Description: This article provides an update on various legislative and regulatory activities including, allowing individual variable annuities, federal standard for fiductiary responsibitlity with respect to pensions, policy loan interest rate and credit insurance issues.

Description: Author discusses issues related to federal regulation of insurance.

Description: Update on Federal Tax Issues Under the 2001 CSO Mortality Tables

Description: This article provides a summary of selected sessions of the October 2010 NAIC meeting.

Description: Read the latest ACLI Update.

Description: A recap of the SOA Research Institute's participation in the Spring 2024 NAIC National Meeting.

Description: The article first tries to determine a consensus view of what social security should accomplish and then tries to measure how well the current level of benefits succeeds in meeting these goals. Assessing benefit adequacy is an essential element in putting the overall program on a sound financing footing.

Description: The NAIC Innovation work group has set out 10 ideas for improving the LTC insurance market. This article discusses and critiques those ideas.

Description: A look at the IRS initiative, the Industry Issue Resolution IIR Program, and its requested use to address the tax treatment of hedges of VA contract guarantees. The IIR Program is designed to address tax issues that are common to many business taxpayers and are frequently disputed.

Description: This article describes the new state of Washington regulation governing replacements noting problems with the formula used and offering improvements.