Description: This is an article about the “hardening” market for reinsurance on term and universal life with secondary guarantees. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: Author conducts her own informal survey to see how quickly the services could deliver rate quotes and how much the quoted rates would vary.

Description: Author recalls beginnings of Smaller Insurance Company Section and encourages others to participate.

Description: To comply with VM reporting requirements, what is the simplest path for a small company that has passed the Deterministic Exclusion Test and the Stochastic Exclusion Test?

Description: Update on new mortality tables in development - 2012 IAR, 2014 VBT, and SI/GI/Preneed

Description: The SEC recently approved a financial disclosure rule mandating that a company must release material and market-moving information to all investors simultaneously. This article looks at the new rule designed to make financial disclosure fairer for all investors and how it may pose problems for larger insurers, while it may level the playing field for smaller insurers.

Description: Inaugural article in a series to share resources with other actuaries at smaller companies. This article will introduce the reader to the Academy's Life and Health Valuation Law Manual, an annual publication containing numerous references, notes and guidelines to help valuation actuaries complete their statutory regulatory work.

Description: A SWOT analysis by the Smaller Insurance Company Section Council. From Small Talk Newsletter, Issue 37, January 2012.

Description: How Small Company Actuaries make decisions - heuristics, expert opinion, or both?

Description: This article discusses the key leaders in the Smaller Insurance Company Section, the key initiatives for 2014, the fun that one can have as a participant, and some success stories.