Description: Panelists discuss aspects of corporate-owned life insurance: in light of recent tax-law changes, compensation flexibility, policyholder administrative concerns, and the impact of low interest rates. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about the long-term care and living benefit riders, early sales results, benefit structure, development of claim costs and regulatory and tax considerations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: This session discussion is about illustration wars, viewing from a top producing agents, view from a mutual company with a history of meeting or exceeding its projected dividend scale. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about AIDS from the reinsurer's point of view focusing on underwriting and the reinsurance market.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers living benefit riders including benefit designs, regulatory activity, tax status, pricing considerations and reserves.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. In this life insurance product tax session, attorneys representing the American Council of Life Insurance ACLI, the Internal revenue Service, ‘IRS,’ and the law firm of Davis & Harman discuss the status of recent IRS Private Letter Rulings, current activities of the American Council of Life Insurance, ‘ACLI,’ and other topics including the international reach of Internal Revenue Code sections 7702 and 7702A. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: This is a discussion about the issues surrounding retirement at age 70. What redesigns of group life, disability, and health plans is necessary as a result of raising the minimum mandatory retirement age to 70? What is the cost effect of these changes? How do you handle benefit design in states with no mandatory retirement age? How should pension and profit-sharing plans be changed to conform to the new law? From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: This is a discussion regarding actuarial considerations for mutual companies and covers such topics as: how is the overall level of retained surplus determined, do companies have surplus management programs, what are the rights of participating policyholders, are Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP being used for mutuals, how do companies reconcile growth and surplus and whether or not limits should be placed on growth and finally, what actuarial considerations are involved in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and wind ups.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about types of products involved, accounting alternatives, federal income tax considerations, status of FASB proposal, requirements of SEC, and asset/liability matching requirements of regulators.

Description: Discusses some of the industry dynamics driving change in the industry distribution and compensation systems, the general-agency/career-agent system at MassMutual, the branch-manager and PPGA-like systems at Penn Mutual, and New York's recent letter on agent-owned reinsurance companies. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.