Description: If a stock life insurance company is to continue to be an attractive vehicle for stockholder investment, adequate recognition must be given to the importance of the basic economic concept of return on stockholder equity. This Actuarial Note discusses return on stockholder equity as it relates to a life insurance company and is intended to stimulate further thinking in this area. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 59 AB.

Description: A research paper that outlines a seamless method of deriving assumptions for modern reserving and solvency capital requirements from a company’s own data.