Description: This guide is intended to provide a broad introduction to several performance-oriented products. It distinguishes variable 'equity-linked' life insurance, universal life 'flexible payment and current fixed yields', variable universal life, and current developments in variable annuities 'primarily minimum death benefits'.

Description: Panelists at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium discuss the issues regarding the 2001 CSO table including current approval status, tax reserves, IRC section 7702 and implementation issues.

Description: In this paper we use expectations of different random variables to define the notions of retrospective, prospective, individual, and aggregate net premiums for plans with contingent obligations.

Description: This paper describes the application of source of earnings 'SOE' analysis methodology to the reported pre-tax GAAP income of universal life and other interest-sensitive life and annuity products.

Description: This report has been assembled by the Task Force as a comprehensive guide to practicing actuaries in evaluating the impact of AIDS on the solvency of life and health insurance companies in the US and Canada. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 2.

Description: This paper deals with the problem of determining the effect on reserves of variations in the assumptions. A general approach to this problem is presented and then used to extend Lidstone's theorem, mainly to cases involving a nonmonotone critical function. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This paper analyzed the deficit risk that an insurer assumes when a group insurance contract is subject to a retrospective experience-rating arrangement. In this paper, a method for quantifying the deficit risk and determining explicitly an appropriate risk charge level is developed.

Description: This paper develops the mathematical formulas for net premiums and reserves for whole life plans in which the benefit is insurance for the face amount plus the net level reserve or plus the Commissioners Reserve or plus the minimum cash value or plus a modified cash value.

Description: This is the report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2002–04.

Description: Describes the type of information sought on the Preferred Class Structure Questionnaire for the 2005-2007 individual life experience study and explains how to fill out the questionnaire