Description: One of the significant tax benefits of a life insurance contract is that, for purposes of determining the taxable amount of proceeds received under the contract on distributions or surrender,the investment in the contract includes the aggregate amount of premiums, unreduced by the cost of insurance provided IRC section 72c. IRS rules net surrender value reserves must be reduced by a YRT reserve credit.

Description: This article discusses the the 1998 alternartive XXX model regulations and the potential tax impact on the definition of life insurance and on reserve deductions associated therewith.

Description: This note suggests a simple approximate formula for the purpose of computing a terminal reserve when only mean reserves and net premiums are known. The author provides an expression for the error in this approximate formula and an exact formula for terminal reserves in terms of mean reserves, amounts of insurance, and a set of constants. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 6.

Description: Setting the X Factor Percentile— Commentary by G. Thomas Mitchell from The Financial Reporter, October 1999, Issue No. 40.

Description: Institutional investors such as pension plans and insurance companies have enjoyed strong equity returns for a length of time with few historical precedents. Nearly a decade after the end of the financial crisis, strategies to provide downside protection remain expensive and the performance of traditional risk-managed funds has disappointed investors.

Description: Interplay of §807(f) and the stat cap in §807(d) as there continues to be uncertainty as to whether a change to the stat reserve could be subject to §807(f).

Description: The current drafts of the principle-based reserves PBR model law and accompanying regulations appear to include credit life insurance within the scope. It is expected that once the scope of PBR is expanded to include accident and health insurance, credit disability will fall within its scope as well. This article describes how will this affect credit actuaries.

Description: This paper concisely presents formulas for calculating reserves with different mortality tables as well as formulas to relate reserves at different interest rates.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'The New Standard Ordinary Mortality Table' paper by Sternhell.

Description: This paper discusses some of the main principles of classical life contingencies generalized and formulated in the language of probability theory and develops generalized and exponential reserves. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol. 28.