Description: This whitepaper authored byWalter Zultowski, PhD looks further into how companies might use the result of the Phase 1 study to develop marketing approaches for the identified sub segments.

Description: This web page describes the new 2013 Survey of Lapse and Mortality Experience report.

Description: The Potential Impact of Pandemic Influenza on the U.S. Life Insurance Industry pandemic model tool. This tool is used to project a Life Insurance companies potential losses from an influenza pandemic. Please see the SOA website for complete instructions on how to use this excel spreadsheet tool. Also see the website for the complete research report: www.soa.org/research/research-projects/life-insurance/research-impact-pan-influ-life-ins.aspx. The core of the paper is quantifying the potential impact of selected pandemic scenarios on the Life Insurance industry.

Description: Read the September 2019 issue of NewsDirect published by the Marketing and Distribution Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24. Last fall, the Internal Revenue Service IRS released Notice 2004-61, 2004-41 I.R.B. 596 October 12, 2004, interpreting the reasonable mortality charge requirement applicable to life insurance contracts under Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Description: This article details the IRS' Revenue Ruling 2005-6. This ruling provides formal guidance on how to treat family term riders for purposes of the computational limit calculations in Internal Revenue Code IRC sections 7702 and 7702A i.e., calculations of net single premiums, guideline single premiums, guideline level premiums and 7-pay premiums. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: Summary of the upcoming activities for the Smaller Insurance Company Section in 2016.

Description: This is an article about group long-term care insurance.

Description: description of theme of the 2017 Canadian Reinsurance Conference

Description: Discusses the issues papaer to be released by the International Accounting Standards for Insurance to cover accounting issues for insurance contracts as opposed to insurance companies.