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  • Small Talk Newsletter, December 2000, Issue No. 16
    a quote that is still relevant today: Who needs life insurance most? The poor or the rich? The families ... maintenance?…The complaint is general, however, that life insurance fails to reach those who most need it ...

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    • Authors: Robert A Brown, Norman E Hill, John M O'Sullivan, Edward J Slaby, James Thompson, James Van Elsen, Lloyd Spencer, Julie Hunsinger, Robert Guth, James Berger, Brent Mardis, Scott J Cipinko, Andy Hansen, David Pilla
    • Date: Dec 2000
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25
    with every day, add more if you market individual life, disability income or long-term care insurance. ... holds for newly issued life insurance policies: • the reduction in the life valuation interest rates; ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Roger Annin, Christopher Hause, Norman E Hill, Terry Long, James Thompson, Philip Velazquez, Daniel Winslow, Denise Love, Donna K Ferguson
    • Date: Nov 2005
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Small Talk Newsletter, June 2006, Issue No. 26
    enjoyed consider-able support and momentum within the life and health insurance industry. Instead of pre- scribed ... primary trade association, the American Council of Life Insurers, endorsed the approach in late 2005. However ...

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    • Authors: Roger Annin, Christopher Davis, Norman E Hill, W Howell Pugh, Raymond Ted Schlude, James Thompson, Philip Velazquez
    • Date: Jun 2006
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • It’s Showtime! Some Decisions: Recent Developments with the ACLI Interim Proposal and thePrinciples-Based Approach
    Standard Valuation Law which allows a new preferred mortality table to be used and changes Actuarial Guideline ... Guideline 38 to allow lapse. Annuity reserves;Life reserves; 11207 10/1/2006 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: James Thompson
    • Date: Oct 2006
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice
  • Small Talk Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 15
    Underwriter. It ran in the January 24, 2000, issue in the Life & Health/ Financial Services Edition. I n an S ... Memorandum Regulation being consid- ered by the Life & Health Actuarial (Technical) Task Force of the ...

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    • Authors: Thomas Edwalds, Donald Maves, James Thompson, James S Connolly, Rodney Keefer, Lois Chinnock, R. Dale Hall, Douglas Robbins, Robert Brown
    • Date: Apr 2000
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Small Talk Newsletter, May 2001, Issue No. 17
    smaller size companies in the life insurance business. We decided to survey a group of people likely to have ... viewpoint on this issue, namely you — our membership. A survey questionnaire was prepared and placed on the Society ...

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    • Authors: Robert J Butler, Anson Glacy, John Kerper, John Ladley, Jon E Niehus, Steven Ostlund, Edward J Slaby, James Thompson, Alex Zeid, Lawrence Garvey
    • Date: May 2001
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Small Talk Newsletter, December 1998, Issue No. 12
    that has been used to identify a new individ- ual life insurance valuation regulation. Although it was ... for individual term life insurance, it may ultimately affect all individual life insurance prod- ucts ...

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    • Authors: Norman E Hill, James Reiskytl, Edward J Slaby, James Thompson, James Van Elsen, Patrick Lusk, Al Barthelman, Wallace F Dale, Rick Storms
    • Date: Dec 1998
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Small Talk Newsletter, November 2007, Issue No. 29
    participants are Don Walker, chief actu- ary at Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company of Michigan (FBL-MI), and Terry ... SPDA and SPIA), universal life with no secondary guar- antees, par whole life and term. We do not sell ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall, Christian J DesRochers, Norman E Hill, Terry Long, James Thompson, Donald Walker, Steven Siegel, ADAM ALLEN WHITE, Meg Weber, Jeffrey B Norris
    • Date: Nov 2007
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Small Talk Newsletter, November 2004, Issue No. 23
    6 Expense Management Experiences in a Smaller Life Insurance Company by Pete A. Hitchcock ........ ... Tamora A. Kappeller ..13 New Preneed Valuation Mortality Table by Mark Rowley and Kent Scheiwe....14 Recommendations ...

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    • Authors: Jay Jaffe, Allen Klein, Leon Langlitz, Mark C Rowley, Kenton L Scheiwe, Robert Shapiro, David V Smith, James Thompson, Tamora Kapeller, Narayan S Shankar, Peter Hitchcock, Amy Pahl, Peter W Mattingly
    • Date: Nov 2004
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Small Talk Newsletter, June 2002, Issue No. 18
    repricing of the entire portfolio. Not only is universal life affected, but all types of traditional and term ... addresses universal life products in general. Mortality Margins Companies in the universal life market have ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph, Godfrey Perrott, James Thompson, Maria Thomson, Steven Siegel, Scott J Cipinko, R. Dale Hall, Robert Stone, John Riley
    • Date: Jun 2002
    • Publication Name: Small Talk