Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about the growth in life insurance from 1970 -1990 as compared to the general economic growth.

Description: A review of Life Insurance Accounting, a reference work by twenty three authors under the direction of the Insurance Accounting and Statistical Association, IASA.

Description: Lapse rates from a recent, no dates specified, study of life insurance sold in New York State savings banks are summarized. They are compared with rates from a recent LIMRA inter-company study of agency business. First-year rates are broken down by premium frequency, and yearly rates are shown by type of life insurance plan.

Description: The rights of participating policyholders are examined when demutualization is considered or actualized.

Description: This article examines the changes in U.S. regulatory reserve and risk-based capital requirements that will significantly impact the insurance industry and practicing actuaries. It summarizes activity related to principles-based reserves and risk-based capital initiatives during 2005.

Description: This article discusses the three main taxation proposals affecting holders of life insurance and deferred annuity policies announced on Friday, November 13, 1981 by the Federal Finance Minister in Canada. The main proposals are 1 taxation of accrued investment income on life and annuity policies, 2 changes in the adjusted cost basis at disposition of policies and 3 treatment of life insurance policies not registered as retirement savings plans.

Description: Continuing a line which started in Vienna as far back as 1927, COINTRA an acronym for “Cooperation Internationale pour les Assurances des Risclues Aggraves” held its 14th conference in Stockholm from 9th to 12th June, 1981. Some 110 representatives from life assurance and reassurance companies, established in more than a dozen countries, were in attendance for the purpose of exchanging information and reviewing developments in substandard life assurance.

Description: On March 19 the Actuaries Club of New York heard a report by Messrs. Dale R. Gustafson and James J. Murphy on the sweeping change in coverage on old policies that Northwestern Mutual Life is offering its policyholders to address a problem caused by the US 1959 Income Tax Act.

Description: Predicts the rise of variable life insurance and discusses some product issues.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 11. This is a debate regarding two approaches to Life Insurance Illustrations: The Range approach vs. the Current Scale approach