Description: Summary of the SOA's Annuity Valuation with Dependent Mortality research report which examines the standard industry practice of assuming independent lives for insurance products that cover multiple lives.

Description: Review of a new text on mortality measurement, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Robert W. Batten.

Description: In this paper, the coefficients of the minimum-Rz moving-weighted-average formulas are derived using matrix algebra and the method of Lagrange multipliers. Reviewer's note: This mathematics can be useful in the graduation process of mortality and morbidity table construction

Description: This article discusses three litigation issues: 1. Shelter Framing Corp. v. PBGC: This is a case recently placed on the Appellate Docket of the U.S. Supreme Court being appealed from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That Circuit Court held that the Multiemployer Pension Plan amendments Act, which imposes liability on employers who withdrew from multiemployer plans, is unconstitutional as applied to employers who withdraw before the Act’s enactment but after its retroactively effective date. 2. Federal Trade Commission: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has held that an investigation by the FTC into whether finance companies and auto dealerships were engaging in unfair and deceptive practices by representing that purchase of credit life insurance was required as a condition to obtain financing, was not outside the FTC’s power. 3. Baldwin-United Case: Under the rehabilitation plan for Baldwin-United, the Company would refund $3.7 billion to the annuity holders. Several groups are challenging this decision.

Description: Joe Athlete vs. Joe Average: Who’s The Safer Mortality Bet? by C. Allen Pinkham from Reinsurance Section News, May 2001, Issue No. 48.

Description: This table accompanies the article, "Managing Risks in Defined Contribution Plans" by Raymond J. Murphy featured in The Actuary Magazine, April/May 2005.

Description: The SOA has completed its study of IFRS accounting impacts on popular U.S. products.

Description: The presentations at this session at the 1990 SOA Annual Meeting offer thier view on the future of the life insurance industry in terms of demographics, economics, consolidation and products. The status of the actuarial profession in 10 years is contemplated.

Description: Full version of NewsDirect Newsletter, Fall 2000, Issue No. 35.

Description: This article highlights GRET, the Generally Recognized Expense Table, which was included in the Life Insurance Illustrations Model Regulation. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.