Description: Key excerpts from research recently performed by Milliman consultants for the SOA on the impact of VM-20 on life insurance product development.

Description: The article discusses the continued popularity of indexed UL insurance and possible reasons why a company's actual indexed UL earnings may be below their original pricing expectations for the product. The article discusses several key items that may be the source of that underperformance (e.g., hedge ineffectiveness, policyholder behavior) and the need to monitor earnings and perform analyses to better understand those potential sources.

Description: This first session in the two-part series focuses on Guidelines XYZ and AXXX and their impact on universal life plans with secondary guarantees versus traditional whole life plans. Industry experts – both panelists and audience participants – discuss and debate the necessity for these regulations, the issues surrounding them, and their impact on product design. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 141IF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This article discusses the impact on the policyholders and the insurance companies of the phase-out of the deductibility of policy loan interest resulting from the new tax law.

Description: This article discusses the the 1998 alternartive XXX model regulations and the potential tax impact on the definition of life insurance and on reserve deductions associated therewith.

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2018 PBITT UL with Secondary Guarantees Survey

Description: Discusses PLR 201046008, regarding addition of a rider to a variable life policy that provides a minimum annual amount of withdrawal or policy loan. Includes discussion of impact on NSP under CVAT, and Guideline Premium.

Description: The article discusses the impact of changes made to Internal Revenue Code Section 7702 by the ConsolidatedAppropriations Act, 2021. The Consolidated Appropriations Act made changes to the interest rates used calculatethe Section 7702 premium and cash value funding limitations for life insurance contracts

Description: This article is aimed to cover the following: 1) Provides an assessment of income volatility under Long Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI) for several key types of long duration contracts along with select illustrations, and compares against those under current GAAP, 2) Discuss areas where accounting policies or methodologies can influence income volatility, and 3) Show how a company's management reporting can be adapted to help explain income variances under LDTI.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 55PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. Low new money rates, new reserve requirements and the limited availability of reinsurance solutions have highlighted the risks associated with offering UL secondary guarantees. The panelists discuss the types of risks and emerging practices in risk assessment and pricing of UL secondary guarantees, the current UL market, recent developments in product, and pricing techniques. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.