Description: Farewell comments by Noel J. Abkemeier at the end of his term as Chairperson of the Product Development Section in 2003. Includes highlights of successes of the Section and thank you's to significant contributors to the Section.

Description: Guidance and interpretation regarding reasonable mortality charge requirement of Section 7702, based from IRS Notice 2004-61, 2004-41 I.R.B. 596 of October 12, 2004.

Description: Discussion of private letter tax rulings on the definition of Cash Surrender Value for purposes of interpreting the definition of life insurance for the policyholder's taxation of the contracts.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings that discusses additional or contract reserves on Exhibit 9.

Description: Editor's Comments

Description: This discussion is divided in three sections: Further Application, asking how much accounting can be done on computers. Conversion, looking at further functions integrated into the systems by companies converting to Electronic Data Processing function-by-function and Savings, examining if it is any clearer what the ultimate savings from Electronic Data Processing will be. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: An Excel spreadsheet to aid the reader in interpreting the information contained in the report, which provides exposure information by lapse factor and data cell. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.

Description: This is a report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2005-07.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.

Description: Message from the Chairperson by Gregory R. Childs from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, April 1999, Issue No. 1.