Description: This paper summarizes traditional actuarial thinking on individual policy dividends and some of the current concerns, covering dividend class, reserves and nonforfeiture values on dividends, terminal dividends, dividend illustrations and changes in dividend scales. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: A debate among industry giants of whether the life insurance industry in 1977 is entering a period of changes that will affect business in the most fundamental way or whether it's just experiencing normal trials and tribulations.

Description: This article discusses valuation guidelines for participating whole life policies, that should be, in the authors opinion, consistent with guidelines for other types of policies.

Description: Presents the proposed new valuation table for industrial life insurance to replace the 1941 Standard Industrial Mortality Table, with the specifics of its development. Discussions of this report are also included.

Description: This 1978 session on individual life product development included discussion on: 1. Major revisions, reasons for change, innovative techniques, and problems. 2. New products and special considerations.

Description: Discussion of: 1. Interest and mortality assumptions for retirement income policy maturity values and optional settlement rates guaranteed in new policies 2. Modifications that are being made in the Jumping Juvenile, Family Policy and Special Plans 3. Merits of combining individual health with ordinary life insurance plans

Description: This report presents the results of an experience study.

Description: Article Permutations And Computations by Moordhead in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: This is a critique of J.M. Belth's book titled The Retail Price Structure In American Life Insurance.