Description: This is an article that was written by the chairman of the committee that developed 1983 Table a, which NAIC has adopted for individual annuity valuation. This article compares the mortality rates in the 1983 Table a with those of two prior annuity tables.

Description: Table from an articel in The Actuary Magazine entitled A Strategic Analysis of hte U.S. Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.

Description: This article discusses the impact of consolidation in the U.S. life reinsurance

Description: Do you want U.S. $1,000 for writing about something you find facinating and become a published author?

Description: Discussion of a survey inquiring into the use of Embedded, or Shareholder, Value by U.S. and European Insurance Companies

Description: The author discusses health care practices in Japan and how the US could successfully adopt some of them.

Description: Adopting U.S. GAAP for Pre-Need Plans in the Philippines by Frank J. Buck from The Financial Reporter, December 2002, Issue No. 51.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on "Putting the U.S. Debt into Proper Prospective:.

Description: Performance measurement is not the primary purpose of either GAAP or statutory accounting. This article discusses alternative methods of reporting used by life insurance companies to better measure financial performance.

Description: Projecting Budget Surpluses by Carl E. Walsh from Risks and Rewards Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 34. Discussion of the difficulties involved in making projections U.S. budget surpluses or deficits and how assumptions change.