Description: An article on kinder, gentler mergers and acquisitions. Life insurance company mergers and acquisitions are seeing a renewal of activity. Now, however, they are being handled with a new consciousness.

Description: Some life insurers in Canada are pioneering a creative new noncontractual approach to meeting the financial needs of terminally ill insureds who may need funds for medical and living expenses. Funds are made available by lending a portion of the death benefit to the terminally ill insured. This is a loan against future death proceeds it is independent of loans against any cash value, which would be used first.

Description: Discussion of a Society of Actuaries research report on cost comparison methods life insurance sales illustration support, prepared at the request of the NAIC

Description: On March 19 the Actuaries Club of New York heard a report by Messrs. Dale R. Gustafson and James J. Murphy on the sweeping change in coverage on old policies that Northwestern Mutual Life is offering its policyholders to address a problem caused by the US 1959 Income Tax Act.

Description: A discussion about the possible future effects of AIDs/HIV on the life insurance industry.

Description: The author's comments on the future outlook for actuaries and the insurance industry. He poses many thought provoking questions about the future.

Description: Announcement of the availability of two reports prepared by the Society’s Committee on Cost Comparison Methods and Related Issues Special: 1 Analysis of Life Insurance Cost Comparison Index Methods, and 2 Philosophies in the Computation and Dissemination of Dividend Illustrations

Description: Column to address problems that arise in everyday work. This article discusses the problem of projecting loans on an in-force block of business.

Description: A review of Life Insurance Accounting, a reference work by twenty three authors under the direction of the Insurance Accounting and Statistical Association, IASA.

Description: The book is an examination of the investment role played by life insurance companies prior to 1900. The reviewer concludes that it is an interesting and readable book on the early days of the business, and a worthwhile addition to the archives of insurance industry history.