Description: The Proposed Accounting Standards Update was exposed on September 29, 2016 with the comment period ending on December 15, 2016.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss long-term care insurance from various viewpoints, including the consumer’s desires, needs, knowledge, and interests, intermediaries' role in defining benefits, cost of benefits such as inflation protection and nonforfeiture, financial ability to purchase, buying attitudes of the public for coverage, and trade-offs between price and features. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.

Description: This is a research report that highlights the characteristics of combination plans that serve to reduce the risks to insurers issuing life or annuity products linked to long-term care insurance. Observations are provided to assist in the understanding of the factors that explain the profit change sensitivity results and the natural hedging against major risks that inherently is present within the linked products.