Description: This meeting session covered proposed amendments to valuation and nonforfeiture laws, which included a new mortality table and the dynamic interest rate concept, and the SEC's scrutiny of annuities and Guaranteed Investment Contracts.

Description: This article discusses the effects of a reduction in the life valuation interest rate and the adoption of the 2001 CSO table. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: Documents the error in the Smoker/Nonsmoker CSO Tables accepted by the NAIC, and the expected approval of the NAIC to accept use of both the erroneous and the correct mortality rates for all regulatory purposes.

Description: This meeting session covered proposed amendments to valuation and nonforfeiture laws, which included a new mortality table and the dynamic interest rate concept, the NAIC's activities around profitability and early warning tests, A&H rate filing guidelines, and SEC activity around annuities..

Description: This is a panel discussion on new and proposed valuation and non-forfeiture standards for individual life insurance including dynamic interest rates, new mortality tables and actuarial opinions.

Description: Background information on the calculation of the statutory valuation and nonforfeiture maximum interest rates and a brief discussion on the effect that changing interest rates will have on some typical life insurance products.

Description: This is an article about the maximum rates permitted for valuation and nonforfeiture that have remained steady for life insurance since 1995. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.