Description: This report presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.

Description: The Reinsurance Section, Product Development Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research are pleased to present results from a company practice survey of individual life insurance accelerated underwriting. Performed by a Milliman team led by Al Klein and Karen Rudolph, the study provides perspectives from both direct life insurance companies and reinsurers. Among the areas addressed include the structure of accelerated underwriting programs, how programs are monitored, how accelerated underwritten business is performing relative to expectations and how companies are considering accelerated underwriting cohorts in the context of VM-20 assumption setting.

Description: Guaranteed Issue mortality valuation tables, report, and definition.

Description: The purpose of this status report is to advise practitioners about subsequent research and analysis conducted by the Advisory Group regarding these items. At this time, there are no new enhancements to the MIM-2021 tools.

Description: Since the outbreak began in January, numerous research groups throughout the world have developed models to forecast the number of deaths that could result from COVID-19.

Description: A set of mortality improvement factors for year-end 2016 to be used in conjunction with the 2008 VBT or the 2015 VBT for AG-38 purposes.

Description: The attached report presents the results of a survey whose purpose was to explore life insurance company practices regarding the use of a mortality improvement assumption in the pricing of life insurance products. The survey distinguished between updating base mortality tables for historical mortality improvement versus projecting mortality improvement into the future.

Description: Survey of appointed actuaries about asset adequacy testing techniques currently being used in 2012.

Description: WeChat is gradually becoming the main force of insurance online marketing for insurance products in China.

Description: In this report, we consider high-level results from provisional mortality data released from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2021, including looking at changes by sex and age group.