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: 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: Presentation of extended term insurance values, computed from commutation functions. Followed by a discussion paper submitted

Description: A discussion of efforts to revise the Standard Nonforfeiture Law.

Description: This paper presents blended 1980 CSO and Commissioners Extended Term CET Smoker and Nonsmoker mortality tables using the same methodology and pivotal age as used in the composite blended tables and for the same percentages of male to total, viz., 80, 60, 50, 40, and 20 percent. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: Suggestions have been made that life insurance cash values should depend on the prospective mortality, based on underwriting, of the insured evaluated at the time a cash value is applied for. This paper explores a simple model for determining cash values on such a basis and some practical problems associated with it.

Description: This paper looks at the cost of nonforfeiture benefits at different levels of mortality. According to the assumptions in the paper, when expenses and dividends are considered, the costs of the extended insurance option are generally lower than those of the paid-up insurance option at the lower levels of substandard extra mortality. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 58.

Description: Feature article discussing the Life Settlements business: recent growth, pricing, and future of the business.

Description: This paper presents an in-depth analysis of life insurance protection which rises with increases in the consumer price index, with special attention to the nonforfeiture values. Two methods of calculating policy values are presented: change of state method and index accumulation method. Finally, there is some discussion of pricing and policy drafting.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting give an historical perspective and discuss actual and proposed changes to the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for annuities and life insurance.