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Description: Read the February 2018 issue of Risks & Rewards published by the Investment Section.

Description: Discusses reinsurance accounting guidelines related to current regulations.

Description: Discusses current federal budget proposals that may impact taxation of annuities.

Description: The SEC recently approved a financial disclosure rule mandating that a company must release material and market-moving information to all investors simultaneously. This article looks at the new rule designed to make financial disclosure fairer for all investors and how it may pose problems for larger insurers, while it may level the playing field for smaller insurers.

Description: This article discusses the new valuation concepts under Regulation XXX and the practical issues that need to be addressed by companies.

Description: Discusses the current options and the benefits of outsourcing various corporate functions.

Description: This article explores Simplified Issue SI as a product. There is a small-company slant toward SI whole life because the vast majority of my experience with SI is in the senior market. However, most of what will be discussed still applies to all SI.

Description: Recently, there has been an increase in the product development of simplified issue products in the United States. In the past two years, Gen Re LifeHealth has reviewed over 40 such products, ranging from vanilla direct-marketed products to high-end single premium immediate annuity SPIA paid universal life products. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: This is an article about the “hardening” market for reinsurance on term and universal life with secondary guarantees. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.