Description: Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease as a potential Critical Illness insurance benefit trigger.

Description: These were discussion papers on the paper, 'The Korean War Hazard' by James T. Phillips.

Description: The last few years have seen a dramatic change in the way that insurance products are priced. If we traveled back in time 15 to 20 years, we would see a world where most insurance products were priced on the basis of a few static scenarios. In the last several years, pricing on a stochastic basis has become more mainstream—at least for contracts with embedded guarantees.

Description: This article discusses an update to a survey that focuses on how companies are trying to price for and understand the risks inherent in the products they sell.

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

Description: Discusses the reasons for, and the economic impacts of, the backdating of life insurance policies, and what changes in the industry might evolve to address them.

Description: This is an excel spreadsheet with some data pertaining to an article of the same name from the Product Development News

Description: Summary of recent changes to IRS Section 7702 Interest Rates, and how it will impact the design of life insurance products in the future.

Description: This informal general discussion session was centered around ordinary insurance, the size of ordinary policies, mode of premium payment, and juvenile policies.

Description: This is an investigation of the persistance of individual life insurance risk mortality differentials by utilizing an approach inspired by online predicitve markets.