Description: Key findings from Milliman's 2019/2020 UL/IUL survey. Provides benchmarking for UL/IUL competitors relative to trends in the industry.

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2015 PBITT UL with Secondary Guarantees Survey.

Description: This is a discussion of Universal Life insurance, dealing with: 1. Product characteristics 2. Sales compensation 3. Marketing support 4. Regulatory treatment 5. Taxation 6. Administration

Description: Provides a few highlights of the rules set forth in the Proposed 965 Regulations and the impact such rules have on the determination of various aspects of the toll tax calculation.

Description: The Universal Life Work Group ULWG of the American Academy of Actuaries’ AAA Life Valuation Subcommittee was formed in July 2004. Its charge is to develop a new “principle-based” approach definition follows for statutory reserves and capital requirements for life products with certain types of benefits and guarantees, where the value of the contract obligations vary significantly due to such things as future interest rates or equity returns.

Description: The author discusses an interpretation of the surrender charge limitations specified in New York’s Regulation 77 which increases the maximum allowable surrender charges for renewal years. This interpretation was presented to and accepted by the New York State Insurance Department.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses universal life including examining new product designs, administrative issues and regulatory and tax issues.

Description: Panelists provide background and updates on a number of statutory issues relating to life and annuity products, including statutory codification implementation, Actuarial Guideline MMMM, Actuarial Guideline AXXX and implications of the movement to the 2001 CSO table. Changes to federal reporting requirements, through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, are briefly discussed relative to the recent accounting problems in the news. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 78OF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This paper explores the use of linear programming as a tool to guide policyholders in getting the most value out of their combined insurance and investment programs. Concentrating on flexible premium universal life within the tax environment of the United States, several linear programming models are developed that can be used at the point of sale, to select the most cost effective policy from those available in the marketplace, and after issue to maximize the present value of future cash flows on the policy of an insured who is in ill-health. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 3.

Description: An introduction to ultimate life insurance, a product intended to be flexible enough to meet consumers' needs over their lifetimes. The paper gives some illustrations and discusses the Ultimate Life Financial Risk Analysis computer program.