Description: This article discusses the growing popularity of variable products and compares the product design and pricing of VUL and UL products.

Description: In this article, taken from the author’s remarks at LIMRA's 1980 Annual Meeting, the theme is that the “new generation” of permanent life insurance products, including Universal Life, do meet policyholders’ needs, and that life insurance products, far from being static, evolve to suit the markets they serve and the public's needs. An editor’s note at the end also refers the reader to another article, which presents a “distinctly different viewpoint.”

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: An article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no.17, issue no. 3 that discusses Variable Universal Life Insurance based on the growing popularity of universal life and variable life products. This product is a flexible premium life insurance product whose cash values vary, in whole or in part, in relation to the investment performance of an underlying separate account. However, regulatory changes, both state and federal, are needed before this product may be sold

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.