Description: This article compares and contrasts the new 2017 CSO tables to the 2001 CSO tables and discusses considerations and possible implications of the new tables on reserves and the implementation schedule of the new tables.

Description: On June 17, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service published Final Regulations implementing changes to loss reserve discounting under section 846 of the Internal Revenue Code made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This note addresses changes made in the Final Regulations, particularly modification of rules for determining the interest rate used for discounting, in response to comments from taxpayers on the proposed regulations.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Note: Terminal Reserves from Mean Reserves and Net Premiums by Dale R. Gustafson. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This article summarizes current regulatory activity discussed at the Spring 2009 meetings of the N.A.I.C. and the National Council of Insurance Legislators.

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 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: Outline of the changes made to the 2008 Valuation Basic Table as compared to those that were on the SOA web site prior to the change.

Description: This 1979 session is about the New Valuation Mortality Tables for Individual Life Insurance. Topics included: I. The Recommendation of Sex-distinct Tables 2. The Development of Basic Tables - Data Selection, Construction, Graduation 3. Margins and the Development of Loaded Tables 4. Implications for the Industry

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Note: Reserves by Different Mortality Tables by Harry Gershenson. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.