Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 3 talks about a hypothetical life insurance company's introduction of a new policy whereby the increased death benefits after the premium paying period are used to justify smaller cash values and reserves than would be required under a comparable policy which endowed for its cash value at the end of the premium paying period.

Description: Summary of recent changes to IRS Section 7702 Interest Rates, and how it will impact the design of life insurance products in the future.

Description: Article Disparate Origins Of Life And Non-Life Insurances by Beard in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: This article discusses the effects of a reduction in the life valuation interest rate and the adoption of the 2001 CSO table. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: This article describes the mortality tables that the Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries is recommending to the NAIC as successors to the 1958 CSO Table

Description: Background information on the calculation of the statutory valuation and nonforfeiture maximum interest rates and a brief discussion on the effect that changing interest rates will have on some typical life insurance products.

Description: The author notes “the last major change in the Valuation and Non-forfeiture Laws occurred during the 1940's when the work of the Guertin Committee resulted in the adoption by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners NAIC of the Standard Valuation and Non-forfeiture Laws. While there have been a number of amendments to these laws since their adoption, both insurance department and company actuaries have concluded that there is need for a general overhaul of these standard laws to make them more responsive to today's business and regulatory needs.” The article goes on to discuss recent developments, recommendations, and legislative action, including the work of the Society of Actuaries Special Committee on Valuation and Non-forfeiture Laws, and the NAIC Technical Task Force.

Description: Discussion of the necessity of nonforfeiture laws for life insurance and the inconsistencies in the laws between comparable products.

Description: This article is is an excerpt from a concept document submitted to the NAIC as a possible framework for drafting the new Standard Nonforfeiture Law. The document incorporates comments from the NAIC’s Life and Health Actuarial Task Force into a concept document prepared by the American Academy of Actuaries’ Nonforfeiture Work Group.

Description: discussion of March 2009 NAIC/LHATF meeting