Description: Summary of Part II of the survey of Appointed Actuaries, sponsored by the American Academy of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Financia1 Reporting and the Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Section, which asked appointed actuary various questions on methodology and assumptions employed for asset adequacy testing.

Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Project Oversight Group for research on economic assumptions has prepared a survey seeking input on economic assumptions needed to make a projection of a company's operation.

Description: Report on the topics and speakers at the Actuarial Research Conference and Social Security Benefits, held August 31 through September 2, 1978.

Description: The first in a series of articles exploring the improvement in retiree life expectancies and ways the improvement can be incorporated into actuarial estimates of annuity and pension plan reserves.

Description: The Occidental Life Insurance Company position paper: Mortality Fluctuation Reserve for Stock Life Insurance Companies is reproduced. The methods chosen are considered to conform to the Audit Guide for Stock Life Insurance Companies issued by the AICPA in December, 1972.

Description: Synopsis of the report of the SOA Medical Effectiveness Task Force, which discusses the concept of health plan performance measurement and the contribution actuaries can make to this.

Description: The American Academy of Actuaries task force charged with developing a risk-base capital formula for health insurers submitted its preliminary report to the NAIC Health Organizations Risk-Based Capital Working Group.

Description: Outline of modifications to formulas in previously released FORTRAN program to compute two-life annuities, including those designated 'qualified joint and survivor annuities' in the ERISA Act of 1974.

Description: As a result of over 30 states enacting Legislation permitting the use of an interest assumption as high as 4% in determining life insurance reserves, the Society of Actuaries Committee on Preparation and Publication of Monetary Values conducted a survey of insurance companies, consulting actuaries, and regulatory authorities to determine whether this change in legal valuation standards would create a need for the publication of 1958 CSO Monetary Values volumes at 4% interest. After a review of the results of this survey and a study of the computing and printing costs of such a project, the Society’s Board of Governors has authorized the Committee to solicit orders for such volumes.

Description: This article describes the mortality tables that the Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries is recommending to the NAIC as successors to the 1958 CSO Table