Description: This paper describes a method of interest allocation which relies on a computerized model of invested assets. Characteristics of this method, known as the investment generation model method, are discussed in relation to other allocation methods in current use and in relation to desirable criteria of interest allocation given in this paper. The paper concludes by identifying important management benefits associated with this method of allocation. Followed by 2 discussion papers submitted

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Description: Section 818c of the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959 provides, for companies holding other than net level premium reserves, a choice of two methods: exact revaluation or approximate revaluation to this basis. This paper discusses the impact of the choice on the level of a company's tax reserves. A discussion paper follows.

Description: An analysis of prescription drug use in the Kansas individual market

Description: Asia is experiencing changing demographic, social, and cultural tides which threaten to submerge existing retirement-pension systems.

Description: This is an excel spreadsheet with some data pertaining to an article of the same name from the Product Development News

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Description: This paper was prepared in order to set down some of the approaches which might be followed in carrying out the mandate to apply GAAP to stock life insurance companies. Followed by discussion papers submitted by 2 authors

Description: A supplemental report conducted in 2009 to contrast results of the 2008 study, 'Will Retirement Assets Last a Lifetime'? It discusses retirees confidence in having sufficient assets to fully fund their retirement, their willingness to take risk, efforts to control spending and their use of financial advisers.