inc.     Trust     Portfolios     Growth Fund, Inc.  
    American     American     American     Credit Suisse     Credit Suisse     Dreyfus     Dreyfus             Dreyfus Socially  
    Century VP Income     Century VP     Century VP     Trust International     Trust International     I.P. MidCap     I.P. MidCap     Dreyfus Socially     Responsible Growth  
    & Growth II     Value     Value II     Equity Flex II     Equity Flex III     Stock A     Stock SC     Responsible Growth A     SC  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (33 )     198,398       14             (569,182 )     (232,322 )     (11,413 )     (30,136 )     (21 )
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    13       (4,889,898 )     (24 )           (843,827 )     (5,007,041 )     (311,940 )     123,633       2  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    972       6,474,590       403             5,514,222       17,225,220       667,080       571,637       245  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    952       1,783,089       393             4,101,212       11,985,857       343,727       665,134       225  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
          894,772                   1,076,089       638,183       63,087       153,389        
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
          4,606,631                   (3,392,683 )     195,163       428,238       (104,105 )     55  
Payments for redemptions
          (2,253,560 )                 (5,115,511 )     (5,556,850 )     (219,757 )     (696,305 )      
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
                            (93,792 )     (127,311 )           (7,385 )      
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
          16                   60       (668 )                  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
          3,247,859                   (7,525,838 )     (4,851,484 )     271,568       (654,406 )     55  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    952       5,030,949       393             (3,424,626 )     7,134,373       615,295       10,728       280  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    7,964       15,777,736       3,525             47,351,470       51,604,371       1,394,767       5,713,550       1,748  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
End of period
  $ 8,917       20,808,685       3,919             43,926,844       58,738,744       2,010,062       5,724,278       2,028  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series I  
                            DWS     DWS                          
    DWS     DWS     DWS     Global     Global     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS  
    Bond     Capital     Capital     Opportunities     Opportunities     Growth & Income     Growth & Income     Health Care     Health Care  
    VIP     Growth VIP A     Growth VIP B     VIP A     VIP B     VIP A     VIP B     VIP A     VIP B  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 730,271       (1,086,926 )     (2,144 )     (671,896 )     (71 )     77,392       (484 )     (455,178 )     (215 )
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (713,319 )     (713,341 )     (517 )     (1,327,532 )     (30 )     (1,686,012 )     (2,311 )     1,124,963       899  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    1,295,982       32,412,552       25,100       16,823,104       773       5,146,965       14,457       1,254,568       (77 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    1,312,933       30,612,285       22,439       14,823,676       672       3,538,346       11,662       1,924,353       606  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    321,752       2,138,524             1,476,302             250,057       2,473       700,056        
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    1,325,695       (11,063,254 )     (7,849 )     (908,638 )           (1,249,188 )     (856 )     (1,672,006 )      
Payments for redemptions
    (3,589,119 )     (24,898,250 )     (3,220 )     (6,559,951 )           (3,234,136 )     (14,568 )     (3,483,361 )     (750 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (36,775 )     (361,387 )           (156,846 )           (55,534 )           (75,388 )      
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    1       (35,255 )           (267 )           (335 )           (27 )      
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (1,978,447 )     (34,219,622 )     (11,070 )     (6,149,400 )           (4,289,136 )     (12,951 )     (4,530,726 )     (750 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (665,513 )     (3,607,337 )     11,370       8,674,276       672       (750,790 )     (1,289 )     (2,606,373 )     (144 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    25,103,188       232,977,134       165,528       65,646,182       2,885       31,677,487       108,158       33,548,300       11,694  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
End of period
  $ 24,437,674       229,369,796       176,898       74,320,458       3,557       30,926,698       106,869       30,941,928       11,550  
 
                                                     
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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    DWS                             DWS              
    Variable Series I                             Variable Series II              
                                                            DWS        
    DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     Diversified     DWS  
    International     International     Balanced     Blue Chip     Blue Chip     Core Fixed     Davis Venture     International Equity     Dreman Small Mid  
    VIP A     VIP B     VIP     VIP A     VIP B     Income VIP A     Value VIP     VIP     Cap Value VIP A  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 341,277       (52 )     3,262,793       36,977       (1,170 )     2,413,470             513,222       (106,359 )
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (2,500,902 )     (2,391 )     1,632,443       (6,074,750 )     (1,461 )     (7,744,969 )           (9,228,353 )     (5,211,311 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    1,809,833       2,083       11,632,735       12,394,087       19,765       7,943,839             13,584,603       29,075,981  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    (349,792 )     (360 )     16,527,970       6,356,314       17,134       2,612,340             4,869,472       23,758,311  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    430,714             1,139,298       456,832             409,666             434,765       1,988,430  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (1,987,840 )     2,568       (1,575,280 )     (2,342,907 )     (1,129 )     1,588,890             (447,433 )     (5,656,011 )
Payments for redemptions
    (5,135,436 )     (7,998 )     (20,046,147 )     (6,840,413 )     (13,379 )     (8,444,205 )           (5,997,858 )     (12,679,754 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (90,812 )           (96,672 )     (125,350 )           (94,475 )           (78,013 )     (212,802 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (757 )           (1,260 )     (1,614 )           14,805             1,587       (1,347 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (6,784,132 )     (5,430 )     (20,580,062 )     (8,853,451 )     (14,508 )     (6,525,319 )           (6,086,952 )     (16,561,483 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (7,133,924 )     (5,790 )     (4,052,091 )     (2,497,138 )     2,627       (3,912,979 )           (1,217,481 )     7,196,828  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    49,298,591       77,410       184,859,782       60,769,289       163,963       51,809,335             60,283,816       124,831,149  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
End of period
  $ 42,164,667       71,620       180,807,691       58,272,151       166,590       47,896,356             59,066,335       132,027,978  
 
                                                     
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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series II  
                            DWS     DWS                          
    DWS     DWS     DWS     Government &     Government &     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS  
    Dreman Small Mid     Global     Global     Agency Securities VIP     Agency Securities VIP     High Income     High Income     Janus Growth &     Large Cap  
    Cap Value VIP B     Thematic VIP A     Thematic VIP B     A     B     VIP A     VIP B     Income VIP     Value VIP A  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (2,209 )     (164,713 )     (415 )     2,863,704       5,291       7,578,483       8,670             835,755  
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (21,867 )     (6,552,668 )     (412 )     2,422,191       827       (931,905 )     (5,587 )           (4,108,882 )
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    66,138       10,844,182       4,832       (599,907 )     2,679       6,807,205       12,722             14,427,100  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    42,062       4,126,801       4,004       4,685,988       8,797       13,453,783       15,805             11,153,973  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
          758,866       3,297       699,613       5,769       809,350                   1,828,945  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (7,466 )     (1,375,763 )     (1 )     6,692,491       2,432       780,787       (8,849 )           (7,078,622 )
Payments for redemptions
    (13,087 )     (3,975,663 )           (14,291,058 )     (12,154 )     (12,957,565 )     (13,402 )           (13,764,406 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
          (87,648 )           (156,144 )           (147,642 )                 (258,007 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
          (431 )           5,591             10,476                   (5,712 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (20,553 )     (4,680,639 )     3,296       (7,049,507 )     (3,952 )     (11,504,594 )     (22,250 )           (19,277,804 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    21,509       (553,838 )     7,300       (2,363,519 )     4,845       1,949,189       (6,445 )           (8,123,831 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    213,882       39,415,843       32,413       89,665,398       203,715       117,072,380       150,605             139,216,695  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 235,392       38,862,005       39,713       87,301,879       208,559       119,021,569       144,160             131,092,864  
 
                                                     
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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series II  
    DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS                     DWS     DWS  
    Large Cap     Mid Cap     Money Market     Small Cap Growth     Strategic     DWS     DWS     Technology     Technology  
    Value VIP B     Growth VIP     VIP     VIP     Income VIP     Strategic Value VIP A     Strategic Value VIP B     VIP A     VIP B  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (b)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (213 )     (204,069 )     (1,584,100 )     (746,355 )     2,268,038       846,404       (438 )     (615,974 )     (417 )
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (14,630 )     (214,355 )           442,125       238,415       (21,780,279 )     (35,849 )     1,281,736       150  
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    28,459       3,760,777             13,424,591       1,144,239       35,705,709       50,053       5,930,796       3,408  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    13,616       3,342,354       (1,584,100 )     13,120,361       3,650,691       14,771,834       13,767       6,596,559       3,140  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
          116,766       2,180,906       961,366       236,098       1,783,652             701,823        
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (767 )     630,187       15,866,342       (2,039,868 )     2,454,673       (11,122,963 )     64       (3,912,164 )     (11,152 )
Payments for redemptions
    (21,206 )     (1,460,405 )     (50,486,824 )     (6,260,498 )     (5,476,646 )     (16,527,325 )     (31,853 )     (4,431,697 )     (719 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
          (33,206 )     (179,947 )     (78,591 )     (106,497 )     (342,564 )           (96,102 )      
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
                (25,338 )     (153 )     308       (7,221 )           (1,254 )      
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (21,973 )     (746,658 )     (32,644,861 )     (7,417,743 )     (2,892,065 )     (26,216,421 )     (31,789 )     (7,739,393 )     (11,871 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (8,357 )     2,595,696       (34,228,961 )     5,702,618       758,627       (11,444,586 )     (18,023 )     (1,142,835 )     (8,731 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    177,987       14,235,310       128,277,232       53,435,628       44,202,592       159,343,237       170,565       47,418,234       24,501  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 169,630       16,831,006       94,048,272       59,138,246       44,961,218       147,898,651       152,542       46,275,399       15,771  
 
                                                     
 
(b)   Effective December 17, 2010, DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount merged with Franklin Zero Coupon 2010. Previous to this date effective November 23, 2010, Subaccount merged with Alger Balanced Portfolio CL S. Previous to this date effective April 23, 2010, Subaccount merged with JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    DWS     DWS     Fidelity  
    Variable Series II     Investments VIT Funds     Variable Insurance Products Funds  
    DWS     DWS     DWS     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity  
    Turner Mid Cap     Equity 500     Equity 500     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP  
    Growth VIP     Index VIP A     Index VIP B2     Asset Manager     Contrafund     Contrafund 2     Equity Income     Equity Income 2     Growth  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (538,348 )     356,014       (66 )     15,268       (92,831 )     (97 )     107,407       (1 )     (256,223 )
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (2,592,413 )     (1,112,192 )     (468 )     (40,108 )     (2,675,170 )     47       (1,540,608 )     (22 )     1,083,625  
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    12,602,383       9,796,696       2,524       639,022       12,474,690       2,243       4,762,032       689       3,823,082  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    9,471,622       9,040,518       1,990       614,182       9,706,688       2,193       3,328,831       665       4,650,484  
 
                                                     
 
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    1,211,584       720,495             88,386       1,753,896             747,105             606,603  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (1,270,071 )     (869,170 )     188       (141,600 )     (4,382,132 )           (1,211,199 )           (2,462,750 )
Payments for redemptions
    (3,152,467 )     (7,379,761 )     (2,531 )     (769,139 )     (7,644,987 )           (3,489,946 )           (2,905,212 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (93,505 )     (174,332 )                                          
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (940 )     (741 )           651       1,625             258             75  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (3,305,399 )     (7,703,508 )     (2,344 )     (821,701 )     (10,271,598 )           (3,953,782 )           (4,761,284 )
 
                                                     
 
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    6,166,223       1,337,010       (353 )     (207,519 )     (564,910 )     2,193       (624,951 )     665       (110,800 )
 
                                                     
 
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
Beginning of period
    37,859,105       75,091,323       18,588       5,485,972       71,262,692       14,643       27,892,197       5,116       25,278,954  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 44,025,328       76,428,333       18,235       5,278,454       70,697,782       16,836       27,267,245       5,781       25,168,154  
 
                                                     
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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                                                    Franklin Templeton  
    Fidelity     Franklin Templeton     Variable Insurance  
    Variable Insurance Products Funds     Variable Insurance Products Trust     Products Trust  
    Fidelity     Fidelity     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin     Mutual     Mutual  
    VIP     VIP     Rising Dividends     Small Cap Value     Strategic Income     U.S.     Zero Coupon     Global Discovery     Shares  
    Index 500     Index 500 SC     Securities     Securities     Securities     Government     2010     Securities     Securities  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (c)     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 301,208       3,967       16,479       (32,003 )     358,111       93,284       496,198       (17,925 )     9,989  
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    2,898,657       (14,932 )     (132,743 )     (409,693 )     78,326       84,082       (608,098 )     239,662       (636,066 )
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    3,961,486       440,074       1,192,891       1,705,466       520,837       8,526       34,564       1,965,290       1,222,699  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    7,161,351       429,109       1,076,627       1,263,770       957,274       185,892       (77,336 )     2,187,027       596,621  
 
                                                     
 
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    1,455,473       61,922       159,891       199,727       360,478       138,680       143,803       728,157       258,957  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (1,740,654 )     (627,068 )     411,246       714,680       1,703,622       109,952       (6,121,759 )     316,005       357,589  
Payments for redemptions
    (6,937,960 )     (361,711 )     (806,555 )     (511,663 )     (2,086,413 )     (703,074 )     (1,154,248 )     (2,989,815 )     (1,000,185 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
                                                     
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (3,920 )           290             184                   235       (21 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (7,227,061 )     (926,857 )     (235,128 )     402,743       (22,129 )     (454,442 )     (7,132,204 )     (1,945,417 )     (383,661 )
 
                                                     
 
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (65,710 )     (497,748 )     841,499       1,666,513       935,145       (268,550 )     (7,209,540 )     241,610       212,960  
 
                                                     
 
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
Beginning of period
    59,133,776       4,196,489       5,791,813       4,700,975       10,026,216       4,671,833       7,209,540       22,303,957       6,634,532  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 59,068,067       3,698,741       6,633,312       6,367,489       10,961,360       4,403,283             22,545,566       6,847,492  
 
                                                     
 
(c)   Cessation of operations as of December 17, 2010, Franklin Zero Coupon 2010. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    Franklin Templeton     ING     ING                                              
    Variable Insurance     Global Resources     Investors                                     Janus  
    Products Trust     Trust     Trust     Invesco Variable Insurance Funds (d)     Aspen Series  
                    ING JPMorgan     Invesco     Invesco     Invesco             Janus     Janus  
    Templeton Developing     ING Global Resources     Emerging Markets     Financial Services     Global     Global     Invesco     Aspen     Aspen Enterprise -  
    Markets Securities     Trust     Equity     Fund     Health Care     Real Estate     Utilities     Balanced     Institutional  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (e)     Subaccount (f)     Subaccount (g)     Subaccount (h)     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 17,118       (35,296 )     (58,896 )     (10,715 )     (22,298 )     233,415       439,503       1,112,738       (556,303 )
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (545,051 )     (579,732 )     1,243,208       68,569       (143,164 )     (1,887,662 )     (3,368,449 )     2,648,444       3,026,222  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    1,710,372       2,354,484       539,295       (26,597 )     221,355       2,616,179       3,779,768       1,316,116       6,877,511  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    1,182,439       1,739,455       1,723,606       31,258       55,893       961,932       850,822       5,077,299       9,347,430  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    196,647       262,719       141,080       56,706       43,115       227,979       318,171       1,869,002       931,676  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    189,348       (76,814 )     (129,006 )     255,652       (30,449 )     (307,703 )     (852,850 )     (732,558 )     (622,084 )
Payments for redemptions
    (788,039 )     (1,018,347 )     (1,362,103 )     (122,156 )     (179,429 )     (831,422 )     (2,508,062 )     (10,019,170 )     (5,426,809 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (6 )                                   (39,399 )            
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    265       (25 )     493                   (5 )     (437 )     20,408       208  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (401,786 )     (832,467 )     (1,349,537 )     190,202       (166,763 )     (911,151 )     (3,082,576 )     (8,862,317 )     (5,117,010 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    780,653       906,988       374,069       221,460       (110,870 )     50,780       (2,231,754 )     (3,785,018 )     4,230,420  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    7,920,380       9,881,435       10,425,842       723,792       1,685,866       6,739,176       22,174,592       79,877,309       42,818,059  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
End of period
  $ 8,701,033       10,788,423       10,799,911       945,252       1,574,995       6,789,957       19,942,838       76,092,291       47,048,479  
 
                                                     
 
(d)   Effective April 30, 2010, the AIM Variable Insurance Funds name changed to Invesco Variable Insurance Funds.
 
(e)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Financial Services Subaccount.
 
(f)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Global Health Care Subaccount.
 
(g)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Global Real Estate Subaccount
 
(h)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from AIM V.I. Utilities Subaccount.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    Janus     JPMorgan  
    Aspen Series     Insurance Trust  
    Janus     Janus     Janus             Janus     Janus     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan  
    Aspen     Aspen Janus -     Aspen Perkins     Janus Aspen Perkins     Aspen Worldwide     Aspen Worldwide -     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust  
    Forty     Institutional     Mid Cap Value     Small Company Value     Institutional     Service     Balanced     Core Bond     Equity Index  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (i)     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (13,201 )     (83,132 )     (42,442 )           (352,278 )     (10 )     (321 )     31,967       (41 )
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    27,577       1,259,140       (176,021 )           858,505       (36 )     3,824       16,328       7,344  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    46,466       2,143,444       855,811             5,590,300       56       703       58,978       20,724  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    60,842       3,319,451       637,347             6,096,528       10       4,206       107,273       28,027  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    4,906       595,789       129,612             1,124,814                   12,321       2,402  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    9,641       (683,946 )     (87,311 )           (1,261,866 )           (68,158 )     326,272       204,092  
Payments for redemptions
    (65,126 )     (3,567,910 )     (480,601 )           (5,095,975 )     (1,095 )           (199,009 )     (6,570 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (1,462 )                                                
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
          7,116                   1,580                          
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (52,041 )     (3,648,952 )     (438,300 )           (5,231,447 )     (1,095 )     (68,158 )     139,584       199,924  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    8,801       (329,501 )     199,047             865,081       (1,085 )     (63,952 )     246,856       227,951  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    1,197,039       28,678,159       4,864,372             46,976,847       1,087       63,952       1,436,317       122,009  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
End of period
  $ 1,205,840       28,348,659       5,063,419             47,841,928       3             1,683,174       349,960  
 
                                                     
 
(i)   Cessation of operations as of April 23, 2010, JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
    JPMorgan  
    Insurance Trust  
    JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan Insurance     JPMorgan     JPMorgan             JPMorgan  
    Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Trust Mid Cap     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust Small     JPMorgan Insurance     International  
    Government Bond     International Equity     Intrepid Growth     Intrepid Mid Cap     Growth     Mid Cap Value     Cap Core     Trust U.S. Equity     Equity  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (j)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $       (115,917 )     9       (258 )     (12,687 )     (7,229 )     (62,591 )     (1,234 )      
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
          (555,718 )     (456 )     (225,565 )     (78,080 )     (37,984 )     (186,440 )     (70,816 )      
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
          1,147,606       (119 )     726,499       298,490       1,566,446       1,249,737       123,322        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
          475,971       (566 )     500,675       207,722       1,521,234       1,000,706       51,272        
 
                                                     
 
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
          346,022             75,324       44,218       173,969       138,048       16,154        
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
          (690,308 )           (77,439 )     56,733       (769,373 )     (270,956 )     (10,646 )      
Payments for redemptions
          (1,517,781 )     (13,867 )     (336,674 )     (92,667 )     (787,722 )     (575,657 )     (98,393 )      
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
                                                     
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
          1                               33              
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
          (1,862,065 )     (13,867 )     (338,789 )     8,283       (1,383,127 )     (708,532 )     (92,885 )      
 
                                                     
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
          (1,386,094 )     (14,433 )     161,887       216,006       138,108       292,174       (41,613 )      
 
                                                     
 
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
Beginning of period
          11,633,370       16,544       3,156,933       781,212       7,730,949       4,505,174       481,088        
 
                                                     
End of period
  $       10,247,276       2,111       3,318,820       997,218       7,869,056       4,797,348       439,475        
 
                                                     
 
(j)   Effective December 17, 2010, name changed from JPMorgan Insurance Trust Diversified Mid Cap Growth Subaccount.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                                                                         
                                                                    Oppenheimer  
    JPMorgan                     Oppenheimer                     Variable Account  
    Series Trust II                     Variable Account Funds                     Funds  
                                    Oppenheimer                             Oppenheimer  
    JPMorgan     JPMorgan     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Global Strategic     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Small-MidCap  
    MidCap     Small     Capital     Global     Income Fund     High     Main     Main Street     Growth  
    Value     Company     Appreciation     Securities     VA Service     Income     Street     Small Cap     Fund VA Series  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (k)     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount (l)  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $             (34,470 )     (17,568 )     609,036       43,815       (25,328 )     (70,588 )     (7,355 )
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
                (72,584 )     (1,356,704 )     (83,364 )     (438,674 )     (292,963 )     (416,753 )     (61,036 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
                268,524       4,830,405       592,587       488,352       1,038,365       1,885,730       197,175  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
                161,470       3,456,133       1,118,258       93,494       720,074       1,398,389       128,785  
 
                                                     
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
                81,064       740,931       336,124       33,616       150,061       279,094       25,196  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
                (525,137 )     (2,157,482 )     1,771,987       (220,674 )     (251,143 )     (432,886 )     119,207  
Payments for redemptions
                (333,026 )     (3,365,617 )     (1,810,499 )     (58,755 )     (825,195 )     (922,670 )     (120,676 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
                                                     
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
                      42                                
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
                (777,098 )     (4,782,126 )     297,612       (245,814 )     (926,277 )     (1,076,462 )     23,727  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
                (615,628 )     (1,325,993 )     1,415,870       (152,319 )     (206,203 )     321,927       152,511  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
                2,998,764       28,428,572       8,645,456       888,668       5,908,902       7,400,574       533,440  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $             2,383,137       27,102,578       10,061,327       736,349       5,702,698       7,722,501       685,951  
 
                                                     
 
(k)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from Oppenheimer Strategic Bond Subaccount.
 
(l)   Effective April 30, 2010, name changed from Oppenheimer Mid Cap Subaccount.
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                 
    PIMCO  
    Variable Insurance Trust  
    PIMCO     PIMCO  
    Foreign     Low  
    Bond     Duration  
    Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
               
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 500       265  
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    3,469       666  
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    4,334       4,157  
 
           
 
               
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    8,303       5,088  
 
           
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
               
 
Proceeds from sales
    1,266       72  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (186 )     3,011  
Payments for redemptions
    (7,695 )     (9,486 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (145 )     (200 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
           
 
           
 
               
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (6,760 )     (6,603 )
 
           
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    1,543       (1,515 )
 
           
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
               
 
Beginning of period
    123,650       139,660  
 
           
End of period
  $ 125,192       138,146  
 
           
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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
    AIM Variable Insurance Funds     Alger Portfolios  
            AIM V.I.     AIM V.I.     AIM                                     Alger  
    AIM V.I.     Global     Global     V.I.     Alger     Alger     Alger Capital     Alger Capital     Large Cap  
    Financial Services Fund     Health Care     Real Estate     Utilities     Balanced O     Balanced S     Appreciation O     Appreciation S     Growth I-2  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 8,998       (16,739 )     (76,203 )     673,504       828,183       826       (650,003 )     (23 )     (63,623 )
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (908,750 )     (440,865 )     (2,167,019 )     (7,453,597 )     (3,364,970 )     (2,071 )     2,630,934       (6 )     (253,467 )
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    1,175,884       829,011       3,806,739       9,070,054       13,214,375       13,031       16,380,105       475       3,925,210  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    276,132       371,407       1,563,517       2,289,961       10,677,588       11,786       18,361,036       446       3,608,120  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    59,184       147,064       319,252       405,189       132,354             1,683,141             456,226  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (77,592 )     (348,860 )     (438,802 )     (3,880,769 )     (976,986 )     25,199       (4,164,088 )           (174,255 )
Payments for redemptions
    (338,468 )     (248,260 )     (609,790 )     (4,763,310 )     (8,770,024 )     (6,396 )     (9,728,128 )     (3 )     (1,185,455 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (116 )     (738 )     (3,039 )     (51,537 )     (123,168 )           (133,713 )           (9,434 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
                24       (1,430 )     (9,210 )                       (1,769 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (356,992 )     (450,794 )     (732,355 )     (8,291,857 )     (9,747,034 )     18,803       (12,342,788 )     (3 )     (914,688 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (80,860 )     (79,387 )     831,162       (6,001,896 )     930,554       30,589       6,018,248       443       2,693,433  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
Beginning of period
    804,652       1,765,253       5,908,014       28,176,488       44,546,162       25,709       47,288,471       939       8,887,050  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 723,792       1,685,866       6,739,176       22,174,592       45,476,716       56,298       53,306,719       1,382       11,580,482  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
                            American Century     Credit Suisse  
    Alger Portfolios     Variable Portfolios, Inc.     Trust  
                            American     American                             Credit Suisse  
    Alger     Alger     Alger     Century VP     Century VP     American     American     Credit Suisse     Trust  
    Mid Cap     Mid Cap     Small Cap     Income     Income     Century VP     Century VP     Trust International     International  
    Growth I-2     Growth S     Growth I-2     & Growth     & Growth II     Value     Value II     Equity Flex II     Equity Flex III  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (147,777 )     (181 )     (85,740 )     368,990       184       662,213       110       64,807       407,415  
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (3,375,155 )     (78 )     48,662       (1,326,258 )     (6 )     (2,607,497 )     (33 )     (4,014,198 )     (26,219,153 )
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    7,945,332       3,865       2,437,079       2,546,225       909       4,349,364       453       5,486,657       39,544,247  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    4,422,400       3,606       2,400,001       1,588,956       1,087       2,404,080       530       1,537,266       13,732,508  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    514,543       475       323,056       466,349             691,296             236,515       548,205  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (69,741 )           1,279,519       (727,371 )           (1,147,483 )           (7,490,272 )     7,154,350  
Payments for redemptions
    (1,618,639 )           (784,745 )     (1,498,475 )           (2,179,607 )           (1,628,691 )     (7,657,307 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (6,909 )           (4,248 )     (7,526 )           (9,130 )           (14,276 )     (96,134 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
                (6 )     (60 )           (17,611 )                 39  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (1,180,746 )     475       813,576       (1,767,084 )           (2,662,536 )           (8,896,724 )     (50,846 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    3,241,654       4,081       3,213,577       (178,127 )     1,087       (258,456 )     530       (7,359,458 )     13,681,662  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
Beginning of period
    9,910,731       7,183       5,170,364       11,187,970       6,877       16,036,192       2,995       7,359,459       33,669,808  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 13,152,385       11,264       8,383,941       11,009,842       7,964       15,777,736       3,525             47,351,470  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
    Dreyfus     The Dreyfus        
    Investment     Socially Responsible     DWS  
    Portfolios     Growth Fund, Inc.     Variable Series I  
                                                            DWS     DWS  
    Dreyfus     Dreyfus     Dreyfus Socially     Dreyfus Socially     DWS     DWS     DWS     Global     Global  
    I.P. MidCap     I.P. MidCap     Responsible     Responsible     Bond     Capital     Capital     Opportunities     Opportunities  
    Stock A     Stock SC     Growth A     Growth SC     VIP     Growth VIP A     Growth VIP B     VIP A     VIP B  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 76,066       (5,434 )     (18,218 )     (16 )     1,321,345       (354,629 )     (1,713 )     200,154       (11 )
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (21,194,626 )     (287,146 )     (76,334 )     (3 )     (1,762,677 )     (13,271,419 )     5,938       (4,414,011 )     (49 )
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    35,200,778       660,666       1,538,104       431       2,226,922       63,855,715       58,978       26,062,866       957  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    14,082,218       368,086       1,443,551       412       1,785,590       50,229,667       63,203       21,849,009       897  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    407,533       74,449       115,832             802,951       3,103,578       1,200       1,146,622        
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (9,279,792 )     (30,068 )     (79,074 )     55       8,928,612       19,598,108       105       (5,187,136 )      
Payments for redemptions
    (10,718,791 )     (143,122 )     (761,788 )     (2 )     (5,138,271 )     (38,107,668 )     (231,169 )     (13,730,588 )     (16 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (139,002 )           (11,831 )           (37,257 )     (495,581 )           (166,358 )      
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (1,056 )           8             (5,834 )     (21,045 )           (2,965 )      
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (19,731,108 )     (98,741 )     (736,853 )     53       4,550,201       (15,922,607 )     (229,864 )     (17,940,425 )     (16 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (5,648,890 )     269,345       706,699       465       6,335,791       34,307,060       (166,661 )     3,908,584       881  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
Beginning of period
    57,253,261       1,125,422       5,006,851       1,283       18,767,396       198,670,074       332,189       61,737,598       2,004  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 51,604,371       1,394,767       5,713,550       1,748       25,103,188       232,977,134       165,528       65,646,182       2,885  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
    DWS        
    Variable Series I     DWS Variable Series II  
    DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS  
    Growth & Income     Growth & Income     Health Care     Health Care     International     International     Balanced     Blue Chip     Blue Chip  
    VIP A     VIP B     VIP A     VIP B     VIP A     VIP B     VIP     VIP A     VIP B  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 221,454       17       5,379       (94 )     1,514,595       1,511       4,479,966       380,469       (482 )
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (5,672,515 )     (1,778 )     (1,560,543 )     308       (5,506,889 )     (2,314 )     (4,470,668 )     (9,763,644 )     (2,603 )
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    13,463,805       28,190       7,428,672       1,837       16,265,700       19,494       34,574,077       24,841,999       43,049  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    8,012,744       26,429       5,873,508       2,051       12,273,405       18,691       34,583,375       15,458,824       39,964  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    196,260       2,378       532,084             734,586             1,688,137       194,855        
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (1,856,586 )     1,302       (7,437,389 )           (6,779,335 )     316       (4,665,350 )     (6,935,821 )     (2,473 )
Payments for redemptions
    (5,755,450 )     (4,887 )     (7,681,110 )     (1,696 )     (9,908,089 )     (13,526 )     (23,869,781 )     (10,158,571 )     (6,960 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (70,667 )           (95,060 )           (116,938 )           (216,863 )     (157,182 )      
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (3,965 )           (340 )           (3,851 )           (112,548 )     (3,269 )      
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (7,490,408 )     (1,207 )     (14,681,814 )     (1,696 )     (16,073,628 )     (13,210 )     (27,176,404 )     (17,059,988 )     (9,433 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    522,336       25,222       (8,808,306 )     355       (3,800,222 )     5,481       7,406,971       (1,601,163 )     30,531  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
Beginning of period
    31,155,151       82,936       42,356,606       11,339       53,098,813       71,929       177,452,812       62,370,452       133,432  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 31,677,487       108,158       33,548,300       11,694       49,298,591       77,410       184,859,782       60,769,289       163,963  
 
                                                     
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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series II  
                    DWS                                     DWS     DWS  
    DWS     DWS     Diversified     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     Government &     Government &  
    Core Fixed     Davis Venture     International Equity     Dreman Small Mid     Dreman Small Mid     Global     Global     Agency Securities VIP     Agency Securities VIP  
    Income VIP A     Value VIP     VIP     Cap Value VIP A     Cap Value VIP B     Thematic VIP A     Thematic VIP B     A     B  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 4,076,745       1,777,981       2,944,400       801,410       (343 )     80,484       (83 )     3,851,167       6,612  
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (6,262,029 )     (45,967,518 )     (26,478,125 )     (68,034,126 )     (21,466 )     (21,134,497 )     (9,486 )     1,169,638       693  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    5,511,983       39,869,505       36,604,743       93,931,856       68,829       33,159,955       18,564       1,833,125       5,231  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    3,326,699       (4,320,032 )     13,071,017       26,699,140       47,020       12,105,941       8,995       6,853,930       12,536  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    504,402       292,808       618,672       2,124,391       667       785,683       3,170       639,187       5,548  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    4,159,722       (85,145,852 )     (8,850,318 )     (17,576,808 )     (20,525 )     (4,225,794 )     (105 )     (10,142,432 )     176  
Payments for redemptions
    (15,316,529 )     (7,673,557 )     (10,986,872 )     (24,218,775 )           (7,448,622 )     (8,729 )     (22,844,594 )     (60,935 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (117,870 )     (49,399 )     (107,149 )     (250,673 )           (97,083 )           (213,924 )      
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (12,261 )     (5,026 )     (7,400 )     (10,672 )           (917 )           (8,781 )      
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (10,782,536 )     (92,581,026 )     (19,333,067 )     (39,932,537 )     (19,858 )     (10,986,733 )     (5,665 )     (32,570,545 )     (55,212 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (7,455,837 )     (96,901,058 )     (6,262,050 )     (13,233,397 )     27,162       1,119,208       3,330       (25,716,614 )     (42,676 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    59,265,172       96,901,058       66,545,866       138,064,546       186,720       38,296,635       29,083       115,382,012       246,390  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 51,809,335             60,283,816       124,831,149       213,882       39,415,843       32,413       89,665,398       203,715  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
    DWS  
    Variable Series II  
    DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS  
    High Income     High Income     Janus Growth &     Large Cap     Large Cap     Mid Cap     Money Market     Small Cap Growth     Strategic  
    VIP A     VIP B     Income VIP     Value VIP A     Value VIP B     Growth VIP     VIP     VIP     Income VIP  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 9,548,843       13,249       905,590       67,500       (1,861 )     (172,619 )     (1,696,408 )     (622,898 )     1,722,810  
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (11,539,177 )     (15,728 )     (16,780,108 )     (19,718,913 )     (42,793 )     (1,199,715 )           (4,882,949 )     (1,704,750 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    35,745,526       46,158       17,845,015       48,256,163       (7,520 )     5,626,239             20,715,730       8,345,741  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    33,755,192       43,679       1,970,498       28,604,750       (52,174 )     4,253,906       (1,696,408 )     15,209,883       8,363,802  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    1,482,979       1,200       237,975       1,763,248             413,572       3,838,237       1,089,571       158,048  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    8,668,561       (6,433 )     (49,006,704 )     62,145,451       308,843       (73,259 )     81,830,898       (2,411,093 )     179,432  
Payments for redemptions
    (16,870,811 )     (22,554 )     (3,723,716 )     (22,077,335 )     (145,904 )     (1,911,706 )     (175,087,456 )     (7,665,182 )     (11,062,598 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (167,539 )           (30,641 )     (282,675 )           (38,253 )     (405,132 )     (104,195 )     (112,227 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (31,019 )           (2,399 )     (15,379 )                 (1,108 )     (1,299 )     (2,371 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (6,917,830 )     (27,787 )     (52,525,485 )     41,533,310       162,939       (1,609,644 )     (89,824,561 )     (9,092,197 )     (10,839,716 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    26,837,362       15,892       (50,554,987 )     70,138,061       110,765       2,644,261       (91,520,969 )     6,117,686       (2,475,915 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    90,235,018       134,713       50,554,987       69,078,634       67,222       11,591,049       219,798,201       47,317,943       46,678,507  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 117,072,380       150,605             139,216,695       177,987       14,235,310       128,277,232       53,435,628       44,202,592  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
                                                            Fidelity     Fidelity  
    DWS     DWS     Variable Insurance     Variable Insurance  
    Variable Series II     Investments VIT Funds     Products Funds     Products Funds  
    DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     DWS     Fidelity     Fidelity  
    Strategic     Strategic     Technology     Technology     Turner Mid Cap     Equity 500     Equity 500     VIP     VIP  
    Value VIP A     Value VIP B     VIP A     VIP B     Growth VIP     Index VIP A     Index VIP B2     Asset Manager     Contrafund  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 5,464,464       4,236       (556,242 )     (377 )     (486,015 )     1,080,053       114       52,747       58,736  
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (38,201,342 )     (49,126 )     199,334       (433 )     (15,328,468 )     (10,231,400 )     (179 )     (275,911 )     (4,719,381 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    63,749,432       75,479       18,671,822       13,019       29,047,054       24,474,757       3,598       1,492,619       22,788,949  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    31,012,554       30,589       18,314,914       12,209       13,232,571       15,323,410       3,533       1,269,455       18,128,304  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    1,425,676             583,984       1,200       1,846,151       1,322,861             140,287       2,462,026  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (28,348,207 )     (18,768 )     (1,067,163 )     (4,086 )     (6,696,843 )     (3,161,354 )     181       (288,982 )     (166,574 )
Payments for redemptions
    (35,615,834 )     (7,385 )     (7,294,539 )     (18 )     (9,740,253 )     (17,484,281 )     (21 )     (648,505 )     (7,196,409 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (446,294 )           (121,312 )           (94,845 )     (200,250 )           (4,048 )     (33,540 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (19,836 )           (1,855 )           (1,677 )     (8,208 )           1,862       (131,318 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (63,004,494 )     (26,153 )     (7,900,885 )     (2,904 )     (14,687,467 )     (19,531,232 )     160       (799,386 )     (5,065,815 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (31,991,940 )     4,436       10,414,029       9,305       (1,454,896 )     (4,207,822 )     3,693       470,069       13,062,489  
 
                                                     
 
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    191,335,177       166,129       37,004,205       15,197       39,314,001       79,299,145       14,895       5,015,903       58,200,203  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 159,343,237       170,565       47,418,234       24,501       37,859,105       75,091,323       18,588       5,485,972       71,262,692  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
    Fidelity     Franklin Templeton  
    Variable Insurance Products Funds     Variable Insurance Products Trust  
    Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Fidelity     Franklin     Franklin     Franklin  
    VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP     VIP     Rising Dividends     Small Cap Value     Strategic Income  
    Contrafund 2     Equity Income     Equity Income 2     Growth     Index 500     Index 500 SC     Securities     Securities     Securities  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (59 )     229,548       20       (186,055 )     658,131       24,451       7,411       13,567       527,284  
 
                                                                       
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (6 )     (2,193,302 )     (21 )     (665,689 )     986,600       (152,694 )     (421,637 )     (692,887 )     (287,092 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    3,714       8,331,208       1,111       5,914,552       10,581,802       904,601       1,196,399       1,692,668       1,571,627  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    3,650       6,367,454       1,110       5,062,808       12,226,533       776,358       782,172       1,013,348       1,811,818  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
          894,151             826,035       1,821,537       93,691       220,832       218,425       405,898  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
          (1,730,577 )           240,713       (1,971,495 )     (107,601 )     (179,369 )     (419,209 )     2,402,650  
Payments for redemptions
          (3,405,586 )           (2,280,830 )     (5,969,517 )     (443,348 )     (679,797 )     (431,440 )     (1,548,383 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
          (16,560 )           (23,701 )     (50,537 )           (2,177 )     (1,856 )     (2,533 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
          550             (98,300 )     (388,605 )           (286 )           (65 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
          (4,258,023 )           (1,336,083 )     (6,558,617 )     (457,258 )     (640,797 )     (634,080 )     1,257,567  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    3,650       2,109,431       1,110       3,726,725       5,667,916       319,100       141,376       379,268       3,069,385  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    10,993       25,782,765       4,006       21,552,229       53,465,860       3,877,389       5,650,438       4,321,707       6,956,831  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 14,643       27,892,197       5,116       25,278,954       59,133,776       4,196,489       5,791,813       4,700,975       10,026,216  
 
                                                     
See accompanying notes to financial statements

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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
                                            ING     ING        
    Franklin Templeton     Global Resources     Investors     Janus  
    Variable Insurance Products Trust     Trust     Trust     Aspen Series  
    Franklin     Franklin     Mutual     Mutual                     ING JPMorgan     Janus     Janus  
    U.S.     Zero Coupon     Global Discovery     Shares     Templeton Developing     ING Global Resources     Emerging Markets     Aspen     Aspen Enterprise -  
    Government     2010     Securities     Securities     Markets Securities     Trust     Equity     Balanced     Institutional  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 131,466       249,218       (30,378 )     35,938       155,672       (86,443 )     25,544       1,249,667       (472,575 )
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    59,427       116,223       453,403       (1,164,420 )     (987,611 )     (929,365 )     120,693       4,307,912       1,346,664  
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    (97,616 )     (473,250 )     3,645,079       2,409,552       3,831,406       3,745,474       4,080,520       10,499,104       12,482,610  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    93,276       (107,809 )     4,068,104       1,281,070       2,999,467       2,729,666       4,226,758       16,056,684       13,356,700  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    211,670       264,314       939,962       330,988       227,043       294,261       223,176       2,227,325       1,109,687  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    971,288       (1,403,091 )     (130,497 )     (311,361 )     887,046       (744,071 )     608,809       (2,402,837 )     (1,162,597 )
Payments for redemptions
    (1,175,681 )     (1,260,687 )     (2,524,745 )     (646,472 )     (667,712 )     (866,577 )     (875,931 )     (8,707,062 )     (3,604,994 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (1,682 )     (4,120 )     (6,939 )     (2,688 )     (2,192 )     (4,027 )     (3,652 )     (44,311 )     (40,078 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (37 )     (26 )     (161 )     (69 )     187       (16,503 )     (27,521 )     (2,015 )     167  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    5,558       (2,403,610 )     (1,722,380 )     (629,603 )     444,372       (1,336,915 )     (75,119 )     (8,928,901 )     (3,697,816 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    98,834       (2,511,419 )     2,345,724       651,467       3,443,839       1,392,751       4,151,639       7,127,783       9,658,884  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    4,572,999       9,720,959       19,958,232       5,983,065       4,476,541       8,488,685       6,274,203       72,749,526       33,159,175  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 4,671,833       7,209,540       22,303,957       6,634,532       7,920,380       9,881,435       10,425,842       79,877,309       42,818,059  
 
                                                     
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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
    Janus     JPMorgan  
    Aspen Series     Insurance Trust  
    Janus     Janus     Janus             Janus     Janus     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan Insurance  
    Aspen     Aspen Janus -     Aspen Perkins     Janus Aspen Perkins     Aspen Worldwide -     Aspen Worldwide -     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Trust Diversified Mid  
    Forty     Institutional     Mid Cap Value     Small Company Value     Institutional     Service     Balanced     Core Bond     Cap Growth  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ (13,940 )     (187,498 )     (42,812 )     (17,300 )     51,395       (5 )     656       (5,267 )     (8,817 )
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    1,839       240,250       (367,321 )     (3,578,686 )     (392,812 )     (3 )     (736 )     (860 )     (170,962 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    389,294       7,451,945       1,590,412       3,320,130       13,023,613       289       7,130       46,182       394,952  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    377,192       7,504,698       1,180,280       (275,856 )     12,682,195       281       7,050       40,055       215,173  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    5,536       759,355       171,773       78,651       1,417,938                   14,426       34,489  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (24,888 )     (879,012 )     (79,356 )     (4,376,703 )     (1,082,854 )           36,005       1,417,118       (67,996 )
Payments for redemptions
    (62,771 )     (2,246,326 )     (458,059 )     (152,035 )     (4,138,452 )     (1 )     (1,748 )     (83,027 )     (83,153 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (2,673 )     (30,068 )     (2,161 )     (605 )     (43,428 )           (8 )     (121 )     (236 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
          (32,655 )                 (93,338 )                        
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (84,797 )     (2,428,706 )     (367,804 )     (4,450,692 )     (3,940,135 )     (1 )     34,249       1,348,395       (116,897 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    292,396       5,075,992       812,476       (4,726,548 )     8,742,060       280       41,299       1,388,451       98,276  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    904,643       23,602,167       4,051,896       4,726,549       38,234,787       807       22,653       47,866       682,936  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 1,197,039       28,678,159       4,864,372             46,976,847       1,087       63,952       1,436,317       781,212  
 
                                                     
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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
    JPMorgan  
    Insurance Trust  
    JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan     JPMorgan             JPMorgan  
    Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust     Insurance Trust Small     JPMorgan Insurance     International  
    Equity Index     Government Bond     International Equity     Intrepid Growth     Intrepid Mid Cap     Mid Cap Value     Cap Core     Trust U.S. Equity     Equity  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 1,948       35,666       65,912       (98 )     7,282       (50,225 )     (29,900 )     7,157       420,900  
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (40,554 )     12,309       (599,357 )     (90 )     (405,463 )     (485,531 )     (657,669 )     (62,913 )     (169,474 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    63,225       (21,958 )     (3,237,907 )     4,230       1,213,005       (946,284 )     (888,819 )     185,933       6,538,322  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    24,619       26,016       (3,771,352 )     4,042       814,824       (1,482,040 )     (1,576,388 )     130,177       6,789,748  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    2,606       818       296,786             171,397       169,420       112,521       12,907       161,296  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    2,387       (672,152 )     16,405,732             (196,346 )     8,989,853       6,293,090       (35,383 )     (17,358,051 )
Payments for redemptions
    (92,250 )     (3,055 )     (1,310,348 )           (337,447 )     (637,422 )     (328,670 )     (97,529 )     (400,532 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (67 )     (13 )     (5,235 )           (740 )     (2,368 )     (2,293 )     (380 )     (1,457 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
                17,785                   173       6,914       (62 )     (7,045 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (87,324 )     (674,402 )     15,404,721             (363,137 )     8,519,656       6,081,562       (120,447 )     (17,605,790 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (62,705 )     (648,385 )     11,633,369       4,042       451,687       7,037,616       4,505,175       9,730       (10,816,041 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    184,714       648,385       1       12,501       2,705,246       693,333       (1 )     471,358       10,815,951  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $ 122,009             11,633,370       16,544       3,156,933       7,730,983       4,505,174       481,088        
 
                                                     
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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                                                                         
    JPMorgan     Oppenheimer  
    Series Trust II     Variable Account Funds  
    JPMorgan     JPMorgan     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer     Oppenheimer  
    MidCap     Small     Capital     Global     High     Main     Main Street     MidCap     Strategic  
    Value     Company     Appreciation     Securities     Income     Street     Small Cap     Fund     Bond  
    Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 122,442       6,839       (33,798 )     164,099       (7,518 )     19,436       (44,669 )     (6,039 )     (91,227 )
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    (355,482 )     (171,212 )     (162,070 )     (1,651,201 )     (914,704 )     (717,928 )     (729,069 )     (85,810 )     (357,545 )
 
                                                                       
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    3,248,416       2,528,142       1,080,475       9,260,624       1,048,518       1,977,972       2,828,751       211,979       1,742,331  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    3,015,376       2,363,768       884,607       7,773,523       126,297       1,279,479       2,055,014       120,130       1,293,559  
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Proceeds from sales
    79,251       60,913       110,102       1,290,782       31,066       234,519       344,545       30,524       411,966  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    (9,512,063 )     (6,911,908 )     269,081       (929,532 )     368,939       (654,999 )     (426,290 )     82,198       (146,070 )
Payments for redemptions
    (146,508 )     (107,418 )     (379,527 )     (3,628,209 )     (86,841 )     (881,611 )     (960,397 )     (70,399 )     (1,827,896 )
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (426 )     (651 )     (1,465 )     (10,413 )     (261 )     (3,754 )     (4,128 )           (2,792 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
    (218 )     (20,025 )     2       (134 )                 (16 )           (26 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (9,579,964 )     (6,979,089 )     (1,807 )     (3,277,505 )     312,904       (1,305,846 )     (1,046,286 )     42,324       (1,564,818 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (6,564,588 )     (4,615,321 )     882,800       4,496,017       439,200       (26,367 )     1,008,728       162,454       (271,259 )
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
                                                                       
 
                                                                       
Beginning of period
    6,564,622       4,615,321       2,115,964       23,932,554       449,468       5,935,268       6,391,846       370,986       8,916,715  
 
                                                     
End of period
  $             2,998,764       28,428,572       888,668       5,908,902       7,400,574       533,440       8,645,456  
 
                                                     
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Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                 
    PIMCO  
    Variable Insurance Trust  
    PIMCO     PIMCO  
    Foreign     Low  
    Bond     Duration  
    Subaccount     Subaccount  
OPERATIONS
               
 
               
Net investment income (loss)
  $ 2,374       2,790  
 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
    10,567       6,145  
 
               
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments
    2,196       5,349  
 
           
 
               
Net increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity resulting from operations
    15,137       14,283  
 
           
 
               
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
               
 
               
Proceeds from sales
    1,416       72  
Net transfer (to) from affiliate and subaccounts
    2,364       2,983  
Payments for redemptions
    (21,546 )      
Guaranteed retirement income benefit, maintenance fees, and other fees
    (220 )     (221 )
Annuity payout reserve adjustment
           
 
           
 
               
Net increase (decrease) from contract owners’ equity transactions
    (17,986 )     2,834  
 
           
 
               
Total increase (decrease) in contract owners’ equity
    (2,848 )     17,117  
 
           
 
               
CONTRACT OWNERS’ EQUITY
               
 
               
Beginning of period
    126,498       122,543  
 
           
End of period
  $ 123,650       139,660  
 
           
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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
1) Organization:
ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account (the “Separate Account”), formerly known as KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account is a unit investment trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, was established by Zurich American Life Insurance Company (“ZALICO” or the “Company”). ZALICO is a stock life insurance company founded in 1947. The Company is incorporated under the insurance laws of the State of Illinois and is licensed in the District of Columbia and all states, with the exception of New York.
The Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich American Corporation (“Zurich”), a non-operating holding company, formerly known as Kemper Corporation. Zurich is a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc. (“ZHCA”). ZHCA is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services (“ZFS” or the “Parent”).
On July 6, 2010 the Company’s sole shareholder (Zurich, then Kemper Corporation) approved that the name of the Company be changed from Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company to Zurich American Life Insurance Company, and that an amendment of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation be made to effect such name change, with such amendment being subject to the approval of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Insurance, (“IDOI”). This change aligns the name of the Company with Zurich Financial Services brand. The IDOI approved the Company’s amended Articles of Incorporation reflecting this name change on Aug 23, 2010 and, accordingly, amended the Company’s Certificate of Authority. All other state regulatory notifications are being made.
Under applicable insurance law, the assets and liabilities of the Separate Account are clearly identified and distinguished from ZALICO’s other assets and liabilities. The portion of the Separate Account’s assets applicable to the variable annuity contracts is not chargeable with liabilities arising out of any other business ZALICO may conduct.
The Separate Account is used to fund contracts or certificates (collectively referred to as “Contracts”) for Zurich Advantage III periodic and flexible payment variable annuity contracts (“Zurich Advantage III”), Zurich Passport individual and group variable, fixed and market value adjusted deferred annuity contracts (“Zurich Passport”), Scudder Destinations individual and group variable, fixed and market value adjusted deferred annuity contracts (“Scudder Destinations”), Farmers Variable Annuity I individual and group variable, fixed and market value adjusted deferred annuity contracts (“Farmers Variable Annuity I”), Zurich Preferred individual and group variable and market value adjusted deferred annuity contracts (“Zurich Preferred”), Zurich Preferred Plus individual and group variable and market value adjusted deferred annuity contracts (“Zurich Preferred Plus”), Zurich ZS4 individual and group variable and market value adjusted deferred annuity contracts (“Zurich ZS4”) and Zurich Archway individual and group variable and market value adjusted deferred annuity contracts (“Zurich Archway”). The Separate Account is divided into a total of ninety-nine subaccounts with various subaccount options available to contract owners depending upon their respective Contracts. During the year ended December 31, 2010, assets were invested in ninety-nine of the subaccount options.
The Zurich Advantage III contracts have sixty subaccount options available to contract owners and each subaccount invests exclusively in the shares of a corresponding portfolio in the Alger Portfolios, the American Century Variable Portfolios, Inc., the Credit Suisse Trust, the Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, the Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., the Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund, the DWS Variable Series I, the DWS Variable Series II, the Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Fund, the Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, the ING Global Resources Trust, the ING Investors Trust, the ING VP Natural Resources Trust, the Invesco Variable Insurance Funds, the Janus Aspen Series, the JPMorgan Insurance Trust, the JPMorgan Series Trust II and the Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds, all of which are open-end management investment companies.
The Zurich Passport contracts have thirteen subaccount options available to the contract owners and each subaccount invests exclusively in the shares of a corresponding portfolio in the DWS Variable Series II, an open-end management investment company.
The Scudder Destinations contracts have twenty-nine subaccount options available to the contract owners and each subaccount invests exclusively in the shares of a corresponding portfolio in the Alger Portfolios, the Credit Suisse Trust, the Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, the Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., the DWS Variable Series I, the DWS Variable Series II, the DWS Investments VIT Funds, and the Invesco Variable Insurance Funds, all of which are open-end management investment companies.
 
The Farmers Variable Annuity I contracts have twelve subaccount options available to the contract owners and each subaccount invests exclusively in the shares of a corresponding portfolio in the DWS Variable Series I, the DWS Variable Series II, the Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, the Janus Aspen Series and the PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, all of which are open-end management investment companies.

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Notes to Financial Statements
(1) Organization: (continued)
The Zurich Preferred contracts have fifty-five subaccount options available to the contract owners and each subaccount invests exclusively in the shares of a corresponding portfolio in the Alger Portfolios, the American Century Variable Portfolios, Inc., the Credit Suisse Trust, the Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, the Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., the Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund, the DWS Variable Series I, the DWS Variable Series II, the Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Fund, the Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, the Invesco Variable Insurance Funds, the Janus Aspen Series, the JPMorgan Insurance Trust, the JPMorgan Series Trust II and the Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds, all of which are open-end management investment companies.
The Zurich Preferred Plus contracts have fifty-five subaccount options available to the contract owners and each subaccount invests exclusively in the shares of a corresponding portfolio in the Alger Portfolios, the American Century Variable Portfolios, Inc., the Credit Suisse Trust, the Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, the Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., the Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund, the DWS Variable Series I, the DWS Variable Series II, the Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Fund, the Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, Invesco Variable Insurance Funds, the Janus Aspen Series, the JPMorgan Insurance Trust, the JPMorgan Series Trust II and the Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds, all of which are open-end management investment companies.
The Zurich ZS4 contracts have twenty-seven subaccount options available to the contract owners and each subaccount invests exclusively in the shares of a corresponding portfolio in the Alger Portfolios, the Credit Suisse Trust, the Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, the Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., the DWS Variable Series I, the DWS Variable Series II, the DWS Investments VIT Funds, and the Invesco Variable Insurance Funds, all of which are open-end management investment companies.
The Zurich Archway contracts have fifty-four subaccount options available to the contract owners and each subaccount invests exclusively in the shares of a corresponding portfolio in the Alger Portfolios, the American Century Variable Portfolios, Inc., the Credit Suisse Trust, the Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., the Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund, the DWS Variable Series I, the DWS Variable Series II, the Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Fund, the Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, the Invesco Variable Insurance Funds, the Janus Aspen Series, the JPMorgan Insurance Trust, the JPMorgan Series Trust II and the Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds, all of which are open-end management investment companies.
At December 31, 2010, the Separate Account was comprised of one hundred and ten subaccounts as follows:
     
Alger Balanced ‘O’
  DWS Capital Growth VIP ‘B’
Alger Balanced ‘S’ (a)
  DWS Core Fixed Income VIP ‘A’
Alger Capital Appreciation ‘O’
  DWS Davis Venture Value VIP (a)
Alger Capital Appreciation ‘S’
  DWS Diversified International Equity VIP
Alger Large Cap Growth ‘I-2’
  DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP ‘A’
Alger Mid Cap Growth ‘O’
  DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP ‘B’
Alger Mid Cap Growth ‘S’
  DWS Equity 500 Index VIP ‘A’
Alger Small Cap Growth ‘I-2’
  DWS Equity 500 Index VIP ‘B2’
American Century VP Income & Growth
  DWS Global Opportunities VIP ‘A’
American Century VP Income & Growth II
  DWS Global Opportunities VIP ‘B’
American Century VP Value
  DWS Global Thematic VIP ‘A’
American Century VP Value II
  DWS Global Thematic VIP ‘B’
Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex II (a)
  DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP ‘A’
Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex III
  DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP ‘B’
Dreyfus I.P. MidCap Stock ‘A’
  DWS Growth & Income VIP ‘A’
Dreyfus I.P. MidCap Stock ‘SC’
  DWS Growth & Income VIP ‘B’
Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth ‘A’
  DWS Health Care VIP ‘A’
Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth ‘SC’
  DWS Health Care VIP ‘B’
DWS Balanced VIP
  DWS High Income VIP ‘A’
DWS Blue Chip VIP ‘A’
  DWS High Income VIP ‘B’
DWS Blue Chip VIP ‘B’
  DWS International VIP ‘A’
DWS Bond VIP
  DWS International VIP ‘B’
DWS Capital Growth VIP ‘A’
  DWS Janus Growth & Income VIP (a)

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Notes to Financial Statements
     
(1) Organization: (continued)
   
 
DWS Large Cap Value VIP ‘A’
  Invesco V.I. Utilities
DWS Large Cap Value VIP ‘B’
  Janus Aspen Balanced
DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP
  Janus Aspen Enterprise — Institutional
DWS Money Market VIP ‘A’
  Janus Aspen Forty
DWS Small Cap Growth VIP
  Janus Aspen Janus — Institutional
DWS Strategic Income VIP
  Janus Aspen Perkins Mid Cap Value
DWS Strategic Value VIP ‘A’
  Janus Aspen Perkins Small Cap Value (a)
DWS Strategic Value VIP ‘B’
  Janus Aspen Worldwide — Institutional
DWS Technology VIP ‘A’
  Janus Aspen Worldwide — Service
DWS Technology VIP ‘B’
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced (a)
DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust Core Bond
Fidelity VIP Asset Manager
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust Equity Index
Fidelity VIP Contrafund
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust Government Bond (a)
Fidelity VIP Contrafund ‘2’
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust International Equity
Fidelity VIP Equity Income
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Growth
Fidelity VIP Equity Income ‘2’
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Mid Cap
Fidelity VIP Growth
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Growth
Fidelity VIP Index 500
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Value
Fidelity VIP Index 500 ‘SC’
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust Small Cap Core
Franklin Rising Dividends Securities
  JPMorgan Insurance Trust U.S. Equity
Franklin Small Cap Value Securities
  JPMorgan International Equity (a)
Franklin Strategic Income Securities
  JPMorgan Mid Cap Value (a)
Franklin U.S. Government
  JPMorgan Small Cap Value (a)
Franklin Zero Coupon 2010 (a)
  Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation
Mutual Global Discovery Securities
  Oppenheimer Global Securities
Mutual Shares Securities
  Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income Fund VA Series
Templeton Developing Markets Securities
  Oppenheimer High Income
ING Global Resources Trust
  Oppenheimer Main Street
ING JPMorgan Emerging Markets Equity
  Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap
Invesco Financial Services Fund
  Oppenheimer Small-MidCap Growth Fund VA Series
Invesco Global Health Care
  PIMCO Foreign Bond
Invesco Global Real Estate
  PIMCO Low Duration
 
(a)   Subaccounts are closed and not available.
See respective contract Prospectus of each product for further description and benefits.
(2) Significant Accounting Policies:
Investments
Investments are made in the various portfolios in accordance with selections made by the contract owners. Such investments are made at the net asset value per share, reported by the respective portfolios.
Security transactions and investment income
Security transactions are generally accounted for on the trade date (date the order to buy or sell is executed). Dividend income is recorded as income on the ex-dividend date. Realized gains and losses from sales of investment shares are generally reported on a first in, first out (FIFO) cost basis. Capital gain distributions are included in realized gains (losses) on investments.
Accumulation unit valuation
On each day the New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”) is open for trading, the accumulation unit value is determined as of the earlier of 3:00 p.m. (CST) or the close of the Exchange by dividing the total value of each subaccount’s investments and other assets, less liabilities, by the number of accumulation units outstanding in the respective subaccount.

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Notes to Financial Statements
(2) Significant Accounting Policies: (continued)
Federal income taxes
The results of the operations of the Separate Account are included in the federal income tax return of ZALICO. Under the provisions of the contracts, ZALICO has the right to charge the Separate Account for federal income tax attributable to the Separate Account. No charge has been made against the Separate Account for such tax. Management will periodically review the contract in the event of changes in tax law. Accordingly, a charge may be made in future years for any federal income taxes that would be attributable to the contracts.
Net transfers (to) from affiliate or subaccounts
Net transfers (to) from affiliate or subaccounts include transfers of all or part of the contract owners’ interest to or from another eligible subaccount or to the general account of ZALICO.
Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that could affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, as well as the disclosure of contingent assets or liabilities at the date of the financial statements. As a result, actual results reported as revenue and expenses could differ from the estimates reported in the accompanying financial statements.
Risks and Uncertainties
The Separate Account provides for various investment options in any combination of the available open-end management investment companies. Generally, all investments are exposed to various risks, such as interest rate, market and credit risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investments and the level of uncertainty related to changes in the value of investments, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in risks in the near term could materially affect investment balances, the amounts reported in the Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity and the amounts reported in the Statement of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity.
Annuity Payouts
Net assets allocated to contracts in the annuity payout period are computed according to the 1983a Individual Annuitant Mortality Table with projections. Unless the annuitant elects otherwise, the assumed investment return is 2.5% for most products (i.e. Destinations, Farmers Variable Annuity, Archway, ZS4, Preferred, Preferred Plus, most Advantage III policies), or 4.0% for Passport and some Advantage III contracts. The mortality risk is fully borne by ZALICO and may result in additional amounts being transferred into the Separate Account by ZALICO to cover greater longevity of annuitants than expected. Conversely, if amounts allocated exceed amounts required, transfers may be made to the insurance company.
Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted
Accounting Standard Update (“ASU” or “Update”) No. 2010-06 — Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures — Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements.
In January of 2010, Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU No. 2010-06 — Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures — Improving Disclosure about Fair Value Measurements. This Update provides amendments to Subtopic 820-10 that requires the following new disclosures: 1) A reporting entity should disclose separately the amounts of significant transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements and describe the reasons for the transfers; 2) In the reconciliation for fair value measurements using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3), a reporting entity should present separately information about purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements (that is, on a gross basis rather than as one net number). In addition, this Update provides amendments to clarify existing fair value measurement disclosures with respect to the required level of detail (i.e. class of assets and liabilities) and inputs and valuation techniques used for Level 2 and Level 3 investments. This Update became effective for the Separate Account in 2010, except for the disclosures about purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements in the roll forward of activity in Level 3 fair value measurements. Those disclosures are effective for the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2010. This Update did not have an impact on the Separate Account’s financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements
(2) Significant Accounting Policies: (continued)
ASU No. 2009-17 — Consolidations — Improvements to Financial Reporting by Enterprises Involved with Variable Interest Entities.
In December of 2009, FASB issued ASU No. 2009-17 which incorporates FASB Statement No. 167, Amendments to FASB Interpretation No. 46(R) (“SFAS No. 167”) into the ASC. SFAS No. 167 was issued by the Board on June 12, 2009. This Update provides guidance for determining whether variable interest entities should be consolidated, and the Separate Account has a scope exemption which is provided for in this pronouncement. The adoption of this Update did not have an impact on the Separate Account’s financial statements.
Fair Value Measurements
The Separate Account determined the fair value of its financial instruments based on the fair value hierarchy established in FASB guidance referenced in the Fair Value Measurements and Disclosure Topic which requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.
The Separate Account has categorized its financial instruments based on the priority of the inputs to the valuation technique, into the three level hierarchy. The fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3). If the inputs used to measure fair value fall within different levels of the hierarchy, the category level is based on the lowest priority level input that is significant to the fair value measurement of the instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities recorded at fair value on the Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity are categorized as follows:
    Level 1: Unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in an active market.
 
    Level 2: Quoted prices in markets that are not active or significant inputs that are observable either directly or indirectly. Level 2 inputs include the following:
  a)   Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets
 
  b)   Quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in non-active markets
 
  c)   Inputs other than quoted market prices that are observable
 
  d)   Inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data through correlation or other means.
    Level 3: Prices or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both unobservable and significant to the overall fair value measurement. They reflect management’s own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in pricing the asset or liability.
Determination of Fair Values
The valuation methodologies used to determine the fair values of assets and liabilities under the FASB guidance referenced in the Fair Value Measurements and Disclosure Topic reflect market participation assumptions and are based on the application of the fair value hierarchy that prioritizes observable market inputs over unobservable inputs. The Separate Account determines the fair values of certain financial assets based on quoted market prices. All of the investments in the subaccounts of the Separate Account are classified as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy and consist of open-end management investment companies. Participants may, without restriction, transact at the daily net asset value (“NAV”) of the investment companies The NAV represents the daily per share value of the portfolio of investments of the mutual funds, at which sufficient volumes of transactions occur.

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Notes to Financial Statements
(3) Purchases and Sales of Investments:
The cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, excluding distributions received and reinvested, for the year ended December 31, 2010, are as follows:
                 
    Purchases     Sales  
The Alger Portfolios:
               
Alger Balanced -Class O
  $ 2,390,339     $ 8,743,136  
Alger Balanced -Class S
    998       57,429  
Alger Capital Appreciation- Class O
    3,639,510       9,068,239  
Alger Capital Appreciation- Class S
    7,241       8,063  
Alger Large Cap Growth- Class I-2
    746,046       2,284,857  
Alger Mid Cap Growth-Class I-2
    702,905       2,606,593  
Alger Mid Cap Growth-Class S
    24       225  
Alger Small Cap Growth- Class I-2
    1,004,914       2,668,221  
 
               
American Century Variable Portfolios, Inc.:
               
American Century VP Income and Growth
    340,412       2,104,018  
American Century VP Income and Growth II
    103       136  
American Century VP Value
    22,819,647       19,373,390  
American Century VP Value II
    74       60  
 
               
Credit Suisse Trust:
               
Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex III
    3,980,679       12,075,699  
 
               
Dreyfus Investment Portfolios:
               
Dreyfus I.P. MidCap Stock A
    4,060,891       9,144,697  
Dreyfus I.P. MidCap Stock SC
    1,095,590       835,435  
 
               
The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc.:
               
Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth A
    397,995       1,082,537  
Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth SC
    64       30  
 
               
DWS Variable Series I:
               
DWS Bond VIP
    4,968,671       6,216,847  
DWS Capital Growth VIP A
    2,619,174       37,925,722  
DWS Capital Growth VIP B
    1,964       15,178  
DWS Global Opportunities VIP A
    4,551,097       11,372,393  
DWS Global Opportunities VIP B
    3       74  
DWS Growth & Income VIP A
    1,740,828       5,952,572  
DWS Growth & Income VIP B
    3,809       17,244  
DWS Health Care VIP A
    4,053,961       6,805,579  
DWS Health Care VIP B
    796       965  
DWS International VIP A
    1,870,000       8,312,855  
DWS International VIP B
    4,743       10,225  

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Notes to Financial Statements
(3) Purchases and Sales of Investments: (continued)
                 
    Purchases     Sales  
DWS Variable Series II:
               
DWS Balanced VIP
  $ 7,547,883     $ 24,865,152  
DWS Blue Chip VIP A
    2,416,093       11,232,567  
DWS Blue Chip VIP B
    3,851       19,529  
DWS Core Fixed Income VIP A
    20,487,170       24,599,019  
DWS Diversified International Equity VIP
    4,552,027       10,125,757  
DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP A
    6,199,026       22,866,868  
DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP B
    9,676       32,438  
DWS Global Thematic VIP A
    2,530,029       7,375,381  
DWS Global Thematic VIP B
    3,376       495  
DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP A
    38,217,797       42,403,600  
DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP B
    16,834       15,495  
DWS High Income VIP A
    64,342,881       68,268,992  
DWS High Income VIP B
    13,696       27,276  
DWS Large Cap Value VIP A
    3,931,481       22,373,530  
DWS Large Cap Value VIP B
    5,592       27,778  
DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP
    2,703,579       3,654,306  
DWS Money Market VIP
    56,512,946       90,741,907  
DWS Small Cap Growth VIP
    2,909,775       11,073,873  
DWS Strategic Income VIP
    9,000,039       9,624,066  
DWS Strategic Value VIP A
    3,607,653       28,977,670  
DWS Strategic Value VIP B
    5,292       37,519  
DWS Technology VIP A
    3,669,148       12,024,515  
DWS Technology VIP B
    7,236       19,524  
DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP
    2,820,660       6,664,407  
 
               
DWS Investments VIT Funds:
               
DWS Equity 500 Index VIP A
    6,409,047       13,756,541  
DWS Equity 500 Index VIP B2
    576       2,986  
 
               
Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Funds:
               
Fidelity VIP Asset Manager
    361,075       1,141,884  
Fidelity VIP Contrafund
    1,826,965       12,161,988  
Fidelity VIP Contrafund 2
    163       253  
Fidelity VIP Equity Income
    1,002,236       4,848,611  
Fidelity VIP Equity Income 2
    86       87  
Fidelity VIP Growth
    1,058,511       5,999,654  
Fidelity VIP Index 500
    2,671,360       8,482,706  
Fidelity VIP Index SC 500
    175,176       1,026,049  
 
               
Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust:
               
Franklin Rising Dividends Securities
    1,076,578       1,295,227  
Franklin Small Cap Value Securities
    1,539,023       1,168,283  
Franklin Strategic Income Securities
    2,976,089       2,640,107  

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(3) Purchases and Sales of Investments: (continued)
                 
    Purchases     Sales  
Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust:
               
Franklin U.S. Government
  $ 1,308,603     $ 1,669,761  
Franklin Zero Coupon 2010
    999,341       7,375,140  
Mutual Global Discovery Securities
    1,802,085       3,765,427  
Mutual Shares Securities
    1,619,326       1,992,998  
Templeton Developing Markets Securities
    1,267,253       1,651,921  
 
               
ING Global Resources Trust
               
ING Global Resources Trust
    1,158,050       2,025,813  
 
               
ING Investors Trust:
               
ING JPMorgan Emerging Markets Equity
    1,397,244       2,242,420  
 
               
Invesco Variable Insurance Funds:
               
Invesco Financial Services Fund
    582,720       403,233  
Invesco Global Health Care
    151,372       340,433  
Invesco Global Real Estate
    855,961       1,533,697  
Invesco Utilities
    2,089,751       4,732,824  
 
               
Janus Aspen Series:
               
Janus Aspen Balanced
    3,549,691       11,299,270  
Janus Aspen Enterprise — Institutional
    727,144       6,400,457  
Janus Aspen Forty
    22,971       88,213  
Janus Aspen Janus — Institutional
    607,915       4,339,999  
Janus Aspen Perkins Mid Cap Value
    822,938       1,303,680  
Janus Aspen Worldwide — Institutional
    548,420       6,132,145  
Janus Aspen Worldwide — Service
    4       1,109  
 
               
JPMorgan Insurance Trust:
               
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced
    15,477       83,956  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Core Bond
    505,699       334,148  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Equity Index
    244,422       44,539  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust International Equity
    196,721       2,174,703  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Growth
    158       14,016  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Mid Cap
    411,155       750,202  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Growth
    398,542       402,946  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Value
    455,675       1,846,031  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Small Cap Core
    539,488       1,310,611  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust U.S. Equity
    190,996       285,115  
 
               
Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds:
               
Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation
    229,873       1,041,440  
Oppenheimer Global Securities
    1,172,599       5,972,293  
Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income VA Series
    3,316,719       2,410,071  

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    Purchases     Sales  
Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds:
               
Oppenheimer High Income
  $ 181,619     $ 383,618  
Oppenheimer Main Street
    280,692       1,232,297  
Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap
    715,085       1,862,135  
Oppenheimer Small-MidCap Growth VA Series
    228,153       211,781  
 
               
PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust:
               
PIMCO Foreign Bond
    12,299       15,125  
PIMCO Low Duration
    8,709       14,604  
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(4) Expenses and Related Party Transactions:
The following is a summary of Separate Account expense charges which are assessed either as a direct reduction in unit values or through a redemption of units for all contracts contained within the Separate Account:
     
Contract Charges   Range
Mortality and Expense Risk Charge
   
Each Subaccount is assessed a daily asset charge for mortality and expense risks through a reduction in unit values. The mortality and expense risk charge covers certain insurance benefits available under the contracts and certain expenses the Company expects to incur. It also covers the risk that charges will not be sufficient to cover costs associated with the contracts and to provide contractual benefits.
  0-1.25%
 
Administration Charge
   
Each Subaccount is assessed a daily administration charge through a reduction in unit values. This charge reimburses us for expenses incurred for administering the Contracts. These expenses include Owner inquiries, changes in allocations, Owner reports, Contract maintenance costs, and data processing costs. The administrative charge covers the average anticipated administrative expenses incurred while the Contracts are in force.
  0-.50%
 
Records Maintenance Charge
   
An annual Records Maintenance Charge is assessed during the Accumulation Period through the redemption of units and is assessed equally among all Subaccounts in which the Contract Holder has an interest. The charge is assessed at the end of each Contract year, on Contract surrender and upon annuitization. However, the Separate Account does not deduct the Records Maintenance Charge for Contracts with Contract Value of at least $50,000 on the assessment date. This charge reimburses the Separate Account for the expenses of establishing and maintaining Contract records.
  0-$30    
 
Withdrawal Charge
   
Withdrawal Charges are applicable only during the first seven Contribution Years following each purchase payment. When a withdrawal is requested in good order, and a Withdrawal Charge applies, the Contract Value is reduced by the amount of the Withdrawal Charge through the redemption of units. This charge is subject to certain exceptions. The Withdrawal Charge compensate the Company for Contract distribution expenses, which include the payment of commissions and other promotion and acquisition expenses.
  0-8%
 
Optional Benefit Fees
   
Optional benefits may be elected by contractholders. These benefits include death benefits and living benefits through the purchase of riders, such as Guaranteed Retirement Income Benefit Rider (“GRIB”), Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Rider (“GMDB”), Earnings Based Death Benefit Rider (“EBDB”), Safeguard Enhanced Death Benefit Rider and/or Safeguard Plus Enhanced Death Benefit Rider. The fees for such benefits are deducted monthly and assessed through redemption of units. These fees are calculated on an “Asset Base” basis.
  0.15-0.35%
 
Transfer Charge
   
The Company currently allows unlimited transfers without charge. The Company reserves the right to assess a transfer fee for the thirteenth and each subsequent transfer during a Contract Year. The charge would be assessed through the redemption of units.
  0-$25    
 
Investment Management Fees and other expenses
   
In some cases, the value of the net assets of each Subaccount is reduced by the Investment Management, 12b-1 fees and service fees and other expenses incurred by the corresponding portfolio in which the Subaccount invests. These fees and expenses are paid indirectly by the Contract Holder through the reduction of unit values.
  0-0.25%
 
Redemption Fees
   
A Fund or Portfolio may assess a redemption fee on Subaccount assets that are redeemed out of the Fund or Portfolio in connection with a withdrawal or transfer. Each Fund or Portfolio determines the amount of the redemption fee and when the fee is imposed. The redemption fee is retained by or paid to the Fund or Portfolio and is not retained by the Company. The redemption fee is deducted from the Contract Value through the redemption of units.
  0-2%
 
Applicable State Premium Taxes
   
Certain state and local governments impose a premium tax on Purchase Payments which, depending on the state, is paid by the Company at the time a Purchase Payment is received from the Contract Holder or at the time the Contract is annuitized. If the Contract Holder lives in a state where premium taxes are paid at the time a Purchase Payment is received, the Company reserves the right to deduct the amount of the premium tax payable from the Contract Value at the time the Purchase Payment is received. If the Contract Holder lives in a state where premium taxes are paid at time of annuitization, the amount of the premium tax payable will be deducted from the Contract Value.
  0-3.5%
Synergy Investment Group, LLC (“Synergy”), an unaffiliated broker/dealer, and Investment Distributors, Inc. (“IDI”), an affiliate of PLICO, are the principal underwriters for the ZALICO separate account. Synergy serves as the principal underwriter for the Scudder Destinations and Farmers Variable Annuity I contracts. IDI serves as the principal underwriter for the remainder of the variable annuity contracts funded through the separate account. BFP Securities LLC, an affiliate of the Company, is also the primary wholesaling distributor of the Company’s BOLI products.

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Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding:
The changes in units outstanding for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:
                         
                    Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Units Redeemed     (Decrease)  
The Alger Portfolios:
                       
Alger Balanced O
                       
2010
    301,902       893,726       (591,824 )
2009
    670,628       1,674,800       (1,004,172 )
Alger Balanced S
                       
2010
          4,670       (4,670 )
2009
    2,581       607       1,974  
Alger Capital Appreciation O
                       
2010
    829,395       1,303,350       (473,955 )
2009
    1,267,123       2,893,443       (1,626,320 )
Alger Capital Appreciation S
                       
2010
    473       474       (1 )
2009
                 
Alger Large Cap Growth I-2
                       
2010
    24,648       54,208       (29,560 )
2009
    46,479       73,677       (27,198 )
Alger Mid Cap Growth I-2
                       
2010
    46,235       102,606       (56,371 )
2009
    92,478       147,937       (55,459 )
Alger Mid Cap Growth S
                       
2010
    2       2        
2009
    46       2       44  
Alger Small Cap Growth I-2
                       
2010
    40,181       85,375       (45,194 )
2009
    99,457       66,406       33,051  
 
                       
American Century Variable Portfolios, Inc.:
                       
American Century VP Income & Growth
                       
2010
    109,634       386,912       (277,278 )
2009
    193,038       512,351       (319,313 )
American Century VP Income & Growth II
                       
2010
                 
2009
                 
American Century VP Value
                       
2010
    2,468,350       2,167,498       300,852  
2009
    237,732       589,395       (351,663 )
American Century VP Value II
                       
2010
                 
2009
                 

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Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding: (continued)
                         
                    Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Units Redeemed     (Decrease)  
Credit Suisse Trust:
                       
Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex II
                       
2010
                 
2009
          1,192,719       (1,192,719 )
Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex III
                       
2010
    557,559       978,042       (420,483 )
2009
    1,221,919       1,386,895       (164,976 )
 
                       
Dreyfus Investment Portfolios:
                       
Dreyfus I.P. MidCap Stock A
                       
2010
    564,511       936,642       (372,131 )
2009
    480,319       2,434,820       (1,954,501 )
Dreyfus I.P. MidCap Stock SC
                       
2010
    80,861       63,879       16,982  
2009
    22,029       30,579       (8,550 )
 
                       
The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc:
                       
The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth A
                       
2010
    55,795       115,029       (59,234 )
2009
    76,132       184,685       (108,553 )
The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth SC
                       
2010
    5             5  
2009
    6             6  
 
                       
DWS Variable Series I:
                       
DWS Bond VIP
                       
2010
    660,551       887,664       (227,113 )
2009
    1,638,071       1,175,864       462,207  
DWS Capital Growth VIP A
                       
2010
    762,687       3,804,274       (3,041,587 )
2009
    7,242,333       8,424,963       (1,182,630 )
DWS Capital Growth VIP B
                       
2010
    90       942       (852 )
2009
    412       20,307       (19,895 )
DWS Global Opportunities VIP A
                       
2010
    618,434       967,283       (348,849 )
2009
    723,078       2,120,454       (1,397,376 )
DWS Global Opportunities VIP B
                       
2010
          1       (1 )
2009
          1       (1 )

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Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding: (continued)
                         
            Units     Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Redeemed     (Decrease)  
DWS Variable Series I: (continued)
                       
DWS Growth & Income VIP A
                       
2010
    298,305       799,767       (501,462 )
2009
    473,961       1,595,439       (1,121,478 )
DWS Growth & Income VIP B
                       
2010
    304       1,441       (1,137 )
2009
    552       615       (63 )
DWS Health Care VIP A
                       
2010
    298,090       646,726       (348,636 )
2009
    315,709       1,659,655       (1,343,946 )
DWS Health Care VIP B
                       
2010
          45       (45 )
2009
          111       (111 )
DWS International VIP A
                       
2010
    417,555       1,121,282       (703,727 )
2009
    702,993       2,752,657       (2,049,664 )
DWS International VIP B
                       
2010
    309       716       (407 )
2009
    152       1,407       (1,255 )
 
                       
DWS Variable Series II:
                       
DWS Balanced VIP
                       
2010
    702,014       3,739,005       (3,036,991 )
2009
    1,223,661       5,839,060       (4,615,399 )
DWS Blue Chip VIP A
                       
2010
    455,547       1,367,752       (912,205 )
2009
    747,051       2,910,361       (2,163,310 )
DWS Blue Chip VIP B
                       
2010
    167       1,283       (1,116 )
2009
    33       860       (827 )
DWS Core Fixed Income VIP A
                       
2010
    3,701,741       4,878,788       (1,177,047 )
2009
    3,872,245       5,939,399       (2,067,154 )
DWS Davis Venture Value VIP
                       
2010 
                 
2009
    562       11,803,333       (11,802,771 )
DWS Diversified International Equity VIP
                       
2010
    994,786       2,659,564       (1,664,778 )
2009
    1,298,595       4,979,949       (3,681,354 )

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Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding: (continued)
                         
                    Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Units Redeemed     (Decrease)  
DWS Variable Series II: (continued)
                       
DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP A
                       
2010
    1,722,220       4,001,299       (2,279,079 )
2009
    2,148,467       6,824,182       (4,675,715 )
DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP B
                       
2010
    481       1,573       (1,092 )
2009
    221       1,582       (1,361 )
DWS Global Thematic VIP A
                       
2010
    404,407       735,873       (331,466 )
2009
    552,615       1,593,743       (1,041,128 )
DWS Global Thematic VIP B
                       
2010
    215             215  
2009
    274       848       (574 )
DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP A
                       
2010
    3,538,234       4,781,760       (1,243,526 )
2009
    2,992,957       5,733,482       (2,740,525 )
DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP B
                       
2010
    735       1,054       (319 )
2009
    962       5,779       (4,817 )
DWS High Income VIP A
                       
2010
    5,609,636       7,242,330       (1,632,694 )
2009
    4,506,753       5,629,812       (1,123,059 )
DWS High Income VIP B
                       
2010
    145       1,551       (1,406 )
2009
    169       2,422       (2,253 )
DWS Janus Growth & Income VIP
                       
2010
                 
2009
          8,715,133       (8,715,133 )
DWS Large Cap Value VIP A
                       
2010
    1,278,428       3,613,707       (2,335,279 )
2009
    9,035,764       5,976,564       3,059,200  
DWS Large Cap Value VIP B
                       
2010
    225       2,018       (1,793 )
2009
    20,754       12,897       7,857  
DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP
                       
2010
    420,164       524,830       (104,666 )
2009
    506,130       753,601       (247,471 )
DWS Money Market VIP
                       
2010
    16,394,118       20,061,285       (3,667,167 )
2009
    17,524,757       30,756,924       (13,232,167 )

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of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding: (continued)
                         
                    Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Units Redeemed     (Decrease)  
DWS Variable Series II: (continued)
                       
DWS Small Cap Growth VIP
                       
2010
    1,563,231       3,516,507       (1,953,276 )
2009
    2,286,270       4,954,927       (2,668,657 )
DWS Strategic Income VIP
                       
2010
    688,564       846,435       (157,871 )
2009
    1,068,032       1,872,246       (804,214 )
DWS Strategic Value VIP A
                       
2010
    773,361       3,112,889       (2,339,528 )
2009
    1,436,051       8,352,676       (6,916,625 )
DWS Strategic Value VIP B
                       
2010
    279       3,370       (3,091 )
2009
    783       3,916       (3,133 )
DWS Technology VIP A
                       
2010
    2,456,018       3,932,205       (1,476,187 )
2009
    3,266,293       4,297,724       (1,031,431 )
DWS Technology VIP B
                       
2010
    636       1,521       (885 )
2009
    149       96       53  
DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP
                       
2010
    611,720       940,032       (328,312 )
2009
    930,659       2,978,261       (2,047,602 )
 
                       
DWS Investments VIT Funds:
                       
DWS Equity 500 Index VIP A
                       
2010
    1,019,310       1,829,186       (809,876 )
2009
    2,571,534       5,120,772       (2,549,238 )
DWS Equity 500 Index VIP B2
                       
2010
    37       303       (266 )
2009
    46       27       19  
 
                       
Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Funds:
                       
Fidelity VIP Asset Manager
                       
2010
    13,711       43,386       (29,675 )
2009
    18,907       52,251       (33,344 )
Fidelity VIP Contrafund
                       
2010
    151,317       432,661       (281,344 )
2009
    413,019       611,563       (198,544 )

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of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding: (continued)
                         
                    Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Units Redeemed     (Decrease)  
Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Funds: (continued)
                       
Fidelity VIP Contrafund 2
                       
2010
                 
2009
                 
Fidelity VIP Equity Income
                       
2010
    55,932       181,665       (125,733 )
2009
    94,151       266,877       (172,726 )
Fidelity VIP Equity Income 2
                       
2010
                 
2009
                 
Fidelity VIP Growth
                       
2010
    50,345       164,602       (114,257 )
2009
    159,025       217,350       (58,325 )
Fidelity VIP Index 500
                       
2010
    25,289       82,986       (57,697 )
2009
    62,332       121,222       (58,890 )
Fidelity VIP Index 500 SC
                       
2010
    1,262       5,890       (4,628 )
2009
    4,132       8,383       (4,251 )
 
                       
Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust:
                       
Franklin Rising Dividends Securities
                       
2010
    95,654       113,269       (17,615 )
2009
    89,075       148,606       (59,531 )
Franklin Small Cap Value Securities
                       
2010
    106,673       85,791       20,882  
2009
    66,868       116,772       (49,904 )
Franklin Strategic Income Securities
                       
2010
    227,077       227,503       (426 )
2009
    413,740       315,987       97,753  
Franklin U.S. Government
                       
2010
    116,618       152,638       (36,020 )
2009
    261,682       260,346       1,336  
Franklin Zero Coupon 2010
                       
2010
    41,760       662,059       (620,299 )
2009
    100,703       307,283       (206,580 )
Mutual Global Discovery Securities
                       
2010
    170,797       270,323       (99,526 )
2009
    233,308       337,428       (104,120 )

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of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding: (continued)
                         
                    Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Units Redeemed     (Decrease)  
Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust: (continued)
                       
Mutual Shares Securities
                       
2010
    150,017       179,034       (29,017 )
2009
    171,004       231,169       (60,165 )
Templeton Developing Markets Securities
                       
2010
    64,040       78,667       (14,627 )
2009
    97,197       86,502       10,695  
 
                       
ING Global Resources Trust:
                       
ING Global Resources Trust
                       
2010
    150,499       230,188       (79,689 )
2009
    152,278       298,096       (145,818 )
 
                       
ING Investors Trust:
                       
ING JPMorgan Emerging Markets Equity
                       
2010
    51,427       112,819       (61,392 )
2009
    97,387       107,722       (10,335 )
 
                       
Invesco Variable Insurance Funds:
                       
Invesco Financial Services Fund
                       
2010
    93,359       69,708       23,651  
2009
    159,936       207,779       (47,843 )
Invesco Global Health Care
                       
2010
    14,776       27,277       (12,501 )
2009
    33,348       72,802       (39,454 )
Invesco Global Real Estate
                       
2010
    44,183       92,174       (47,991 )
2009
    59,117       109,310       (50,193 )
Invesco Utilities
                       
2010
    258,536       546,715       (288,179 )
2009
    489,390       1,440,236       (950,846 )
 
                       
Janus Aspen Series:
                       
Janus Aspen Balanced
                       
2010
    143,642       364,960       (221,318 )
2009
    178,736       444,291       (265,555 )
Janus Aspen Enterprise — Institutional
                       
2010
    67,944       220,116       (152,172 )
2009
    103,764       246,192       (142,428 )

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Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding: (continued)
                         
                    Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Units Redeemed     (Decrease)  
Janus Aspen Series: (continued)
                       
Janus Aspen Forty
                       
2010
    2,376       6,486       (4,110 )
2009
    2,121       10,756       (8,635 )
Janus Aspen Janus — Institutional
                       
2010
    61,366       217,391       (156,025 )
2009
    82,331       217,247       (134,916 )
Janus Aspen Perkins Mid Cap Value
                       
2010
    55,909       77,863       (21,954 )
2009
    95,595       119,893       (24,298 )
Janus Aspen Perkins Small Company Value
                       
2010
                 
2009
    26,527       448,183       (421,656 )
Janus Aspen Worldwide — Institutional
                       
2010
    72,177       256,032       (183,855 )
2009
    124,514       303,200       (178,686 )
Janus Aspen Worldwide — Service
                       
2010
          103       (103 )
2009
                 
 
                       
JPMorgan Insurance Trust:
                       
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced
                       
2010
    1,375       7,109       (5,734 )
2009
    3,411       163       3,248  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Core Bond
                       
2010
    38,782       28,058       10,724  
2009
    176,458       60,686       115,772  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Equity Index
                       
2010
    22,252       4,065       18,187  
2009
    3,039       13,430       (10,391 )
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Government Bond
                       
2010
                 
2009
    6,795       59,865       (53,070 )
JPMorgan Insurance Trust International Equity
                       
2010
    50,541       165,029       (114,488 )
2009
    1,603,217       914,671       688,546  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Growth
                       
2010
          1,471       (1,471 )
2009
                 

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding: (continued)
                         
            Units     Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Redeemed     (Decrease)  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust: (continued)
                       
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Mid Cap
                       
2010
    38,220       66,150       (27,930 )
2009
    28,245       66,353       (38,108 )
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Growth
                       
2010
    35,540       33,705       1,835  
2009
    27,502       42,605       (15,103 )
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Value
                       
2010
    54,761       165,395       (110,634 )
2009
    1,423,632       828,916       594,716  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Small Cap Core
                       
2010
    45,559       90,337       (44,778 )
2009
    744,476       449,533       294,943  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust U.S. Equity
                       
2010
    17,538       25,241       (7,703 )
2009
    6,349       18,535       (12,186 )
 
                       
JPMorgan Series Trust II:
                       
JPMorgan International Equity
                       
2010
                 
2009
    30,391       882,520       (852,129 )
JPMorgan MidCap Value
                       
2010
                 
2009
    17,818       556,083       (538,265 )
JPMorgan Small Company
                       
2010
                 
2009
    22,765       389,370       (366,605 )
 
                       
Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds:
                       
Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation
                       
2010
    30,250       95,457       (65,207 )
2009
    85,694       85,907       (213 )
Oppenheimer Global Securities
                       
2010
    139,996       396,777       (256,781 )
2009
    277,306       520,785       (243,479 )
Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income VA Series
                       
2010
    237,438       218,997       18,441  
2009
    189,843       324,394       (134,551 )

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(5) Changes in Units Outstanding: (continued)
                         
            Units     Net Increase /  
    Units Issued     Redeemed     (Decrease)  
Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds: (continued)
                       
Oppenheimer High Income
                       
2010
    41,459       114,020       (72,561 )
2009
    199,737       98,825       100,912  
Oppenheimer Main Street
                       
2010
    39,220       115,011       (75,791 )
2009
    63,062       194,605       (131,543 )
Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap
                       
2010
    62,444       127,907       (65,463 )
2009
    72,037       149,724       (77,687 )
Oppenheimer Small-MidCap Growth VA Series
                       
2010
    20,113       18,914       1,199  
2009
    19,919       15,372       4,547  
 
                       
PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust:
                       
PIMCO Foreign Bond
                       
2010
    461       916       (455 )
2009
    712       2,124       (1,412 )
PIMCO Low Duration
                       
2010
    424       882       (458 )
2009
    482       294       188  

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of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights:
A summary of the units outstanding, unit fair values, net assets for variable annuity contracts, net investment income ratios, the expense ratios, excluding expenses of the underlying funds, and total returns for each of the five years in the period ended December 31, 2010, were as follows.
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment                    
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
Alger Portfolios: (5)
                                                                       
Alger Balanced O (6)
                                                                       
2010
    3,449     $ 12.246     $ 12.246     $ 42,236       2.49 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     8.81 %     8.81 %
2009
    4,041       11.255       11.255       45,477       3.20 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     27.46 %     27.46 %
2008
    5,045       8.830       8.830       44,546       2.80 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -32.71 %     -32.71 %
2007
    7,050       13.121       13.121       92,499       2.14 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     10.81 %     10.81 %
2006
    8,412       11.465       11.465       99,604       1.53 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     3.28 %     3.28 %
Alger Balanced S (6)
                                                                       
2010 (7)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009
    5       11.753       12.059       56       3.88 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     25.92 %     26.35 %
2008
    3       9.334       9.544       26       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     -33.27 %     -33.04 %
2007
    3       13.987       14.253       45       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     12.18 %     12.56 %
2006
    7       12.181       12.327       82       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     2.37 %     2.72 %
Alger Capital Appreciation O (8)
                                                                       
2010
    4,578       11.866       11.866       54,321       0.38 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     12.45 %     12.45 %
2009
    5,052       10.552       10.552       53,307       N/A       1.40 %     1.40 %     49.02 %     49.02 %
2008
    6,678       7.081       7.081       47,288       N/A       1.40 %     1.40 %     -45.90 %     -45.90 %
2007
    9,245       13.088       13.088       121,007       0.06 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     31.68 %     31.68 %
2006
    8,585       8.450       8.450       85,346       0.03 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     17.62 %     17.62 %
Alger Capital Appreciation S (8)
                                                                       
2010
          18.262       18.802       2       0.19 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     11.35 %     11.73 %
2009
          16.401       16.828       1       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     47.66 %     48.17 %
2008
          11.107       11.357       1       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     -46.37 %     -46.18 %
2007
          20.709       21.102       3       0.20 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     30.51 %     30.96 %
2006
    1       13.612       13.775       19       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     16.58 %     16.58 %
Alger Large Cap Growth I-2 (9)
                                                                       
2010
    209       40.998       57.935       11,342       0.73 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     10.89 %     12.26 %
2009
    238       36.970       51.606       11,580       0.61 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     44.33 %     46.11 %
2008
    266       25.616       35.319       8,887       0.23 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -47.34 %     -46.69 %
2007
    293       48.646       66.251       18,402       0.33 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     17.29 %     18.75 %
2006
    355       40.329       53.587       18,865       0.13 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     2.19 %     4.11 %
Alger Mid Cap Growth O (10)
                                                                       
2010
    384       32.696       36.610       13,498       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     16.76 %     18.20 %
2009
    440       28.003       30.973       13,152       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     48.37 %     50.20 %
2008
    495       18.874       20.620       9,911       0.17 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -59.28 %     -58.77 %
2007
    572       46.347       50.013       27,876       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     28.65 %     30.25 %
2006
    602       33.443       35.210       22,574       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     7.72 %     9.05 %
Alger Mid Cap Growth S (10)
                                                                       
2010
    1       15.150       15.597       13       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     16.50 %     16.90 %
2009
    1       13.004       13.343       11       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     48.27 %     48.78 %
2008
    1       8.770       8.968       7       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     -59.31 %     -59.17 %
2007
    1       21.554       21.963       17       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     28.62 %     29.07 %
2006
    1       15.641       15.829       13       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     7.13 %     7.50 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
Alger Portfolios: (5) (continued)
                                                                       
Alger Small Cap Growth I-2 (11)
                                                                       
2010
    173     $ 20.930     $ 56.472     $ 8,564       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     22.43 %     24.05 %
2009
    218       17.095       45.522       8,384       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     42.17 %     44.07 %
2008
    185       12.024       31.598       5,170       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -47.78 %     -47.13 %
2007
    182       23.026       59.766       9,698       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     14.58 %     16.07 %
2006
    185       20.097       51.489       8,534       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     16.43 %     18.83 %
 
                                                                       
American Century Variable Portfolios, Inc.:
                                                                       
American Century VP Income & Growth
                                                                       
2010
    1,450       6.645       7.423       10,420       1.44 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     11.64 %     13.02 %
2009
    1,727       5.953       6.568       11,010       4.57 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     15.50 %     16.93 %
2008
    2,046       5.154       5.617       11,188       2.16 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -36.03 %     -35.24 %
2007
    2,932       8.057       8.674       24,831       2.01 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -2.28 %     -1.06 %
2006
    3,975       7.185       7.562       34,156       1.87 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     14.52 %     15.93 %
American Century VP Income & Growth II
                                                                       
2010
    1       12.495       12.864       9       1.23 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     11.57 %     11.96 %
2009
    1       11.199       11.490       8       4.05 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     15.41 %     15.81 %
2008
    1       9.703       9.922       7       1.78 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -36.04 %     -35.82 %
2007
    1       15.172       15.460       11       1.64 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -2.44 %     -2.11 %
2006
    1       13.659       13.823       11       1.51 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     13.86 %     14.25 %
American Century VP Value
                                                                       
2010
    2,021       9.122       10.707       20,809       2.39 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     10.93 %     12.30 %
2009
    1,720       8.223       9.534       15,778       5.38 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     17.23 %     18.68 %
2008
    2,072       7.015       8.034       16,036       2.54 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -28.39 %     -27.50 %
2007
    2,614       9.796       11.081       28,023       1.72 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -7.24 %     -6.08 %
2006
    3,043       9.099       10.043       34,797       1.36 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     16.05 %     17.48 %
American Century VP Value II
                                                                       
2010
          14.014       14.428       4       2.00 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     10.77 %     11.15 %
2009
          12.652       12.981       4       4.96 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     17.32 %     17.72 %
2008
          10.784       11.027       3       2.31 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -28.28 %     -28.03 %
2007
          15.036       15.322       4       2.44 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -7.22 %     -6.90 %
2006
    1       14.029       14.197       24       1.27 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     15.52 %     15.92 %
 
                                                                       
Credit Suisse Trust:
                                                                       
Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex II
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009 (12)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    1,193       6.170       8.786       7,359       1.63 %     1.40 %     2.05 %     -47.83 %     -47.49 %
2007
    2,070       11.751       16.782       24,325       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     -5.90 %     -5.29 %
2006
    2,383       12.407       17.773       29,574       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     10.94 %     11.65 %
Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex III (13)
                                                                   
2010
    2,176       18.159       22.796       43,927       0.09 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     9.76 %     11.12 %
2009
    2,596       16.543       20.656       47,351       2.23 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     48.28 %     50.12 %
2008
    2,762       11.157       13.855       33,670       1.92 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -55.80 %     -55.25 %
2007
    4,089       25.242       31.179       111,926       1.45 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     26.58 %     28.15 %
2006
    4,547       19.942       24.500       97,524       0.53 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     29.55 %     31.21 %

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of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
Dreyfus Investment Portfolios:
                                                                       
Dreyfus I.P. MidCap Stock A
                                                                       
2010
    3,677     $ 15.973     $ 15.973     $ 58,739       0.94 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     25.34 %     25.34 %
2009
    4,049       12.743       12.743       51,604       1.43 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     33.64 %     33.64 %
2008
    6,004       9.536       9.536       58,261       1.04 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -41.25 %     -41.25 %
2007
    8,728       16.230       16.230       143,605       0.44 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     0.09 %     0.09 %
2006
    10,607       13.429       15.418       172,015       0.39 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.85 %     6.61 %
Dreyfus I.P. MidCap Stock SC
                                                                       
2010
    127       14.792       16.384       2,010       0.78 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     24.15 %     25.69 %
2009
    110       11.891       13.035       1,395       0.95 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     32.35 %     33.99 %
2008
    119       8.967       9.729       117       8.06 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -41.76 %     -41.04 %
2007
    135       15.366       16.499       230       2.88 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -0.86 %     0.38 %
2006
    19       14.659       14.835       299       1.54 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     5.52 %     5.88 %
 
                                                                       
The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc.:
                                                                       
Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth A
                                                                       
2010
    508       7.793       28.958       5,724       0.85 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.29 %     13.68 %
2009
    567       6.883       25.473       5,714       0.94 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     30.81 %     32.43 %
2008
    676       5.218       19.235       5,007       0.81 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -35.87 %     -35.07 %
2007
    906       8.069       29.627       9,740       0.51 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     5.40 %     6.71 %
2006
    1,388       7.049       25.677       12,962       0.10 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     6.19 %     8.12 %
Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth SC
                                                                       
2010
          12.323       12.687       2       0.60 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     12.25 %     12.63 %
2009
          10.978       11.264       2       0.60 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     30.76 %     31.21 %
2008
          8.396       8.585       1       0.52 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -35.90 %     -35.68 %
2007
          13.098       13.346       3       0.14 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     5.32 %     5.69 %
2006
    3       11.647       11.786       32       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     6.77 %     7.14 %
 
                                                                       
Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund:
                                                                       
Dreyfus VIF Small Company Stock
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2007 (14)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2006
    47       14.271       17.501       815       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     7.92 %     9.85 %
 
                                                                       
DWS Variable Series I: (15)
                                                                       
DWS Bond VIP
                                                                       
2010
    2,609       7.578       12.782       24,438       4.37 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.44 %     5.73 %
2009
    2,836       7.255       12.137       25,103       7.39 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     7.65 %     38.47 %
2008
    2,373       6.740       11.181       18,767       6.26 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -18.60 %     -17.59 %
2007
    2,888       8.280       13.623       27,128       4.11 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     1.87 %     3.14 %
2006
    2,187       8.128       13.260       19,656       2.14 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     2.42 %     3.68 %
DWS Capital Growth VIP A
                                                                       
2010
    17,222       11.538       24.158       229,370       0.88 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     14.14 %     15.55 %
2009 (16)
    20,264       10.024       20.906       232,977       1.17 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     24.08 %     25.61 %
2008
    21,447       8.012       16.643       198,670       1.17 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -34.46 %     -33.65 %
2007
    29,000       12.123       25.082       397,489       0.63 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     10.10 %     11.47 %
2006 (17)
    35,506       10.201       20.940       436,463       0.41 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     5.50 %     7.46 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
DWS Variable Series I: (15) (continued)
                                                                       
DWS Capital Growth VIP B
                                                                       
2010
    12     $ 13.987     $ 14.401     $ 177       0.54 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     14.00 %     14.39 %
2009 (16)
    13       12.270       12.589       166       1.47 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     23.95 %     24.37 %
2008
    33       9.900       10.122       332       0.67 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -34.55 %     -34.32 %
2007
    35       15.125       15.413       530       0.29 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     9.91 %     10.29 %
2006 (17)
    56       12.982       13.138       772       0.16 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     6.00 %     6.37 %
DWS Global Opportunities VIP A (18)
                                                                       
2010
    3,382       21.976       21.976       74,320       0.38 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     24.89 %     24.89 %
2009
    3,731       17.596       17.596       65,646       1.61 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     46.16 %     46.16 %
2008
    5,128       12.039       12.039       61,738       0.29 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -50.66 %     -50.66 %
2007
    7,462       24.400       24.400       182,071       1.28 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     7.81 %     7.81 %
2006
    8,691       18.797       18.797       196,688       1.00 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     20.40 %     20.40 %
DWS Global Opportunities VIP B (18)
                                                                       
2010
          21.305       21.934       4       0.08 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     23.85 %     24.27 %
2009
          17.202       17.650       3       1.36 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     44.69 %     45.19 %
2008
          11.889       12.156       2       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     -51.17 %     -51.00 %
2007
          24.345       24.808       7       1.39 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     6.72 %     7.09 %
2006
    1       19.100       19.329       13       0.58 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     19.44 %     19.85 %
DWS Growth & Income VIP A
                                                                       
2010
    3,206       9.338       11.578       30,927       1.61 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     12.10 %     13.26 %
2009
    3,707       8.277       10.223       31,677       1.98 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     31.45 %     34.87 %
2008
    4,829       6.257       7.697       31,155       2.14 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     -39.55 %     -38.92 %
2007
    6,915       10.285       12.602       71,600       1.28 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     -0.69 %     0.35 %
2006
    8,327       9.182       11.162       87,917       0.97 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     11.35 %     12.50 %
DWS Growth & Income VIP B
                                                                       
2010
    8       12.449       12.817       107       1.37 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     11.83 %     12.21 %
2009
    10       11.133       11.422       108       1.80 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     30.95 %     31.40 %
2008
    10       8.501       8.693       83       1.70 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -39.53 %     -39.32 %
2007
    10       14.059       14.326       138       0.83 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -1.04 %     -0.70 %
2006
    14       12.798       12.952       208       0.58 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     11.01 %     11.39 %
DWS Health Care VIP A (19)
                                                                       
2010
    2,229       13.882       13.882       30,942       N/A       1.40 %     1.40 %     6.66 %     6.66 %
2009
    2,578       13.015       13.015       33,548       1.28 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     20.50 %     20.50 %
2008
    3,922       10.801       10.801       42,357       0.35 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -24.27 %     -24.27 %
2007
    5,172       14.262       14.262       73,767       N/A       1.40 %     1.40 %     11.63 %     11.63 %
2006
    6,152       12.202       12.202       78,603       N/A       1.40 %     1.40 %     4.70 %     4.70 %
DWS Health Care VIP B (19)
                                                                       
2010
    1       17.425       17.940       12       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     5.52 %     5.88 %
2009
    1       16.513       16.943       12       1.01 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     19.36 %     19.77 %
2008
    1       13.835       14.147       11       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     -25.04 %     -24.78 %
2007
    1       18.457       18.807       16       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     10.60 %     10.98 %
2006
    3       16.099       16.293       45       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     3.65 %     4.01 %
DWS International VIP A
                                                                       
2010
    4,135       9.967       14.032       42,165       2.09 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -0.61 %     0.62 %
2009
    4,839       9.945       13.946       49,299       4.23 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     30.58 %     32.20 %
2008
    6,889       7.552       10.550       53,129       1.50 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -49.36 %     -48.73 %
2007
    10,049       14.789       20.575       151,122       2.56 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.05 %     13.45 %
2006
    11,394       10.540       14.578       151,767       1.85 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     22.13 %     24.67 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
DWS Variable Series I: (15) (continued)
                                                                       
DWS International VIP B
                                                                       
2010
    5     $ 12.913     $ 13.295     $ 72       1.79 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -0.70 %     -0.36 %
2009
    6       13.004       13.343       77       3.85 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     30.22 %     30.66 %
2008
    7       9.987       10.211       72       1.02 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -49.29 %     -49.12 %
2007
    6       19.694       20.068       128       2.15 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     11.95 %     12.33 %
2006
    7       14.311       14.483       129       1.60 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     22.93 %     23.35 %
 
                                                                       
DWS Variable Series II: (15)
                                                                       
DWS Balanced VIP (20)
                                                                       
2010
    24,052       2.227       12.457       180,808       3.12 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     8.78 %     10.12 %
2009
    27,088       2.027       10.971       184,860       3.73 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     20.72 %     22.21 %
2008
    31,704       1.663       9.388       177,453       4.22 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -29.10 %     -28.05 %
2007
    38,891       2.317       13.196       303,165       3.37 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     2.32 %     3.80 %
2006
    46,425       2.238       12.852       345,141       2.53 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     7.29 %     9.15 %
DWS Blue Chip VIP A
                                                                       
2010
    5,582       1.479       12.130       58,272       1.44 %     1.25 %     1.40 %     12.20 %     12.37 %
2009
    6,493       1.316       10.811       60,769       1.91 %     1.25 %     1.40 %     32.12 %     32.32 %
2008
    8,657       0.995       8.183       62,370       1.92 %     1.25 %     1.40 %     -39.35 %     -39.26 %
2007
    12,533       1.637       13.491       150,847       1.13 %     1.25 %     1.40 %     2.06 %     2.22 %
2006
    15,304       1.402       11.590       175,423       0.90 %     1.25 %     1.40 %     14.05 %     14.22 %
DWS Blue Chip VIP B
                                                                       
2010
    12       14.166       14.584       167       1.16 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     11.27 %     11.65 %
2009
    13       12.731       13.063       164       1.52 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     30.78 %     31.23 %
2008
    14       9.735       9.954       133       1.44 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -39.72 %     -39.51 %
2007
    15       16.149       16.455       241       0.77 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     1.07 %     1.42 %
2006
    19       14.155       14.325       313       0.49 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     12.88 %     13.27 %
DWS Core Fixed Income VIP A (21)
                                                                       
2010
    11,343       1.133       12.239       47,896       6.32 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     1.73 %     5.46 %
2009
    12,520       1.088       11.651       51,809       8.71 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.73 %     6.65 %
2008
    14,587       1.033       10.968       59,265       8.47 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -21.32 %     -20.13 %
2007
    20,126       1.309       13.786       99,451       4.26 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     1.65 %     3.13 %
2006
    19,071       1.285       13.420       98,142       3.33 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     1.72 %     3.23 %
DWS Davis Venture Value VIP
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009 (22)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    11,803       8.207       9.702       96,901       1.65 %     1.40 %     2.05 %     -41.97 %     -41.06 %
2007
    17,010       13.924       16.662       236,921       0.72 %     1.40 %     2.05 %     2.04 %     3.01 %
2006
    18,456       13.517       16.273       249,555       0.63 %     1.40 %     2.05 %     12.05 %     13.26 %
DWS Diversified International Equity VIP (23)
                                                                       
2010
    13,620       2.108       14.871       59,066       2.16 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     8.70 %     9.83 %
2009
    15,285       1.939       10.455       60,284       5.87 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     26.76 %     28.08 %
2008
    18,966       1.530       10.701       66,546       1.10 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     -50.09 %     -49.32 %
2007
    23,672       3.050       21.368       175,919       2.69 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     13.85 %     15.55 %
2006
    25,826       2.667       18.703       160,747       1.99 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     22.55 %     24.32 %
DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP A (24)
                                                                       
2010
    17,119       2.565       23.832       132,028       1.25 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     20.36 %     21.85 %
2009
    19,398       2.127       19.606       124,831       1.82 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     26.85 %     28.42 %
2008
    24,074       1.673       15.305       138,065       1.87 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -34.89 %     -34.08 %
2007
    32,070       2.565       23.275       324,747       1.05 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     0.78 %     2.03 %
2006
    37,143       2.072       18.514       374,258       0.82 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     21.66 %     23.83 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
DWS Variable Series II: (15) (continued)
                                                                       
DWS Dreman Small Mid Cap Value VIP B (24)
                                                                       
2010
    12     $ 19.938     $ 22.397     $ 235       0.88 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     20.20 %     20.61 %
2009
    13       16.587       18.569       214       1.60 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     26.68 %     27.12 %
2008
    14       13.093       14.608       187       1.33 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -35.01 %     -34.79 %
2007
    15       20.146       22.399       307       0.65 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     0.59 %     0.94 %
2006
    19       16.403       16.600       389       0.38 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     22.10 %     22.52 %
DWS Global Thematic VIP A (25)
                                                                       
2010
    2,422       16.044       16.044       38,862       0.93 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     12.09 %     12.09 %
2009
    2,754       14.314       14.314       39,416       1.49 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     41.84 %     41.84 %
2008
    3,795       10.092       10.092       38,297       1.72 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -48.48 %     -48.48 %
2007
    5,497       19.587       19.587       107,675       0.66 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     4.82 %     4.82 %
2006
    5,031       14.559       14.559       94,005       0.51 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     28.35 %     28.35 %
DWS Global Thematic VIP B (25)
                                                                       
2010
    2       16.575       17.065       40       0.55 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     10.97 %     11.35 %
2009
    2       14.936       15.325       32       1.36 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     40.36 %     40.84 %
2008
    3       10.642       10.881       29       1.45 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -48.92 %     -48.75 %
2007
    2       20.835       21.231       35       0.32 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     3.71 %     4.06 %
2006
    3       15.812       16.002       53       0.18 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     27.06 %     27.49 %
DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP A
                                                                       
2010
    12,820       1.564       16.470       87,302       4.70 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.27 %     5.56 %
2009
    14,063       1.500       15.665       89,665       5.13 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     3.11 %     7.01 %
2008
    16,804       1.419       14.697       115,382       4.97 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     2.63 %     6.98 %
2007
    17,111       1.383       14.202       100,962       5.02 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     3.61 %     4.90 %
2006
    19,756       1.310       13.232       107,394       3.94 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     1.66 %     3.13 %
DWS Government & Agency Securities VIP B
                                                                       
2010
    17       12.213       12.574       209       4.44 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     4.10 %     4.46 %
2009
    17       11.731       12.037       204       4.73 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     5.53 %     5.90 %
2008
    22       11.116       11.366       246       4.75 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     2.42 %     2.77 %
2007
    21       10.854       11.060       231       4.65 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     3.39 %     3.75 %
2006
    27       10.326       10.450       290       3.67 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     1.66 %     2.01 %
DWS High Income VIP A
                                                                       
2010
    12,443       1.294       16.067       119,022       7.75 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     11.49 %     12.87 %
2009
    14,076       1.161       14.291       117,072       10.56 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     36.91 %     44.49 %
2008
    15,199       0.848       10.352       90,235       11.98 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -25.61 %     -24.69 %
2007
    18,561       1.140       13.801       150,259       8.52 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -1.28 %     -0.05 %
2006
    23,350       1.069       14.007       188,042       7.81 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     7.90 %     9.38 %
DWS High Income VIP B
                                                                       
2010
    9       16.667       17.160       144       7.82 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     11.36 %     11.74 %
2009
    10       14.967       15.357       151       11.18 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     36.84 %     37.31 %
2008
    12       10.938       11.184       135       13.03 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -25.65 %     -25.39 %
2007
    18       14.712       14.991       262       8.52 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -1.49 %     -1.15 %
2006
    28       13.840       14.006       428       7.26 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     7.91 %     8.28 %
DWS Janus Growth & Income VIP
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009 (26)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    8,715       5.801       12.112       50,555       1.26 %     1.40 %     2.05 %     -42.11 %     -19.46 %
2007
    12,233       10.020       15.037       122,577       0.60 %     1.40 %     2.05 %     4.07 %     5.11 %
2006
    14,783       9.532       14.399       140,945       0.64 %     1.40 %     2.05 %     5.82 %     6.94 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
DWS Variable Series II: (15) (continued)
                                                             
DWS Large Cap Value VIP A
                                                   
2010
    16,958     $ 2.186     $ 14.052     $ 131,093       1.98 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     8.55 %     9.67 %
2009
    19,293       2.014       12.863       139,217       1.59 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     22.85 %     24.13 %
2008
    16,234       1.639       10.404       69,079       2.27 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     -37.68 %     -37.03 %
2007
    19,729       2.630       16.587       137,245       1.77 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     10.86 %     12.02 %
2006
    23,204       2.098       13.061       144,668       1.57 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     13.10 %     14.27 %
DWS Large Cap Value VIP B
                                                             
2010
    13       12.976       13.360       170       1.67 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     8.31 %     8.68 %
2009
    15       11.980       12.292       178       1.33 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     22.35 %     22.77 %
2008
    7       9.792       10.012       67       1.79 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -37.92 %     -37.71 %
2007
    7       15.773       16.072       113       1.50 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     10.49 %     10.87 %
2006
    12       12.671       12.823       168       1.10 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     12.66 %     13.05 %
DWS Mid Cap Growth VIP
                                                             
2010
    1,556       10.812       14.862       16,831       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     25.39 %     26.19 %
2009
    1,661       8.568       11.812       14,235       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     40.80 %     41.28 %
2008
    1,908       6.072       8.361       11,591       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     -51.27 %     -50.73 %
2007
    2,844       12.324       17.097       35,059       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     5.74 %     6.86 %
2006
    3,096       11.534       16.113       35,729       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     8.33 %     9.43 %
DWS Money Market VIP
                                                             
2010 (27)
    20,485       0.989       19.121       94,048       0.01 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -2.19 %     0.02 %
2009 (28)
    24,152       1.011       14.254       128,277       0.37 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -1.87 %     0.34 %
2008 (29)
    37,384       1.030       14.207       219,798       2.70 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     0.37 %     2.63 %
2007
    31,600       1.027       13.842       189,703       4.84 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     2.66 %     5.00 %
2006 (30)
    26,641       1.000       13.183       146,351       5.05 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     2.36 %     4.66 %
DWS Small Cap Growth VIP
                                                             
2010
    15,250       1.120       13.562       59,138       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     26.59 %     28.16 %
2009
    17,203       0.885       6.980       53,436       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     37.51 %     42.72 %
2008
    19,872       0.643       7.715       47,318       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -50.62 %     -49.87 %
2007
    24,131       1.303       15.392       122,143       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     3.67 %     5.14 %
2006
    29,292       1.254       14.796       142,349       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     2.16 %     4.23 %
DWS Strategic Income VIP
                                                             
2010
    2,785       1.871       17.675       44,961       6.51 %     1.25 %     2.05 %     7.84 %     8.69 %
2009
    2,943       1.721       16.286       44,203       5.14 %     1.25 %     2.05 %     21.04 %     21.22 %
2008
    3,747       1.420       13.455       46,678       7.20 %     1.25 %     2.05 %     -9.02 %     -8.36 %
2007
    4,690       1.558       14.790       64,242       5.82 %     1.25 %     2.05 %     2.95 %     4.13 %
2006
    3,932       1.497       14.225       51,496       4.15 %     1.25 %     2.05 %     6.57 %     7.64 %
DWS Strategic Value VIP A (31)
                                                             
2010
    11,961       12.166       12.366       147,899       1.93 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     10.97 %     10.97 %
2009
    14,300       10.963       11.143       159,343       4.39 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     21.57 %     23.57 %
2008
    21,217       9.018       9.018       191,335       3.40 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -46.73 %     -45.85 %
2007
    31,308       16.655       16.929       530,007       1.53 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -3.23 %     -3.23 %
2006 (32)
    37,105       14.697       14.938       649,052       1.85 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     17.10 %     17.10 %
DWS Strategic Value VIP B (31)
                                                             
2010
    13       11.304       11.638       153       1.70 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     9.88 %     10.26 %
2009
    16       10.287       10.555       171       4.23 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     22.43 %     22.85 %
2008
    20       8.403       8.592       166       2.78 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -47.25 %     -47.06 %
2007
    31       15.928       16.230       505       0.61 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -4.16 %     -3.83 %
2006 (32)
    45       14.347       14.519       760       1.38 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     15.84 %     16.24 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account of
Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
DWS Variable Series II: (15) (continued)
                                                                       
DWS Technology VIP A (33)
                                                                       
2010
    7,781     $ 0.892     $ 9.439     $ 46,275       0.04 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     16.05 %     17.49 %
2009
    9,257       0.768       8.066       47,418       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     56.89 %     58.83 %
2008
    10,288       0.490       5.099       37,004       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -47.41 %     -46.75 %
2007
    13,857       0.931       9.614       100,765       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     11.77 %     13.16 %
2006
    16,509       0.846       13.658       110,626       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -2.22 %     -0.24 %
DWS Technology VIP B (33)
                                                                       
2010
    1       13.993       14.407       16       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     15.59 %     15.99 %
2009
    2       12.106       12.421       25       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     56.72 %     57.26 %
2008
    2       7.725       7.898       15       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     -47.52 %     -47.34 %
2007
    2       14.719       14.998       30       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     11.54 %     11.92 %
2006
    4       13.408       13.569       51       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     -1.58 %     -1.24 %
DWS Turner Mid Cap Growth VIP
                                                                       
2010
    3,491       12.611       19.145       44,025       0.01 %     1.40 %     2.05 %     26.42 %     27.22 %
2009
    3,819       9.913       15.092       37,859       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     -34.89 %     47.59 %
2008
    5,867       10.001       15.224       39,314       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     -51.54 %     13.16 %
2007
    7,913       13.453       21.029       106,465       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     22.60 %     24.01 %
2006
    8,700       10.849       17.093       94,399       N/A       1.40 %     2.05 %     4.08 %     5.05 %
 
                                                                       
DWS Investments VIT Funds: (15)
                                                                       
DWS Equity 500 Index VIP A
                                                                       
2010
    7,268       10.515       10.515       76,428       1.86 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     13.12 %     13.12 %
2009
    8,078       9.296       9.296       75,091       2.68 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     24.58 %     24.58 %
2008
    10,627       7.462       7.462       79,299       2.73 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -38.02 %     -38.02 %
2007
    15,244       12.039       12.039       183,529       1.54 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     3.83 %     3.83 %
2006
    17,689       10.177       10.177       205,018       1.14 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     13.93 %     13.93 %
DWS Equity 500 Index VIP B2
                                                                       
2010
    2       9.968       10.151       18       1.54 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     12.00 %     12.38 %
2009
    2       8.900       9.032       19       2.33 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     23.26 %     23.69 %
2008
    2       7.220       7.302       15       1.33 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -38.62 %     -38.41 %
2007
    5       11.763       11.856       63       1.46 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     2.73 %     3.09 %
2006
    3       10.143       10.153       115       0.92 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     12.90 %     13.28 %
DWS RREEF Real Estate Securities VIP (34)
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008 (35)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2007
    2       19.118       19.427       33       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     -18.03 %     -17.74 %
2006
    2       23.323       23.618       47       N/A       1.70 %     2.05 %     34.38 %     34.84 %
 
                                                                       
Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Fund:
                                                                       
Fidelity VIP Asset Manager
                                                                       
2010
    172       28.631       32.019       5,278       1.58 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     11.97 %     13.13 %
2009
    202       25.570       28.301       5,486       2.27 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     26.52 %     27.83 %
2008
    235       20.210       22.139       5,016       2.68 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     -30.15 %     -29.42 %
2007
    265       28.935       31.370       8,022       6.03 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     13.17 %     14.35 %
2006
    311       25.567       27.432       8,293       2.84 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     5.17 %     6.26 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company
Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
Fidelity Variable Insurance Products Fund: (continued)
                                                                       
Fidelity VIP Contrafund
                                                                       
2010
    1,688     $ 30.749     $ 44.415     $ 70,698       1.14 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     14.64 %     16.06 %
2009
    1,969       26.822       38.270       71,263       1.33 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     32.72 %     34.37 %
2008
    2,168       20.209       28.482       58,200       0.96 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -43.78 %     -43.08 %
2007
    2,513       35.948       50.042       119,129       0.96 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     14.99 %     16.42 %
2006
    2,788       28.610       38.859       113,977       1.29 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     9.27 %     10.61 %
Fidelity VIP Contrafund 2
                                                                       
2010
    1       16.603       17.094       17       0.99 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     14.58 %     14.97 %
2009
    1       14.490       14.867       15       1.14 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     32.75 %     33.20 %
2008
    1       10.916       11.161       11       0.83 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -43.84 %     -43.65 %
2007
    1       19.438       19.808       20       0.04 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     14.93 %     15.33 %
2006
    2       15.559       15.746       35       0.98 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     8.70 %     9.07 %
Fidelity VIP Equity Income
                                                                       
2010
    776       24.667       38.183       27,267       1.69 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.62 %     14.01 %
2009
    902       21.903       33.491       27,892       2.09 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     27.34 %     28.92 %
2008
    1,075       17.200       25.978       25,783       2.30 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -43.92 %     -43.22 %
2007
    1,365       30.671       45.755       57,697       1.93 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -0.72 %     0.52 %
2006
    1,547       26.278       38.249       65,408       3.26 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     17.56 %     19.01 %
Fidelity VIP Equity Income 2
                                                                       
2010
          12.560       12.932       6       1.59 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     12.61 %     13.00 %
2009
          11.154       11.444       5       2.03 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     27.27 %     27.71 %
2008
          8.764       8.961       4       2.43 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -43.96 %     -43.77 %
2007
          15.639       15.936       7       0.04 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -0.77 %     -0.43 %
2006
          13.470       13.631       7       2.92 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     17.01 %     17.41 %
Fidelity VIP Growth
                                                                       
2010
    498       12.727       54.150       25,168       0.25 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     21.38 %     22.94 %
2009
    612       10.486       44.044       25,279       0.42 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     25.39 %     27.02 %
2008
    670       8.362       34.676       21,552       0.81 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -48.37 %     -47.69 %
2007
    768       16.196       66.292       47,306       0.81 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     24.10 %     25.70 %
2006
    845       13.051       52.737       42,027       0.40 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     3.81 %     5.79 %
Fidelity VIP Index 500
                                                                       
2010
    392       146.024       163.306       59,068       1.82 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     12.71 %     13.88 %
2009
    450       129.552       143.395       59,134       2.38 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     24.06 %     25.35 %
2008
    509       104.425       114.393       53,466       2.10 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     -38.27 %     -37.62 %
2007
    590       169.154       183.390       101,561       3.70 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     3.31 %     4.39 %
2006
    812       134.054       153.315       122,752       1.73 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.90 %     14.59 %
Fidelity VIP Index 500 SC
                                                                       
2010
    26       13.140       145.457       3,699       1.51 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     12.21 %     13.31 %
2009
    31       11.688       128.367       4,196       1.95 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     23.52 %     24.74 %
2008
    35       9.444       102.906       3,877       1.67 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     -38.54 %     -37.94 %
2007
    44       15.336       165.805       7,091       1.81 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     2.85 %     3.88 %
2006
          13.220       13.379       10,253       1.47 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     12.57 %     12.95 %
 
                                                                       
Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust:
                                                                       
Franklin Rising Dividends Securities
                                                                       
2010
    443       13.986       15.370       6,633       1.60 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     17.99 %     19.45 %
2009
    460       11.854       12.867       5,792       1.38 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     14.76 %     16.18 %
2008
    520       10.329       11.075       5,650       1.85 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -28.71 %     -27.82 %
2007
    701       14.488       15.344       10,599       2.55 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -4.84 %     -3.66 %
2006
    860       14.011       15.927       13,524       0.98 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     14.07 %     15.97 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            NetAssets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust: (continued)
                                                                    
Franklin Small Cap Value Securities
                                                                       
2010
    311     $ 19.172     $ 21.069     $ 6,367       0.76 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     25.40 %     26.95 %
2009
    290       15.288       16.596       4,701       1.55 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     26.31 %     27.88 %
2008
    340       12.103       12.978       4,322       1.32 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -34.49 %     -33.68 %
2007
    328       18.477       19.569       6,313       0.70 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -4.54 %     -3.35 %
2006
    310       17.293       20.248       6,211       0.65 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     14.02 %     15.83 %
Franklin Strategic Income Securities
                                                                       
2010
    700       14.656       16.106       10,961       4.82 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     8.47 %     9.82 %
2009
    700       13.511       14.666       10,026       7.55 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     22.98 %     24.50 %
2008
    602       10.986       11.780       6,957       8.65 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -13.19 %     -12.12 %
2007
    735       12.655       13.404       9,688       5.19 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     3.57 %     4.86 %
2006
    604       12.219       12.783       7,642       2.53 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     5.87 %     7.18 %
Franklin U.S. Government
                                                                       
2010
    352       11.669       12.824       4,403       3.47 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     2.97 %     4.24 %
2009
    388       11.333       12.302       4,672       4.33 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     0.83 %     2.07 %
2008
    387       11.240       12.052       4,573       4.72 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     5.22 %     6.52 %
2007
    263       10.682       11.314       2,921       4.88 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.25 %     5.55 %
2006
    206       10.247       10.719       2,166       4.20 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     1.73 %     2.99 %
Franklin Zero Coupon 2010
                                                                       
2010 (36)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009
    620       10.950       11.886       7,210       4.29 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -2.05 %     -0.84 %
2008
    827       11.179       11.987       9,721       4.50 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.87 %     6.17 %
2007
    900       10.660       11.290       10,008       6.11 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     6.01 %     7.33 %
2006
    1,810       10.056       10.596       18,802       3.83 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     0.15 %     1.38 %
Mutual Global Discovery Securities (37)
                                                                       
2010
    1,070       19.656       21.601       22,546       1.23 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     9.50 %     10.85 %
2009
    1,169       17.951       19.486       22,304       1.14 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     20.60 %     22.09 %
2008
    1,274       14.885       15.960       19,958       2.24 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -30.03 %     -29.16 %
2007
    1,448       21.273       22.531       32,125       1.50 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     9.37 %     10.74 %
2006
    1,356       18.158       20.347       27,250       1.04 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     20.26 %     21.84 %
Mutual Shares Securities
                                                                       
2010
    467       13.719       15.076       6,847       1.47 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     8.75 %     10.09 %
2009
    496       12.615       13.694       6,635       1.84 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     23.27 %     24.80 %
2008
    556       10.233       10.973       5,983       3.24 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -38.50 %     -37.73 %
2007
    526       16.638       17.622       9,125       1.54 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     1.19 %     2.45 %
2006
    434       15.558       17.200       7,374       1.23 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     15.62 %     17.21 %
Templeton Developing Markets Securities
                                                                       
2010
    262       30.049       34.068       8,701       1.51 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     15.00 %     16.42 %
2009
    277       25.913       29.262       7,920       3.73 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     68.80 %     70.88 %
2008
    266       15.224       17.124       4,477       2.71 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -53.75 %     -53.17 %
2007
    374       32.643       36.570       13,472       2.36 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     25.94 %     27.50 %
2006
    427       23.841       28.682       12,078       1.22 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     25.28 %     26.82 %
 
                                                                       
ING Global Resources Trust:
                                                                       
ING Global Resources Trust
                                                                       
2010
    798       13.131       13.681       10,788       0.87 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     19.20 %     20.44 %
2009
    878       11.015       11.359       9,881       0.30 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     34.75 %     36.15 %
2008
    1,023       8.175       8.343       8,489       1.90 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     -42.19 %     -41.59 %
2007 (38)
    1,265       14.140       14.283       18,012       0.02 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     37.98 %     39.36 %
2006
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
ING Investors Trust:
                                                                       
ING JPMorgan Emerging Markets Equity
                                                                       
2010
    410     $ 25.353     $ 26.722     $ 10,800       0.70 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     18.21 %     19.44 %
2009
    472       21.448       22.373       10,426       1.54 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     68.56 %     70.31 %
2008
    482       12.724       13.136       6,274       2.68 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     -52.14 %     -51.64 %
2007
    583       26.584       27.162       15,741       1.15 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     36.00 %     37.43 %
2006
    621       19.546       19.765       12,228       0.62 %     1.00 %     2.05 %     33.45 %     34.84 %
 
                                                                       
ING VP Natural Resources Trust:
                                                                       
ING VP Natural Resources Trust
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2007 (39)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2006
    485       29.293       31.521       14,768       N/A       1.00 %     2.05 %     19.29 %     20.53 %
 
                                                                       
Invesco Variable Insurance Funds (40)
                                                                       
Invesco V.I. Financial Services Fund (41)
                                                                       
2010
    143       6.180       6.792       945       0.11 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     7.89 %     9.22 %
2009
    119       5.728       6.219       724       2.62 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     24.62 %     26.17 %
2008
    167       4.596       4.929       805       4.84 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -60.34 %     -59.85 %
2007
    67       11.590       12.134       807       2.08 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -23.94 %     -23.18 %
2006
    52       14.088       15.940       825       1.59 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     13.81 %     15.29 %
Invesco V.I. Global Health Care (42)
                                                                       
2010
    111       13.241       14.552       1,575       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     2.98 %     4.25 %
2009
    124       12.858       13.958       1,686       0.29 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     24.87 %     26.41 %
2008
    163       10.298       11.042       1,765       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -30.19 %     -29.33 %
2007
    173       14.752       15.445       2,654       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     9.38 %     10.47 %
2006
    187       12.962       14.109       2,607       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     2.52 %     4.20 %
Invesco V.I. Global Real Estate (43)
                                                                       
2010
    317       20.014       21.995       6,790       4.76 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     14.93 %     16.35 %
2009
    365       17.414       18.904       6,739       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     28.63 %     30.22 %
2008
    415       13.538       14.516       5,908       5.16 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -45.87 %     -45.20 %
2007
    566       25.009       26.487       14,760       5.10 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -7.63 %     -6.48 %
2006
    767       24.220       28.323       21,471       1.24 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     39.47 %     41.19 %
Invesco V.I. Utilities (44)
                                                                       
2010
    1,823       10.135       19.759       19,943       3.44 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     3.96 %     5.25 %
2009
    2,111       9.667       18.774       22,175       3.92 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.40 %     13.79 %
2008
    3,062       8.529       16.499       28,176       2.47 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -33.85 %     -33.03 %
2007
    4,322       12.786       24.634       58,941       1.98 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     17.98 %     19.44 %
2006
    4,299       10.748       20.624       48,524       3.41 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     22.71 %     24.22 %
 
                                                                       
Janus Aspen Series:
                                                                       
Janus Aspen Balanced
                                                                       
2010
    1,801       15.388       44.563       76,092       2.75 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     5.95 %     7.31 %
2009
    2,023       14.524       41.526       79,877       2.89 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     23.06 %     24.64 %
2008
    2,288       11.802       33.317       72,750       2.69 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -17.75 %     -16.67 %
2007
    2,598       14.349       39.983       99,395       2.50 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     8.06 %     9.44 %
2006
    3,026       13.278       36.536       106,171       2.11 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     7.87 %     9.63 %

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of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
Janus Aspen Series: (continued)
                                                                       
Janus Aspen Enterprise Institutional (45)
                                                                       
2010
    1,178     $ 20.605     $ 42.093     $ 47,048       0.06 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     23.00 %     24.60 %
2009
    1,330       16.752       33.782       42,818       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     41.54 %     43.39 %
2008
    1,473       11.835       23.559       33,159       0.26 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -44.99 %     -44.28 %
2007
    1,702       21.514       42.281       68,855       0.22 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     19.28 %     20.83 %
2006
    1,697       18.036       34.994       57,352       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     10.56 %     12.49 %
Janus Aspen Forty (46)
                                                                       
2010
    91       13.227       13.227       1,206       0.34 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     5.28 %     5.28 %
2009
    95       12.564       12.564       1,197       N/A       1.40 %     1.40 %     44.31 %     44.31 %
2008
    104       8.706       8.706       905       0.15 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -44.93 %     -44.93 %
2007
    111       15.808       15.808       1,753       0.35 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     35.09 %     35.09 %
2006
    140       11.702       11.702       1,643       0.36 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     7.84 %     7.84 %
Janus Aspen Janus Institutional (47)
                                                                       
2010
    1,086       13.244       27.360       28,349       1.04 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     11.96 %     13.38 %
2009
    1,242       11.829       24.130       28,678       0.51 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     33.28 %     35.00 %
2008
    1,377       8.875       17.874       23,602       0.74 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -41.08 %     -40.32 %
2007
    1,560       15.063       29.949       44,950       0.71 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.48 %     13.95 %
2006
    1,822       13.392       26.283       46,182       0.46 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     8.11 %     10.28 %
Janus Aspen Perkins Mid Cap Value
                                                                       
2010
    235       20.118       22.108       5,063       0.49 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.83 %     14.22 %
2009
    257       17.831       19.356       4,864       0.34 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     29.99 %     31.60 %
2008
    281       13.716       14.707       4,052       0.42 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -29.49 %     -28.61 %
2007
    298       19.452       20.602       6,052       1.24 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.80 %     6.11 %
2006
    632       16.407       19.416       12,115       3.91 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.31 %     13.93 %
Janus Aspen Perkins Small Company Value
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009 (48)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    422       10.703       11.476       4,727       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -37.33 %     -36.55 %
2007
    547       17.078       18.088       9,704       0.92 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -8.19 %     -7.05 %
2006
    360       15.736       19.459       6,899       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     18.84 %     20.67 %
Janus Aspen Worldwide Institutional (49)
                                                                       
2010
    1,486       27.179       33.789       47,842       0.59 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     13.29 %     14.69 %
2009
    1,670       23.991       29.461       46,977       1.36 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     34.67 %     36.34 %
2008
    1,848       17.815       21.609       38,235       1.20 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -45.88 %     -45.21 %
2007
    2,097       32.919       39.441       79,571       0.79 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     7.20 %     8.54 %
2006
    2,446       25.562       31.049       85,789       1.66 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     15.61 %     17.04 %
Janus Aspen Worldwide Service (49)
                                                                       
2010
          11.786       12.134             0.78 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     13.20 %     13.59 %
2009
          10.412       10.683       1       1.24 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     34.64 %     35.11 %
2008
          7.733       7.907       1       1.05 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     -45.92 %     -45.73 %
2007
          14.298       14.570       1       0.67 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     7.15 %     7.53 %
2006
    2       11.613       11.752       21       1.59 %     1.70 %     2.05 %     14.91 %     15.30 %
 
                                                                       
JPMorgan Insurance Trust: (50)
                                                                       
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced (51)
                                                                       
2010 (52)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009
    6       10.645       11.296       64       2.30 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     21.72 %     22.92 %
2008
    2       8.746       9.190       23       7.23 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     -25.98 %     -25.24 %
2007
    5       11.815       12.293       60       1.74 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     3.79 %     4.82 %
2006
    5       11.384       11.728       55       6.59 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     8.46 %     9.61 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            NetAssets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust: (50) (continued)
                                                                       
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Core Bond (53)
                                                                       
2010
    131     $ 11.209     $ 12.687     $ 1,683       3.53 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     -3.40 %     7.41 %
2009 (54)
    120       11.433       12.133       1,436       1.08 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     7.23 %     8.29 %
2008
    4       10.662       11.203       48       2.47 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     -0.92 %     0.06 %
2007
    3       10.761       11.197       33       4.65 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     3.95 %     4.99 %
2006
          10.352       10.665       10       N/A       1.25 %     2.25 %     1.85 %     2.85 %
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Equity Index (55)
                                                                       
2010
    30       11.086       12.089       350       0.90 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     11.89 %     13.28 %
2009
    12       9.908       10.672       122       2.61 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     23.66 %     25.19 %
2008
    22       8.013       8.525       185       1.73 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -38.59 %     -37.83 %
2007
    12       13.048       13.712       162       1.41 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     2.77 %     4.05 %
2006
    9       12.696       13.179       121       0.98 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.48 %     14.28 %
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Government Bond
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009 (56)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    53       11.760       12.357       648       5.67 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     7.61 %     8.67 %
2007
    15       10.929       11.371       163       5.42 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     5.11 %     6.16 %
2006
    13       10.397       10.712       132       9.00 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     1.20 %     2.20 %
JPMorgan Insurance Trust International Equity
                                                                       
2010
    574       16.728       18.383       10,247       0.24 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.80 %     6.10 %
2009 (57)
    689       15.961       17.327       11,633       2.87 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     38.53 %     39.71 %
2008
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2007
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2006
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Growth (58)
                                                                       
2010
          10.852       11.629       2       1.69 %     1.25 %     2.25 %     13.55 %     14.67 %
2009
    2       9.557       10.142       17       N/A       1.25 %     2.25 %     31.36 %     32.66 %
2008
    2       7.275       7.645       12       N/A       1.25 %     2.25 %     -40.56 %     -39.97 %
2007
          12.239       12.735             N/A       1.25 %     2.25 %     9.08 %     10.16 %
2006
          11.220       11.560             N/A       1.25 %     2.25 %     2.60 %     4.08 %
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Mid Cap (59)
                                                                       
2010
    230       13.516       14.738       3,319       1.29 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     16.90 %     18.34 %
2009
    258       11.562       12.454       3,157       1.47 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     32.68 %     34.32 %
2008
    296       8.715       9.272       2,705       0.59 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -40.17 %     -39.42 %
2007
    339       14.564       15.306       5,123       0.65 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     0.59 %     1.84 %
2006
    361       14.479       15.029       5,375       0.54 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     11.21 %     12.99 %
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Growth (60)
                                                                       
2010
    66       14.267       15.557       997       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     22.87 %     24.39 %
2009
    64       11.611       12.507       781       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     39.89 %     41.62 %
2008
    79       8.300       8.831       683       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -45.03 %     -44.34 %
2007
    83       15.098       15.867       1,301       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     14.65 %     16.07 %
2006
    67       13.169       13.670       904       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     8.60 %     10.29 %
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Value (61)
                                                                       
2010
    560       13.176       14.367       7,869       1.20 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     20.74 %     22.23 %
2009
    671       10.912       11.754       7,731       0.40 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     25.08 %     26.63 %
2008
    76       8.724       9.282       693       1.51 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -36.91 %     -36.12 %
2007
    99       13.828       14.532       1,425       2.10 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -1.32 %     -0.09 %
2006
    132       14.012       14.544       1,913       0.80 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     13.88 %     15.57 %

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ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account
of Zurich American Life Insurance Company

Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust: (50) (continued)
                                                                       
JPMorgan Insurance Trust Small Cap Core
                                                                       
2010
    250     $ 16.040     $ 20.009     $ 4,797       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     24.33 %     25.87 %
2009 (62)
    295       12.876       15.897       4,505       0.44 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     27.16 %     30.78 %
2008
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2007
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2006
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
JPMorgan Insurance Trust U.S. Equity (63)
                                                                       
2010
    34       12.151       13.250       439       1.18 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     11.08 %     12.45 %
2009
    42       10.939       11.783       481       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     30.74 %     32.36 %
2008
    54       8.367       8.902       471       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -36.24 %     -35.45 %
2007
    89       13.122       13.790       1,217       1.35 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     8.01 %     9.35 %
2006
    176       12.149       12.611       2,200       0.67 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     13.37 %     15.00 %
 
                                                                       
JPMorgan Series Trust II:
                                                                       
JPMorgan International Equity
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009 (64)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    852       12.097       12.971       10,816       1.82 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -42.65 %     -41.93 %
2007
    1,152       21.092       22.339       25,246       1.24 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     6.91 %     8.24 %
2006
    1,780       17.848       20.638       36,195       1.04 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     18.81 %     20.83 %
JPMorgan Mid Cap Value
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009 (65)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    538       11.581       12.418       6,565       1.11 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -34.68 %     -33.87 %
2007
    700       17.731       18.779       12,949       0.97 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     0.19 %     1.43 %
2006
    717       16.236       18.513       13,127       0.68 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     13.96 %     15.69 %
JPMorgan Small Company
                                                                       
2010
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2009 (66)
    N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  
2008
    367       10.720       13.098       4,615       0.19 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -33.49 %     -32.66 %
2007
    421       16.085       19.451       7,925       0.01 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -7.76 %     -6.61 %
2006
    515       17.403       20.827       10,415       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     11.78 %     13.87 %
 
                                                                       
Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds:
                                                                       
Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation
                                                                       
2010
    181       12.280       13.496       2,383       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     6.74 %     8.06 %
2009
    246       11.504       12.489       2,999       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     40.98 %     42.72 %
2008
    246       8.160       8.750       2,116       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -46.86 %     -46.20 %
2007
    271       15.356       16.264       4,339       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     11.34 %     12.73 %
2006
    311       12.654       14.428       4,428       0.18 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.91 %     6.62 %
Oppenheimer Global Securities
                                                                       
2010
    1,298       19.553       21.487       27,103       1.23 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     13.16 %     14.56 %
2009
    1,554       17.279       18.757       28,429       1.86 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     36.29 %     37.97 %
2008
    1,798       12.678       13.594       23,933       1.34 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -41.65 %     -40.92 %
2007
    2,170       21.727       23.011       49,069       1.05 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     3.73 %     5.03 %
2006
    1,792       18.166       21.910       38,746       0.83 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     14.42 %     16.20 %

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Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
                                                                         
    At December 31,     For the year ended December 31,  
                            Net Assets     Investment              
    Units     Unit Fair Value     (1)     Income     Expense Ratio (3)     Total Return (4)  
    (000s)     Lowest     Highest     (000s)     Ratio (2)     Lowest     Highest     Lowest     Highest  
Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds: (continued)
                                                                       
Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income VA Service (67)
                                                                       
2010
    674     $ 13.961     $ 15.342     $ 10,061       7.87 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     12.25 %     13.64 %
2009
    655       12.437       13.501       8,645       0.25 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     15.80 %     17.24 %
2008
    790       10.740       11.516       8,917       6.25 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -16.37 %     -15.33 %
2007
    699       12.842       13.602       9,350       3.10 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     7.13 %     8.46 %
2006
    614       11.988       12.540       7,604       6.02 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     4.88 %     6.17 %
Oppenheimer High Income
                                                                       
2010
    196       3.507       3.855       736       6.73 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     11.92 %     13.31 %
2009
    269       3.134       3.402       889       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     23.18 %     24.70 %
2008
    168       2.544       2.728       449       8.90 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -79.05 %     -78.79 %
2007
    231       12.141       12.859       2,923       7.04 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -2.67 %     -1.46 %
2006
    211       12.474       13.049       2,732       6.43 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     6.83 %     8.15 %
Oppenheimer Main Street
                                                                       
2010
    413       12.922       14.201       5,703       0.88 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     13.28 %     14.68 %
2009
    489       11.408       12.383       5,909       1.60 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     25.18 %     26.73 %
2008
    621       9.113       9.772       5,935       1.31 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -39.98 %     -39.23 %
2007
    795       15.183       16.081       12,555       1.02 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     1.85 %     3.11 %
2006
    1,231       14.027       15.595       18,921       0.94 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     11.94 %     13.63 %
Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap
                                                                       
2010
    401       18.018       19.801       7,723       0.41 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     20.35 %     21.84 %
2009
    467       14.971       16.252       7,401       0.64 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     33.87 %     35.53 %
2008
    545       11.183       11.992       6,392       0.28 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -39.37 %     -38.62 %
2007
    728       18.446       19.536       13,975       0.15 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     -3.57 %     -2.37 %
2006
    619       16.294       20.011       12,222       0.02 %     1.00 %     2.25 %     11.57 %     13.53 %
Oppenheimer Small MidCap Growth (68)
                                                                       
2010
    50       12.712       13.970       686       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     24.37 %     25.90 %
2009
    49       10.221       11.096       533       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     29.35 %     30.95 %
2008
    45       7.902       8.473       371       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -50.33 %     -49.72 %
2007
    52       15.910       16.850       859       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     3.69 %     4.98 %
2006
    63       13.225       16.051       993       N/A       1.00 %     2.25 %     -0.06 %     1.69 %
 
                                                                       
PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust:
                                                                       
PIMCO Foreign Bond
                                                                       
2010
    8       15.587       15.587       125       1.85 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     6.99 %     6.99 %
2009
    8       14.569       14.569       124       3.20 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     14.00 %     14.00 %
2008
    10       12.779       12.779       126       3.51 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -3.75 %     -3.75 %
2007
    12       13.277       13.277       159       2.93 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     2.19 %     2.19 %
2006
    14       12.992       12.992       182       3.16 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     0.78 %     0.78 %
PIMCO Low Duration
                                                                       
2010
    9       14.990       14.990       138       1.58 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     3.84 %     3.84 %
2009
    10       14.437       14.437       140       3.80 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     11.76 %     11.76 %
2008
    9       12.918       12.918       123       4.41 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     -1.80 %     -1.80 %
2007
    11       13.154       13.154       149       4.91 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     5.87 %     5.87 %
2006
    10       12.425       12.425       136       4.38 %     1.40 %     1.40 %     2.54 %     2.54 %
 
(1)   Net Assets equals Contract Owners’ Equity.
 
(2)   This ratio represents dividends recorded by the subaccount from the underlying mutual fund divided by the average net assets. This ratio excludes the Expense Ratio. N/A is noted if the fund did not pay any dividends.

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Notes to Financial Statements
(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
(3) This ratio represents the annualized contract expenses of the separate account, resulting in a direct reduction of unit values, consisting primarily of mortality and expense charges. Charges that require redemption of contract owner units are excluded.
(4) Total return is calculated using the beginning and ending unit value (before rounding for this presentation), which reflects the changes in the underlying fund values and reductions related to the Expense Ratio, for the period indicated. The Archway product has total returns outside the ranges provided that do not correspond to the minimum or maximum expense ratio. This product invests in shares at the fund level that typically experience additional expenses. This can result in a lower subaccount total return than another product with a higher rider expense ratio.
(5) Effective September 23, 2009, name was changed from Alger American Funds to Alger Portfolios.
(6) Effective September 23, 2009, name was changed from Alger American Balanced Subaccount.
(7) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2010 to November 23, 2010 — Alger Balanced S Class. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount.
(8) Effective September 23, 2009, name was changed from Alger American Capital Appreciation Subaccount to Alger Capital Appreciation Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2008, name was changed from Alger American Leveraged AllCap Subaccount.
(9) Effective September 23, 2009, name was changed from Alger American Large Cap Growth Subaccount to Alger Large Cap Growth Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2008, name was changed from Alger American Growth Subaccount.
(10) Effective September 23, 2009, name was changed from Alger American Mid Cap Growth Subaccount.
(11) Effective September 23, 2009, name was changed from Alger American Small Cap Growth Subaccount to Alger Small Cap Growth Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2008, name was changed from Alger American Small Capitalization Subaccount.
(12) Effective December 11, 2009, Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex II merged with Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex III. Previous to this date effective May 1, 2009, name was changed from Credit Suisse Trust Global Small Cap Subaccount to Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex II Subaccount.
(13) Effective December 11, 2009, Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex III merged with Credit Suisse Trust International Equity Flex II. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2009, name was changed from Credit Suisse Trust Emerging Markets Subaccount.
(14) For the period (cessation of operations): January 2, 2007 to April 30, 2007- Dreyfus VIF Small Company Stock. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount.
(15) Effective February 6, 2006, Scudder Investments changed its name to DWS Scudder, and the Scudder Funds have been renamed DWS funds.
(16) Effective April 27, 2009, DWS Capital Growth VIP Subaccount acquired DWS Janus Growth Income VIP Subaccount.
(17) Effective December 8, 2006, DWS Capital Growth VIP Subaccount acquired DWS Janus Growth Opportunities VIP, DWS Legg Mason Aggressive Growth VIP and DWS Oak Strategic Equity VIP Subaccounts.
(18) Effective February 6, 2006, name was changed from Scudder Global Discovery Subaccount.
(19) Effective February 6, 2006, name was changed from Scudder Health Sciences Subaccount.
(20) Effective February 6, 2006, name was changed from Scudder Total Return Subaccount.
(21) Effective February 6, 2006, name was changed from Scudder Fixed Income Subaccount.
(22) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2009 to April 27, 2009- DWS Davis Venture Value VIP Subaccount . Subaccount merged with DWSII Large Cap Value VIP Subaccount.
(23) Effective May 1, 2009, name was changed from DWS International Select Equity VIP Subaccount.
(24) Effective November 3, 2006, name was changed from DWS Dreman Small Cap Value Subaccount.

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(6) Unit Values and Financial Highlights: (continued)
(25) Effective February 6, 2006, name was changed from Scudder Global Blue Chip Subaccount.
(26) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2009 to April 27, 2009- DWS Janus Growth & Income VIP Subaccount. Subaccount merged with DWS Capital Growth VIP Subaccount.
(27) Effective December 17, 2010, DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount acquired Franklin Zero Coupon 2010 Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective November 23, 2010 DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount acquired Alger Balanced Portfolio Class S Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective April 23, 2010, DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount acquired JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced Portfolio Subaccount.
(28) Effective May 1, 2009, DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount acquired DWS Janus Aspen Small Company Value Subaccount.
(29) Effective April 25, 2008, DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount acquired DWS RREEF Real Estate Securities VIP Subaccount.
(30) Effective November 3, 2006, DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount acquired DWS Variable Series I’s Money Market VIP Subaccount.
(31) Effective June 1,2009, name was changed from DWS Dreman High Return Equity VIP Subaccount.
(32) Effective September 15, 2006, DWS Dreman High Return Equity VIP Subaccount acquired DWS Dreman Financial Services VIP and DWS MFS Strategic Value Subaccounts.
(33) Effective February 6, 2006, name was changed from Scudder Technology Growth Subaccount.
(34) Effective February 6, 2006, name was changed from Scudder Real Estate Securities Subaccount.
(35) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2008 to April 25, 2008 DWS RREEF Real Estate Securities VIP Subaccount. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount.
(36) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2010 to December 17, 2010 Franklin Zero Coupon 2010 Subaccount. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount.
(37) Effective May 1, 2009, name was changed from Mutual Discovery Securities Subaccount.
(38) For the period (commencement of operations): January 12, 2007 to December 31, 2007 – ING Global Resources Subaccount. Subaccount acquired ING VP Natural Resources Trust Subaccount.
(39) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2007 to January 12, 2007- ING VP Natural Resources Trust Subaccount. Subaccount merged with ING Global Resources Subaccount.
(40) Effective April 30, 2010, AIM Variable Insurance Funds changed its name to Invesco Variable Insurance Funds.
(41) Effective April 30, 2010, name was changed from AIM V.I. Financial Services Fund Subaccount.
(42) Effective April 30, 2010, name was changed from AIM V.I. Global Health Care Subaccount.
(43) Effective April 30, 2010, name was changed from AIM V.I. Global Real Estate Subaccount.
(44) Effective April 30, 2010, name was changed from AIM V.I. Utilities Subaccount.
(45) Effective May 1, 2009, name was changed from Janus Aspen Mid Cap Growth Subaccount.
(46) Effective May 1, 2005, name was changed from Janus Aspen Capital Appreciation Subaccount.
(47) Effective May 1, 2009, name was changed from Janus Aspen Large Cap Growth Subaccount.
(48) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2009 to May 1, 2009 Janus Aspen Perkins Small Company Value Subaccount. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount.
(49) Effective May 1, 2009, name was changed from Janus Aspen Worldwide Growth Subaccount.

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(50) Effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Subaccount.
(51) Effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Balanced Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2005, name was changed from One Group Investment Trust Balanced Subaccount.
(52) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2010 to April 23, 2010 JPMorgan Insurance Trust Balanced Subaccount. Subaccount merged with DWS Money Market VIP Subaccount.
(53) Effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Bond Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Core Bond Subaccount.
(54) Effective May 1, 2009, JP Morgan Insurance Trust Core Bond Subaccount merged with JP Morgan Insurance Trust Government Bond Subaccount.
(55) Effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Equity Index Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Equity Index Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2005, name was changed from One Group Investment Trust Equity Index Subaccount.
(56) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2009 to May 1, 2009 — JP Morgan Insurance Trust Government Bond. Fund merged with JP Morgan Insurance Trust Core Bond Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Government Bond Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Government Bond Subaccount.
(57) For the period (commencement of operations): May 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009 — JPMorgan Insurance Trust International Equity Subaccount.
(58) Effective December 8, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Insurance Trust Large Cap Growth Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Growth Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Large Cap Growth Subaccount.
(59) Effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Diversified Mid Cap Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Intrepid Mid Cap Subaccount.
(60) Effective December 17, 2010, name was changed from JPMorgan Insurance Trust Diversified Mid Cap Growth Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Growth Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Diversified Mid Cap Growth Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Diversified Mid Cap Growth Subaccount.
(61) Effective May 1, 2009, JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Value Subaccount merged with JPMorgan Mid Cap Value subaccount. On the same date, name was changed from JP Morgan Insurance Trust Diversified Mid Cap Value Subaccount. Previous to this date effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Mid Cap Value Subaccount.
(62) For the period (commencement of operations): May 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009 — JPMorgan Insurance Trust Small Cap Core Subaccount.
(63) Effective May 1, 2009, name was changed from JP Morgan Insurance Trust Diversified Equity Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from JPMorgan Investment Trust Diversified Equity Subaccount to JPMorgan Insurance Trust Diversified Equity Subaccount.
(64) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2009 to May 1, 2009 — JPMorgan International Equity Subaccount. Fund merged with JPMorgan Insurance Trust International Equity Subaccount.
(65) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2009 to May 1, 2009 — JPMorgan MidCap Value Subaccount. Fund merged with JPMorgan Insurance Trust Mid Cap Value Subaccount.
(66) For the period (cessation of operations): January 1, 2009 to May 1, 2009 — JPMorgan Small Company Subaccount. Fund merged with JPMorgan Insurance Trust Small Cap Core Subaccount.
(67) Effective April 30, 2010, name was changed from Oppenheimer Strategic Bond Fund Subaccount.
(68) Effective April 30, 2010, name was changed from Oppenheimer Mid Cap Fund Subaccount to Oppenheimer Small-MidCap Growth Fund VA Series Subaccount. Previous to this date, effective May 1, 2006, name was changed from Oppenheimer Aggressive Growth Subaccount.
(7) Subsequent Events:
The Separate Account has evaluated the effects of events subsequent to December 31, 2010, and through the financial statement issuance date. All accounting and disclosure requirements related to subsequent events are included in our financial statements.

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PART C
OTHER INFORMATION
Item 24. Financial Statement and Exhibits
(a) Financial Statements included in Part B:
         All required financial statements are included in Part B of this registration statement.
(b) Exhibits:
1.1   A copy of resolution of the Board of Directors of Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company dated September 13, 1977. 4
 
1.2   A copy of Record of Action of Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company dated May 29, 1981. 19
 
2.   Not Applicable.
 
3.1   Distribution Agreement between Investors Brokerage Services, Inc. and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company. 3
 
3.2   Addendum to Selling Group Agreement of Kemper Financial Services, Inc. 1
 
3.3   Selling Group Agreement of Investors Brokerage Services, Inc. 2
 
3.4   Principal Underwriter Agreement, dated February 3, 2009, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Synergy Investment Group, LLC. 22
 
3.5   Amendment of Distribution Agreement, dated April 1, 2010, By and Between Investors Brokerage Services, Inc. and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company. 23
 
3.6   Assignment of Selling Agreements, dated April 1, 2010, By and Between Investors Brokerage Services, Inc. and Synergy Investment Group, LLC. 23
 
4.1   Form of Group Variable, Fixed and Market Value Adjusted Annuity Contract. 7
 
4.2   Form of Certificate to Group Variable, Fixed and Market Value Adjusted Annuity Contract. 7
 
4.3   Form of Individual Variable, Fixed and Market Value Adjusted Annuity Contract. 7
 
4.4   Endorsement to Group Variable, Fixed and Market Value Adjusted Annuity Contract. 16
 
4.5   Endorsement to Certificate to Group Variable, Fixed and Market Value Adjusted Annuity Contract. 16
 
4.6   Endorsement to Individual Variable, Fixed and Market Value Adjusted Annuity Contract.16
 
4.7   403(b) Qualified Plan Supplemental Rider. 23

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4.8   403(b) Qualified Plan Supplemental Group Contract Rider. 23
 
4.9   403(b) Qualified Plan Supplemental Certificate Rider. 23
 
5.   Form of Application. 7
 
6.1   Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company Articles of Incorporation and By-laws. 3
 
6.2   Zurich American Life Insurance Company Amended Articles of Incorporation and By-laws. 24
 
7.1   Coinsurance Agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company, dated May 29, 2003. 15
 
7.2   MVA Agreement and First Amendment to Coinsurance Agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Chase Insurance Life and Annuity Company, f/k/a/ Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company. 16
 
7.3   Automatic Annuity Reinsurance Agreement effective May 1, 1998 (redacted). 18
 
7.4(a)   Variable Annuity Reinsurance Contract Issued to Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company effective November 17, 2006 (redacted). 19
 
7.4(b)   Amendment No. 1 to Variable Annuity Reinsurance Contract, dated December 15, 2008, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Zurich Insurance Company. 22
 
8.1(a)   Fund Participation Agreement among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, Janus Aspen Series and Janus Capital Corporation. 2
 
8.1(b)   Service Agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Janus Capital Corporation. 5
 
8.1(c)   Rule 22c-2 Agreement, dated April 16, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, Janus Aspen Series, Janus Capital Management LLC, and Janus Distributors LLC. 24
 
8.1(d)   Form of Amendment No. 8 to Fund Participation Agreement By and Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, Janus Aspen Series, and Janus Capital Management LLC (formerly Janus Capital Corporation). 24
 
8.2(a)   Participation Agreement By and Among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Warburg, Pincus Trust and Credit Suisse Asset Management, LLC (successor to Warburg Pincus Asset Management, Inc.) and Credit Suisse Asset Management Securities, Inc. (f/k/a Counsellors Securities Inc.). 8
 
8.2(b)   Service Agreement between Credit Suisse Asset Management, LLC (successor to Warburg Pincus Asset Management, Inc.) and Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company. 6
 
8.2(c)   Restatement of Participation Agreement among Counsellors Securities Inc., Warburg Pincus Asset Management, Inc. and/or the Warburg Pincus Funds and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company. 10

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8.2(d)   Rule 22c-2 Shareholder Information Agreement, dated October 16, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Credit Suisse Asset Management Securities, Inc. 22
 
8.3(a)   Fund Participation Agreement among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, Kemper Investors Fund (now known as DWS Variable Series II), Zurich Kemper Investments, Inc., and Kemper Distributors, Inc., dated January 1, 1999. 8
 
8.3(b)   Supplement to Participation Agreement among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, DWS Variable Series II (formerly Kemper Investors Fund), Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. (formerly Zurich Kemper Investments, Inc.), and DWS Scudder Distributors, Inc (formerly Kemper Distributors, Inc.).19
 
8.3(c)   Supplement to Participation Agreement among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, DWS Variable Series II, Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc., and DWS Scudder Distributors, Inc.20
 
8.3(d)   Administrative Services Agreement, dated November 5, 1997, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Zurich Kemper Investments, Inc. 21
 
8.3(e)   Amendment to November 5, 1997 Services Agreement, dated March 4, 2008, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. 22
 
8.3(f)   Rule 22c-2 Agreement, dated April 16, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and DWS Scudder Distributors, Inc. 22
 
8.3(g)   Amendment to Participation Agreement Dated as of January 1, 1997, Between DWS Variable Series II, Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc., DWS Investments Distributors, Inc. (formerly, DWS Scudder Distributors, Inc.), and Zurich American Life Insurance Company, dated April 11, 2011. 24
 
8.3(h)   Supplement to Participation Agreement Dated January 1, 1997, Among Zurich American Life Insurance Company, DWS Variable Series II, Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc., and DWS Investments Distributors, Inc., dated April 29, 2011. 24
 
8.4(a)   Participation Agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Scudder Variable Life Investment Fund (now known as DWS Variable Series I), dated June 26, 1998. 9
 
8.4(b)   Participating Contract and Policy Agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Scudder Kemper Investments, Inc. 9
 
8.4(c)   Indemnification Agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Scudder Kemper Investments, Inc. 9
 
8.4(d)   Amendment to Participation Agreement between Scudder Variable Series I and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company. 16
 
8.4(e)   Supplement for Participation Agreement Dated as of June 26, 1998, dated August 1, 2008, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and DWS Variable Series I (formerly Scudder Variable Series I). 22

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8.4(f)   Amendment to June 26, 1998 Indemnification Agreement, dated August 28, 2008, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Deutsche Investment Management Americas, Inc. (formerly Scudder Kemper Investments, Inc.).22
 
8.4(g)   Amendment to Participation Agreement Dated as of June 26, 1998, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company and DWS Variable Series I (formerly, Scudder Variable Life Investment Fund and Scudder Variable Series I), dated April 11, 2011. 24
 
8.5(a)   Participation Agreement Among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, and PIMCO Funds Distributors LLC. 9
 
8.5(b)   Services Agreement between Pacific Investment Management Company and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company. 9
 
8.5(c)   Rule 22c-2 Agreement, dated April 16, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC. 24
 
8.5(d)   Form of Novation of and Amendment to Participation Agreement, By and Among Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, PIMCO Investments LLC, PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, and Zurich American Life Insurance Company. 24
 
8.5(e)   Form of Amendment to Participation Agreement Dated January 5, 1999, By and Among Zurich American Life Insurance Company, PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, and Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC (formerly PIMCO Funds Distributors, LLC). 24
 
8.6(a)   Participation Agreement Among Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company. 11
 
8.6(b)   Shareholder Information Agreement, Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, dated April 16, 2007, By and Among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Franklin/Templeton Distributors, Inc. 24
 
8.7(a)   Fund Participation Agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc. 11
 
8.7(b)   November 1, 1999 Amendment to Fund Participation Agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc. 12
 
8.7(c)   Administrative Services Agreement by and between The Dreyfus Corporation and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company (redacted). 10
 
8.7(d)   November 1, 1999 Amendment to Administrative Services Agreement by and between The Dreyfus Corporation and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company (redacted). 10
 
8.7(e)   Supplemental Agreement, dated April 16, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Dreyfus Service Corporation. 22
 
8.7(f)   Amendment No. 2 to Fund Participation Agreement Dated April 27, 1999, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund, and Dreyfus Life and Annuity Index Fund, Inc. (d/b/a Dreyfus Stock Index Fund), dated April 8, 2011. 24
 
8.8(a)   Fund Participation Agreement by and among The Alger American Fund, Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Fred Alger & Company Incorporated. 12

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8.8(b)   Service Agreement between Fred Alger Management, Inc. and Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company (redacted). 12
 
8.8(c)   Rule 22c-2 Agreement, dated April 16, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Fred Alger & Company, Incorporated. 22
 
8.8(d)   Amendment No. 1 to Participation Agreement Dated May 1, 1999, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, The Alger Portfolios (formerly The Alger American Fund), and Fred Alger & Company Incorporated, dated April 1, 2011. 24
 
8.9(a)   Fund Participation Agreement, dated April 30, 2004, by and among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, AIM Variable Insurance Funds, and AIM Distributors, Inc. 24
 
8.9(b)   Administrative Services Agreement, dated July 1, 2005, Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and AIM Advisors, Inc. 24
 
8.9(c)   AIM Funds Intermediary Agreement Regarding Compliance with SEC Rule 22c-2, dated April 11, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and AIM Investment Services, Inc. 22
 
8.9(d)   Amendment No. 1 to the Participation Agreement Dated April 30, 2004, Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, AIM Variable Insurance Funds, and AIM Distributors, Inc., dated May 28, 2008. 24
 
8.9(e)   Amendment No. 2 to the Participation Agreement Dated April 30, 2004, Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, AIM Variable Insurance Funds, and AIM Distributors, Inc., dated April 30, 2010. 24
 
8.9(f)   Form of Amendment No. 3 to Participation Agreement Dated April 30, 2004, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds), and Invesco Distributors, Inc. 24
 
8.10(a)   Insurance Administrative Services Agreement, dated September 7, 2004, between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Liberty Insurance Services Corporation (now known as IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Service Corporation). 13
 
8.10(b)   Amendment No. 1 to The Insurance Administrative Services Agreement, dated April 26, 2005, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Services Corporation (formerly Liberty Insurance Services Corporation). 21
 
8.10(c)   Amendment No. 2 to The Insurance Administrative Services Agreement, dated May 16, 2006, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Services Corporation. 21
 
8.10(d)   Amendment No. 3 to The Insurance Administrative Services Agreement, dated August 23, 2006, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Services Corporation. 21

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8.10(e)   Amendment No. 4 to Third-Party Insurance Administrative Services Agreement, dated February 22, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Services Corporation. 21
 
8.10(f)   Redacted Amendment No. 5 to Third-Party Insurance Administrative Services Agreement, dated June 1, 2008, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Services Corporation. 21
 
8.10(g)   Amendment No. 6 to Third-Party Insurance Administrative Services Agreement, dated May 15, 2009, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Services Corporation. 23
 
8.10(h)   Amendment No. 7 to Third-Party Insurance Administrative Services Agreement, dated February 22, 2010, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Services Corporation. 23
 
8.11(a)   Fund Participation Agreement by and among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, Deutsche Asset Management VIT Funds (now known as DWS Investments VIT Funds), and Deutsche Asset Management, Inc. 17
 
8.11(b)   Administrative Services Agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Deutsche Asset Management, Inc. (redacted). 17
 
8.11(c)   Amendment to administrative services agreement between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Deutsche Asset Management, Inc. 18
 
8.11(d)   Amendment to Fund Participation Agreement Dated as of October 21, 2001, By and Among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, Scudder Investments VIT Funds (formerly Deutsche Asset Management VIT Funds), and Deutsche Asset Management, Inc., dated August 1, 2005. 24
 
8.11(e)   Amendment to Fund Participation Agreement Dated as of October 22, 2001, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, DWS Investments VIT Funds (formerly, Deutsche Asset Management VIT Funds and Scudder Investments VIT Funds), and Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. (formerly, Deutsche Asset Management, Inc.), dated April 11, 2011. 24
 
9.   Opinion and Consent of Juanita M. Thomas, Esq. 24
 
10.(a)   Consent of independent registered public accounting firm. 24
 
10.(b)   Consent of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP. 24
 
11.   Not Applicable.
 
12.   Not Applicable
 
13.   Schedules for Computation of Performance Calculations. 4
 
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15.   Powers of Attorney for Kevin T. Hogan, Nicolas A. Burnet, Richard J. Hauser, Barry S. Paul, Linda L. Swanson, Patricia Aprill, Marcia Scheiner, and Jeffrey S. Horton. 23
 
15.(a)   Powers of Attorney for Simon Lodge and David Dietz. 24
 
17.1   Schedule III: Supplementary Insurance Information (years ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002). 13
 
17.2   Schedule IV: Reinsurance (year ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002). 13
 
17.3   Schedule V: Valuation and qualifying accounts (year ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002). 13
 
1   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 22 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 2-72671) filed on or about April 27, 1995.
 
2   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 23 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 2-72671) filed on or about September 14, 1995.
 
3   Incorporated by reference to Exhibits filed with the Registration Statement on Form S-1 for Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company (File No. 333-02491) filed on or about April 12, 1996.
 
4   Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 for the Registrant (File No. 333-22375) filed on or about February 26, 1997.
 
5   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 25 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 2-72671) filed on or about April 28, 1997.
 
6   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement on Form S-6 (File No. 33-79808) filed on or about April 30, 1997.
 
7   Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-22375) filed on or about November 3, 1997.
 
8   Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-22389) filed on or about April 8, 1998.
 
9   Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 5 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-22389) filed on or about April 20, 1999.
 
10   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-22375) filed on or about September 14, 1999.
 
11   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 28 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 2-72671) filed on or about April 28, 1999.
 
12   Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 6 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-22389) filed on or about April 17, 2000.
 
13   Incorporated by reference to Form 10-K for Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company for fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 filed on or about March 30, 2005.

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14   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 14 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-22375) filed on or about April 28, 2004.
 
15   Incorporated by reference to exhibits filed with Form 10-Q for Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company (now Zurich American Life Insurance Company) (File No. 033-43462) for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2003 filed on or about August 14, 2003.
 
16   Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 6 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-22375) filed on April 28, 2005.
 
17   Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form S-6 (File No. 333-88845) filed on April 30, 2002.
 
18   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 17 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-22375) filed on or about May 1, 2006.
 
19   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 18 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-22375) filed on April 27, 2007.
 
20   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 19 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-22375) filed on April 29, 2008.
 
21   Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-148489) filed on August 8, 2008.
 
22   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 20 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-22375) filed on April 29, 2009.
 
23   Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 21 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 (File No. 333-22375) filed on April 30, 2010.
 
24   Filed herewith.
Item 25. Directors and Officers of Zurich American Life Insurance Company (“ZALICO”)
         The directors and officers of ZALICO are listed below together with their current positions.
     
Name   Office with ZALICO
David Dietz3
  President and Chief Executive Officer
Richard Grilli4
  Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Simon Lodge3
  Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Barry S. Paul2
  Director and Assistant Treasurer
Richard J. Hauser2
  Director and Assistant Treasurer
Nicolas A. Burnet5
  Director
Michael Rohwetter3
  Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
David M. Lorenz1
  Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer
Richard Persaud4
  Vice President and Chief Risk Officer
Ali Rifai3
  Senior Vice President, General Counsel and
Corporate Secretary
Jeffrey S. Horton3
  Senior Vice President-Finance and Treasurer

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Catherine Ehrlich3
  Vice President, Chief Life Actuary and “Appointed Actuary”
Sherif Zakhary3
  Vice President
Dennis Roberts6
  Vice President
Michael DeStasi4
  Assistant Vice President and Controller
Dawn Cummings-Fritz2
  Assistant Vice President
Margaret Labno2
  Assistant Vice President
David Dampman7
  Assistant Secretary
Craig Toffolo3
  Assistant Secretary
Ryan Gibbons2
  Assistant Secretary
Mary Lyn DeNiro3
  Assistant Secretary
Jon Nagel3
  Assistant Secretary
Michael Smiley3
  Assistant Secretary
Juanita M. Thomas, Esq.3 serves as the Chief Compliance Officer for the Registrant.
 
1   The principal business address is 3003 77th Avenue, SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040.
 
2   The principal business address is 1400 American Lane, Schaumburg, IL 60196.
 
3   The principal business address is 105 E. 17th Street, New York, NY 10003.
 
4   The principal business address is One Liberty Plaza, 165 Broadway, New York, NY 10006.
 
5   The principal business address is Mythenquai 2, 8022, Zurich, Switzerland.
 
6   The principal business address is 200 Sam Houston Parkway, Suite 1300, Houston, TX 77042.
 
7   The principal business address is 7045 College Blvd., Overland Park, KS 66211.
Item 26. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with the Insurance Company or Registrant
Organizations Affiliated with Zurich U.S. Insurance Group
                 
Company
  Domiciled   Ownership   %
Allied Zurich Holdings Limited
  CI   Zurich Financial Services Ltd     100.00  
Allied Zurich Limited UK
  UK   Zurich Financial Services Ltd     100.00  
American Guarantee and Liability Insurance Company
  NY   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  
American Zurich Insurance Company
  IL   Steadfast Insurance Company     100.00  
Assurance Company of America
  NY   Maryland Casualty Company     100.00  
BFP Securities LLC
  DE   Benefit Finance Partners, LLC     100.00  
Benefit Finance Partners, LLC
  DE   Zurich Benefit Finance LLC     50.00  
Centre Financial Services Holdings Limited
  BDA   Centre Group Holdings Limited     100.00  
Centre Group Holdings (U.S.) Limited
  DE   Centre Solutions (Bermuda) Limited     100.00  
Centre Group Holdings Limited
  BDA   CMSH Limited     100.00  
Centre Insurance Company
  DE   Centre Solutions (U.S.) Limited     100.00  
Centre Life Insurance Company
  MA   Centre Solutions (U.S.) Limited     100.00  
Centre Reinsurance (U.S.) Limited
  BDA   Centre Group Holdings (U.S.) Limited     100.00  
Centre Solutions (Bermuda) Limited
  BDA   Centre Group Holdings Limited     100.00  
Centre Solutions (U.S.) Limited
  BDA   Centre Group Holdings (U.S.) Limited     100.00  
CMSH Limited
  BDA   Zurich Insurance Company Ltd     100.00  
Colonial American Casualty & Surety Co.
  MD   Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland     100.00  
Crown Management Services Limited
  DE   CMSH Limited     100.00  
Delta Wetlands Property
  IL   KLMLP 2, LLC     90.00  
Delta Wetlands Property
  IL   KLMLP 3, LLC     10.00  
Disability Management Services, Inc.
  CT   Centre Group Holdings (U.S.) Limited     40.00  
Empire Fire & Marine Insurance Company
  NE   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  

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Company
  Domiciled   Ownership   %
Empire Indemnity Insurance Company
  OK   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  
Farmers Group, Inc.
  NV   Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.     87.90  
Farmers Group, Inc.
  NV   Zurich Financial Services Ltd.     10.38  
Farmers Group, Inc.
  NV   Zurich RegCaps II, V and VI     1.73  
Farmers New World Life Insurance Company
  WA   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Farmers Reinsurance Company
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Farmers Services Corporation
  NV   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Farmers Services, LLC
  DE   ZFUS Services, LLC     100.00  
Farmers Value Added, Inc.
  NV   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland
  MD   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  
F.I.G. Holding Company
  CA   Fire Underwriters Association     70.00  
F.I.G. Holding Company
  CA   Truck Underwriters Association     30.00  
FIG Leasing Company, Inc.
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     95.20  
FIG Leasing Company, Inc.
  CA   Fire Underwriters Association     1.70  
FIG Leasing Company, Inc.
  CA   Truck Underwriters Association     3.10  
Fire Underwriters Association
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich American Corporation
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich American Life Insurance Company
  IL   Zurich American Corporation     100.00  
KLMLP, L.P.
  DE   Zurich American Corporation     75.00  
KLMLP 2, LLC
  DE   KLMLP, L.P.     100.00  
KLMLP 3, LLC
  DE   KLMLP 2, LLC     100.00  
L&L Park 80 Investors LLC
  DE   ZI Park 80 West LLC     100.00  
Leschi Life Assurance Company
  SC   Farmers New World Life Insurance Company     100.00  
Maryland Casualty Company
  MD   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  
Maunalua Associates, Inc.
  HI   Zurich American Corporation     100.00  
MI Administrators, LLC
  DE   FIG Leasing Company, Inc.     100.00  
Northern Insurance Company of New York
  NY   Maryland Casualty Company     100.00  
Orange Stone Holdings
  IRE   CMSH Limited     100.00  
Orange Stone Reinsurance
  IRE   Crown Management Services Limited     100.00  
Prematic Service Corporation (CA)
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     38.00  
Prematic Service Corporation (CA)
  CA   Fire Underwriters Association     9.00  
Prematic Service Corporation (CA)
  CA   Truck Underwriters Association     53.00  
Prematic Service Corporation (NV)
  NV   Prematic Service Corporation (CA)     100.00  
South County Services Company, Inc.
  NY   Sterling Forest LLC     100.00  
Steadfast Insurance Company
  DE   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  
Steadfast Santa Clarita Holding LLC
  DE   Steadfast Insurance Company     100.00  
Sterling Forest LLC
  DE   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  
Truck Underwriters Association
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Universal Underwriters Acceptance Corporation
  KS   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
UUBVI, Limited
  BVI   Universal Underwriters Service Corporation     99.99  
Universal Underwriters Insurance Company
  KS   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  
Universal Underwriters Insurance Services, Inc.
  MA   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Universal Underwriters Life Insurance Company
  KS   Universal Underwriters Insurance Company     100.00  
Universal Underwriters of Texas Insurance Company
  TX   Universal Underwriters Insurance Company     100.00  
Universal Underwriters Service Corporation
  MO   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Vehicle Dealer Solutions, Inc.
  FL   The Zurich Services Corporation     100.00  
WVGRR Properties, LLC
  DE   Farmers New World Life Insurance Company     100.00  
ZFS Finance (USA) LLC IV
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
ZFS Finance (USA) LLC V
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
ZFS Finance (USA) LLC I
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
ZFS Finance (USA) LLC II
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
ZFS Finance (USA) LLC III
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
ZFUS Services, LLC
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
ZI Park 80 West LLC
  DE   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  
ZNA Services, LLC
  DE   ZFUS Services, LLC     100.00  

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Company
  Domiciled   Ownership   %
ZKS Real Estate Partners, LLC
  DE   Zurich American Corporation     41.67  
ZSFH LLC
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich Agency Services, Inc.
  TX   Maryland Casualty Company     100.00  
Zurich Alternative Asset Management, LLC
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich American Insurance Company
  NY   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich American Insurance Company of Illinois
  IL   American Zurich Insurance Company     100.00  
Zurich American Life Insurance Company of New York
  NY   Zurich American Life Insurance Company     100.00  
Zurich Benefit Finance LLC
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich CZI Management Holding Ltd.
  DE   Zurich Global Investment Management Inc.     100.00  
Zurich E&S Insurance Brokerage, Inc.
  CA   Zurich American Insurance Company     100.00  
Zurich Finance (USA), Inc.
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America. Inc.     100.00  
Zurich Global Investment Management Inc.
  DE   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich Global, Ltd.
  BDA   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.
  DE   Zurich Insurance Company Ltd     99.87  
Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.
  DE   Crown Management Services Limited     00.13  
Zurich Insurance Company Ltd
  Switzerland   Zurich Financial Services Ltd     100.00  
Zurich International (Bermuda) Ltd.
  BDA   Zurich Insurance Company Ltd     100.00  
Zurich Investment Management AG
  Switzerland   Prematic Service Corporation (NV)     80.00  
Zurich Investment Management AG
  Switzerland   Zurich Financial Services Ltd     20.00  
Zurich Realty, Inc.
  MD   The Zurich Services Corporation     100  
The Zurich Services Corporation
  IL   Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich Warranty Solutions, Inc.
  IL   American Zurich Insurance Company     100.00  
Zurich Latin America Corporation
  DE   The Zurich Services Corporation     100.00  
Organizations Affiliated with Farmers Insurance Group
                 
Company
  Domiciled   Ownership   %
20th Century Insurance Services, Inc.
  NV   21st Century Insurance Group     100.00  
21st Century Casualty Company
  CA   21st Century Insurance Group     100.00  
21st Century Insurance and Financial Services, Inc.
  DE   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
21st Century Insurance and Financial Services, Inc.
  DE   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century Insurance and Financial Services, Inc.
  DE   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century Insurance Company
  CA   21st Century Insurance Group     100.00  
21st Century Insurance Company of the Southwest
  TX   21st Century Insurance Group     100.00  
21st Century Insurance Group
  DE   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
21st Century Insurance Group
  DE   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century Insurance Group
  DE   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
50th State Risk Management Services, Inc.
  HI   Hawaii Insurance Consultants, Ltd.     100.00  
21st Century Advantage Insurance Company
  MN   21st Century North America Insurance Company     100.00  
21st Century Auto Insurance Company of New Jersey
  NJ   21st Century Centennial Insurance Company     100.00  
21st Century Centennial Insurance Company
  PA   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
21st Century Centennial Insurance Company
  PA   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century Centennial Insurance Company
  PA   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century Indemnity Insurance Company
  PA   21st Century Premier Insurance Company     100.00  
21st Century National Insurance Company, Inc.
  NY   21st Century Security Insurance Company     100.00  
21st Century Preferred Insurance Company
  PA   21st Century Centennial Insurance Company     100.00  
21st Century Premier Insurance Company
  PA   21st Century Centennial Insurance Company     100.00  
American Federation Insurance Company
  MI   Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids, Michigan     100.00  
21st Century North America Insurance Company
  NY   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
21st Century North America Insurance Company
  NY   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century North America Insurance Company
  NY   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century Superior Insurance Company.
  CA   21st Century North America Insurance Company     100.00  
21st Century Assurance Company
  DE   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
21st Century Assurance Company
  DE   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  

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Company
  Domiciled   Ownership   %
21st Century Assurance Company
  DE   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century Pinnacle Insurance Company
  NJ   21st Century North America Insurance Company     100.00  
21st Century Pacific Insurance Company
  CO   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
21st Century Pacific Insurance Company
  CO   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century Pacific Insurance Company
  CO   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
American Pacific Insurance Company, Inc.
  HI   Farmers Insurance Hawaii, Inc.     100.00  
APEX Adjustment Bureau, Inc.
  FL   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Bayview Adjustment Bureau, Inc.
  CA   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Bristol West Casualty Insurance Company
  OH   Coast National Insurance Company     100.00  
Bristol West Holdings, Inc.
  DE   Farmers Insurance Exchange     42  
Bristol West Holdings, Inc.
  DE   Fire Insurance Exchange     3.75  
Bristol West Holdings, Inc.
  DE   Mid-Century Insurance Company     47.50  
Bristol West Holdings, Inc.
  DE   Truck Insurance Exchange     6.75  
Bristol West Insurance Company
  OH   Coast National Insurance Company     100.00  
Bristol West Insurance Services of California, Inc.
  CA   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Bristol West Insurance Services of Georgia, Inc.
  GA   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Bristol West Insurance Services of Pennsylvania, Inc.
  PA   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Bristol West Insurance Services of Texas, Inc.
  TX   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Bristol West Insurance Services, Inc. of Florida
  FL   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Bristol West Preferred Insurance Company
  MI   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
BWIS of Nevada, Inc.
  NV   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Civic Property & Casualty Co.
  CA   Fire Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Civic Property & Casualty Co.
  CA   Truck Insurance Exchange     20.00  
Coast National General Agency, Inc.
  TX   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Coast National Holding Company
  CA   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Coast National Insurance Company
  CA   Coast National Holding Company     100.00  
Exact Property & Casualty Co.
  CA   Fire Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Exact Property & Casualty Co.
  CA   Truck Insurance Exchange     20.00  
Farmers Financial Solutions, LLC
  NV   FFS Holding, LLC     100.00  
Farmers Group, Inc.
  NV   Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.     87.90  
Farmers Group, Inc.
  NV   Zurich Financial Services Ltd.     10.38  
Farmers Group, Inc.
  NV   Zurich RegCaps II, V and VI     1.73  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Arizona
  AZ   Farmers Insurance Exchange     70.00  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Arizona
  AZ   Truck Insurance Exchange     20.00  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Arizona
  AZ   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Idaho
  ID   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Idaho
  ID   Truck Insurance Exchange     13.30  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Idaho
  ID   Fire Insurance Exchange     06.70  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Oregon
  OR   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Oregon
  OR   Truck Insurance Exchange     20.00  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Washington
  WA   Fire Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Farmers Insurance Co. of Washington
  WA   Truck Insurance Exchange     20.00  
Farmers Insurance Co., Inc.
  KS   Farmers Insurance Exchange     90.00  
Farmers Insurance Co., Inc.
  KS   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
Farmers Insurance Exchange
  CA   Interinsurance Exchange        
Farmers Insurance Hawaii, Inc.
  HI   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Farmers Insurance Hawaii, Inc.
  HI   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
Farmers Insurance Hawaii, Inc.
  HI   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
Farmers Insurance of Columbus, Inc.
  OH   Farmers Insurance Exchange     100.00  
Farmers New Century Insurance Company
  IL   Illinois Farmers Insurance Co.     100.00  
Farmers Reinsurance Company
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Farmers Services Corporation
  NV   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Farmers Services Insurance Agency
  CA   Truck Insurance Exchange     100.00  
Farmers Texas County Mutual Insurance Company
  TX   County Mutual Company        
Farmers Value Added, Inc.
  NV   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
FCOA, LLC
  DE   Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids, MI     100.00  

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Company
  Domiciled   Ownership   %
FFS Holding, LLC
  NV   Mid Century Ins. Co.     100.00  
F.I.G. Holding Company
  CA   Fire Underwriters Association     70.00  
F.I.G. Holding Company
  CA   Truck Underwriters Association     30.00  
FIG Leasing Company, Inc.
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     95.20  
FIG Leasing Company, Inc.
  CA   Truck Underwriters Association     3.10  
FIG Leasing Company, Inc.
  CA   Fire Underwriters Association     1.70  
Fire Insurance Exchange
  CA   Interinsurance Exchange        
Fire Underwriters Association
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Foremost Affiliated Insurance Services, Inc.
  MI   FCOA, LLC     100.00  
Foremost County Mutual Insurance Company
  TX   County Mutual Company        
Foremost Express Insurance Agency, Inc.
  MI   FCOA, LLC     100.00  
Foremost Financial Services Corporation
  DE   FCOA, LLC     100.00  
Foremost Home Services Corporation
  MI   FCOA, LLC     100.00  
Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids, Michigan
  MI   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids, Michigan
  MI   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids, Michigan
  MI   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
Foremost Lloyds of Texas
  TX   Lloyds Company        
Foremost Property and Casualty Insurance Company
  MI   Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids, Michigan     100.00  
Foremost Signature Insurance Company
  MI   Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids, Michigan     100.00  
GP, LLC
  DE   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     100.00  
Hawaii Insurance Consultants, Ltd.
  HI   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Hawaii Insurance Consultants, Ltd.
  HI   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
Hawaii Insurance Consultants, Ltd.
  HI   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
i21 Insurance Services
  CA   21st Century Insurance Group     100.00  
Illinois Farmers Insurance Co.
  IL   Farmers Insurance Exchange     100.00  
Insurance Data Systems, G.P.
  FL   GP, LLC     0.10  
Insurance Data Systems, G.P.
  FL   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     99.90  
Knight Agency, Inc.
  KY   Foremost Affiliated Insurance Services, Inc.     100.00  
Leschi Life Assurance Company
  SC   Farmers New World Life Insurance Company     100.00  
MI Administrators, LLC
  DE   FIG Leasing Company, Inc.     100.00  
Mid Century Insurance Company
  CA   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Mid Century Insurance Company
  CA   Fire Insurance Exchange     12.50  
Mid Century Insurance Company
  CA   Truck Insurance Exchange     07.50  
Mid Century Insurance Company of Texas
  TX   Farmers Insurance Exchange     100.00  
Neighborhood Spirit Property & Casualty Co.
  CA   Fire Insurance Exchange     80.00  
Neighborhood Spirit Property & Casualty Co.
  CA   Truck Insurance Exchange     20.00  
21st Century Security Insurance Company
  PA   Farmers Insurance Exchange     80.00  
21st Century Security Insurance Company
  PA   Fire Insurance Exchange     10.00  
21st Century Security Insurance Company
  PA   Truck Insurance Exchange     10.00  
Pacific Way Insurance Agency, Inc.
  WA   Foremost Affiliated Insurance Services, Inc.     100.00  
Prematic Service Corporation
  CA   Truck Underwriters Association     53.00  
Prematic Service Corporation
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     38.00  
Prematic Service Corporation
  CA   Fire Underwriters Association     9.00  
Prematic Service Corporation
  NV   Prematic Service Corporation (CA)     100.00  
Security National Insurance Company
  FL   Bristol West Holdings, Inc.     75.00  
Security National Insurance Company
  FL   Insurance Data Systems, G.P.     25.00  
Sunrise Insurance Agency of Arizona, Inc.
  AZ   Foremost Affiliated Insurance Services, Inc.     100.00  
Sunrise Insurance Agency of Texas, Inc.
  TX   Foremost Affiliated Insurance Services, Inc.     100.00  
Sunrise Insurance Agency, Inc.
  NV   Foremost Affiliated Insurance Services, Inc.     100.00  
Texas Farmers Insurance Co.
  TX   Farmers Insurance Exchange     86.30  
Texas Farmers Insurance Co.
  TX   Mid Century Ins. Co.     13.70  
Truck Insurance Exchange
  CA   Interinsurance Exchange        
Truck Underwriters Association
  CA   Farmers Group, Inc.     100.00  
Veyond Pacific Technology, Inc.
  HI   Veyond Pacific Technology Solutions, LLC     100.00  
Veyond Pacific Technology Solutions, LLC
  HI   Farmers Insurance Hawaii, Inc.     99.92  
Veyond Pacific Technology Solutions, LLC
  HI   American Pacific Insurance Company, Inc.     0.08  

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Company
  Domiciled   Ownership   %
Veyond Technology Solutions, LLC
  HI   Farmers Insurance Hawaii, Inc.     92.50  
Veyond Technology Solutions, LLC
  HI   American Pacific Insurance Company, Inc.     7.50  
Veyond Technology, Inc.
  HI   Veyond Technology Solutions, LLC     100.00  
Western Star Underwriters, Inc.
  TX   FCOA, Inc.     100.00  
Zurich Financial Services conducts its primary insurance operations in the United States through two property/casualty groups, each operating INDEPENDENTLY with its own staff:
Zurich U.S. Insurance Group
Farmers Insurance Group
Item 27. Number of Contract Owners
         At March 31, 2011, the Registrant had approximately 28,251 qualified and 17,187 non-qualified Scudder Destinations/ Farmers VA I Contract Owners.
Item 28. Indemnification
         To the extent permitted by law of the State of Illinois and subject to all applicable requirements thereof, Article VI of the By-Laws of Zurich American Life Insurance Company (formerly Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company) (“ZALICO”) provides for the indemnification of any person against all expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and other costs actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative in which he is a party or is threatened to be made a party by reason of his being or having been a director, officer, employee or agent of ZALICO, or serving or having served, at the request of ZALICO, as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or by reason of his holding a fiduciary position in connection with the management or administration of retirement, pension, profit sharing or other benefit plans including, but not limited to, any fiduciary liability under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and any amendment thereof, if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in and not opposed to the best interests of ZALICO, and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that he did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of ZALICO, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. No indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which a director or officer shall have been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the company, unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action or suit was brought or other court of competent jurisdiction shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, he is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the court shall deem proper.
         Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers, employees or agents of ZALICO pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, ZALICO has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in that Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by ZALICO of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, employee of agent of ZALICO in the successful defense

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of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer, employee or agent of ZALICO in connection with variable annuity contracts, ZALICO will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by ZALICO is against public policy as expressed in that Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
Item 29.(a) Principal Underwriter
         Synergy Investment Group, LLC (“Synergy”) acts as principal underwriter for the Scudder DestinationsSM Annuity and the Farmers Variable Annuity I (each a “Contract” and together, the “Contracts”), that are supported by the ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account (formerly KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account). Until April 1, 2010, Investors Brokerage Services, Inc. (“IBS”), acted as principal underwriter for the Contracts. IBS also acted as principal underwriter for certain other annuity contracts supported by the ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account, and for the Protective Acquired Variable Annuity Separate Account and ZALICO Variable Annuity Account C (formerly Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company Variable Annuity Account C). On January 18, 2011, IBS dissolved as a business entity and no longer operates as a broker-dealer.
Item 29.(b) Information Regarding Principal Underwriters
For Synergy Investment Group, LLC (Current principal underwriter for the Contracts):
     
Name and Principal   Position and Offices
Business Address   with Underwriter
_________
  _________
Christopher J. Palladino1
  Chief Executive Officer
Tracy VanHanne1
  Chief Financial Officer
Jeffrey D. Jones1
  General Counsel
 
1   The principal address is 8320 University Executive Park Drive, Suite 112, Charlotte, NC 28262.
Item 29.(c) Compensation From the Registrant. The following commissions and other compensation were received by the principal underwriter, directly or indirectly, from the Registrant during the Registrant’s last fiscal year.
                 
(1)   (2)            
Name of   Net Underwriting   (3)   (4)   (5)
Principal   Discounts and   Compensation on   Brokerage   Other
Underwriter   Commissions   Redemption   Commissions   Compensation
 
               
                 
SYNERGY   $0   $0   $1.1 million   $8 million
 
IBS   $0   $0   $0.5 million   $2.7 million
* During 2010, ZALICO paid trail commissions of approximately $8 million to Synergy and approximately $2.7 million to IBS.

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Item 30. Location of Accounts and Records
         Accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Rules promulgated thereunder (including Rule 38a-1) are maintained by Zurich American Life Insurance Company (formerly Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company) at its home office at 1400 American Lane, Schaumburg, Illinois 60196, or at 3003 77th Ave, SE, Mercer Island, Washington 98040, or at 105 E. 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, or at Harborside Financial Center, 2500 Plaza 5, Suite 2501, Jersey City, NJ 07311, or at IBM Business Transformation Outsourcing Insurance Service Corporation at 2000 Wade Hampton Boulevard, Greenville, South Carolina 29615-1064, or at Protective Life Insurance Company at 1707 North Randall Road, Suite 310, Elgin, IL 60123-9409, or at Se2 Service Center at PO Box 758557, Topeka, KS 66675-8557, or at the home office of Synergy Investment Group, LLC located at 8320 University Executive Park Drive, Suite 112, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262.
Item 31. Management Services
         Not Applicable.
Item 32. Undertakings and Representations
         a. Registrant hereby undertakes to file a post-effective amendment to this registration statement as frequently as is necessary to ensure that the audited financial statements in the registration statement are never more than sixteen (16) months old for so long as payment under the variable annuity contracts may be accepted.
         b. Registrant hereby undertakes to include either (1) as part of any application to purchase a contract offered by the Prospectus, a space that an applicant can check to request a Statement of Additional Information, or (2) a postcard or similar written communication affixed to or included in the Prospectus that the applicant can remove to send for a Statement of Additional Information.
         c. Registrant hereby undertakes to deliver any Statement of Additional Information and any financial statement required to be made available under this Form promptly upon written or oral request.
Representation Regarding Fees and Charges Pursuant to Section 26 of the Investment Company Act of 1940
         Zurich American Life Insurance Company (“ZALICO”) (formerly Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company) represents that the fees and charges deducted under the Contract, in the aggregate, are reasonable in relation to the services rendered, the expenses expected to be incurred, and the risks assumed by ZALICO.
Representation Regarding Contracts Issued to Participants in the Texas Optional Retirement Program
         ZALICO, depositor and sponsor of Registrant, ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account (formerly KILICO Variable Annuity Separate Account), and Investors Brokerage Services, Inc. (“IBS”), the former principal underwriter of the Contracts issued by Registrant, have issued the Contracts to participants in the Texas Optional Retirement Program (the “Program”) in reliance upon, and in compliance with, Rule 6c-7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, and have represented that they would:

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  1.   Include appropriate disclosure regarding the restrictions on redemptions imposed by the Program in each registration statement, including the prospectus, used in connection with the Program;
 
  2.   Include appropriate disclosure regarding the restrictions on redemptions imposed by the Program in any sales literature used in connection with the offer of Contracts to Program participants;
 
  3.   Instruct salespeople who solicit Program participants to purchase Contracts specifically to bring the restrictions on redemption imposed by the Program to the attention of potential Program participants; and
 
  4.   Obtain from each Program participant who purchases a Contract in connection with the Program, prior to or at the time of such purchase, a signed statement acknowledging the restrictions on redemption imposed by the Program.
Representation Regarding Contracts Issued to Participants of Tax-Sheltered Annuity Programs
         ZALICO, depositor and sponsor of Registrant, ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account (the “Separate Account”), and Investors Brokerage Services, Inc. (“IBS”), the former principal underwriter of Contracts issued by Registrant, have issued the Contracts to participants in IRC 403(b) Tax-Sheltered Annuity Programs in reliance upon, and in compliance with, the no-action letter dated November 28, 1988 to American Council of Life Insurance. In connection therewith, ZALICO, the Separate Account and IBS have represented that they would:
  1.   Include appropriate disclosure regarding the restrictions on redemptions imposed by IRC Section 403(b)(11) in each registration statement, including the prospectus, used in connection with IRC 403(b) Tax-Sheltered Annuity Programs;
 
  2.   Include appropriate disclosure regarding the restrictions on redemptions imposed by IRC Section 403(b)(11) in any sales literature used in connection with the offer of Contracts to 403(b) participants;
 
  3.   Instruct salespeople who solicit participants to purchase Contracts specifically to bring the restrictions on redemption imposed by 403(b)(11) to the attention of potential participants; and
 
  4.   Obtain from each participant who purchases an IRC Section 403(b) annuity contract, prior to or at the time of such purchase, a signed statement acknowledging the restrictions on redemption imposed by IRC Section 403(b) and the investment alternatives available under the employer’s IRC Section 403(b) arrangement, to which the participant may elect to transfer his or her contract value.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant hereby certifies that this Post-Effective Amendment No. 22 to the Registration Statement meets all the requirements for effectiveness under Rule 485(b) and has caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 22 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf, in the City of New York, and State of New York, on April 29, 2011.
                 
 
          ZALICO VARIABLE ANNUITY SEPARATE    
 
          ACCOUNT (formerly KILICO VARIABLE    
 
          ANNUITY SEPARATE ACCOUNT)    
 
          (Registrant)    
 
               
Attest:
 
/s/ Ali E. Rifai
     
/s/ Richard Grilli
   
  Ali E. Rifai, Senior Vice       By: Richard W. Grilli, Senior Vice    
 
  President, General Counsel and Corporate       President and Chief Operating Officer    
 
  Secretary       (Signature)    
 
               
 
          ZURICH AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE    
 
          COMPANY (formerly KEMPER    
 
          INVESTORS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY)    
 
          (Depositor)    
 
               
Attest:
  /s/ Ali E. Rifai
 
Ali E. Rifai, Senior Vice
      /s/ Richard Grilli
 
By: Richard W. Grilli, Senior Vice
   
 
  President, General Counsel and Corporate       President and Chief Operating Officer    
 
  Secretary       (Signature)    
As required by the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 22 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
         
Signature   Title   Date
 
 
 
 
 
 
       
 
David Dietz*/
  President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)    April 29, 2011
 
       
/s/ Richard Grilli
 
Richard W. Grilli
  Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer   April 29, 2011 
 
       
 
 
Simon Lodge */
  Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)    April 29, 2011
 
       
 
 
Richard J. Hauser */
  Director and Assistant Treasurer    April 29, 2011

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Barry S. Paul */
  Director and Assistant Treasurer    April 29, 2011
 
       
 
 
Nicolas A. Burnet */
  Director   April 29, 2011
       
/s/ Richard Grilli
 
*/ By: Richard W. Grilli
  On April 29, 2011 as Attorney-in-Fact pursuant to powers of attorney filed herewith.    

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EXHIBIT INDEX
The following exhibits are filed herewith:
             
            Sequentially
Exhibit       Numbered
Number   Title   Pages
  6.2    
Zurich American Life Insurance Company Amended Articles of Incorporation and By-laws.
   
       
 
   
  8.1 (c)  
Rule 22c-2 Agreement, dated April 16, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, Janus Aspen Series, Janus Capital Management LLC, and Janus Distributors LLC.
   
       
 
   
  8.1 (d)  
Form of Amendment No. 8 to Fund Participation Agreement By and Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, Janus Aspen Series, and Janus Capital Management LLC (formerly Janus Capital Corporation).
   
       
 
   
  8.3 (g)  
Amendment to Participation Agreement Dated as of January 1, 1997, Between DWS Variable Series II, Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc., DWS Investments Distributors, Inc. (formerly, DWS Scudder Distributors, Inc.), and Zurich American Life Insurance Company, dated April 11, 2011.
   
       
 
   
  8.3 (h)  
Supplement to Participation Agreement Dated January 1, 1997, Among Zurich American Life Insurance Company, DWS Variable Series II, Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc., and DWS Investments Distributors, Inc., dated April 29, 2011.
   
       
 
   
  8.4 (g)  
Amendment to Participation Agreement Dated as of June 26, 1998, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company and DWS Variable Series I (formerly, Scudder Variable Life Investment Fund and Scudder Variable Series I), dated April 11, 2011.
   
       
 
   
  8.5 (c)  
Rule 22c-2 Agreement, dated April 16, 2007, By and Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC.
   
       
 
   
  8.5 (d)  
Form of Novation of and Amendment to Participation Agreement, By and Among Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, PIMCO Investments LLC, PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, and Zurich American Life Insurance Company.
   
       
 
   
  8.5 (e)  
Form of Amendment to Participation Agreement Dated January 5, 1999, By and Among Zurich American Life Insurance Company, PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, and Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC (formerly PIMCO Funds Distributors, LLC).
   
       
 
   
  8.6 (b)  
Shareholder Information Agreement, Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, Dated April 16, 2007, By and Among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and Franklin/Templeton Distributors, Inc.
   
       
 
   
  8.7 (f)  
Amendment No. 2 to Fund Participation Agreement Dated April 27, 1999, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, The Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc., Dreyfus Investment Portfolios, Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund, and Dreyfus Life and Annuity Index Fund, Inc. (d/b/a Dreyfus Stock Index Fund), dated April 8, 2011.
   
       
 
   
  8.8 (d)  
Amendment No. 1 to Participation Agreement Dated May 1, 1999, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, The Alger Portfolios
   

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(formerly The Alger American Fund), and Fred Alger & Company Incorporated, dated April 1, 2011.
   
       
 
   
  8.9 (a)  
Fund Participation Agreement, dated April 30, 2004, by and among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, AIM Variable Insurance Funds, and AIM Distributors, Inc.
   
       
 
   
  8.9 (b)  
Administrative Services Agreement, dated July 1, 2005, Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company and AIM Advisors, Inc.
   
       
 
   
  8.9 (d)  
Amendment No. 1 to the Participation Agreement Dated April 30, 2004, Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, AIM Variable Insurance Funds, and AIM Distributors, Inc., dated May 28, 2008.
   
       
 
   
  8.9 (e)  
Amendment No. 2 to the Participation Agreement Dated April 30, 2004, Between Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, AIM Variable Insurance Funds, and AIM Distributors, Inc., dated April 30, 2010.
   
       
 
   
  8.9 (f)  
Form of Amendment No. 3 to Participation Agreement Dated April 30, 2004, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds), and Invesco Distributors, Inc.
   
       
 
   
8.11(d)  
Amendment to Fund Participation Agreement Dated as of October 21, 2001, By and Among Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, Scudder Investments VIT Funds (formerly Deutsche Asset Management VIT Funds), and Deutsche Asset Management, Inc., dated August 1, 2005.
   
       
 
   
8.11(e)  
Amendment to Fund Participation Agreement Dated as of October 22, 2001, Between Zurich American Life Insurance Company, DWS Investments VIT Funds (formerly, Deutsche Asset Management VIT Funds and Scudder Investments VIT Funds), and Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. (formerly, Deutsche Asset Management, Inc.), dated April 11, 2011.
   
       
 
   
  9.    
Opinion and Consent of Juanita M. Thomas, Esq.
   
       
 
   
  10. (a)  
Consent of independent registered public accounting firm.
   
       
 
   
  10. (b)  
Consent of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP.
   
       
 
   
  15. (a)  
Powers of Attorney for Simon Lodge and David Dietz.
   

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