Description: This 1978 session on individual life product development included discussion on: 1. Major revisions, reasons for change, innovative techniques, and problems. 2. New products and special considerations.

Description: Latest outlook on the market size and recent trends associated with the U.S. and Canada Life Reinsurance markets. The SOA Life Reinsurance Survey is an annual survey that exhibits individual and group life data from U.S. and Canadian life reinsurers. Survey results are based on financial information self-reported by reinsurance entities and include new business production and inforce figures.

Description: This article looks at internet term sales results.

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: Mandatory implementation of life principle-based reserves (PBR) is just around the corner, and there is no shortage of work to do, as most products have yet to be moved to PBR. Oliver Wyman recently completed its 2019 PBR survey, with more than 40 participants covering 85 percent of the individual life market, including 23 of the top 25 life writers and five reinsurers. This article will expand on the key survey findings including implementation status and model simplifications.

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

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 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.