Description: This article includes a summary of the key discoveries from a term life insurance survey conducted by Milliman, Inc. in 2021. It includes topics such as sales, profit measures, reserves, risk management, underwriting, and pricing.

Description: This article gives the highlights of the 88-page report including detailed assumptions for products including universal life with secondary guarantees (ULSG), cash accumulation universal life (CashAccum), current assumption universal life (CAUL), indexed universal life (IUL) and variable universal life (VUL). The 29 companies and 83 products represented in the report allow for an interesting perspective on premium persistency assumptions used in pricing, cash flow testing (CFT) and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)/international financial reporting standard (IFRS) functions. This article covers some general results and ULSG-specific results.

Description: Summary of annual Milliman UL/IUL Issues Report, covering issues and challenges of these products.

Description: This article provides a summary of the key findings from Milliman's 8th annual survey of lading UL carriers. The survey covers issues and challenges of UL/IUL products and allows companies to benchmark their practices against the competition.

Description: This article summarizes the findings of the 2020/2021 Milliman UL/IUL/VUL survey. The survey covers a range of specific product and actuarial issues and the results provide a good tool for benchmarking

Description: An overview of the immediate payout annuity market.

Description: Full version of Product Matters! March 2006, Issue No. 64.

Description: Increasing life spans and fluctuations in the equity markets have raised awareness of the potential of outliving one's income. This presentation from Session 30 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses single premium immediate annuities as one solution to this growing issue. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Author suggests the newly popular Equity-Indexed Annuity product can be transformed into Equity-Indexed Immediate Annuity to serve additional retirement needs.

Description: Full version of Product Matters! April 2003, Issue No. 55.