Description: This paper examines demographic and economic trends of the 1970's and suggests implications with regards to the life insurance industry. Some of the trends include changes in distribution of income, age, family size, inflation, population size, environmental instability and there is discussion of some of the underlying causes of these developments.

Description: Statistics about the NHL players' pension plan funded status.

Description: These are legal notes concerning policy owner federal income tax, taxation to an agent for expenses for sales convention travel, claims contest on a policy with false statements on the application, timing on surrender of a life insurance policy immediately before death, permitted investment by a life insurance company in a property/casualty company, extraterritorial issues pertaining to regulation of group life insurance, and tax deduction for reserves on pension contracts covering its own employees.

Description: This article demonstrates how returns on GAAP capital are related to the internal rate of return, which is calculated on a statutory basis. The purpose of this paper is to further develop this relationship.

Description: Topics include: 1. Formation of the American Academy of Actuaries and governance 2. Federal tax developments - discount on life insurance advance premiums, group term life, imputed income factors under individual policy pension trusts, estate tax effect of assignment of group life coverage 3. Newly created Servicemen's Group Life Insurance - plan summary.

Description: This document is composed of the questions and comments received to date on the initial report of the SOA’s research report on Financial Reporting for Insurance Contracts Under Possible Future International Accounting Standards.

Description: Research project that reviewed and inventoried the range of quality and efficiency measures that demonstrate the performance of hospitals and physicians. Besides outlining key areas of consideration for quality and efficiency measurement, this report also describes future opportunities for actuaries and other health professionals interested in this evolving area. The inventory part of this report is in a separate document.

Description: This report summarizes the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean strategies to acquiring business by life insurers. Appendices are included.

Description: Updated study of metrics for measuring stress imposed on US multiemployer pension plans by unfunded liabilities and declining numbers of active participants

Description: Statistics about entertainment industry pension plans.