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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003

Commission file number: 333-65423

MONY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

1740 Broadway

New York, New York 10019

(212) 708-2000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.  x

No voting or non-voting common equity of the Registrant is held by non-affiliates of the Registrant as of March 8, 2004.

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 12b-2). Yes  ¨    No  x

As of March 8, 2004, 2,500,000 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock were outstanding.

REDUCED DISCLOSURE FORMAT:

Registrant meets the conditions set forth in General Instruction I(1)(a) and (b) of Form 10-K and is therefore filing this Form with the Reduced Disclosure Format.

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Forward-Looking Statements

The Company’s management has made in this report, and from time to time may make in its public filings and press releases as well as in oral presentations and discussions, forward-looking statements concerning the Company’s operations, economic performance, prospects and financial condition. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, discussions concerning the Company’s potential exposure to market risks, as well as statements expressing management’s expectations, beliefs, estimates, forecasts, projections and assumptions. The Company claims the protection afforded by the safe harbor for forward-looking statements as set forth in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are subject to many risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated by forward-looking statements due to a number of important factors including the following: satisfaction of the closing conditions set forth in the merger agreement among AXA Financial, Inc., AIMA Acquisition Co. and The MONY Group Inc., including the approval of The MONY Group Inc.’s shareholders and regulatory approvals; a significant delay in the expected completion of, or a failure to complete, the contemplated merger; the Company could experience losses, including venture capital losses; the Company could be subjected to further downgrades by rating agencies of its claims-paying and financial-strength ratings; the Company could have to accelerate amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs if market conditions deteriorate; the Company could have to write off investments in certain securities if the issuers’ financial condition deteriorates; the Company may be required to recognize in its earnings “other than temporary impairment” charges on investments in fixed maturity and equity securities held by it; actual death-claim experience could differ from the Company’s mortality assumptions; the Company could have liability from as-yet-unknown litigation and claims; larger settlements or judgments than the Company anticipates could result in pending cases due to unforeseen developments; and changes in laws, including tax laws, could affect the demand for the Company’s products. The Company does not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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PART I

Organization and Business

MONY Life Insurance Company of America (the “Company” or “MLOA”), an Arizona stock life insurance company, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MONY Life Insurance Company (“MONY Life”), formerly The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, which converted from a mutual life insurance company to a stock life insurance company on November 16, 1998. MONY Life is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MONY Holdings, LLC (“MONY Holdings”), a downstream holding company formed by The MONY Group Inc. (the “MONY Group”) on February 27, 2002. On April 30, 2002, MONY Group transferred all of its ownership interest in MONY Life to MONY Holdings.

The Company’s primary business is to provide life insurance, annuities and corporate-owned and bank-owned life insurance (“COLI and BOLI”) to business owners, growing families, and pre-retirees. The Company distributes its products and services through Retail and Wholesale distribution channels. The Company’s Retail distribution channels are comprised of (i) the career agency sales force operated by MONY Life and (ii) Trusted Securities Advisors Corporation (“Trusted Advisors”), now a division of MONY Securities Corporation (“MSC”), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MONY Life. The Company’s Wholesale distribution channel is comprised of: (i) MONY Partners, a division of MONY Life and (ii) MONY Life’s corporate marketing team which markets COLI and BOLI products. These products are sold in 49 states (not including New York), the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

On September 17, 2003, MONY Group entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with AXA Financial, Inc. (“AXA Financial”) and AIMA Acquisition Co., which was subsequently amended on February 22, 2004 (hereafter referred to collectively as the “AXA Agreement”), pursuant to which MONY Group will become a wholly owned subsidiary of AXA Financial in a cash transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion. Under the terms of the AXA Agreement, which has been approved by the boards of directors of AXA Financial and MONY Group, MONY Group’s shareholders will receive $31.00 for each share of MONY Group’s common stock. The acquisition contemplated by the AXA Agreement is subject to various regulatory approvals and other customary conditions, including the approval of MONY Group’s shareholders. A special meeting of MONY Group’s shareholders is scheduled for May 18, 2004 to vote on the proposed acquisition of MONY Group by AXA Financial. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2004. See Note 14 to the Financial Statements for further information regarding MONY Group’s pending merger transaction with AXA Financial.

Information About Products

Life Insurance Products —

The Company offers a diverse portfolio of life insurance products consisting primarily of traditional life insurance, variable universal life insurance (“VUL”) and universal life insurance (“UL”).

The Company’s traditional protection products consist of whole life and term insurance products. The whole life insurance products vary in their level of premiums and guaranteed cash values, providing flexibility to the Company’s primary marketplace of high net worth individuals including small business owners, pre-retirees and family builders with varying needs. The Company’s term insurance products include annual renewable term insurance, term insurance providing coverage for a limited number of years and term insurance featuring a level premium for a fixed number of years.

The Company’s VUL product provides all of the premium and death benefit flexibility associated with a UL product type. In addition, it provides the policyholder with the ability to direct the investment of premiums in a wide variety of investment funds with different objectives, including a guaranteed interest account. The Company also offers a regular UL product with interest credits that are based on the Company’s general investment portfolio which is primarily investment grade, fixed interest debt securities.

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The Company also offers an Interest Sensitive Whole Life product which is a hybrid product featuring the comparatively higher degree of predictable growth and guarantees associated with a traditional whole life product and the upward growth potential associated with interest credits on new money typical within a UL product.

The Company’s COLI and BOLI products are flexible premium VUL products designed for corporate plan sponsors and banks. These products are specifically designed to have sub-accounts which purchase shares of externally managed mutual funds, as well as proprietary mutual funds available from MONY Life’s MONY Series Fund and Enterprise Accumulation Trust (“EAT”), or a guaranteed interest account.

Several of the Company’s products are designed to meet the needs of clients for estate planning. Survivorship life products insure two lives and provide for the payment of death benefits upon the death of the last surviving insured. A variety of policy riders are available for the Company’s products. These riders are designed to provide additional benefits or flexibility at the option of the policyholder. They include riders that permit waiver of premium payments upon the occurrence of a covered disability, pay higher benefits in the event of accidental death, allow the purchase of additional coverage without evidence of insurability and permit the addition of term insurance on either the insured or the insured’s spouse or dependent children.

The Company also offers GUL insurance, which is designed for marketing to employees in their work sites. This program is designed to offer employers the opportunity to provide employees a means of purchasing life insurance through payroll deductions.

Life Insurance in Force

The following table presents life insurance in force data for the periods indicated.

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Annuity Products —

The Company’s annuity products focus on the savings and retirement needs of the growing number of individuals who are preparing for retirement or have already retired. The Company offers a variety of accumulation and pay-out products, such as flexible premium variable annuities (“FPVA”), flexible premium deferred annuities (“FPDA”) and single premium immediate annuities (“SPIA”). The Company’s annuity products offer numerous investment alternatives to meet the customer’s individual investment objectives.

The FPVA is a tax-deferred annuity contract that provides the contract holder with the flexibility to vary payments. In addition, after the annuity’s accumulation period, contract holders have the option to receive a lump sum distribution or elect various other pay-out options over the life of the annuitant. During the accumulation period, funds may be placed in one or more of the available guaranteed interest accounts or in one of a number of other variable investment options offered through the Company’s separate account. The FPDA is a tax-deferred annuity which offers a choice of guaranteed interest periods into which the contract holders can allocate payments into one or more of these periods to fit their time horizon. The SPIA contract provides for a single premium payment that is immediately annuitized to provide the annuitant with a guaranteed level income for life.

Variable annuity contract holders have a range of investment accounts in which to invest the assets held under their contracts. Currently these options are comprised of two proprietary fund families and 14 non-proprietary fund families consisting of 15 and 34 different investment options (or mutual funds), respectively, with a wide array of investment objectives. As of December 31, 2003, proprietary and non-proprietary funds accounted for approximately 75.9% and 24.1%, respectively, of variable annuity assets under management.

By offering a variable annuity with a wide variety of variable investment options and guaranteed interest accounts, the Company believes it has the ability to grow profitably in a variety of market environments. The guaranteed interest account within the Company’s variable annuities are generally more attractive to customers during periods of rising interest rates and/or declining equity securities markets, whereas variable investment options are generally more attractive to customers during periods of market expansion and for customers with a higher risk tolerance. In addition, the Company offers an FPDA product for those customers who want guaranteed interest rates over a variety of guaranteed interest periods.

The Company believes that it benefits from a shift towards separate account variable annuity products, as this reduces the Company’s investment risks and capital requirements because the investment risk in such accounts is born by the contract holder. The wide array of investment fund options offered through the Company’s separate accounts also permits contract holders to choose more aggressive or conservative investment strategies without affecting the composition and quality of assets in the Company’s general account. The Company believes there will be a continuation in the trend among U.S. employers away from defined benefit plans (under which the employer makes the investment decisions) toward employee-directed defined contribution retirement and savings plans (which allow employees to choose from a variety of investment options), which will benefit its annuity business.

As of December 31, 2003, the Company had $3.8 billion of assets under management with respect to its fixed and variable annuity products. Sales of fixed (which includes both FPDA and SPIA) and variable annuities were approximately $108.3 million and $359.3 million, respectively, in 2003. Variable annuity sales figures exclude approximately $29.4 million of exchanges relating to surrenders associated with an exchange program offered by the Company wherein contract holders surrender old FPVA contracts and reinvest the proceeds in a new enhanced FPVA product offered by the Company.

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The following table sets forth the variable annuity account values as of December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 as well as changes in the primary components of the account value during the years then ended.

Annuity Products — Individual Variable Annuity Account Value

The following table sets forth the flexible payment fixed annuity account values as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 as well as changes in the primary components of the account value during the years then ended.

Annuity Products — Individual Fixed Annuity Account Value

Marketing and Distribution

The Company’s marketing strategy focuses on high net worth individuals including small business owners and higher income individuals, particularly family builders and pre-retirees. The Company believes this strategy capitalizes on the Company’s key strengths, namely its wide range of annuity and individual life insurance products, as well as its Retail and Wholesale distribution systems.

Retail Distribution

The Company actively manages its Retail distribution to ensure that expertise is properly leveraged across the organization so that customer needs can be optimally managed. Following is a brief overview of the Company’s Retail distribution channel.

Career Agency System

The Company believes that the career agency system, operated by MONY Life, provides a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Distribution through career financial professionals allows the Company to

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establish closer relationships with customers than is typical of insurers using third party brokers, thereby enhancing the ability of the Company to evaluate customer needs and underwriting risks.

MONY Life’s career agency distribution system consisted of 1,460 domestic career financial professionals at December 31, 2003. The sales force is organized as a managerial agency system, which is comprised of 34 agency managers as of December 31, 2003, who supervise the marketing and sales activities of financial professionals. Such professionals are managed by experience and productivity level within defined marketing territories in the United States.

MONY Life segregates its career agency sales force into four groups (“tiers”) according to experience and productivity levels and assigns agency managers to tiers based on their skill sets and the particular needs and goals of such tiers. There is a tier for new financial professionals with little or no experience in the industry, a tier for experienced financial professionals who are producing at superior levels, and two tiers in between. MONY Life believes that this tiering system is unique in the life insurance industry and gives it a competitive advantage in the marketplace. For example, by having certain managers responsible solely for recruiting and providing necessary support systems for new recruits, MONY Life is able to increase the quality of new financial professionals recruited each year. MONY Life believes that the tiering system allows it to attract and retain already established and successful financial professionals by providing an environment in which such financial professionals can compete favorably with other producer groups, such as third-party brokers or general financial professionals and to attract and retain other financial professionals by providing marketing and training support that is responsive to their career development needs.

The agency managers are all employees of MONY Life, while the career financial professionals are all independent contractors and not employees of MONY Life. MONY Life’s compensation arrangements with career financial professionals, which are based on a broker dealer type model, contain incentives for them to solicit applications for products issued by MONY Life and MLOA and for products issued by insurance companies not affiliated with MONY Life. These products are made available by MONY Life to the financial professional through MONY Brokerage, Inc. and MSC, both of which are wholly-owned subsidiaries of MONY Life. The career financial professionals receive a percentage of gross dealer concessions associated with each product sale that is made. The percentage paid to the career financial professionals is directly linked to their level of production.

MONY Life’s compensation structure provides a salary plus incentive compensation system for all of its agency managers and sales managers, designed to more closely align the interests of the managers with those of MONY Life. MONY Life has several programs to recruit and train its career financial professionals. As a result of its recruiting programs and the alignment of its new agent financing program with its productivity-driven commission plus expense reimbursement arrangement, MONY Life hired 392 new financial professionals in 2003.

Trusted Advisors

The Company derives part of its sales through Trusted Advisors, now a division of MSC, which sells a variety of financial products and services to customers through certified public accountants and other tax professionals who are licensed agents and registered representatives of MONY Life. Trusted Advisors became a division of MSC in December, 2003.

Wholesale Distribution

The Company also derives part of its sales through MONY Life’s Wholesale distribution channels including third-party broker-dealers, insurance brokerage general agencies and MONY Life’s corporate marketing group. The following is a brief overview of the Wholesale distribution channel.

MONY Partners

During 2001 MONY Partners was formed as a division of MONY Life. MONY Partners wholesales the Company’s individual life and annuity products through MONY Life’s career agency sales force, Trusted

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Advisors representatives, The Advest Group Inc’s financial advisors, independent brokerage agents and independent securities broker-dealers. The Advest Group Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the MONY Group. In the independent brokerage marketplace, the Company believes that MONY Partners has a competitive advantage in being able to offer brokers competitive products as well as access to the multiple services, channels and experience within the MONY Life organization. For example, this provides the broker general agent or securities broker-dealer with an opportunity to grow revenue by utilizing: (i) the merger and acquisition advisory services of The Matrix Capital Markets Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the MONY Group; (ii) MONY Life’s estate planning and seminar marketing resources; and (iii) cross-selling arrangements with Trusted Advisors representatives.

Other Wholesale Distribution Channels

Through its corporate marketing group, MONY Life distributes COLI and BOLI products to small to mid-size business owners as well as corporate CEOs, CFOs and benefits administrators to develop retirement plans.

Pricing and Underwriting

Insurance underwriting involves a determination of the type and amount of risk that an insurer is willing to accept. The Company’s underwriters evaluate each policy application on the basis of information provided by the applicant and others. The Company follows detailed and uniform underwriting practices and procedures designed to properly assess and quantify risks before issuing coverage to qualified applicants. The long-term profitability of the Company’s products is affected by the degree to which future experience deviates from these assumptions.

Reinsurance

The Company uses a variety of indemnity reinsurance agreements with reinsurers to control its loss exposure. Under the terms of the reinsurance agreements, the reinsurer will be liable to reimburse the Company for the portion of paid claims ceded to it in accordance with the reinsurance agreement. However, the Company remains contingently liable for all benefits payable even if the reinsurers fail to meet their obligations to the Company.

Life insurance business written by MLOA is ceded under various reinsurance contracts. The Company’s general practice is to retain no more than $4.0 million of risk on any one person for individual products and $6.0 million for last survivor products. The total amount of reinsured life insurance in force on this basis was $16.6 billion, $13.2 billion and $10.1 billion at December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, respectively.

The Company retains 100% of the risk in connection with the return of premium death benefit for its variable annuity products. The benefits in connection with guaranteed minimum death benefits in excess of the return of premium benefit, which are offered under certain of the Company’s annuity contracts, are 100% reinsured up to specified limits. Benefits in connection with the earnings increase benefit rider under the new MONY variable annuity are similarly reinsured. The guaranteed minimum income benefit in the new variable annuity product is 100% reinsured up to individual and aggregate limits as well as limits which are based on benefit utilization.

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The following table presents the Company’s principal reinsurers and the percentage of total reinsurance recoverable reported in the Company’s financial statements at December 31, 2003 that was due from each reinsurer, including reinsurance recoverable reported in the financial statements under the caption “Amounts Due From Reinsurers” (which amounted to $59.6 million).

Reinsurers:

The Company entered into a modified coinsurance agreement with U.S. Financial Life Insurance Company (“USFL”), an affiliate, effective January 1, 1999, whereby the Company agreed to reinsure 90% of all level term life insurance policies written by USFL after January 1, 1999. Effective January 1, 2000, this agreement was amended to reinsure 90% of all term life and universal life insurance policies written by USFL after January 1, 2000. See Note 4 to the Financial Statements.

Ratings

Third party ratings of claims-paying ability and financial strength have become an increasingly important factor in establishing the competitive position of insurance companies. Ratings are important to maintaining public confidence in the MONY Group’s life insurance subsidiaries, including the Company, and their ability to meet their obligations. Rating organizations continually review the financial performance and condition of insurers. Any lowering of the MONY Group’s life insurance subsidiaries’ ratings could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to market its products and retain its current policyholders.

A.M. Best’s ratings for insurance companies currently range from “A++” to “F”, and some companies are not rated. A.M. Best publications indicate that “A” ratings are assigned to those companies that in A.M. Best’s opinion have achieved excellent overall performance when compared to the standards established by A.M. Best. “A” companies are considered to have a strong ability to meet their obligations to policyholders over a long period of time.

Moody’s Investor Service (“Moody’s”) ratings for insurance companies currently range from “Aaa” to “C”; Standard & Poors (“S&P”) ratings for insurance companies range from “AAA” to “CCC-”; and Fitch IBCA (“Fitch”) ratings for insurance companies range from “AAA” to “CCC-.” In evaluating a company’s financial and operating performance, Moody’s, S&P and Fitch review, among other things, its profitability, leverage and liquidity as well as its book of business, the adequacy and soundness of its reinsurance, the quality and estimated market value of its assets, the adequacy of its policy reserves and the experience and competence of its management.

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The following table presents the claims-paying ability and financial strength ratings of the MONY Group’s domestic life insurance subsidiaries as of December 31, 2003. Subsequent to December 31, 2003 all four rating agencies took certain actions with respect to their ratings of the MONY Group as discussed in the footnotes to the table below. These footnotes and the actions discussed therein are material to understanding the ratings.

In February 2004, the rating agencies revised the MONY Group’s outlook and/or ratings, primarily in response to the postponement of the scheduled date of the shareholder vote on MONY Group’s proposed merger with AXA Financial (see Notes 2 and 14 to the Financial Statements). All four rating agencies have indicated that they may upgrade the MONY Group’s current ratings or review their outlook on the MONY Group’s ratings upon the successful completion of the MONY Group’s proposed merger with AXA Financial, reflecting the additional strength and support that would be received from AXA Financial. However, if the proposed merger of MONY Group with AXA Financial is not completed, the resulting uncertainty of the MONY Group’s future direction would likely result in further ratings downgrades and/or revisions to the MONY Group’s financial outlook. See Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Potential Forward Looking Risks Affecting Profitability – If the Merger with AXA Financial Does Not Close for Any Reason, the Company’s Profits and Financial Condition Could Deteriorate Drastically.

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The foregoing ratings reflect each rating agency’s current opinion of the various companies’ claims-paying ability, financial strength, operating performance and ability to meet their obligations and are not evaluations directed toward the protection of investors in the common stock of the MONY Group. Such factors are of concern to the policyholders, insurance agents and intermediaries of MONY Group’s insurance subsidiaries, including the Company.

Competition

The Company believes that competition in its lines of business is based on service, product features, price, compensation structure, perceived financial strength, claims-paying ratings and name recognition. The Company competes with a large number of other insurers as well as non-insurance financial services companies, such as banks, broker-dealers and asset managers, many of which have greater financial resources, offer alternative products or more competitive pricing and, with respect to other insurers, have higher claims paying ability ratings than the Company. Competition exists for individual consumers and agents and other distributors of insurance and investment products.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 permits business combinations of commercial banks, insurers and securities firms under one holding company. The ability of banks to affiliate with insurance companies and to offer annuity products of life insurance companies may materially adversely affect all of the Company’s product lines by substantially increasing the number, size and financial strength of potential competitors.

The Company must attract and retain productive financial professionals to sell its insurance and annuity products. Strong competition exists among insurance companies for financial professionals with demonstrated ability. Management believes that key bases of competition among insurance companies for financial professionals with demonstrated ability include a company’s financial position and the services provided to, and relationships developed with, these financial professionals in addition to compensation and product structure.

Regulation

General Regulation at the State Level

MLOA is licensed and regulated in all states other than New York and is subject to extensive regulation and supervision in the jurisdictions in which it does business.

The laws of the various states establish state insurance departments with broad administrative powers to approve policy forms and for certain lines of insurance, approve rates, grant and revoke licenses to transact business, regulate trade practices, license agents, require statutory financial statements and prescribe the type and amount of investments permitted. The aforementioned regulation by the state insurance departments is for the benefit of policyholders, not stockholders.

In recent years, a number of life and annuity insurers have been the subject of regulatory proceedings and litigation relating to alleged improper life insurance pricing and sales practices. Some of these insurers have incurred or paid substantial amounts in connection with the resolution of such matters. See Note 14 to the Financial Statements. In addition, state insurance regulatory authorities regularly make inquiries, hold investigations and administer market conduct examinations with respect to insurers’ compliance with applicable insurance laws and regulations.

The Company, MONY Life, and USFL continuously monitor sales, marketing and advertising practices and related activities of their financial professionals and personnel, and provide continuing education and training in an effort to ensure compliance with applicable insurance laws and regulations. There can be no assurance that any non-compliance with such applicable laws and regulations would not have a material adverse effect on the Company.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the “NAIC”) has established a program of accrediting state insurance departments. NAIC accreditation permits accredited states to conduct periodic examinations of insurance companies domiciled in such states. NAIC-accredited states will not accept reports of examination of insurance companies from unaccredited states except under limited circumstances. As a direct

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result, insurers domiciled in unaccredited states may be subject to financial examination by accredited states in which they are licensed, in addition to any examinations conducted by their domiciliary states.

Shareholder Dividend Restrictions

The payment of dividends by MLOA is regulated under state insurance law. Under the Arizona Insurance Law, MLOA can only distribute a cash dividend out of that part of its available surplus funds which is derived from realized net profits on its business. MLOA can pay a stock dividend out of any available surplus funds in excess of the aggregate amount of surplus borrowed to defray the expenses of the Company or provide it with surplus for any other purpose required by its business. Such borrowed funds must be in the form of a written agreement that the loan is required to be repaid only out of the insurer’s surplus in excess of that stipulated in the agreement and may provide for interest at an agreed upon interest rate not to exceed 12% per annum. Principal and interest payments on the loan require prior approval of the Arizona Insurance Director.

Within the limitations of the Arizona Insurance Law, there are no restrictions placed on the portion of the Company’s profits that may be paid as ordinary cash dividends to MONY Life. In addition, there are currently no restrictions on the Company’s unassigned surplus.

Risk-Based Capital Requirements

To enhance the regulation of insurer solvency, the NAIC has adopted a model law to implement Risk Based Capital (“RBC”) requirements for life insurance companies. The requirements are designed to monitor capital adequacy and to raise the level of protection that statutory surplus provides for policyholders. The model law measures four major areas of risk facing life insurers: (i) the risk of loss from asset defaults and asset value fluctuation; (ii) the risk of loss from adverse mortality and morbidity experience; (iii) the risk of loss from mismatching of asset and liability cash flow due to changing interest rates; and (iv) business risks. Insurers having less statutory surplus than required by the RBC model formula will be subject to varying degrees of regulatory action depending on the level of capital inadequacy.

The RBC formula provides a mechanism for the calculation of an insurance company’s Authorized Control Level (“ACL”) RBC and its total adjusted capital. The model law sets forth the points at which a superintendent of insurance is authorized and expected to take regulatory action. The first level is known as the Company Action Level (“CAL”) RBC, which is set at twice the ACL RBC. The second level is the Regulatory Action Level (“RAL”) RBC, set at 1.5 times the ACL RBC. The third is the ACL RBC, and the fourth is the Mandatory Control Level (“MCL”) RBC, set at 70% of the ACL RBC.

Insurance regulators may take actions ranging in severity from reviewing financial plans if adjusted capital is greater than the RAL RBC but less than the CAL RBC to placing the insurance company under regulatory control if adjusted capital is less than the MCL. The adjusted RBC capital ratios of the Company at December 31, 2003 and 2002 were in excess of the CAL.

Assessments Against Insurers

Insurance guaranty association laws exist in all states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Insurers doing business in any of these jurisdictions can be assessed for policyholder losses resulting from insurance company insolvencies. These arrangements provide certain levels of protection to policyholders from losses under insurance policies (and certificates issued under group insurance policies issued by life insurance companies) issued by insurance companies that become impaired or insolvent. Typically, assessments are levied (up to prescribed limits) on member insurers on a basis that is related to the member insurer’s proportionate share of the business written by all member insurers in the appropriate state.

Securities Laws

The Company is subject to various levels of regulation under the federal securities laws administrated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or the “Commission”) and under certain state securities laws. Certain separate accounts and a variety of mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). Certain annuity contracts and insurance policies issued by the Company are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

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The Company is an investment advisor, registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Advisers Act”). The investment company whose investments and investment activities are managed by MONY Life pursuant to an investment advisory agreement, is registered with the Commission under the Investment Company Act.

The Company may also be subject to similar laws and regulations in the states in which it provides investment advisory services, offer the products described above, or conduct other securities related activities.

Recently, there has been a significant increase in federal and state regulatory activity in the financial services industry relating to numerous issues, including market timing and late trading of mutual fund and variable insurance products. The Company, like many others in the financial services industry, has received requests for information from the SEC seeking documentation and other information relating to these issues. In addition, the SEC recently advised the Company of its plan to conduct an on-site examination of the Company’s variable annuities separate account. The Company has been responding to these requests and continues to cooperate fully with the regulators.

Potential Tax Legislation

Congress has, from time to time, considered possible legislation that could eliminate or reduce the deferral of income taxation on the accretion of value within certain annuities and life insurance products. Any such legislation could also adversely affect purchases of annuities and life insurance. Additionally, legislation has been enacted that substantially reduces the federal estate tax over a period of years on a temporary basis. This could adversely affect the purchase of life insurance.

Employees

The Company has no employees. The Company has entered into a service agreement with its parent, MONY Life, pursuant to which MONY Life provides services necessary to operate the business of the Company. See Note 4 to the Financial Statements.

Available Information

MLOA’s annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K or any amendments to these reports may be accessed on the Commission’s website at www.sec.gov after such material is electronically filed with or furnished to the Commission. In addition, the Company will provide electronic or paper copies of these Commission filings free of charge upon request. Any such request should be directed to MONY Life Insurance Company of America, 1740 Broadway, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Jay Davis.

The Company’s administrative offices are located at MONY Life’s corporate office, located at 1740 Broadway, New York, New York and consists of approximately 267,000 square feet. MONY Life also has office facilities in Syracuse, New York for use in its insurance operations, which consist of approximately 578,000 square feet in the aggregate. MONY Life also leases all 217 of its agency and its subsidiary offices, which consist of approximately 1,388,000 square feet in the aggregate. The Company believes that such properties are suitable and adequate for its current and anticipated business operations.

See Note 14 to the Financial Statements. In addition to the matters discussed therein, in the ordinary course of its business the Company is involved in various other legal actions and proceedings (some of which involve demands for unspecified damages), none of which is expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company.