Description: State insurance regulators have developed a searchable database that will provide insurers immediate access to summarized product content requirements for rates, rules and forms on a national basis. Called the Product Requirements Locator, this will improve filing efficiency.

Description: Discussion of roles of health actuaries in the future.

Description: Discussion of expense management in a small life insurance company

Description: a review of mergers and acquisition activity during the first half of 2004

Description: Discussion of the development of a new Preneed Valuation Mortality Table

Description: A presentation on the theory underlying Gross Premium Valuation reserves and techniques for computing them for purposes of compliance with asset adequacy testing of statutory reserves

Description: This is an article about the maximum rates permitted for valuation and nonforfeiture that have remained steady for life insurance since 1995. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: This article highlights GRET, the Generally Recognized Expense Table, which was included in the Life Insurance Illustrations Model Regulation. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: The article was written to address a concern that the author had that reinsurance considerations were being relegated to the back of the product development cycle. He was concerned that reinsurance input on benefit design, underwriting and pricing was not getting into the process. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: This article discusses catastrophic mortality risk and ways that smaller insurance companies can manage the risk, including traditional catastrophe reinsurance, accidental death carve-outs, and catastrophic claim pools.