Description: Tidbits relate to contingent deferred annuities, wellness benefits in qualified long-term care contracts, and reactivating the active financing exception for insurance companies.

Description: Book review of A Comprehensive Guide To Measuring And Managing Life Insurance Company Expenses.

Description: A brief description of the current activities of the Entrepreneurial Actuarial Section [EAS]. Webcasts and a call for papers are described.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting gives an overview of the equity indexed market and discusses the issues associated with managing these products after issue.

Description: This letter was written in response to an article that ran in the October issue of The Actuary, titled "The Medical Malpractice Crisis: A Top=Down Solution" by Allen Elstein. Mr. Elstein's reply is also in this article.

Description: This article is an interview with Phelim Boyle, an educator, actuary, PhD, author, financial engineer and recipient of the IAFE/ SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year Award and perhaps best known for his research into Monte Carlo methods.

Description: This article discusses the discount rate that should be used under GASB 45. Public employers now find themselves in a similar situation to private sector employers in the early 1990's in that GASB 45 requires them to measure liabilities including post-retirement medical liabilities using accrual accounting.

Description: Editorial on Continuing Education.

Description: This report, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Individual Disability,’ represents the first study of individual disability income [IDI] lapse experience conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the Society of Actuaries [SOA] Individual Disability Insurance Experience Committee. The study examines lapse activity for years 1999 through 2001.

Description: This experience study, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Individual Life,’ was conducted by the Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses [CLICE]. This report documents the results of the Committee’s sixth expense study—the 2006 SOA Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study. A Per Policy Index is used to facilitate the comparison of first year expenses [excluding commissions and premium taxes] among contributors. Similarly, a Per Policy Inforce Index is used to compare operating expenses [excluding commissions, termination expenses, premium taxes, and for annuities, annuity payout expenses].