Description: In this article, the authors discuss the low interest rate in Taiwan and its effect on the life insurance industry.

Description: This article discusses the development process and the impact of implementing levelized commission products.

Description: Discusses Product Development Section activities at the upcoming SOA Annual Meeting in the fall.

Description: Oliver Wyman surveyed the life insurance industry in 2Q 2018 on emerging life PBR practices. Key takeaways and a deeper dive on select practices are provided.

Description: How do you develop an accelerated underwriting program? The Accelerated Underwriting Program Development Seminar held in Tampa, Florida on May 22, 2019 answers this question through a series of sessions across various disciplines, including underwriting, actuarial, project management, marketing and data science. This article outlines the key takeaways from each of the industry experts.

Description: This article is a discussion about the life settlement industry and the tax considerations for life insurance bought and sold in the secondary market.

Description: This article is a discussion of the proposal to tax the inside build-up in life insurance policies and the consequences if it were to be adopted.

Description: Updates on partial annuitization and exhanges, prevailing CSO valuation mortality tables, disclosure of offshore accounts through FATCA.

Description: Discusses Internal Revenue Service Ruling 2011-9. Since ruling now applies to all taxpayers, not just the taxpayer in a prior private letter ruling, taxpayers that have taken a contrary position in past tax years may need to amend prior tax returns.

Description: This paper studies the theorem for probability of up-crossing before down-crossing by a Levy process, insurance reserve, having both sided jumps given by Asmussen and Albrecher.