Description: A research paper that outlines a seamless method of deriving assumptions for modern reserving and solvency capital requirements from a company’s own data.

Description: Discussion of the 1958 CSO Mortality Table: 1. Considerations regarding continuous functions, age last birthday and changing reserve methods 2. Likelihood of Canadian adoption 3. Impact on extended insurance and automatic premium loan provisions.

Description: This discussion looks at the valuation methods of small companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 6.

Description: This paper considers policies with annual premiums and discusses four types of life insurance reserves calculations: curtate, fully continuous, discounted continuous, and semicontinuous. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This note is motivated by Section 7.4 of Actuarial Mathematics. Consider two different fully-discrete policies issued to x, each for a unit of life insurance during the first h years. Here, h is less than or equal to the shorter of the two premium-payment periods.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Note: Terminal Reserves from Mean Reserves and Net Premiums by Dale R. Gustafson. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: Discusses the use of a valuation basis involving the use of two interest rates, which solves the deficiency reserve problem without requiring the abandonment of either low gross premiums or relatively high withdrawal values.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'The Effect of Varying Interest Rates' by Charles H. Connelly, involving the use of two interest rates, varying by duration, for valuation.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to set forth a precise method of testing reserves based upon the time-honored accumulation formula, which requires the production of reserves and transactions by attained age.

Description: Section 818c of the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959 provides, for companies holding other than net level premium reserves, a choice of two methods: exact revaluation or approximate revaluation to this basis. This paper discusses the impact of the choice on the level of a company's tax reserves. A discussion paper follows.