Description: An update on the status of the Product Development Section's research projects.

Description: Feature article discussing post-level term mortality expectations.

Description: A commentary on whether or not the Illustrations Regulation has been successful.

Description: Discusses Phase 1 survey results from the SOA/RGA post-level term research project.

Description: Read the August 2020 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 is historical in nature and explores the impacts of traditional life insurance products offering cash surrender values. This article intended to show that by offering cash surrender value, insurance companies became less exposed to the risk of mis-estimated lapse assumptions. This article presents an illustrative case study to highlight this dynamic. This article also explores the issues with traditional life insurance products that arose in the 1970s and 1980 and led to the introduction of Universal Life in the U.S.

Description: The IRS released the details of a program to allow life insurers to correct inadvertent failures to comply with the modified endowment MEC rules under section 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code the “Code”.

Description: This article gives an overview of the first Applied Actuarial Research Conference AARC.

Description: Discusses the middle market for life insurance and the types of insurers and products in it.

Description: AG 49 pertains to illustrated life insurance products with a crediting rate tied to an index. The guideline discusses the maximum illustrated credited rate and format changes to illustrations.