Description: This is an article on avian flu and reinsurance as it relates to smaller insurance companies.

Description: This presentation presents the Gamma-Exponential mix model.

Description: In this article, the author talks about the Brazilian life insurance and annuity markets.

Description: Read the October 2019 issue of Product Matters! published by the Product Development Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This article summarizes the treatment of changes in the basis for determining life insurance tax reserves under prior law and describes the changes enacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It further explains the procedures for changing the basis of computing reserves under the new rules as outlined in Revenue Procedure 2019-10, the IRS’s December 2018 guidance on the subject, and discusses the uncertainties that remain.

Description: This article is based on a presentation made by Jim Campbell at the Annual Conference of the Professional Insurance Marketing AssociationPIMAon banks in todays insurance distribution landscape. From News Direct, September 2005, Issue No. 51.

Description: This article explores Simplified Issue SI as a product. There is a small-company slant toward SI whole life because the vast majority of my experience with SI is in the senior market. However, most of what will be discussed still applies to all SI.

Description: Product Development Section’s election results, and bio's of new members.

Description: Life insurance products in China need to evolve as insurance regulations change.

Description: Illustrates the lack of clarity about how the various grandfather clauses applicable to life insurance contracts should be applied in practice.