Description: This is an article about The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses CLICE and its completion of its fourth inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business issued in the United States.

Description: This article discusses the pending Pension Protection Act and the opportunity it presents for products that combine LTC and Annuities.

Description: December 2019 issue of Small Talk by the Smaller Insurance Company Section. Practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, and section activities.

Description: Small companies face numerous challenges and opportunities when developing supplemental health insurance products. This is particularly true because of the competitive nature of these products and the innovations happening in the supplemental health market. This article explores the challenges regarding rating, the volatile regulatory environment, product flexibility, and distribution. In addition, the article identifies competitive advantages that small companies may have in the supplemental health market.

Description: A summary of the newsletter and a rundown of the table manager.

Description: This article suggests ways for small insurance companies to obtain modeling information on more intricate assets, such as collateralized mortgage obligations [CMO], at a low cost.

Description: This article talks about assets and liabilities as they related to Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: Feature article about the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) adopting its First Amendment to Regulation 213, Principle-Based Reserving (PBR) and the affects it will cause.

Description: This article presented excerpts taken from a 1998 newsletter of the National Alliance of Life Companies regarding XXX. The topics covered included possible adoption timeline, basic reserves, unitary reserve test, deficiency reserves, deficiency mortality table, etc.

Description: This article summarizes some of the areas of concern in developing equity-indexed annuities for small companies.