FORM N-SAR
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR REGISTERED INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Report for six-month period ending: // (a)
or fiscal year ending: 12/31/98 (b)
Is this a transition report? (Y/N) N
Is this an amendment to a previous filing? (Y/N) N
Those items or sub-items with a ?* ? after the item
number should be completed only if the answer has
changed from the previous filing on this form.
1. A. Registrant Name: The Variable Annuity Life
Insurance
Company - Separate Account A
B. File Number: 811-
3240
C. Telephone Number:
(713) 831-5301 2. A.
Street: 2929 Allen
Parkway
B. City: Houston C. State: TX D. Zip Code:
77019 Zip Ext:
E. Foreign Country: Foreign
Postal Code:
3. Is this the first filing on this form by
Registrant? (Y/N)
N
4. Is this the last filing on this form by
Registrant? (Y/N)
N
5. Is Registrant a small business investment company
(SBIC)?
(Y/N) N
[If answer is ?Y? (Yes), complete only items 89
through 110.]
6. Is Registrant a unit investment trust (UIT)?
(Y/N)
Y
[If answer is ?Y? (Yes) complete only items 111
through 132.]
For period ending 12-31-98
File number 811-3240
Unit Investment Trusts
111.* A. Depositor Name:
B. * File Number (if any):
C. * City: State: Zip Code:
77019 Zip Ext.:
* Foreign Counrty: Foreign Postal
Code:
112. A. * Sponsor Name:
B. * File Nimber (if any):
C. * City State: Zip Code:
Zip Ext.:
* Foreign Country: Foreign Postal
Code:
113. A. * Trustee Name:
B. * City State: Zip Code:
Zip Ext.:
* Foreign Country: Foreign Postal
Code:
114. A. * Principal Underwriter Name:
B. * File Number:
C. * City: State: Zip Code
Zip Ext.:
* Foreign Country: Foreign Postal
Code:
115. A. * Independent Public Accounts Name:
B. * City: State: Zip Code:
Zip Ext.:
* Foreign Country: Foreign Postal
Code:
116. Family of investment companies information:
A. * Is the Registrant part of a family of investment
companies? (Y/N)
B. * Identify the family in 10 letters:
117. A. * Is Registrant a separate account of an
insurance company? ( Y/N)
If answer is "Yes", are any of the following types of
contracts funded by the
Registrant?:
B. * Variable annuity contracts? (Y/N)
C. * Scheduled premium variable life contracts? (Y/N)
D. * Flexible premium variable life contracts? Y/N)
E. * Other types of insurance products registered
under the Securities Act
of 1933? (Y/N)
118. * State the number of series existing at the end
of the period that had securities registered under the
Securities Act of 1993._________________
119. * State the number of new series for which
registration statements under the Securities Act of
1933 became effective during the period.______________
For period ending 12-31-98
File number 811-3240
120. * State the total value of the portfolio
securities on the date of deposit for the new series
included in item 119._______________________
121. * State the number of series for which a current
prospectus was in existence at the end of the
period._________________________
122. * State the number of existing series for which
additional units were registered under the Securities
Act of 1933 during the current period._______
123. * State the total value of the additional units
considered in answering item
122($000'somitted)____________________________________
______$_____ ___
124. * State the total value of units of prior series
that were placed in the portfolios of subsequent
series during the current period (the value of these
units is to be measured on the date they were placed
in the subsequent series) ($000's omitted)
______________________________$_______
125. * State the total dollar amount of sales loads
collected (before reallowances to other brokers or
dealers) by Registrant's
principal underwriter and any underwriter which is an
affiliated person of the principal underwriter during
the current period solely from the sale of units of
all series of Registrant ($000's omitted)
__________________________$___________
126. * Of the amount shown in item 125, state the
total dollar amount of sales loads collected from
secondary market operations in Registrant's units
(include the sales loads, if any, collected on units
of a prior series placed in the portfolio of a
subsequent series.) ($000's
omitted)______$_____________
127. List opposite the appropriate description below
the number of series whose portfolios are invested
primarily (based upon a percentage of NAV) in each
type of security shown, the aggregate total assets at
market value as of a date at or near the end of the
current period of each such group of series and the
total income distributions made by each such group of
series during the current period (excluding
distributions of realized gains, if any):
Number of Total Assets Total Income
Series ($000's Distributions
Investing omitted) ($000's omitted)
A. U.S. Treasury direct issue________ _______
$________
$___________
B. U.S. Government agency_________ _______
$________
$___________
C. State and municipal tax-free_______ _______
$________
$___________
For period ending 12-31-98
File number 811-3240
D. Public utility debt_______________ _______
$________
$___________
E. Brokers or dealers debt or debt of
Brokers or dealers? parent________ _______ $________
$___________
F. All other corporate intermed. & long-
term debt______________________ _______ $________
$___________
G. All other corporate short-term debt_ _______
$________ $___________
H. Equity securites of brokers or dealers
or parents of brokers or dealers____ _______
$________
$___________
I. Investment company equity securities__
_______$_______$___________
J. All other equity securities___________ 1
$14,591,960
$___________
K. Other securities__________________ _______
$________
$___________
L. Total assets of all series of Registrant_
1
$14,591,960$___________
128. * Is the timely payment of principal and interest
on any of the portfolio securities held by any of
Registrant's series at the end of the current period
insured or guaranteed by an entity other than the
issuer? (Y/N)_____________
[If answer is "N" (No), go to item 131.]
129. * Is the issuer of any instrument covered in item
128 delinquent or in default as to payment of
principal or interest at the end of the current
period? (Y/N)__________________________
[If answer is ?N? (No), go to item 131.]
130. * In computations of NAV or offering price per
unit, is any part of the value attributed to
instruments identified in item 129 derived from
insurance or guarantees? (Y/N)____________
131. Total expenses incurred by all series of
Registrant during the current reporting period ($000's
omitted)$128,260
For period ending 12-31-98
File number 811-3240
132. * List the ?811? (Investment Company Act of 1940)
registration number for all Series of Registrant that
are being included in this filing:
811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____
811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-
_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____
811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-
_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____
811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-
_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____
811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-
_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____
811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-
_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____
811-_____ 811-_____ 811-_____ 811-
_____ 811-_____
