Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 8F: Smaller Insurance Company Chief Actuary and Appointed Actuary Forum 9.1.21 Recording

Description: Life insurance has no shortage of issues and innovations impacting the day-to-day life of products, a product actuary and the life insurance process. Listen to a group of experts discuss the key topics faced when issuing and managing life products, including innovations, regulations, growth, opportunity and cautions pertaining to Term, whole life, and UL products. By attending the session, you will: Be able to identify trends in life products and processes, avoid pitfalls of product development through increased awareness of innovations and issues, and identify key developments that could impact life products.

Description: This article summarizes the treatment of changes in the basis for determining life insurance tax reserves under prior law and describes the changes enacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It further explains the procedures for changing the basis of computing reserves under the new rules as outlined in Revenue Procedure 2019-10, the IRS’s December 2018 guidance on the subject, and discusses the uncertainties that remain.

Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings are a summary of two workshops - Methods of Computing 'Net Cost' for Ordinary Life Insurance and Life and Health Insurance Plans for Groups with Generally Fewer than Twenty Five Lives. There is also a discussion of a proposed SOA constituional amendment related to public expressions of opinion.

Description: In discussing the contemporary reactions to this regulation, as well as how EU-based insurance firms adapted to the shift, this segment will invite us to question our assumptions on the role of gender-based pricing in the future of the industry. In the latter half of the presentation, we will delve into the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals when accessing life, health, and auto insurance.

Description: Explore the findings from the research paper recently released by Milliman and the SOA, highlighting the growing need for support of informal/family caregivers. We will discuss both quantitative and qualitative data that illustrates not only the cost and burgeoning need, but the mental/emotional stressors that come along with this work.

Description: This paper provides a summary of the following special reports from the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 27: 1. REPORT OF THE HISTORIAN - 1974 and 1975. 2. REPORT ON ACTUARIAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICAL PROBLEMS WITH REGARD TO NONFORFEITURE REQUIREMENTS.

Description: This is a collection of letters to the editor ranging from exam issues to probabilities to Medicare to stock prices and more.

Description: Discusses the early days of India's opening up of it's insurance markets and the actuarial profession.

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss a variety of topics, such as the use of sampling techniques and quality control in actuarial work, and administrative measures taken to reduce expenses on small Ordinary policies. The discussion also looked at what the Society of Actuaries and local actuarial clubs should do, at the secondary school or college level, to increase the number of college graduates entering the actuarial field.