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 paper demonstrates some of the basic principles and concepts inherent in the use of natural reserves to adjust earnings and to demonstrate differences in earning patterns obtained by several alternative approaches to a pure natural reserve adjustment of earnings.

Description: A review of Actuarial Guideline AXXX

Description: Feature article discussing the Life Actuarial Task Force (LATF) recent exposure of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Valuation Manual.

Description: The article highlights key considerations as companies begin to reserve for their IUL products under PBR.

Description: Article discusses provisions of Guideline AXXX

Description: Discusses Aug. 23, 2007, meetings in Salt Lake City, Utah, about principles-based approach for both reserves and risk-based capital, RBC.

Description: Summary of NAIC's Winter National Meeting

Description: Describes a process for identifying relevant industry experience to credibility-weight with relevant company experience to set modeling assumptions and margins.

Description: This paper is presented as a means of explaining, in greater detail than was appropriate in its formal report, the methods used in the construction of the new standard ordinary mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X, and the corresponding experience mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X.