Description: This session discussion is about what factors affect the small employer's choice of programs, how may the small employer capitalize on recent developments in managed health care, what problems do insurance companies have in marketing and communicating their plans to small employers, are partially self-insured benefits a threat or an opportunity for carriers in this market. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 1.

Description: This is the sixth experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 27 US life insurance companies.

Description: Study of long-term disability [LTD] claim-termination experience for the calendar years 1997 through 2006.

Description: Last March, Congress passed and the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act followed by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which amended the former collectively, the “Act”. The article provides a brief background on the passage of the Act generally and the creation of the new Investment Income Tax in particular compares the existing provisions of the HI tax with the newly enacted provisions, and it then analyzes the import of the Investment Income Tax for annuities and, possibly, life insurance contracts. The article concludes with thoughts on the potential effect of the new tax on the annuity marketplace.

Description: Brief summary of United States future population growth estimates from 1967.

Description: This article is based on a workshop discussion at the October meeting of the Actuaries Club of New York on yearly price of protection and level price of protection calculation methods advocated by Dr. J. M. Belth for the purpose of comparing 2 life insurance policies.

Description: A discussion of possible changes in the membership requirements for the American Academy of Actuaries was sent out by Mr. Edwin F. Boynton, President of the Academy, under the date of January 23, 1978 with a covering letter dated March 24, 1978. Mr. Boynton has invited questions and comments.

Description: Article "Comments" in The Actuary, November 1979, Volume 13, Number 9

Description: Ed. Note: In FIASCO, our London sister-journal, we read that Mr. Gary Chamberlin, an Institute member, had written a paper, The Proficient Instrument, showing "how the Pension Funds actuary can add a new dimension to his choice of actuarial bases." Mr. Chamberlin kindly sent us a copy of his paper, which was first presented to the Institute of Actuaries Students' Society on November 18th, 1980. We undertake no more than to introduce its theme here, and will gladly send the text to the first reader who expresses enthusiasm for reviewing it more thoroughly. The paper's full title is: THE PROFICIENT INSTRUMENT: A New Appraisal of the Commutation Function in the Context of Pension Fund Work.

Description: This is an article about actuarial news from London from the March 1981 issue.