Description: This report presents the results of a survey of the actions companies took on their term products in response to the introduction of the NAIC Valuation of Life Insurance Policies Model Regulation, ‘Regulation XXX,’ and Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 40. The survey also explores the development of companies' X factors, the associated annual X factor certification process and how Regulation XXX impacts the companies' level term pricing. The survey was conducted by the Regulation XXX Survey Subcommittee of the Society of Actuaries Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee. Common survey responses to Regulation XXX included consideration of reinsurance, changes in product design, the most common changes reported being the length of the guarantee period and the level of the gross premiums, and changing rates on existing products.

Description: This paper discusses the determination of term insurance reserves in the United States for individual life insurance policies. A valuation method that appears to produce better results than the net level premium reserve or the CRVM is the changing premium valuation method CPVM. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: Article Permutations And Computations by Moordhead in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: This paper demonstrates that the variance of the loss function for n-year term is greater than the sum of the variances of the loss functions for n-year pure endowment and n-year regular endowment plans. The result is true for both single premiums and annual premium plans.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting discusses the current trends in term product design, term Insurance from the reinsurer's point of view and the future of term insurance.

Description: This discussion examined the demand for Family Income benefits, the extent of sale for all types of decreasing term riders, and if increasing volume of decreasing term insurance is desirable from the point of view of a policyholder, agent and company. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: This article discusses Actuarial Guideline CCC and its impact on ROP Term.

Description: Panelists give an assessment of the current term market, and then cover statutory, GAAP, and tax reserves. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting looks at the increasing competition in the marketing of term insurance from the viewpoint of a direct writer and a reinsurer.