Description: This article discusses the profitability of universal life policies over time as interest rates and policyholders become more knowledgable.

Description: Article from The Actuary magazine, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, and is excerpted from the author's address to the Winnipeg Actuaries Club in September 1982. It highlights the universal life policy in general and then discusses the innovations they introduced.

Description: This article discusses the impact on the policyholders and the insurance companies of the phase-out of the deductibility of policy loan interest resulting from the new tax law.

Description: In this article about the then in 1981 newly developed Universal Life Insurance, the author concludes the product is here to stay, and that it will be good for the consumer as it evolves in response to the changing economic and social conditions. The article discusses the challenges still to be faced, including federal income tax treatment and regulation by state insurance departments.

Description: In this article, taken from the author’s remarks at LIMRA's 1980 Annual Meeting, the theme is that the “new generation” of permanent life insurance products, including Universal Life, do meet policyholders’ needs, and that life insurance products, far from being static, evolve to suit the markets they serve and the public's needs. An editor’s note at the end also refers the reader to another article, which presents a “distinctly different viewpoint.”

Description: The June 1987 report on UL valuation and nonforfeiture, by the American Academy of Actuaries Universal Life Task Force under the Committee on Life Insurance, discussed whether long-term UL reserve sufficiencies should offset short-term deficiencies. This article discusses that issue.

Description: An article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no.17, issue no. 3 that discusses Variable Universal Life Insurance based on the growing popularity of universal life and variable life products. This product is a flexible premium life insurance product whose cash values vary, in whole or in part, in relation to the investment performance of an underlying separate account. However, regulatory changes, both state and federal, are needed before this product may be sold