Description: Read the March 2017 issue of Product Matters published by the Product Development Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: The article discusses the continued popularity of indexed UL insurance and possible reasons why a company's actual indexed UL earnings may be below their original pricing expectations for the product. The article discusses several key items that may be the source of that underperformance (e.g., hedge ineffectiveness, policyholder behavior) and the need to monitor earnings and perform analyses to better understand those potential sources.

Description: Key findings from Milliman's 2018/2019 UL/IUL survey. Provides benchmarking for UL/IUL competitors relative to trends in the industry.

Description: A commentary on whether or not the Illustrations Regulation has been successful.

Description: Discusses Phase 1 survey results from the SOA/RGA post-level term research project.

Description: Read the August 2020 issue of Product Matters! published by the Product Development Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: The IRS released the details of a program to allow life insurers to correct inadvertent failures to comply with the modified endowment MEC rules under section 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code the “Code”.

Description: Discusses the middle market for life insurance and the types of insurers and products in it.

Description: AG 49 pertains to illustrated life insurance products with a crediting rate tied to an index. The guideline discusses the maximum illustrated credited rate and format changes to illustrations.

Description: This is an excel spreadsheet with some data pertaining to an article of the same name from the Product Development News