Description: This presentation is a section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The speaker, an author and the Walter H. Carpenter Professor of Management at Babson College, describes powerful new techniques for cutting through interdepartmental barriers and motivating people over whom you have no authority to lend your support, to lend you their support. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session addresses potential changes in life insurance and annuity markets under alternative tax systems, that is, value-added tax 'VAT' or consumption taxes, and flat taxes and the impact of those changes.

Description: A discussion about the taxation of life insurance companies and affiliated products and the ramifications it has annuity contracts and long-term care.

Description: A discussion of: the value of a life insurance contract distributed from a qualified pension plan, IRS industry director directive on the DRD for life insurance separate accounts and IRS actuaries raising new issues on AG 34 tax reserves.

Description: Statement about the peer-review process for the newsletter, and a disclaimer about responsibility for tax advice.

Description: A short introduction to the articles in the May 2012 supplement, "They Go Bump in the Night: Life Insurance Policies and the Law of Material Change" and "Administration of the Material Change Rules: Meeting the Challenge."

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the reasons for employer sponsored life insurance, the special distribution system requirements, the critical administrative considerations and the products which serve the market most effectively. There is a brief discussion on how unisex rates - the Norris decision - will affect the products offered.

Description: Author highlights historical nonforfeiture and federal tax law changes, as they have impacted life product designs, in prognosticating about future product designs.

Description: Full version of Taxing Times, December 2005, Volume 1, Issue No. 1.

Description: On March 25, 2010, the Treasury and IRS issued Notice 2010-29. The new Notice follows-up Notice 2008-18, in which the Treasury Department Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service IRS identified concerns regarding proposed Actuarial Guideline VACARVM and suggested approaches that might be taken to address those issues. Actuarial Guideline VACARVM was effective, as AG43, beginning on Dec. 31, 2009. This discussion is the fourth in a continuing series of interdisciplinary dialogues in TAXING TIMES on selected tax issues related to proposals regarding principle-based reserves.