Description: Announcement of the availability of two reports prepared by the Society’s Committee on Cost Comparison Methods and Related Issues Special: 1 Analysis of Life Insurance Cost Comparison Index Methods, and 2 Philosophies in the Computation and Dissemination of Dividend Illustrations

Description: Discusses views and findings regarding the U.K.'s investment-linked, life assurance and regulations pertinent to issuers of such contracts.

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: This article is about equity indexed products sold by insurance companies, the regulatory scrutiny they are generating, and the initiatives being taken by actuaries to resolve these issues and concerns.

Description: Article from The Actuary, November 1993, Volume 27, No. 9 that depicts the authors perspective on the overarching drivers of current and future trends in Life Insurance.

Description: This is a book review of 'Development of Life Insurance Surrender Values in the United States' by J. David Cummins. The book's ultimate objective is described as 'a historical analysis of the evolution of the concepts and practices which culminated in the present surrender value legislation.' The treatment is chronological and covers the century 1850-1950.

Description: This is a list of additional articles that should be added to the reading list on Taxation circulated to the Society membership in November 1974.

Description: This article gives an overview of the life insurance business in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands with details about product types and actuarial issues.

Description: This article offers an in-depth explanation of what life insurance is and how it is regulated.

Description: An interview with Jim Toole, lead researcher for SOA's pandemic research project. The project examines pandemic influenza and its implications to the life and health insurance industry.