Description: The author explains his negative opinion about the requirement to value collateralized mortgage obligations [CMO] using the New York Seven interest rate scenarios.

Description: This articles notes that there are fewer small insurance companies. It discusses how the impact of mergers and acquisitions and new regulations affect the declining number of small insurance companies.

Description: This article describes the increasing problems in the product filing and forms approval process under state regulation. It also describes the conclusions and product filing uniformity vision that includes the formation of CARFRA which stands for Coordinated Advertising, Rate and Form Review Authority.

Description: This article discusses the history of the small life insurance policies in light of the current NAIC investigation into the treatment of small face value life insurance policies.

Description: Legislation introduced in Florida senate to ban sale of Industrial Life and greatly restrict sales of other Small Face Amount Policies, SFAPs.

Description: Chairperson’s letter discussing changes that occurred between 2008 and 2009.

Description: Discusses the content of the web page of the Smaller Insurance Company Section.

Description: Article summarizing two conference calls from late 2011 on regulatory issues of interest to smaller insurance companies. From Small Talk Newsletter, Issue 37, January 2012.