Description: This is a digest of of informal discussions recorded in the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 27. Topics addressed: 1. Need for a new life valuation table. 2. Special policies such as Family Plans and Bank Loan and Split Dollar Plans. 3. Trends in agent compensation.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the effects of projected mortality on the pricing and valuation of individual immediate annuities. Also discusses considerations in underwriting substandard annuities. Finally, a discussion of this paper is included.

Description: The Actuarial Foundation’s Research Committee, the Actuarial Foundation of Canada, the Casualty Actuarial Society, and the Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Knowledge Extension Research announce the 2012 Individual Grants Competition to support the advancement of knowledge in actuarial science. This announcement describes criteria for entering the 2012 Individual Grant Competition.

Description: Research project examining the utility of standard eligibility and claims extracts for complementary and alternative medical therapies (CAM) analysis. Report includes links to extracts and tables.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet showing Appendix C, Primary Tables of the 2008 Valuation Basic Report and Tables. The full report describes the development of the 2008 Valuation Basic Table. It incorporates the Primary Tables, the Relative Risk Tables and the Limited Underwriting tables. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and other related tables.

Description: The SOA IDEC is conducting a study on incidence and claim terminations. Companies willing to contribute data covering the time period of 2006-15.

Description: This paper describes methods adapted to the computer for calculating premiums and nonforfeiture values separately for each policy at its original issue and for as many changes in the policy as may be made later. It also discusses current insurance law, underwriting, substandard issues, dividends and sales illustrations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol. 28.

Description: This 1964 Report presentsthe latest in a series of intercompany studies of mortality under individual immediate annuities, covering the experience between 1958 and 1963 anniversaries.

Description: The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses (CLICE) has submitted its recommendation memo for the 2015 Generally Recognized Expense Table (GRET) for use with individual life insurance sales illustrations. The recommendation is currently being exposed for comments by the NAIC.

Description: Provides a methodology for determining the value of the share of a particular individual in a joint and survivor annuity held by a trust.