Description: This article is about the Course 8 series. Course 8 provides candidates with essential advanced specialized education in one of seven practice areas: individual insurance, group life and health, managed care, U.S. pensions, Canadian pensions, finance, and investments.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses issues unique to mutual life insurance companies including the definition of a true participating policy, cash flow testing for participating policies, dividends, asset allocation taxation, sources of free surplus for mutual companies and demutualization.

Description: Panel discussion gives the latest update on: Single Premium Whole Life, Single Premium Variable Life, Variable Universal Life, and Annuities. Includes current industry sales figures and distributions of variable-account assets for these products. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: Recognition of Fellowship credits for a Research paper titled 'Some Aspects of FASB Statement 87'. Instructions are provided for others interested in applying for fellowship credit for research papers.

Description: This article presents the abstract for a paper that received fellowship credit entitled, “Simplified Cash Flow Testing of Traditional Participating Whole Life Insurance”

Description: This article announces the awarding of fellowship credits to Gary Parker for the article he wrote, entitled “Stochastic Analysis of the Interaction Between Investment and Insurance Risks,” and provides a brief synopsis of the paper.