Description: This article looks at the options for terminally ill people with life insurance - loans, accelerated benefit options, and viaticals - and asks why more actuaries are not involved.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 7. This article discusses the activities and goals of the Product Development Section of the SOA. Future activities will include joint sessions with other sections since product development issues sometimes relate to financial reporting. reinsurance, investments and nontraditional marketing.

Description: Article The U.S. Government Cost Disclosure Report by Moorhead in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: This is a collection of letters to the editor ranging from exam issues to probabilities to Medicare to stock prices and more.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about the growth in life insurance from 1970 -1990 as compared to the general economic growth.

Description: This article discusses the development of Universal Life insurance in the U.S. from the British perspective. The author notes that despite the different regulatory and fiscal climates in the U.S. and U.K., the key elements of Universal Life design can be found in similar products in the U.K. known there as unit-linked products. The differences in design, in part the result of differing tax policies, are also discussed.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 1 is an actuary's view on accountants and adjusted earnings.

Description: This article describes the new state of Washington regulation governing replacements noting problems with the formula used and offering improvements.

Description: This article shows excerpts, edited into Q&A format from FIASCO’s September 1983 front page interview with James C. H. Anderson, conducted in London last summer by this newsletter’s London Correspondent, Gary Chamberlin. The interview addresses Mr. Anderson's beliefs that drastic changes are necessary if the U.S. life insurance industry is to enjoy a fruitful survival into the next century.

Description: Article Society Seminars by Adams in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2