Description: The most popular term product, guaranteed level premium term typically, with level premiums for 10, 20 or 30-years has basic reserves under 1980 CSO that are significantly larger than needed. The 2001 CSO may provide substantial relief from these excess reserves. This article discusses how much impact on profits this relief may provide.

Description: An overall analysis and attribution analysis of the impacts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for certain life insurance contracts.

Description: Section 818c of the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959 provides, for companies holding other than net level premium reserves, a choice of two methods: exact revaluation or approximate revaluation to this basis. This paper discusses the impact of the choice on the level of a company's tax reserves. A discussion paper follows.

Description: A summary of a preliminary report from the Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, on guidelines for quantifying balance sheet items in an insurance enterprise.

Description: Panel discussion of the following topics: A. Recent revisions been made in the mortality, interest, and expense assumptions upon which life insurance premium rates are based. B. Factors considered in recent revisions of premium rates for substandard risks. C. The extent to which deficiency reserves been required as a result of recent decreases in nonparticipating premium rates for life insurance D. Recent changes in disability premium rates for women.

Description: This paper is concerned with the fundamental nature of life insurance company earnings. The operation of the policy reserve system as the timing mechanism which determines the incidence of earnings is discussed, and the concept of release from risk is then described. A policy reserve system based on the concept of release from risk is developed, and the earnings which emerge from this system are analyzed from both an actuarial and an accounting viewpoint. S ome specific p o l i c y r e s e r v e m e t h o d s a r e ident i f i ed a s spe c i a l c a s e s of t h e r e l e a s e f r o m r i sk p o l i c y r e s e r v e s y s t e m .

Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A discussion of the principles that should be part of a life insurance valuation. Also discussion of emerging actuarial professional standards of practice and regulatory requirements with respect to methodology for assessing reserve adequacy.

Description: Article outlining the recent activity of the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force LATF VM-20 Subgroup activities and the Academy’s Life Reserve Working Group dealing with feedback from the VM-20 impact study.

Description: This article reports the maximum statutory valuation and nonforfeiture interest rates for 1999 issues of selected life insurance products and the maximum statutory valuation interest rates for 1998 issues of selected annuity products.

Description: This paper describes the Federal Income Tax FIT treatment of reserves historically. Then it describes Principles-Based Reserves PBR. Finally, it discusses issues in the treatment of PBR under FIT.