Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about interest-sensitive products and methods of arriving at current rates, current regulatory restraints on illustrative rates, illustrations of vanishing premium products, advantages of deferring taxes on inside build-up, trends toward emphasis on marketing of financial services and buy term and invest the difference.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers in this session addressed the relative volatility of participating whole life versus universal life and the annual-premium versus single- premium basis.

Description: Discusses the emerging proposals for revision of the NAIC Model UL Regulation to address valuation, non-forfeiture, and disclosure concerns. Also discusses product implementation and the current status of state requirements. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: This article describes that some companies are ‘approaching the problem of how to accommodate Universal Life in GAAP statements by using a simple method which produces not unreasonable results and waiting for consensus on appropriate methodology to develop. This describes so of the methodology currently in use.

Description: The June 1987 report on UL valuation and nonforfeiture, by the American Academy of Actuaries Universal Life Task Force under the Committee on Life Insurance, discussed whether long-term UL reserve sufficiencies should offset short-term deficiencies. This article discusses that issue.

Description: This article is an extract from a revision to the Universal Life Study Note. From Product Development Section Monograph, M-AS99-3.