Description: Key findings from Milliman's 2019/2020 UL/IUL survey. Provides benchmarking for UL/IUL competitors relative to trends in the industry.

Description: This article describes how actuaries can get involved in research being conducted by the Society of Actuaries.

Description: In this article the author compares the profitability of Variable Life Insurance and Universal Life Insurance products. He concludes that a company can develop a typical VUL product with adequate profitability as compared to the company’s current UL product.

Description: Article Disparate Origins Of Life And Non-Life Insurances by Beard in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: Discusses the results of an inter-company study of the effect of cigarette smoking on Ordinary Insurance mortality. The study also includes an underwriting guide.

Description: This feature discusses the article by syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman in the March 3rd Los Angeles times titled Insuring an End to the Actuarial Rip-Off of Women It was about risk classification arguing in favor of unisex pricing for individual contracts, which the author of this article did not agree.

Description: In physics and engineering education, Fermi problems require solutions based on good approximate calculations with little or no actual data, involving making justified guesses and deducing bounds without using sophisticated tools. The idea of Fermi problems are of particular relevance to today's actuaries, as pricing, reserving, and financial reporting involve more and more complex stochastic components. The paper discusses some approximate solutions developed in academia in the spirit of Fermi problems.

Description: The article provides a summary of the Taxation Session sponsored sessions at the Life and Annuity Symposium.

Description: Article The U.S. Government Cost Disclosure Report by Moorhead in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Relationship of IRR to ROI on a Level Term Life Insurance Policy