Description: This is an article on statutory maximum valuation interest rates, the second of three articles outlining the new Model Valuation and Nonforfeiture Laws.

Description: This is a panel discussion on new and proposed valuation and non-forfeiture standards for individual life insurance including dynamic interest rates, new mortality tables and actuarial opinions.

Description: Documents the error in the Smoker/Nonsmoker CSO Tables accepted by the NAIC, and the expected approval of the NAIC to accept use of both the erroneous and the correct mortality rates for all regulatory purposes.

Description: This article discusses how the proposed actuarial guideline XYZ attempts to address secondary guarantees on minimum nonforfeiture values.

Description: The primary purpose of this paper is to present some current company practices with respect to term insurance, and the respective cash value requirements imposed by the state insurance departments. Submitted papers from several authors discussing the report followed.

Description: This discussion is about account statutory requirements that cash values not be less than reserves less $25 per thousand. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13 Pt. 2

Description: This article discusses the effects of a reduction in the life valuation interest rate and the adoption of the 2001 CSO table. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: Background information on the calculation of the statutory valuation and nonforfeiture maximum interest rates and a brief discussion on the effect that changing interest rates will have on some typical life insurance products.

Description: This meeting session covered proposed amendments to valuation and nonforfeiture laws, which included a new mortality table and the dynamic interest rate concept, and the SEC's scrutiny of annuities and Guaranteed Investment Contracts.

Description: This article is is an excerpt from a concept document submitted to the NAIC as a possible framework for drafting the new Standard Nonforfeiture Law. The document incorporates comments from the NAIC’s Life and Health Actuarial Task Force into a concept document prepared by the American Academy of Actuaries’ Nonforfeiture Work Group.