Description: This article compares computing a single premium for a decreasing term policy using continuous functions versus curtate functions.

Description: This article discusses the calculation of mean reserves in certain cases where terminal reserves are negative and proposes a minimum reserve formula which produces adequate mean reserves in all cases.

Description: Remarks on a recent series of articles in 'The National Underwriter' on risk selection and related regulation.

Description: Article Society Seminars by Adams in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: Article from The Actuary magazine, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, and is excerpted from the author's address to the Winnipeg Actuaries Club in September 1982. It highlights the universal life policy in general and then discusses the innovations they introduced.

Description: This is an article summarizing a study about the replacements of individual life insurance policies.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22 , No. 7. This articles explores the dangers posed by many guaranteed-return life insurance and annuity products.

Description: This article discusses the charge for the new SOA/COVARA AIDS Task Force. This new task force will examine and report on the principles and techniques for the financial recognition of AIDS for insurance companies, recognizing both statutory and GAAP accounting.

Description: August Zilmer 1831-1893, a Prussian actuary best known for the development of preliminary term valuation, also made some observations on life insurance accounting that seem quite contemporary. Zillmer also wrote the first comprehensive German actuarial mathematics text in almost a century.

Description: This is the second article in a four–part series. In this article, the industry's products are examined.