Description: This presentation is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The speakers discuss per policy expenses. Topics include identification of expenses directly dependent on number of policies, impact on determining premium rates and dividend scales, use of policy fees, interaction with other assumptions, and methods in the U.S., Canada, and other countries to grade premiums by policy size.

Description: The Standard Nonforfeiture Law requires that the mortality table and interest rate provided in the policy for the calculation of cash surrender values and of nonforfeiture paid-up insurance be the same, say Basis A. It also contemplates that, if desired, a more stringent Basis B may be provided for calculating the present value of extended term insurance, using mortality rates up to 130% those of Basis A. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: The purpose of the present paper is to propose a family of sex-year-of-birth tables which may be used in place of The Annuity Table for 1940 with Projection. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: This paper looks at and defines the Term Conversion Option. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: This paper looks at the development of life insurance premium rates based on their policy size, and the methods for doing so. Discussions of this paper are included.