Description: A review of a webcast on Sarbanes-Oxley including a brief update on Sarbanes requirements, including some practical aspects of the Sarbanes “life cycle,” including living with Sarbanes beyond implementation.

Description: The author shares the story of his actuarial career and provides insight into the development of retirement today and the past and future of the pension actuary.

Description: Views of several actuarial participants in this lawsuit, regarding new buyer disclosure requirements, were printed in our May Issue. Mr. Murphy spoke for the plaintiffs, whose strongest objection to the disputed Wisconsin Regulation was its omission of the Equivalent Level Annual Dividend from the preliminary policy summary.

Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A discussion of the principles that should be part of a life insurance valuation. Also discussion of emerging actuarial professional standards of practice and regulatory requirements with respect to methodology for assessing reserve adequacy.

Description: From a session at the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 29-30, 2001 Discussion of financial restructuring trends and the impact of those trends on the insurance industry and challenges for those companies that have recently experienced some form of financial restructuring.

Description: Recent guidance in the form of Rev. Proc. 2006- 13 provides a general safe harbor for the fair market value of a deferred-annuity contract when determining the amount includible in income on conversion of a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.

Description: Panelists discuss issues arising from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: This panel discussion session looked at recent and proposed regulation of life insurance underwriting. Specific topics included: i. Problems with traditional underwriting classifications: privacy, disclosure, anti-discrimination, etc. 2. New and acceptable classifications: smoking, lifestyle, build, blood pressure, finances, etc. 3. Possible transition problems: existing policies, persistency, coordination of previous data with newer classes, etc.

Description: This actuarial memorandum represents the first, formal actuarial opinion regarding the reasonableness of the premium estimates the Clinton Administration presented with its proposed Health Security Act. The memorandum presents the assumptions and methods used to develop an average 1994 premium estimate for the standard benefit package.