Description: This discussion looks at the valuation methods of small companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 6.

Description: The effect on level premium reserves of a change in the interest or mortality basis can often be predicted by the results obtained in Spurgeon's Life Contingencies, Chap. X, pp. 185-190. This note offers formulas to demonstrate the effect of such changes.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'The Effect of Varying Interest Rates' by Charles H. Connelly, involving the use of two interest rates, varying by duration, for valuation.

Description: Discusses the use of a valuation basis involving the use of two interest rates, which solves the deficiency reserve problem without requiring the abandonment of either low gross premiums or relatively high withdrawal values.

Description: This actuarial note is in the nature of an addendum to the paper describing the development of the Commissioners 1960 Standard Group Mortality Table and the 1961 Standard Group Life Insurance Premium Rates based thereon 'TSA, XIII, 586'. A comparison of Canadian to US mortality is made, with this data being used to develop minimum term premiums for Canada.

Description: The purposes of this note from the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 43 are to contrast the growth of the net level premium reserve and the growth of the cash value, in a policy paying the cash value if greater type of death benefit, and to suggest an unconventional surrender charge that will cause the net level premium reserve for such a policy to grow at an interest rate alone during the period when the death benefit is the cash value.

Description: Discussion of the paper 'The Effect of Varying Interest Rates' by Charles Connolly.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Note: The Equation of Equilibrium by Donald C. Baillie. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'Insurance for Face Amount or Paid-Up Insurance Amount if Greater' by Cecil Nesbitt and Marjorie Van Eenam.

Description: In this paper, the authors develop a reserve method for future guaranteed life income payments under the settlement options within a life insurance policy. An approach for entering this information in the statutory statement is presented.