Description: This article reports on the unveiling of a revitalized 'brand' for actuaries revealed at the recent SOA Annual Meeting including the speech by past president Bob Beuerlein and other activities throughout the meeting. The new tagline 'Risk is Opportunity' was introduced and embraced by the members.

Description: This article details the IRS' Revenue Ruling 2005-6. This ruling provides formal guidance on how to treat family term riders for purposes of the computational limit calculations in Internal Revenue Code IRC sections 7702 and 7702A i.e., calculations of net single premiums, guideline single premiums, guideline level premiums and 7-pay premiums. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: Three tax-related articles of interest to those associated with smaller insurance companies.

Description: This article provides the reader with some insights regarding tax planning under the new required methodology.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 44, presented at the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists respond to questions submitted prior to the session, as well as questions from participants during the session. A wide range of valuation questions are considered, including topics related to product tax and tax reserves, secondary guarantees, cash flow testing, and various statutory reserve issues.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 45OF, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The panelists provide an opportunity for participants’ questions to be addressed, including questions submitted in advance, on any valuation symposium issue, including financial reporting, valuation, and tax topics.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at mutual company GAAP issues including objectives, common features, comparison to stock company GAAP, and the effect on management of the company.

Description: This session discussion is about FAS 96, the timing and measurement of the deferred tax effects, alternative minimum tax considerations, worksheets versus models, small company effective tax rate, consolidation returns and incorporating future tax strategies. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel examined the current efforts of several organizations to craft the next century's insurance valuation framework, and how these efforts are reshaping the way we will do business in the future.

Description: Dialogue between Peter Winslow, a tax attorney, and Edward Robbins and Christian DesRochers, tax actuaries, on selected tax issues related to proposals to change statutory reserving from a formula-based methodology to a principles-based approach.