Description: Issues covered in this article include 1. Tax treatment of advance interest on policy loans, 2. Tax treatment of Credit default swaps, 3 Application of SRLY [Separate Return Limitation Year] Cumulative Register Concept to Dual Consolidated Losses, and 4. FATCA [Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act] Transitional Relief.

Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of the survey on Life Settlements, prepared by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys Life Settlements Survey Subcommittee. The responses from two separate surveys, one to direct writers and the other to reinsurers, have been combined into this single report. Survey question topics include company characteristics, market participation, market management, and consequences to the Industry.

Description: This report presents the results of a study of individual life insurance lapse experience in the United States conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the Society of Actuaries. The study presents lapse experience for whole life, term life, universal life, and variable universal life plans traced through 2002.

Description: This is an editorial about direct marketing, credit insurance and non-traditional product management. From News Direct, May 2006, Number 53.

Description: This article summarizes a recent session at an SOA meeting that presented tips on improving and speeding the product filing process.

Description: This experience study, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Individual Life,’ was conducted by the SOA’s Individual Life Insurance Experience Committee. This report is on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues between 1990 and 1991 anniversaries. The report also combines experience between 1986 and 1991 anniversaries in order to provide a larger volume of data. This report is a revision of an earlier publication of the ‘Mortality under Standard Individually Underwritten Life Insurance Between 1990 and 1991 Anniversaries.’ This revision corrects previous mortality ratios for all 1986-91 and 1985-90 experience and 1990-91 smoker/nonsmoker experience. This report will appear in a future issue of the Society's TSA Reports. Consists of two pdf documents: report and tables.

Description: The president of the SOA speaks about creating an actuarial 'brand'.

Description: Discusses some common practices by actuaries and others in the insurance industry that are now undergoing closer regulatory scrutiny.

Description: This experience study, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Individual Life,’ was conducted by the SOA’s Individual Life Insurance Experience Committee. This report is on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues, including policy years 2002–04. In addition to the report is a one page document, the ‘Milliman extension to the 1975–80 Basic Tables,’ with an accompanying Excel spreadsheet. Also included are two Excel workbooks containing pivot tables, providing more detail of the data summarized in the report.

Description: This is the fourth Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. This report combines and analyzes data received from 24 insurers that agreed to provide information to further the knowledge of long–term care insurance. Data has been collected on policies issued from January 1, 1984 through December 31, 2001.