Description: July 2019 issue of Small Talk by the Smaller Insurance Company Section. Practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, and section activities.

Description: The 2020 edition of the Valuation Manual permits mortality data aggregation thereby enhancing credibility but also has accompanying requirements and addresses calculation of company experience rates.

Description: Panelists discuss many developments over the year 1991 that impact the valuation actuary. Session 1 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Panelists discuss many developments over the year 1992 that impact the valuation actuary. Session 1 of the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Key excerpts from research recently performed by Milliman consultants for the SOA on the impact of VM-20 on life insurance product development.

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: 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: Provides an overview of India's insurance market and the important role of the actuary.

Description: Federal Tax Issues Under the 2001 CSO Mortality Tables

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1957 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 21-22 in New York City. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss adoption of a new mortality table and the need for deficiency reserves, the impact of new tables on participating and nonparticipating companies, and dividend patterns, whether new tables should be expected to remain an appropriate standard for an extended period, and the question of changing reserve and nonforfeiture interest rates. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1957 Volume 9, Number 24.