Description: This paper develops the theoretical formula for the face amount under the New York Life variable life insurance design, introduced in the paper 'Analysis of Basic Actuarial Theory for Fixed Premium Variable Benefit Life Insurance,' adapted to a daily basis and also provides a simplified approximation of this formula. A formula for daily net premium is also derived.

Description: Discussion of variable universal life secondary guarantees: product features, pricing issues and reserving issues

Description: Discusses the manner in which policy loan repayments are split into principal and interest components.

Description: Variable life insurance asset shares involve, in general, both the separate account and the general account. This paper develops, for both accounts, under the New York Life design, the annual asset share equations of equilibrium for the separate account asset share, for the general account asset share, for the basic reserve, and for the surplus and also derives the individual expressions for the interest and mortality contributions to the surplus. Followed by discussion papers submitted by several authors.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session explores the current status of variable products in the marketplace. It also covers issues related to fund performance, distribution, and product design.

Description: This paper deals primarily with the actuarial aspects of a life insurance product providing complete flexibility in the pattern of premium payments- and benefits. This paper presented a framework around which a policy of the life-cycle family can be built. Discussion includes description of how the product might work, given the legal and operational constraints at the time. Also discussion of how compliance with the Standard Valuation Law and Standard Non forfeiture laws would be achieved. Followed by submitted discussions of the paper by various people

Description: Discusses: 1. The Guaranteed Insurability Option - how have companies been promoting and problems that have been encountered 2. Insurance at age zero - with drop in mortality under 1958 CSO, will more companies offer, mortality experience and underwriting, the effect in Canada of the removal of the graded amount requirement from the Uniform Insurance Acts.

Description: This report presents a new set of select and ultimate expected individual life insurance lapse tables, based on inter-company experience of standard ordinary business between 1971-1972 policy anniversaries. Discussion includes overview of how the data was collected and how the tables were constructed and how they should be applied in practice.

Description: Discusses reduction in bank loan and minimum deposit business, sales of a combination of single premium immediate annuities with life policies on a guaranteed issue basis, likely results of recent court decisions regarding allowing interest on indebtedness as a tax deduction, and professional development needs for actuaries taking on management roles.

Description: This SOA research report produced by Kamakura Corporation helps illuminate credit risk modeling techniques within the life insurance industry. It includes a review of available research on the subject from academic and industry sources, the development and distribution of a survey on actual techniques used within the industry, and all associated analysis. The finance and economics literature review provides a historical review of academic research on credit modeling with Altman Z-scores, Merton’s structural model and more recent “reduced form models” The industry literature includes discussions of the various credit modeling techniques, factor-based approaches, credit migration models, structural models, reduced form models, hybrid models, actuarial models and credit scoring models. As credit risk modeling is an extremely broad topic, the scope of the survey is narrowed to particular asset classes and functions. There were 22 responses in total to the survey from locations in Canada, Europe and the United states.