Description: The purpose of this paper is to describe the methods upon which the computations of policy reserves and related annual statement terms for the family policy issued by the company with which the author is connected are based. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 26.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Funding Group Life Insurance by Charles L. Trowbridge. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: This discussion is about how are computers being used for Underwriting of individual policies mortality and morbidity studies, including the derivation of exposures, analysis of claims, etc. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: This paper, written at the request of the chairman of the Society's special committee, contains a description of the data, methods, and principles used to determine the proposed new expense formulas for minimum nonforfeiture values. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1977, Vol. 29.

Description: The author's purpose is to attain a greater insight into the nature and significance of the social security financing method and to examine the image in the public mind of the social security financing method and its significance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This paper presents an introduction to collective risk theory. In collective risk theory one seeks to investigate directly the risk enterprise as a whole. Primary interest is focused not upon the gains, losses, or claims from individual policies but upon the amount of total claims or the total gain arising from all the policies in the portfolio considered. Followed by several discussion papers submitted.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this article is a discussion of the paper ‘Introduction to Nonproportional Reinsurance,’ by Herbert L. Feay, which also appears in this volume of the Transactions. The contributors to the discussion provide their comments with respect to the author’s paper, raising some questions, but generally finding the paper an excellent introduction to a complex and not well explored field, at least from the perspective of life actuaries. The author, in his reply to the discussion, emphasizes that the paper was meant as an introduction to stimulate further work in this field.

Description: This is a discussion on valuation and examines small company reserves and methods used in valuing disability, double indemnity, family income and other benefits in determining the reserve released by voluntary terminations. From Transaction of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: This general discussion focuses mainly on automatic premium loans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers adjusted earnings for insurance companies including definition, how it is used, and approaches for different lines of business.